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Public and Political: General: Private and Personal: Correspondence F., 21 Apr 1946 - 13 Nov 1961

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/187

Scope and Contents

Correspondents include: Sir Arthur Fadden; Douglas Fairbanks junior (9); James Farley, Chairman, Coca Cola Export Corporation (8); 2nd Lord Willingdon [earlier Lord Ratendone], President, the Feathers Clubs Association (2); Sir Randle Feilden; Theodore Feilden; CSC; Sir Bryan Fell [former Assistant Clerk, House of Commons] on the final speech of Lord Randolph Churchill; Daisy Fellowes (4); Thomas Fife Clark [Adviser on public relations to WSC]; Graeme Finlay [MP for Epping, Essex]; Mervyn Finlay (3); Hugh Frewen (4); Sir Wilfred Fish [Consultant Dental Surgeon] (3); Professor Arthur Marder, University of Hawaii [United States] on publishing letters from WSC in his biography of Admiral of the Fleet 1st Lord Fisher (15); [George] Wren Howard, Director, Jonathan Cape Limited, publishers, on the Fisher biography (2); Anthony Moir [solicitor to WSC] on the biography (12); Peter Kemp [Naval Librarian, Ministry of Defence] on the biography; Commodore [George] Gordon Allen on the biography; 10th Lord Selkirk [earlier Lord George Douglas-Hamilton] on the biography; Nina, Duchess of Hamilton and Brandon on the biography (3); 2nd Lord Fisher on the biography; Charles, Count of Flanders (3); Sir Alexander Fleming on WSC winning the Nobel Prize for Literature; Hugh Flemming, Premier of New Brunswick [Canada]; Philip Fleming; Desmond Flower, Director, Cassell and Company Limited, publishers, on a book of essays and a cartoon biography on WSC (6): Kenneth Jamieson, Foreign Office, on fox hunting by British forces in Germany; Evelyn Shuckburgh, Foreign Office, on hunting by British forces in Germany; Anthony Eden [later 1st Lord Avon, Foreign Secretary] on hunting by British forces in Germany; "Sunny" [Lord Blandford, later 11th Duke of Marlborough], on hunting by British forces in Germany; Christina Foyle, Director, W and G Foyle Limited, booksellers (3); Sir Oliver Franks (2); Alan Davidson, British Embassy, Washington [United States]; 1st Lord Fraser of Northcape; Sir Ian Fraser (3); Arthur Meighen; Oswald Frewen (4); Roger Frewen (2); "Bernard", 1st Lord Freyberg (2); Jean, Lady Furse, on the death of her husband Sir William Furse.The majority of material in this file dates from 1951 to 1961.Other subjects include: WSC's budgerigar.Also includes: notes and copies of correspondence by Anthony Montague Browne, John Colville and David Pitblado, WSC's Private Secretaries and Denis Kelly, literary assistant to WSC; prints of a speech by James Farley on "The Spirit of Foreign Trade" and his address to Congress, "The American Mission Today"; leaflet on the Feathers Clubs Association; extracts from the Fisher biography on WSC; copies of letters from WSC to Fisher (1908 - 1914) on subjects including destroyer design, policy on Admiralty appointments, a fuel enquiry, land forces for home defence, WSC's wish to have been First Lord of the Admiralty before, building naval strength, the appointment of Maurice Hankey [as Secretary to the Committee of Imperial Defence], new naval gunnery, naval pay, the future of the dockyards at Chatham [Kent], and the future use of submarines; print of Lord Freyberg's review of "Closing the Ring", volume 5 of ["The Second World War"]; photographs of Oscar Nemon's bust of Freyberg.

Dates

  • Creation: 21 Apr 1946 - 13 Nov 1961

Conditions Governing Access

Open

Extent

1 item(s) (1 file (357 loose folios))

Language of Materials

English