Churchill, Winston Leonard Spencer, Sir, 1874 - 1965 (Knight, statesman and historian)
Dates
- Existence: 1874 - 1965
Found in 450 Collections and/or Records:
(Untitled), [1921]
Statement of the effect of the dispositions contained in WSC's draft will.
(Untitled), 24 Aug 1921
Letter from Reginald McKenna to WSC, on the death of Marigold Churchill.
(Untitled), 01 Jul 1921
Telegram from The Duke of Marlborough to WSC, on the death of Lady Randolph Churchill.
(Untitled), 02 Jul 1921
Telegram from The Duke of Marlborough to WSC, on the funeral of Lady Randolph Churchill.
(Untitled), 27 [Mar 1916]
Letter from CSC to WSC, domestic news. Typescript transcript at CHAR 1/118B/133.
(Untitled), 1921-1923
WSC's Pass Books for Investment Account with Cox & Co., March-Sept 1921, the books contain extensive notes by WSC on his finances, 1921-23, including details of his Childrens' Trust, his South African investments, Chartwell, estimates of his income and expenditure, and expenses and receipts for The World Crisis [2 items].
(Untitled), 16 May 1922
Letter from WSC to Charles Sims, commenting unfavourably on Sims' portrait of Diana and Sarah Churchill, particularly the expressions on the faces of the children [2 carbon copies].
(Untitled), 11 Jul 1922
Letter from Charles Sims to WSC, on his portrait of Diana and Sarah Churchill.
(Untitled), [Aug 1922]
Letter from Diana Churchill to WSC, on holiday at Frinton, enclosing three photographs of Randolph, Diana and Sarah Churchill, Penelope and Angela Dudley-Ward and Giles and Esmond Romilly.
(Untitled), [Aug 1922]
Letter from Randolph Churchill to WSC, on holiday at Frinton.
(Untitled), 17 Aug 1922
Letter from Sarah Churchill to WSC, on holiday at Frinton.
(Untitled), 04 Jan 1922
Letter from CSC, 2 Sussex Square, London, to WSC, on her health, and that of the children, asking him not to open a letter written to him on "Black Monday" [2 January].
(Untitled), 03 Feb 1922
Letter from CSC, Hotel Mont-Fleury, Cannes, France, to WSC, on success in Cannes tennis tournament, and on her decision to tell her mother and Venetia Montagu about her pregnancy, also on building work at 2 Sussex Square, and account of conversation with Lord Derby on Lord and Lady Curzon, describing Curzon as a "fat sneak".
(Untitled), 08 Aug 1922
Letter from CSC to WSC, on the possibility of buying a house at Frinton; the imminent arrival of the new "kitten" [Mary Churchill, later Lady Soames] and WSC's stay in France.
(Untitled), 14 Aug 1922
Letter from CSC to WSC, on WSC's stay in France; French politics and the death of Arthur Griffith and its effect on Irish politics.
(Untitled), 17 Aug 1922
Letter from CSC to WSC, on the possibility of buying a house in Frinton, and on Diana and Randolph's booby prize in the Frinton tennis tournament.
(Untitled), 12 Sep 1922
Letter and telegram from CSC to WSC, wedding anniversary greetings; on the possibility of buying a county house, with account of visit to her aunt, Mary Hozier.
(Untitled), [09 Nov 1922]
Letter from CSC to WSC, on the election campaign in Dundee.
(Untitled), 05 Jun 1942
Letter from WSC to Jean [Ivan] Maisky [Soviet Ambassador to Britain] thanking him for his enquiry about Randolph Churchill's injury.
(Untitled), 13 Jul 1941
Telegram from Oliver Lyttelton [Minister of State, Middle East, later 1st Lord Chandos] to WSC requesting permission to overrule WSC's objections and appoint Randolph Churchill as liaison between themselves.
(Untitled), 20 Jul 1941
Telegram from WSC to Minister of State, Middle East [Oliver Lyttelton, later 1st Lord Chandos] rejecting appointment of Randolph Churchill as liaison between them and recommending he return to active service.
(Untitled), 13 Nov 1930
(Untitled), 29 Aug 1941
(Untitled), 01 Aug 1942 - 12 Nov 1942
Letter to WSC and CSC from Gladys Gough, enclosing a cutting from the New York Times on Mary Churchill [later Mary Soames] being spanked by a United States soldier at an ATS [Auxiliary Territorial Service] party; also includes press transcripts and notes by John Martin [Private Secretary to WSC] and D Parker-Bowles, Duty Officer, Ministry of Information, on whether the incident should be prevented from appearing in British newspapers.
(Untitled), 21 Feb 1942 - 26 Feb 1942
Note from Francis Brown [Private Secretary to WSC] to Randolph Churchill enclosing a War Cabinet report on foreign propaganda broadcasts: report includes undermining of WSC with a quote from Randolph Churchill on WSC keeping his money safely in the United States, and the suggestion that Sir Stafford Cripps, Lord Privy Seal, is a Bolshevist sympathiser and possible agent.