| Description | /1 Letter to Shuckburgh from Jack Ward, thanking him for his wedding present and telling him about his new wife, 1943; /2 Letter to Shuckburgh from an unidentified correspondent, 1943; /3 Letter to Shuckburgh from Norman [United States Embassy], thanking him for his letter of condolence on the death of Pierrepont Moffatt, 27 January 1943; /4 Letter to Nancy and Evelyn Shuckburgh from Liz, 5 November 1942; /5 Typed booklet of poems by Katharine Chatfield entitled 'To ES from KC. Poems Personal and Universal', 1941; /6-/7 Letters to Shuckburgh from Katherine Chatfield, advising him about his feelings of personal discontent and frustration that 'he is not firing on as many cylinders as he should', 4 March 1944, August 1944; /8 Letter from the Subsecretario de Relaciones Exteriores to the Ambassador Dr Miguel Angel Carcano, Spanish, 19 April 1945; /9-/10 Letters to Shuckburgh from Oliver, 3rd Viscount Esher [his father-in-law], including a brief discussion of the politics of the post-war world, 1944; /11 Letter to Shuckburgh from Leonard Brockington [Gowling, Mactavish, and Watt, Barristers and Solicitors], giving news of Saul Rae and Patrick Duff, Shuckburgh's colleagues from Ottawa, and telling him about his travels in Europe during the War, 21 March 1945; /12 Letter to Shuckburgh from Victor Perowne, thanking him for his work during his time in Buenos Aires, 28 February 1945; /14 Letter to Shuckburgh from Oliver, 3rd Viscount Esher, 13 Feb 1944; /15 Letter to Shuckburgh from Victoria Ocampo, about her travels in the US and England, the English in Argentina, and the cinema, French, nd; /16-/18 Letters to Shuckburgh from Joanna [his sister], 28 February 1944, 17 January 1945, 19 March 1945; /23 Letter to Evelyn and Nancy Shuckburgh from Bernard, writing from Cairo, including news of his forthcoming marriage, nd; /24-/25 Letters from Shuckburgh to his parents: /24 describes his family's arrival in Buenos Aires, his first impressions of Argentine society: 'it would appal you to see the wanton luxury and display', and his plans for reform of the office, 15 November 1942; /25 written on a ship off the coast of Peru, during his family's journey from Ottawa to Buenos Aires, describes his last fortnight in Ottawa, their train journey to Montreal, visiting New Orleans, going through the Panama Canal, passing through Ecuador, Peru, and Chile, stopping to meet British diplomats in Chile, their journey over the Andes, and their arrival in Buenos Aires, 29 October 1942; /26 Letter to Shuckburgh from John Shuckburgh [his brother] describing his wedding and honeymoon, 31 October 1943; /27 Letter to Shuckburgh from Dicky [his cousin], discussing his opposition to Communism, his dislike of the 'bourgeois mind', his views on Ireland, sights he has seen in Italy, and his experience of war: 'it's not the friends one loses nor the sights one sees but it is one's own life, a life of uncertainty, of constant strain', 25 August 1944; /28 Letter to Shuckburgh from Lionel Brett [his brother-in-law], commenting on an article by Shuckburgh entitled 'Drawn Film', which discusses the impact of Disney films, and the Second World War: 'we are avowedly fighting a war for 'nothing in particular', 12 April 1944; /29-/30 Letters to Shuckburgh from Thomas Stone [Department of External Affairs, Canada], /29 telling him about the latest meeting of the Review, 4 December 1942; /30 enclosing copies of two letters from Elizabeth de Miribel, 18 August 1943; /31 Copy of letter from Elizabeth de Miribel to Thomas Stone, French, 9 August 1943; /32 Copy of letter from Elizabeth de Miribel to Gladys Arnold, 7 August 1943. |