Scope and Contents 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,...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Iain MacLeod, Conservative Parliamentary Secretariat, on the position of graduate teachers (2); Emanuel Shinwell, Secretary of State for War, (2) and Arthur Henderson [later Lord Rowley], Secretary of State for Air, (2) on recruitment for service auxiliaries and reserves; James Thomas [later 1st Lord Cilcennin, Vice- Chairman of Conservative and Unionist Party] (2); Colin Thornton-Kemsley (2); Reginald Maudling; 6th Lord De L'Isle and Dudley [earlier William Sidney,...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Emir Zeid [Iraqi Ambassador to Britain]; [? Nourias Said, Prime Minister of Iraq]; 2nd Lord St Aldwyn [earlier Lord Quenington]; "Bobbety", 5th Lord Salisbury [earlier Lord Cranborne], Leader of the House of Lords and Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations, on subjects including Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, Salisbury himself being unable to continue at the Commonwealth Relations Office, the de-nationalization of steel, appointing a deputy Foreign...

Scope and Contents 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...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Alfred Gann (3) on pensions; Captain Sir Acton Blake, Deputy Master of Trinity House, on subjects including applications for pensions from Trinity House (4); Sir Frank Meyer recommending a candidate for an apprenticeship; W Liesching, Private Secretary (4) and M Smith, Secretary (10) at Trinity House; John Christie; Frederick Miller; [George] Robert Mansell, Deputy Master of Trinity House; Evelyn Wrench, Chairman of the Spectator; [1st Lord] Curzon [of Kedelston];...

Scope and Contents Correspondents (concerning the partition of Ireland, the Boundary Commission, the publication of a letter from "F E" [1st Lord Birkenhead, earlier F E Smith] on the subject, and the drafting of clause 12 of the Anglo-Irish Treaty) include: 1st Lord Carson (4); Lionel Curtis on peace talks and Michael Collins; "F E" [1st Lord Birkenhead, earlier F E Smith] (3); Arthur Balfour; Sir Wilfrid Spender, Head of the Civil Service in Northern Ireland; Geoffrey Dawson, Editor of the Times; and Sir...

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177 x 114 mm. General view of docks, warehouses and wharves in Cork Harbour.

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Rough pencil sketch.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: This is a collection of art work created by the Royal Engineer Edward Charles Frome (1802-1890). In 1929 Frome’s surviving daughter, Mrs Frank Wynne, presented some of the South Australian drawings to the Royal Empire Society through the good offices of Sir Harry Wilson, to whom she bequeathed the rest of the collection. He presented it to the society in 1931. The majority of Frome’s individual watercolours and drawings, varying in size from 250 to 450 mm, were then housed in eight...

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200 x 150 mm. A 1700 engraving showing the house depicted in Y3022BBB/33.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: This is a collection of art work created by the Royal Engineer Edward Charles Frome (1802-1890). In 1929 Frome’s surviving daughter, Mrs Frank Wynne, presented some of the South Australian drawings to the Royal Empire Society through the good offices of Sir Harry Wilson, to whom she bequeathed the rest of the collection. He presented it to the society in 1931. The majority of Frome’s individual watercolours and drawings, varying in size from 250 to 450 mm, were then housed in eight...

Scope and Contents Letter from Sir James Masterton-Smith [Assistant Secretary (Additional), War Office and Air Ministry] to Churchill on his view that Sir Herbert Creedy should succeed Sir Reginald Brade as the next Secretary of the War Office, rather than Masterton-Smith himself, and on his future outside the Civil Service, 1919; and one from Churchill to Masterton-Smith [when he was Permanent Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies], December 1921, on negotiations over the Anglo-Irish Treaty and ...

Scope and Contents Subjects include: the situation in Iraq; Clementine’s mother [Lady Blanche Hozier] being well-known in Monte Carlo [Monaco]; missing his own mother [Lady Randolph Churchill, earlier Jennie Jerome]; Clementine’s health and her pregnancy [with Mary Churchill, later Mary Soames]; working on [“The World Crisis”]; painting at the villa of Consuelo Balsan [earlier Consuelo Vanderbilt and Consuelo, Duchess of Marlborough], and at Eze [France]; a row with Max [1st Lord Beaverbrook, earlier Aitken];...

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Frome created a series of sketchbooks of various formats during his travels. Numbers 1 (Canada) and 4-5 (Mauritius) were missing when the collection came to Cambridge. The RCS sold numbers 2-3 (Australia) to the Art Gallery of South Australia in 1970. Numbers 6-7 and 11 had never been presented to the society. The great majority of the contents of the seven sketchbooks listed below had been removed in London, leaving only a few rough pieces.

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Undated manuscript speech notes by WSC Subjects covered include free trade, taxation, general elections, colonial affairs, education, Ireland.

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Manuscript notes and source material for speech on the Ulster Situation, 30 Mar, including quotations from F E Smith (later Lord Birkenhead), Lord Lansdowne, H H Asquith, Andrew Bonar Law, Lord Derby, Lord Selborne, Lord Roberts Published Complete Speeches III, pp.2275-91.Press cutting and printed paper (in Danish) on speech on the Royal Navy, 27 Nov Published Complete Speeches III, pp.2342-48.

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Manuscript notes and source material or speech on Army Reform Undated and unpublished.Manuscript notes for speech in the Budget Debate Undated and unpublished.Manuscript notes for speech on the Irish Question, 20 Feb Published Complete Speeches I, pp.421-428.Typescript of speech on Preferential Trading with the Colonies, 8 Mar 1905 Published Complete Speeches I, pp. 437-443, under the title "Imperial Preference".

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Manuscript notes for speech on Irish Home Rule Undated, not in Complete Speeches.Manuscript notes for speech on Female Suffrage Undated.Manuscript note for speech on the House of Lords Undated.

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Typescript of speech on the Government of Ireland (Home Rule) Bill, 30 Apr Published Complete Speeches II, pp.1947-61.Manuscript notes and source material for speech on the Government of Ireland (Home Rule) Bill, 10 Oct Published Complete Speeches II, pp.2024-28.Manuscript notes for undated speech on Home Rule.

Scope and Contents Statement by WSC (23 May) on fighting in France. Also includes relevant extract from Hansard. Published: Complete Speeches VI p 6223.Hansard copy of statement by WSC (28 May) on the fall of Belgium. Published: Complete Speeches VI pp 6223-4.Notes for WSC's speech (4 June) entitled "Wars are not won by evacuations" on the fall of Belgium, the evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force from Dunkirk [France] and the successes of the RAF. Speech includes the phrase "We shall fight on the...

Scope and Contents Hansard copies of WSC's statements (9 July) on the occupation of Iceland by United States troops, the appeal for arms from Eire (Southern Ireland [Ireland]) to the United States, and British losses in Syria. Published: Complete Speeches VI, pp 6446-7.Notes for WSC's statement (15 July) on the production debate, the Anglo-Soviet Agreement against Germany, its effect on Poland, and the end of the Syrian campaign. Also includes relevant extract from Hansard. Part published: Complete Speeches...

Scope and Contents Hansard copy of a debate on visits to Ireland (21 October) including WSC's statement on Defence Regulation 18b [giving the Home Secretary powers to detain people without charge]. Part published: Complete Speeches VI, pp 6497-8.Notes for WSC's speech (12 November) on the parliamentary address, wartime speeches by Ministers, shipping losses, food and rations, food production, fuel and production of munitions. Also includes relevant extract from Hansard and cutting from the Times reporting...

Scope and Contents Notes for WSC's speech (5 May) on the Eire bill, Britain abandoning rights it had under the 1921 Treaty, and the role of [Eamon] De Valera [Prime Minister of Ireland]. Also includes relevant extract from Hansard. Published: Complete Speeches VI pp 5948-55.Notes for WSC's speech (25 May) entitled "A private execution" on the replacement of 1st Lord Swinton [earlier Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister and Sir Philip Lloyd-Greame] as Secretary of State for Air, the state of air defence, and setting up a...

Scope and Contents Speech notes for WSC's statement (11 March) on the union of the Air and War Ministries, and building up the RAF. Published: Complete Speeches III pp 2965 - 2974.Speech notes and typescript for WSC's statement (23 June) on the need for forces in the Middle East, the situation in the Caucasus, the Crimea [Soviet Union] and Constantinople [later Istanbul, Turkey], and the need for more Territorial and regular army recruitment.Speech notes and typescript for WSC's statement (23 June) on army...

Scope and Contents Speech notes for WSC's statement (16 February), on the Irish elections, the dangers of delay, the Irish Boundary Commission, the interests of Northern and Southern Ireland and the position of Ulster. Published: Complete Speeches III pp 3192 - 3205.Speech notes for WSC's statement (23 February) on freeing the funds of Irish local authorities previously intercepted to fund compensation claims, and settling compensation for personal injury and injury to property between the British and Irish...