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Public and Political: General: Greetings: Birthday and Christmas greetings (and gifts correspondence)., 1955 - 1965

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/483A-G

Scope and Contents

Correspondents include: Sir Richard Pim; Henry Laughlin; Nicholas Soames, Emma Soames, Jeremy Soames and Charlotte Soames; Julian Sandys; "Archie" [1st Lord Thurso [earlier Archibald Sinclair]; 10th Duke of Marlborough and Mary, Duchess of Marlborough; [1st Lord] Kilmuir [earlier David Maxwell-Fyfe]; Lord Ivor Spencer Churchill; Peter Thorneycroft; "Buck", 9th Lord de la Warr [earlier Lord Buckhurst]; Walter Monckton; Charles Rhys [later 8th Lord Dynevor] and Hope Rhys [later Hope, Lady Dynevor]; [12th] Lord Airlie [earlier Lord Ogilvy]; Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother; Winthrop Aldrich on subjects including the presentation of a medal from Dwight Eisenhower; Eliahu Elath, Israeli Ambassador to Great Britain; 1st Lord Athlone [earlier Alexander Cambridge]; Pandit Nehru; Lewis Douglas; "Monty" [1st Lord Montgomery]; Esmond [2nd Lord] Rothermere [earlier Esmond Harmsworth]; Averell Harriman; Oscar Nemon; Sir Albert Braithwaite; Herbert Haseltine; Frances, Lady Lloyd George; Arthur Sulzberger; Anthony Moir; Charles Eade; Pamela, Lady Lytton [earlier Pamela Plowden]; Queen Elizabeth II; Clement Attlee; Frederick, 1st Lord Leathers; "Mollie", Margaret, Duchess of Buccleuch [earlier Margaret, Lady Dalkeith]; "Geordie" [5th Duke of] Sutherland [earlier George Sutherland Leveson-Gower]; Sally Churchill; Sir Eric Crankshaw; Flora Guest; Sir Clive Morrison Bell; "Sunny" [Lord Blandford, later 11th Duke of Marlborough]; [3rd] Lord Cromer [earlier Lord Errington]; "Freddie" [2nd Lord Birkenhead, earlier Frederick Smith]; Leslie, Lord Hore-Belisha; 1st Lord Woolton [earlier Frederick Marquis]; Gwilym Lloyd George [later 1st Lord Tenby]; John Colville; William Deakin; Sir Norman Brook [later Lord Normanbrook]; Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands; [General Walter] Bedell Smith; Sir [Brunel] Cohen; Viorel Tilea; Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi; [Jacob] Epstein; Jack Billmeir; "Bill" [William 1st Lord] De L'Isle [earlier William Sidney and 6th Lord De L'Isle and Dudley]; Kathleen Hill; Elizabeth Gilliatt; Douglas Fairbanks; Lord Cunningham of Hyndhope; Anthony Montague Browne; Patrick [2nd Lord] Moynihan; Victor [1st Lord] Bruntisfield [earlier Victor Warrender]; David Pitblado; Alfred Bossom; George Gordon Allen; "Elsie" [Elizabeth] Lady Salisbury [earlier Elizabeth, Lady Cranbourne]; David Sarnoff; Sir Roger Hawkey; Constance Soames; Sir Patrick Hannon; Sir Newman Flower; Antonio Giraudier; Lord Rupert Nevill; Sir Gerald Curteis, Deputy Master of Trinity House; Sir Philip Morris, Vice-Chancellor of Bristol University; [1st] Lord Sandford [earlier Albert Edmondson], Chairman of the Carlton Club; [Robert James] Headmaster of Harrow School; David Logan; Arnold [1st Lord] Gridley; Consuelo Balsan [earlier Consuelo, Duchess of Marlborough and Consuelo Vanderbilt]; [1st Lord] Jeffreys; Henry Guest; Tom O'Brien, MP; Cecily ["Chips"] Gemmel; Emery Reves [earlier Imre Revesz]; Pamela Churchill [later Pamela Harriman]; Hugh, [1st Lord Quickswood, earlier Hugh Cecil]; Sir Hugh Tudor; Sir Robert Cary; Count Dino Grandi; Sir Edward Errington, Chairman of the Executive Committee of the National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations; Admiral Harold Stark; Cyril Black; Stavros Niarchos; Harold Macmillan [later 1st Lord Stockton]; Konrad Adenauer; Vincent Auriol; Louis St Laurent; Robert Menzies; General George Marshall; Nawab Sir Sadiq Mohammad Bahadur, Ameer of Bahawalpur [Pakistan]; Walter Graebner; K Tonkin of William Gunn and Company (3); [1st] Lord Llewellin; Peter Daubeny; Lord Russell of Liverpool; Paul Reynaud; Peregrine Churchill; [1st Lord] Salter; Lady Juliet Duff; Sir James Dunn; Malcolm Dunn, Chairman of the Winston Churchill 80th birthday presentation fund; Brigadier John Smyth; Sir William Darling; Andre de Staercke; Rhoda, Lady Birley; Patrick Kinna; Anthony Eden [later 1st Lord Avon]; Willy Sax [supplier of paint to WSC]; [1st Lord] Ismay; Sir William Rook; Diana Sandys [earlier Diana Churchill] and Duncan Sandys; Arabella Churchill; Sir Alexander Korda; Isakander Mirza, Governor General of Pakistan; Lieutenant-Colonel Nawab Malik Khan Tiwana; Sarah Beauchamp [earlier Sarah Churchill and Sarah Oliver, later Sarah, Lady Audley]; Haile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia; Charles Wood; Max Nauta; Sir Richard Gale; Miles [1st Lord] Killearn [earlier Miles Lampson]; Eugene Meyer; Reginald MacDonald-Buchanan; Hugh Frewen; Aga Khan III; Princess Ingeborg of Sweden; Violet Markham; Queen Alexandra of Yugoslavia [later Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, and Slovenia]; Denis Wright; Sir Harry Brittain; Clare Sheridan; "Edie" [Edith], Lady Londonderry; Frank Salisbury; [1st Lord] Coleraine [earlier Richard Law]; Sir Francis Whitmore; Denis Kelly; Eliot Crawshay-Williams; Edward, Lord Iliffe; Edward Heath; Harry Truman; Sir Hugh Foot [later Lord Caradon], Governor of Jamaica; "Max" [Lord] Beaverbrook [earlier Max Aitken]; Viola Garvin; Viorel Tilea; Henry Laughlin; Eugene de Rothschild; Field Marshal Sir William Slim; Sir Roderick Jones; Desmond Flower; Julian Amery; [Richard] Stokes; Sir Roger Hawkey; Frederick [1st Lord] Leathers; Somerset Maugham; Hartley Shawcross; Eleanor Roosevelt; [Nancy [Lady] Astor; David Logan; Cullum Welch, Lord Mayor of London; Neville Duke; [Sir Joseph] Gurney Braithwaite; [5th Lord] Munster [earlier Geoffrey FitzClarence]; Sir Matthew Drysdale, Chairman of Lloyds; Anthony de Rothschild; Vivien [Lady] Olivier [earlier Vivien Leigh] and Laurence Olivier; Leslie Rowan; [1st] Lord Vansittart; [1st Lord] Waverley [earlier John Anderson]; [1st] Lord Portal; Odette Pol Roger; "Prof" [1st Lord Cherwell, earlier Frederick Lindemann]; and Celia Sandys.Also includes lists of telegrams received and summaries of responses sent; a press statement by WSC; and notes and copies of correspondence from Anthony Montague Browne and David Pitblado [Private Secretaries to WSC], Grace Hamblin and Gillian Maturin [Secretaries to WSC]; and copies of letters sent by CSC.Other subjects include the placement of a plaque on Mount Kilimanjaro [Tanzania] and arrangements for photographs.

Dates

  • Creation: 1955 - 1965

Conditions Governing Access

Open

Extent

7 file(s) (812 loose folios, paginated in two sequences)

Language of Materials

English

External Documents

Existence and Location of Copies

Folios 111 and 290: Copyright holders (De L'Isle and Aga Khan) have withheld permission for online publication. Available at Churchill Archives Centre.

Repository Details

Part of the Churchill Archives Centre Repository

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