Churchill, Winston Leonard Spencer, Sir, 1874 - 1965 (Knight, statesman and historian)
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Dates
- Existence: 1874 - 1965
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Public and Political: General: Visits and invitations: Switzerland (August - September 1946) I - L., 20 May 1946 - 22 Apr 1947
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/242A-B
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Correspondents on WSC's visit include: David Lamb; Dennis Larking; H Lefeuvre-Meaulle, French Minister Plenipotentiary in Switzerland (2); Lord Duncannon [later 10th Lord Bessborough, First Secretary, British Embassy, Paris, France]; J Luscher, photographer, on taking photographs of "Choisi", where WSC was staying (4). Also includes notes and copies of correspondence by CSC and Lettice Marston [later Lettice Shillingford], Elizabeth Gilliatt, M Staite, "N S" [Jo Sturdee, later Lady Onslow]...
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20 May 1946 - 22 Apr 1947
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Public and Political: General: Visits and invitations: the Netherlands (May 1946) correspondence: general public., 19 Mar 1946 - 22 Aug 1946
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/235A-B
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Correspondents on WSC's visit include: Sir Frederick Godber, Chairman, Executive Committee, Help Holland Council; Merrick Denton-Thompson, British Consul- General, Amsterdam (2); Walter Fletcher on paint suppliers in the Netherlands; Sir Nevile Bland, British Ambassador to the Netherlands; G van Heuven Goedhart, former Minister of Justice for the Netherlands, on his wartime escape to Britain. Also includes notes and copies of correspondence by CSC and Mary Churchill [later Mary Soames], and...
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19 Mar 1946 - 22 Aug 1946
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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...
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03 Oct 1945 - 07 Aug 1946
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Speeches: Non-House of Commons: Speech notes and source material., 24 Oct 1955 - 16 Dec 1955
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 5/59A-C
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Speech notes and typescript for WSC's speech (18 November, Monkhams Ward Dinner and Dance, Woodford [Essex]) on the increased Conservative majority, Conservative support for a varied, tolerant society, the current political situation, including the last Budget, the rejection of nationalization by the electorate, and Labour's lack of other policies. Published: Complete Speeches VIII pp 8662 - 3.Speech notes and typescript for WSC's speech (24 November, Harrow [Middlesex]) on receiving the...
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24 Oct 1955 - 16 Dec 1955
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(Untitled), 19 Dec 1944
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/177/103
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Telegram from WSC to Marshal Stalin marked "Private" expressing his admiration for the film "Kutuzov" which Stalin had given him.
Dates:
19 Dec 1944
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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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(Untitled), 07 Jan 1944
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/179/57
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Telegram from WSC [Marrakesh, Morocco] to General Charles-Emmanuel Mast [Corps Commander, Free French Army] thanking him for the present of a warm Tunisian blanket. Marked: "From Sextant".
Dates:
07 Jan 1944
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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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(Untitled), 26 Mar 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/193B/157
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Letter from WSC to General Orbay thanking him for the gift of one thousand turkish cigarettes [carbon].
Dates:
26 Mar 1945
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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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(Untitled), 29 Mar 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/193B/158
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Letter from WSC to His Excellency Licenciado Ezequiel Padilla [Mexican Minister for Foreign Affairs] thanking him for the cigars and the tablecloth which he and Don Manuel Tello had sent for Christmas [carbon].
Dates:
29 Mar 1945
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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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(Untitled), 02 Apr 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/193B/168
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Letter from WSC to General Sir Frederick Pile [General Officer Commander in Chief, Anti -Aircraft Command] thanking him for photographs [not included] of his daughter Mary Churchill [later Lady Soames] with her battery in Belgium and crossing the Channel [carbon].
Dates:
02 Apr 1945
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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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(Untitled), 03 Apr 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/193B/169
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Letter from WSC to Herbert Vere Evatt [Australian Attorney General and Minister for External Affairs] thanking him for the "delightful presents" and regretting that CSC will not be able to see Mrs Evatt because she is away in Russia for a month or so. With a typed postscript thanking Evatt for the inscribed book of speeches and noting [in pencil] that "I shall retaliate as only an author can." [carbon].
Dates:
03 Apr 1945
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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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(Untitled), 06 Apr 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/193B/174
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Letter from WSC to Field Marshal Jan Smuts [Prime Minister of South Africa] thanking him for the present of South African wine [carbon].
Dates:
06 Apr 1945
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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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(Untitled), 07 Apr 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/193B/177
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Letter from WSC to Major W T Wood thanking him and his wife for the box of cigars [carbon].
Dates:
07 Apr 1945
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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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(Untitled), 07 Apr 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/193B/178
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Letter from WSC to "Hopie" (2nd Lord Linlithgow) declining the invitation for himself and CSC to stay at Holyrood [Edinburgh] during the opening of the Assembly of the Church of Scotland at the end of May: "The burden is heavy in these days, and it does not grow lighter as victory draws nearer." [carbon].
Dates:
07 Apr 1945
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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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(Untitled), 14 Apr 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/193B/189
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Letter from WSC to W L Andrews (The Yorkshire Post) thanking him for the reproduction of a book compiled by Yorkshiremen in Stalag Luft VI [carbon].
Dates:
14 Apr 1945
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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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(Untitled), 24 Apr 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/193B/198
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Letter from WSC to Lieutenant-Colonel Steer-Webster thanking him for the excellent coloured reproduction of "Mulberry B" [codename for type of artificial harbour used on D-Day], asking him to thank Corporal Jobson who was responsible for the painting, and thanking him and his staff for the various models and the relief map of the Mulberry which they have sent to WSC's Map Room [carbon].
Dates:
24 Apr 1945
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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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(Untitled), 27 Apr 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/193B/210
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Letter from WSC to Lieutenant Colonel I Mackenzie thanking him for the copy of the story of the Lowland Brigade's crossing of the Rhine and expressing his delight at the prominent part played by the 6th Battalion, The Royal Scots Fusiliers [carbon].
Dates:
27 Apr 1945
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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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(Untitled), 05 Jun 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/194B/108
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Letter from WSC to Princesse Jean de Caraman-Chimay thanking her for the case of Veuve Cliquot 1929 which is "specially welcome in these days when the stocks of wine left in England have been so greatly reduced." [carbon].
Dates:
05 Jun 1945
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(Untitled), 09 Jun 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/194B/119
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Letter from WSC to Lord Horder thanking him for his book "Rebuilding Family Life in the Post-War World" [carbon].
Dates:
09 Jun 1945
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(Untitled), 15 Jun 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/194B/131-132
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Letter from WSC to John Player thanking him for the cheque for fifty thousand pounds for the benefit of the families of those who have given their lives in the war, and giving details of the funds to which it will be allocated [carbon].
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15 Jun 1945
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(Untitled), 07 Jul 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/194B/174
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Letter from WSC to Alan Herbert [Independent MP for Oxford University] thanking him for sending an inscribed copy of his letter to the electors of Oxford University [carbon].
Dates:
07 Jul 1945
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(Untitled), 13 Jul 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/194B/178
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Letter from WSC to P Ginestet thanking him for the wine which was sent via General Raymond Brutinel for WSC's enjoyment during his visit to Bordaberry [Near Hendaye, France]. [carbon].
Dates:
13 Jul 1945
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(Untitled), 13 Jul 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/194B/179
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Letter from WSC (Chateau Bordaberry [Near Hendaye, France]) to B Taubert accepting the gift of a picture and offering one of his books in return [carbon].
Dates:
13 Jul 1945
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(Untitled), 14 Jul 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/194B/183
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Letter from WSC (Bordaberry [Hendaye, France]) to Jean Cordier thanking him for the fine claret [carbon].
Dates:
14 Jul 1945
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(Untitled), 14 Jul 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/194B/184
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Letter from WSC (Bordaberry [Hendaye, France]) to Guy Schyler thanking him for the case of Chateau Yquem which he is taking back to London [carbon].
Dates:
14 Jul 1945
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(Untitled), 14 Jul 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/194B/189
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Letter from WSC to Albert Gayrin thanking him for the excellent champagne and brandy presented during his visit to Bordaberry [Hendaye, France] [carbon].
Dates:
14 Jul 1945
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