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1 - An Administrator in the Making, a biography of James Saumarez Mann from 1893, through the First World War to 1920 when he was killed by a sniper’s bullet during the Arab uprising of 1920 in Iraq, at the age of 26. The story of his life is told largely through his letters, which are edited by his father.

2 - Prospectus for An Administrator in the Making.

3 - Twenty-one letters from James Saumarez Mann to his parents, James Saumarez Mann and Amy Gertrude Mann. Several are written from Oxford and Cambridge, and one from France, 1917, but most are written from Umm Al Ba’rur in Iraq, 1919-20. Also two letters to his sister Julia Mann, 1916 and 1918, and one to Lady Mary (Murray), 1917, (see also 1038/24 and 28).

4 - Seven letters to James Saumarez Mann, including one from his father, James Saumarez Mann, senior, and one from his sister, Julia both written after he was killed; four from David Hamamah’ writing from Basrah, Baghdad and Bombay and one from Thomas Baden-Powell.

5 - Two letters from Major Paul Norbury to James Saumarez Mann with two letters written to Norbury about Mann. Also seven letters from Paul Norbury to Mr and Mrs Mann and one draft reply; one letter describes in detail how James Saumarez Mann died, and another mentions Paul Norbury’s wife wanting a divorce. Also an account of the siege of Kufa, Iraq, by Major Norbury, (typescript).

6 - Three letters in Arabic (two are photographic copies) with typescript translations into English and typescript replies. One letter is written to James Saumarez Mann, junior, and two to his father, from Arab acquaintances. Also a rough sketch plan of Kufa, Iraq, and a paper or report by James Saumarez Mann: “Studies in Nationalism” concerning one particularly nationalist sheikh.

7 - Two letters from Amy Mann to her husband, James Saumarez Mann senior, written from Rouen, France, when their son was wounded and in a military hospital.

8 - Four telegrams sent to Amy Mann when James Saumarez Mann was wounded 1915 and killed 1920, with a certificate that he was mentioned in despatches, 1918; a letter from the Mayor of Lille, enclosing a printed proclamation (in French) about the end of the war, 1918; a note of medals awarded 1925; travel permit, 1915, and note of his movements in France, 1917-18.

9 - Seven letters to James Saumarez Mann’s parents from Gertrude Bell, traveller, archaeologist and government servant writing from Baghdad, (see D.N.B.) They mention the Arab uprising of 1920 and the political situation in Iraq. One encloses photographs of James Saumarez Mann’s grave and of Amy Mann.

10 - 80 letters to James Saumarez Mann’s parents, James Saumarez senior, and Amy Mann. They are mainly letters of condolence when their son was killed in 1920, tributes to him and letters of thanks for the book about his life (see 1038/15 above). Several are from Gilbert and Mary Murray, Agnes Murray’s parents, (see 1038/17 and 28), and from the India Office.

11 - Two letters and two copies from G C Kitching to Julia Mann. He is writing from Ad Diwaniyah, south of Baghdad in Iraq, mainly about the political situation there.

12 - Ten photographs of James Saumarez Mann, several are printed for An Administrator in the Making (see 1038/15 above). Two show him with his family.

13 - Eight photographs, mainly of Arab offices, presumably taken in Iraq, with ten pages of printed photographs used in An Administrator in the Making, (see 1038/15 above).

14 - Two photographs of Agnes Elizabeth Murray, former fiancee of James Saumarez Mann, with a photograph of her memorial inscription, and a postcard of Le Chambon in the Auvergne, France, where she died in 1922, (see also 1038/17 and 24).

15 - Scrapbook of newscuttings, greetings cards, letters and photographs reflecting the interests of the Mann family mainly in Bromley, Kent and the Channel Islands, 1846, 1882-1936. Some newscuttings concern the cotton industry in the North of England.

16 - Scrapbook, mainly newspaper obituaries and reviews of An Administrator in the Making (see 1038/15 above), including a pencil sketch of Brunswick Buildings, Weymouth, Dorset, 1877.

17 - Letter from Hubert Scheck (in German), to James Mann.

18 - Letter from F W Mann in Guernsey to his niece Julia Mann.

19 - Ten letters from Alice Cameron to her friend Julia Mann. Several are written from military hospitals in France where Alice Cameron was a nurse.

20 - The Mann Family, printed history, including notes on their connection with the Gother, Fyers, Thorold and other families. Written by Hilda Maud Thorold and Violet Mary Mann.

21 - Two letters from Peter Liddle, Senior Lecturer in History at Sunderland Polytechnic, to Julia Mann. They concern her contribution to the Sunderland Archives of 1914-18: Personal Experience. Also typescript reminiscences of the First World War by Julia Mann, and a description of the Archive’s purpose.

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