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Literary: "Marlborough: His Life and Times": correspondence., 16 Dec 1929 - 31 Dec 1938
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/595
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Correspondents include: Representatives of George G Harrap and Company (41) including Charles Wood on proof-reading matters for volume 4 of "Marlborough" (35), and George Harrap and Walter Harrap; "Waldyram" [12th Lord Waldegrave] on papers possibly relevant to WSC's research; Ridley Pakenham-Walsh on illustrations and proof-reading for the book (9); "Rock" [5th Lord Cholmondeley, earlier Lord Rocksavage] on an illustration for the book and his exercise programme for CSC; Keith Feiling (2)...
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16 Dec 1929 - 31 Dec 1938
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Literary: "Marlborough: His Life and Times": correspondence., 10 Jan 1939 - 05 Dec 1939
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/625
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Correspondents include: William Deakin [WSC's literary assistant] on an enquiry by the 9th Duke of Rutland [earlier Lord Granby] and the case of a German Jewish couple seeking residence in the United Kingdom; Cyril Alders [Secretary to the Duke of Rutland's Household] on the source of a reference in volume 4 of the book; [Henry] Saxe Wyndham giving WSC an autograph of 1st Lord Godolphin (3); representatives of George G Harrap and Company on subjects including issuing a limited edition of...
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10 Jan 1939 - 05 Dec 1939
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Literary: "Marlborough: his life and times": correspondence., 16 Jul 1933 - 06 Oct 1934
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/483
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Correspondents include: Ridley Pakenham-Walsh on subjects including proof revisions and illustrations for volume 2 of "Marlborough" (16); Maurice Ashley [WSC's literary assistant] on proof revisions for volume 2 of "Marlborough" (5); Sir John Murray [Director of John Murray publishers]; 8th Lord Albemarle [earlier Lord Bury] on 1st Lord Albemarle (3); representatives of George G Harrap and Company Limited, publishers, on volume 2 of "Marlborough" (13, including 3 from George G Harrap);...
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16 Jul 1933 - 06 Oct 1934
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Literary: "Marlborough: his life and times": correspondence., 01 Feb 1934 - 31 May 1934
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/484A-B
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Correspondents include: representatives of George G Harrap and Company Limited, publishers, on volume 2 and revisions of volume 1 of "Marlborough" (41, including 2 from George G Harrap); Ridley Pakenham-Walsh on volume 2 and revisions of volume 1 of "Marlborough" (7); Doris, Lady Ashley on translations for "Marlborough" (4); Maurice Ashley [WSC's literary assistant] (6); representatives of John Swain and Son Limited, art-reproducers, on maps for volume 2 of "Marlborough" (5); Lewis Namier,...
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01 Feb 1934 - 31 May 1934
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Literary: "Marlborough: his life and times": correspondence., 01 Jun 1934 - 31 Jul 1934
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/485A-B
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Correspondents include: representatives of George G Harrap and Company Limited, publishers, on volumes 1 and 2 of "Marlborough" and an extract from a South African autobiography injurious to WSC (54, including 7 from George G Harrap); Ridley Pakenham-Walsh on volume 2 of "Marlborough" (12); Maurice Ashley [WSC's literary assistant] on volume 2 of "Marlborough" (7); Sir Bindon Blood on illustrations for "Marlborough" and Indian parliamentary institutions (2); Lord Elmley [later 8th Lord...
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01 Jun 1934 - 31 Jul 1934
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Literary: "Marlborough: his life and times": correspondence., 31 Jul 1934 - 31 Dec 1934
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/486A-B
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Correspondents include: Edward Marsh; George Trevelyan on volume 2 of "Marlborough" (3); representatives of George G Harrap and Company Limited, including George G Harrap [Managing Director] and Walter Harrap [Chairman] on volumes 1-3 of "Marlborough" (65); representatives of John Swain and Son Limited, art reproducers, on volume 2 of "Marlborough" (4); Keith Feiling on revisions of volume 2 of "Marlborough" and the outline for "A History of the English speaking peoples" (5); Maurice Ashley...
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31 Jul 1934 - 31 Dec 1934
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Literary: "Marlborough: his life and times": correspondence., 01 Jan 1935 - 30 Jun 1935
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/503
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Correspondents include: Ridley Pakenham-Walsh on volume 3 of "Marlborough" (7); representatives of George G Harrap and Company Limited including George G Harrap [Managing Director] (1) on volumes 1-3 of "Marlborough" (21); George Trevelyan; Lady Isobel Gathorne-Hardy; Sir Francis Gathorne-Hardy (2); John Wheldon on research for volume 3 of "Marlborough" (4); 5th Lord Clanwilliam [earlier Lord Gilford] (2); Lord Gilford [later 6th Lord Clanwilliam]; 7th Duke of Buccleuch [earlier Lord...
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01 Jan 1935 - 30 Jun 1935
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Literary: "Marlborough: his life and times": correspondence., 28 Jun 1935 - 11 Dec 1935
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/504
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Correspondents include: Keith Feiling; representatives of George G Harrap and Company Limited on proof revisions and the completion of volume 3 of "Marlborough" (23); George Trevelyan on alterations made to the new edition of his book on the battle of Blenheim [Germany] as a result of reading "Marlborough"; John Scobell Armstrong on General John Armstrong [an engineer under 1st Duke of Marlborough] (2); Oliver Locker-Lampson; Archibald Miller, Keeper of the National Gallery of Scotland on a...
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28 Jun 1935 - 11 Dec 1935
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Literary: "Marlborough: his life and times": correspondence., 06 Jan 1936 - 31 Jul 1936
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/529A-B
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Correspondents include: Ridley Pakenham-Walsh on research for volume 3 of "Marlborough" (25); John Wheldon (7); representatives of George G Harrap and Company Limited, including George G Harrap [Managing Director] (4) on volume 3 of "Marlborough" (75); Keith Feiling; Lieutenant-Commander J H Owen on revisions of volume 3 of "Marlborough"; Lord Ivor Churchill; "L E" [Sir Lionel Earle] on Marlborough House [London]; Maurice Ashley [WSC's literary assistant] on research for volume 3 of...
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06 Jan 1936 - 31 Jul 1936
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Literary: "Marlborough: his life and times": correspondence., 28 Jul 1936 - 28 Dec 1936
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/530A-B
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Correspondents include: representatives of George G Harrap and Company Limited including George G Harrap [Managing Director] (4) on volume 3 of "Marlborough" (58); Richard Raynsford, Editor of the Fighting Forces (2); John Wheldon on illustrations for volume 3 of "Marlborough"; Ridley Pakenham-Walsh on illustrations and research for volumes 3 and 4 of "Marlborough" (7); William Deakin on proof revisions for volume 3 of "Marlborough" (4); "Eddie" [Edward Marsh] on proof revisions for volume 3...
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28 Jul 1936 - 28 Dec 1936
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Literary: "Marlborough: his life and times": correspondence., 30 Dec 1936 - 02 Apr 1938
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/547
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Correspondents include: representatives of George G Harrap and Company Limited, publishers, (63) including George G Harrap [Managing Director] (8) on volume 4 of "Marlborough" and Walter G Harrap [Chairman] on captions for jigsaw puzzles of famous battles (8); William Deakin (7); Ridley Pakenham-Walsh on research for volume 4 of "Marlborough" and the puzzle captions (12); Edward Fitzroy; Lieutenant-Commander J H Owen on research for volume 4 of "Marlborough" and the puzzle captions (5); Sir...
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30 Dec 1936 - 02 Apr 1938
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Literary: "Marlborough: his life and times": correspondence., 15 Mar 1944 - 28 Dec 1944
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/712
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Correspondents include: representatives of George G Harrap and Company including Walter Harrap (7); David Minlore (2) and Charles Adams, [Assistant Keeper] of the National Portrait Gallery, on a portrait of John, 1st Duke of Marlborough; A Merens, a Consul-General of the Netherlands in India, on an ancestor of his who fought alongside Marlborough; Lovat Dickson, [Director] of MacMillan and Company (3).Also includes copy letters from officials of WSC's Private Office including John Martin...
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15 Mar 1944 - 28 Dec 1944
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Literary: "Marlborough: his life and times": correspondence., 01 Jan 1945 - 29 Nov 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/717
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Correspondents include: representatives of George G Harrap and Company (14).Subjects include: the French and Norwegian rights to "Marlborough"; entries related to John, 1st Duke of Marlborough, in the "Review" by Daniel Defoe; requests for permission to quote from the text; corrections to the text.Also includes: a list of corrections and a specimen of the page setting for the new edition of the book.
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01 Jan 1945 - 29 Nov 1945
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Literary: "Marlborough His Life and Times": correspondence regarding corrections to volume 1 for second edition., 13 Jun 1933 - 31 Jul 1935
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/819
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Correspondents include: Maurice Ashley (3); Charles Wood (13); Cyril Alington [Dean of Durham] (2); Eric Blackwood Wright;, Edmund Royds; Lennox Lee; Ridley Pakenham Walsh (2); Major Alfred Burne; 12th Duke of St Albans; 1st Lord Askwith; Sir Montagu Foster; George Harrap.
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13 Jun 1933 - 31 Jul 1935
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Literary: "Marlborough: his life and times" film: correspondence., 28 Jul 1943 - 17 Dec 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/709
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Correspondents include: representatives of Nicholl, Manisty, Few and Company [solicitors] (17); representatives of Lloyds Bank including [Geoffrey] Mason and T E R Harris; Filippo Del Guidice, Managing Director of Two Cities Films Limited (4); Bernard Sendall (Ministry of Information) sending on comments from Brendan Bracken.Subjects include: acquiring the film rights to "Marlborough"; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's interest in the rights; drawing up the contract; copyright matters; the writing of...
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28 Jul 1943 - 17 Dec 1945
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Literary: "Marlborough: his life and times": maps of Europe, France, Spain and Italy., [1914] - [1933]
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/477A-B
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Includes: modern maps of Europe, France, Spain and Portugal and Italy.
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[1914] - [1933]
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Literary: "Marlborough: his life and times": maps of Germany and Switzerland., [1930] - [1936]
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/476
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Includes: modern maps of Germany, Switzerland and Austria.
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[1930] - [1936]
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Literary: "Marlborough: his life and times": maps of Germany (Vogel)., 1919
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/479
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Includes: modern maps of Germany and Switzerland.
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1919
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Literary: "Marlborough: his life and times": maps of the Low Countries., 1914 - 1925
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/475
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Includes: modern military maps of the Netherlands and maps of 1st Duke of Marlborough's campaigns in Germany.
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1914 - 1925
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Literary: "Marlborough: his life and times": maps of the Low Countries and Central Europe (Autograph Handmaps)., [1932] - [1938]
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/478
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Includes: maps of the Netherlands and Belgium, and Central Europe.
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[1932] - [1938]
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Literary: "Marlborough: his life and times": material for illustrations., [1932] - [1938]
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/474A-C
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Includes: prints of contemporary portraits and letters; engravings of Blenheim Palace; postcards of contemporary German landmarks.Also includes: correspondence and prints from David Minlore offering the use of his portrait collection (10).
Dates:
[1932] - [1938]
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Literary: "Marlborough: his life and times": miscellaneous notes and material., [1932] - [1938]
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/480
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Correspondents include: Owen Morshead (Librarian of Windsor Castle) on autograph letters from 1st Duke and Duchess of Marlborough.Subjects include: 3rd Lord Sunderland; 1st Lord Somers; Emperor Charles VI; 1st Lord Bolingbroke; battles in the 30 Years War; infantry and cavalry in the 30 Years War.
Dates:
[1932] - [1938]
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Literary: "Marlborough: his life and times": printed sources., 1722 - 1935
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/481A-H
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Includes: reprints of contemporary English and French sources; copies of the English Historical Review; an [original] copy of the pamphlet "Churchill's Annals: Being a Short History of the Great Duke of Marlborough" (1722).
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1722 - 1935
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Literary: "Marlborough: his life and times" series in the Sunday Times: correspondence., 01 Jan 1934 - 04 Jul 1934
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/494
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Correspondents include: 1st Lord Camrose [Editor-in-Chief of the Sunday Times, earlier William Berry] (4); William Hadley [Editor of the Sunday Times] (6).
Dates:
01 Jan 1934 - 04 Jul 1934
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Literary: "Marlborough: His Life and Times", Volume 1., [1932] - [1934]
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/360
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Galley proofs of chapters including chapter 1 "Ashe House", chapter 2 "The jovial time", chapter 5 "Arms", chapter 7 "Sarah", chapter 8 "Marriage", chapter 9 "Master and Servant" and chapter 10 "The unseen rift". Annotated by WSC with corrections and additions.
Dates:
[1932] - [1934]
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