Scope and Contents

Correspondence between Commander [Charles] Thompson [Personal Assistant to WSC] and [Eric] Speed (War Office) on arrangements for a guard to be mounted at Chartwell [Kent] during WSC's residence. Carbon copies and signed manuscript.

Scope and Contents

Letter from Colonel A T McGrath (Headquarters, South Eastern Command, Home Forces) to Commander [Charles] Thompson [Personal Assistant to WSC] (10 Downing Street) on 43 Division taking over the guard duty at Chartwell [Kent] and Thompson's acknowledgement. Signed typescript and carbon copy.

Scope and Contents

Letter from Colonel A T McGrath (Headquarters, South Eastern Command, Home Forces) to Commander [Charles] Thompson [Personal Assistant to WSC] (10 Downing Street) on withdrawing the guard at Chartwell [Kent], with minute from Thompson to WSC and Thompson's reply to McGrath sending approval. Signed and initialled typescripts and carbon copy.

Scope and Contents

Letter from Lieutenant-Colonel [Stephen] Lamplugh (Headquarters, Anti-Aircraft Command, "Glenthorne", Stanmore, Middlesex) to Commander [Charles] Thompson [Personal Assistant to WSC] (10 Downing Street) on withdrawing into store for the winter the tent gear at Chartwell [Kent] and Thompson's reply. Signed typescript and carbon copy.

Scope and Contents

Correspondence between Commander [Charles] Thompson [Personal Assistant to WSC] (10 Downing Street) and [Stewart] Crawford [Private Secretary to Chief of Air Staff] (Air Ministry, King Charles Street, Whitehall) on providing arrangements for the warning of possible air attack at Chartwell [Kent]. Carbon copies and signed typescript preceded by file note.

Scope and Contents

Note and minute from Commander [Charles] Thompson [Personal Assistant to WSC] to WSC on camouflaging the lakes at Chartwell [Kent] and a monument at Chequers [Buckinghamshire], attaching a note from Captain John [G] Churchill, Camouflage Officer, Anti-Aircraft Command. Manuscript note and signed typescripts.

Scope and Contents

Correspondence between Commander Charles Thompson [Personal Assistant to WSC], Colonel [? Denys Hicks], 1st Anti-Aircraft Division, and Major A McGrath [? Military Assistant] to the Commander-in-Chief, Home Forces, on defence and security arrangements for Chartwell [Kent].

Scope and Contents Letters to Clementine, mainly letters of sympathy after the General Election, with correspondents including: Sir Archibald Clark Kerr [British Ambassador to the Soviet Union, later 1st Lord Inverchapel], on his own distress at the result, and the reaction of the Russians at the Potsdam Conference; Sir Cyril Asquith; General Sir Hastings Ismay; Sir Edward Marsh; Gertrude, Lady Grigg; 1st Lord Altrincham, earlier Sir Edward Grigg; Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Eric Crankshaw; Sir William Fletcher...

Scope and Contents

Papers and correspondence on the seated statue of the Churchills by Oscar Nemon at Chartwell [Kent] and the round plaque listing the Chartwell donors’ names. Correspondents include: Martin Drury, Historic Buildings Secretary, the National Trust (5); Winston Churchill (3); Lord St John of Fawsley, Chairman of the Royal Fine Art Commission [earlier Norman St John-Stevas] (2); Patrick Cormack, Churchill Memorial Statue Trust (3).

Scope and Contents

Includes: article by Michael Wolff on his work on Randolph Churchill's research team for the official biography; William Deakin's Churchill Memorial Lecture, "Churchill the Historian", 1969; article by John Grigg [2nd Lord Altrincham] on Winston Churchill's last two years in power; text of a speech by Grace Hamblin, 1987, on working as one of Churchill's secretaries, particularly on taking dictation, life at Chartwell [Kent] in the 1930s and Churchill's pets.