| Description | Diaries kept by Shuckburgh between 1951 and his retirement in 1969. These were originally handwritten in small notebooks. Later, his secretary or his wife made typed copies of the diaries and other documents, mainly press cuttings, letters, and notes, were added. There are notes by Shuckburgh in the typescripts, indicating material to be cut from the published version of the diaries, but cuts were also made without noting the typed original. The typescript diaries and documents dating from 1951-1957, which were used as source material for Shuckburgh's book 'Descent to Suez', are bound.
The typed versions of the diaries are copies of the handwritten versions. However, some pages missing from the handwritten diaries appear in the typed versions, and there are rough notes in the handwritten diaries which were not included in the typed versions. |