EJB - Burford Spanish Civil War Papers

The records relate to the week E. J. Burford spent in Barcelona, Spain during July 1936 and the military uprising he observed while he was there. They comprise correspondence, photographs (including those taken by Burford and those he collected over the following years), radio broadcasts, press cuttings, a propaganda booklet and ephemera from the trip.

Grenfell - Grenfell Papers

The Grenfell papers comprise: correspondence, log books and other manuscripts and printed material, Grenfell's Commisions, honours and invitations, newspapers and newscuttings in English, Portuguese and Spanish mainly relating to Grenfell's career in the Brazilian navy and a folder containing genealogical material relating to the Granville and Grenfell families, especially John Granville Grenfell (1829-1866). The Grenfell papers include a manuscript account of the 'Cutting out of the Esmeralda', a bound volume containing the logs of four Brazilian naval vessels commanded by Grenfell, the Brig Marnham, the frigate Imperatrice, the Brig Cabocolo and the schooner Grecian and and a manuscript copy of the defence of Captain Grenfell on his court martial at Rio.

Correspondence in the collection include:

• Letter books in English and Portuguese dating from 1844-54, 1846-60 and 1851-52
• A large collection of letters from Thomas Cochrane 10th Earl of Dundonald the bulk of which date from 1843-62 relating to prize money owed to them both by the Chilean and Brazilian Governments with petitions to those governments.
• Letters from S S de Oliveira President of Rio Grande relative to operations in 1840.
• Letters from the Baron de Caxias relative to the operations in Rio Grande in 1843
• Correspondence with Rear Admiral Lainé Montevideo 1844-45
• Correspondence with British Authorities 1844-46
• Orders and letters relative to the voyage of His Imperial Majesty [Pedro II] to Rio Grande and S. Paulo, ca. 1846
• Letters and papers concerning the fire on the Ocean Monarch 1848
• Correspondence with French, British and U.S. authorities 1851-1852
• Letters from Manuel Moreira Castro, (friend and editor of Rio's Journal do Commercio)1851-1852.
• Letters from the Argentine (rebel) Governor J J Urquiza of Entre Rios 1851-54

[ Note: The Grenfell papers contains items written in Portuguese, Spanish and French, material written in a language other than English has been indicated in the list. ]

D672 - Papers of Jacoba J Milovich

Papers of Jacoba J Milovich, comprising: Jacoba J Milovich, To whatever nation they belong; extracts from letters and diaries, translated from the Dutch, relating in part to her nursing service as a nurse in a field hospital at St Oedenrode, Holland in September 1944 and at bourg Leopold, Belgium in October-November 1944 when she was closely involved with the work of Major J M Leggate, Commanding Officer of the 46th Field Surgical Unit, British Liberation Army