South Africa (nation)
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Found in 3630 Collections and/or Records:
Item
(Untitled), 14 Dec 1899
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/69/122
Scope and Contents
Telegram from "Georgy" ([London]) to Lady Randolph Churchill expressing relief [at the news of WSC's escape from the Boers].
Dates:
14 Dec 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
/
Acquired Papers. Letters and telegrams from various correspondents to Lady Randolph Churchill concerning WSC's capture and escape from the Boers. All items are manuscript and signed unless otherwise described.
Item
(Untitled), 17 Nov 1899
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/69/123
Scope and Contents
Telegram from Oliver Borthwick (369 Strand [London]) to Lady Randolph Churchill reporting that WSC has been captured by the Boers and that there has been no mention that he has been wounded. He also reports that WSC displayed great bravery by getting men clear of an overturned train.
Dates:
17 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
/
Acquired Papers. Letters and telegrams from various correspondents to Lady Randolph Churchill concerning WSC's capture and escape from the Boers. All items are manuscript and signed unless otherwise described.
Item
(Untitled), 16 Nov 1899
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/69/124
Scope and Contents
Telegram from the editor of the Morning Post (West Strand [London]) to Lady Randolph Churchill reporting that WSC has been captured by the Boers although he "fought gallantly" after the armoured train in which he was travelling had been derailed.
Dates:
16 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
/
Acquired Papers. Letters and telegrams from various correspondents to Lady Randolph Churchill concerning WSC's capture and escape from the Boers. All items are manuscript and signed unless otherwise described.
Item
(Untitled), 17 Nov 1899
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/69/125
Scope and Contents
Telegram from "Jack" [John S Churchill] (Edgware Road [London]) to Lady Randolph Churchill reporting that Oliver [Borthwick] has telegraphed that WSC has been captured by the Boers. He reassures her that WSC was not wounded but displayed "splendid" bravery.
Dates:
17 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
/
Acquired Papers. Letters and telegrams from various correspondents to Lady Randolph Churchill concerning WSC's capture and escape from the Boers. All items are manuscript and signed unless otherwise described.
Item
(Untitled), 16 Nov 1899
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/69/126
Scope and Contents
Telegram from Moreton [Frewen] (Pont Street [London]) to Lady Randolph Churchill reporting that a hundred men have been captured [by the Boers] from an armoured train.
Dates:
16 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
/
Acquired Papers. Letters and telegrams from various correspondents to Lady Randolph Churchill concerning WSC's capture and escape from the Boers. All items are manuscript and signed unless otherwise described.
Item
(Untitled), 17 Nov 1899
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/69/127
Scope and Contents
Telegram from "Jack" [John S Churchill] ([London]) to Lady Randolph Churchill informing her that the War Office have received no news [about WSC] and that the Morning Post have received a telegram from WSC "saying no news".
Dates:
17 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
/
Acquired Papers. Letters and telegrams from various correspondents to Lady Randolph Churchill concerning WSC's capture and escape from the Boers. All items are manuscript and signed unless otherwise described.
Item
(Untitled), 17 Nov 1899
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/69/128
Scope and Contents
Telegram from Moreton [Frewen] ([London]) to Lady Randolph Churchill informing her that WSC has been taken prisoner as he was on the armoured train and that the Times have reported that WSC "behaved with great gallantry".
Dates:
17 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
/
Acquired Papers. Letters and telegrams from various correspondents to Lady Randolph Churchill concerning WSC's capture and escape from the Boers. All items are manuscript and signed unless otherwise described.
Item
(Untitled), 17 Nov 1899
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/69/129
Scope and Contents
Telegram from [Thomas] Walden (Estcourt [South Africa]) to Lady Randolph Churchill informing her that WSC is believed alive and to be a prisoner [of the Boers].
Dates:
17 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
/
Acquired Papers. Letters and telegrams from various correspondents to Lady Randolph Churchill concerning WSC's capture and escape from the Boers. All items are manuscript and signed unless otherwise described.
Item
(Untitled), 23 Dec 1899
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/69/134
Scope and Contents
Telegram from "Bill" [Lord William Beresford] and "Lily" [Lady William Beresford, formerly Lilian, Duchess of Marlborough](Dorking [Surrey]) to Lady Randolph Churchill congratulating her on WSC's escape from the Boers and wishing her success [with the hospital ship Maine].
Dates:
23 Dec 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
/
Acquired Papers. Letters and telegrams from various correspondents to Lady Randolph Churchill concerning WSC's capture and escape from the Boers. All items are manuscript and signed unless otherwise described.
Item
(Untitled), 23 Dec 1899
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/69/135
Scope and Contents
Telegram from [Vincent] Caillard (Trowbridge [Wiltshire]) to Lady Randolph Churchill congratulating her on WSC's [escape from the Boers].
Dates:
23 Dec 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
/
Acquired Papers. Letters and telegrams from various correspondents to Lady Randolph Churchill concerning WSC's capture and escape from the Boers. All items are manuscript and signed unless otherwise described.
Item
(Untitled), 20 Apr 1900
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/72/25
Scope and Contents
Letter from John Gorst (Ministry of Finance, Cairo [Egypt]) to Lady Randolph Churchill in which he says that he has received a cheque for his article ["The Oriental Character"] and that he has requested an additional copy [of the Anglo Saxon Review] and expresses admiration for WSC's conduct [in the Boer War] and for his letters.
Dates:
20 Apr 1900
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
/
Acquired Papers. Letters from various correspondents to Lady Randolph Churchill concerning the Anglo Saxon Review. The file also includes some correspondence addressed to Sidney Low and Earl Hodgson who managed the Anglo Saxon Review during Lady Randolph's work with the hospital ship Maine in the Boer War. All items are manuscript and signed unless otherwise described.
Item
(Untitled), 16 Feb 1900
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/74/1-3
Scope and Contents
Letter from [Albert Edward, Prince of Wales](Marlborough House [London]) to [Lady Randolph Churchill] in which he thanks her for her letter; says that he is sorry that she had a difficult journey to Cape [Town, South Africa]; congratulates her on her courageous work with the hospital ship [Maine]; comments on her disappointment at not seeing [George Cornwallis West] and mentions meeting him; comments on the management of the Imperial Yeomanry Hospital and the splendid work done by Lady...
Dates:
16 Feb 1900
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
/
Acquired Papers. Letters from Albert Edward, Prince of Wales [King Edward VII from 22 January 1901) to Lady Randolph Churchill. All items are manuscript and signed unless otherwise described.
Item
(Untitled), 29 Mar 1900
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/74/4-5
Scope and Contents
Letter from [Albert Edward, Prince of Wales](Marlborough House [London]) to [Lady Randolph Churchill] in which he thanks her for her letter; says that he is delighted at the success of the hospital ship Maine; congratulates her on her decision not to return home; says that he is glad to hear that "Jack" [John S Churchill] was only slightly wounded; discusses the Boer War and WSC's capture and escape; says that he hopes that she does not continue her "flirtation" with G W [George Cornwallis...
Dates:
29 Mar 1900
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
/
Acquired Papers. Letters from Albert Edward, Prince of Wales [King Edward VII from 22 January 1901) to Lady Randolph Churchill. All items are manuscript and signed unless otherwise described.
Item
(Untitled), 13 Apr 1900
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/74/6-7
Scope and Contents
Letter from [Albert Edward, Prince of Wales](Copenhagen [Denmark]) to [Lady Randolph Churchill] in which he thanks her for her letter and says that he found her account of her visit to Ladysmith [South Africa] interesting; discusses the Boer War and describes an incident during which a man jumped onto his railway carriage, intending to kill him and comments that [Alexandra] Princess [of Wales, later Queen Alexandra] displayed courage.
Dates:
13 Apr 1900
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
/
Acquired Papers. Letters from Albert Edward, Prince of Wales [King Edward VII from 22 January 1901) to Lady Randolph Churchill. All items are manuscript and signed unless otherwise described.
Item
(Untitled), 03 Apr [1900]
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/75/1-2
Scope and Contents
Letter from [Albert Edward, Prince of Wales](Marlborough House [London]) to [Lady Randolph Churchill] in which he thanks her for her letter and photographs from Durban [South Africa]; commends her work with the hospital ship Maine and says that he is sure that all the officers will fall in love with her; describes his visits to hospitals; and comments on the Duke of Norfolk's "plucky" decision to go to South Africa in a subordinate position.
Dates:
03 Apr [1900]
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
/
Acquired Papers. Letters, telegrams and greeting cards from Albert Edward, Prince of Wales [King Edward VII from 22 January 1901) to Lady Randolph Churchill. All letters are manuscript and signed unless otherwise described.
Item
(Untitled), 04 Jul 1942
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/77/63-64
Scope and Contents
Telegram from WSC to General Jan Smuts [Prime Minister of South Africa] marked "most secret and personal": states that he has "been so much harried by the weaker brethren in the House of Commons since my return from America last week" and offers condolences for cruel losses to South African Divisions; comments on reverses in Middle East over last three weeks and lists reinforcements being sent to the area; comments on plans to strike at Japan through Burma [later Myanmar]. Annotated in red...
Dates:
04 Jul 1942
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.
Item
(Untitled), Mar 1943
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/95B/217-221
Scope and Contents
Memorandum entitled "The Attitude of Members of the RAF Serving in South Africa" by John Colville stating how disappointed he was by the attitude of the RAF towards South Africa and the South Africans which he blames on ignorance, home sickness and boredom and suggesting that careful and intelligent preparation is given to all those drafted to South Africa. He adds that he has met a South African officer Captain Lennox Short, a former Information Officer, who is very keen to be consulted if...
Dates:
Mar 1943
Conditions Governing Access:
From the File:
Open
Item
(Untitled), 21 Nov 1942
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/91B/19-20
Scope and Contents
Minute from [WSC] to "C" [General Sir Stewart Menzies, Head of the Secret Intelligence Service, MI6] on reducing the circulation of "Boniface" [codename for Enigma decrypts] in Britain, the Middle East and "Torch" [codename for the Allied invasion of North West Africa] Headquarters, to a new restricted circle, and also to the present circle, which would be gradually phased out. [WSC] also asks that Field Marshal Jan Smuts [Prime Minister of South Africa] should be kept fully informed with a...
Dates:
21 Nov 1942
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Item
(Untitled), 21 Nov 1942
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/91B/21-22
Scope and Contents
Copy of CHAR 20/91B/19 - 20. Carbon copy.
Dates:
21 Nov 1942
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Item
(Untitled), 19 Dec 1942
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/85/41
Scope and Contents
Telegram from WSC to General Jan Smuts [Prime Minister of South Africa] marked "personal" expressing his profound sympathy on the loss of Major-General Daniel Pienaar [Commander South African Forces in the Middle East].
Dates:
19 Dec 1942
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.
Item
(Untitled), 21 Dec 1942
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/85/48
Scope and Contents
Telegram from WSC to General Jan Smuts [Prime Minister of South Africa] marked "secret" stating that he has "been deeply grieved today thinking over your heavy losses.".
Dates:
21 Dec 1942
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.
Item
(Untitled), 12 Jan 1900
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/152B/175
Scope and Contents
Letter from WSC ("Before Potgieters ferry", Natal, South Africa) to "Jack" [John S Churchill] in which he expresses pleasure that Jack is due to join him; stresses that it is important to maintain the good will of [Sir Ernest] Cassel; informs him that his lieutenancy within the South African Light Horse is secure and that he has made arrangements for horses; and discusses an engagement with the enemy he predicts will take place on the following day and which will "decide Sir George White's...
Dates:
12 Jan 1900
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Item
(Untitled), c 1945
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/152B/176-179
Scope and Contents
Transcript of a letter from WSC ("Before Potgieters ferry", Natal, South Africa) to "Jack" [John S Churchill] in which he expresses pleasure that Jack is due to join him; stresses that it is important to maintain the good will of [Sir Ernest] Cassel; informs him that his lieutenancy within the South African Light Horse is secure and that he has made arrangements for horses; and discusses an engagement with the enemy he predicts will take place on the following day and which will "decide Sir...
Dates:
c 1945
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Item
(Untitled), 13 Apr 1900
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/152B/180
Scope and Contents
Letter from WSC (Bloemfontein, South Africa) to "Jack" [John S Churchill] in which he informs him that he plans to stay in Bloemfontein; discusses the possibility of Jack seeking a position with the yeomanry forces and arrangements for his saddlery and field glasses to be sent to him; gives news of [8th Duke of] Roxburghe and "Sunny" [Charles, 9th Duke of Marlborough]; and informs him that "I have settled everything happily" with the help of [Sir Ian] Hamilton, [General Sir William]...
Dates:
13 Apr 1900
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Item
(Untitled), 01 May 1900
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/152B/181
Scope and Contents
Letter from WSC (Bloemfontein [South Africa]) to "Jack" [John S Churchill] in which he discusses an imminent attack on Brandfort and speculates on the [Boer] War, gives news of [Charles, 9th Duke of] Marlborough, Ivor Guest [later Lord Ashby St Ledgers and 2nd Lord Wimborne] and Victor [2nd Lord Lytton], and recommends that Jack reads his accounts in the Morning Post. Signed typescript. Typed transcript at CHAR 28/152B/182-185.
Dates:
01 May 1900
Conditions Governing Access:
Open