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Churchill, Winston Leonard Spencer, Sir, 1874 - 1965 (Knight, statesman and historian)

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1874 - 1965

Found in 263 Collections and/or Records:

 Item

(Untitled), 17 Jan 1932

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 1/397A/48-49
Scope and Contents Letter from WSC to Louis Alber [President, Affiliated Lecture and Concert Association Incorporated], on subjects for his lecture tour of the United States, stating that the "Economic Crisis" lecture had been an immense labour, and there was still a lot of work to be done reducing it to proper limits; also stating that he could prepare a new lecture on the Soviet Union, if there was sufficient demand, but hoping that Alber would not commit him to a new lecture merely to satisfy one or two...
Dates: 17 Jan 1932
Conditions Governing Access: Open
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / GBR/0014/CHAR and CHUR, The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Chartwell Papers / Personal / Personal: Affiliated Lecture and Concert Association: (visit to the United States, 1931-1932).
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(Untitled), 08 Jan 1932

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 1/397A/50
Scope and Contents

Telegram from Dr Otto Pickhardt to CSC (Nassau, Bahamas), on WSC's health following a road accident in New York [United States], advising postponement of his lecture tour of the United States until 28 January.

Dates: 08 Jan 1932
Conditions Governing Access: Open
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / GBR/0014/CHAR and CHUR, The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Chartwell Papers / Personal / Personal: Affiliated Lecture and Concert Association: (visit to the United States, 1931-1932).
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(Untitled), 11 Jan 1932

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 1/397A/59-60
Scope and Contents Letter from WSC to Louis Alber [President, Affiliated Lecture and Concert Association Incorporated], regretting that he was forced to decline speaking engagements in New York [United States] due to ill health, following a road accident: "I am growing in strength every day, but am still astonishingly feeble; even the act of dressing or shaving tires me. I spend eighteen out of the twenty-four hours in bed". Also queries press reports that he had challenged Senator William Borah to a debate on...
Dates: 11 Jan 1932
Conditions Governing Access: Open
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / GBR/0014/CHAR and CHUR, The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Chartwell Papers / Personal / Personal: Affiliated Lecture and Concert Association: (visit to the United States, 1931-1932).
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(Untitled), 07 Jan 1932

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 1/397A/69
Scope and Contents

Telegram from CSC to Dr Otto Pickhardt (Lenox Hill Hospital, New York), stating that WSC was not fit enough to resume his lecture tour of the United States, but that much pressure was being put on him to resume on 14 January, asking Pickhardt to see Louis Alber [President, Affiliated Lecture and Concert Association Incorporated]. [Copy].

Dates: 07 Jan 1932
Conditions Governing Access: Open
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / GBR/0014/CHAR and CHUR, The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Chartwell Papers / Personal / Personal: Affiliated Lecture and Concert Association: (visit to the United States, 1931-1932).
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(Untitled), 07 Jan 1932

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 1/397A/71
Scope and Contents

Telegram from CSC to Louis Alber [President, Affiliated Lecture and Concert Association Incorporated], stating that WSC was not fit enough to resume his lecture tour of the United States, and that if he were forced to do so, his health might be permanently impaired. [Copy].

Dates: 07 Jan 1932
Conditions Governing Access: Open
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / GBR/0014/CHAR and CHUR, The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Chartwell Papers / Personal / Personal: Affiliated Lecture and Concert Association: (visit to the United States, 1931-1932).
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(Untitled), 05 Jan 1932

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 1/397A/74
Scope and Contents

Telegram from Dr Otto Pickhardt to WSC, heartily endorsing a postponement of the resumption of his lecture tour of the United States until February, reminding him that mental as well as physical rest was imperative.

Dates: 05 Jan 1932
Conditions Governing Access: Open
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / GBR/0014/CHAR and CHUR, The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Chartwell Papers / Personal / Personal: Affiliated Lecture and Concert Association: (visit to the United States, 1931-1932).
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(Untitled), 03 Jan 1932

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 1/397A/77
Scope and Contents

Telegram from WSC to Louis Alber [President, Affiliated Lecture and Concert Association Incorporated], stating that although his health was improving, he would not be able to resume his lecture tour of the United States on 14 January, proposing resumption on 1 February, continuing until 15 March. [Carbon].

Dates: 03 Jan 1932
Conditions Governing Access: Open
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / GBR/0014/CHAR and CHUR, The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Chartwell Papers / Personal / Personal: Affiliated Lecture and Concert Association: (visit to the United States, 1931-1932).
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(Untitled), 02 Jan 1932

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 1/397A/79-80
Scope and Contents

Telegram from WSC to Louis Alber [President, Affiliated Lecture and Concert Association Incorporated], stating that although his health was improving, he would not be fit to resume his lecture tour of the United States until the end of the month. [Copy].

Dates: 02 Jan 1932
Conditions Governing Access: Open
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / GBR/0014/CHAR and CHUR, The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Chartwell Papers / Personal / Personal: Affiliated Lecture and Concert Association: (visit to the United States, 1931-1932).
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(Untitled), 30 Dec 1931

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 1/397A/81
Scope and Contents Letter from WSC to Louis Alber [President, Affiliated Lecture and Concert Association Incorporated], on his intention to resume his lecture tour of the United States, "I shall be able to begin it, and I will go on till I drop", stating that it would be a pity to spoil the opening meeting in Brooklyn on 14 January, or the New York Economic Club meeting on 18 January with questions which were an anticlimax; he intended to speak for over an hour, and to "reach a culmination", and that while he...
Dates: 30 Dec 1931
Conditions Governing Access: open
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / GBR/0014/CHAR and CHUR, The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Chartwell Papers / Personal / Personal: Affiliated Lecture and Concert Association: (visit to the United States, 1931-1932).
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(Untitled), 02 Jan 1932

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 1/399A/19
Scope and Contents

Receipt from Dr Foster Kennedy (New York [United States]), for 250 dollars, for treatment of WSC following his road accident.

Dates: 02 Jan 1932
Conditions Governing Access: Open
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / GBR/0014/CHAR and CHUR, The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Chartwell Papers / Personal / Personal: During [WSC's] visit to the United States and Canada: Correspondence F - N.
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(Untitled), 17 Feb 1945

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/199/2-3
Scope and Contents Letter from Maharaja Sir Joodha Shumshere Jung Bahadur Rana [Prime Minister of Nepal] to WSC expressing his unease at the possible effect of WSC's "diverse activities" and travelling on his health, especially in the light of the "mishap" which befell the plane carrying some British officials to the meeting with President Roosevelt and Marshal Stalin. States that WSC is the "very heart and soul of Britain", "the very essence of British war efforts" and that "we cannot afford to lose you at...
Dates: 17 Feb 1945
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.
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / GBR/0014/CHAR and CHUR, The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Chartwell Papers / Official: Prime Minister / Official: Prime Minister: Private Office correspondence "N - R".
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(Untitled), 17 Feb 1945

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/199/4
Scope and Contents Letter from Maharaja Sir Joodha Shumshere Jung Bahadur Rana [Prime Minister of Nepal] to WSC expressing his unease at the possible effect of WSC's "diverse activities" and travelling on his health, especially in the light of the "mishap" which befell the plane carrying some British officials to the meeting with President Roosevelt and Marshal Stalin. States that WSC is the "very heart and soul of Britain", "the very essence of British war efforts" and that "we cannot afford to lose you at...
Dates: 17 Feb 1945
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.
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / GBR/0014/CHAR and CHUR, The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Chartwell Papers / Official: Prime Minister / Official: Prime Minister: Private Office correspondence "N - R".
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WSC's tribute to President Roosevelt, 17 Apr 1945

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 9/167/206-207
Scope and Contents Printed copy from Hansard recording WSC's tribute on the death of President Roosevelt covering: the start of his friendship with Roosevelt when the President invited WSC to correspond with him; their correspondence of over 1,700 messages, 9 meetings and 120 days of close physical contact; his admiration and affection for Roosevelt; Roosevelt's courage about his physical affliction and 'agony' at the fall of France; a letter from Roosevelt brought to WSC by Wendell Wilkie in which Roosevelt...
Dates: 17 Apr 1945
Conditions Governing Access: Open
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / GBR/0014/CHAR and CHUR, The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Chartwell Papers / Speeches / Speeches: House of Commons.

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