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Spears, Mary, 1886 - 1968 (née Borden, writer)

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1886 - 1968

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

 File

Close up photograph of MS in nursing uniform, 1914-08 - 1918-08

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/SPRS 10/1/17
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The papers include: correspondence; domestic and personal papers; early family correspondence, particularly among ELS's mother's relatives; diaries, including ELS's journals as a liaison officer with the French from the First World War and as Head of the British Mission to de Gaulle during the Second World War; some political papers and military maps; speeches and articles; manuscripts of books and short stories, with literary correspondence and original and copied source material from...
Dates: 1914-08 - 1918-08
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Letters from Lady Diana Cooper to Conrad Russell, 1944-01 - 1944-12

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/DIAC 1/1/23
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1944-01 - 1944-12
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
 Series

Mary Borden, 1913 - 1989

 Series
Reference Code: GBR/0014/SPRS 11
Scope and Contents Papers of 'MS', Mary Borden (Mary, Lady Spears, earlier Mary Borden, then Mary Borden-Turner). This series includes: MS's correspondence, particularly with ELS, before and after their marriage; correspondence and papers on her First World War hospital and on her time with the Hadfield-Spears Mobile Hospital Unit during the Second World War; her diaries, kept during the Second World War; personal papers, mainly on her death, but also on her divorce from her first husband; press cutting...
Dates: 1913 - 1989
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
 File

Photograph of MS in nursing uniform, sitting in a chair, 1914-08 - 1918-08

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/SPRS 10/1/16
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The papers include: correspondence; domestic and personal papers; early family correspondence, particularly among ELS's mother's relatives; diaries, including ELS's journals as a liaison officer with the French from the First World War and as Head of the British Mission to de Gaulle during the Second World War; some political papers and military maps; speeches and articles; manuscripts of books and short stories, with literary correspondence and original and copied source material from...
Dates: 1914-08 - 1918-08
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
 Fonds

The Papers of Edward Spears and Mary Borden

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0014/SPRS
Scope and Contents The papers include: correspondence; domestic and personal papers; early family correspondence, particularly among ELS's mother's relatives; diaries, including ELS's journals as a liaison officer with the French from the First World War and as Head of the British Mission to de Gaulle during the Second World War; some political papers and military maps; speeches and articles; manuscripts of books and short stories, with literary correspondence and original and copied source material from...
Dates: 1847 - 1989
Conditions Governing Access: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.