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Copy of a letter from Sarah Oliver [earlier Sarah Churchill, later Sarah Beauchamp and Sarah, Lady Audley] to CSC on her distress at the likelihood of her husband Vic Oliver having to leave Britain and return to the United States, and how painful it would be for her to leave Britain too.

Scope and Contents Mainly copies of correspondence between Sarah Oliver [earlier Sarah Churchill, later Sarah Beauchamp and Sarah, Lady Audley] and CSC on subjects including: Sarah's attendance at the Yalta Conference with Winston Churchill; security considerations in their correspondence; Sarah's divorce from Vic Oliver; CSC's visit to the Soviet Union; Sarah's improved relationship with her and Churchill; Sarah's view of the General Election campaign and why she thought people would vote for the Labour...

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Correspondence (copies and originals) between MS, CS, Sarah Oliver [earlier Sarah Churchill, later Sarah Beauchamp and Sarah, Lady Audley] and CSC on subjects including: MS's wedding and honeymoon; CS's health following an attack of gastritis and an ulcer; Sarah's film work in Italy and her concern about [John] Gilbert Winant and need to help him with his writing ["A Letter from Grosvenor Square"]; Sarah's uncertainty about the future; MS's and CS's holiday in Scotland; Winant's death.

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Copies of correspondence between Sarah Oliver [earlier Sarah Churchill, later Sarah Beauchamp and Sarah, Lady Audley] and CSC on subjects including: Sarah's stay at a health farm at Champneys, Hertfordshire with Diana Sandys [earlier Diana Churchill and Diana Bailey]; [Arthur] Nicholas Soames's christening; Sarah's part in [The Barretts of Wimpole Street]; staying in Lyme Regis [Dorset].

Scope and Contents Mainly copies of letters, including: CSC to Giles Romilly, thanking him for the gift of a portrait of herself and her elder sister [Katherine] Kitty Hozier [original at 5/1/279]; CSC to MS on meeting Daisy Fellowes and various members of CS's family; Sarah Beauchamp [earlier Sarah Churchill and Sarah Oliver, later Sarah, Lady Audley] on subjects including her television work, her finances, ending her marriage to Antony Beauchamp, Churchill's writing, house hunting on the Riviera, forming a...

Scope and Contents Mainly copies of letters, including: Diana Sandys [earlier Diana Churchill and Diana Bailey]; CSC to Randolph Churchill on his American lecture tour, his help to Sarah Churchill [earlier Sarah Oliver and Sarah Beauchamp, later Sarah, Lady Audley], setbacks to Sir Winston Churchill's health and CSC's boredom while staying in the south of France; Sarah Churchill on subjects including her treatment at the Bircher-Benner Clinic in Zurich [Switzerland], her expenses, visiting Israel, her new...

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Letters (mainly copies) from Randolph Churchill, Sarah Churchill ["Bumblebee", later Sarah Oliver, Sarah Beauchamp and Sarah, Lady Audley], Diana Churchill ["the Gold-cream kitten", later Diana Bailey and Diana Sandys] and MS to CSC and to Winston Churchill. Includes one letter from MS to Churchill congratulating him on a speech, c 1940, and a copy of a letter from him to MS while he was touring the United States, c 1929.

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Letters (copies and originals), mainly from Beauchamp and Sarah [earlier Sarah Churchill, then Sarah Oliver, later Sarah, Lady Audley] to CSC and Winston Churchill on their marriage, Sarah's American tour with "The Philadelphia Story", the strains on her health and income tax demands against her.

Scope and Contents Family correspondence (mainly copies) between CSC, Winston Churchill and Randolph Churchill, on subjects including: Winston Churchill seeing Randolph in Algiers; tensions between Randolph and Churchill; Randolph's injuries from a plane crash; difficulties in Randolph's marriage to Pamela Churchill [earlier Pamela Digby, later Pamela Hayward and Pamela Harriman]; Charles de Gaulle's rudeness; Churchill's visit to Italy, Aug 1944; Churchill's fears of a massacre in Warsaw [Poland]; Britain's...

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Notes on the post-war career of Sarah Beauchamp [earlier Sarah Churchill and Sarah Oliver, later Sarah, Lady Audley] and copies of press cuttings on the suicide of Antony Beauchamp.

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Copies of certificates of births, deaths and marriages from the Hozier, Churchill, Airlie and Whyte families, and a copy of the will of Sarah, Lady Audley [earlier Sarah Churchill, Sarah Oliver and Sarah Beauchamp], with papers on the settlement of her estate.

Scope and Contents Includes: later correspondence with MS's friend Susan Glyn, earlier Susan Rhys Williams, on their service together in the ATS [the Auxiliary Territorial Service], 1943; letters from Sarah Oliver [earlier Sarah Churchill, later Sarah Beauchamp and Sarah, Lady Audley] to Clementine Churchill on her stay with Winston Churchill in Tunisia following the Teheran Conference, Dec 1943, particularly on Churchill's health and her view of Randolph Churchill, and also a brief note from Churchill to...

Scope and Contents Letters sent while Clementine was aboard the steam yacht the Rosaura with 1st Lord Moyne [earlier Walter Guinness] and his party, on a cruise to the Dutch East Indies [later Indonesia]. Subjects include: landing in Madras [India] and Rangoon [Burma, later Myanmar]; impressions of Sumatra and Malacca [Melaka]; Churchill's landscaping work at Chartwell [Kent]; Singapore, particularly the new naval dockyard; the divorce of Diana Bailey [earlier Diana Churchill, later Diana Sandys]; visiting...

Scope and Contents Subjects include: Clementine's skiing holiday in Zürs, Austria, with Mary Churchill [later Mary Soames] and Clarissa Churchill [later Clarissa, Lady Eden and Lady Avon]; her doubts about Churchill serving in Stanley Baldwin's Cabinet; Randolph Churchill standing in the Ross and Cromarty by-election; Clementine's dismay at a possible marriage between Sarah Churchill [later Sarah Oliver, Sarah Beauchamp and Sarah, Lady Audley] and Vic Oliver; a visit to Paris [France], May 1936; French...

Scope and Contents Subjects include: the death of Ralph Wigram; Clementine's skiing holiday in Zürs, Austria, with Mary Churchill [later Mary Soames] and then at Davos and St Moritz [Switzerland]; her support for Churchill's stand on the abdication of the Duke of Windsor [earlier King Edward VIII]; a story in the press about Clementine's nephew Esmond Romilly returning home after fighting with the International Brigade in the Spanish Civil War; her concern about Sarah Oliver [earlier Sarah Churchill, later...

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Sarah Churchill and Eleanor Sotheron-Estcourt became friends at the Ozanne sisters' finishing school at 4 Avenue Octave Gréard, Paris.
With letters from other authors, including Alice Ozanne; poems; and a letter from Mary Soames, enclosing a 1983 Tatler article about Eleanor and Sarah's friendship.

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Letters from Sarah [later Sarah Oliver, Sarah Beauchamp and Sarah, Lady Audley] on subjects including: ballet performances at Chartwell, Kent; her love of dancing; her first professional dancing job in Manchester [with the show "Follow the Sun"].

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Minutes and correspondence, mainly on the Sarah Churchill Award, given by the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

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Head and shoulders photo of Sarah Churchill [earlier Sarah Oliver, later Sarah Beauchamp and Sarah, Lady Audley] in half profile, wearing uniform and with her eyes downcast.

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Photo on the deck of HMS Renown. From left to right: Sarah Churchill [earlier Sarah Oliver, later Sarah Beauchamp and Sarah, Lady Audley] wearing uniform; WSC in a double-breasted jacket and peaked cap; Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham [First Sea Lord]; and WSC's doctor, 1st Lord Moran [earlier Sir Charles Wilson].

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Photo of WSC and Sarah Churchill [earlier Sarah Oliver, later Sarah Beauchamp and Sarah, Lady Audley], in conversation. Both are wearing uniforms and WSC has his eyes closed.

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Photo shows WSC, in military uniform, standing in a line of people. Sarah Churchill [earlier Sarah Oliver, later Sarah Beauchamp and Sarah, Lady Audley] is on the left of the group and Harold Macmillan is on the right.

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Correspondence, mainly on a memorial concert for MS's sister Sarah, Lady Audley [earlier Sarah Churchill, Sarah Oliver and Sarah Beauchamp]. Correspondents include Yvonne Churchill. Also includes obituaries from the British press and a photograph of Sarah at an event in the [?] 1970s.

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Correspondence with MS's lawyers on the estate of her sister Sarah, Lady Audley [earlier Sarah Churchill, Sarah Oliver and Sarah Beauchamp]. Other correspondents include [Henry] 'Peregrine' Churchill, MS's co-trustee.

Scope and Contents Letters of condolence on the death of MS's sister Sarah, Lady Audley [earlier Sarah Churchill, Sarah Oliver and Sarah Beauchamp]. Correspondents include: 1st Lord De L'Isle; 1st Lord Boyd of Merton [earlier Alan Lennox-Boyd]; Sir William Hawthorne, Master of Churchill College, Cambridge; Clarissa, Lady Avon [earlier Clarissa Churchill and Clarissa Eden]; Baroness Young; Grace Hamblin; Yvonne Churchill; Pamela Harriman [earlier Pamela Digby, Pamela Churchill and Pamela Hayward] and [William]...