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Also includes a copy of a letter from Winston Churchill to Beaverbrook [earlier Max Aitken] on subjects including his distress at the murder of Kevin O'Higgins [Minister for External Affairs, Irish Free State, later Ireland].

Scope and Contents Correspondence between CSC, Sir Winston Churchill and Beaverbrook [earlier Max Aitken] on subjects including: CSC's neuritis; Churchill's plans to resign; installing a lift for the cinema room [? At Chartwell, Kent]; the Churchills' stays at Beaverbrook's villa La Capponcina, in Cap d'Ail [France], particularly in 1955; visits from [Robert] Anthony Eden [later 1st Lord Avon] and Clarissa Eden [earlier Clarissa Churchill, later Clarissa, Lady Avon]; the distress caused by Graham Sutherland's...

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Complete set of copies from the Beaverbrook Library (with one original). Also includes recollections by CSC of her first meetings with Winston Churchill, her early admiration for Walter Sickert and a story about 1st Lord Fisher telling her that Churchill had gone to France to see his mistress.

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Mainly source material and research notes for the original edition of MS's biography of her mother (CSC), although there is also some material for the revised and updated edition, published in 2002.

Scope and Contents Subjects include: an appeal from CSC for Beaverbrook to join the War Cabinet; having to turn down hospital work; MS's engagement to Lord Duncannon [later 10th Lord Bessborough]; Beaverbrook's donations to CSC Aid to Russia Fund and other appeals; supplies to Russian hospitals; Beaverbrook's mediation between Winston Churchill and Randolph Churchill; CSC's concerns about Brendan Bracken's health; a tribute to Beaverbrook's contribution to aircraft production. Also includes reminiscences...

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Correspondence (mainly copies) between CSC and Beaverbrook [earlier Max Aitken] on subjects including: Beaverbrook's gift of a painting by Walter Sickert; a book by Beaverbrook [? "Friends"]; health; Beaverbrook's contribution to CSC's appeal for New Hall, University of Cambridge [later Murray Edwards College].

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Mainly copies of correspondence between CSC and Beaverbrook [earlier Max Aitken] on subjects including: various food gifts from Beaverbrook; arrangements for the Churchills' visit to Beaverbrook's villa La Capponcina, Cap d'Ail [France], Sept 1952; fitting a lift at Chartwell [Kent]; CSC's neuritis, 1954.

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Correspondence with Beaverbrook [earlier Max Aitken] on subjects including: taxing foreign foodstuffs; his poor opinion of Stanley Baldwin; elections at Paddington [London]; Conservative Party unity; India; the unpopularity of Imperial Preference in the United States.

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 Photographs sent to RSC from Lord Beaverbrook's office, including: WSC and Beaverbrook [Minister of Supply] aboard HMS Prince of Wales [during the Atlantic Charter meeting], August 1941; WSC walking with Beaverbrook [Lord Privy Seal] in the garden of 10 Downing Street [London] during the first meeting of the Empire Premiers, May 1944; WSC and Beaverbrook in the back of a car, while WSC was Beaverbrook's guest at Cap d'Ail [France] after [the first meeting of the Council of Europe] at...