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Aitken, William Maxwell, 1879-1964 (1st Baron Beaverbrook, politician and newspaper proprietor)

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1879 - 1964

Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:

 File

Correspondence between Morison and Max Beaverbrook, 1948-1964

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9812/D/24
Scope and Contents

Morison's letters are mostly original ms. letters (photocopies).

Dates: 1948-1964
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
 File

Cover Proofs, 1970

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10275/1/2/2/4/3/2
Scope and Contents A file with cover proofs for the paperback editions of the following three books: The Selling of the President, by Joe McGinniss (RL/Pre-/739); In My Way, by George Brown (RL/Pre-/701); and Beaverbrook, by A.J.P. Taylor (RL/Pre-/700). All three covers feature images of plasticine model illustrations made by Roger Law. The McGinniss book has a model of President Richard Nixon jumping out of a box. ...
Dates: Publication: 1970
Conditions Governing Access: From the Sub-Sub-Fonds: See sub-level descriptions for any information on access restrictions or closures of material.
 Other level

General research correspondence, 1955-1962

 Other level
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9429/1B/564-1133
Scope and Contents

Correspondents include R. J. F. Barton (589-598), E. A. Beck (606-622), A. G. Bond (636-647), C. G. Evans (731-742), Sir B. D. Fisher (750-764), Lord Hankey (794-803), Sir E. R. Ludlow-Hewitt (872-910), T. B. Marson (923-933), Sir J. M. Salmond (980-998), J. R. W. Smyth-Pigott (1022-1032), R. Trenchard (1062-1078), Viscount Weir (1101-1119) and R. Wright (1123-1133).

Dates: 1955-1962
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
 File

Morison with Lord Beaverbrook (24 June 1955), 1955

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9812/F/3
Scope and Contents

5 different photographs

Dates: 1955
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
 Sub-Series

Photographs, 1962 - 1974

 Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10275/1/2/3/3
Scope and Contents A box holding an assortment of mainly black and white photographs, which feature images of pencil and plasticine model illustrations produced by Roger Law. These images were published in various magazines and newspapers, along with featuring on the cover and interior of books. There are both single photographs and sets of images. The material present is labelled or in packaging labelled with their original reference numbers (i.e. RL/Pre-/number), which can be used to search the record forms...
Dates: 1962 - 1974
Conditions Governing Access: From the Sub-Sub-Fonds: See sub-level descriptions for any information on access restrictions or closures of material.
 Item

Research correspondence, 1960-1967

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9429/1C/84-357
Scope and Contents

Correspondents include Earl Baldwin of Bewdley (94-109), Lord Butler of Saffron Walden (159-169), R. N. Kershaw (209-225), Sir E. R. Peacock (263-274), Lord Rennell (277-291) and E. H. D. Skinner (311-343).

Dates: 1960-1967
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
 Fonds

Samuel Hoare, Viscount Templewood: Letters to Lord Beaverbrook

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10603
Scope and Contents 112 letters from Samuel Hoare (later Viscount Templewood) to Lord Beaverbrook, 1921-1950. Typescript and manuscript. The manuscript letters, and a few of the typescript letters which have manuscript additions, are accompanied by typescript transcriptions. With 16 monochrome photographs of Templewood, 1930s-1950s, in prints dated 1960. With a list of letters from Hoare to Beaverbrook, in sixteen sections, and brief typescript biographical notes on Hoare and Beaverbrook. The list of letters...
Dates: 1921-1960
 Sub-Sub-Series

Small and Medium Transparencies, c early 1960s-c mid 1970s

 Sub-Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10275/1/2/3/2/1
Scope and Contents Three boxes containing 35mm and 62mm colour photographic transparencies and slides, along with a small amount of negatives and contact prints. The majority of these items feature images of Roger Law's plasticine model illustrations, used in various publications, from the late 1960s to the mid-1970s. However, there are also images relating to Law's and Peter Cook's Almost the End column in The Observer Weekend Review, c 1962; a...
Dates: c early 1960s-c mid 1970s
Conditions Governing Access: From the Sub-Sub-Fonds: See sub-level descriptions for any information on access restrictions or closures of material.
 Sub-Series

The history of 'The Times' (4 vols. in 5, 1935-1952), 1935-1952

 Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9812/A11
Scope and Contents From the Series:

This series consists of papers, including correspondence, relating to Morison's published and unpublished compositions (except memoranda internal to the Monotype Corporation and The Times). Also included are some items which, although not properly compositions of Morison, incorporate his work, whether in supervision, editing, or design.

Dates: 1935-1952
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).