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Public and Political: General: Gifts A-D., 1898 - May 1959

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/434

Scope and Contents

Correspondents (concerning gifts to WSC) include: Terence Grady and John Graham [Assistant Private Secretaries to Foreign Secretary]; Anthony Arkell; Mary Soames [earlier Mary Churchill]; Guy Boas; Lillian Browse; Alan Campbell-Johnson; Alfred Cope, Managing Director of David Cope Limited (3); Howard Coster; Augustine Courtauld; Percy Cudlipp; Patrick Maitland [later 17th Lord Lauderdale] regarding a gift from one of his constituents; Sir William Darling; Sir Garrard Tyrwhitt-Drake; and Desmond Flower, Literary Director of Cassell and Company Limited.Also includes copies of correspondence from WSC to the individuals mentioned above; birthday cards; postcards; poems; sketches of Lord Randolph Churchill and his political contemporaries (dating to 1898); pamphlets; newspaper cuttings; music scores; and notes and copies of correspondence from R McHale [Secretary to WSC], Gillian Maturin [Secretary to WSC], Delia Morton [Secretary to WSC] and Anthony Montague Browne [Private Secretary to WSC].Most of the material in the file dates between 1955 and 1959.

Dates

  • Creation: 1898 - May 1959

Conditions Governing Access

Open

Extent

1 item(s) (1 file (239 loose folios))

Language of Materials

English

External Documents

Repository Details

Part of the Churchill Archives Centre Repository

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