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(Untitled), 01 Oct 1944

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/172/78
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Telegram from WSC to Field Marshal 1st Lord Wavell [earlier Sir Archibald, Viceroy of India] marked "Personal and Top Secret" recommending that he object strongly to any suggestions that may be made in Council implying that it will be necessary to "bribe" British forces to fight in the Far East.

Dates: 01 Oct 1944
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), 04 Oct 1944

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/172/106
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Telegram from Field Marshal 1st Lord Wavell [earlier Sir Archibald, Viceroy of India] to WSC marked "Personal and Top Secret" explaining that he used the word "bribe" in relation to increasing British soldier's pay for reasons of brevity and that it would not be used in Council; that Indian public opinion would be against India meeting such costs; and expressing regret that WSC chose to use forceful language in his last telegram (see CHAR 20/172/78).

Dates: 04 Oct 1944
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 Oct 1944

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/173/125
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Telegram from 5th Lord Munster [Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for India and for Burma, later Myanmar] to WSC marked "Private and Personal" providing information from his tour of the 14th Army; stating that morale is excellent, but a personal statement from WSC on repatriation prospects would be useful, noting a shortage of refrigerators and fans in hospitals and the poor conditions common on leave trains.

Dates: 28 Oct 1944
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), 05 Oct 1944

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/172/114
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Telegram from WSC to Field Marshal 1st Lord Wavell [earlier Sir Archibald, Viceroy of India] marked "Personal and Top Secret" stating that he was sure he could rely on Wavell to reject any criticisms over increased pay for British forces in India.

Dates: 05 Oct 1944
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), 19 Oct 1944

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/173/61
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Telegram from 5th Lord Munster [Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for India and for Burma, later Myanmar] to WSC recommending sending to India: Auxiliary Territorial Service members to "meet lack of white women"; more cinema projectors; more beer; and requesting that air letter cards from India to the United Kingdom are carried free.

Dates: 19 Oct 1944
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), [1945]

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/237/6
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Map and pie-charts setting out relative strengths of Allied "divisions in the East by theatres" (India and Burma [later Myanmar]).

Dates: [1945]
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), Jun 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/237/7
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"Table 3" setting out the strengths of "divisions and brigades in the East" (India and South East Asia Command) at approximately 1 May and 30 June 1945.

Dates: Jun 1945
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 1946

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/252A/6-14
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Page proofs for a supplement to the London Gazette entitled "Operations in Eastern Theatre, based on India from March 1942 to December 31, 1942" reprinting a contemporary despatch by Field Marshal [1st] Lord Wavell, [then] Commander-in-Chief, India, dated 27 September 1943, covering Burma [later Myanmar], the defence of India, internal Indian matters, air matters and naval operations. [annotated; flagged "B"].

Dates: 1946
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), [1946]

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/252A/15-29
Scope and Contents Long galley proofs of a despatch by Field Marshal [1st] Lord Wavell, [then] Commander-in-Chief, India, dated 27 June 1944, entitled "Operations in the India Command, covering period 1st January, 1943, to 20th June, 1943" including operations in Burma [later Myanmar] and air operations, with appendices of orders of battle, and communications from Major-General [Aubertin] Mallaby [then Director of Military Operations, GHQ India] (1 April 1943), Air Vice-Marshal [George] Baker, Senior Air Staff...
Dates: [1946]
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 1947

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/252A/31-61
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Page proofs for a supplement to the London Gazette entitled "Operations in the Indo-Burma theatre based on India from 21 June, 1943, to 15 November, 1943" reprinting a despatch by Field Marshal Sir Claude Auchinleck, Commander-in-Chief, India, dated 22 November 1945, on planning, land and air operations, intelligence, and organisation, training, and administration, with explanatory footnotes. [annotated].

Dates: 1947
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 17 Sep 1944

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/257/17
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Telegram from WSC [in North America] to Deputy Prime Minister [Clement Attlee] and others concerned marked "From: Octagon" and "Gunfire 246" and "Personal and Top Secret" giving an addendum to "Gunfire No. 231" noting objections from the Government of India to proposals [on releasing personnel from service in the Far East]. [Copy].

Dates: 17 Sep 1944
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 24 Jul 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/222/50
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Telegram from WSC [Berlin, Germany] to the Viceroy of India [Field Marshal 1st Lord Wavell] marked "Superintendent Series" requesting he consult WSC before any steps are taken to discuss constitutional change at his meeting with the Indian Provincial Governors.

Dates: 24 Jul 1945
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 25 Jul 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/222/54
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Telegram from Viceroy of India [Field Marshal 1st Lord Wavell] to WSC marked "Superintendent Series" stating that the main object of his meeting with the [provincial] Governors is to discuss the situation arising from the failure of the Simla [India] Conference; and assuring WSC that he will keep the Secretary of State for India [Leo Amery] informed.

Dates: 25 Jul 1945
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 02 Feb 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/223/3
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Telegram from WSC [Malta] to Deputy Prime Minister [Clement Attlee] marked "From: Cricket" and "Jason No. 64" approving a telegram from the Secretary of State for India [Leo Amery] to the Viceroy [Field Marshal Lord Wavell] with some amendments.

Dates: 02 Feb 1945
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 04 Feb 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/223/4
Scope and Contents Telegram from [John] Martin [Prime Minister's Principal Private Secretary, Yalta, Soviet Union] to Private Office marked "From: Argonaut", "Jason No 112", and "Personal and Top Secret" passing on a message from WSC to Secretary of State for India [Leo Amery] suggesting he "try" [?Bernard, 16th Duke of] Norfolk [earlier Lord Arundel, Joint Parliamentary Secretary to Minister of Agriculture] and [?5th Lord] Munster [earlier Geoffrey FitzClarence, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Home...
Dates: 04 Feb 1945
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 01 Jan [1898] - 07 Jan [1898]

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/62/6-7
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Letter from "L" [Leonie, Lady Leslie formerly Leonie Jerome] (Viceroy's Camp, Delhi [India]) to [Lady Randolph Churchill] in which she describes a pageant; comments on Mary [Lady] Curzon; describes the camp in which she is staying and a ball organised by [Lord] Curzon; her impressions of the natives and the "purdah ladies"; and the entertainment provided by Lord Kitchener and sends her love to George [Cornwallis-West].

Dates: 01 Jan [1898] - 07 Jan [1898]
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), 23 Jan [1898]

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/62/8-10
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Letter from "L" [Leonie, Lady Leslie formerly Leonie Jerome] (Chief Commissioner's Camp, Sohagpur [India]) to [Lady Randolph Churchill] including: a description of her travels to Malakand, Ravel Pindu and Meerut; comments on the numbers of visitors to India; a recommendation that she and George [Cornwallis-West] should visit India; and hunting tigers in the jungle.

Dates: 23 Jan [1898]
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), 01 Mar 1899

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/66/22-24
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Letter from Mary [Lady Curzon](Viceregal Lodge, Simla [India]) to Jennie [Lady Randolph Churchill] in which she promises to subscribe to [the Anglo Saxon Review]; describes a visit from the Sourdaler; comments on the high esteem in which WSC and ["The Story of the Malakand Field Force"] are regarded in India and asks for a copy of one of his speeches; discusses the interest in Indian affairs which is shown by journalists and asks her to write.

Dates: 01 Mar 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.
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(Untitled), 21 Jan 1901

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/66/32-34
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Letter from Mary [Lady Curzon] (Government House, Calcutta [India]) to Jennie [Lady Randolph Churchill] in which she says that she was disappointed at not having seen her, discusses the success of [the Anglo Saxon] Review, the possibility of WSC marrying Pamela [Plowden, later Lady Lytton] and [Lady Randolph's] successes at matchmaking. She also comments on the death of Queen [Victoria] and the personal popularity she enjoyed in India.

Dates: 21 Jan 1901
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), 08 Oct 1902

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/66/35
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Letter from Mary [Curzon](Viceroy's Camp, India) to Jenny [Lady Randolph Churchill] in which she discusses [Lady Randolph's] future stay with her and asks her to tell [WSC] not to attack the Viceroy [of India, Lord Curzon, later Lord Curzon of Kedleston] about financial affairs in India.

Dates: 08 Oct 1902
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), 23 Aug 1899

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/67/3-4
Scope and Contents Letter from [Sir] Bindon Blood (Plaisange, Mussoorie, North West Provinces [India]) to Lady Randolph Churchill in which he discusses the reports of her visit to Oldham [Lancashire] by the Pioneer; says that several people (including the Maharajah of Kapurthala) have promised to subscribe to the Anglo Saxon Review; reports that the son [of the Maharajah of] Cooch Behar has been refused entry into the Life Guards on grounds of nationality and discusses the question of the admission of the sons...
Dates: 23 Aug 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.
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(Untitled), 27 Sep 1899

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/67/8-9
Scope and Contents Letter from [Sir] Bindon Blood (Plaisange, Mussoorie, North West Provinces [India]) to Lady Randolph Churchill in which he declines to write an article for the Anglo Saxon Review as he thinks that it would be unwise to publish his "dangerously advanced views on military matters". He suggests that Major G J Younghusband could write an article about the policy of [Lord] Curzon [Viceroy of India, later Lord Curzon of Kedleston] on the North West Frontier and says that he is sending some...
Dates: 27 Sep 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.
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(Untitled), 29 Jan 1901

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/77/22
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Letter from Cyril Davenport (The British Museum, London) to Mrs Cornwallis West [Lady Randolph Churchill] suggesting that he should write an article about English Coronations [for the Anglo Saxon Review] in which he could include the point that the crown of [King Edward VII] should include the mark of India as one of the colonies.

Dates: 29 Jan 1901
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), 01 Nov [1897]

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/54/9
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Part of a letter from John Brabazon (10 Wilton Crescent [London]) to Lady Randolph [Churchill] enclosing a letter from General Redvers Buller [not present] speaking highly of WSC's conduct [with the Malakand Field Force]. He comments that Buller's tactics may result in more trouble [from the tribes on the Indian north west frontier] and says "personally I would destroy their crops, burn their villages and let them die of starvation".

Dates: 01 Nov [1897]
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), 25 Jan 1895

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/58/47
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Letter from [Major-General Sir] Owen Burne (India Office) to Lady Randolph Churchill expressing sympathy on the death of Lord Randolph Churchill and remembering working with Lord Randolph at the India Office.

Dates: 25 Jan 1895
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.