Scope and Contents Correspondents on WSC's visit to Monte Carlo include: Louis Detraz, General Manager, Hotel de Paris, Monte Carlo (7); Denise, Duchess of Leinster; Prince Rainier of Monaco; James Griffyth Fairfax, President, M C Club; Lady Smith-Gordon; Mary Soames [earlier Mary Churchill]; Florence Stonor (2); "Bendor" [2nd Duke of Westminster]; Edward, Duke of Windsor [earlier Edward, Prince of Wales, and Edward VIII] (3); Charles Wood [literary assistant to WSC] on ["The Gathering Storm", volume 1 of "The...

Scope and Contents Correspondents on the claims of the Hapsburg family (the Royal family of Austria-Hungary) to lands in Czechoslovakia [later Czech Republic and Slovakia] include: [1st Lord] Southborough [earlier Francis Hopwood] on subjects including arrangements for WSC to meet members of the Hapsburg family (5); E Rechnitzer on subjects including the claims of the family and his contacts with Prince Max Hohenlohe (27); E Dalby, Private Secretary to Rechnitzer (4); "Van", Sir Robert Vansittart, Under...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: David Hecht and J Arthur Leve of Leve, Hecht, Hadfield and Clarke, WSC's US lawyers (14); David Scott [Assistant Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs]; [11th] Lord Lothian [earlier Philip Kerr, British Ambassador to the United States] (7); Sir John Simon [Chancellor of the Exchequer] (2); Sir Thomas Barnes, Treasury Solicitor (4); "B B" [Brendan Bracken, Prime Minister's Parliamentary Private Secretary]. Also includes notes and copies of correspondence from...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Sir Thomas Barnes, Treasury Solicitor (26); John Foster [First Secretary] (British Embassy, Washington) (4); [Bernard] Sendall [Principal Private Secretary to Minister of Information]; Lovat Dickson [Director] of MacMillan and Company (3); Lord Halifax [earlier Edward Wood and Lord Irwin], British Ambassador to the United States (2); [Maurice] Bathurst [Legal Adviser, British Embassy, Washington] (2); [Frank] Lawton [Principal Assistant Treasury Solicitor] (3). Also...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: [1st Lord] Carson on India; "Bertie" [7th Duke of] Leinster [earlier Lord Edward FitzGerald] on his health; Randolph Churchill on his finances; representatives of Nicholl Manistry and Company regarding the division of stock and a settlement to Randolph Churchill; Lord Ivor Churchill on subjects including family affairs including Gladys, Duchess of Marlborough and a statue of John, 1st Duke of Marlborough (5); Neville Chamberlain on opposition to the Finance Bill;...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Oliver Locker Lampson on subjects including an invitation to give a lecture (2); Sir John Lavery on the Artists' General Benevolent Institution; Nathan Laski requesting an invitation with the Home Secretary; Shane Leslie on WSC's "Marlborough: His life and times" and on family news (3); Commander Augustus Agar on a possible lecture by WSC; Leonie Leslie [earlier Leonie Jerome]; Frederick Lindemann [later 1st Lord Cherwell] on subjects including the Conservative Party,...

Scope and Contents Correspondents (concerning the Winston Churchill birthday trust) include: Brian Goddard, Secretary of the Winston Churchill birthday fund; Edward Martell, Chairman of the Fund (and Editor of the Recorder) (10) on subjects including a register of donors and the amounts given; Anthony Moir of Fladgate and Company (WSC's solicitor) on subjects including investments, the establishment of the Trust and the presentation to WSC (23); A L Ball, Manager of Lloyds Bank (Cox's and King's branch) (4);...

Scope and Contents Correspondents on the film include: Curtis Brown [Managing Director] of Curtis Brown Limited, International Publishing Bureau, asking WSC to act as adviser for a film on the life of 1st Lord Kitchener (2); Henrietta Hilton, Manager, Film Department, Curtis Brown Limited, on WSC's financial terms for the film, his contract with Premier Sound Film Productions Limited, and widening publicity for the film (9).Also includes: note from Curtis Brown Limited on the proposal for the film; copy of a...

Scope and Contents Correspondents on WSC's attendance of the Conservative Party conference include: 1st Lord Woolton [earlier Frederick Marquis, Chairman, Conservative and Unionist Central Office]; Geoffrey Drewe [Assistant to Honorary Treasurers, Conservative and Unionist Central Office] on WSC's expenses (2); representatives for E W Arkle, Commercial Superintendent, British Transport Commission, on WSC's journey to Blackpool (4);.Other subjects include: accommodation, travel and expenses.Also includes: notes...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Guy Schofield [Editor], Daily Mail (2); Joaquim Paco D'Arcos, Portuguese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, on his lecture on WSC; John Dodge; Burnaby Drayson, on the effect on Europe had WSC stayed as Prime Minister after 1945 (2); Clement Attlee [Leader of the Labour Party, and Prime Minister] (2); Sir Thomas Dugdale [later 1st Lord Crathorne, Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries] on the effect of the Rating and Valuation Bill on racecourses, and the National Farmers'...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Geoffrey Drewe [Assistant to Honorary Treasurers, Conservative and Unionist Party] on WSC's expenses; Kenneth Thompson; John Hare, Vice-Chairman, Conservative and Unionist Central Office, on subjects including the local election at High Wycombe [Buckinghamshire] (2); Sir Edward Bridges, [Permanent Secretary], Treasury, on WSC's salary and Prime Minister's pension (2); Sir Edward Beddington-Behrens [Vice-Chairman, European Movement] on WSC's speech at a European...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: F Heiser, Principal, St Aidan's College, Birkenhead [Liverpool]; Sir Edward Bridges [Permanent Secretary, Treasury] on WSC's salary; Frank Salisbury on his portrait of WSC; CSC; "Bobbety" [5th Lord Salisbury, earlier Lord Cranborne] on subjects including the death of his father (5); Sir Andrew Salter, asking for WSC's opinion on his book ["Personality in Politics"] and on the death of former United States Ambassador to Britain, John Winant (3); 1st Lord Samuel,...

Scope and Contents Correspondence and papers accumulated by Trustee Colonel William Deakin and Jo Sturdee [later Lady Onslow], Secretary to the British Section, on the setting up and administration of the Fund for educational and cultural exchanges between Britain and Denmark, including a donation towards an Anglo-Danish expedition to North Greenland, 1952-53.Other correspondents include: [Harvey] Druitt, Assistant Treasury Solicitor (4); Count Eduard Reventlow, Danish Ambassador to the United Kingdom (2); Sir...

Scope and Contents Correspondents on WSC's visit include: Fiorello LaGuardia, outgoing Mayor of New York (2); Frederick Leathers [Director, William Cory and Son Limited] on WSC's journey; 1st Lord Leathers [Minister of War Transport] on WSC's journey (2); Harold Peat, offering WSC a lecture tour (4); Clark Getts, offering WSC a lecture tour (4); Sol Hurok, offering WSC a lecture tour; [Marie-Rene] Alexis Leger ["St John Perse"]; Walter Lippmann (2); Clare Luce; Henry Luce [publisher, Time and Life] on a dinner...

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Letter from Edward Marsh, Private Secretary to WSC to Donald Macdonald, denying responsibility for car accident in Scotland, as WSC was not the owner or driver of the car in question [carbon].

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Account from H A Beckenham, Private Secretary to WSC, for payments made on WSC's behalf on trip to the East, 2 March - 17 Apr 1921, £66 3s [annotated by WSC].

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Letter from Thomas Cook & Son, Travel Agents, to WSC, asking for payment of account for tickets supplied, £193 5s 2d.

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Note from Sir Archibald Sinclair (later Lord Thurso) to WSC, on accounts for visit to Egypt, and for polo ponies [annotated by WSC].

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WSC's Pass Books for Investment Account with Cox & Co., March-Sept 1921, the books contain extensive notes by WSC on his finances, 1921-23, including details of his Childrens' Trust, his South African investments, Chartwell, estimates of his income and expenditure, and expenses and receipts for The World Crisis [2 items].

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WSC's Pass Book for Current Account with Cox & Co., Pall Mall, London, Jan 1921 - June 1922.

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Letter from WSC to Nicholl, Manisty & Co. sending cheque for £4,500 for the completion of payment on Chartwell Manor [carbon].

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Letter from [Sir Edward Marsh] to Nicholl, Manisty & Co., stating that WSC had no objection to the owner of the Butler's cottage at Chartwell having a right to the water supply of the Gardener's cottage [carbon].

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Account from Lumley & Lumley, Solicitors, for work on the Garron Towers Estate, and on WSC's Will 1921, £169 14s 8d.

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Letter from Lumley & Lumley to WSC, on Garron Towers leases.

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Inventory and valuation of WSC's silver and silver plate by Catchpole & Williams, Silversmiths, London.