Churchill, Winston Leonard Spencer, Sir, 1874 - 1965 (Knight, statesman and historian)
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1874 - 1965
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
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Literary: correspondence on publishing WSC's war memoirs ("The Second World War"), mainly with representatives of Time-Life International, including Daniel Longwell [editor of Life Magazine], Walter Graebner [London representative], Andrew Heiskell [publisher], Monica Owen Horne, Constance Babbington-Smith, and Renee Harmer., Aug 1945 - Jan 1953
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/15A-C
Scope and Contents
Other correspondents include: Henry Laughlin [President of Houghton Mifflin Company, publishers] (2); William Edwards, [Assistant Director] Federation of British Industries; Anthony Moir of Fladgate and Company [WSC's solicitor]. Also includes notes and copies of correspondence from: secretaries Jo Sturdee ("N S") [later Lady Onslow], Chips Gemmell, Lettice Marston [later Lettice Shillingford], Elizabeth Gilliatt, Grace Hamblin, Jane Portal [later Lady Williams of Elvel], Anne Hipwell, and...
Dates:
Aug 1945 - Jan 1953
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Literary: miscellaneous correspondence., Apr 1940 - Sep 1946
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/4A-B
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: representatives of Cassell and Company Limited (5); Colin Coote, [Managing Editor] of the Daily Telegraph, on producing an anthology of WSC's aphorisms (2); Patrick Kinna (Foreign Office); [William] Surrey Dane [on behalf of Odhams Press Limited] (4); Charles Eade, [Editor] of the Sunday Dispatch, on discussing an idea for a book (3); General Jacob Devers on Ralph Ingersoll's "Top Secret"; George Harvie Watt [WSC's Parliamentary Private Secretary until 1945]; Sir...
Dates:
Apr 1940 - Sep 1946
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Literary: various correspondence., 15 Jan 1940 - 27 Dec 1941
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/680
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Correspondents include: Josephine Parr [former secretary to WSC] offering her services; Emile Rieu, Literary and Academic Adviser at Methuen and Company (2); representatives of Cassell and Company (3), including a Director, Sir Newman Flower, on the destruction of Cassell's premises in an air raid; Douglas Jerrold, Director of Eyre and Spottiswoode Limited (3); George Campbell on publishing "Lord Randolph Churchill" in Sweden (6); Brendan Bracken (3); Rubeigh Minney, Editor of the Strand...
Dates:
15 Jan 1940 - 27 Dec 1941
Conditions Governing Access:
Open.