Public and Political: General: Visits and Invitations: United States, Oct 1958 - Jul 1959
Scope and Contents
Correspondence on arrangements for visit to New York and Washington, May 1959. File includes Foreign Office brief for WSC in talking to the President [Dwight D Eisenhower], other members of the American Administration and the press (9pp); drafts of itinerary; correspondence with Lloyds Bank Limited on expenses for the visit (7); correspondence between Anthony Montague Browne, Private Secretary to WSC and British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) on travel arrangements (12); correspondence between Anthony Montague Browne and Sir Pierson Dixon, United Kingdom Mission to the United Nations, on WSC's visit to New York (3); correspondence with British Embassy, Washington [Lord Nicholas Gordon Lennox, Second Secretary (10) and Sir Harold Caccia, Ambassador (15)] (80pp); letter from John Peck, British Information Service, New York, on press coverage of the visit; correspondence with Bernard Baruch on the visit to New York (14); correspondence with President Dwight D Eisenhower on the visit, including text of speeches by WSC and Eisenhower at a White House Dinner, 6 May 1959, letters from Eisenhower (5), a painting of a girl on a horse by Susan Eisenhower, granddaughter of Eisenhower (aged 7); correspondence with Joyce Hall, Hallmark Cards, on the visit (14); letter from Harry S Truman, regretting that they were unable to meet during the visit.
Dates
- Creation: Oct 1958 - Jul 1959
Conditions Governing Access
Open
Extent
1 file(s) (1 unbound file, 277 folios)
Language of Materials
English
External Documents
Geographic
Repository Details
Part of the Churchill Archives Centre Repository
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