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Includes greeting cards, letters and telegrams from members of the public to WSC and CSC congratulating them on their ggolden wedding. Also includes newspaper cuttings, poems, photographs (including a photograph of CSC with Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother), colour transparencies of Blenheim Palace, and copies of replies sent by WSC, CSC, Grace Hamblin and Doreen Pugh [Private Secretaries to WSC].

Scope and Contents Correspondents congratulating WSC and CSC on their Golden wedding anniversary include: [Richard] Michael Fraser and Percy Cohen of the Conservative Research Department; Ann, Lady Gammans for the Hornsey [London] Conservative Association; Donald Cowling, Chairman for the Leeds Conservative Association; Sir Malcolm Stoddart-Scott, Chairman of the Yorkshire Conservative Association; Max Bemrose, Chairman of the East Midlands Conservative and Unionist Association; Norman Cadzow, Governor of the...

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Correspondents concerning requests from the press for interviews with and photographs of WSC and CSC include George Christ, Parliamentary Liaison Officer for the Conservative and Unionist Party.Also includes: press statements from WSC and CSC; commemorative issues of the Primrose League Gazette and the Kent Messenger; and notes and copies of correspondence from Anthony Montague Browne [Private Secretary to WSC], Doreen Pugh, Jill Lynam and Grace Hamblin [Private Secretaries to WSC].

Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

This small collection of papers comprises Grace Hamblin's notes for speeches about her work for Sir Winston Churchill and his family. She recalls getting her position as secretary and what it was like to work for Churchill. Churchill Archives Centre also owns Grace Hamblin's OBE which is on permanent loan to the National Trust, Chartwell.

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Edition featuring the wedding of WSC and CSC. Includes: photos of the bridesmaids and of CSC; of Blenheim Palace, where the couple would begin their honeymoon; of WSC; and a fashion article illustrated with sketches about CSC's gowns.Printed.

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Letter from CSC to WSC, on his return to Belgium after leave in Britain. Typescript transcript at CHAR 1/118B/2.

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Letter from CSC to WSC, on the introduction of conscription, and on meeting with Lloyd George, who expressed great distress at WSC not being in the Government. Typescript transcript at CHAR 1/118B/4-6.

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Letter from CSC to WSC, on the introduction of conscription, and her distrust of Lloyd George. Typescript transcript at CHAR 1/118B/7-9.

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Letter from CSC to WSC, on conscription, and the size of the Army. Typescript transcript at CHAR 1/118B/10-12.

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Letter from CSC to WSC on the lack of letters from him. Typescript transcript at CHAR 1/118B/13.

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Letter from CSC to WSC, on the prospect of his promotion to Lieutenant-Colonel, with account of Lloyd George's Christmas visit to Glasgow and his poor reception from "working men". Typescript transcript at CHAR 1/118B/14-15.

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Letter from CSC to WSC, congratulations on promotion to command the 6th Royal Scots Fusiliers, and on WSC's present of a silver cigar box to the Headquarters Staff at XXXIII Corps, advising him not to use "gruesome picture of the Blucher turning turtle", but to give a plain box with an inscription Typescript transcript at CHAR 1/118B/16-17.

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Letter from CSC to WSC, account of tea with Margot Asquith and meeting with the Prime Minister, and of visit to German prisoner of war camp in Cheshire. Typescript transcript at CHAR 1/118B/18-20.

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Letter from CSC to WSC, account of lunch with the Prime Minister [Asquith]. Typescript transcript at CHAR 1/118B/21-22.

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Letter from CSC to WSC, on the Conscription Crisis, the Prime Minister's method of dealing with opposition, and the possibility of publication of the Dardanelles Papers. Typescript transcript at CHAR 1/118B/23-25.

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Letter from CSC to WSC, domestic and family news. Typescript transcript at CHAR 1/118B/26-27.

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Letter from CSC to WSC, on the political situation, and the success and popularity of Sir William Robertson. Typescript transcript at CHAR 1/118B/28-29.

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Letter from CSC to WSC, further account of her lunch with the Prime Minister [see letter of 9 Jan 1916, CHAR 1/118A/19], also on the illness of Lady Airlie and CSC's YMCA work on a canteen for a munitions factory at Ponders End. Typescript transcript at CHAR 1/118B/30-32.

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Letter from CSC to WSC, domestic and family news. Typescript transcript at CHAR 1/118B/34.

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Letter from CSC to WSC, domestic and family news. Typescript transcript at CHAR 1/118B/35.

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Letter from CSC to WSC, on the correctness of his decision to go to France, the weakness of his Battalion, and the possibility of meeting him in Paris [France]. Typescript transcript at CHAR 1/118B/36-37.

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Letter from CSC to WSC, on his imminent departure for the front line, and on the political situation, particularly the unpopularity of Lloyd George Typescript transcript at CHAR 1/118B/38-39.

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Letter from CSC to WSC, account of lunch with Augustine Birrell, who hoped that WSC would write down ( and eventually publish) his experiences in France. Typescript transcript at CHAR 1/118B/40-41.

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Letter from CSC to WSC, account of meetings with Lloyd George (describing him as a "sneak") and Sir Abe Bailey Typescript transcript at CHAR 1/118B/42-43.

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Letter from CSC to WSC, on preparations for the opening of "her" munitions canteen at Ponders End [Middlesex] by Lloyd George. Typescript transcript at CHAR 1/118B/44-45.