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Reviews and prefaces, 1947-01 - 1948-10

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 1/7/55

Scope and Contents

Texts and cuttings of reviews and introductions by LSA for books by other writers, including: "The Gathering Storm", volume 1 of Winston Churchill's "The Second World War"; "The South African Opposition", by Michael Roberts [Professor of Modern History, Rhodes University, South Africa] and A E G Trollip; "British Declaration of Independence" by Henry Drummond-Wolff; an address on the poet Horace by 1st Lord Soulbury [earlier Herwald Ramsbotham]; "The... Prime Minister", by Anthony Trollope; pamphlet on bulk purchasing by the state, by Ronald Russell, Research Secretary of the Empire Economic Union; "A Climber in Wales" by [Frank] Showell Styles; "J L Garvin, a memoir" by Katharine Garvin; "The Delectable Mountains" by Douglas Busk; "Harrow School, Yesterday and Today" by E Laborde; "Palestine Mission" by Richard Crossman [Member, Anglo-American Palestine Commission, 1946]; "The Odes of Horace", translated by 18th Lord Dunsany [earlier Edward Plunkett]; "The Colonial Office from Within" by Sir [Arthur] Cosmo Parkinson, former Permanent Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies; "Imperial Preference", by Ronald Russell; "The British Commonwealth" ["Commonwealth britannique"] by Professor Raymond Ronze; "The Life of Neville Chamberlain" by Keith Feiling [Chichele Professor of Modern History, Oxford]; "The Vision of Cecil Rhodes", by Frank Aydelotte, American Secretary to Rhodes Trustees.

Also includes related correspondence, with correspondents including: Milward Burge, London Editor of Empire Digest; Michael Sadleir; Edward Gilman; Eduard Fraenkel [Corpus Christi Professor of Latin, Oxford University]; Sir Edward Marsh; Henry Garwood; Sir Eugen Millington-Drake (2); Cuthbert Alport, Director of the Conservative Political Centre.

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Dates

  • Creation: 1947-01 - 1948-10

Conditions Governing Access

From the Fonds:

The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.

Extent

1 file(s)

Language of Materials

English

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