letter, letter
Accession Number

NAM.1987-04-35-616

Description

One of 23 manuscript letters to Lt Gen Sir Gerald Ellison from Sir Charles Harris, 28 Jun 1926-26 Oct 1937. The letters are long and detailed and consider Ellison's book on strategy and past organisations of the army, his views on Sir Winston Spencer Leonard Churchill and others he served under in the War Office in the early twentieth century. Relating to 2nd Visct Reginald Baliol Brett Esher, Adm 1st Baron John Arbuthnot Fisher, FM 1st Earl Frederick Sleigh Roberts and other important figures of the pre-World War One era, 1903-1914. Associated with the War Office. From a collection of 1020 papers relating to Lt Gen Sir Gerald Ellison, 1882-1961.