Personal papers, diaries and correspondence

Item author: Field-Marshal Earl Haig
Item date: 1890s - 1918
Grant Value: 5,000
Item cost: 450,000
Item date acquired: 1983
Item institution: National Library of Scotland
Town/City: Edinburgh

A most important collection of papers, spanning Haigs entire military career, from exercise books used at Staff College to the personal diary he kept throughout the First World War. The correspondence maps and photographs all build in to an unrivalled picture of policy and planning on the Western Front

Item Provenance
Trustees of the Haig estate, by private treaty