Letters to Tufton Beamish

A group kept by him for their 'interest' value. Many are little more than autographs; subjects are only noted where they are of substance

[From 1. Admiral Nicholas de Horthy (Estoril, 1949, recalling his meeting with Adolf Hitler in 1938); 2. Anthony Eden (1949); 3. Guy Mollet (Council of Europe, 1952); 4. Lord Dunsany (1954, the poetry of Dylan Thomas); 5. Earl Mountbatten of Burma (1954); 6. August Zaleski (1955, Polish President in Exile); 7. Tunku Abdul Rahman (Kuala Lumpur, 1956, Chief Minister of the Federation of Malaya); 8. H[useyn] S[haheed] Suhrawardy (Karachi, 1957, Prime Minister of Pakistan); 9-11 Sir Edward Ford (1958, Assistant Private Secretary to HM the Queen, concerning a photograph (attached) sent to him of a mud plaque in Nigeria showing the Queen meeting the Oba of Benin and apparently wearing a tiara and Wellington boots); 12. [Sir] Roy Welensky (Salisbury, 1961, Prime Minister of Rhodesia and Nyasaland); 13, 14 General W Anders (London, 1962, citation awarding TB the Polish Golden Cross of Merit with Swords); 15. Mary [Soames] (1965, death of her father Sir Winston Churchill); 16. William Whitelaw (1968, Chief Whip, congratulations on a speech); 17. Enoch [Powell] (1968); 18. the Duke of Norfolk (Arundel, 1969, the appointment of TB as a Deputy Lieutenant of Sussex); 19, 20 Robert Armstrong (Prime Minister's Office, 1974, the conferment of a Barony on TB); 21-24 Lord Elwyn-Jones (Lord Chancellor, 1974, TB's introduction to the House of Lords); 25. Geoffrey Howe (Foreign Secretary, 1985); 26. Arthur Scargill (National Union of Mineworkers, 1985, human rights and the NUM); 27. Mary [Soames] (North Warnborough, 1988 (the death of Christopher); 28. Sir Bernard Weatherill ('Jack') (London nd [1983], his election to the Speakership).]

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