Speeches
Found in 842 Collections and/or Records:
(Untitled), 29 Jun 1942
Telegram from WSC to General Sir Claude Auchinleck [Commander in Chief Middle East] marked "personal and secret" informing him that he will now be announcing his assumption of command [of Eighth Army] in the House of Commons tomorrow.
(Untitled), 17 Jun 1941
Telegram from General Jan Smuts [Prime Minister of South Africa] to WSC congratulating him on his Rochester [University] broadcast which coincided with the expulsion of German consuls from the United States.
(Untitled), 22 Sep 1941
Telegram from WSC to the Duke of Windsor [earlier King Edward VIII and Edward, Prince of Wales] advising on his speech as Governor of the Bahamas to the Dollar Press Club, concentrating on partnership with the United States. [See CHAR 20/42B/139 for Windsor's letter].
(Untitled), 11 Nov 1941
Telegram from General Jan Smuts [Prime Minister of South Africa] to WSC expressing gratitude for "tonic effect" of Mansion house speech [10 Nov 1941].
(Untitled), 05 Jul 1940
Letter from 1st Lord Lloyd to WSC admiring a recent speech [? 4 July, on destruction of the French fleet].
(Untitled), 21 May 1940
Letter from Edward, Lord Halifax [earlier Edward Wood and Lord Irwin, Foreign Secretary] to WSC congratulating him on a recent broadcast; asks if he would see [1st] Lord Trenchard.
(Untitled), 14 Jul 1941
Letter from Louise Cross to WSC on her journey to the United States; reports the success in Canada of his speech of 10 June; thanks him for hospitality during their stay in Britain; includes filing note.
(Untitled), 19 May 1941
Letter from Joseph Davies, Chairman of the President [Franklin Roosevelt, President of the United States]'s Committee on War Relief Agencies, to WSC expressing admiration for WSC's speeches and commending the work being done by Roosevelt to bring about national unity of purpose; with telegram from Davies.
(Untitled), [Apr] [1941]
Telegram from Arthur Fadden (Acting Prime Minister of Australia) to WSC congratulating him on his broadcast.
(Untitled), 07 Oct 1942
Letter from WSC to Lord Halifax [British Ambassador, to the United States, earlier Edward Wood and Lord Irwin] declining to donate a manuscript of his speech to the Senate (January 1942) to the Library of Congress.
(Untitled), 07 Jan 1942 - 05 Jul 1942
(Untitled), 01 Dec 1942 - 10 Dec 1942
Correspondence between Alfred Clark, Chairman of the Gramophone Company Limited, Anthony Bevir [Private Secretary to WSC] and WSC on recordings of speeches by WSC and Field Marshal Jan Smuts [Prime Minister of South Africa] and correspondence between Bevir, Rutherford Tippetts [Principal Private Secretary to Minister of Supply] and Bernard Sendall [Principal Private Secretary to Minister of Information] about provision of paper or woodpulp in making the album of speeches.
(Untitled), 15 Jun 1942 - 16 Jun 1942
Letter from Robert Barrington-Ward, Editor of the Times, to Brendan Bracken [Minister of Information] on the foresight of WSC's Romanes Lecture ["Parliamentary Government and the Economic Problem", 19 June 1930], with covering note from Bernard Sendall [Principal Private Secretary to Bracken] to John Martin [Private Secretary to WSC].
(Untitled), Jun 1942 - 20 Nov 1942
Letter from Alfred Townsend, Editor of Export, to WSC on the role of Export as journal of the Institute of Export and requesting permission to quote from WSC's 1930 Romanes Lecture ["Parliamentary Government and the Economic Problem", 19 June 1930] following up on an article on the Atlantic Charter in Export [June 1942; copy enclosed]; also includes reply by John Peck [Assistant Private Secretary to WSC].
(Untitled), [May] 1915
Statement by WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] to the House of Commons on the resignation of Admiral of the Fleet 1st Lord Fisher as 1st Sea Lord over differences arising from the Dardanelles campaign. WSC goes through the stages of the campaign, Fisher's grounds for resigning and states his own position as First Lord. [Carbon].
(Untitled), 13 Nov 1903
Letter from WSC (105 Mount Street) to J Moore Bayley in which he discusses the success of [speeches delivered by WSC and Lord Hugh Cecil, later Lord Quickswood] in Birmingham and says that he has been complimented by his postman. Manuscript in the hand of Annette Anning signed by WSC. See CHAR 28/115/17-18.
(Untitled), 13 May 1909
Copy of a letter from WSC (Board of Trade) to [Lord] Northcliffe [formerly Alfred Harmsworth] marked private informing him that he would like his forthcoming speech at the Free Trade Hall in Manchester about the [People's] Budget and [National] Insurance to be fully reported in the Times.
(Untitled), 06 Jun 1887
Letter from Lord Randolph Churchill (2 Connaught Place [London]) to [Louis] Jennings in which he discusses the effect of his speeches at Wolverhampton [Staffordshire] and says that he might require support from Jennings if his remarks are criticised by the Government.
(Untitled), 31 Dec 1888
Letter from Lord Randolph Churchill (2 Connaught Place [London]) to [Louis] Jennings discussing the publication of his speeches and detailing those which he considers to be particularly important.
(Untitled), 18 Jan 1889
Letter from Lord Randolph Churchill (2 Connaught Place [London]) to [Louis] Jennings in which he discusses [the publication] of his speeches and informs him that he was referring to W H Smith as First Lord of the Treasury, informs him of his travel plans and discusses the implications of the London County Council elections for the Conservative Party.
(Untitled), 14 Jan 1889
Letter from Lord Randolph Churchill (2 Connaught Place [London]) to [Louis] Jennings in which he explains a reference in a speech he delivered at Aylesbury [Buckinghamshire, for the publication of his speeches].
(Untitled), 28 Jan 1889
Letter from Lord Randolph Churchill (Le Grand Hotel, Monte Carlo [Monaco]) to [Louis] Jennings in which he discusses the publication of his speeches.
(Untitled), 01 Mar 1889
Letter from Lord Randolph Churchill (28 Rue Francois Premier [Paris, France]) to [Louis] Jennings in which he discusses corrections to the proofs of an edition of his speeches and suggests that they should meet.
(Untitled), 15 Aug 1889
Letter from Lord Randolph Churchill (Great Forsters, Egham [Surrey]) to [Louis] Jennings in which he discusses the progress of the Tithe Bill, the perversion of his speeches at Walsall and Birmingham and his contempt for "Joe" [Joseph Chamberlain].
(Untitled), 29 Dec [1900]
Christmas card from the Manager of the Massey Music Hall advertising a talk by WSC entitled "The war as I saw it" including a photograph of WSC [in the uniform of the South African Light Horse]. Additional copy at CHAR 28/76/3.