Literary: various correspondence., 03 Jan 1936 - 22 Dec 1936
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Ernest Ainley-Walker; Verena, Lady Churchill [ex-wife of 1st Lord Churchill] on 1st Lord Churchill and Randolph Churchill; Ivor Nicholson, Chairman of Ivor Nicholson and Watson Limited, publishers; representatives of the Daily Mail, including Arthur Cranfield [Editor] on WSC's articles (5); representatives of Curtis Brown Limited on the rights in WSC's articles (4); Sir Charles Petrie; Lady Oxford and Asquith [earlier Margot Asquith] objecting to WSC's article on 1st Lord Oxford and Asquith [earlier Herbert Asquith] and expressing her opinion of Stanley Baldwin, Ramsay Macdonald, Anthony Eden [later 1st Lord Avon], 1st Lord Balfour, Sir Austen Chamberlain and Neville Chamberlain, and disapproving of WSC's "almost hysterical panegyric" on David Lloyd George; Oliver Locker-Lampson (2); Lieutenant-Commander J H Owen; Margaret, Lady Birkenhead; 1st Lord Davies; John Wheldon; Sir Herbert Richmond; Sir Ian Fraser, on recording "The World Crisis" for the blind; 1st Lord Hailsham [earlier Douglas Hogg]; Victor Gollancz, President of Victor Gollancz Limited, publishers; 1st Lord Runciman; Consuelo Balsan [earlier Consuelo, Duchess of Marlborough]; representatives of George G Harrap and Company Limited on a projected book on the foreign policy of the Stanley Baldwin-Ramsay Macdonald government (4); Sir Roger Keyes on publishing one of his own articles; Sir Samuel Hoare [later 1st Lord Templewood] on both himself and WSC writing books on foreign affairs; A W Lawrence on using WSC's article on his brother T E Lawrence ["Lawrence of Arabia"] in a collection of articles on Lawrence, and on Lawrence refusing a decoration from the King; William Leach, MP for Bradford [Yorkshire]; Patrick Donner on corrections to the Swedish edition of "The World Crisis" concerning the Finnish war of independence; Field Marshal Baron Carol Mannerheim on corrections to the Swedish edition of "The World Crisis" concerning the Finnish war of independence; Gordon Hall Caine [Director of Ballantyne, Hanson and Company Limited, publishers]; Keith Feiling on his "History of the Tory Party" (3); "Bardie" [8th Duke of Atholl, earlier Lord Tullibardine]; representatives of the Sunday Times including William Hadley [Editor] on the serialisation of "Marlborough": his life and times" (6); 1st Lord Dunedin [earlier Andrew Murray] on Charles Parnell; Margaret Law, Director of the Encyclopaedia Britannica on an article about Edward VIII [earlier Edward, Prince of Wales, later Edward, Duke of Windsor]; Ralph Wigram [Counsellor in the Foreign Office] on an article about Benito Mussolini; "Van" [Sir Robert Vansittart]; [Frederick] Elliot Hotblack (2).Other subjects include: the view in the United States of the confused British attitude to Germany; communist sympathisers in France and Spain.Also includes: a copy of a letter from WSC to Walter Long from the Admiralty (5 August 1914) on his expectations for the future; testimonials by WSC for John Wheldon and J H Owen [researchers on "Marlborough"]; notes from Field Marshal Baron Mannerheim on the Finnish war of independence (1917) for "The World Crisis".
Dates
- Creation: 03 Jan 1936 - 22 Dec 1936
Conditions Governing Access
Open
Extent
2 file(s) (2 files (227 loose folios))
Language of Materials
English
External Documents
Topical
Repository Details
Part of the Churchill Archives Centre Repository
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