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Letter from Lady Randolph Churchill (72 Brook Street, [London]) to WSC, with an envelope annotated in CSC's hand, 5 Dec 1915

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAQ/1/1/3/10-12

Scope and Contents

On subjects including WSC being out of the trenches; a matinee of a play which Lady Randolph had organised in aid of the London Bridge Buffet which was feeding 1200 people a day; attending the "Asquith wedding" of [Violet Asquith and Maurice Bonham Carter] and going to Nellie [Hozier's house, later Nellie Romilly]; the danger of Austria coming under German rule; the Calais Conference and a rumour about [Lord Kitchener] having a row with Briand [French Prime Minister] and the Russians about Kitchener wanting to move all troops from Salonica [Thessaloniki] and Gallipoli to Egypt; a visit to Sir Ian Hamilton and Lady Hamilton; and that Lady Randolph may visit Paris if WSC could meet her there.

Dates

  • Creation: 5 Dec 1915

Creator

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 item(s)

External Documents

Former/Other Reference

WCHL 14/1/12-14

Bibliography

An extract of this letter is published in 'The Churchill Documents' volume 7 'The Escaped Scapegoat, May 1915-December 1916' by Martin Gilbert, pp.1313.

Repository Details

Part of the Churchill Archives Centre Repository

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