United States (nation)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 1689 Collections and/or Records:
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(Untitled), 10 Dec 1948
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 5/22B/302-352
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Speech notes for WSC's speech (10 December, House of Commons) on foreign affairs including: the partition of Ireland and imperial preference; relations with the United States; the achievements of General Dwight Eisenhower; government policy regarding Germany and assistance to the people of Berlin; the progress of European integration; affairs in Palestine and Spain; and the likelihood of war with the Soviet Union.Typescript speaking notes laid out in "psalm style" to aid delivery with...
Dates:
10 Dec 1948
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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(Untitled), [Oct 1945]
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/3/105
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Copy of a message from WSC to Prime Minister [Clement Attlee] marked "personal and secret" about the text of a draft message for [Harry Truman, President of the United States, from Attlee] in which he questions what [Attlee] wishes the Americans to do about sharing information about atomic weapons with the Soviet Union and a reference to an "Act of Faith"; discusses the importance of security in world policy and the timing of a United Nations conference; WSC's agreement with President...
Dates:
[Oct 1945]
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Open
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(Untitled), 10 Oct 1946
Unknown
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/4/48-50
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Copy of a letter from WSC to Clement Attlee, Prime Minister, marked "personal and private" thanking him for his draft speech on the Roosevelt Memorial Bill; promising to write again about a publication; and discussing demobilisation figures and the possibility of war with the Soviet Union, noting that the Russians are hampered by two reasons "their virtue and self restraint. The second, the possession by the United States of the Atomic bomb."Carbon typescript signed with initials.
Dates:
10 Oct 1946
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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(Untitled), 06 Oct 1946
Unknown
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/4/61-63
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Copy of a letter from WSC (28, Hyde Park Gate, London) to Clement Attlee, Prime Minister, marked "private" in which he discusses subjects including: publication of their correspondence; information about Soviet forces in Europe; and the Atomic bomb and his agreement with the President [Franklin Roosevelt] that the United Kingdom is entitled to a share of information as well as to bombs. He ends by noting that he feels the public should be informed about the lack of consultation between the...
Dates:
06 Oct 1946
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Open
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(Untitled), 2-3 Dec 1950
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/28/121-124
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Letter from Clement Attlee, Prime Minister (10, Downing Street) to WSC marked "top secret" enclosing a note about the circumstances in which the clause in the Quebec Agreement was allowed to lapse which provided that neither the United States nor the United Kingdom would use the [atomic] bomb against third parties without the consent of the other. He explains: that the Americans were keen to get rid of the clause because Congress had not been informed about it and it went beyond the terms...
Dates:
2-3 Dec 1950
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Open
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(Untitled), 24 Mar 1951
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/28/126
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Letter from Harry Truman [President of the United States] (The White House, Washington) to WSC explaining that he does not wish to publish the Quebec Agreement as requested by WSC because it will lead to requests for information about the current status of collaboration between the United Kingdom, Canada and the United States and that this would jeopardise the countries and NATO Allies.Signed typescript.
Dates:
24 Mar 1951
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Open
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(Untitled), 16 Feb 1951
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/28/127-128
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Letter from Harry Truman [President of the United States] (The White House, Washington) to WSC in response to a personal note from WSC attached to his request to publish the Quebec Agreement. He discusses opposition in Congress to his efforts to carry out the Atlantic Treaty and asks WSC not to press him further, explaining that it will lead to unfortunate repercussions and embarassment and that it may ruin his whole defense program, "Your country's welfare and mine are at stake in that...
Dates:
16 Feb 1951
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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(Untitled), 12 Feb 1951
Unknown
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/28/132-134
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Copy of a letter from WSC to the President of the United States [Harry Truman] asking for the publication of the 1943 Quebec Agreement, arguing that the British Parliament should have access to the facts, that consent from the British government would be needed to use the US air bases in East Anglia for the atomic bomb and this would strengthen the ties between the two countries. He ends by congratulating [Truman] on events in Korea and the Eisenhower mission. Unsigned carbon typescript.
Dates:
12 Feb 1951
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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(Untitled), 24 Sep 1947
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/158/47
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Copy of a letter from WSC to President Harry Truman, sent with Lewis Douglas [United States Ambassador to Great Britain], expressing admiration for Truman's policies and efforts to "save the world from famine and war"; explaining that he would like to visit the United States but needs to remain because of the political situation; predicting success for the Conservatives in the event of an election; and expressing his support.Unsigned typescript copy with note that the original was...
Dates:
24 Sep 1947
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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(Untitled), 29 Jan 1946
Unknown
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/158/68-69
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Copy of a letter from WSC (As from 5905, North Bay Road, Miami Beach, Florida) to President Harry Truman including: thanks for the use of a plane which he intends to use to travel to Cuba; the possibility that he will travel to Veracruz [Mexico] to paint; arrangements to meet with Truman to discuss WSC's planned message at Fulton [Missouri, United States]), commenting "I think it very likely that we shall be in full agreement about it. Under your auspices anything I say will command some...
Dates:
29 Jan 1946
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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(Untitled), 18 Jul 1955
Unknown
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/217/75-78
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Copy of a letter from WSC to Dwight Eisenhower, President of the Unites States, apologising for delay in replying to his letters; discussing his "feeling of both relief and denudation" after resigning as Prime Minister; expressing satisfaction with the timing of his resignation and the abilities of [Anthony Eden, later 1st Lord Avon] and with the prospect that a summit meeting with the Soviet Union will take place; and commenting that he is not in favour of nuclear saturation although he...
Dates:
18 Jul 1955
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Open
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(Untitled), 15 Jul 1955
Unknown
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/217/79
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Letter from "Ike" Dwight Eisenhower, President of the United States (The White House) to WSC on the forthcoming Four Power summit meeting at Geneva [Switzerland] between the United Kingdom, United States, Soviet Union and France. He expresses sadness that WSC will not be present at the meeting and says they will be inspired by WSC's "long quest for peace". Signed typescript.
Dates:
15 Jul 1955
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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(Untitled), 03 Oct 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/230B/349-350
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Letter from F McCluer, President, Westminster College, Fulton, Missouri [United States] to WSC inviting him to deliver the Green Lecture(s) in 1945-6 at Westminster College, expressing the hope that "any discussions coming from you and delivered from this forum...will be of immense and enduring significance, and will promote the international understanding requisite to the maintenance of peace", informing him that there will be an honorarium, and suggesting publication of the lecture. He...
Dates:
03 Oct 1945
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Open
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(Untitled), 06 Apr 1963
Unknown
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/539B/157-159
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Draft/copy letter from WSC to President [John Kennedy] thanking him for the honour of Honorary Citizenship of the United States; on his links with the United States beginning with his father's marriage; the links between the United States and Great Britain and the "unity of the English-speaking peoples". Unsigned carbon typescript.
Dates:
06 Apr 1963
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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[U.S. and J. Co’s Stage Coach, Yosemite Valley], 1885
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3089C/62
Scope and Contents
182 x 110 mm. A view on a woodland road, showing a stage coach with passengers and a team of six horses.
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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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New Zealand and America
Sub-Series
U.S.A. papers, 1940 - 1944
Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 33/5/14
Scope and Contents
Correspondence and papers regarding cable issues in the U.S.A.
Dates:
1940 - 1944
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).
File
“USA”: personal correspondence, 1918-03, 1927 - 1929
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/RBTN 2/25
Scope and Contents
Includes: letter from MAR to Theo Russell asking for advice on whether to leave the Foreign Office in 1918; letters to MAR from his brother-in-law Fay Ingalls, 1927-29, on the political and economic situation in the United States, and letter from Sir [Joseph] Austen Chamberlain, Foreign Secretary, commenting on Ingalls's view.
Dates:
1918-03; 1927 - 1929
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Ute Pass [Ute Pass, Maniton], 1885
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3089C/96
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153 x 254 mm. Another fine photograph looking down on the road which threads its way through the pass, with a river and waterfalls to the left of the road. In the distance men can be seen standing beside the road near a pony trap. They appear to be looking at part of the road’s fencing which has collapsed, either through landslide or subsidence. The Ute Pass, which lies just north of Pike’s Peak and rises to a height of 7600 feet used to be one of the main routes used by miners on their way...
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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
/
New Zealand and America
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[Vernal Fall, 350 feet], 1885
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3089C/76
Scope and Contents
110 x 182 mm. A finely composed view, taken from some way downstream showing the curtain-like falls, with a mountain in the background, and in the foreground the stream rushing over rocks towards the camera.
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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
/
New Zealand and America
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Vernal Falls, 1918-10
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/2/30
Scope and Contents
80 x 125 mm.
Dates:
1918-10
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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Vernal Falls, Yosemite, 6/10/18, 1918-10-06
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/1/199
Scope and Contents
50 x 70 mm.
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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Vernal Falls, Yosemite, 6/10/18, 1918-10-06
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/1/200
Scope and Contents
50 x 70 mm.
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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Vernal Falls, Yosemite, 6/10/18, 1918-10-06
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/1/206
Scope and Contents
50 x 70 mm. A view of the falls from above.
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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[View across Pago Pago harbour towards Mount Pioa], 1903
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y309993C(LS)/1
Scope and Contents
Smithson has pencilled '1 22/1' at the top of the accompanying typescript.
Dates:
1903
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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[View across road], 1903
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y309993C(LS)/105
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
A collection of glass lantern slides, 82 x 82 mm, mostly of Samoa, taken by John Snowden Smithson. Smithson visited Samoa on holiday and presumably the remaining slides (5 of them unidentified, 13 of Yosemite National Park and 10 of Ceylon), together with a map, date from the same period. None of the slides are captioned, but the first 91 slides have numbers on their left hand corners, running from 20/10 to 30/9, with a few gaps, and presumably represent the sequence in which the...
Dates:
1903
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).