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Public and Political: General: Personal Office correspondence, C-D., Jan 1941 - Dec 1941
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/417
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Correspondents include: [4th] Lord Camden [John Pratt] on rationing on the Riviera, France; [1st] Lord Camrose [earlier Sir William Berry] (2); [Arnold] Heeney, Clerk of the Privy Council, Canada, on the Privy Council oath; James Thomas [later 1st Lord Cilcennin] and "B B" [Brendan Bracken, Prime Minister's Parliamentary Private Secretary] on the death of Ronald Cartland; Freda, Marquesa de Casa Maury [earlier Freda Dudley Ward], on a "health-giving lamp" and the Feathers Club (2); Robert...
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Jan 1941 - Dec 1941
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Public and Political: General: Personal Office correspondence, H-K., Jan 1941 - Dec 1941
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/419
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Correspondents include: Sir Ian Hamilton (4) on subjects including the death of his wife, and his bull; George Harrap (7) on subjects including his marriage; Averell Harriman and his wife Kathleen; T E R Harris, WSC's banker; [Sir] James Hawkey and his wife Vera; Alice Keppel; Eva, Lady Keyes, on her husband [Sir Roger] Keyes; Sir Samuel Hoare [later 1st Lord Templewood] (2); [Clarence] Howe, Canadian Minister of Munitions and Supply, thanking WSC for his hospitality; [Arthur] Winnington...
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Jan 1941 - Dec 1941
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Public and Political: General: Personal Office correspondence, L-M. [please note that most material dates from 1941]., Feb 1941 - Feb 1943
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/420
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Correspondents include: George Lambert; Harold Laski on the death of his father Nathan Laksi; "Jack" [John] Lawson (2); [Bernard] Sendall [Principal Private Secretary to Minister of Information] on United States recordings of WSC's speeches; Major [Richard] Eric Long (3) including (1) sending on a letter from [Robert] Hudson [Minister of Agriculture] on Long's gardener; [Dame] Edith Lyttelton [Mrs Arthur Lyttelton] (3) including (2) on an English Speaking Union luncheon; Oliver Lyttelton...
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Feb 1941 - Feb 1943
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Public and Political: General: Political: Correspondence A-C., Jun 1950 - Oct 1951
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/113A-B
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Correspondents include: Sir Richard Acland on the "Churchill Arch" in the House of Commons; Commander Peter Agnew withdrawing his candidacy at Ormskirk [Lancashire]; Patrick Kinna (Foreign Office); representatives of the Conservative Research Department including [Richard] Michael Fraser [later Lord Fraser of Kilmorack] (4); Garry Allighan on his expulsion from the House of Commons; Cuthbert Alport; Leo Amery on Persian [Iranian] oil; 1st Lord Woolton [earlier Frederick Marquis, Chairman,...
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Jun 1950 - Oct 1951
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Public and Political: General: Political: correspondence A-C., Oct 1951 - Jul 1962
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/127A-B
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Correspondents include: William Reid, Lord Provost of Aberdeen [Scotland] on WSC's visit there in 1952; David Pitblado [Principal Private Secretary to Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden] (3); Frank Glaves-Smith [Principal Private Secretary to President of the Board of Trade]; Konrad Adenauer [Federal Chancellor of Germany]; Sir Frederick Hoyer Millar [later 1st Lord Inchrya, British Ambassador to West Germany, later part of Germany]; John Perrin, [Principal] Private Secretary to Minister of...
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Oct 1951 - Jul 1962
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Public and Political: General: Political: correspondence and papers on considerations before granting and the royal right to refuse a dissolution of parliament., Mar 1950 - Oct 1951
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/107
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Correspondents include: "Bobbety", 5th Lord Salisbury [earlier Robert Gascoyne Cecil and Lord Cranborne]; "Tommy", Sir Alan Lascelles [Private Secretary to King George VI] (7); Oliver Lyttelton [later 1st Lord Chandos] (2).Also includes: copy of March 1932 memorandum by 9th Lord Bessborough [earlier Vere Ponsonby and Lord Duncannon, then Governor-General of Canada] on the 1926 Canadian dissolution dispute involving Governor-General 1st Lord Byng and Prime Minister Mackenzie King; sections 3...
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Mar 1950 - Oct 1951
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Public and Political: General: Political: correspondence and papers on the Conservative attitude towards and WSC meeting supporters of Atlantic Union [advocates of increased collaboration between the UK, Canada and the United States]., Dec 1950 - Jul 1951
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/106
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Correspondents include: Owen Roberts, President of the Atlantic Union Committee (2); Herbert Agar; Duncan Sandys; Charles Mott-Radclyffe; Edwin Leather (2); "Bobbety", 5th Lord Salisbury [earlier Robert Gascoyne Cecil and Lord Cranborne]; Clarence Streit (2); Canadian Senators L Gouin and W Euler; US Senator Guy Gillette (2). Also includes notes and copies of correspondence from: secretaries Jane Portal [later Lady Williams of Elvel] and Lettice Marston [later Lettice Shillingford]; CSC.Also...
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Dec 1950 - Jul 1951
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Public and Political: General: Political: Correspondence C., Dec 1946 - Dec 1947
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/53
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Correspondents include: [George] Peter Thorneycroft; 1st Lord Woolton [earlier Frederick Marquis, Chairman, Conservative and Unionist Central Office] (8); Colonel Patrick Blair, Political Secretary [to Chairman of Unionist Party in Scotland] (2); Harold Macmillan [later 1st Lord Stockton] (2); Sir Arthur Young, Scottish Unionist Whip (2); 11th Lord Scarbrough [earlier Sir Lawrence Lumley]; James Thomas [later 1st Lord Cilcennin], Vice-Chairman of Conservative and Unionist Party, on...
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Dec 1946 - Dec 1947
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Public and Political: General: Political: Correspondence C-D., Dec 1948 - Dec 1949
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/81A-B
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Correspondents include: Harley Usill of the Naldrett Press Limited (5); 1st Lord Woolton [earlier Frederick Marquis, Chairman, Conservative and Unionist Central Office] (2); George Rainbird; John Leigh-Pemberton (3); Sir Oswald Birley; Beresford Craddock; James Thomas [later 1st Lord Cilcennin, Vice-Chairman of Conservative and Unionist Party] (13); Sir Arnold Gridley [Chairman 1922 Committee]; Sir David Maxwell Fyfe [later 1st Lord Kilmuir]; R A Butler (5); Thelma Cazalet-Kier (2);...
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Dec 1948 - Dec 1949
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Public and Political: General: Political: Correspondence C-D., Aug 1949 - Dec 1950
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/95A-B
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Correspondents include: 5th Lord Munster [earlier Geoffrey FitzClarence], George [Hubback], Metropolitan of India and Bishop of Calcutta (3), and Desmond Crawley (High Commission, Calcutta), on Anglo-Indians educating their children in the UK; 1st Lord Sandford [earlier Albert Edmondson, Chairman] of the Carlton Club (2); 1st Lord Woolton [earlier Frederick Marquis, Chairman, Conservative and Unionist Central Office] (5); Clifford Hood, President, Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corporation; Robert...
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Aug 1949 - Dec 1950
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Public and Political: General: Political: Correspondence D-H., May 1946 - Dec 1948
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/68A-B
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Correspondents include: 1st Lord Beaverbrook [earlier Sir Max Aitken] on Daily Express opinion polls; Sir William Darling (3); Patrick Buchan-Hepburn [later 1st Lord Hailes, Conservative Chief Whip] (3); James Milner; [George] Peter Thorneycroft (2); Leo Amery on Dimitrov, President of the Bulgarian Agrarian Movement; representatives of Conservative and Unionist Central Office, including Honorary Treasurer Christopher Holland-Martin, (9); Richard Stokes on Yugoslav General Djoukitch (2); Sir...
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May 1946 - Dec 1948
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Public and Political: General: Political: Correspondence E-G., Jun 1948 - Dec 1949
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/82A-B
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Correspondents include: Anthony Eden [later 1st Lord Avon] (9) on subjects including his tour of Canada and east Asia, Spanish matters, and the Indian constitution; Patrick Buchan-Hepburn [later 1st Lord Hailes, Conservative Chief Whip] (5); Alfred Edwards; 1st Lord Woolton [earlier Frederick Marquis, Chairman, Conservative and Unionist Central Office] (3); various other representatives of Conservative and Unionist Central Office including John Profumo (6); Walter Elliot (2); J Edgar Walker...
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Jun 1948 - Dec 1949
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Public and Political: General: Political: Correspondence K-N (most material dates from 1950)., Dec 1948 - Dec 1950
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/99A-B
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Correspondents include: Denis Rickett [Principal Private Secretary to the Prime Minister Clement Attlee] (3); David Hunt and Paul Osmond (2) [Private Secretaries to Attlee]; Michael Wilford [Assistant Private Secretary to Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin]; John Campbell, President of the Scottish Polish Society (5); Arthur Moyle, Parliamentary Private Secretary [to Attlee]; Douglas Savory; Edward Keeling (5) and Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Stafford Cripps (3) on subjects including sending...
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Dec 1948 - Dec 1950
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Public and Political: General: Political: Correspondence M-Q. (includes copies of wartime documents)., Feb 1941 - Dec 1946
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/7A-B
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Correspondents include: Baronessa Bettina de Malfatti on Italian royal affairs (2); 1st Lord Marchwood [earlier Frederick Penny] resigning as Honorary Treasurer of the Conservative Party; James Thomas [later 1st Lord Cilcennin] (5) and Marjorie Maxse, Vice-Chairmen of Conservative and Unionist Party; Duncan Sandys on "Maycrete" houses; "Scribe", 1st Lord Altrincham [earlier Sir Edward Grigg] (2); Anthony Bevir [Private Secretary to Prime Minister Clement Attlee], Sir Herbert Williams, and...
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Feb 1941 - Dec 1946
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Public and Political: General: Political: Correspondence S-Z., Oct 1950 - Oct 1951
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/117A-B
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Correspondents include: "Bobbety" [5th Lord Salisbury, earlier Robert Gascoyne Cecil and Lord Cranborne] and Leo Amery on Cabinet positions in the event of a Conservative election victory; Sir Arthur Salter; Duncan Sandys on his visit to Yugoslavia [later Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, and Slovenia] and Marshal Tito; 1st Lord Woolton [earlier Frederick Marquis, Chairman, Conservative and Unionist Central Office] (10); Sir Geoffrey Shakespeare,...
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Oct 1950 - Oct 1951
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Public and Political: General: Political: Council of Europe correspondence and papers., Mar 1951 - Aug 1951
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/77
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Correspondents include: Prime Minister Clement Attlee (2); Duncan Sandys; Harold Macmillan [later 1st Lord Stockton] (11); Prime Minister of Australia Robert Menzies, Prime Minister of New Zealand Sidney Holland, William Stevens [Official Secretary to High Commissioner for New Zealand], and Prime Minister of Canada Louis St Laurent (2) on Dominion representatives attending the Council of Europe. Also includes notes and copies of correspondence from secretaries Lettice Marston [later Lettice...
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Mar 1951 - Aug 1951
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Public and Political: General: Private and Personal: Correspondence A - B., 29 Dec 1945 - 26 Dec 1949
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/160
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Correspondents include: Christabel, Lady Aberconway, on WSC's cat (2); Max Aitken; Haile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia; "Alex", 1st Lord Alexander of Tunis [Governor-General of Canada] (9); Herbert Bruce [former Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario, Canada] on WSC's loss of the 1945 General Election and WSC's speeches in the United States; Arthur Meighen [former Prime Minister of Canada] on the need to maintain close relations with Britain, the menace of the Soviet Union to world peace and...
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29 Dec 1945 - 26 Dec 1949
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Public and Political: General: Private and Personal: Correspondence A - Barlow-Wheeler., 1958 - Jan 1965
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/518
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Correspondents include: Konrad Adenauer; Benita, Lady Alanbrooke on the death of 1st Lord Alanbrooke [earlier Sir Alan Brooke]; Norman Pearson (4) and Martin Gilbert (2) on collections for the 80th birthday of Lord Alanbrooke; Cameron Cobbold; "Alex" [1st Lord Alexander of Tunis]; Daisy, Lady Allenby [earlier Daisy Nearne] on subjects including Prospect House; "Tommy", Charles Thompson [former Personal Assistant to WSC] and John Colville on their recollections of WSC visiting Prospect House;...
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1958 - Jan 1965
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Public and Political: General: Private and Personal: Correspondence B., 13 Nov 1945 - 27 Oct 1948
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/146A-B
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Correspondents include: Hugo Baring; 2nd Lord Baldwin of Bewdley; Consuelo Balsan [earlier Consuelo, Duchess of Marlborough] (2); Don Domingo de las Barcenas, Spanish Ambassador to Britain, on the attitude of the United Nations to Spain, and worsening relations with Britain; Gunilla, Lady Barnes, on the death of Sir Reginald Barnes; "Reggie" [Sir Reginald Barnes] (3); Herman Baruch, United States Ambassador to the Netherlands; Beverley Baxter; Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands; 10th Duke...
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13 Nov 1945 - 27 Oct 1948
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Public and Political: General: Private and Personal: Correspondence Don - Du., 31 Jan 1952 - 18 Feb 1961
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/185
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Correspondents include: "Lew", Lewis Douglas [former United States Ambassador to Britain] on subjects including WSC's speech in Parliament on foreign affairs (11 May 1953), and the 4-power summit at [Geneva, Switzerland] (13); [Sir Saville Garner] British High Commissioner in Canada, on the resignation of George Drew as Leader of the Canadian Opposition; George Drew; Frank Ross [Lieutenant Governor, British Columbia, Canada]; Lady Juliet Duff on subjects including a film script by Terence...
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31 Jan 1952 - 18 Feb 1961
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Public and Political: General: Private and Personal: Correspondence M., 27 Apr 1949 - 10 Nov 1951
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/173
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Correspondents include: William Mabane; George Marshall, United States Secretary of Defence, comparing his current service with wartime (3); Julius Holmes, Charge d'Affaires, United States Embassy, London; Walter Gifford [United States Ambassador to Britain] (2); Lieutenant-General Sir Gifford Martel [former head of Military Mission to Moscow, Soviet Union] on banding the Allied armies together against the Soviet Union, and 1st Lord Montgomery's failure to exploit mobility and armour (2);...
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27 Apr 1949 - 10 Nov 1951
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Public and Political: General: Private and Personal: Correspondence T - Z., 29 Jan 1945 - 20 Dec 1948
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/157A-B
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Correspondents include: Sir Robert Tasker; General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, apologizing for missing WSC's visit to Metz [France]; Charles Taylor [MP for Eastbourne]; Myron Taylor; James Thomas [later 1st Lord Cilcennin, MP for Hereford and Vice-Chairman, Conservative and Unionist Party] (3); "Tommy", Charles Thompson [former Personal Assistant to WSC] on subjects including applying for a post at the Jockey Club, and books and photographs for WSC (9); 6th Lord Rosebery [earlier Lord...
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29 Jan 1945 - 20 Dec 1948
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Public and Political: General: Private and Personal: Correspondence with Lord Beaverbrook., 04 Aug 1951 - 19 Feb 1960
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/211
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Correspondence between WSC and 1st Lord Beaverbrook [earlier Sir Max Aitken] on subjects including: Chartwell [Kent]; racing; WSC's visits to Beaverbrook's house in France; Beaverbrook's opposition to a German army; publishing letters by WSC in books by Beaverbrook; the Canadian stock market; effects of the United States's policy on Suez [Egypt]; British Free Trade proposals to Canada; economic problems in the United States.Other correspondents include: Arthur Christiansen, [Editor], Daily...
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04 Aug 1951 - 19 Feb 1960
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Public and Political: General: Private and Personal: Correspondence with Sir Anthony Eden and Clarissa, Lady Eden., 12 Apr 1952 - 14 Jun 1958
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/216
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Correspondence between WSC and Eden [later 1st Lord Avon, Foreign Secretary and Prime Minister] on subjects including gifts from WSC, [the dismissal of] Lavrenti Beria [head of Soviet Ministry of International Affairs], the timing of the 1955 General Election, the 4-Power summit at Geneva [Switzerland], United States policy on the Middle East, rail and docks strikes, the Suez Crisis [Egypt], Eden's health, the Canadian elections, the Canadian and American attitude to Suez, supplying arms to...
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12 Apr 1952 - 14 Jun 1958
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Public and Political: General: Private and Personal: Personal correspondence C - D., 27 Nov 1951 - 14 Apr 1955
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/204A-B
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Correspondents include: Eric Caldwell (2); Geoffrey Lines, Mayor of Kingston-upon- Thames [Surrey] on a portrait of WSC (5); John Boyd-Carpenter, MP for Kingston-upon-Thames, on the portrait (3); Sir Oswald Scott [British Ambassador to Peru]; Lady Violet Bonham Carter [earlier Violet Asquith and Violet, Lady Bonham Carter, later Lady Asquith of Yarnbury](4); Richard Casey; George Catlin on the letters of Harold Laski (3); 3rd Lord Balfour [earlier Lord Traprain] on a children's village in...
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27 Nov 1951 - 14 Apr 1955
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