Letter from Arthur Sweetser to Seán Lester
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- 15 July 1940
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Letter from Arthur Sweetser to Seán Lester
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Letter from Arthur Sweetser to Seán Lester, p0002
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Letter from Arthur Sweetser to Seán Lester, p0004
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Letter from Thamassis Aghnides to Seán Lester, p0002
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Letter from Carl Jacob Burckhardt to Seán Lester
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Correspondence with Hugh McKinnon Wood
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Telegram from [?] Wilson to Seán Lester
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Card from Laurence C Tombs to Seán Lester
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Card from Laurence C Tombs to Seán Lester, p0002
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Dissociated notes from Diary: May - December 1940
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Dissociated notes from Diary: May - December 1940
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Dissociated notes from Diary: May - December 1940
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Dissociated press cuttings from Diary: May - December 1940
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Correspondence from Arthur Sweetser to Seán Lester
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Letter from Arthur Sweetser to Seán Lester, p0001
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Letter from Arthur Sweetser to Seán Lester, p0002
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Letter from Arthur Sweetser to Seán Lester, p0004
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Diary: August 1939 - April 1940
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Handwritten and typed diary entries relating to Lester's time as Deputy Secretary General of the League of 12 Nations in Geneva, the outbreak of the Second World War, and the evacuation of his wife and three daughters from Geneva to Ireland.
Includes letters and cards to Lester from: Jack T Mayo ['an English fishing companion']; Ambrose B Wareing, the Danzig correspondent for the Daily Telegraph newspaper (letter dated 16 June 1937); Isidro Fabela, Mexican diplomat; Pierre Stoppani, League of Nations Economic Relations Section; Eóin MacNeill, Professor, National University of Ireland; Vladimir Sokoline, Under Secretary General's Office, League of Nations; Stephen Gwynn, former MP for Galway city, academic and journalist; S Pelychuoniades, Hellenic Delegation to the League of Nations; Joseph MN Jeffries, author and journalist; Phyllis Manning, a friend who it seems, also holidayed in Connemara and who worked at the Agricultural Economics Research Institute in Oxford, and GC Greene, 'British Sporting Agency Ltd, Digswell Vale, Welwyn, Hertfordshire, UK.
Includes extract from letter written by Raymond Fosdick, Rockefeller Foundation, to Arthur Sweetser, League of Nations' Public Information Section.
Also includes a handwritten 'note for talk with S.G.' [?Secretary General, Joseph Avenol], dated September 1938, newspaper cuttings, poems by Patricia E Lester [Seán Lester's daughter], and black and white photographs. First photograph features the following individuals chatting beside a bench in a garden or park 'at luncheon to [?Iroguiera' Luis Podestá Costa, League of Nations Under Secretary General; Frank P Walters, League of Nations Under Secretaries-Generals in charge of Political Section Office; Lester, and Isidro Fabela, Mexican diplomat. Second photograph features Lester, Alberto Guani, Uruguayan Foreign Minister, and [?Iroguiera] in Lester's office.
There are two gaps in the diary when Lester did not record entries for months at a time. This diary opens with '[n]ot a line written in a notebook for months', and an entry on 31 January 1940 notes that '[n]othing written for 2 months'.
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Letter from Stephen Gwynn to Seán Lester, p0002
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Letter from Stephen Gwynn to Seán Lester, p0003
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Letter from GE [?Geoffrey Conyngham] Greene to Seán Lester
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Letter from GE [?Geoffrey Conyngham] Greene to Seán Lester, p0003
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Concerns League of Nations and Seán Lester from pp.14-27
World Order Papers, No. 2 (1940), p0002
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World Order Papers, No. 2 (1940), p0003
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World Order Papers, No. 2 (1940), p0004
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World Order Papers, No. 2 (1940), p0006
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World Order Papers, No. 2 (1940), p0007
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World Order Papers, No. 2 (1940), p0008
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World Order Papers, No. 2 (1940), p0010
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World Order Papers, No. 2 (1940), p0011
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World Order Papers, No. 2 (1940), p0013
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World Order Papers, No. 2 (1940), p0015
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League of Nations Information Section: notes given to Foreign Office, p0001
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League of Nations Information Section: notes given to Foreign Office, p0004
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Dissociated correspondence from Diary: May - December 1940
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Letter from Seán Lester to Alexander Loveday, p0001
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Letter from Alexander Loveday to Seán Lester, p0007
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Letter from Alexander Loveday to Seán Lester
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Correspondence with Arthur Sweetser
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Letter from Arthur Sweetser to Seán Lester, p0001
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Letter from Arthur Sweetser to Seán Lester, p0001
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Letter from Arthur Sweetser to Seán Lester, p0003
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Correspondence from Thamassis Aghnides to Seán Lester
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Letter from Thamassis Aghnides to Seán Lester, p0005
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Letter from Seán Lester to Hugh McKinnon Wood
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Transcript of letter from Seán Lester to Hugh McKinnon Wood, p0002
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Card from Laurence C Tombs to Seán Lester, p0001
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Dissociated pages from Diary: May - December 1940
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Dissociated notes from Diary: May - December 1940
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Dissociated notes from Diary: May - December 1940
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Dissociated notes from Diary: May - December 1940
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Press cutting 'Lester runs League', p0001
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Press cutting from La Suisse, p0001
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Letter from Stephen Gwynn to Seán Lester, p0001
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Letter from GE [?Geoffrey Conyngham] Greene to Seán Lester, p0002
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Letter from GE [?Geoffrey Conyngham] Greene to Seán Lester, p0004
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World Order Papers, No. 2 (1940), p0005
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World Order Papers, No. 2 (1940), p0014
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Dissociated pages from Diary: August 1939 - April 1940
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Dissociated papers of the League of Nations Information Section
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League of Nations Information Section: notes given to Foreign Office, p0005
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Poetry relating to the death of Humbert Wolfe, p0002
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Letter from Stephen Gwynn to Seán Lester
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Letter from GE [?Geoffrey Conyngham] Greene to Seán Lester, p0001
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Note with World Order Papers, No. 2 (1940), p0001
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Dissociated pages from Diary: August 1939 - April 1940
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Typescript extract from note concerning [Józef] Beck and [Hans-Adolf von] Moltke.
Press cutting 'Poland's Foreign Policy Before the War, the Last Exchanges with Soviet Russia, p0001
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League of Nations Information Section: notes given to Foreign Office, p0003
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Dissociated poetry on the death of Humbert Wolfe
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Letter from Seymour Jacklin to Seán Lester, p0001
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Letter from Alexander Loveday to Seán Lester, p0003
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Letter from Alexander Loveday to Seán Lester, p0005
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Letter from Alexander Loveday to Seán Lester, p0009
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Letter from Seán Lester to Alexander Loveday
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Letter from Seán Lester to Alexander Loveday, p0001
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Letter from Alexander Loveday to Seán Lester, p0002
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Letter from Seán Lester to Elliott Felkin
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Letter from Thamassis Aghnides to Seán Lester, p0001
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Letter from Thamassis Aghnides to Seán Lester, p0003
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Letter from Thamassis Aghnides to Seán Lester, p0004
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Letter from Seán Lester to Hugh McKinnon Wood, p0001
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Letter from Hugh McKinnon Wood to Seán Lester, p0002
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Dissociated notes from Diary: May - December 1940
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Dissociated notes from Diary: May - December 1940
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Dissociated notes from Diary: May - December 1940
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Press cutting on Joseph Avenol, p0001
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Poetry relating to the death of Humbert Wolfe, p0003
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Poetry relating to the death of Humbert Wolfe, p0004
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Newspaper cutting from Diary: August 1939 - April 1940, p0002
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Newspaper cutting from Diary: August 1939 - April 1940, p0003
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Consists of handwritten and typed diary entries, letters, postcards and other documents. Topics include Lester's final months as Deputy Secretary General of the League of Nations; his assuming the role of Acting Secretary General following the resignation of Joseph Avenol on 31 August 1940; the dire state of the Secretariat finances, and a bus crash in August involving several League of Nations employees, including Alec [Alexander] Loveday, while travelling to Lisbon, Portugal, as part of the transfer of the Secretariat's technical services to Princeton, USA [a photograph of the crashed bus is included in diary C1/9].
Diary includes letters to Lester from: Alec Loveday, Director of the Economic, Financial, and Transit Department of the League of Nations; Seymour Jacklin, Treasurer of the League of Nations; Carl Hambro, Head of the Supervisory Commission of the League of Nations; Thamassis Aghnides, Director of the Disarmament Section of the League of Nations; Arthur Sweetser, League of Nations' Public Information Section; Hugh McKinnon Wood, Counsellor and Legal Adviser at the League of Nations; Laurence C Tombs, a former official in the Transit and Communications Section of the League of Nations; Edward Joseph Phelan, International Labour Organisation, and Carl Jacob Burckhardt, International Committee of the Red Cross [and previously, Lester's successor as League of Nations High Commissioner in Danzig]. Also includes newspaper cuttings and black and white passport photograph of an unidentified man.
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Dissociated press cuttings from Diary: April - December 1941
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Diary: August 1940 - April 1941, p0041
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