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Extracts from press announcements on the death of [Arthur] Neville Chamberlain, and a copy of a letter from Anne Chamberlain to CSC, thanking her for her letter of condolences.

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Stanley Baldwin; Princess Marthe Bibesco; Sir John Boyd Orr, Director of the Rowett Research Institute, on army rations and LSA's ideas for milk distribution; Sir Edward Grigg [Parliamentary Secretary to Ministry of Information, later 1st Lord Altrincham]; [Arthur] Neville Chamberlain, Prime Minister; Winston Churchill [First Lord of the Admiralty] (2); Geoffrey Dawson [Editor of the Times, earlier Geoffrey Robinson] commenting on the debate over aid sent to Finland;...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Lieutenant-General Sir Sam Hughes, Canadian Minister of Militia and Defence; Clement Davies commenting on LSA's draft memoirs, particularly recalling meetings prior to the resignation of [Arthur] Neville Chamberlain as Prime Minister (2); L J Maxse [Editor of the National Review] on subjects including LSA's "The Problem of the Army", biased reporting of a speech by Winston Churchill, Tariff Reform meetings, the bad effect of Arthur Balfour on the Unionist...

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Includes notes and drafts of changes Hore-Belisha wanted to see in the War Office.

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Subjects include: the election campaign; lack of confidence in Stanley Baldwin as leader of the Conservative Party; policy on agriculture; the readiness of the Territorial Army for war; Finland, 1940.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The collection includes personal documents and honours (PJGG 1); general correspondence (PJGG 2 and 12); material relating to India including finance papers (PJGG 3), political papers (federation and defence) (PJGG 4), miscellaneous reports (PJGG 5), War Office papers about India (PJGG 8); Lady Grigg's correspondence (PJGG 6 and 7); War Office correspondence (PJGG 9); Committee papers (PJGG 10); literary material (PJGG 13-15).Perhaps the most interesting papers are those...

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A copy of a document sent [by Warren Fisher] to the Prime Minister [Neville Chamberlain] on 1 October 1938 with annotations. Fisher calls for Britain to offer financial support to those inhabitants in Sudetenland [Czechoslovakia] who have lost their property.

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: [Alfred] Duff Cooper [later 1st Lord Norwich] enclosing an article which he had written on Churchill for the War Weekly and a cutting of a poem, "The Older Men"; S. I. Hsiung [Hsiung Shih-I] on his support for Churchill; Jan Masaryk [Czech Minister of Foreign Affairs] on his good wishes to her and Churchill for 1941 and his gratitude to them both; Anne Chamberlain on [Arthur] Neville Chamberlain's death; Nellie Romilly [earlier Nellie Hozier] on whether a position...

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122 x 93 mm. New Year's card for 1921, with mounted photograph of Neville Chamberlain (1869-1940), his wife Anne, and their two children. Chamberlain was at this time Unionist M.P. for Ladywood.

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Letters from Neville Chamberlain to EHY.

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Typescript notes about Neville Chamberlain, especially his policy towards Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany [attributed to Duff Cooper, later 1st Lord Norwich].

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Includes thanks for a bronze bust of Pitt the Younger sent him for his birthday by Hore-Belisha.

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Includes a photograph of Warren Fisher, dated 17 January 1939, labelled ‘retirement’ and correspondence with Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain in January 1939.

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...

Scope and Contents Includes: A note where Warren Fisher specifies how the following papers were found in the drawer of his Treasury desk, before handing over to Horace Wilson on 20 May 1939. Documents prepared for, and correspondence with Neville Chamberlain [Prime Minister], John Simon [Chancellor of the Exchequer] and Horace Wilson [civil servant] concerning rearmament, comparative British and German naval and air strength, Czechoslovakia, recommendations regarding taxation,...

Scope and Contents Includes: A short note by Warren Fisher explaining the provenance of these documents. This file includes duplicate items included in WFSH 3/8/1, but with handwritten annotations. Documents prepared for, and correspondence with Neville Chamberlain [Prime Minister], John Simon [Chancellor of the Exchequer] and Horace Wilson [civil servant] concerning rearmament, comparative British and German naval and air strength, Czechoslovakia, recommendations regarding taxation,...