Numbered Series of Archive Boxes Containing David Irving's Research
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Numbered Series of Archive Boxes containing David Irving’s Research papers, Manuscripts, Correspondence, Articles, as listed at No. 81 Duke Street in 1998-1999. EXPLANATION. Most of these new white Viking-brand archive boxes (1, 2, 3, etc) contained three Viking archive sub-boxes (a), (b), (c). The labels pasted on the outside of each box repeated the information provided below. The boxes were created during the two-year process of Discovery for the Lipstadt Trial beginning in January 2000. Those boxes not in use inside the study were stacked three- deep along the corridor at the Duke Street apartment, or stacked around the other rooms, e.g. packed into the upper and lower cupboards behind the kitchen door. Further unnumbered individual sub-boxes (primarily holding duplicate copies of correspondence, chronologically arranged as the “Day Book”) were located on shelves and cupboards in the cupboards in the former butler’s pantry. Ryman-brand “transfer-cases” (brown paper tied with string) were also stacked on the shelves next to the servant’s WC. They are not listed here. To relieve pressure on space, a number of archive boxes, listed below, were shipped after the Lipstadt Trial to a warehouse in Illinois. Those left on the Duke Street premises were largely lost either after they were seized by Baker Tilly or after the premises’ seizure on May 23, 2002. 1 David Irving’s writings, published and unpublished:- All Dallas missing (local newspaper addresses) presumed Divided Common Language lost Hiroshima Himmler Review Casey & Casey Hitler’s Gun Intro to Rassinier Book Review of Heinz Höhne: Canaris Review Gilbert: Last Journey Hitler and Doctors (Stern) Nuremberg (Die Welt) Leuchter Report intro Rudolf Hess Obituary Code Name Focus (WSC) Voice from Beyond Secret of Dieppe (Pr Gazette) Churchill (Irish Independent) Milch Baton Case Edward Teller Interview Dudas article (1986) Archive Boxes at No. 81 Duke Street listed 1998-1999 Page 2 2 Legal All a. Materials on KZ missing b. Auschwitz and the Judenfrage presumed Miscellaneous correspondence to late 1977. lost c. Correspondence with Professor Klaus Hermann (Montreal) re FM Milch etc. 3 Public Speaking Saved, in a. Austria Nov 1986 Illinois World Tour 1987, UK sales tour 87 warehouse Argentina Oct 1991 Canada Oct 1991 General 1992 b. Notes for lectures, Correspondence (including Austria 1988 to 1989 c. Public Speaking (Mostly DVU Deutsche Volks Union 1985) 4 Request for Information and Assistance Saved, in a. 1977 to 1981 Illinois b. 1982 to 1986 warehouse c. to July 1983 5 Hartley Fowler and Alan Kent Accountants 1964 to Saved, in 1997 and some correspondence with banks 1979 Illinois to 1983 warehouse 6 Legal re Duke Street All a. Grosvenor Estate 1993 to 199 missing b. Grosvenor Estate to 1997 presumed c. Duke Street: financial matters, tenants, kitchen lost valuation. d. envelope re mortgage arrears; dry cleaners’ noise- nuisance 7 Churchill’s War Source Documents Saved, in Hugh Dalton diary Illinois DD Eisenhower papers warehouse L. Spears papers Anna Roosevelt Halstead diary Oct—Nov 1942 (Yalta 1945) Correspondence with Mrs Noel Watson Hopkins in London, diary Yalta conference, minutes Italian embassy telegrams Copies of microfilmed documents Newspaper cuttings Archive Boxes at No. 81 Duke Street listed 1998-1999 Page 2 Archive Boxes at No. 81 Duke Street listed 1998-1999 Page 3 Admiral T.C. Hart USN diary E Taborsky papers H. Dalton diary 1939-1945 J. Forrest diaries Claude Wickard diary Harry Dexter papers 8 a. Verfassungsschutz All b. David Irving’s German press law action against missing WDR over remarks in Monitor programme on presumed December 5, 1978; David Irving’s participation lost in the post-Holocaust television discussion (WDR) in Cologne on Nov 21, 1982; Documents on Munich Auschwitzlüge case, 1990—; documents on David Irving’s expulsion from Germany, November 9, 1993. c. Fleissner and Ullstein d. Klaus Benzing 9 Request for information and assistance: Saved, in a. 1984 to 1985 Illinois Jim Bacque (other losses) warehouse 1990 to 1991 b 1986 to 1990 c. 1992 to 1993 10 Legal —The Knight’s Move (THE DESTRUCTION OF Saved, in CONVOY PQ.17) published Sept 12, 1968): PQ17 Illinois Libel Action warehouse Box A: Package (a) Planquadrat, German fixes on PQ.17 (electrostatic copy). File of late correspondence to June 1991. Includes draft of David Hooper’ chapter re the PQ.17 trial, Nov 1983. Post-trial correspondence David Irving’s lawyers Michael Rubinstein. Typescript pages changed for Kimber reissue, and German original texts. Obituaries on Captain Jack Broome, RN, April 1985. Copy of the letter from Spence’s widow. Package (b) Copies of documents from PQ.17 officers delayed at Archangel, August 1942. Original Tirpitz ship’s Archive Boxes at No. 81 Duke Street listed 1998-1999 Page 3 Archive Boxes at No. 81 Duke Street listed 1998-1999 Page 4 newspaper, Der Scheinwerfer, Feb 18, 1944. DI’s very rude letter to Mr Justice Winn, Apr 7, 1963 Correspondence between Broome’s lawyers and lawyers for The Guardian, 1968. Early correspondence (1968) between DI and his lawyers, Rubinsteins. Material for provision of Further and Better Particulars by DI, Oct 12, 1968. BBC Radio review of the book, Sept 13, 1968. Scattered correspondence with Karweina, Degelmann, Neue Jllustrierte, Fein; Correspondence With Emil Planbeck About Capt John Rimington, a PQ.17 survivor. Letter to Sunday Express on Richard Crossmann’s dishonourable behaviour in 1963. Package (c) The Pleadings: Writ, March 5, 1968; Statement of Claim, April 29, 1968; amended November 14, 1968. Draft defence of David Irving, and defence as pleaded. Defence of First Defendants, Cassell & Co Ltd Request for Further and Better Particulars of the Defence of [Cassells.] Request for Further and Better Particulars of the Defence of [Irving.] Summons and for Further Discovery of Documents, and supporting Affidavit by Captain Broome’s lawyers 1973 relating to damages re the Transworld publication of the book. Package (d) Sunday Times article, March 1, 1970, about how the 1942 PQ.17 scatter decision was made. Miscellaneous 1970 correspondence on the action. Correspondence with Donald McLachlan (and his widow, thanking for condolences); fan mail from naval officers; mail with survivors, Charlton, Caradus; list of Pozarica survivors and their addresses; Admiral Sir N Denning (about [ULTRA], PQ.17 and Sikorski case); US Navy department re Fairbanks diary; Leo Gradwell; Admiral Servaes; Peter Kemp; more on McLachlan; Deutsche Dienststelle (WASt) re U Boot survivors; Admiral Hubert Schmundt; Archive Boxes at No. 81 Duke Street listed 1998-1999 Page 4 Archive Boxes at No. 81 Duke Street listed 1998-1999 Page 5 letters from Herbert Smith & Co, acting for Cassell’s in their action against David Irving (under indemnity clause), and ending it on no- costs basis, February 16, 1976 (and related correspondence by David Irving the Legal Aid Board); widow of Admiral Eccles; copies of naval message pad with July 4, 1942 scatter signals; draft article (not published) by David Irving, “The PQ 17 Libel Case,” embargoed pending legal advice, September 23, 1970. Letters by D Irving to newspapers protesting at Broome’s publication in October 1972 of a book (Convoy is to Scatter) partly based, he believed, on research documents provided to Broome’s lawyers by Irving under Discovery rules in the libel action. Stray letter (very angry, drafted and evidently not sent) to Rubinstein’s anent their faulty advice to sue Carlos Thompson in libel, and the resulting costs, Nov 12, 1971. Letters to Rubinstein’s asking them to return the Weidenfeld contracts re HITLER’S WAR and MILCH, since Weidenfeld had now cancelled the contract on the former out of the blue. Package (e) Files relating to hearing of Captain J E Broome Libel Action, January 1970. Contains inter alia: David Irving’ summary of the action. Note on attempts to secure data from Broome, Jan 22, 1970. Copies of DI’s and Cassells’ correspondence with Broome 1962-70. Extracts from DI’s diaries and telephone logs, 1967 et seq. relating to Broome. DI’s correspondence with Cassells. Notes on meetings with counsel. Alleged writs by Godfrey Winn (never materialised), and Writ by Captain Lawford (settled somehow). Package (f) Balance of correspondence re PQ.17 legal actions. Desire of Swiss publisher Bonnier Forlag to issue sanitised version of the book, 1976. Translator Captain Einar Zacke. Cassell’s first (and only) royalty statement April 1969: £1,750 advance paid, plus £1,380 net earned. Rubinstein, re outstanding account. Archive Boxes at No. 81 Duke Street listed 1998-1999 Page 5 Archive Boxes at No. 81 Duke Street listed 1998-1999 Page 6 Package (g) Correspondence with mostly with lawyers in the aftermath of the PQ17 legal actions of 1971-1974 (file dated October 1976).also with Society of Authors, about Cassell’s claim against David Irving. Broome’s List of documents in second action against Cassell and Irving, 1972 (re Transworld publication). Counsel’s opinion in the same. Notes on meetings with Cassells and lawyers on March 22, April 24, 1968. Statement of March 22, 1972 on DI’s [miserable] financial position to inform Cassells’ and or Law Society (re Legal Aid). Package (h) House of Lords appeal result, Feb 23 1972; with lengthy analysis of Rookes v Barnard. Package (i) Fan mail: letters from outsiders during and after Broome Libel action. Including “you cheap loathsome bastard...” etc. Hugh Trevor Roper. Box B: Package (a) DI’s typed note on meeting with Counsel, January 23, 1970: Colin Duncan QC says Broome won’t get exemplary damages (he did); Broome tries to settle out of court. — More pleadings. Broome’s list of documents, 1969. Interrogatories. Times Summonses. Affidavits. Reply to Cassell’s Defences in second action. David Irving’s Defence in second action.