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"Perils abroad and at home", 09 Oct 1948

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 5/21A/1-68
Scope and Contents Speech notes for WSC's speech (Annual Conservative Party Conference, Llandudno, Wales) entitled "Perils abroad and at home" on subjects including: the recovery of the Conservative Party since 1945; the part played by Wales in British affairs; relations with the Soviet Union and the likelihood of a third world war; the degeneration of the United Nations; the importance of nuclear weapons belonging to the United States in countering the threat posed by the Soviet Union; the importance of...
Dates: 09 Oct 1948
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Personal: Business: correspondence with Associated American Artists, Hallmark Cards, Soho Gallery Limited on reproducing WSC's paintings as Christmas cards and postcards., 1947 - 1960

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 1/26A-B
Scope and Contents Correspondents include: representatives of the Soho Publishing Company (Soho Gallery) (21); representatives of Fladgate and Company, particularly Anthony Moir [WSC's solicitor] (101); representatives of Associated American Artists (3); [William] Surrey Dane of Odhams Press Limited (2); representatives of Hall Brothers Incorporated (Hallmark Cards), including its President, Joyce Hall (some in a private capacity) (33); representatives of Foote, Cone and Belding Limited, public relations (12);...
Dates: 1947 - 1960
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Personal: During Visit to Canada and the United States: Correspondence., 1929

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 1/207
Scope and Contents From the Series: These are the papers relating to the activities of WSC as a private person. They include correspondence with or about his family and friends on non-public topics, and papers relating to his personal, financial and legal affairs, and his social life. For the purposes of this arrangement, his activities in the Regular and Territorial Armies, in Cuba and during the Boer War in South Africa, and as a painter, have been regarded as personal. For the period 1940-1945 material of a personal nature...
Dates: 1929
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Personal: During Visit to Canada and the United States: Correspondence., Oct 1929

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 1/208
Scope and Contents From the Series: These are the papers relating to the activities of WSC as a private person. They include correspondence with or about his family and friends on non-public topics, and papers relating to his personal, financial and legal affairs, and his social life. For the purposes of this arrangement, his activities in the Regular and Territorial Armies, in Cuba and during the Boer War in South Africa, and as a painter, have been regarded as personal. For the period 1940-1945 material of a personal nature...
Dates: Oct 1929
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Personal: During visit to the United States and Canada, correspondence O-W., 01 Dec 1931 - 31 Mar 1932

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 1/400A-B
Scope and Contents From the Series: These are the papers relating to the activities of WSC as a private person. They include correspondence with or about his family and friends on non-public topics, and papers relating to his personal, financial and legal affairs, and his social life. For the purposes of this arrangement, his activities in the Regular and Territorial Armies, in Cuba and during the Boer War in South Africa, and as a painter, have been regarded as personal. For the period 1940-1945 material of a personal nature...
Dates: 01 Dec 1931 - 31 Mar 1932
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Personal: During visit to United States and Canada, correspondence A-E, 05 Dec 1931 - 09 Mar 1932

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 1/398A-B
Scope and Contents From the Series: These are the papers relating to the activities of WSC as a private person. They include correspondence with or about his family and friends on non-public topics, and papers relating to his personal, financial and legal affairs, and his social life. For the purposes of this arrangement, his activities in the Regular and Territorial Armies, in Cuba and during the Boer War in South Africa, and as a painter, have been regarded as personal. For the period 1940-1945 material of a personal nature...
Dates: 05 Dec 1931 - 09 Mar 1932
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Personal: During [WSC's] visit to the United States and Canada: Correspondence F - N., 01 Dec 1931 - 31 Mar 1932

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 1/399A-B
Scope and Contents From the Series: These are the papers relating to the activities of WSC as a private person. They include correspondence with or about his family and friends on non-public topics, and papers relating to his personal, financial and legal affairs, and his social life. For the purposes of this arrangement, his activities in the Regular and Territorial Armies, in Cuba and during the Boer War in South Africa, and as a painter, have been regarded as personal. For the period 1940-1945 material of a personal nature...
Dates: 01 Dec 1931 - 31 Mar 1932
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Personal: Family etc.: correspondence A - Churchill, Lady C (CSC)., 26 Oct 1951 - Apr 1955

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 1/50A-B
Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Consuelo Balsan [earlier Consuelo, Duchess of Marlborough] on her memoirs, "The Glitter and the Gold", including her criticism of Henry Asquith [1st Lord Oxford and Asquith] and Margot Asquith [Margot, Lady Oxford and Asquith] (9); Cass Canfield, Chairman of Harper and Brothers, Publishers (2); Sarah Beauchamp, "Mule" [earlier Sarah Churchill, then Sarah Oliver, later Sarah, Lady Audley], on subjects including Oscar Nemon's sculpture of WSC, the death of Queen Mary...
Dates: 26 Oct 1951 - Apr 1955
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Personal: Financial: income tax and surtax correspondence., 06 Mar 1940 - 22 Oct 1958

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 1/7
Scope and Contents Correspondents on WSC's tax, financial, and investments position include: representatives of Fladgate and Company, particularly Anthony Moir [WSC's solicitor], (20); representatives of Lloyds Bank, particularly Geoffrey Mason, (29); representatives of Cassell and Company, including a Director, Desmond Flower, (2); Andrew Heiskell, [General Manager] of Life Magazine; John Wood of Wood, Willey, and Company [WSC's accountants] (50); Henry Luce [owner of Time magazine]; William Whitney, London...
Dates: 06 Mar 1940 - 22 Oct 1958
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Personal: Financial: Lloyds Bank, First National Bank of New York [United States]., Aug 1951 - Jun 1956

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 1/14A-B
Scope and Contents Includes correspondence from: representatives of Lloyds Bank, Cox's and King's Branch, London, including Geoffrey Mason, on managing WSC's accounts (188); Richard Griffiths [Assistant Secretary, Treasury]; representatives of Fladgate and Company, including Anthony Moir [WSC's solicitor] (9); Sverker Astrom [Counsellor at Swedish Embassy, London] on WSC's Nobel prize money; representatives of the First National Bank (4). Also includes notes and copies of correspondence from secretaries Jo...
Dates: Aug 1951 - Jun 1956
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Personal: Visit to Canada and the United States: Correspondence., 25 Jul 1928 - 30 Jul 1929

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 1/206
Scope and Contents From the Series: These are the papers relating to the activities of WSC as a private person. They include correspondence with or about his family and friends on non-public topics, and papers relating to his personal, financial and legal affairs, and his social life. For the purposes of this arrangement, his activities in the Regular and Territorial Armies, in Cuba and during the Boer War in South Africa, and as a painter, have been regarded as personal. For the period 1940-1945 material of a personal nature...
Dates: 25 Jul 1928 - 30 Jul 1929
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Personal: Visit to Canada and the United States: Visiting cards, souvenirs, etc., 1929

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 1/209
Scope and Contents From the Series: These are the papers relating to the activities of WSC as a private person. They include correspondence with or about his family and friends on non-public topics, and papers relating to his personal, financial and legal affairs, and his social life. For the purposes of this arrangement, his activities in the Regular and Territorial Armies, in Cuba and during the Boer War in South Africa, and as a painter, have been regarded as personal. For the period 1940-1945 material of a personal nature...
Dates: 1929
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Peter Fripp, Niagara, May, British Aviation Mission, U.S.A., 1918, 1918-05

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/2/12
Scope and Contents

80 x 125 mm.

Dates: 1918-05
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
 Sub-Series

Photograph album, 1928-06 - 1928-11

 Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 353/2
Scope and Contents

Album of mostly 80 x 54 mm prints. There is a brief list describing items 1-98, which document the trip from Southampton to South Africa, travel in South Africa, and the visit to Southern Rhodesia. Many photos do not appear in the exact numerical order given in the listing. The rest of the images are uncaptioned, but their general locations have been identified by reference to the diary RCMS 353/1.

Dates: 1928-06 - 1928-11
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
 Sub-Fonds

Photograph of an early painting of New York, 1960 - 1989

 Sub-Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 240/4
Scope and Contents

Two undated copies of a photograph, 12'' x 10'', of an early, untitled oil painting of New York, c. 1700. There is an accompanying typescript note containing descriptive references, but no details of the origins of the picture.

Dates: 1960 - 1989
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Photographs, 1928

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 353/3
Scope and Contents

A file of loose photographs, several taken aboard the cruise ship ‘Demosthenes’.

Dates: 1928
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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[Photographs and books relating to Louis Botha, Jan Smuts, J.B.M. Herzog and J.H. Hammond], 1939

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305T/5
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: A set of photographs (glossy prints, 190 x 245 mm) of the Howell Wright Collection of Rhodesiana and South Africana as exhibited at the Cleveland (Ohio) Public Library prior to its presentation to the Sterling Memorial Library of Yale University. The collection features pictures, maps, documents, etc., relating to Cecil Rhodes, Paul Kruger, Dr L.S. Jameson, Louis Botha, Jan Smuts, Barney Barnato, the Americans F.R. Burnham and J.H. Hammond, and others. The photographs show the display...
Dates: 1939
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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[Photographs, letter and books relating to President Kruger and W.J. Leyds], 1939

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305T/4
Scope and Contents

The reverse of the photograph is annotated ''Coins of the Union of So. Africa' should read: 'Coins of the Transvaal Republic''.

Dates: 1939
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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[Photographs, letter and books relating to Sir L.S. Jameson and Barney Barnato], 1939

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305T/6
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: A set of photographs (glossy prints, 190 x 245 mm) of the Howell Wright Collection of Rhodesiana and South Africana as exhibited at the Cleveland (Ohio) Public Library prior to its presentation to the Sterling Memorial Library of Yale University. The collection features pictures, maps, documents, etc., relating to Cecil Rhodes, Paul Kruger, Dr L.S. Jameson, Louis Botha, Jan Smuts, Barney Barnato, the Americans F.R. Burnham and J.H. Hammond, and others. The photographs show the display...
Dates: 1939
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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[Photographs, letters and books relating to Rhodes, Jameson and Kitchener], 1939

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305T/7
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: A set of photographs (glossy prints, 190 x 245 mm) of the Howell Wright Collection of Rhodesiana and South Africana as exhibited at the Cleveland (Ohio) Public Library prior to its presentation to the Sterling Memorial Library of Yale University. The collection features pictures, maps, documents, etc., relating to Cecil Rhodes, Paul Kruger, Dr L.S. Jameson, Louis Botha, Jan Smuts, Barney Barnato, the Americans F.R. Burnham and J.H. Hammond, and others. The photographs show the display...
Dates: 1939
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
 Fonds

Photographs of Southeast Asia, Indonesia, Pacific Islands, the United States and Africa

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y302K
Dates: 1949 - 1953
Conditions Governing Access: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
 Fonds

Photographs of the West Indies

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y307A
Scope and Contents An album of predominantly commercial photographs of varying size. Each photograph is mounted on the album page with a short typescript caption beside it. These captions appear to have been added at a later date. A small number of the photographs are professional prints and have captions within them as well. The photographs are chiefly views of places in the West Indies, together with a few portraits. They mainly show Jamaica, Saint Kitts and Guyana but the album also includes images of...
Dates: 1880 - 1889
Conditions Governing Access: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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[Pike’s Peak through Twins in Garden of the Gods], 1885

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3089C/93
Scope and Contents

250 x 151 mm. A view looking out through a gap (or cave mouth) in the rocks known as the Siamese twins, across scrubland towards Pike’s Peak, a 14,110 feet mountain which likes ten miles west of Colorado Springs in the southern part of the Front Range in the Rocky Mountains. Photograph by Jackson (the initials are dimly visible in a dark area of the print, and look as though they have actually been written on the rock before the photograph was taken).

Dates: 1885
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Pine Forest, Hattiesberg [Hattiesburg], 1879 - 1913

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y307G/53
Scope and Contents

115 x 180 mm. This appears to be a photograph of Mississippi's Pine Belt region.

Dates: 1879 - 1913
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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[Playing cricket], North hero, 1949-07

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/20/176
Scope and Contents

125 x 80 mm. Madame Verhagen and a girl playing cricket.

Dates: 1949-07
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).