Portraits
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Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus
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Public and Political: General: Private and Personal: Correspondence Sm - Sz., 04 Mar 1946 - 08 Jul 1949
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/156
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Correspondents include: Sir Waldron Smithers, MP for Orpington [Kent] (2); Charles Smyth, Canon of Westminster [London]; John Snyder, United States Secretary of the Treasury; Bernard Baruch; Arthur Soames on subjects including the birth of [Nicholas Soames] and gifts to WSC (7); 1st Lord Soulbury [earlier Herwald Ramsbotham, Chairman, Assistance Board]; 1st Lord Southborough [earlier Sir Francis Hopwood] (2); Sir Archibald Southby, [MP for Epsom, Surrey] on giving up his seat (3); 1st Lord...
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04 Mar 1946 - 08 Jul 1949
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Public and Political: General: Private and Personal: Correspondence, Somerset - Sykes., Feb 1955 - Mar 1965
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/535A-B
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Correspondents include: Major General Edward Spears on subjects including his health and his account of the Battle of Nery [France] (6); Christopher Soames; Eugene Spier on the publication of his memoirs of the Focus for the defence of freedom and peace (15); Lady Violet Bonham Carter [earlier Violet Asquith and Violet, Lady Bonham Carter, later Lady Asquith of Yarnbury]; [10th] Lord Stamford [earlier Lord Grey]; Robert Stansfield, Premier of Nova Scotia [Canada]; "Betty" Admiral Harold...
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Feb 1955 - Mar 1965
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Public and Political: General: Private and Personal: Correspondence V - Z., 24 Jun 1951 - 10 Oct 1962
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/202A-C
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Correspondents include: Sarita, Lady Vansittart on the death of 1st Lord Vansittart; Baron D van Lynden, Dutch Embassy, on a bust of WSC by Wilhelm Verbon for Rotterdam [the Netherlands] (4); Margaret, Duchess of Buccleuch [earlier Margaret, Lady Dalkeith] on the bust (3); General Robert Astier de Villatte; Elaine [? Hunter, earlier Elaine Villiers and Elaine Guest]; Vivienne Entwistle, on photographs of WSC; Nathalie, Countess Volpi; Anthony Kendall [British Consul, Venice, Italy]; Lady...
Dates:
24 Jun 1951 - 10 Oct 1962
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Open except folio 421 which has been closed on the instructions of the Royal Archives under sections 40 and 41(1) of the Freedom of Information Act. Review 2027.
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Public and Political: General: Private and Personal: Correspondence W - Z., 15 Nov 1945 - 26 Sep 1951
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/178
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Correspondents include: Sir Cecil Wakeley, President, Royal College of Surgeons; [Alfred] Walford and Olive Walford (2); Sir Alexander Walker; Sophie, Lady Wavertree [Sophie Fisher] on subjects including racing and gifts of WSC's books (5); Sir Simon Marks; Sumner Welles; 16th Lady Wentworth [earlier Judith Blunt-Lytton]; "Bendor" [2nd Duke of Westminster] (7); Sir Charles Davis, Lord Mayor of London; Sir Norman Brook [later 1st Lord Normanbrook, Secretary to the Cabinet] on a memorial...
Dates:
15 Nov 1945 - 26 Sep 1951
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Public and Political: General: Private and Personal: Personal correspondence A - B., 24 Apr 1951 - 01 Mar 1955
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/203A-B
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Correspondents include: Konrad Adenauer [Federal Chancellor of Germany]; James Thomas [later 1st Lord Cilcennin, First Lord of the Admiralty] (3); Anthony Head; Herman Ingebretsen, Editor, Aftenposten, on the birthday of King Haakon VII of Norway; Anthony Alam; Vasil Andoni, Secretary-General, Albanian Agrarian Democratic Party; Prince Mohamed Ali of Egypt (2); Robert Allan; Eleanor Roosevelt; Julian Amery on subjects including development in Uganda (2); Leo Amery (2); [Arthur] Edwin...
Dates:
24 Apr 1951 - 01 Mar 1955
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Public and Political: General: Private and Personal: Personal correspondence E - G., 16 Oct 1951 - 14 Mar 1955
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/205A-B
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Correspondents include: Andrew Stark [Assistant Private Secretary to the Foreign Secretary] on WSC sending a message to l'Echo de la Bourse (2); Maurice Edelman on his history of [the sinking of the French fleet] at Mers-el-Kebir [Algeria] (3); Jean Levy, President, University of Lille [France]; Guy Elliott, Professor of Medicine, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa; Isie Smuts; [Arthur] Michael Palliser, Foreign Office (2); Haile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia; Sir Ian Fraser; Ruth...
Dates:
16 Oct 1951 - 14 Mar 1955
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Public and Political: General: Private and Personal: Personal correspondence H - N., 26 Nov 1951 - 06 Apr 1955
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/206
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Correspondents include: Charles Orr-Ewing on Old Harrovian dinners (6); James Hutchison; Lawrence Verney; Robert James, Headmaster of Harrow School [Middlesex] on a visit by WSC (8); Sir Geoffrey Hutchinson [later Lord Ilford] (2); 1st Lord Kirkwood; Sir Percy Spender [Australian Ambassador to the United States] on Marjorie Lawrence singing for WSC (2); Roger Makins [later 1st Lord Sherfield, British Ambassador to the United States] on Marjorie Lawrence; Claude Lancaster (2); David Logan...
Dates:
26 Nov 1951 - 06 Apr 1955
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Public and Political: General: Various: General Public Correspondence., 1915 - Jul 1955
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/502A-B
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Correspondents include: Terence Grady (3) and John Graham [Assistant Private Secretaries to Foreign Secretary] with advice on responses to enquiries; Cyril Hankinson, Editor of Debrett; [5th Lord] Rayleigh [earlier John Strutt]; Leo Amery; William Gauld, Private Secretary to Secretary of State for Scotland; Leslie Baily regarding WSC's recollection of seeing Gilbert and Sullivan's 'Ruddigore'; Samuel Hammersley; Leon Guerrero, Philippine Ambassador to Great Britain; Sir Arthur Power; Captain...
Dates:
1915 - Jul 1955
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Public and Political: General: Various: General Public Correspondence., Aug 1955 - Dec 1955
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/503
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Correspondents include: Brigadier Harold Money; Air Chief Marshal Sir John Whitworth Jones; John Connell, leader writer for the Evening News; [Rodney] Graham Page, M P for Crosby [Lancashire]; Mary Jerome; Peter Goldman, Director of the Conservative Political Centre; John Craigie; Sakari Tuomiojo, Finnish Ambassador to Great Britain; Desmond Donnelly; Marcus Sieff with a memorandum on "Stability in the Middle East"; Major Pieter van der Byl, M P; and Surgeon-Commander Murray Levick,...
Dates:
Aug 1955 - Dec 1955
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Public and Political: General: Visits and invitations: United States (January - March 1946) C - D., 30 Jul 1945 - 10 Apr 1946
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/225
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Correspondents on WSC's visit include: Francis Rundall, British Consulate, New York; Appolonia Cassidy, on photographing WSC and inviting him to an art gallery (5); Douglas Chandor on his portrait of WSC (2); J C Thomson, British Consul, Miami (4); Frank Clarke on providing accommodation for WSC, the programme for his visit, WSC losing the 1945 General Election, and the effect in the United States of WSC's warnings about the Soviet Union (11); John Lockhart, Private Secretary to the British...
Dates:
30 Jul 1945 - 10 Apr 1946
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Speeches: House of Commons and Non-House of Commons: Speech notes and source material., 09 Oct 1954 - 08 Dec 1954
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 5/56A-B
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Speech notes and transcripts for WSC's speech (9 October, Conservative Party Conference, Winter Gardens, Blackpool [Lancashire]) entitled "'Peace Through Strength'" on subjects including: the achievements of the Government, including restored national solvency, the dismantling of wartime economic controls and the work done by Conservative MPs; the corrective influence of the press on politics; the need for stable government; the 2-Party system, and common ground between Conservatives and...
Dates:
09 Oct 1954 - 08 Dec 1954
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Speeches: House of Commons and Non-House of Commons: Speech notes, source material and Hansard., 25 Jan 1955 - 28 Mar 1955
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 5/57A-B
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Speech notes for WSC's speech (25 January, National Federation of Building Trade Employers' Dinner, Dorchester Hotel [London]) entitled "The Building Industry" on WSC's bricklayer status, the increasing part played by the Trade Unions and the influence of Union leaders, the past uncertainty of building trade employment, present stable employment conditions and long-term building demand, the increasing accord between the Unions and employers, the ending of direct controls on the industry, the...
Dates:
25 Jan 1955 - 28 Mar 1955
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Speeches: Non House of Commons: Speech notes and source material., 07 Jul 1943 - 31 Aug 1943
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 9/195
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Broadcast by WSC (14 July) to the Polish forces on the death of General [Wladyslaw] Sikorski, former Prime Minister of Poland. Also includes correspondence from Sir Owen O'Malley, British Ambassador to Poland; Anthony Eden [later 1st Lord Avon, Foreign Secretary] and notes and copies of correspondence from Francis Brown [Assistant Private Secretary to WSC], John Peck [Assistant Private Secretary to WSC] and John Martin [Private Secretary to WSC]. Published: Complete Speeches VII, pp...
Dates:
07 Jul 1943 - 31 Aug 1943
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Speeches: Non-House of Commons: Speech notes and source material., 06 Oct 1951 - 09 Oct 1955
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 5/58A-C
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Speech notes and typescript for WSC's election address (16 May 1955, Sir James Hawkey Hall, Woodford [Essex]) on subjects including: WSC's resignation as Prime Minister and his appointment of Sir Anthony Eden [later 1st Lord Avon] as his successor; the Government's record on the economy, employment, social services, housing and the reduction of economic controls; the threat of a return to Socialism; the support of Clement Attlee [leader of the Labour Party] for the hydrogen bomb and Western...
Dates:
06 Oct 1951 - 09 Oct 1955
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Speeches: Non-House of Commons: Speech notes and source material., 06 Nov 1958 - 26 Oct 1960
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 5/62A-D
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Speech notes and typescript for WSC's speech (6 November 1958, Hotel Matignon, Paris [France]) entitled "A Friend of France" on receiving the Croix de la Liberation from Charles de Gaulle, President of France, on subjects including: de Gaulle's wartime status as the symbol of France and his present responsibilities and problems; the confused international situation; WSC's long friendship with France; the uncertain future and the need for Britain, France and the Western allies to stand...
Dates:
06 Nov 1958 - 26 Oct 1960
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(Untitled), 07 Oct 1942
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/54B/119
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Letter from WSC to Sir Edwin Lutyens [President of the Royal Academy] thanking him for the bust of WSC by Sir William Reid Dick presented in the name of the Royal Academy.
Dates:
07 Oct 1942
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(Untitled), 23 Jul 1943
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/94A/51
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Letter from WSC to Ormond A Blyth (Chairman of the Devonshire Club) informing him that he would be delighted to be present at the Devonshire Club to accept his portrait painted by Frank Salisbury Signed.
Dates:
23 Jul 1943
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(Untitled), 17 Apr 1943
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/93B/143
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Letter from WSC to Jose Joaquim de Lima e Silva Miniz de Arago [Brazilian Ambassador in London] thanking him for the gift of a bust of himself made by Senor Modestino Kanto, which he had already heard was on exhibition in Rio de Janeiro [Brazil] Initialled.
Dates:
17 Apr 1943
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(Untitled), 04 Jul 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/199/123
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Letter from Leslie Rowan [Prime Minister's Private Secretary] to Sir Alan Lascelles [Private Secretary to King George VI] apologising for the delay in replying to his letter of 14 May and stating that WSC is honoured to present the King with an autographed photograph of himself to be hung in the Ministers' Room at Balmoral [Aberdeenshire, Scotland] and enclosing one [not attached]. He gives details of the photograph which was taken in the Cabinet Room on VE Day. [Initialled carbon].
Dates:
04 Jul 1945
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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.
This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
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(Untitled), 04 Jul 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/199/124
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Letter from Sir Alan Lascelles [Private Secretary to King George VI] (Buckingham Palace, [London]) to John Martin [Prime Minister's Principal Private Secretary] informing him that it has always been the custom for the Prime Minister of the day to present the Sovereign with an autographed photograph to be hung at Balmoral [Aberdeenshire, Scotland] in the Minister's Room, and stating that if WSC would like to continue this custom the King would much appreciate it. [Signed typescript].
Dates:
04 Jul 1945
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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.
This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
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(Untitled), 10 Jul 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/199/125
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Letter from Sir Alan Lascelles [Private Secretary to King George VI] (Buckingham Palace, [London]) to Leslie Rowan [Prime Minister's Private Secretary] informing him that the King was much pleased to have the photograph of WSC for the Minister's Room at Balmoral [Aberdeenshire, Scotland], and that the King directed Lascelles to have Rowan's letter pasted on the back of the frame, "so that it will hang there for all time as a record of the occasion on which this photograph was taken". [Signed...
Dates:
10 Jul 1945
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.
This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
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(Untitled), 30 Sep 1935
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/237/61-62
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Letter from Count Edward Raczynski, Polish Ambassador to Great Britain, (Polish Embassy, London) to WSC, asking him if he would allow the Polish artist Stefan Mrozewski to do a woodcut portrait of him for Time and Tide.
Dates:
30 Sep 1935
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(Untitled), 26 Mar 1945 - 29 Mar 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/196/4
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Note from NS [?Secretary to CSC] to John Martin [Prime Minister's Principal Private Secretary] enclosing copy of a document from CSC for his information [probably CHAR 20/196/5] [typescript] Annotated by John Martin.
Dates:
26 Mar 1945 - 29 Mar 1945
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.
This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
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(Untitled), 26 Mar 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/196/5
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Text of telegram from CSC to Captain Oswald Birley (62 Wellington Road, NW8 [London[) stating that she has left instructions that WSC must sit for him while she is away: "I wish I was there to see him painted." [typescript copy].
Dates:
26 Mar 1945
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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.
This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
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(Untitled), 12 Apr 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/196/6-7
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Text of letter from Sir Ralph Verney [Secretary to the Speaker of the House of Commons] to John Colville [Private Secretary to WSC] asking whether the portrait of WSC by Oswald Birley for the House of Commons is likely to be started in the near future, as the Speaker is beginning to feel uncomfortable about hanging on to the sum donated [typescript copy].
Dates:
12 Apr 1945
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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.
This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.