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British Library: Western Manuscripts The Jellicoe Papers (1893-1936) (Add MS 48989-49057*) Table of Contents The Jellicoe Papers (1893–1936) Key Details........................................................................................................................................ 1 Provenance........................................................................................................................................ 1 Add MS 48990–48992 JELLICOE PAPERS. Vols. II–IV. Correspondence and papers of Jellicoe as a Lord of the Admiralty, and.................................................................................................................. 3 Add MS 48995–49002 JELLICOE PAPERS. Vols. VII–XIV. 'Grand Fleet – Narrative of Events'; 1914–1916. Typewritten, with MS....................................................................................................... 7 Add MS 49006–49007 JELLICOE PAPERS. Vols. XVIII, XIX. Correspondence of Admiral of the Fleet John Arbuthnot Fisher, 1st Baron........................................................................................................ 14 Add MS 49015–49016 JELLICOE PAPERS. Vols. XXVII and XXVIII. The Battle of Jutland (The German Official Account); 1926. Printed.............................................................................................. 23 Add MS 49019–49020 JELLICOE PAPERS. Vols. XXXI, XXXII (ff. i+111, 183). 'Official Record of the Battle of Jutland, 30th May to....................................................................................................... 44 Add MS 49023–49024 JELLICOE PAPERS. Vols. XXXV and XXXVI. Two sets of diagrams on various scales, lettered A–CCC and A–Z........................................................................................................... 47 Add MS 49032–49033 JELLICOE PAPERS. Vols. XLIV and XLV. Telegrams, naval signals and an overtrace chart relating to the Grand................................................................................................... 58 Add MS 49035–49037 JELLICOE PAPERS. Vols. XLVII–XLIX. Official and private correspondence of Jellicoe, with a few letters................................................................................................................... 60 Add MS 49046–49057 JELLICOE PAPERS. Vols. LVIII–LXIX. Four Reports by Jellicoe on his Empire Naval Mission to India, Australia,......................................................................................................... 77 Key Details Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts Reference Add MS 48989-49057* Creation Date 1893-1936 Extent and Format 95 items Languages of Material English; French; German Title The Jellicoe Papers (1893-1936) Scope and Content Correspondence and papers of Admiral of the Fleet John Rushworth Jellicoe (b. 1859, d. 1935), 1st Earl Jellicoe, supplementing Add. MS. 45356, and supplemented by Add. MSS. 71553-71560; 1893-1936, n.d. See also Add. MSS. 52504-52506, 53738 and 54477-54480. MS. notes by Admirals Sir Frederic Dreyer and Sir Reginald H. S. Bacon occur passim. Used by Admiral Sir R. H. S. Bacon, The Life of John Rushworth, Earl Jellicoe, 1936; Capt. E. Altham, Jellicoe, 1938; A. J. Marder, Fear God and Dread Nought: the Correspondence of Admiral of the Fleet Lord Fisher of Kilverstone, 3 vols., 1952-9, and From the Dreadnought to Scapa Flow, 5 vols., 1961-70; A. Temple Patterson, Jellicoe: a biography, 1969; and J. Winton, Jellicoe, 1981. Extracts from the papers are printed by A. Temple Patterson, The Jellicoe Papers, 2 vols., 1966, 1968 (Navy Records Society, vols. 108, 111). Letters of Jellicoe to Adm. Sir Frederick Tower Hamilton, Adm. Sir William Archibald Howard, Adm. Sir Alexander Ludovic Duff, K.C.B., and his wife, Marjorie, are in the National Maritime Museum. Add. MSS. 49006-49008, 49041 were reserved from public use until 1963, 49045-49057 until 1964, and 49042 until 1966. Presented by the Jellicoe Trustees, apart from Add. MS. 49057*, which was transferred from the Cabinet Office in 1967, with material now in the Department of Printed Books. Seventy volumes. Provenance Legal Status Not Public Record(s) Page 1 2021-08-21 Add MS 48989 JELLICOE PAPERS. Vol. I. Report of the Committee on Designs, recommending ships such as H.M.S. 'Dreadnought'; 1905 Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts Reference Add MS 48989 Creation Date 1905 Extent and Format 1 item Conditions of Use Crown Copyright and provided under an Open Government Licence. Title JELLICOE PAPERS. Vol. I. Report of the Committee on Designs, recommending ships such as H.M.S. 'Dreadnought'; 1905 (1905) Scope and Content Jellicoe Papers. Vol. I (ff. 88). Report of the Committee on Designs, recommending ships such as H.M.S. 'Dreadnought'; 1905. Printed. Preceded (ff. 1, 2) by related covering letters. Red calf binding, gilt-tooled. Admiral of the Fleet John Rushworth Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe: Correspondence and papers: 1893-1935. Navy; England: Papers of Lord Jellicoe: 1893-1935. includes: • f. 1 Vice-Admiral Wilfred Henderson: Signature: 1905. Includes plans and diagrams of ships. Legal Status Not Public Record(s) Custodial History Crown Copyright and provided under an Open Government Licence. Page 2 2021-08-21 Add MS 48990-48992 JELLICOE PAPERS. Vols. II-IV. Correspondence and papers of Jellicoe as a Lord of the Admiralty, and Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts Reference Add MS 48990-48992 Creation Date 1908-1916 Extent and Format 3 items Title JELLICOE PAPERS. Vols. II-IV. Correspondence and papers of Jellicoe as a Lord of the Admiralty, and correpondence with the Admiralty as Commander-in-Chief of the Grand Fleet 1914-1916; 1908-1916. (1908-1916) Scope and Content Partly typewritten and printed. Admiral of the Fleet John Rushworth Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe: Correspondence and papers: 1893-1935. Navy; England: Papers of Lord Jellicoe: 1893-1935. Legal Status Not Public Record(s) Add MS 48990 JELLICOE PAPERS. Vol. II. Correspondence of Jellicoe; 1908-1915. (1908-1915) Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts Reference Add MS 48990 Creation Date 1908-1915 Extent and Format 1 item Conditions of Use Crown Copyright and provided under an Open Government Licence. Title JELLICOE PAPERS. Vol. II. Correspondence of Jellicoe; 1908-1915. (1908-1915) Scope and Content Vol. II (ff. 234). 1908-1915. includes: • ff. 1-130 passim Ordnance: Letters, etc., rel. to calibre, etc., of naval guns: 1908-1912. • ff. 1-4 Admiral Sir Reginald Hugh Spencer Bacon, KCB: Minute by: 1908. • ff. 10-14 Admiral Sir Reginald Hugh Spencer Bacon, KCB: Letters to Vickers, Sons, and Maxim: 1908, 1909: Copies. • ff. 10-14 Vickers, Sons, and Maxim, Ltd; steelmakers: Letters to: 1908, 1909. • ff. 16-147 passim William II; Emperor of Germany: Comparisons of British and German naval strengths: 1909-1917: Partly typewritten. • f. 21 Reginald McKenna, PC; MP: Correspondence, etc., with Lord Jellicoe: 1908-1922: Mostly signed. • f. 64 Arthur William Smallwood, of the Admiralty: Minute by: 1909: Signed. • f. 65 Rear-Admiral Charles Cape Sheen: Minute by: 1909. • f. 67 Sir Philip Watts, KCB; Director of Naval Construction: Minute by: 1909: Signed. • ff. 80-83, 87, 88 Admiral Sir Alexander Edward Bethell, KCB: Minutes by: 1909: Mostly signed. • ff. 121-124 Admiral Sir Archibald Gordon Henry Wilson Moore, KCB: Minute by: 1910. • ff. 131-151, 158-193b Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, KG; Prime Minister: Correspondence with Lord Jellicoe: 1912-1917: Partly typewritten and signed. • ff. 153-157 Louis Alexander Mountbatten, Prince Louis of Battenberg; 1st Marquess of Milford Haven; formerly Battenberg: Correspondence with Lord Jellicoe: 1914, 1917. Page 3 2021-08-21 • ff. 201-208b Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour; Prime Minister: Correspondence with Lord Jellicoe: 1915-1916: Signed and drafts. • ff. 209-234 Sir William Graham Greene, Admiralty secretary: Correspondence with Lord Jellicoe: 1914-1917. • ff. 224b, 233b Maps and Plans: North Sea, from Texel to Sylt, showing minefields: 1915: Partly lithogr. Correspondence relating to: the manufacture, testing and relative merits of naval guns; contract with Vickers Sons & Maxim Ltd.; German shipbuilding; comparison of ships and shipbuilding of Britain and Germany; German naval estimates for 1909-1910 and 1910-1911; future naval programme; German turbines and guns; relative strengths of British and German dreadnoughts; copies of telegrams on Jellicoe’s appointment as Commander in Chief of The Grand Fleet; North Sea sweeps; submarine-proof harbours and submarine threat; naval policy; Churchill’s ideas for an attack using the island of Sylt; proposed naval bases; the King’s visit to The Grand Fleet; and minelaying operations, including charts of minefields. Also includes tables comparing numbers, values and strengths of British, German, French and US ships. Legal Status Not Public Record(s) Custodial History Crown Copyright and provided under an Open Government Licence. Add MS 48991 JELLICOE PAPERS. Vol III. Chart for submarines Texel Island to Sylt. From the Netherlands and German Government Collection Area British Library: Western Manuscripts Reference Add MS 48991 Creation Date 1915 Extent and Format 1 item Conditions of Use Crown Copyright and provided under an Open Government Licence. Title JELLICOE PAPERS. Vol III. Chart for submarines Texel Island to Sylt. From the Netherlands and German Government Charts to 1914; 1915. (1915) Scope and Content Vol. III (f. 1). Chart, 1915. Maps and Plans: North