Aitken, William Maxwell, 1879-1964 (1st Baron Beaverbrook, politician and newspaper proprietor)
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1879 - 1964
Found in 7 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:
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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).
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).
File
Small and Medium Transparencies, c early 1960s-c mid 1970s
File
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 is also images relating to Law's and Peter Cook's Almost the End column in The Observer Weekend Review, c1962; a transparency...
Dates:
c early 1960s-c mid 1970s
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Sub-Sub-Fonds:
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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).