Personal: Family etc.: Pets and other animals: Black swans, 1-18 Jun 1964

File

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAQ/2/1/13

Scope and Contents

Comprising WSC's correspondence with Sir Robert Menzies (Prime Minister of Australia) and Sir Eric Harrison (High Commissioner for Australia) on the Australian Government sending a new pair of black swans for Chartwell after the old flock (originally from a pair of black swans sent from Australia) had been depleted by foxes.

Dates

Creation: 1-18 Jun 1964

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

1 folder(s) (4 items)

4 folio(s)

External Documents

The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions

Additional Description

Custodial History

These items are stamped with a “W.S.C.” stamp, so were part of the Churchill papers which were stamped by the Public Record Office in 1961-1964.

One letter is annotated "1/120" [meaning CHUR 1/20 but this is the incorrect reference].

Related Materials

Related to the Churchill Papers [from CHUR 1/59].

Bibliography

An extract of the letter from WSC to Robert Menzies (7 Jun) is published in 'Winston S. Churchill' volume VIII 'Never Despair' by Martin Gilbert, p.1352, and the letter from Menzies to WSC (1 Jun) and WSC's full reply (7 Jun) is published in 'The Churchill Documents' volume 23 'Never Flinch, Never Weary, November 1951 to February 1965' by Martin Gilbert and Larry P Arnn, pp.2356-2357.