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Subjects include: Clementine's voyage back from the United States, February 1932; her visit to the United States (February-March 1931) to see Randolph Churchill; Clementine's views on Germany and American anti-semitism; Randolph's attachment to Katharine [Kay] Halle; Randolph's lazy attitude to his lecture tour; a disagreement between Randolph and Bernard Baruch over a woman.

Scope and Contents Subjects include: Clementine's Red Cross Aid to Russia Fund; the changes to Churchill's War Cabinet, and Clementine's view that it would be better to leave 1st Lord Beaverbrook [Minister of Supply, earlier Max Aitken] out of it and have Sir [Richard] Stafford Cripps instead; her distress about Randolph Churchill joining a parachute unit [part of the SAS, Special Air Service] rather than rejoining his regiment, because of the anxiety it would cause Churchill; Churchill's visit to Washington...

Scope and Contents Subjects include: Churchill's flight to Malta [on his way to the Yalta Conference], January 1945; searching for a new house in London [28 Hyde Park Gate]; the suspense of the D-Day landings; Mary Churchill [later Mary Soames]'s ATS [Auxiliary Territorial Service] battery firing at V-1 rockets; Clementine's difficult relationship with Randolph Churchill; the rudeness of General Charles de Gaulle; visits to Chequers [Buckinghamshire], including one from Henry Morgenthau, Secretary of the...

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Letters from Algiers and Paris [France] on subjects including: life in Algeria; Winston Churchill’s visit to Marrakesh [Morocco], Jan 1944 and Clementine Churchill’s view that he would die after the war; a visit by Mary, Lady Spears [earlier Mary Borden], Feb 1944; a visit from Martha Hemingway [Martha Gellhorn], Mar 1944; Charles de Gaulle ("Charlie Wormwood"); Randolph Churchill’s plane crashing, July 1944 and stay, Aug 1944; going to Italy, Aug 1944; life in Paris.

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Cuttings and correspondence on Randolph Churchill's candidacy in the Wavertree By-election, Liverpool and the split in the Conservative vote over his stand on the issue of self-determination for India.

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Photographs of WSC's son with family and on public engagements.

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Photographs of childhood, family and career.

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Photo shows Randolph Churchill holding Arabella Churchill in his arms, with Winston Churchill standing next to him.

Scope and Contents Subjects include: an offer from George Cornwallis-West [Churchill's stepfather] to return to Lady Randolph Churchill [Jennie Cornwallis-West, earlier Jennie Jerome]; an argument between Churchill and 6th Lord Winterton [earlier Lord Turnour] in the House of Commons; a visit to the Gaiety Theatre; David Lloyd George [Chancellor of the Exchequer] elbowing Churchill out of his Unemployment Insurance scheme; difficulties caused by the Prime Minister [Herbert Asquith, later 1st Lord Oxford and...

Scope and Contents Subjects include: Cabinet's agreement with Churchill's scheme for deregulation of local taxation [the De-rating Bill]; the farm and garden at Chartwell [Kent], particularly the swans and the sheep; the court martial of Kenneth Dewar; concerns for the health of Sir Arthur Steel-Maitland; Randolph Churchill's development at Eton, method of argument and problem with authority; fees for articles and future work [on volume 4 of "The World Crisis"]; work on the Budget speech, April 1928; stay with...

Scope and Contents Letters from Churchill's lecture tour of Canada and the United States, with Randolph Churchill, Jack [John S Churchill] and Jack's son Johnnie [John G Churchill]. Subjects include: the voyage out; articles Churchill was working on; preparatory work for his biography of 1st Duke of Marlborough; Churchill's poor view of the treaty with Egypt and the violence that was likely once British troops were withdrawn; staying in Quebec; Free Trade and protectionism; speeches at Montreal, Ottawa,...

Scope and Contents Mainly "Chartwell Bulletins" [while Clementine was on a cruise aboard the Rosaura, to the Dutch East Indies, later Indonesia], on subjects including: work at Chartwell [Kent], particularly the use of the mechanical digger in the grounds and garden, work on the lake and island, and the installation of additional bookcases in Churchill's bedroom and the drawing room; progress of his film script for Sir Alexander Korda on the Silver Jubilee of King George V; the India Bill, family finances; the...

Scope and Contents Subjects include: Randolph Churchill's campaign in the Ross and Cromarty by-election; Churchill's stay in Morocco, January 1936; the Italian failures in Abyssinia [later Ethiopia] and Churchill's wish that Sir [Joseph] Austen Chamberlain had been made Foreign Secretary instead of [Robert] Anthony Eden [later 1st Lord Avon] whom he viewed as a lightweight; the happiness of Diana Sandys [earlier Diana Churchill and Diana Bailey] with Duncan Sandys; a visit to Thami El Glaoui, Pasha of...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: June Churchill [earlier June Osborne] on her sadness at the failure of her marriage to Randolph Churchill; 1st Lord Montgomery of Alamein on subjects including Clementine's health, visits to Chartwell [Kent], his view of the Suez Crisis and the Soviet repression in Hungary (5); Lady Dorothy Macmillan on Clementine's health, the move into 11 Downing Street [London] and her regret about [Maurice] Harold Macmillan [later 1st Lord Stockton] leaving the Foreign Office to...