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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 1689 Collections and/or Records:

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[Two women sat between pillars], British Aviation Mission, U.S.A., 1918, 1918

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/2/7
Scope and Contents

80 x 125 mm. Exact location unidentified, but probably Mephis, Tennessee .

Dates: 1918
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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[Tymms and horse], 1950

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/19/273
Scope and Contents

72 x 73 mm. Frederick Tymms standing with a horse, possibly at Belvoir, Virginia.

Dates: 1950
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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[Tymms on horseback], Grand Canyon, British Aviation Mission, U.S.A., September 1918, 1918-09

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/2/18
Scope and Contents

80 x 110 mm.

Dates: 1918-09
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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Typical scenery. N. Mex., 1918

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/3/122
Scope and Contents

68 x 47 mm.

Dates: 1918
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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U. K. Civil Aviation Mission - Honolulu, Numalia Hotel, 1948-08

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/20/65
Scope and Contents

90 x 140 mm. Photograph of the beach looking out to sea, taken at night.

Dates: 1948-08
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

Under many flags: my pilgrimage

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 15
Scope and Contents

An account of a journey undertook in 1953-1954 to Hong Kong, Thailand, Japan, Manila, North Borneo, Indonesia, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Sierra Leone, the Gold Coast and the U.S.A. The volumes are undated, but the last entry in the epilogue is dated 1957.

Dates: 1957
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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Union Point, 6/10/18, 1918-10-06

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/1/221
Scope and Contents

110 x 70 mm. Showing Tymms and three women on horseback.

Dates: 1918-10-06
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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Union Point, 6/10/18, 1918-10-06

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/1/232
Scope and Contents

110 x 70 mm. Showing three men and a woman mounted on horses, with a spare horse between them.

Dates: 1918-10-06
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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United States, Europe and Africa, 1918 - 1924

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/3
Scope and Contents

Photographs taken in the United States (1918), S.W. England (1919), Europe (1920), Egypt and Sudan (1920), England and Wales (1920-1), Jersey (1921), Germany (1923), Saundersfoot (1923) and Spitsbergen (1924). Fifteen loose photographs from the album are in plastic sleeves.

Dates: 1918 - 1924
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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(Untitled), 01 Jul 1904

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 1/43/5-9
Scope and Contents

Letter from W Bourke Cockran to WSC, suggesting that he should visit the United States and observe the Presidential Election.

Dates: 01 Jul 1904
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 18 Jul 1894

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 1/2/86
Scope and Contents

Letter from Lord Randolph Churchill, Bar Harbour Malvern Hotel, Maine, to WSC, on Lord and Lady Randolph's visit to the United States and Canada, and on WSC's proposed visit to Germany.

Dates: 18 Jul 1894
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 21 Aug 1894

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 1/2/87
Scope and Contents

Letter from Lord Randolph Churchill, Hotel del Monte, California, to WSC, on WSC's desire to join the cavalry rather than the 60th Rifles, pointing out that the Duke of Cambridge would be extremely angry, and that he would also oppose the change strongly, also on Lord and Lady Randolph's visit to the United States, and forthcoming Voyage to Japan.

Dates: 21 Aug 1894
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 29 Aug 1941

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 1/362/28-32
Scope and Contents Letter from WSC to Randolph Churchill, news of discussions with Brigadier Eric Shearer on the Middle East campaign, also on meeting with Franklin Roosevelt, President of the United States, in [Placentia Bay], Newfoundland [Canada], where they made a deep and intimate contact of friendship, commenting of the difficulty of bringing the United States boldly and honourably into the War, also on the health of CSC, the work of Mary Churchill [later Mary Soames] as an anti-aircraft gunner, and the...
Dates: 29 Aug 1941
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 25 Dec 1939

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 19/2C/274-276
Scope and Contents

Letter from WSC to Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain reporting success against magnetic mines, expressing concern about American isolationism and possible German interests in Scandinavia. [carbon, with manuscript annotations by WSC].

Dates: 25 Dec 1939
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open.
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(Untitled), 25 Dec 1939

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 19/4/38
Scope and Contents

Printed memorandum from WSC on "The American Zionist Organisation and His Majesty's Government's Policy in Palestine".

Dates: 25 Dec 1939
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 21 May 1940

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/2A/3
Scope and Contents

Letter from WSC to A V Alexander [First Lord of the Admiralty] on exchange of technical information with the United States. [Carbon].

Dates: 21 May 1940
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 15 Dec 1940

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/2B/155
Scope and Contents

Letter from WSC to Sir Auckland Geddes [former British Ambassador to the United States] on the death of 11th Lord Lothian [late British Ambassador to the United States, earlier Philip Kerr]. [Carbon].

Dates: 15 Dec 1940
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 26 Dec 1940

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/2B/175
Scope and Contents

Letter from WSC to 1st Lord McGowan on his suggested appointment of [? Arthur] Purvis as British Ambassador to the United States, and the actual appointment of Lord Halifax [earlier Edward Wood and Lord Irwin]. [Carbon].

Dates: 26 Dec 1940
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 01 Aug 1940

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/9B/177
Scope and Contents

Telegram from 11th Lord Lothian [British Ambassador to the United States, earlier Philip Kerr] to Foreign Office on unfavourable United States newspaper reports that the ship of the Duke of Windsor [earlier King Edward VIII and Edward, Prince of Wales] will be accompanied by a convoy in breach of United States neutrality; Lothian will maintain that "I have no precise knowledge about His Royal Highness's plans or arrangements". [Copy].

Dates: 01 Aug 1940
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 24 Aug 1940

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/9B/179
Scope and Contents

Telegram from 11th Lord Lothian [British Ambassador to the United States, earlier Philip Kerr] to Foreign Office advising that a visit by the Duke of Windsor [earlier King Edward VIII and Edward, Prince of Wales] to the United States would attract undesirable publicity and commercial interest, and place pressure on the President to receive him in Washington; advises waiting until after November Presidential elections. [Copy].

Dates: 24 Aug 1940
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 24 Sep 1940 - 26 Sep 1940

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/9B/186-189
Scope and Contents Letter from John Balfour [Foreign Office] to Harold Beckett [Colonial Office], with telegram from 11th Lord Lothian [British Ambassador to the United States, earlier Philip Kerr] on the reaction by President Franklin Roosevelt to a visit by the Duke of Windsor [Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Bahamas, earlier King Edward VIII and Edward, Prince of Wales] to the United States "in no circumstances ... before the election" however the President intended to visit Eleuthera Island...
Dates: 24 Sep 1940 - 26 Sep 1940
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 03 Oct 1940

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/9B/193
Scope and Contents

Telegram from Foreign Office to 11th Lord Lothian [British Ambassador to the United States, earlier Philip Kerr] suggesting that Franklin Roosevelt [President of the United States] should give notice of his desire to visit the Bahamas and that the subject of the visit by the Duke of Windsor [Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Bahamas, earlier King Edward VIII and Edward, Prince of Wales] to the United States be dropped. [Copy].

Dates: 03 Oct 1940
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 14 May 1940

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/11/68-70
Scope and Contents

Letter from Leo Amery to WSC asking for Sir Hugh O'Neill [later 1st Lord Rathcavan] as his Under-Secretary of State; refers to [Harold] Macmillan [later 1st Lord Stockton], "Dick" [Richard] Law [later 1st Lord Coleraine], [Robert] Boothby, [Lord] Cranborne [earlier Robert Gascoyne Cecil, later 5th Lord Salisbury], [Paul] Emrys-Evans, and [Clement] Davies. [typescript] Encloses letter from Norman ?[Robotham; page damaged] on WSC's popularity in San Francisco [United States]. [manuscript].

Dates: 14 May 1940
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 10 Mar 1941

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/21B/134-135
Scope and Contents

Letter from WSC to the First Lord of the Admiralty [A V Alexander] advising that, at the suggestion of Lord Halifax [British Ambassador to the United States, earlier Edward Wood and Lord Irwin], Sir Arthur Salter [Parliamentary Secretary to Ministry of Shipping] should be sent to explain British import and shipping needs to the United States Government.

Dates: 10 Mar 1941
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 10 Mar 1941

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/21B/136
Scope and Contents

Letter from WSC to Sir Andrew Duncan [Minister of Supply] ascertaining whether there would be any objection to Sir Arthur Salter [Parliamentary Secretary to Ministry of Shipping] becoming a member of the British Supply Council in the United States.

Dates: 10 Mar 1941
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open