Letter from Alexander Loveday to Seán Lester, p0001
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- 10 July 1940
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Letter from Alexander Loveday to Seán Lester, p0001
Letter from Alexander Loveday to Seán Lester, p0004
Letter from Arthur Sweetser to Seán Lester
Letter from Arthur Sweetser to Seán Lester, p0001
Letter from Seán Lester to Elliott Felkin, p0001
Letter from Seán Lester to Elliott Felkin, p0002
Letter from Carl Jacob Burckhardt to Seán Lester
Letter from Hugh McKinnon Wood to Seán Lester
Letter from Hugh McKinnon Wood to Seán Lester, p0001
Telegram from [?] Wilson to Seán Lester, p0001
Telegram from [?] Wilson to Seán Lester, p0002
Dissociated notes from Diary: May - December 1940
Dissociated notes from Diary: May - December 1940
Press cutting from La Suisse, p0002
Diary: August 1940 - April 1941, p0041
Correspondence from Sir Walford Selby
Letter from Arthur Sweetser to Seán Lester, p0003
Letter from Humphrey Hume Wrong, Canadian Advisory Officer to the League of Nations, to Seán Lester
Letter from Seán Lester to Frank P Walters
Letter from Seán Lester to Frank P Walters, p0003
Letter from Carola Giedion-Welcker to Seán Lester, p0002
Letter from Seán Lester to Carl Hambro, Head of the Supervisory Commission of the League, p0001
Dissociated notes from Diary: August 1940 - April 1941
Dissociated notes from Diary: August 1940 - April 1941
Handwritten and typed diary entries relating to Lester's time as Acting Secretary General of the League of Nations in Geneva. Includes numerous diary entries and correspondence concerning Lester's threat to resign his position in June 1941 following his discovery that his name was apparently on a British secret service 'watch list'.
Diary includes correspondence with Seán T Ó Ceallaigh [Sean T O'Kelly], Minister for Finance; James John McElligott, Secretary of the Department of Finance; James Dillon, TD (letter from Lester was unsent); Seymour Jacklin, Treasurer of the League of Nations; Carl Hambro, Head of the Supervisory Commission of the League of Nations; Hugh McKinnon Wood, Counsellor and Legal Adviser at the League of Nations; Arthur Sweetser, League of Nations' Public Information Section; Frank P Walters, Deputy Secretary General of the League of Nations; Roger Makins, British Foreign Office; Anthony Eden, British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs; Alexander Cadogan, British Permanent Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs; David V Kelly, British Legation in Berne, Switzerland; Harry Livingston, British Consulate in Geneva; Lord Davies [David Davies, 1st Baron Davies]; Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood; Robert Collis, doctor and author; Frank T Cremins, Irish Legation in Berne, Switzerland; Ernst Grunwald ('[an] Austrian textile trader, who was in a civilian camp in Switzerland with his wife and obtained visas thanks to S. Lester's help', according to the finding aid for the Sean Lester collection in the United Nations Archives, Geneva. See reference: PP 274/2/871-873); Gretta Lester, Seán Lester's sister, and Frank Lidgett McDougall, Australia House, London. Also includes several Christmas cards and business cards from various diplomats, dignitaries and friends.
Dissociated press cuttings from Diary: April - December 1941
This diary is blank apart from a handwritten note on the very last page ['Rev. Fr. Victor Dillard, French Jesuit, economist, ed. "Cité Nouvelle". Visit Sept. 1942'] and the inclusion of a business card for Monseigneur Henri Petit, Prélat de sa Sainteté, Vicaire Général, Geneva, with a handwritten note in French on it.
Includes the names and addresses of several of the individuals discussed by Lester in the diaries and those he was in correspondence with during the period.