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Literary: correspondence concerning film and television offers for WSC's book "A History of the English-Speaking Peoples"., 25 Jul 1955 - 12 Feb 1965

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/446A-B

Scope and Contents

This file mainly consists of business and legal correspondence. No film or television series had been produced at the time of WSC's death in 1965. Much of WSC's correspondence is handled by his Private Secretary, Anthony Montague Browne.Correspondents include: Edward R Murrow [Director, Columbia Broadcasting System] (4),Anthony Moir [lawyer acting for WSC] (76), Sir Alexander Korda (Chairman, London Film Productions Ltd) (2), Denis Kelly, Charles Wick (Wick Films Inc) (2), Emery Reves (2), Sir David Cunynghame (10), Henry Salomon (Producer, National Broadcasting Company), John Cron (Managing Director, Screen Gems Ltd) (4), Harry Alan Towers (Towers of London) (8), Robert Clark (Director, Associated British Picture Corporation Ltd) (4), John Le Vien (American Broadcasting Company) (4), C L Woolveridge (Binder, Hamlyn & Co) (6), John Heyman (Director, Publicity and Allied Interests Ltd) (3), Michael Glyn (4 Winds Film Associates) (4).

Dates

  • Creation: 25 Jul 1955 - 12 Feb 1965

Conditions Governing Access

From the Fonds:

The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers.

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Extent

2 file(s) (2 files (325 loose folios))

Language of Materials

English