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Document to certify that E P Shelepina is on the staff of the People's Commissariat for Foreign Affairs

08 March 1918

Document to certify that E P Shelepina is on the staff of the People's Commissariat for Foreign Affairs and is being evacuated to Moscow. Signed by Chicherin. 1918. TS Dated 8 March 1918, on the notep...

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Diaries

1929-1965

Diaries, 1929-36; 1938; 1940-42; 1958-61; 1965 (2). 1929-65. MS 17 items. The diaries from 1959 onwards are pocket diaries. The diaries for the years 1936, 1938, 1940, 1941, 1942 have no entries.

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Biographical notes on Arthur Ransome

c.1970

Biographical notes on Arthur Ransome. [c.1970.] MS and TS Note indicates these were 'For the Puffin', presumably for a Puffin edition of one of the children's books.

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Statements of account

31 May 1974-31 December 1974

Statements of account sent to Evgenia Ransome from EMI Film Distributors Ltd for 'Swallows and Amazons', for the period 31 May 1974 - 31 December 1974. 1974. 8 items. Photocopies.

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Revolution: notes

March 1918

Revolution: notes. 1918. TS 19ff. In two sections: a) The October revolution, and Brest. b) An account of Evgenia's experiences during the revolution, apparently set down in English by Arthur Ransome ...

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Letters to Evgenia from her mother

(30 March 1918 - 29 April 1918) and sister Nina (30 January 1968 - 15 May 1968); nine photographs of Nina, her late husband and their "dacha".

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Instructions for departure for Moscow on 10 March 1918

09 March1918

Instructions for departure for Moscow on 10 March 1918, with times and transport arrangements. Signed by V Bonch-Bruevich, from the Soviet of People's Commissars. 1918. TS (carbon). 1f. On the notepap...

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Drafts and revised versions of orders for the Special Flying Squads

21 March 1918

Drafts and revised versions of orders for the Special Flying Squads for the period 13-21 March 1918, in multiple copies and signed variously by A Lyalin, I She., Lass, Poznanski and Klavin. Written on...

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Hotel bill from Loskutnaya Hotel, Moscow

24 March 1918

Hotel bill from Loskutnaya Hotel, Moscow, for food consumed between 17 and 24 March 1918. Bearing stamp of the Commissar of Supply for money reimbursed. 1918. MS 1f. In Russian.

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List of representatives

1918

List of representatives from various organisations who are to be contacted and called to a meeting of the Commission on 23 March [1918?]. Also that two versions of the project on compulsory military t...

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Undertaking not to work for the Bolsheviks in England

21 November 1919

Undertaking not to work for the Bolsheviks in England, in the form of a dual language (Russian and English) letter to Arthur Ransome, 21 November 1919. 1919. MS and TS 1f English-Russian, Russian-Engl...

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