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Thursday, April 8, 2004

Andrew Cunningham papers in British Library, London

Great Russell St, WC1. Tel. 020 7636 1544 ext 367.

Admiral Andrew B. Cunningham, 18831963, C in C Mediterranean 1939-1942; 1st Sea Lord, Aug 1943 to 1946.

[These are extracts only, made by or for David Irving in the late 1980s.]
Additional MS 52557, vol. i,
Correspondence with parents to 1917.
 
Additional MS 52558, vol. ii,
Letters to his aunts Helen ("Doodle") and Constance
Browne ("Connie Mary"). 1914--Jun 1941;
 
Additional MS 52559, vol. iii,
ditto, Jul 1941 1946.
 
Additional MS 52560, vol. iv,
Correspondence with Admiral Sir Dudley Pound,
Jan 1939 to Jul 1940
 
Additional MS 52561, vol. v,
Correspondence with Admiral Sir Dudley Pound,
Aug 1940 to 1943
 
Additional MS 52562, vol. vi,
Corresp with Admiral Sir Walter Cowan 1939-45
Sir John Cunningham, 1941-60
Arthur Power, 1944-45
 
Additional MS 52563, vol. vii,
James Somerville 1940-45; unbound
Captain Roskill, 1952(?)--57
 
Additional MS 52564, vol. viii,
Diary of Admiral Sir James Somerville, Mar - Jul
1944 typewritten
 
Additional MS 52565, vol. ix,
Papers of Admiral Sir Charles Forbes, 1938-40
Printed despatch with map by Gen Sir Archibald
Wavell, campaign of 1940-1941
 
Additional MS 52566, vol. x,
Naval telegrams, 1940-1946
CATAPULT file.
 
Additional MS 52567, vol. xi,
Naval telegrams, 1940-1946.
 

(vols.xi-xx = General Correspondence, 1898-1962)

 

Additional MS 52570
Correspondence 1942 - July 1943
 
Additional MS 52571
July 1943 - 1944 Correspondence
 
Additional MS 52572
Correspondence 1945
 
Additional MS 52577, vol.xxi,
Cunningham Diary, 1944
 
Additional MS 52578, vol.xxii
Cunningham Diary, 1945
 
Additional MS 52579, vol.xxiii
Cunningham Diary, 1946

The above material has been researched by David Irving for the third volume of his Churchill biography, "Churchill's War", vol. iii: "The Sundered Dream."

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