Dissociated notes from Diary: May - December 1940
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Dissociated notes from Diary: May - December 1940
Part of Seán Lester Collection
Dissociated notes from Diary: May - December 1940
Part of Seán Lester Collection
Dissociated notes from Diary: May - December 1940
Part of Seán Lester Collection
Press cutting on Joseph Avenol, p0001
Part of Seán Lester Collection
Part of Seán Lester Collection
Diary: August 1940 - April 1941, p0041
Part of Seán Lester Collection
Part of Seán Lester Collection
Letter from Seán Lester to Frank P Walters
Part of Seán Lester Collection
Letter from Seán Lester to Frank P Walters, p0003
Part of Seán Lester Collection
Letter from Carola Giedion-Welcker to Seán Lester, p0002
Part of Seán Lester Collection
Letter from Seán Lester to Carl Hambro, Head of the Supervisory Commission of the League, p0001
Part of Seán Lester Collection
Part of Seán Lester Collection
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
Part of Seán Lester Collection
Part of Seán Lester Collection
Telegram from Hambro Phillips Malik to Seán Lester, p0001
Part of Seán Lester Collection
Letter from Seán Lester to Frank P Walters, p0001
Part of Seán Lester Collection
Letter from Carola Giedion-Welcker to Seán Lester, p0001
Part of Seán Lester Collection
Letter from Seán Lester to Carl Hambro, Head of the Supervisory Commission of the League
Part of Seán Lester Collection
Copy letter from Seán Lester to Carl Hambro, Head of the Supervisory Commission of the League, via Arthur Sweetser.
Letter from Seán Lester to Carl Hambro, Head of the Supervisory Commission of the League, p0003
Part of Seán Lester Collection
Part of Seán Lester Collection
Telegram from Hambro Phillips Malik to Seán Lester, p0002
Part of Seán Lester Collection
Letter from Seán Lester to Frank P Walters, p0002
Part of Seán Lester Collection
Part of Seán Lester Collection
Dissociated correspondence from Diary: April - December 1941
Part of Seán Lester Collection
Letter from [?René Massigli], Consulate General of France in Geneva, Switzerland to Seán Lester
Part of Seán Lester Collection
Part of Seán Lester Collection
Telegram from Hambro Phillips Malik to Seán Lester
Part of Seán Lester Collection
Letter from Carola Giedion-Welcker to Seán Lester
Part of Seán Lester Collection
Letter from Seán Lester to Carl Hambro, Head of the Supervisory Commission of the League, p0002
Part of Seán Lester Collection
Dissociated pages from Diary: April - December 1941
Part of Seán Lester Collection
Part of Seán Lester Collection
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.
Part of Seán Lester Collection
Fearing that the Germans would invade Switzerland during the Second World War, Lester buried his diaries in this metal case next to a bench in the Palais des Nations in Geneva. This is likely why the diary entries stop in 1942.
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Diary: January - July 1938, p0002
Part of Seán Lester Collection
Diary: January - July 1938, p0003
Part of Seán Lester Collection
Diary: January - July 1938, p0010
Part of Seán Lester Collection
Diary: January - July 1938, p0017
Part of Seán Lester Collection
Diary: January - July 1938, p0021
Part of Seán Lester Collection
Diary: January - July 1938, p0022
Part of Seán Lester Collection
Diary: January - July 1938, p0025
Part of Seán Lester Collection
Diary: January - July 1938, p0030
Part of Seán Lester Collection