| Description | The diary begins on 26 October 1951 and ends on 25 December 1952. Letters and other contemporary documents have been bound with the diaries. The page numbers begin at 1 and end at 144.
In 'Descent to Suez', Shuckburgh summarises 1951 as follows: 'The diary opens on the day after the general election of 1951, at which Attlee's Labour Government was defeated and Churchill, now aged seventy-four, formed his first peacetime administration. Anthony Eden became Foreign Secretary for the third time in his career. Having been appointed Principal Private Secretary three months previously by Herbert Morrison, I now found myself serving Eden.' (p. 24)
The following documents are bound with the diary:
/5 Letter to Shuckburgh from Herbert Morrison, thanking him for his help and regretting that 'the change of government has parted us', 31 October 1951
/6 Note to Shuckburgh from Ernest Bevin, nd
/6a Note to Shuckburgh from Laurence Whistler, advising him about the design of a box Shuckburgh is making, which will include a piece of Whistler glass, 17 October 1951
/11a Copy of memo from Shuckburgh to Jock Colville [Principal Private Secretary to the Prime Minister, Winston Churchill], sending him 'the note made by Sir Oliver Harvey of his remarks...about the prospects of a high-level meeting with the Russians', 15 November 1951
/11b Copy of a note written by Sir Oliver Harvey of remarks made by Winston Churchill about British policy towards Russia, 1951
/17 Letter to Shuckburgh from JM Richards [Editor, The Architectural Review] enclosing a cutting from an article about St James's Park, published in the Architectural Review, 10 December 1951
/18 Letter from Shuckburgh to JM Richards, thanking him for the cutting and explaining why he dislikes 'the recent innovations' in St James's Park, 13 December 1951
/76 Letter to Herbert Morrison from Dwight D Eisenhower, 25 June 1951
/77 Letter to Shuckburgh from Adolf Hensinger, thanking him for the gift of a pipe, 3 July 1952
/78 Letter from Shuckburgh to the Chairman of the Marlborough-Windham Club, opposing amalgamation with the Travellers Club, 23 July 1952
/80 Letter to Shuckburgh from Lilian Shuckburgh [his mother], 22 July 1952
/94 Letter to Shuckburgh from John Shuckburgh [his father], 30 September 1952
/95 Letter to Shuckburgh from Ken Smith describing a trip to Yugoslavia, 14 September 1952
/112 Copy of letter to David Kelly from Shuckburgh explaining why he was not invited to a dinner for the Turkish Foreign Minister, 30 October 1952
/170 Julian Shuckburgh's school report, 1952 |