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Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus

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(Untitled), 21 May 1915

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/65/57
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Letter from WSC to Lord Haldane [earlier Richard Haldane] hoping that the press campaign against Haldane will be ineffective. Copy in the hand of Edward Marsh.

Dates: 21 May 1915
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), 21 May 1915

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/65/58
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Letter from WSC to Lord Kitchener regretting the attacks in the press on Kitchener, expressing confidence that the Dardanelles campaign "will come out all right" and noting that Lord Fisher [earlier Sir John Fisher] "went mad".

Dates: 21 May 1915
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), May 1915

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/65/59
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Letter from Lord Kitchener (War Office) to WSC stating that the attempts in the press to create bad feeling between himself and Sir John French [later Lord French and Lord Ypres] will fail and mentioning the "cheerful" telegrams received from the Dardanelles.

Dates: May 1915
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), 21 May 1915

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/65/65
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Letter from Sarah, Lady Wilson (Brighton, [Sussex]) to WSC urging him to stay at the Admiralty and condemning the press attacks on the conduct of the war as encouraging to the Germans.

Dates: 21 May 1915
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), 28 May [1915]

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/66/20
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Letter from E M Lafone (10 Embankment Gardens, Chelsea, [London]) to WSC expressing regret at his resignation as First Lord of the Admiralty and urging him to work for the regulation of the press.

Dates: 28 May [1915]
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), 03 Jun 1915

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/67/5
Scope and Contents Letter from J L Garvin (Shootlands, Wotton, Dorking, [Surrey]) to WSC expressing confidence that WSC's forthcoming speech [at Dundee on the war situation] will be powerful and explaining that it is still uncertain whether he (Garvin) will continue as editor of the Observer. Describes his correspondence with Waldorf Astor [later 2nd Lord Astor of Hever Castle] on this matter and how he has written to Nancy Astor [later Lady Astor] asking her to take the judgement of Arthur Balfour [later Lord...
Dates: 03 Jun 1915
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), 09 Jun 1915

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/69/3
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Cutting from the "Daily Mail": editorial on: the falsehood of the charge by John Dillon that the Mail was responsible for the fall of the Government, which really resulted from the revelation that the army was getting insufficient supplies of high explosives; the need for compulsory national service; the unfairness of recruiting married men into the army instead of single men.

Dates: 09 Jun 1915
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), 02 Jun 1903

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/7/53
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Letter from Hammond Hall, Editor, Daily Graphic, to WSC, on the paper's intention to discourage the policy of preferential tariffs "while not committing ourselves irrevocably to opposition".

Dates: 02 Jun 1903
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 17 Aug 1903

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/8/59-60
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Letter from Sir Sidney Low to WSC, on Canadian desire for an English Preference Party, also commenting that if free traders wanted good press coverage one of their millionaires should buy or start a newspaper, listing the likely attitudes of the press, most of whom would be hostile to the cause.

Dates: 17 Aug 1903
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 31 Aug 1903

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/8/66-68
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Letter from Lord Hugh Cecil [later Lord Quickswood] to WSC, on his inclination to give up politics, advising him not to trust Sir Alfred Harmsworth [later Lord Northcliffe] and the Daily Mail over free trade, listing possible future events in order of preference (his favoured solution was for Joseph Chamberlain to resign as Colonial Secretary.

Dates: 31 Aug 1903
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 13 Oct 1903

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/8/87
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Letter from Alfred Harmsworth, [later Lord Northcliffe] to WSC, denying responsibility for coverage of letter by WSC against protective tariffs in the Daily Mail.

Dates: 13 Oct 1903
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 13 Oct 1903

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/8/88
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Letter from Thomas Marlowe, Editor, Daily Mail, to WSC, apologies for coverage of letter by WSC against protective tariffs.

Dates: 13 Oct 1903
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 15 Nov 1903

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/9/18-19
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Letter from Herbert Vivian to WSC, on public meetings and the need for newspaper coverage of the free trade cause.

Dates: 15 Nov 1903
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 02 Jun 1903

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/11/5
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Letter from J. St Loe Strachey, Editor of The Spectator, to WSC, on his willingness to back "any Imperialist Free Trade League", even if this meant that the Spectator lost half of its readership.

Dates: 02 Jun 1903
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 17 Jan 1904

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/15/53
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Letter from J.P. Alderson to WSC on the need for a free trade newspaper, and the possibility of the Daily Chronicle being converted into a free trade journal.

Dates: 17 Jan 1904
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 26 Jan 1904

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/15/67
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Letter from W. Nicholson to WSC, on unfair report of WSC's address to Whitby Conservative Association in the Yorkshire Herald.

Dates: 26 Jan 1904
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 16 Feb 1904

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/16/30
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Letter from Alfred Haserick to WSC, on South Africa, also asking for help in obtaining post as Near or Far Eastern correspondent of a "good" newspaper.

Dates: 16 Feb 1904
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 27 Feb 1904

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/16/45
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Letter from Lord Robert Cecil [later Lord Cecil of Chelwood] to WSC, sending articles from The Pilot, on free trade, a "well written and well edited" paper with sound views on the fiscal question, stating that he had invested as much as he could afford in the paper, and hoping that WSC would bring it to the attention of someone who was rich enough to help it.

Dates: 27 Feb 1904
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 04 Jun 1904

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/17/72-73
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Letter from William Robinson (154 New Hall Lane, Preston, [Lancashire]) to WSC (House of Commons) describing how he was forced out of his editorial posts at the Preston Herald and the Darwen Gazette by local Tory leaders, who objected to his support of Free Trade, and soliciting WSC's help in securing a post with a liberal paper. Annotated by WSC: "I will dictate a reply".

Dates: 04 Jun 1904
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 02 Aug 1904

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/18/4
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Letter from Thomas Seddon junior (22 Station Road, Prescot,[Lancashire]) to WSC on the arguments for and against the Aliens Bill and the influence of the local press in Seddon's area in turning even Radicals against the Opposition. Praises WSC's espousal of "progressive" policy.

Dates: 02 Aug 1904
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 02 Nov 1904

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/18/61
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Letter from Sidney Low (2 Durham Place, Chelsea, [London]) to WSC on his inability to influence the change in ownership of the Standard and on that paper's violent tone over the "Baltic Fleet imbroglio" [when the Russian Baltic squadron opened fire on the Hull fishing fleet, mistaking them for Japanese torpedo-boats]. Hopes WSC will approve of his new book, The Governance of England.

Dates: 02 Nov 1904
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 07 Nov 1904

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/18/62-63
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Letter from Lord Hugh Cecil [later Lord Quickswood] (Hatfield House, Hatfield, Hertfordshire) to WSC discussing the feasibility of establishing a new Free Trade newspaper to replace the Standard.

Dates: 07 Nov 1904
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 09 Nov 1904

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/18/64
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Letter from Sidney Low (2 Durham Place, Chelsea, [London]) to WSC reporting that the new owners of the Standard have given him freedom to write on anything except the fiscal question and Joseph Chamberlain, and wondering whether the Liberals can "let the whole Press gradually pass under the control of a great Chamberlainized trust.".

Dates: 09 Nov 1904
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 12 Nov 1904

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/18/72
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Letter from Lord Hugh Cecil [later Lord Quickswood] (Hatfield House, Hatfield, Hertfordshire) to WSC referring to the 8th Duke of Devonshire's speech at Rawtenstall [Lancashire] and noting that Sir Alfred Harmsworth [later Lord Northcliffe] is said to be less Chamberlainite than C Arthur Pearson. Reminds WSC to get the approval of Lord Robert Cecil [later Lord Cecil of Chelwood] for the publication of letters from Lord Randolph Churchill to 3rd Lord Salisbury.

Dates: 12 Nov 1904
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 14 Nov 1904

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/18/75
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Letter from Sir Alfred Harmsworth [later Lord Northcliffe] (the Daily Mail, [London]) to WSC denying that he runs several newspapers advocating different political opinions Signed typescript.

Dates: 14 Nov 1904
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open