Domestic animals
Found in 166 Collections and/or Records:
(Untitled), 13 Aug 1890
Letter from Lord Randolph Churchill (Banstead Manor, Newmarket [Suffolk]) to [Lady Randolph Churchill] describing a day spent watching the breaking in of yearlings and reporting that he will be spending the following week at Cliefden [Cliveden, Buckinghamshire].
(Untitled), 14 Aug 1890
Letter from Lord Randolph Churchill (Banstead Manor, Newmarket [Suffolk]) to [Lady Randolph Churchill] discussing financial affairs and his pleasure with a bay pony he has purchased, reporting that [Frances, Duchess of Marlborough, WSC and John S Churchill] are leaving to go to Cliefden [Cliveden, Buckinghamshire] where he will join them and enclosing newspaper cuttings [not present].
(Untitled), 16 Aug 1890
Letter from Lord Randolph Churchill (Cliveden, Maidenhead [Buckinghamshire]) to [Lady Randolph Churchill] reporting his safe arrival at Cliveden; describing an evening spent at Moulton [Paddocks, Newmarket, Suffolk] where "Lady G" was amusing about her lovers and his success at the races at Windsor [Berkshire]; and commenting that [WSC and John S Churchill] are well and "permit us to lead a fairly tranquil existence".
(Untitled), 24 Sep 1890
Letter from Lord Randolph Churchill (Banstead Manor, Newmarket [Suffolk]) to [Lady Randolph Churchill] thanking her for her letter and reporting that [his racehorse] the Abbesse is racing but is unlikely to win.
(Untitled), 05 Oct 1890
Letter from Lord Randolph Churchill (Banstead Manor, Newmarket [Suffolk]) to [Lady Randolph Churchill] describing his hopes for his racehorses, the failure of [4th Lord] Dunraven to arrive, the guests who are to come to lunch that day and his success at hunting.
(Untitled), 17 Nov 1890
Letter from Lord Randolph Churchill (Le Grand Hotel, Monte Carlo [Monaco]) to [Lady Randolph Churchill] informing her that he has bought a horse which he is sending to Banstead [Manor, Newmarket, Suffolk] and that [Count Charles] Kinsky should make arrangements for transporting a chestnut mare.
(Untitled), 23 Nov 1891 - 24 Nov 1891
(Untitled), 09 Mar 1884
Letter from WSC (St George's School, Ascot [Berkshire]) to "Mamma" [Lady Randolph Churchill] describing a visit to Bagshot [Surrey] and asking about the pony. Illustrated with a drawings of a man and a face.
(Untitled), [29 Sep 1891]
Letter from Lady Randolph Churchill, Banstead, to WSC, apologies for not visiting him at Harrow, and advising him not to sell his bicycle and buy a bulldog puppy "a dog is sometimes a nuisance".
(Untitled), 09 Jul 1942
Telegram from Evatt [Australian Minister of External Affairs and Attorney General] marked "most secret" to WSC thanking him for his "thoughtful wire", commenting on plan to provide Spitfires for Australia, and stating that a black swan has been allocated to WSC and will arrive after plumage attaches itself in August.
(Untitled), 06 May 1888
Letter from Lord Randolph Churchill (2 Connaught Place [London]) to [Louis] Jennings in which he makes observations about the intervention of W H Smith and reports that one of his horses succeeded in winning at Newmarket [Suffolk].
(Untitled), 12 Jun 1889
Letter from John S Churchill (29 Bedford Square, Brighton [East Sussex]) to "Mama" [Lady Randolph Churchill] in which he says that he is saying with Mrs Pill as the Johnstones were unable to take him as some children had measles. He says that he has bought [photographs] of the racehorses of "Papa" [Lord Randolph Churchill].
(Untitled), 23 Sep 1888
Letter from Lord Randolph Churchill (Beaufort Castle, Beauly [Inverness-shire, Scotland]) to [Lady Randolph Churchill] informing her of his safe arrival and that he has met [Lady] Fanny [Marjoriebanks, later Lady Tweedmouth, earlier Lady Fanny Churchill], [Lady] Sarah [Churchill, later Sarah Wilson] and Lady Londonderry. He also describes the unfavourable weather conditions which will make fishing difficult and the success of his racehorse Lugaddi.
(Untitled), 30 Sep 1888
Letter from Lord Randolph Churchill (Cairnton, Banchory [Kincardineshire, Scotland]) to [Lady Randolph Churchill] referring to the dullness of his visit to Beaufort Castle [Beauly, Inverness-shire, Scotland], describing the success of [his racehorse] Lugaddi and calculating when he may be able to afford a 200 guinea portrait.
(Untitled), 25 Oct 1888
Letter from Lord Randolph Churchill (Moulton Paddocks, Newmarket [Suffolk]) to [Lady Randolph Churchill] thanking her for her letter, describing his success at the races where he has "cleared a monkey [o500]", relating the friendliness of [Albert Edward] Prince of Wales returning a letter [not present] from WSC.
(Untitled), 12 Nov 1888
Letter from Lord Randolph Churchill (2 Connaught Place [London]) to [Lady Randolph Churchill] detailing his social engagements and hopes for a racehorse called "Abbesse".