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Correspondence L, 1920-08 - 1968-08

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/RDCH 3/6/1/71

Scope and Contents

Correspondence on the Official Biography, the Churchill papers, copyright and general Churchill related matters, with correspondents including: Sir Curtis Lampson on a speech by WSC relating to the Balfour Declaration; Neville Laski on the friendship between WSC and his parents [Nathan Laski and Sarah Laski] (3), enclosing a letter of thanks from RSC to his family as a child and a menu for a dinner given by the Manchester Chamber of Commerce for WSC when he was Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1929; Sir [John] Shane Leslie on subjects including confusion between Hugh Frewen, sometimes known as Sunny, and WSC's cousin Sunny, 10th Duke of Marlborough, his memory of the news of WSC being taken prisoner by the Boers, praise for the Biography, 1st Lord Moran [earlier Charles Wilson]'s book on his time as WSC's doctor, his own writing, visiting the American yacht Utowana with WSC in the 1890s, memories of WSC at school, family photographs and papers and deliberate vagueness on the birth date of Jennie Jerome [later Lady Randolph Churchill] (36), also enclosing copies of his reviews of the autobiography of Consuelo Balsan [earlier Consuelo Vanderbilt and Duchess of Marlborough], RSC's "Twenty-One Years" and Lady Violet Bonham-Carter's memoir of her friendship with WSC, a pedigree of the Jerome family, written by his mother Leonie Leslie [earlier Leonie Jerome] and a note on relations between WSC and Rudyard Kipling; Sir Tresham Lever on corresponding with WSC in verse while working at Thornton Butterworth limited (2); [Joseph] Anthony Lewis, Chief London Correspondent, New York Times; Walter Lippmann on correspondence with WSC in his own papers; Robert Bruce Lockhart on using letters from WSC to Sidney Reilly (4); Stanley Gillam, Librarian of the London Library (2); Mark Longman [President of Longman Group Limited] on images from WSC's "Ian Hamilton's March" and "The Malakand Field Force" and publication of the Annual Register (3).

Dates

  • Creation: 1920-08 - 1968-08

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

From the Fonds:

The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. The catalogue includes details of some material in the collection which is currently too fragile to be produced and researchers should seek advice from Archives Centre staff about accessing this material.

Extent

2 file(s)

Language of Materials

English

Date information

DateText: The majority of folios date from 1961-68.

Finding aid date

2019-07-03 09:46:17.720000+00:00

Repository Details

Part of the Churchill Archives Centre Repository

Contact:
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