Charles Cospatrick Douglas-Home (1937-1985) Detailed List 1 Writings, Broadcasts and Lectures Books 1/1 1/2 1/3 1/4 1/4/1 1/4/2 1/4/3 1/4/4 1/4/5 1/4/6 1/4/7 1969 1971 1972 Sep- 1981 Aug 1942-1981 1973 Jul - 1977 Jun 1973 Jun - 1977 Mar 1976 Jun - 1977 Apr (1978) Britain's Reserve Forces. Typescript. Some sections amended for conversion into a lecture. Correspondence concerning source material for a proposed biography of John Crocker Bulteel and John Bulteel. Correspondence with Weidenfeld and Nicolson concerning royalties on Rommel (1972). Also letters of congratulations, observations and correspondence on CDH's chapter on Rommel for The War Lords with typescript. Correspondence and papers relating to 'Evelyn Baring: The Last Proconsul' (1978). Evelyn Baring, Lord Howick of Glendale, was Governor of Kenya during the Mau-Mau crisis. Correspondence, chiefly concerning source material. Includes original contract between CDH and Bodley Head (book finally published by Collins). Correspondence and papers chiefly relating to access to official files. Includes copy material on Seretse Khama, 1st President of Botswana. Correspondence and papers relating to CDH's 4 week sabbatical in Kenya to complete his research. Annotated typescript. Introduction - Chapt XIII. Annotated typescript. Chapts XVI - XXXII. Acknowledgements, sources and footnotes. Rough notes and typescripts. Bibliography. Rough notes. 1/4/8 1/4/9 1977 Apr - 1981 Jun 1 1978 Jul Correspondence with Collins relating to publication and attempt to sell book to US. Letters of congratulations and observations on the book. Reviews and related cuttings.
1/4/10-18 1973 Jun 1978 Jun Correspondence with friends and colleagues of Baring concerning various periods of his life 1/4/10 Childhood. school and Oxford. 1/4/11 Indian civil Service, 1926-29, 1932-33. 1/4/12 1/4/13 1/4/14 1/4/15 1/4/16 1/4/17 1/4/18 1/4/19-21 1942 Dec - 1976 Mar 1/4/9 1942 Dec - 1950 Oct 1/4/20 1942 Dec - 1959 Sep 1/4/21 1943 Jul - 1976 Mar 1/5 1978 Jan - 1980 Feb Secretary to the Agent of the Government of India in South Africa, 1929-32. Barings Bank, Director of Sudan Plantations and Foreign Office, 1933-42. Governor of Southern Rhodesia, 1942-44. High Commissioner for the UK in South Africa and High Commissioner for Basutoland, the Bechuanaland Protectorate and Swaziland, 1944-51. Governor and Commander-in-Chief, Kenya, 1952-59. Commonwealth Development Corporation, British-North Atlantic Committee, Nature Conservancy, 1960-72. Religion, birds, languages, botany, climbing. Copy original source material Annotated transcripts of Molly Baring's letters to her mother from Southern Rhodesia and South Africa. Typescripts of above correspondence. Includes letters from Kenya, 1952-59. Miscellaneous letters from Baring; extracts from reports and memoranda; notes on interviews with Baring's colleagues. Correspondence with Douglas Evans and MacMillan concerning a proposed 'Encyclopedia of Contemporary Warfare'. Includes sample typescript entries on FM Sir Claude Auchinleck, Earl Alexander of Tunis, and the Battle of El Alamein. 1/6 1980 Dec - 1981 Aug Correspondence with Oxford University Press relating to CDH's article on Seretse Khama for the Dictionary of National Biography.
Lectures 1/7 1964 Sep - 1977 Feb Correspondence, articles, cuttings and notes relating to a proposed lecture to the Berlin Infantry Brigade Study Group on 'The Army, the Law and Society'. 1/8 1/9 1978 Dec - 1979 Mar 1984 Feb - Jul Newspaper Articles 1/10 1/11 1/12 1/13 1971 1980 Mar - 1981 Mar 1981 Jan - 1982 Feb 1985 Feb - Oct Television and Radio Programmes 1/14 1965-1971 Jul Text of lecture on 'Britain's Reserve Forces', delivered to the Royal School of Artillery, with related correspondence and additional notes on reserve forces. The text comprises amended sections of CDH's book on the same subject (see 1/1). Text of lecture on 'Crown and Commonwealth' delivered at annual conference of Commonwealth Press Union, with related correspondence. Also amended versions of above as published in The Round Table and text of lecture delivered by Rt Hon Sir Zelman Cowen at the same conference on 'Crown and Representative in the Commonwealth'. Typescript of article on 'The Arab/Israeli Balance of Power' for Middle East International. Articles written for The Vancouver Province commenting on foreign affairs. Cuttings and related correspondence. Articles written for Al Majalla (Saudi Arabia and the Gulf) commenting on foreign affairs. Typescript and related correspondence. Rough drafts of Times editorials. Notebook. Correspondence with Yorkshire TV concerning a documentary on life on board a Polaris submarine, CDH acting as consultant. Includes cutting, RN brochures and articles. 1/15 1975 Jul Scripts of 'Letter from London' for the BBC World Service, on the Conservative Party, Scottish devolution, and women's rights.
1/16 1979 Jul Dec Correspondence with Video Arts Television Ltd concerning a documentary on the Shah of Iran, CDH acting as consultant. Includes his 'Thoughts on the Shah'. Memoirs 1/17 ND 2 Conferences and Travels 2/1 2/2 2/3 2/4 2/4/1 2/4/2 2/4/3 2/4/4 2/4/5 2/4/6 1965-1967 May 1968 May Oct 1980 Mar- 1981 Feb 1976 Oct- 1980 1976 Oct- 1977 Jan 1978 Oct 1978 Drafts and typescripts of his memoirs, describing his boyhood, schooldays, and his father's death. Correspondence and papers relating to a visit to the United States, 1966 Jun-Jul, through the International Visitor Programme of the Department of State. Includes typescript notes on us military policy, training centres and weapon systems. Correspondence and papers relating to a visit to Czechoslovakia, 1968 May. Includes cuttings and copy press reports concerning Czech economic and political affairs. Correspondence, papers and publicity materialrelating to a colloquium at St George's House, Windsor to discuss how the participants foresaw UK society in 1990. Diary accounts of travels in UK and abroad South Africa, Swaziland, Rhodesia, Kenya. Manuscript. Visit to a coal mine at Hickleton, Yorkshire. Manuscript. Russia, Finland, Sweden. Manuscript. Iran. Manuscript 2/4/7 2/4/8 2/4/9 1979 Feb Mar Rhodesia. Manuscript. As above Typescript.
2/4/10 1979 Oct 2/4/11 1979 Oct- China. Manuscript. Hong Kong and India. Manuscript. 2/4/12 1979 Oct- China, Hong Kong and India. Typescript. 2/4/13 1979 - Canada and USA. Manuscript. Dec 2/4/14 As above Typescript. 2/4/15 1980 Apr Brazil and Chile. Manuscript. 2/4/16 2/4/17 1980 Jan- Greece, Yugoslavia, Turkey, Berlin (Aspen Institute). Manuscript. 2/4/18 1980 Oct Turkey. Typescript. 2/4/19 1980 Berlin (Aspen Institute). Typescript. 2/5 [1975-1982] Notebooks containing rough jottings on above countries and aspects of the contempory economic, political and military situation. 3 Personal Files. Chiefly invitations, correspondence with institutions, and material of a more personal nature. 3/1 1970-71 3/2 1972 3/3 1973 3/4 1974 3/5 1975 3/6 1976 3/7 1977 3/8 1978 3/9 1979 3/10 1980 3/11 1981 3/12 1982 3/13 1983 3/14 1984 3/15 1985