Churchill, Winston Leonard Spencer, Sir, 1874 - 1965 (Knight, statesman and historian)
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Dates
- Existence: 1874 - 1965
Found in 4519 Collections and/or Records:
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Literary: correspondence regarding articles by and about WSC in the "Daily News" and "News Chronicle"., 27 Jun 1930 - 08 Dec 1935
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/809
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Sir Walter Layton [Chairman News Chronicle Ltd] (3); Tom Clarke [Editor and Director, News Chronicle] (12); Arthur Cummings [Political Editor and Chief Commentator, News Chronicle] (2); Hugh Redwood [Deputy Editor, News Chronicle] (6).Other subjects include: correspondence regarding article repeating allegations by Lady Oxford and Asquith [earlier Margot Asquith] that WSC viewed the outbreak of the First World War with levity and callousness, and including signed...
Dates:
27 Jun 1930 - 08 Dec 1935
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From the Fonds:
The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers.
This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
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Literary: correspondence regarding gifts of his own books by WSC., 14 Oct 1930 - 23 May 1933
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/812
Scope and Contents
Relates mainly to gifts of "Thoughts and Adventures", but also: "My Early Life"; "The Eastern Front"; "The Aftermath"; "Painting as a Pastime"; "The River War"; "Marlborough", vol 1.Correspondents include: Philip Cunliffe-Lister [earlier Sir Philip Lloyd-Greame, later 1st Lord Swinton]; Sir Abe Bailey; James, 4th Lord Salisbury; Lord Wimborne [earlier Lord Ashby St Ledgers, earlier Ivor Guest]; Brendan Bracken; 1st Robert Stevenson Horne [later Lord Horne of Slamannan]; Duff Cooper [later...
Dates:
14 Oct 1930 - 23 May 1933
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From the Fonds:
The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers.
This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
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Literary: Correspondence regarding proposal that WSC write a biography of the 1st Lord Inchcape [earlier James Mackay]., 19 Sep 1933 - 24 Feb 1934
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/818
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: 2nd Lord Inchcape [earlier Lord Glenapp, earlier Kenneth Mackay] (3); Frederick Arthur Hook [trustee of 1st Lord Inchcape's estate] (7).
Dates:
19 Sep 1933 - 24 Feb 1934
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers.
This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
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Literary: Correspondence relating to film rights in WSC's book "My Early Life"., 06 Feb 1958 - 15 May 1959
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/448A-B
Scope and Contents
This file primarily consists of business and legal correspondence with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer regarding a proposed film version of WSC's book "My Early Life", known in the United States as "A Roving Commission". The project did not pass the preliminary stages and failed in 1959. Much of WSC's correspondence is handled by his Private Secretary, Anthony Montague Browne.Correspondents include: Marjorie Thorson (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) (19), Anthony Moir [lawyer acting for WSC] (39), Nigel Balchin...
Dates:
06 Feb 1958 - 15 May 1959
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers.
This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
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Literary: correspondence relating to film rights in WSC's book "My Early Life"., 31 Jan 1959 - 28 Nov 1960
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/449A-B
Scope and Contents
This file primarily consists of business and legal correspondence. The film rights were acquired by the Hugh French Agency and Paramount in 1960. Much of WSC's correspondence is handled by his Private Secretary, Anthony Montague Browne.Correspondents include: Robert Clark (8), Anthony Moir [lawyer acting for WSC] (29), Hugh French (24), John Le Vien, Eliot Hyman (2), Sir David Cunynghame, Richard Patterson (Director, Paramount British Pictures Ltd), Robin French.Also includes: a financial...
Dates:
31 Jan 1959 - 28 Nov 1960
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers.
This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
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Literary: correspondence relating to film rights in WSC's book "My Early Life". This file primarily consists of business and legal correspondence relating to a proposed film treatment by Paramount, which was abandoned in 1963. Much of WSC's correspondence is handled by his Private Secretary, Anthony Montague Browne., 17 Jan 1961 - 06 Jul 1964
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/450A-B
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Hugh French (54), Richard Gehman, Anthony Moir [lawyer acting for WSC] (13), John Colville on the possibility of using Alymer Haldane as an "antagonist" to WSC in the film, Robert Graff (Sextant Inc) (2), C K Jones (Deputy General Manager, Odhams Press Ltd), Brian Forbes [scriptwriter] (20), Martin Rackin, Carl Foreman, Jacob Karp (Vice-President, Paramount). Also includes a letter of 18 Jan 1963 by Brian Forbes describing a visit to Randolph Churchill at Stour [East...
Dates:
17 Jan 1961 - 06 Jul 1964
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers.
This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
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Literary: correspondence relating to film rights in WSC's books "My Early Life" and "The World Crisis". This file primarily consists of business and legal correspondence relating to an ultimately unsuccessful approach made by William Smith Seay and G R Morrell. Much of WSC's correspondence is handled by his Private Secretary, Anthony Montague Browne., 04 Jan 1959 - 18 May 1961
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/451
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: William Smith Seay (14), Alan Harvey [HM Consul (Information), Chicago, United States], A Barker (Foreign Office), Anthony Moir [lawyer acting for WSC] (12), Sir David Cunynghame, G R Morrell (Midwest Video Association) (10), Spyros Skouras [President, Twentieth Century Fox], B Finley Vinson (Vice-President, First National Bank, Little Rock, Arkansas [United States]), C H Moses, Senator James Fulbright, Hugh French, J A McCracken, Paul MacNamara, Ronald Grierson.
Dates:
04 Jan 1959 - 18 May 1961
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers.
This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
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Literary: correspondence thanking WSC for complimentary copies and congratulating him on volume 1 ("The Gathering Storm") of his war memoirs ("The Second World War"), or requesting that he autograph copies., Feb 1948 - Apr 1949
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/49
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Sir Alexander Cadogan; Lieutenant-General Sir Ian Jacob (2); Oliver Lyttelton [later 1st Lord Chandos]; Mary, Duchess of Marlborough [earlier Mary, Lady Blandford]; Sir Henry MacGeagh; Charles Nicholl; Sir Leslie Hollis; Grace Hamblin, Patrick Kinna, G Lamont and Anne Hipwell [former secretaries]; Leo Amery, also on India and the army; Edith Watson, John Colville, Charles Barker, Francis Brown, Leslie Rowan, and John Peck [former Private Secretaries to WSC]; 1st Lord...
Dates:
Feb 1948 - Apr 1949
Conditions Governing Access:
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Literary: correspondence thanking WSC for complimentary copies and congratulating him on volume 2 ("Their Finest Hour") of his war memoirs ("The Second World War")., Mar 1949 - Oct 1949
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/51
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Samuel Kaplan; Cordell Hull; Clement Attlee; Horatia Seymour; Eleanor Roosevelt; "Betty", Admiral Harold Stark; "Beetle", [Walter] Bedell Smith; James Farley; Mackenzie King; Admiral William Leahy; Charles Eade; Sir Edward Marsh; Fleet Admiral Ernest King; John Snyder; Sir James Hawkey; Patrick Kinna, G Lamont and Kathleen Hill [former secretaries]; Lady Juliet Duff; Charles Nicholl; Frederick Mummery; Sir Thomas Dunhill; 1st Lord Woolton [earlier Frederick Marquis];...
Dates:
Mar 1949 - Oct 1949
Conditions Governing Access:
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Literary: correspondence thanking WSC for complimentary copies and congratulating him on volume 3 ("The Grand Alliance") of his war memoirs ("The Second World War")., Apr 1950 - Jul 1950
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/55
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Bernard Baruch; John Dulles; Fleet Admiral Ernest King; Herbert Swope; James Farley; Sir Alexander Cadogan; Admiral William Leahy; Sir Oliver Franks; Thomas Dewey; Harold Stassen; Mackenzie King; Henry Stimson; "Betty", Admiral Harold Stark; Major-General Frederick Anderson; Antonio Giraudier; John Snyder; 1st Lord Alexander of Tunis; Clement Attlee; Dorothy, Lady Moran; Sumner Welles; Anthony Moir [WSC's solicitor]; Oliver Lyttelton [later 1st Lord Chandos]; Nellie...
Dates:
Apr 1950 - Jul 1950
Conditions Governing Access:
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Literary: correspondence thanking WSC for complimentary copies and congratulating him on volume 4 ("The Hinge of Fate") of his war memoirs ("The Second World War")., Nov 1950 - Aug 1951
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/59
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: John Snyder; Sir Oliver Franks; Fleet Admiral William Leahy and Herbert Swope, both also on the Korean War; [Fleet Admiral] Ernest King; "Beetle" [Walter Bedell Smith]; Cordell Hull; James Farley; "Alex" [1st Lord Alexander of Tunis]; Major-General Frederick Anderson, also on the Soviet threat; Sir Alexander Cadogan; Lewis Douglas; John Dulles; the Duke of Windsor [earlier Edward Prince of Wales and King Edward VIII]; Dorothy, Lady Moran; Anthony Moir [WSC's...
Dates:
Nov 1950 - Aug 1951
Conditions Governing Access:
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Literary: correspondence thanking WSC for complimentary copies and congratulating him on volume 5 ("Closing the Ring") of his war memoirs ("The Second World War")., Dec 1950 - Dec 1953
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/62
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Sir Alexander Cadogan; Anthony Moir [WSC's solicitor]; 1st Lord Simonds; Sir Leslie Hollis; Harry Crookshank; 1st Lord Cunningham of Hyndhope; Sir David Maxwell Fyfe [later 1st Lord Kilmuir]; 1st Lord Woolton [earlier Frederick Marquis]; Patrick Kinna and G Lamont [former secretaries]; Stella Daly; Sir Thomas Dunhill; Clement Attlee; Edith Watson, John Martin, John Peck, and Francis Brown [former Private Secretaries to WSC]; 1st Lord Leathers; Harold MacMillan [later...
Dates:
Dec 1950 - Dec 1953
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Literary: Correspondence: War Memoirs ("Valiant Years" and "Finest Hours")., Aug 1958 - Dec 1959
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/452A-B
Scope and Contents
Correspondence between Anthony Montague Browne, Private Secretary to WSC and John (Jack) Le Vien (23) on film and television rights to WSC's War Memoirs File includes correspondence with Anthony Moir, and John McCracken, Fladgate & Co., Solicitors (17), telegram from Edward Murrow, copy of United States entertainment trade publication "Variety", 3 June 1959 giving details of project, letter from Lord Montgomery of Alamein to WSC, agreeing to help Le Vien.
Dates:
Aug 1958 - Dec 1959
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Literary: Correspondence: War Memoirs ("Valiant Years" and "Finest Hours")., Jan 1960 - Nov 1961
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/453A-B
Scope and Contents
Correspondence between Anthony Montague Browne, Private Secretary to WSC and John (Jack) Le Vien (14) on film and television rights to WSC's War Memoirs.File also includes correspondence with Anthony Moir, Fladgate & Co., Solicitors (15), letter from, Colin Coote, Managing Editor of the "Daily Telegraph" on paragraph about the project in the "Peterborough" column, letters from Sir Ivone Kirkpatrick, Lord Ismay, Commander Charles Thompson, John Peck (2) and Lord Alexander of Tunis on...
Dates:
Jan 1960 - Nov 1961
Conditions Governing Access:
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Literary: Correspondence: War Memoirs ("Valiant Years" and "Finest Hours")., Sep 1960 - Mar 1963
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/454
Scope and Contents
Correspondence between Anthony Montague Browne, Private Secretary to WSC and John (Jack) Le Vien (27) on film and television rights to WSC's War Memoirs, particularly Le Vien's book on his television series of the memoirs, "The Valiant Years" and a documentary feature film of the War Memoirs File. Also includes counsel's opinion of Edmund Skone James on film rights and royalties due for WSC's speeches as used in "The Valiant Years" and correspondence with Anthony Moir, and John McCracken,...
Dates:
Sep 1960 - Mar 1963
Conditions Governing Access:
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Literary: Correspondence: War Memoirs ("Valiant Years" and "Finest Hours")., Apr 1963 - Jan 1964
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/455
Scope and Contents
Correspondence between Anthony Montague Browne, Private Secretary to WSC and John (Jack) Le Vien (6), Howard Connell (3) and Victor Wolfson (2)(Le Vien Films) on film and television rights to WSC's War Memoirs, particularly documentary film titled "Finest Hours".File also includes Screen Treatment and screenplay by Victor Wolfson, with detailed comments by Montague Browne, correspondence with Anthony Moir, Fladgate & Co., Solicitors (10), letter from the Marquess of Blandford (later 11th...
Dates:
Apr 1963 - Jan 1964
Conditions Governing Access:
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Literary: Correspondence: War Memoirs ("Valiant Years" and "Finest Hours")., Feb 1964 - May 1965
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/456A-B
Scope and Contents
Correspondence between Anthony Montague Browne, Private Secretary to WSC and John (Jack) Le Vien (9) on television and film rights to WSC's war memoirs, particularly documentary film "Finest Hours".File also includes comments on screenplay by Montague Browne, correspondence with Sir Francis Fogarty, Director-General of the English Speaking Union (3) on arrangements for Premiere of "Finest Hours"; correspondence with Anthony Moir, Fladgate & Co., Solicitors (6) on copyright and receipts...
Dates:
Feb 1964 - May 1965
Conditions Governing Access:
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Literary: correspondence with and about Sir Edward Marsh., Oct 1933 - Oct 1954
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/2
Scope and Contents
Others correspondents include: Sir William Haley, [Editor] of the Times, on WSC writing a tribute on Marsh's death (2); 10th Lord Elgin and Kincardine [earlier Lord Bruce]; James Stewart-Murray [?9th Duke of Atholl]; David Garnett on his publishing a volume of T E Lawrence's [T E Shaw, "Lawrence of Arabia"] letters. Also includes notes and copies of correspondence from: Denis Kelly [literary assistant to WSC]; secretaries Grace Hamblin, Anthony Montague Browne, Lettice Marston [later Lettice...
Dates:
Oct 1933 - Oct 1954
Conditions Governing Access:
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Literary: correspondence with Butler and Tanner, printers and bookbinders (Selwood Printing Works, Frome [Somerset])., 10 Jan 1931 - 09 Sep 1936
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/814
Scope and Contents
Relates to the printing of various articles and books by WSC, including: "Crucial Crises of the War"; "Short Biographies"; "The Eastern Front"; "Thoughts and Adventures".
Dates:
10 Jan 1931 - 09 Sep 1936
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers.
This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
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Literary: correspondence with consultants and others on "A History of the English-Speaking Peoples", A-C., Feb 1940 - Aug 1962
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/26
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Anthony Moir of Fladgate and Company [WSC's solicitor] (9); [George] Gordon Allen on Trafalgar; 1st Lord Bracken; Alan Hodge (4); Sir Samuel Chapman sending a speech; Asa Briggs; Alan Bullock; Alfred Burne; Emery Reves [earlier Imre Revesz] on WSC autographing a copy for the Brazilian translator; representatives of Cassell and Company including directors Desmond Flower and Sir Newman Flower (53); Denis Brogan (3); Vivian Galbraith, [Director] of the Institute of...
Dates:
Feb 1940 - Aug 1962
Conditions Governing Access:
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Literary: correspondence with consultants and others on "A History of the English-Speaking Peoples", D-K., Jan 1946 - May 1961
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/27A-B
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Anthony Moir of Fladgate and Company [WSC's solicitor] (9); 1st Lord Camrose [earlier Sir William Berry, Editor-in-Chief] of the Daily Telegraph (2); William Deakin (6); Edward Dodd of Dodd, Mead and Company, publishers (23); Denis Kelly [literary assistant] (18); Alan Hodge (77); Sir Newman Flower, director of Cassell and Company; Eliahu Elath [Israeli Ambassador to the United Kingdom] on the Hebrew edition; Henry Laughlin, President of Houghton Mifflin Company...
Dates:
Jan 1946 - May 1961
Conditions Governing Access:
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Literary: correspondence with consultants and others on "A History of the English-Speaking Peoples", L-Z., Oct 1949 - Jul 1962
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/28A-B
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Alan Hodge (5); Emmet Hughes [Special European Correspondent, Life Magazine]; Henry Luce [owner and editor of Time Magazine] (17); Anthony Moir of Fladgate and Company [WSC's solicitor] (17); Walter Graebner [London representative of Time-Life International] (3); Daniel Longwell [former editor of Life Magazine] (2); representatives of Cassell and Company including director Desmond Flower (6); John McClelland of McClelland and Stewart Limited, publishers (4);...
Dates:
Oct 1949 - Jul 1962
Conditions Governing Access:
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Literary: correspondence with consultants and others on WSC's war memoirs ("The Second World War", mainly volumes 1 to 4), A-B., Sep 1945 - Jun 1950
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/18A-B
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: William Deakin (9); [George Gordon] Allen (16); Sir John Slessor on information on the Coastal Command in 1943; Thomas Allen, publisher, on Canadian editions of the memoirs (5); 1st Lord Altrincham [earlier Sir Edward Grigg] on Sir Edward Spears reviewing "Their Finest Hour" (volume 2); "Max", 1st Lord Beaverbrook [earlier Sir Max Aitken]; Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Pownall (2); Ernest Passant, Director of Research, Librarian and Keeper of the Papers, Foreign Office...
Dates:
Sep 1945 - Jun 1950
Conditions Governing Access:
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Literary: correspondence with consultants and others on WSC's war memoirs ("The Second World War", mainly volumes 1 to 4), A-L., Sep 1946 - Mar 1949
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/22
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: [George Gordon] Allen (6); William Deakin (5); Prime Minister Clement Attlee on House of Commons' questions on German invasion plans in 1940; Eva, Lady Keyes, on 1st Lord Keyes and King Leopold of Belgium (2); Arthur Birse [one of WSC's wartime interpreters] on WSC's talks with Marshal Stalin in 1942; Alfred Bossom; Sir Edward Bridges [Secretary to the Cabinet until 1946] (4); Sir Philip Morris [later 1st Lord Morris of Kenwood]; Sir George Bull; Ronald Fraser,...
Dates:
Sep 1946 - Mar 1949
Conditions Governing Access:
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Literary: correspondence with consultants and others on WSC's war memoirs ("The Second World War", mainly volumes 1 to 4), C-I., Jun 1946 - Dec 1950
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/19A-B
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: 1st Lord Cherwell [earlier F A Lindemann] on the atomic bomb; R V Jones; Sir Laurence Collier [British Ambassador to Norway]; William Deakin (12); Ian Colvin (4) including (2) on his book on [General Paul] von Kleist; Robert Sherwood; Sir Alfred Duff Cooper [later 1st Lord Norwich] (2); Sir Stafford Cripps sending on extracts from his diary for summer 1939; [George Gordon] Allen (2); Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Pownall (3) including (2) on sending draft chapters to...
Dates:
Jun 1946 - Dec 1950
Conditions Governing Access:
Open