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Letters to Churchill and Clementine from Jack [John S Churchill], Churchill's younger brother, on subjects including: Churchill's attack of pneumonia while he was in North Africa; Frank Salisbury's portrait of Churchill [receiving the Freedom of the City]; advising Churchill to return home by sea rather than by air; a gift of a Christmas tree from [Franklin Roosevelt], President of the United States.

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Correspondence between Jack and his family, particularly his grandmother and cousins, and his younger son Peregrine.

Scope and Contents Subjects covered include: looking after Winston and Clementine Churchill's children while they were on holiday in Overstrand [Norfolk] and trouble with their French nurse as her family was in occupied territory; her fear of a German invasion and wish that Jack Churchill could be with her; her distress that the Oxfordshire Yeomanry were going to be sent to France; meeting Roger Keyes [Captain and Commodore in charge of the Submarine Service]; cheering reports of the army from Field Marshal...

Scope and Contents The letters included in this section of the collection shed light on the closeness of Lady Randolph and her sons, especially the letters in PCHL 1/5 which touch on her plans to marry George Cornwallis West, and she freely and frequently confides details of her financial worries. She reflects also on Winston Churchill's career plans and encourages Jack to further his own career and to think carefully about the options which are available to him. The letters also provide evidence of the highly...

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Photograph albums kept by "Jack" Churchill relating to his service in the Oxfordshire Hussars, and also the South African Light Horse during the Boer War, and a sketch of Jack Churchill.

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Mounted head and shoulders sketch of "Jack" Churchill, taken by an unknown fellow officer on the Western Front.

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Includes: Jack in the uniform of the South African Light Horse; various images of Lady Gwendeline Churchill ("Goonie"); a group aboard HMS Lion; Peregrine Churchill and John G Churchill as children; 1st Lord Birkenhead [earlier F E Smith] and Margaret, Lady Birkenhead with the Oxfordshire Yeomanry, Banbury; Jack and Clarissa Churchill [later Clarissa Eden then Clarissa, Lady Avon] on horseback; Peregrine as a naval reserve officer; Jack and [? Winston Churchill] swimming.

Scope and Contents Subjects include: the Yalta Conference, February 1945; the value of Clementine's tour of the Soviet Union for Anglo-Russian relations; revelations about the Nazi concentration camps; Jack [John S Churchill]'s heart attack; the whereabouts of Clementine's nephew Giles Romilly, being kept as a hostage by the Germans; the collapse of the German forces; the Potsdam Conference, July 1945; worries about Churchill's health on his way to Yalta; his depression about the future of India; the hostile...