Literature
Subject
Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus
Found in 2142 Collections and/or Records:
Item
(Untitled), 25 Oct [1899]
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/26/40
Scope and Contents
Letter from WSC (RMS Dunotta Castle "en route") to "Mamma" [Lady Randolph Churchill] speculating on the progress of the [Boer War] and on the publication of ["The River War"] and asking her to send copies to Pamela [Plowden, later Lady Lytton] and to [Charles, 9th Duke of] Marlborough. Manuscript in the hand of WSC.
Dates:
25 Oct [1899]
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.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
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The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill
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Chartwell Papers
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Acquired Papers
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Letters from WSC to Lady Randolph Churchill. Includes material relating to WSC's time in South Africa during the Boer War and to the elections he contested at Oldham [Lancashire]. All letters are manuscript and signed unless otherwise described.
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(Untitled), 03 Nov [1899]
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/26/43
Scope and Contents
Letter from WSC ("In the train near East London", South Africa]) to "Mamma" [Lady Randolph Churchill] informing her that he is travelling to Natal with Captain [Alexander] Campbell and [John] Atkins from the Manchester Guardian. He observes that the Boer forces have been underestimated and that there will be "a fierce and bloody struggle" and expresses his hope that he is ahead of other newspaper correspondents.
Dates:
03 Nov [1899]
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.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
/
The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill
/
Chartwell Papers
/
Acquired Papers
/
Letters from WSC to Lady Randolph Churchill. Includes material relating to WSC's time in South Africa during the Boer War and to the elections he contested at Oldham [Lancashire]. All letters are manuscript and signed unless otherwise described.
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(Untitled), 06 Jun 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/198B/160
Scope and Contents
Letter from John Martin [Prime Minister's Principal Private Secretary] to [Alan] Hodge [Private Secretary] (Admiralty) asking him to inform Brendan Bracken [First Lord of the Admiralty] that Sir James Marchant would like to see him about a proposal to publish a book containing articles about the various periods and aspects of WSC's career contributed by those who have known him and intended as a tribute to WSC. Gives contact address for Marchant in London. [Carbon].
Dates:
06 Jun 1945
Conditions Governing Access:
From the File:
Open, with the exception of folios 63 and 202 which have been closed on the instructions of the Cabinet Office under S23 of the Freedom of Information Act but are available in 'sanitised' form. Review 2021.
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(Untitled), 07 Jun 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/198B/161
Scope and Contents
Letter from [Alan] Hodge [Private Secretary] (Admiralty) to John Martin [Prime Minister's Principal Private Secretary] marked "private" stating that Brendan Bracken [First Lord of the Admiralty] has remarked that "as Sir James Marchant is one of the biggest bores alive, a ranting Methodist, pushful, wholly undesirable, and a gentleman whose projects would do no honour to the Prime Minister, he feels that he could not oblige you by seeing him". [Signed typescript].
Dates:
07 Jun 1945
Conditions Governing Access:
From the File:
Open, with the exception of folios 63 and 202 which have been closed on the instructions of the Cabinet Office under S23 of the Freedom of Information Act but are available in 'sanitised' form. Review 2021.
File
Whiter's Collections on 'Pageants,' Bonfires, Masks, etc. to illustrate Shakespeare, Late eighteenth century to early nineteenth century
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Oo.06.106
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Many manuscripts acquired by the University Library before the middle of the nineteenth century either originated as or were made up into bound volumes, and were classified alongside printed material. Most carry what is known as a 'two-letter' reference, running (for western manuscripts) from Dd.1.1 through to Oo.7.60. They comprise mainly medieval and early modern manuscripts. This catalogue is based on entries for western post-medieval manuscripts in the 5-volume Catalogue of the...
Dates:
Late eighteenth century to early nineteenth century
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Collection:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Whiter's Notes on Shakespeare, Late eighteenth century to early nineteenth century
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Oo.06.104
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Many manuscripts acquired by the University Library before the middle of the nineteenth century either originated as or were made up into bound volumes, and were classified alongside printed material. Most carry what is known as a 'two-letter' reference, running (for western manuscripts) from Dd.1.1 through to Oo.7.60. They comprise mainly medieval and early modern manuscripts. This catalogue is based on entries for western post-medieval manuscripts in the 5-volume Catalogue of the...
Dates:
Late eighteenth century to early nineteenth century
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Collection:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
File
Whiter's Notes on Shakespeare, Late eighteenth century to early nineteenth century
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Oo.06.105
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Many manuscripts acquired by the University Library before the middle of the nineteenth century either originated as or were made up into bound volumes, and were classified alongside printed material. Most carry what is known as a 'two-letter' reference, running (for western manuscripts) from Dd.1.1 through to Oo.7.60. They comprise mainly medieval and early modern manuscripts. This catalogue is based on entries for western post-medieval manuscripts in the 5-volume Catalogue of the...
Dates:
Late eighteenth century to early nineteenth century
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Collection:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Wickenden and Other Letters, 1936-01 - 1951-08
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/POLL 1/6/13
Scope and Contents
Personal correspondence, with correspondents including (Henry) James Wickenden, on subjects including his posting to India (20); Major-General Ross McCay [Military Secretary, India]; Colin Hardie [Tutor in Classics, Magdalen College, University of Oxford] on post-war degree courses at Oxford that Wickenden might apply for; Denys Winstanley [Vice-Master of Trinity College, University of Cambridge] on places Wickenden might apply for; Patrick Duff, Senior Tutor, Trinity College (5); ...
Dates:
1936-01 - 1951-08
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The majority of the collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. Please see individual files for details.
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William Shakespeare: general correspondence and papers on authorship question, 1988 - 1992
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/POLL 3/2/3/22
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-sub-class:
Material on JEP's theological, historical and literary interests.
Dates:
1988 - 1992
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The majority of the collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. Please see individual files for details.
Fonds
William Williams: Welsh Compositions
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.6172
Scope and Contents
Compositions in Welsh by William Williams, with a sermon or religious text found in the church of Strata Florida, Cardiganshire.
Dates:
1800 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Winston Churchill: Great Nobel Prizes, 1970
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/WLFF 1/1/2
Scope and Contents
Manuscript of book on Churchill as a winner of the Nobel prize for Literature, (Edito-Service, Geneva, 1970).
Dates:
1970
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
File
Working with Randolph Churchill, 1961-08 - 1967-08
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/WLFF 2/7
Scope and Contents
4 pieces of writing about working on the Official Biography. Possibly unpublished or intended as publicity material.
Dates:
1961-08 - 1967-08
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Management Group
Wren : Hoi Anamerukismoi ton hagion graphon, tou anakechorekotos. Ruminations on Holy Scripture from a cell.
Management Group
Reference Code: GBR/0273/WREN
Scope and Contents
As Beaumont's account (WREN 1) explains, part of the MS was published in the 'Increpatio [rebuke/chastisement] Bar Jesu' published by Matthew Wren's son, also Matthew, in 1660 (Londini, typis Jacobi Flesheri. Prostant apud Cornelium Bee, in vico Litle-Britain dicto). The full title is 'Increpatio Bar Jesu, sive, Polemicæ adsertiones locorum aliquot S. Scripturæ, ab imposturis perversionum in catechesi Racoviana collectæ hinc inde, per Matthæum Wren F ; ex opere prægrandi meditationum...
Dates:
1641 - 1660
Found in:
Peterhouse (Ward) Library
Series
Writings, 1932 - 1987
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CLVL 3
Scope and Contents
History essays, copies of diary entries, and papers relating to articles and other publications by Colville.
Dates:
1932 - 1987
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
File
WSC and "The Second World War", 1948 - 1949
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/BRDW II 11/1
Scope and Contents
Presscuttings from WSC's war memoirs serialised in the Daily Telegraph.
Dates:
1948 - 1949
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
File
WSC and "The Second World War", 1948 - 1949
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/BRDW II 11/2
Scope and Contents
Presscuttings from WSC's war memoirs serialised in the Daily Telegraph.
Dates:
1948 - 1949
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
File
WSC: "The New World" ("A History of the English-Speaking Peoples" Vol II), 1956
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/BRDW II 13
Scope and Contents
American reviews.
Dates:
1956
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.