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Biographical file 1911-1963

Scope and Contents note

Article, brochure, certificates, letter, memoranda, passes, passports, report, and miscellany, arranged alphabetically by physical form
box 1, folder 1

Article by Victor Kravchenko undated

Scope and Contents note

Article on Robert Lockhart's role in counter-revolutionary plot against the Soviet Union, based on the author's interview with Ján Buinis. Contains a photographic reproduction of a note by Robert Lockhart requesting all personnel concerned to offer any assistance possible to Ján Buinis during his mission to "British Headquarters in Russia," 1912
box 1, folder 2

Brochure to promote a movie based on British Agent by Robert Lockhart 1934 September

box 1, folder 3

Certificate of confirmation issued by the British Church of St. Andrew, Moscow 1912 May

box 1, folder 4

Certificate awarding the K.C.M.G. (Knight Commander of the Order of St. Michael and St. George) 1943

Scope and Contents note

Includes three letters relating to this membership, including a preliminary invitation from the Prime Minister's office, 1942-1962. Signed by George VI, the Earl of Athlone, and the Earl of Clarendon.
box 1, folder 5

Civil service examination 1911 July

Scope and Contents note

Printed copy
box 1, folder 6

Letter from the Austrian Minister in London transmitting appointment as Honorary Consul General in London for Austria 1927 May

box 1, folder 7

Memorandum from Robert Lockhart to Arthur Balfour on the internal situation in the Soviet Union. See Declassified British government records (box 12, folder 7). 1918 November

box 1, folder 8

Memorandum from the U.S. Army recommending Sir Robert Bruce Lockhart for the Medal of Merit 1945 September 21

box 1, folder 9

Passes 1944-1945

box 1, folder 10

Passports 1918-1963

box 1, folder 11

Report on the "Lockhart Plot," with depositions of the accused 1918 November 30

Scope and Contents note

Holograph
box 1, folder 12

Miscellany undated

Scope and Contents note

Includes signatures of Robin N. Bruce Lockhart, son of Robert Lockhart, and others.
 

Correspondence 1895-1971

Scope and Contents note

Letters and telegrams both received or written by Lockhart, and including some letters neither to nor from him, arranged alphabetically by correspondent
 

General

box 1, folder 13

Childhood letters 1895

box 1, folder 14

Telegrams to Robert Lockhart 1934

box 1, folder 15

Unidentified

Scope and Contents note

Includes Easter greetings to Robert Lockhart, n.d.; 3 postcards neither from nor to Robert Lockhart, ca. 1916; and a postcard to Robert Lockhart received at Evening Standard, 1935
box 1, folder 16

Bark, Peter, Sir 1936

box 1, folder 17

Beneš, Edvard 1940-1945

Scope and Contents note

Photocopies and Christmas greetings
box 1, folder 18

Bracken, Brendan 1948

box 1, folder 19

Buchanan, George, Sir 1926

 

Budberg, Moura, Baroness

box 1, folder 20

Undated

box 1, folder 21

circa 1915-1918

box 1, folder 22

circa 1919-1959

box 1, folder 23

After 1924 (probably)

box 1, folder 24

Caccia, Harold, Sir 1964

box 1, folder 25

Carol, King of Romania, to President Edvard Beneš 1941

box 1, folder 26

Eden, Anthony 1939-1945

box 1, folder 27

Einzig, Paul 1971

box 1, folder 28

Kerensky, Aleksandr 1956

box 1, folder 29

Lascelles, Alan 1966

box 1, folder 30

Lockhart, Rob, Lt.-Gen., Sir 1956

 

Lockhart, Robin Bruce 1923-1969

box 1, folder 31

Undated

General note

See also box 9 folder 2
box 1, folder 32

1923-1952

box 1, folder 33-35

1953-1958

box 2, folder 1-2

1959-1969

box 2, folder 3

Louis Ferdinand, Prince of Prussia 1933

box 2, folder 4

Marie, Queen of Romania 1937

Scope and Contents note

Letter written by Countess Irene Procofsin, Lady-in-Waiting
box 2, folder 5

Masaryk, Ján 1939

Scope and Contents note

Printed quotation from Lao-tse with holograph note
box 2, folder 6

Norton, Jean undated

box 2, folder 7

Peake, Charles, Sir 1947

box 2, folder 8

Peterson, Maurice, Sir 1946

box 2, folder 9

Salisbury, Lord 1955

box 2, folder 10

Spears, E. L. 1967

General note

See also box 6 folder 25
box 2, folder 11

West, Rebecca 1968

 

Diaries 1910-1962

Scope and Contents note

Miscellaneous diaries and photocopies of printed transcripts of diaries, arranged chronologically. The majority of Lockhart's diaries are located in the Beaverbrook Library and have been published in several volumes ( The Diaries of Sir Robert Bruce Lockhart, Kenneth Young, ed., London: Macmillan London Limited, 1973)
 

Originals

box 2, folder 12

1910 July - August

Scope and Contents note

Relates to travel from the Far East through Canada to England. Includes draft verse.
box 2, folder 13

1946 July 1 - 1954 June 28

Scope and Contents note

Erratic entries from 1946 (primarily), 1947, 1948, 1950, and 1954
box 2, folder 14

1960 April 23 and May 12-13

Scope and Contents note

Loose-leaf pages describing a visit with Sir Orme Sargent
 

Photocopies of printed transcripts of diaries 1915-1962

box 2, folder 15

1915-1942

box 2, folder 16

1943-1962

box 3, folder 1

1943-1962

 

Speeches and writings 1907-1960s

Scope and Contents note

Arranged chronologically. Many early works from and about the Soviet Union were written under the pseudonym of Jean d'Auvergne
 

General

 

Notebooks

Scope and Contents note

Contains entries on significant individuals and events, as well as quotations and other miscellany.
box 3, folder 2

Undated

box 3, folder 4

1930s

box 3, folder 5

1932

box 3, folder 6

1934

box 4, folder 1

1937

box 4, folder 2

circa 1938

box 4, folder 3

1938-1945

box 4, folder 4

1940s

box 4, folder 5

1943

box 4, folder 6

1944-1945

Scope and Contents note

Includes some notes from 1943
box 4, folder 7

1950

box 5, folder 1-2

1956

box 5, folder 3

1958

box 5, folder 4-6

Verse, loose-leaf holographs and notebooks 1907-1913

box 5, folder 7

"Ordeal by Oratory" n.d.

Scope and Contents note

Mimeographed typescript co-authored with Alexander Kerensky
box 5, folder 8

"The Slave of the White Poppy" undated

Scope and Contents note

Draft typescript
box 5, folder 9

"Student-Life in Russia," Chambers's Journal 1912 June

Scope and Contents note

Mimeographed copy of printed article
box 5, folder 10

"The Russian Decadents," The Blue Book 1912 September

Scope and Contents note

Mimeographed copy of printed article
box 5, folder 11

Miscellaneous columns 1913-1915

box 5, folder 12

"The Continental Variety-Stage," parts I and II, The Englishwoman 1913 January - February

Scope and Contents note

Mimeographed copy of printed article
box 5, folder 13

"Ears of Rye," Chambers's Journal 1913 March 1

Scope and Contents note

Mimeographed copy of printed article
box 5, folder 14

"Ten Years of Russian Literature," The Englishwoman 1913 August

Scope and Contents note

Mimeographed copy of printed article
box 5, folder 15

"The Revolutionary: A Tale of the Russian Ballet," The Bystander 1913 September 17

Scope and Contents note

Mimeographed copy
box 6, folder 1

Columns for The Bystander 1913 March - 1914 May 20

Scope and Contents note

Relate to Russian life and literature. Mimeographed and printed copies
box 6, folder 2

"The Moscow Art Theatre" ca. 1914

Scope and Contents note

Mimeographed copy of printed article
box 6, folder 3

"Daddy" 1914 August 1

Scope and Contents note

Typescript of a short story
box 6, folder 4

"The Way of the English," The Royal Magazine 1916 May

Scope and Contents note

Mimeographed copy of printed article
box 6, folder 5

"Bolshevik Aims and Bolshevik Ideals" circa 1918-1919

Scope and Contents note

Mimeographed copy of printed article
box 6, folder 6

"An Englishman Looks at the World," speech circa 1930s

Scope and Contents note

Typescript
box 6, folder 7

"James Simpson," article circa 1930s

Scope and Contents note

Typescript
box 6, folder 8

"End of an Epoch" circa 1938-1939

Scope and Contents note

Autobiographical typescript
box 6, folder 9

"Inside Wartime Russia," radio broadcast 1942 May 19

Scope and Contents note

Typescript
box 6, folder 10

"The Wandering Scot," speech circa 1950s

Scope and Contents note

Typescript
box 6, folder 11

"Founder's Day, Fettes College," speech 1953 June 27

Scope and Contents note

Typescript
box 6, folder 12

"Britain's Place in the World Today," speech 1953 September

Scope and Contents note

Typescript
box 6, folder 13

"Queen and Commonwealth," speech, the Societe Franco-Britannique, Paris 1953 November 13

Scope and Contents note

Typescript
box 6, folder 14

"Baroness Budberg," article 1958

Scope and Contents note

Typescript
box 6, folder 15

"The Prophets of Our Time" and "Lord Cameron" circa late 1950s

Scope and Contents note

Chapters for a book entitled Giants Cast Long Shadows, which were not used. Draft typescripts
box 6, folder 16

"Harold Macmillan," article circa 1960

Scope and Contents note

Typescript
 

Sidney Reilly file 1921-1968

Scope and Contents note

Article and correspondence relating to British espionage agent Sidney Reilly, arranged alphabetically by physical form
box 6, folder 17

Article, "Kak îskal Shpiona Reīli," by R. I. Pimenov 1968 June

Scope and Contents note

In Russian. Includes a partial English translation titled, "My Search for Reilly the Spy," Leningrad, 1968
 

Letters primarily to and from Sidney Reilly

box 6, folder 18

General 1925-1927

Scope and Contents note

Letters to Mrs. Sidney Reilly from Harold Williams, 1925, and from C. D. R. Lumby and E. Marsh, 1927
box 6, folder 19

Undated

box 6, folder 20

Unidentified 1922-1925

Scope and Contents note

Includes telegrams to Sidney Reilly
box 6, folder 21

Brunstrom, O. 1922

box 6, folder 22

Dukes, Paul 1922

box 6, folder 23

Krary, Jim 1921

box 6, folder 24

Savinkov, Boris 1921-1924

box 6, folder 25

Spears, E. L. 1925

General note

See also box 2 folder 10
 

Subject file 1907-1960s

Scope and Contents note

Flyers, letters, maps, memoranda, pamphlet, reports, and miscellany relating primarily to the Soviet Union and Europe before and during World War II, arranged by subject
box 6, folder 26

Alley, Stephen undated

box 6, folder 27

Beaverbrook, Lord 1954 May 23

Scope and Contents note

Pamphlet of photographs commemorating Lord Beaverbrook's 75th birthday
 

Chester Concession

box 6, folder 28

Affidavit 1922

box 6, folder 29

Clippings 1923

box 6, folder 30

Letters 1914-1923

Scope and Contents note

Includes letters to K. B. Clayton-Kennedy
box 6, folder 31

China 1960s

Scope and Contents note

Notes on Chinese foreign relations, primarily with the Soviet Union. Holograph
box 6, folder 32

Czechoslovakia 1941-1948

Scope and Contents note

Reports for the British Foreign Office on the meeting between Vyacheslav Molotov and Edvard Beneš in England, 1942 June; a memorandum regarding Czech frontiers, 1941; a memorandum by President Edvard Beneš on British radio broadcasts during World War II; and an incomplete letter, attributed to Mildred Thomas, describing Dr. Beneš' final illness, after the Communist take-over, 1948 October. Typescripts
box 6, folder 33

De Valera, Eamon 1945 October 19

Scope and Contents note

Report of an interview with Eamon De Valera. Typescript
box 6, folder 34

Masaryk, Ján undated

General note

See also box 9 folder 15

Scope and Contents note

Photocopy of a medal issued by the Czechs to commemorate his death, and of a note by Lockhart.
 

Savinkov, Boris V.

box 6, folder 35

Agenda undated

Scope and Contents note

Contains agenda of a meeting where Savinkov was scheduled to give a speech on the Russian political situation.
box 6, folder 36

Clipping 1925 August

 

Correspondence

box 6, folder 37-38

General 1920-1921

box 6, folder 39

Savinkova, S 1922

box 6, folder 40

Report undated

Scope and Contents note

Typescript fragments concerning the role of the Polish government in Savinkov's conspiracy against the Soviet government and a letter to the editor by Maslovski on the subject.
 

Soviet Union

box 7, folder 1

General 1917-1918

Scope and Contents note

Includes maps, World War I savings bonds, and a handwritten luggage receipt
box 7, folder 2

British newspaper, The Socialist, with an article on the "Lockhart Plot" 1918 September

box 7, folder 3

Flyer issued by the Bolsheviks describing the "Lockhart Plot" 1918 September

box 7, folder 4

Pass signed by Leon Trotsky 1918 February 27

Scope and Contents note

Photocopy
box 7, folder 5

Report to the British Foreign Office on a conversation with L. M. Karachan about relations between Soviet Union and the Allies (declassified) 1918 November 7

Scope and Contents note

Typescript
box 7, folder 6

Report (incomplete) by William B. Webster of the American Red Cross Mission to the Soviet Union on the post-war situation in the Baltic area 1918 December 30

Scope and Contents note

Typescript
box 7, folder 7

United States 1939 April 15

Scope and Contents note

Report to the British Foreign Office on the state of American public opinion on the situation in Europe. Typescript
box 7, folder 8

William II, German Emperor 1939 August

Scope and Contents note

Report on a visit. Typescript
 

World War, 1939-1945

box 7, folder 9

Allied leaflet announcing the liberation of Paris 1944 August

box 7, folder 10

Silk map prepared for intelligence agents during the North African invasion 1942 September - October

box 7, folder 11

Summary of meetings between Winston Churchill, Anthony Eden, and Vyacheslav Molotov 1942 June 10-11

Scope and Contents note

Typescript
box 7, folder 12-14

Miscellany 1907-1938

Scope and Contents note

Includes illustrations and postcards
 

Great Britain Foreign Office documents 1946-1948

Scope and Contents note

Mostly British Embassy, Prague, dispatches to the Foreign Office, but also from Denmark, France, Soviet Union, and United States, all relating to the situation in Czechoslovakia, arranged alphabetically by location of embassy
 

British Embassy

box 8, folder 1-3

Czechoslovakia

box 8, folder 4

Denmark

box 8, folder 5

France

box 8, folder 6

Soviet Union

box 8, folder 7

United States

 

Photographs 1912-1956

Scope and Contents note

32 prints and 1 negative depicting personalities such as Edvard Beneš, Arthur Henderson, David Lloyd George, and Ján Masaryk, arranged by physical form
box 9, folder 1

Negatives circa 1918

Scope and Contents note

Contains 1 negative depicting inscription on silver box given by Sidney Reilly to Robert Lockhart.
 

Prints

box 9, folder 2

4 prints depicting unidentified individuals undated

General note

See also box 1 folder 31
box 9, folder 3

1 print (photocopy) depicting inscription on silver box given by Sidney Reilly to Robert Lockhart circa 1918

box 9, folder 4

1 print of [Milner] undated

box 9, folder 5

1 print depicting the city of Moscow undated

box 9, folder 6

1 print depicting Feliks Dzerzhinskii undated

box 9, folder 7

1 print depicting Arthur Henderson undated

box 9, folder 8

1 print depicting Madame Germanova undated

box 9, folder 9

1 print depicting Artur Khristianovich Artuzov, Chief of the Counter Intelligence Department or KRO (Kontr-razvediavatel'nyi otdel') undated

box 9, folder 10

1 print depicting Leon Trotsky undated

box 9, folder 11

1 print depicting President Edvard Beneš and Ján Masaryk undated

box 9, folder 12

1 print depicting Yakov Peters undated

box 9, folder 13

1 print depicting leaders of the October Revolution undated

box 9, folder 14

5 prints depicting David Lloyd George, Richard Tauber, and his wife, Diana Napier, in David Lloyd George's garden undated

box 9, folder 15

2 prints including one depicting the graves of Ján Masaryk and T. C. Masaryk, and one depicting a medal issued by the Czechs to commemorate the death of Ján Masaryk undated

General note

See also box 6 folder 34
box 9, folder 16

1 print of the late Reverend Lombard of Hampstead and St. Petersburg (Leningrad) 1912?

box 9, folder 17

3 prints depicting the Moscow Football Team 1912-1916

box 9, folder 18

1 print depicting an unidentified individual on top of the Empire State Building circa 1936

box 9, folder 19

4 prints depicting Edvard Beneš, President of Czechoslovakia, including one signed by him for Robert Lockhart, , one signed by President Edvard Beneš for Aston Abbotts, , one depicting him on his death bed, and one depicting his grave site 1942, 1944, 1956

box 9, folder 20

1 print depicting Moura Budberg (or possibly Kay Francis in the film role of Moura Budberg) undated

 

Incremental materials

Scope and Contents note

Contains files of Robert H. Bruce Lockhart and Robin N. Bruce Lockhart, including materials related to Sidney Reilly.
 

Biographical file 1906-1989

Scope and Contents note

Includes correspondence, clippings, notes, and miscellany.
box 10, folder 1

Clippings 1932-1988

box 10, folder 2

Personal file 1937-1979

Scope and Contents note

Includes correspondence, notes, and miscellany
box 10, folder 3

Portrait file 1989

Scope and Contents note

Includes clippings and correspondence concerning a portrait of Robert Lockhart by K. Somov
 

Youth

box 10, folder 4

Education 1906-1911

box 10, folder 5

Malaya 1906-circa 1938

 

Diaries

Scope and Contents note

Contains correspondence and lists related to diaries.
box 10, folder 6

Correspondence and lists, Records Office, House of Lords 1980-1986

 

Speeches and writings 1907-1986

Scope and Contents note

Includes notes on a discussion with Kaiser Wilhelm II, political writings, and poetry edited by Robin N. Bruce Lockhart, son of Robert H. Bruce Lockhart.
box 10, folder 7

"Cities and Men," notes undated

box 10, folder 8

"Through the Jungle Softly," poetry 1907-1986

Scope and Contents note

Edited by Robin Bruce Lockhart.
box 10, folder 9

"Notes on Kaiser Talks" 1939

Scope and Contents note

Notes from meeting with Kaiser Wilhelm II
box 10, folder 10

"Ten Years After: A Munich Survey" 1948

box 10, folder 11

"Last Words on Lenin" 1960

 

Subject file 1918-1961

Scope and Contents note

Includes correspondence and reports related to World War II and British government documents concerning Russia.
box 10, folder 12

British government documents about Russia 1918

 

World War II

box 10, folder 13

Beneš, Edvard 1942

box 10, folder 14

Official appointments 1939-1940

box 10, folder 15

Poland undated

box 10, folder 16

Post-war correspondence with Foreign Office 1960-1961

box 10, folder 17

Photographs circa 1910-1950s

 

Robin N. Bruce Lockhart file 1904-2003

Scope and Contents note

Contains the files of Robert Lockhart's son, Robin N. Bruce Lockhart, concerning Sidney Reilly.
 

Sidney Reilly and the Russian Revolution file 1918-2002

 

Hill, George file

box 10, folder 18-19

General 1938, 1967, undated

box 10, folder 20

Correspondence with Robin Lockhart 1966-1969

box 10, folder 21

Correspondence with others 1935-1945

box 10, folder 22

Estate 1970-1971

box 10, folder 23

Legal documents 1966-1968

box 10, folder 24

Kettle, Michael 1967-1994

box 10, folder 25

Moscow visit and research 1988

box 10, folder 26

Research and correspondence 1966-1967

 

Sources 1918-2002

box 10, folder 27

General 1921-1997

box 10, folder 28

Charles, Pepita 1925-1931

box 10, folder 29

Dukes, Paul 1922-1990

box 11, folder 1

Foreign and Commonwealth Office 1957-2002

box 11, folder 2

Lockhart, Robert Bruce and Sidney Reilly 1918-1937

box 11, folder 3

Mallean, Jean undated

General note

Mother of Robin N. Bruce Lockhart
box 11, folder 4

Questionnaires undated

box 11, folder 5

Spears, Edward 1920-1974

box 11, folder 6-11

Sidney Reilly documentary materials 1904-1997

Scope and Contents note

Includes writings by Robin Lockhart, research, and photographs
 

"Ring of Spies" file 1975-1999

box 11, folder 12

General 1983-1986

box 11, folder 13

Greenberg, Michael 1985-1986

box 11, folder 14

Henri, Ernest 1985-1993

General note

Also known as Semyon Rostotsky
box 11, folder 15

Research visit to United States 1985

box 11, folder 16

Traill, Vera 1975-1999

 

Moura Budberg Project file 1918-1996

box 11, folder 17

Alexander, Tania 1983-1987

box 11, folder 18

Berbergva, Nina 1989

box 11, folder 19

Budberg file 1966-1996

box 11, folder 20

Copies of Budberg letters 1918-1958, undated

box 11, folder 21

Foreign and Commonwealth Office 1972-2003

box 11, folder 22

Correspondence 1944-1997

 

Jan Masaryk/Czechoslovakia file

Scope and Contents note

Includes files of Robin Lockhart and Robert Lockart concerning Jan Masaryk.
box 12, folder 2

General 1954-1993

box 12, folder 2

Davenport, Marcia 1991-1996

box 12, folder 3

Correspondence concerning book on Masaryk 1991-1997

box 12, folder 4

Prague visits 1991-1998

Scope and Contents note

Includes description of medals awards to Robert Lockhart. See also Oversize materials, box 13.
box 12, folder 5

Robert H. Bruce Lockhart files on Masaryk 1941-1970

Scope and Contents note

Includes photographs
box 12, folder 6

Robert H. Bruce Lockhart outgoing correspondence 1928-1949

 

Declassified British government records 1918-1973

Scope and Contents note

Formerly security-classified records of the British government, released in full. Arranged chronologically by date of release by Hoover, thereunder chronologically by date of creation
box 12, folder 7

2010 release of records (see also Report to the British Foreign Office on a conversation with L. M. Karachan..., box 7, folder 5) 1918-1973

General Physical Description note: One folder
box 12, folder 8

2011 release of record undated

General Physical Description note: One folder containing 1 item
onsite digital

2017 release of records 1918

 

Oversize materials

Scope and Contents note

Contains a framed drawing and three medals.
box 13

Framed drawing, Dubrovnik undated

box 13

Three medals undated

Scope and Contents note

See Jan Masaryk/Czechoslovakia file (box 12, folder 4) for description of medals