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Literary: correspondence on publishing WSC's war memoirs ("The Second World War"), mainly with representatives of Time-Life International, including Daniel Longwell [editor of Life Magazine], Walter Graebner [London representative], Andrew Heiskell [publisher], Monica Owen Horne, Constance Babbington-Smith, and Renee Harmer., Aug 1945 - Jan 1953
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/15A-C
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Other correspondents include: Henry Laughlin [President of Houghton Mifflin Company, publishers] (2); William Edwards, [Assistant Director] Federation of British Industries; Anthony Moir of Fladgate and Company [WSC's solicitor]. Also includes notes and copies of correspondence from: secretaries Jo Sturdee ("N S") [later Lady Onslow], Chips Gemmell, Lettice Marston [later Lettice Shillingford], Elizabeth Gilliatt, Grace Hamblin, Jane Portal [later Lady Williams of Elvel], Anne Hipwell, and...
Dates:
Aug 1945 - Jan 1953
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Literary: correspondence on the foreign rights in WSC's war memoirs ("The Second World War") and other works, mainly with Emery Reves [earlier Imre Revesz], Q-Z., Jan 1946 - Apr 1955
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/12A-B
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Other correspondents include: Anthony Moir of Fladgate and Company [WSC's solicitor]; William Deakin (3); [William] Surrey Dane of Odhams Press Limited (3); Robert McAlpine [Assistant Private Secretary to the Foreign Secretary]. Also includes notes and copies of correspondence from: secretaries Jane Portal [later Lady Williams of Elvel], Elizabeth Gilliatt, Lettice Marston [later Lettice Shillingford], Chips Gemmell, Jo Sturdee ("N S") [later Lady Onslow], and Anne Hipwell; [literary...
Dates:
Jan 1946 - Apr 1955
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Literary: correspondence on the publication of WSC's "Secret Session Speeches"., Oct 1945 - Apr 1947
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/5A-B
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Correspondents include: representatives of Time-Life International, including [London representative] Walter Graebner and Henry Luce [owner and editor of Time Magazine] (28); Charles Eade, [Editor] of the Sunday Dispatch (30); David Walker, [Foreign correspondent] of the Daily Mirror; Sir Edward Bridges [Secretary to the Cabinet] on the official implications of publishing the speeches (3); representatives of Simon and Schuster, Incorporated (6); representatives of Cassell and Company Limited...
Dates:
Oct 1945 - Apr 1947
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Literary: correspondence on the serialisation of WSC's war memoirs ("The Second World War") with representatives of the New York Times [United States], and correspondence on foreign editions of the memoirs and other miscellaneous matters, A-L., Apr 1947 - Sep 1955
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/16
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Correspondents include: representatives of the New York Times including General Manager Julius Adler (6), publisher Arthur Sulzberger, Chief Correspondent Herbert Matthews (5), and Chief European Correspondent Raymond Daniell (5); Daniel Longwell [editor of Life Magazine]; Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Pownall (6); William Deakin (12); Emery Reves [earlier Imre Revesz] (12); Jacques Pirenne, Secretary to King [Leopold of Belgium]; French Defence Minister Paul Ramadier; General Pierre Billotte...
Dates:
Apr 1947 - Sep 1955
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Literary: correspondence on the serialisation of WSC's war memoirs ("The Second World War") with representatives of the New York Times [United States], and correspondence on foreign editions of the memoirs and other miscellaneous matters, M-Z., Sep 1946 - Dec 1954
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/17A-B
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Correspondents include: Chikao Honda, President of the Mainichi Newspapers, on the Japanese edition of the memoirs; Henry Laughlin, President of Houghton Mifflin Company [publishers] (6); representatives of the New York Times including Chief European Correspondent Raymond Daniell (5), Chief Correspondent Herbert Matthews (9), Gilbert Bailey (London Editor, Sunday Department) (4), and publisher Arthur Sulzberger (29); General George Marshall; Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Pownall (3); Lord...
Dates:
Sep 1946 - Dec 1954
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Literary: correspondence on the United States publication of WSC's war memoirs ("The Second World War") in book form, mainly with representatives of Houghton Mifflin Company of Boston [United States], particularly President Henry Laughlin and others including Paul Brooks., Nov 1946 - May 1954
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/14A-B
Scope and Contents
Other correspondents include: William Deakin (3); [George] Gordon Allen; Emery Reves [earlier Imre Revesz] (4); Sir Edward Spears on his ancestry; Desmond Flower, Director of Cassell and Company. Also includes notes and copies of correspondence from: secretaries Jane Portal [later Lady Williams of Elvel], Jo Sturdee ("N S") [later Lady Onslow], Elizabeth Gilliatt, Lettice Marston [later Lettice Shillingford], Grace Hamblin, Chips Gemmell, and Anne Hipwell; [literary assistants] Denis Kelly...
Dates:
Nov 1946 - May 1954
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Literary: correspondence regarding an offer by the McLure Newspaper Syndicate for WSC's autobiography., 15 Aug 1930 - 16 Dec 1930
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/811
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Correspondents include Richard Waldo (President, McLure Newspaper Syndicate) (2) Contains references to the United States stock market crash.
Dates:
15 Aug 1930 - 16 Dec 1930
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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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Literary: correspondence thanking WSC for complimentary copies and congratulating him on volume 4 ("The Hinge of Fate") of his war memoirs ("The Second World War")., Nov 1950 - Aug 1951
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/59
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Correspondents include: John Snyder; Sir Oliver Franks; Fleet Admiral William Leahy and Herbert Swope, both also on the Korean War; [Fleet Admiral] Ernest King; "Beetle" [Walter Bedell Smith]; Cordell Hull; James Farley; "Alex" [1st Lord Alexander of Tunis]; Major-General Frederick Anderson, also on the Soviet threat; Sir Alexander Cadogan; Lewis Douglas; John Dulles; the Duke of Windsor [earlier Edward Prince of Wales and King Edward VIII]; Dorothy, Lady Moran; Anthony Moir [WSC's...
Dates:
Nov 1950 - Aug 1951
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Literary: correspondence with consultants and others on "A History of the English-Speaking Peoples", A-C., Feb 1940 - Aug 1962
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/26
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Correspondents include: Anthony Moir of Fladgate and Company [WSC's solicitor] (9); [George] Gordon Allen on Trafalgar; 1st Lord Bracken; Alan Hodge (4); Sir Samuel Chapman sending a speech; Asa Briggs; Alan Bullock; Alfred Burne; Emery Reves [earlier Imre Revesz] on WSC autographing a copy for the Brazilian translator; representatives of Cassell and Company including directors Desmond Flower and Sir Newman Flower (53); Denis Brogan (3); Vivian Galbraith, [Director] of the Institute of...
Dates:
Feb 1940 - Aug 1962
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Literary: correspondence with consultants and others on "A History of the English-Speaking Peoples", D-K., Jan 1946 - May 1961
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/27A-B
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Correspondents include: Anthony Moir of Fladgate and Company [WSC's solicitor] (9); 1st Lord Camrose [earlier Sir William Berry, Editor-in-Chief] of the Daily Telegraph (2); William Deakin (6); Edward Dodd of Dodd, Mead and Company, publishers (23); Denis Kelly [literary assistant] (18); Alan Hodge (77); Sir Newman Flower, director of Cassell and Company; Eliahu Elath [Israeli Ambassador to the United Kingdom] on the Hebrew edition; Henry Laughlin, President of Houghton Mifflin Company...
Dates:
Jan 1946 - May 1961
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Literary: correspondence with consultants and others on WSC's war memoirs ("The Second World War", mainly volumes 1 to 4), A-B., Sep 1945 - Jun 1950
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/18A-B
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Correspondents include: William Deakin (9); [George Gordon] Allen (16); Sir John Slessor on information on the Coastal Command in 1943; Thomas Allen, publisher, on Canadian editions of the memoirs (5); 1st Lord Altrincham [earlier Sir Edward Grigg] on Sir Edward Spears reviewing "Their Finest Hour" (volume 2); "Max", 1st Lord Beaverbrook [earlier Sir Max Aitken]; Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Pownall (2); Ernest Passant, Director of Research, Librarian and Keeper of the Papers, Foreign Office...
Dates:
Sep 1945 - Jun 1950
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Literary: correspondence with consultants (mainly volumes 5 and 6) and others on WSC's war memoirs ("The Second World War"), G-Z., Feb 1947 - Jul 1953
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/25A-B
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Correspondents include: Air Chief Marshal Sir Guy Garrod (3); Denis Kelly [WSC's literary assistant] (19); Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Pownall (21); William Deakin (5); General 1st Lord Ismay (7); Prime Minister's Private Secretary John Colville (4); Henry Luce [owner and editor of Time Magazine] (28); Daniel Longwell [editor of Life Magazine] (2); Walter Graebner [London representative of Time-Life International]; Charles Wood [WSC's literary assistant] (64); Arthur Hayward [Chief Editor],...
Dates:
Feb 1947 - Jul 1953
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Literary: correspondence with consultants (mainly volumes 5 and 6) and publishers and printers on WSC's war memoirs ("The Second World War"), A-F., Sep 1946 - Apr 1954
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/24A-B
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Correspondents include: [George Gordon] Allen (8); William Deakin (21) including (1) recommending Keith Feiling for work on "A History of the English speaking peoples"; Sir Norman Brook [later 1st Lord Normanbrook, Secretary of the Cabinet from 1947] (9); Robert Marshall [Private Secretary to Norman Brook]; Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Pownall (4); representatives of Cassell and Company particularly directors Desmond Flower and Sir Newman Flower, and [Chief editor] Arthur Hayward (66);...
Dates:
Sep 1946 - Apr 1954
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Literary: Curtis Brown Limited: business correspondence., 13 Dec 1937 - 10 Dec 1938
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/606
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Correspondents include: Representatives of Curtis Brown (21); copy letter from J Arthur Rank on a proposed film "Kitchener of Khartoum [Sudan]".Other subjects include: publication rights of WSC's Collier's magazine articles in the United Kingdom; details of articles for the Sunday Chronicle and WSC's American articles; the recording of "The River War" as a Talking Book for the Blind; an offer to syndicate contributions by WSC to the US press.Also includes: royalty statements for the Swedish...
Dates:
13 Dec 1937 - 10 Dec 1938
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Literary: Daily Telegraph articles by WSC 2., Jul 1938 - Sep 1938
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/612
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Includes annotated proofs, galley proofs and cuttings from the Telegraph (and regional newspapers carrying the article) for: "Acute Indigestion: Germany's Absorption of Austria", reporting on the situation in annexed Austria for Jews, Catholics, monarchists, Austrian Nazis, and workers; "Thoughts on the Royal Visit" to Paris, France, by King George VI and Queen Elizabeth [earlier the Duchess of York, later Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother], praising the visit for strengthening the ties...
Dates:
Jul 1938 - Sep 1938
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Literary: Daily Telegraph articles by WSC: 2., Apr 1939 - Jun 1939
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/646
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Includes annotated proofs, galley proofs and cuttings from the Telegraph (and the Belfast Telegraph) for: "Would Peace or War Better Serve Mussolini's Interests?" on Italy's violation of the Anglo-Italian Agreement particularly over the invasion of Albania, Italy's potential weakness in a Mediterranean war and WSC's hopes of the Italian people's reluctance to become involved in such a war; "President Roosevelt and Franco's choice" on Roosevelt's stance towards Europe and arguing for Spanish...
Dates:
Apr 1939 - Jun 1939
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Literary: "Great Contemporaries": copy., 04 May 1930 - 22 Jun 1937
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/578
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Annotated proofs, copy and press cuttings of the following articles by WSC: "The Truth About Douglas Haig"; on 1st Lord Haig; "Mr Lloyd George" on David Lloyd George; "Boris Savinkov" on his part in the Russian army on the Eastern Front, and fighting against the Bolsheviks; "Lord Ypres" on Sir John French; "B-P" on 1st Lord Baden-Powell; "Trotsky" on Leon Trotsky; "Hindenburg" on Field-Marshal Paul von Hindenburg; "The Tragic Story of Parnell" on Charles Parnell; "Lawrence of Arabia" on T E...
Dates:
04 May 1930 - 22 Jun 1937
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Literary: "Great Contemporaries": letters of thanks and congratulation., 24 Sep 1937 - 29 Dec 1937
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/549
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Correspondents include: Consuelo Balsan [earlier Consuelo, Duchess of Marlborough]; 1st Lord Baldwin of Bewdley; "Reggie" [Sir Reginald Barnes]; Sir Abe Bailey, commenting on 1st Lord Haldane having been suspected of German sympathies; Sir Bindon Blood; "Max" [1st Lord Beaverbrook, earlier Sir Max Aitken]'; "Mollie" [Margaret, Duchess of Buccleuch, earlier Margaret, Lady Dalkeith]; "Peggy" [Margaret, Lady Crewe]; Cecil, Lady Craigavon; Betty, Lady Cranborne [later Lady Salisbury]; Sir Arthur...
Dates:
24 Sep 1937 - 29 Dec 1937
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Literary: "Great Contemporaries": proofs., 28 May 1937 - 07 Sep 1938
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/586
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Annotated proofs of the following articles by WSC: "Lord Fisher and his Biographer" on Admiral Sir Reginald Bacon's appointment to and removal from the Dover Patrol (1915-1917) and Bacon's biography of 1st Lord Fisher, and also on Fisher's part as 1st Sea Lord and during the Dardanelles Campaign; "Charles Stewart Parnell" on Parnell, Home Rule for Ireland and Kitty O'Shea; "B-P" on 1st Lord Baden-Powell; "Roosevelt From Afar" on Franklin Roosevelt's economic and labour reforms.
Dates:
28 May 1937 - 07 Sep 1938
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Literary: Hearst newspaper articles: correspondence regarding publication in the United States., 18 Nov 1930 - 05 Aug 1937
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/813
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Includes telegrams from William Randolph Hearst and correspondence with editorial staff of Hearst newspapers.Subjects for articles include: trials in the Soviet Union; economic affairs; Spain; the League of Nations; the Rhineland; Palestine; serialisation rights to WSC's "The Eastern Front".Also includes: annotated copy of printed supplement to the Week-End Review entitled "A National Plan for Great Britain", 14 Feb 1931.
Dates:
18 Nov 1930 - 05 Aug 1937
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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Literary: "Into Battle": correspondence regarding publication in the United Kingdom and around the world of a collection of WSC's speeches., 03 Apr 1940 - 19 Apr 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/803
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: H Aubrey Gentry [Director of Cassell and Company Ltd] (55); Lord Halifax [earlier Edward Wood, then Lord Irwin, British Ambassador in the United States] (2); Sir Geoffrey Callender [Director of the National Maritime Museum] (3); Brendan Bracken (7); Randolph Churchill [son of WSC] (4); Sir Newman Flower [Director of Cassell and Company Ltd] (2); 11th Lord Lothian [earlier Philip Kerr] (1); Desmond Flower [Director of Cassell and Company Ltd] (4); George Harvie Watt...
Dates:
03 Apr 1940 - 19 Apr 1945
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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Literary: lists of recordings by WSC and cuttings from "Into Battle" and "The Unrelenting Struggle"., [1941] - 1948
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/3
Scope and Contents
Includes lists of recordings from the above books, "The Gathering Storm" [volume 1 of "The Second World War"], and "The World Crisis"; pages cut from: "Into Battle" featuring WSC's speeches (13 May, 28 May, 4 June, 18 June, and 20 August 1940) on becoming Prime Minister, the fall of Belgium, the evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force from Dunkirk [France], and the role of the RAF in the Battle of Britain; and "The Unrelenting Struggle" featuring WSC's joint messages with President...
Dates:
[1941] - 1948
Conditions Governing Access:
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Literary: miscellaneous correspondence, K-Z., Oct 1947 - Feb 1951
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/45
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Ernest Passant, Director of Research, Librarian and Keeper of the Papers, Foreign Office, and Sir Orme Sargent [Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs] on publishing letters by WSC in "Documents on British Foreign Policy" by Llewellyn Woodward; Anthony Moir of Fladgate and Company [WSC's solicitor]; Daniel Longwell [editor of Life magazine]; 1st Lord Camrose [earlier Sir William Berry, Editor-in-Chief] of the Daily Telegraph; representatives of the...
Dates:
Oct 1947 - Feb 1951
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Literary: News of the World articles by WSC 1., Apr 1938 - May 1938
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/614
Scope and Contents
Includes annotated proofs, galley proofs and cuttings from the News of the World for: "How Wars of the Future will be Waged" on the importance of the horse in the Boer War, of machine-guns and tanks in World War I, the need for foresight and initiative amongst generals, and the importance of air power in a future conflict; "Future Safeguards of National Defence" on the importance of the Navy to national defence, the German submarine campaign in World War I, the threat of air attacks on ships...
Dates:
Apr 1938 - May 1938
Conditions Governing Access:
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Literary: offers, foreign rights, and miscellaneous correspondence., Feb 1945 - Aug 1947
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/7A-B
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: [William] Surrey Dane (2); representatives of the BBC (4); representatives of Nicholl, Manisty, Few and Company, solicitors (8); William Chenery, Publisher of Collier's Magazine (20); Charles Eade, [Editor] of the Sunday Dispatch, on "Forever Again"; Guy Schofield, Editor of the Evening News; Charles Curran, Features Editor, Evening Standard, on WSC's opinion of cartoonist David Low; Robert Lusty, director of Michael Joseph Limited (2); [Geoffrey] Mason of Lloyds Bank...
Dates:
Feb 1945 - Aug 1947
Conditions Governing Access:
Open