1946–1954 Major Richard Carr-Gomm Scrapbook and Insider Archive of British Mandate Palestine, the Coldstream Guards, the Household Brigade, and Britain’s Military and Political Establishment
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description: On offer is the “Patchwork Book” of Richard Carr-Gomm (1928-2008), a massive, approximately 300-page volume begun in September 1946 and maintained through 1954. It combines Carr-Gomm’s extensive handwritten commonplace book content with his meticulously kept military, intellectual, spiritual, social and family archive. This book is an insider archive of mid-century British military, political, royal, cultural and philanthropic life. Its approximately 300 pages bring together annotated intelligence bulletins and restricted operational papers from Mandate Palestine; Coldstream Guards and Household Brigade records; a regimental copy of a telegram from Princess Elizabeth; parliamentary correspondence from Richard Law MP; a signed letter from Sir Malcolm Sargent; and documents connecting Carr-Gomm with his family’s influential charitable work at Lady Gomm House. What makes the volume especially revealing is Carr-Gomm’s active engagement with this material. In his own hand, Carr-Gomm questions the accuracy of official intelligence and comments upon security and morale. Elsewhere, the papers show how the Carr-Gomm family’s political connections could carry a serving officer’s grievance from Palestine to the floor of the House of Commons. The scrapbook provides a remarkably personal view from inside the interconnected world of the Guards, Parliament, the monarchy, London society and upper-class philanthropy. Carr-Gomm wrote a substantial part of the volume himself, organized its contents, supplied headings and commentary, created an extensive index, made drawings and diagrams, and selected and mounted the documents, photographs, letters, invitations and printed material that he wished to preserve. The result is a unique record of Carr-Gomm’s mind and milieu during the decisive years immediately preceding his establishment of the first Abbeyfield house. The volume bears Carr-Gomm’s ownership inscription, the date “Started September 1946.” Part 1: The Commonplace Book The fir…
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