Churchill, Winston Leonard Spencer, Sir, 1874 - 1965 (Knight, statesman and historian)
Dates
- Existence: 1874 - 1965
Found in 300 Collections and/or Records:
(Untitled), 24 Aug 1898
Letter from WSC (Wad Hebeshi before Shabluka [Sudan]) to "Mamma" [Lady Randolph Churchill] in which he says that there will be no opportunity to send her a letter until he reaches Khartoum and "all is over"; discusses the possibility that he may be killed and says that he does not "flinch" despite his lack of religious belief, that he is sure that he will not die; and that he is annoyed by the dislike of the 21st Lancers. Pencil.
(Untitled), 25 Aug 1898
Telegram from Caryl [Ramsden] (Wadhamed [Wad Hamid, Sudan]) to [Lady Randolph Churchill] reporting "Winston [WSC] arrived both very fit advance tomorrow".
(Untitled), 26 Aug 1898
Letter from WSC (North of Shabluka [Sudan]) to "Mamma" [Lady Randolph Churchill] discussing the imminent battle and [Sir Herbert] Kitchener's disapproval of his actions and enclosing a letter [not present] for the Morning Post.
(Untitled), 04 Sep 1898
Telegram from WSC (Nasri [?Nasr, Egypt]) to [Lady Randolph Churchill] informing her that he is all right.
(Untitled), 05 Sep 1898
Telegram from Caryl [Ramsden] (Atbara [Sudan]) to [Lady Randolph Churchill] informing her that WSC is well and that there has been a "big fight fine sight" [a reference to the battle of Omdurman].
(Untitled), 08 Sep [1898]
Letter from WSC (Omdurman [Sudan]) to "Mamma" [Lady Randolph Churchill] discussing his orders to return to Atbara which are a result of his unpopularity with the Sirdar [Sir Herbert Kitchener] and the possibility that the French are in Fashoda.
(Untitled), 17 Sep [1898]
Letter from WSC (Wady Halfa [Sudan]) to "Mamma" [Lady Randolph Churchill] including: the battle of Omdurman and his opinion that the British forces should have made a charge and made the "performance historic"; the names of his friends who were killed in action; and complaint at the publication of his letters in the Morning Post and Oliver Borthwick's alterations to them.
(Untitled), 22 Dec 1898
Letter from WSC (4th Hussars [Bangalore] India) to "Mamma" [Lady Randolph Churchill] in which he says that he has been awarded a Soudan medal and that he hopes to receive a Frontier medal and that he has been working hard on his book ["The River War"].
(Untitled), [Jul] [1898]
Note from WSC (on the notepaper of the 4th Hussars, India) to "Mamma" [Lady Randolph Churchill] listing arguments in favour of him joining the Nile expeditionary force in Egypt and protesting that he would have been recalled from leave if he had committed an offence [by going to Egypt without having his leave approved].
(Untitled), [Jul] [1898]
Instructions [from WSC to Lady Randolph Churchill] regarding financial, literary and political affairs and the possibility that his orders may be revoked by the War Office.
(Untitled), 05 Aug [1898]
Letter from WSC ("On the Nile near Luxor" [Egypt]) to Ernest Becket[t] asking him to stand surety for his liabilities incurred by a loan, describing his journey on the Nile and speculating on the likelihood of fighting. Envelope present.
(Untitled), 26 Jan 1899
Letter from WSC (Government House, Madras [India]) to "Mamma" [Lady Randolph Churchill] discussing: [Charles, 9th Duke of] Marlborough's appointment [as Paymaster General]; a delay to his work [on "The River War"] caused by the refusal of the Sirdar [Sir Herbert Kitchener] to allow Captain Watson to supply information to WSC; plans to resign his army commission and return to England and discussion of possible titles for a magazine [published as the Anglo-Saxon Review].
(Untitled), 03 May 1899
(Untitled), 18 Sep 1899
Letter from WSC ([Blenheim Palace] on the notepaper of 35A Great Cumberland Place) to "Mamma" [Lady Randolph Churchill] in which he says that he has received a telegram from [Sir Alfred] Harmsworth [later Lord Northcliffe] asking whether he would go as correspondent to South Africa and that Oliver [Borthwick] has accepted WSC's terms to be correspondent to the Morning Post.
(Untitled), 06 Oct 1899
Letter from WSC (35A Great Cumberland Place [London]) to [3rd] Lord Chesham asking him to forward his application for a commission in the Royal Buckinghamshire H[ussa]rs, enclosing certificates [not present] and requesting that War Office reports about him should be considered in the absence of a certificate of moral character.
(Untitled), 07 Oct 1899
Letter from WSC (35A Great Cumberland Place [London]) to [3rd] Lord Chesham asking him to sanction his application [see CHAR 28/26/37] to join [the Royal Buckinghamshire Hussars] and to hasten his appointment if possible.
(Untitled), 30 Oct [1899]
Letter from WSC (Cape Town, South Africa) to "Jack" [John S Churchill] in which he outlines the words which he will use in telegrams to convey the progress [of the Boer War] and requests that his application to be a Yeomanry Officer should be forwarded and his letter to Lord Chesham [see CHAR 28/26/37-38] destroyed.
(Untitled), 31 Oct [1899]
Telegram from WSC (Cape Town [South Africa]) to [Lady Randolph Churchill] requesting that his application to be a Yeomanry Officer should be forwarded to Captain Kikpatrick.
(Untitled), 06 Jan [1900]
(Untitled), 01 May 1900
(Untitled), 16 Jan 1901
Letter from WSC (Chicago [United States] on the notepaper of 105 Mount Street) to George [Cornwallis-West] expressing pleasure at the news that George is to leave the army and describing the disadvantages of a career in the army. He comments on the lack of success of his lecture tour from which he has made o1,600 and on the fact that "Jack" [John S Churchill] is to continue living at 35A [Great Cumberland Place, London].
(Untitled), 25 Nov 1895
Note by Antonio Diaz Bento, Spanish Army, Cuba, on WSC and Reginald Barnes.
(Untitled), 26 Nov 1895
Note by Alvaro S Valdez, Spanish Army, Cuba, on WSC.
(Untitled), 09 Dec [1895]
Letter from The Duke of Tetuan, Spanish Foreign Minister, to Sir Henry Drummond Wolff, British Ambassador to Spain, on WSC's visit to Cuba.
(Untitled), 26 Nov 1895
Letter from Arsenio M de Campos to The Duke of Tetuan, on WSC's visit to Cuba.