War Memorials

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Photograph of the Alan Wilson Memorial, also known as the Shanghai Memorial, commemorating Alan Wilson and the men of the Shanghai Patrol which fell to the Matabele warriors during the First Matabele War, at World's View in the Matopo Hills in the early 20th century.

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Correspondence and related items, including letters from Mona Anderson, Reinhold Niebuhr, Hachiro Yuasa and Lazlo Pap. Includes material relating to the Donald Macpherson Baillie's estate, the unveiling of war memorial panels and installation of the Duke of Edinburgh as Chancellor at the University of Edinburgh, the coronation of Elizabeth II and preparations for the World Council of Churches conference.

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Signed autograph letter from Sir James Matthew Barrie to his friend and creative collaborator the architect Sir Edwin Lutyens, praising Lutyens' design for the Cenotaph, London.

There is an accompanying letter from Nicholas Taylor of the Lutyens Trust, dated 10 March 1970, thanking the then owner Ben Sonnenberg Jr for letting him see a copy of the letter.

Scope and Contents Miscellaneous documents that may have belonged to O. C. Bradley. A few are directly related to him: letter from D. Walter to o. C. Bradley, 9 January 1937, requesting information about his career before a toast by Dr Broadfoot Dingwall at a dinner; letters between J. Houston and A. C. Doull, Royal (Dick) Veterinary College Secretary, dated 1928, about information Boradley's career; a letter from F. P. Milligan to Professor Linton abut Broadley's death and his "promised subscription to the...