United States (nation)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 1689 Collections and/or Records:
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(Untitled), 08 Aug 1954
Unknown
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 6/3A/28-29
Scope and Contents
Copy of a letter from WSC to [Dwight Eisenhower, President of the United States] marked "private and secret" in which he discusses his need to do his duty; explains that he is not seeking a "dramatic exit" but feels that East-West liaison through Foreign Offices will not produce a decisive result; and explains the reasons for his belief that there should be a summit meeting between himself, [Eisenhower], and the new leaders of the Soviet Union. Unsigned typescript.
Dates:
08 Aug 1954
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Unknown
(Untitled), 08 Jul 1954
Unknown
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 6/3A/40-41
Scope and Contents
Copy of a telegram from WSC to Dwight Eisenhower, President of the United States, marked "top secret" in which he explains why he sent a telegram to [Vyacheslav] Molotov [Soviet Foreign Minister] without submitting it to Eisenhower; asks him to re-read recent correspondence; re-affirms his conviction that there should be a summit meeting with the Soviet Union; discusses Molotov's reply and the likelihood that the Soviet Union may welcome domestic prosperity and international contacts; and...
Dates:
08 Jul 1954
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Unknown
(Untitled), 24 Mar 1954
Unknown
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 6/3A/60-64
Scope and Contents
Copy of a letter from WSC to [Dwight Eisenhower] President of the United States marked "private & personal" on East West trade; explaining his hopes to ease relations with the Soviet Union and that development of life in the Soviet Union and enjoyment of consumer goods may relax the "grim discipline"; he feels that weapons and military equipment should not be exported to the Soviet Union, but that the export of many items should not be banned because they might be used for military...
Dates:
24 Mar 1954
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Unknown
(Untitled), 08 Mar 1954
Unknown
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 6/3A/66-68
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Copy of a letter from WSC to [Dwight Eisenhower] President of the United States marked "most secret and confidential" on subjects including: agreement between the United Kingdom and the United States on key principles; the nuclear test at Eniwetok Atoll and implications for London "I am told that several million people would certainly be obliterated by four or five of the latest H bombs"; statements by Sterling Cole; the Soviet Union's nuclear capability; the responsibility conferred by the...
Dates:
08 Mar 1954
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Unknown
(Untitled), 01 Jul 1953
Unknown
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 6/3A/92-93
Scope and Contents
Copy of a letter from WSC to "Ike" [Dwight Eisenhower], President of the United States marked "most secret and personal" in which he explains that he suffered a stroke which paralysed his left side and affected his speech and so was not able to accompany him as planned. He discusses a previous stroke in 1949 which has been kept secret, and hopes that he will be able to continue to pursue his "theme". He also discusses negotiations with Egypt and expresses confidence in [5th Lord] Salisbury...
Dates:
01 Jul 1953
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Unknown
(Untitled), 04 May 1953
Unknown
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 6/3A/113
Scope and Contents
Copy of a telegram from WSC to Dwight Eisenhower, President of the United States, with a draft of a proposed personal message from WSC to [Vyacheslav] Molotov [Soviet Foreign Minister] suggesting that he visits Moscow, because of the illness of [Anthony] Eden [later 1st Lord Avon], in order to "restore an easy and friendly basis" between the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union. Carbon typescript.
Dates:
04 May 1953
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Unknown
(Untitled), 05 April 1953
Unknown
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 6/3A/124
Scope and Contents
Telegram from WSC to Dwight Eisenhower, President of the United States, marked "personal and private" on the improvement in the Soviet "mood" and the need for continued vigilance and defensive rearmament; explaining that the British Ambassador to the Soviet Union [Sir William Hayter] has been instructed to settle minor points with the Soviets; and the need for close co-operation. Typescript.
Dates:
05 April 1953
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Unknown
(Untitled), 22 Jul 1954
Unknown
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 6/3B/176-180
Scope and Contents
Copy of a letter from "Ike" [Dwight Eisenhower, President of the United States] (The White House) to WSC marked "eyes only- top secret" in which he reflects on WSC's desires to make a joint pronouncement; to transfer responsibility to his successor [Anthony Eden, later 1st Lord Avon]; and to achieve a recognisable milestone towards peace which [Eisenhower] feels lies behind WSC's attempts to meet [Vyacheslav] Molotov [Soviet Union Foreign Minister]. He suggests that WSC might make a speech...
Dates:
22 Jul 1954
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Unknown
(Untitled), 25 Apr 1953
Unknown
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 6/3B/209-210
Scope and Contents
Copy of a letter from "Ike" [Dwight Eisenhower, President of the United States] (The White House, Washington) to WSC marked "top secret" thanking him for his comments on his speech. He feels that they should not rush the next step with the Soviet Union and should delay seeking a Four Power summit or personal contact, although he asks for as much notice as possible should WSC seek personal contact "for some special and local reason." Typescript.
Dates:
25 Apr 1953
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Unknown
(Untitled), 07 Jul 1954
Unknown
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 6/3C/234-235
Scope and Contents
Copy of a letter from "Ike" [Dwight Eisenhower] President of the United States to WSC commenting "You did not let any grass grow under your feet"; asking for advance notice of any public announcement about WSC's personal message to the Soviet Union; discussing a possible statement by Eisenhower; emphasising the importance of delicate handling to avoid the impression that Eisenhower had sanctioned the approach, or that there was disagreement between the United Kingdom and the United States....
Dates:
07 Jul 1954
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Unknown
(Untitled), 09 Feb 1954
Unknown
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 6/3C/241-242
Scope and Contents
Copy of a letter from "Ike" [Dwight Eisenhower, President of the United States] (The White House, Washington} to WSC marked "personal" expressing pleasure at WSC's good health; commenting on outbursts by [Vyacheslav] Molotov [Soviet Union Foreign Minister]; the importance of unity between free nations; and future history and legacy of leaders. Typescript.
Dates:
09 Feb 1954
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Unknown
(Untitled), 10 Dec 1948
Unknown
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 5/22B/302-352
Scope and Contents
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), 10 Sep 1941 - 26 Sep 1941
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/258C/303-318
Scope and Contents
Series of minutes from [1st] Lord Cherwell [earlier F A Lindemann, Prime Minister's Personal Assistant] to WSC on: 1. an improvement in the maximum bomb load; 2. mustard gas bombs; 3. decisions to be taken about munitions and aircraft production, army size, supplying the Soviet Union, and possible theatres of operation, with WSC's reply (13 September); 4. attaching a draft to the First Lord of the Admiralty [A V Alexander, later 1st Lord Alexander of Hillsborough] and Secretary of State for...
Dates:
10 Sep 1941 - 26 Sep 1941
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
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The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill
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Chartwell Papers
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Official: Prime Minister
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Official: Prime Minister: copies of minutes [mostly from F A Lindemann, later 1st Lord Cherwell, Prime Minister's Personal Assistant] to WSC, some with WSC's annotations added in typescript, numbered [by WSC's literary assistant Denis Kelly, ?at the time of the production of WSC's "Second World War"] with a summary of the contents at the start of each part of the file.
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(Untitled), 27 Sep 1941
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/258C/319
Scope and Contents
Minute [from 1st Lord Cherwell, earlier F A Lindemann, Prime Minister's Personal Assistant] to WSC on post-war trade arrangements with the United States. [annotated copy; given running number 419].
Dates:
27 Sep 1941
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
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The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill
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Chartwell Papers
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Official: Prime Minister
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Official: Prime Minister: copies of minutes [mostly from F A Lindemann, later 1st Lord Cherwell, Prime Minister's Personal Assistant] to WSC, some with WSC's annotations added in typescript, numbered [by WSC's literary assistant Denis Kelly, ?at the time of the production of WSC's "Second World War"] with a summary of the contents at the start of each part of the file.
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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
Scope and Contents
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
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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
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New Zealand and America
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Vernal Falls, 1918-10
Item
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).