Donald McCormick Sold at Auction Prices

* Donald McCormick Archive. [Espionage]. A small archive of research documents.

* Donald McCormick Archive. [Espionage]. A small archive of research documents, letters and other printed ephemera compiled by Donald McCormick during the 1970s and 1980s, in relation to his works on spies and espionage, many of the items relating in particular to the ‘ace of spies’, Sidney Reilly, including letters from Arden Winch (recalling an anecdote about Reilly supplied by MI6 agent Captain Stephen Alley, and further information relating to the intelligence officer George Alexander Hill), Natalie Wraga (relating to Lord Inverchapel and his valet), a dictated letter from Isaiah Berlin (also relating to Inverchapel’s valet, in part, ‘The rumour was that when Stalin asked Sir Archibald Clark Kerr, as he then was, when he was taking his leave as Ambassador, whether there was anything he, Stalin, could do for him, he was alleged to have asked for permission to take his masseur to his next post in Washington with him – and that this permission was in fact granted by Stalin’), a largely autograph manuscript relating to the Russian mathematician Revolt Pimenov and his interest in Reilly, also including an eight page Autograph Letter Signed in German from Karl Friedmann, the first husband of the Austrian Communist & Soviet agent Litzi Friedmann (who later became Kim Philby’s first wife) and 5 associated photographs, several letters and papers (some photocopies) relating to other Soviet spies including Nikolai Skoblin, Alexander Foote etc., as well as the University of Lund, an Autograph Letter Signed by the 7th Marquess of Anglesey etc Qty: (approx. 50)