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Public and Political: General: Private and Personal: Correspondence with Emery and Wendy Reves, 21 Dec 1951-30 Jan 1960

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAQ/2/2/37

Scope and Contents

Subjects include United States President Truman's memoirs; signed books [by WSC]; plans and arrangements for WSC and CSC to visit Reves at [his villa] La Pausa, Roquebrune [Cap Martin, France] including staff who would accompany them, and the visits themselves (Jan-Feb 1956, Jun 1956, Jan 1957, May 1957, Sep-Oct 1957, Jan 1958, Oct-Nov 1958, Mar 1959, and for lunch c.Jan-Feb 1960); a plan for WSC to meet CSC and Mrs Sylvia Henley at Suez [Egypt] in [Aristotle] Onassis' yacht [Christina] (1956); WSC's racehorses and races they were running in; plans for WSC to have lunch with [President] Truman and Max [Beaverbrook] (June 1956); improvements to La Pausa villa and WSC's room there; Anthony Montague Browne organising accommodation for Emery and Wendy Reves in Vienna (Aug 1956); three cygnets born to WSC's black swans [at Chartwell] (Mar 1957); the Queen's [Elizabeth II] visit to Paris which Emery and Wendy Reves participated in (1957) and the Reves being at their home in Paris; paintings by WSC, Sergeant Murray and Wendy Reves; WSC's visits to La Capponcina, Cap d'Ail [Lord Beaverbrook's villa] (1957, Jul 1958); a "Spoutnik" [Sputnik 1 satellite] flying over Monte Carlo and "Pausaland" in Oct 1957; a television show about WSC's life which aired in the United States in 1957; Emery Reves' visit to Chartwell in Nov 1957 to choose paintings for an exhibition; an operation on CSC's foot (1957); Sarah [Churchill] having visited Wendy Reves who sent a report to CSC about Sarah (1957); WSC's ill health (1958 and 1959) and Emery and Wendy Reves' health, particularly Emery Reves' poor health after a heart attack in 1959; WSC's cancelled visit to the United States (1958); payments for WSC's portion of the Reves' telephone bill [from La Pausa]; Emery and Wendy Reves visiting WSC and CSC for lunch in Jun 1958; WSC's visit to Paris to receive [the Croix de la Liberation] from Charles de Gaulle, President of France, in Nov 1958, and his speech on the occasion; press photographs having been secretly taken of WSC painting whilst he was within La Pausa villa (1958); a portrait of WSC painted by Leo Michelson and commissioned by Emery and Wendy Reves for WSC's birthday present (1958); and a statue of WSC by David McFall (1958).

Also includes a letter from Wendy Reves' mother [Blanche Russell] to WSC thanking WSC for giving her one of his paintings (1959).

Dates

  • Creation: 21 Dec 1951-30 Jan 1960

Conditions Governing Access

From the Fonds:

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Extent

1 folder(s) (112 items)

134 folio(s)

External Documents

Custodial History

These items are stamped with a “W.S.C.” stamp, so were part of the Churchill papers which were stamped by the Public Record Office in 1961-1964. On cataloguing these items were attached to a piece of paper annotated “2/196" [CHUR 2/196].

Related Materials

Related to the Churchill Papers [from CHUR 2/196].

Bibliography

Folios 1-8, 11-13, 18-19, 21-22, 27-28, 32, 43-45, 48, 61-62, 65-66, 73, 92-94, 97-99 and 106 are published in 'Winston Churchill and Emery Reves: Correspondence 1937-1964', edited, introduction and notes by Martin Gilbert (University of Texas Press, Austin, 1997), pp.330-381.

Bibliography

Extracts of folios 11, 32 and 59 and the full text of folios 16-17, 21-22, 26-29, 39-40, 46-47, 49-50, 60, 63-64, 80, 85, 88-89, 113 and 123 are published in 'Winston S. Churchill' volume VIII 'Never Despair' by Martin Gilbert, pp.1173, 1181, 1199-1200, 1220, 1224, 1228, 1237, 1239-1240, 1254-1256, 1265-1266, 1278, 1280-1281, 1291 and 1300.

The full text of folios 113 and 123 are also published in 'The Churchill Documents' volume 23 'Never Flinch, Never Weary, November 1951 to February 1965' by Martin Gilbert and Larry P Arnn, pp.2243 and 2258.


Repository Details

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