Churchill, Winston Leonard Spencer, Sir, 1874 - 1965 (Knight, statesman and historian)
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1874 - 1965
Found in 6 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
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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: 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.
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Public and Political: General: Visits and invitations: Switzerland (August - September 1946): press cuttings., 12 Sep 1946 - 11 Oct 1946
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/248
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Press cuttings on WSC's visit, on subjects including: WSC's visits to Lausanne, Zurich, Berne and Geneva; WSC's speech at the University of Zurich ["The Tragedy of Europe", 19th September 1946] on the need to establish a United States of Europe; Walter Thompson, WSC's police guard; WSC's painting; a planned attack on WSC.
Dates:
12 Sep 1946 - 11 Oct 1946
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Public and Political: General: Visits and invitations: United States (January - March 1946) S - Z., 03 Oct 1945 - 07 Aug 1946
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/230A-B
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Correspondents on WSC's visit include: Jorge Sanchez (5); Douglas Robey [British Vice-Consul, New York]; Iriney Georgevitch, Serbian Bishop of Yugoslavia [later Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, and Slovenia]; Albert Canning, Deputy Assistant Commissioner, Special Branch, on WSC's police guard; Charles Scribner; [Walter] Bedell Smith; "Betty", Harold Stark; Sir William Stephenson [Director, British Security Co-ordination] on WSC meeting the lawyer...
Dates:
03 Oct 1945 - 07 Aug 1946
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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(Untitled), 29 Dec 1931
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 1/397A/95
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Letter from Louis Alber, President, Affiliated Lecture and Concert Association Incorporated, to WSC, on a revised itinerary for his lecture tour of the United States, and confirming that Phyllis Moir had accepted the post as his secretary for the tour, starting on 12 January.
Dates:
29 Dec 1931
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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(Untitled), 13 Mar 1901
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/26/96-97
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Letter from WSC (105 Mount Street [London]) to "Mamma" [Lady Randolph Churchill] in which he discusses the success of his speech [concerning the dismissal of Major General Sir Henry Colville] which "turned votes and shifted opinion" and encloses a note [see CHAR 28/26/101] from [John Brodrick]. He asks her to help him appoint a secretary to avoid him being "pressed into his grave with all sorts of ridiculous things" and asks her for a list of the names [of those who helped him escape from...
Dates:
13 Mar 1901
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From the Fonds:
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Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
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The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill
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Chartwell Papers
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Acquired Papers
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Letters from WSC to Lady Randolph Churchill. Includes material relating to WSC's time in South Africa during the Boer War and to the elections he contested at Oldham [Lancashire]. All letters are manuscript and signed unless otherwise described.