Correspondence with Michael Wardell : July 1952 - August 1953. 1952 July 15 - 1953 Aug. 7.

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Correspondence with Michael Wardell : July 1952 - August 1953. 1952 July 15 - 1953 Aug. 7.

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Letters, soundscriber tapes, and telegrams about Geoffrey Bocca's report on the Duke of Windsor, Lord Mountbatten, meeting with Hitler, Churchill's advice and Mountbatten's intention to sue the Express papers; Ben Smith's loan to Wardell; Beaverbrook's misused loan to Wardell; J.B. McNair's dissolution of the Legislative Assembly and subsequent expectation of a chief justiceship; hiring a cataloguer for and producing a holdings catalogue of the UNB library; who was interviewed by Mrs. Gammon in her research of Beaverbrook's early life; arrangement for Wardell to spend Christmas at Montego Bay; and publication of the book Success.

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University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Harriet Irving Library

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University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Harriet Irving Library

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