KNOWLES, Patrick

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0099 KCLMA Knowles
Held at	: Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.kingscollections.org/catalogues/lhcma ›
Full title	: KNOWLES, Patrick
Date(s)	: Created 1954, 1955, 1957
Level of description	: Collection (fonds)
Extent	: 1 file
Name of creator(s)	: Capt Sir Basil Henry Liddell Hart

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Curator of Clouds Hill, near Bovington, Dorset (National Trust property, the former home of Thomas Edward Lawrence).

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Five letters to Knowles from Capt Basil Henry Liddell Hart, Mar-Apr 1954, Jun 1955 and Dec 1957, principally relating to Lawrence of Arabia. A biographical enquiry (Collins, London, 1955), Richard Aldington's critical biography of Lawrence.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

1 file

Conditions governing access:

Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Trustees of the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, attention of the Director of ArchiveServices.

Finding aids:

Summary guide entry available on-line at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/top.htm,and in hard copy in the reading room.

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Aquired by the Centre in 1998.

Allied Materials

Related material:

The papers of Capt Sir Basil Henry Liddell Hart include correspondence with Knowles andcorrespondence between Kathleen Liddell Hart, Lady Liddell Hart, and Knowles, [1935]-1974 (Ref: LH 9/13/68).

Publication note:

Related publications: Clouds Hill. A property of the National Trust (Country Life, London, 1946).

Description Notes

Archivist's note:

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Date(s) of descriptions:
Aug 1999