Scope and Contents Telegram from WSC [on board the Queen Mary returning to Britain from the United States] to Foreign Secretary [Anthony Eden, later 1st Lord Avon] marked "From: Octagon" and "Gunfire 304" and "Personal and Top Secret" referring to [Eden's] "Cordite 393 and 395" and suggesting the text of a message from WSC to President [Franklin Roosevelt] arguing against the publication of long Armistice terms with Italy and that the announcement should be delayed because of a lynching in Rome [Italy]....

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Telegram from WSC [on board the Queen Mary returning to Britain from the United States] to Foreign Secretary [Anthony Eden, later 1st Lord Avon] marked "From: Octagon" and "Gunfire 293" and "Personal and Top Secret" referring to [Eden's] "Cordite 380" and commenting on amendments [to ?the announcement of the Italian Armistice terms] and the effect of a "filthy outrage" [a lynching] in Rome [Italy]. [Copy].

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Telegram from WSC [Quebec, Canada] to Deputy Prime Minister [Clement Attlee] and War Cabinet marked "From: Octagon" and "Gunfire No. 179" on opening UNRRA [United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration] to Italy. [Copy].

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Telegram from WSC [on board the Queen Mary returning to Britain from the United States] to Foreign Secretary [Anthony Eden, later 1st Lord Avon] marked "From: Octagon" and "Gunfire 318" and "Personal. Top Secret" referring to [Eden's] "Cordite 410" and commenting on President [Franklin Roosevelt] publishing [?the Italian Armistice terms], expressing dissatisfaction at British delay due to [Eden] consulting "all other powers and Dominions". [Copy].

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Telegram from WSC [Quebec, Canada] to Deputy Prime Minister [Clement Attlee], Chancellor of the Exchequer [Sir John Anderson, later 1st Lord Waverley], and War Cabinet marked "From: Octagon" and "Gunfire No. 166" and "Personal and Top Secret" on discussions with the United States on "munition and non-munition supplies", dismantling German industries, plans for the war in the Far East, and proposals for Italy. [Copy].

Scope and Contents Telegram from WSC [Quebec, Canada] to General [Sir Henry] Wilson [Supreme Allied Commander Mediterranean Theatre] and General [Sir Harold] Alexander [later 1st Lord Alexander of Tunis, Commander in Chief of the Allied Armies in Italy] marked "Special Unnumbered Signal" and "Personal and Top Secret" stating that "Everything has opened here very well so far as your affairs are concerned", referring to "Boniface" information [Enigma decrypts, ULTRA] about German forces in Italy, LSTs [landing...

Scope and Contents Telegram from WSC [Quebec, Canada] to Deputy Prime Minister [Clement Attlee] and War Cabinet marked "From: Octagon" and "Gunfire 112" and "Personal and Top Secret" on discussions on the plans for the Mediterranean theatre: not weakening General [Sir Harold] Alexander's [later 1st Lord Alexander of Tunis, Commander in Chief of the Allied Armies in Italy] army, LSTs [landing craft] in the Adriatic, aiming for Vienna [Austria], and UNRRA [United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration]...

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Telegram from WSC [Quebec, Canada] to Foreign Secretary [Anthony Eden, later 1st Lord Avon] marked "From: Octagon" and "Gunfire 93" and "Personal and Top Secret" referring to [Eden's] "Cordite 150", giving his views on recognising the Italian government arguing "Why cannot you leave it alone and let things develop?", commenting on [Eden] visiting the President [Franklin Roosevelt], and his own arrangements for returning to Britain mentioning a cover plan. [Copy].

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Minute [from F A Lindemann, later 1st Lord Cherwell, Prime Minister's Personal Assistant] to WSC on interfering with Italian importing of coal. [Copy; given running number 209].

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Letter from Maximilian Lobkowicz [Czechoslovakian Ambassador to Great Britain] (Czechoslovak Embassy, 8 Grosvenor Place [London]) to WSC conveying a delayed message from [Dr Eduard] Benes [President of Czechoslovakia, later Czech Republic and Slovakia] on the victory of the Allied Armies in Italy. [signed].

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353 x 243 mm.

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90 x 60 mm. A view from the sea looking back at Brindisi.

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125 x 191 mm.

Scope and Contents Detailed summary of the war situation including: the evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force from Dunkirk including the effect of weather conditions, numbers evacuated, naval losses and attacks by German bombers; attacks by U-boats on seaborne trade; anti-submarine operations; German trade; overview of the military and air situation covering Norway, Italy, the North Sea and coastal operations, the bombing of Great Britain, attacks on Germany by Bomber Command, French and German air...

Scope and Contents Summary of events including: attempted landing at Dakar by General [Charles] de Gaulle; U boat activity in the North Atlantic and shipping losses; operations by German raiders; information about the disposition of German and Italian troops; events in Greece, Yugoslavia [later Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, and Slovenia], Bulgaria, the Mediterranean and the Middle East; air attacks on Germany (including Berlin) and on invasion ports in France and...

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This small collection of Winifred Lamb's papers consists of ten boxes of research notebooks, newscutting books, and photographs, mostly from the 1920s and 1930s. There are also a few printed items and a card index relating to her archaeological research. Many items are undated.