Scope and Contents Correspondents (concerning birthday greetings and good wishes following his fall) include: Joyce Hall; Winston Guest; Keith Holyoake, Prime Minister of New Zealand; John Peck; John Wilson [later 2nd Lord Moran]; Sir Albert Richardson, former President of the Royal Academy; Herbert Haseltine; Henry Laughlin; Maria Callas; Esmond [2nd Lord] Rothermere [earlier Esmond Harmsworth]; [Sir Alfred] Chester Beatty; Averell Harriman; Sir Hugh Tudor; Elizabeth Gilliatt; Sir [Edward] Spears; [1st Lord]...

Scope and Contents Correspondents (concerning birthday greetings to WSC) include: Archibald Ballantyne, Secretary of the Royal Aeronautical Society; Margaret, Lady Ebbisham, President of the Ladies' Imperial Chapter of the Primrose League; Tom O'Brien, M P for Nottingham; Una, Lady O'Dwyer; Sir Charles Petrie, Chairman of the 1900 Club; Harold Glanville; Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Thomas Moore, Master of the Needlemakers' Livery; [7th Lord] Nelson; William Nunn; Bryce Nairn; "Harry" [1st] Lord McGowan; Sir Desmond...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: [4th] Lord Camden [John Pratt] on rationing on the Riviera, France; [1st] Lord Camrose [earlier Sir William Berry] (2); [Arnold] Heeney, Clerk of the Privy Council, Canada, on the Privy Council oath; James Thomas [later 1st Lord Cilcennin] and "B B" [Brendan Bracken, Prime Minister's Parliamentary Private Secretary] on the death of Ronald Cartland; Freda, Marquesa de Casa Maury [earlier Freda Dudley Ward], on a "health-giving lamp" and the Feathers Club (2); Robert...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Patrick Buchan-Hepburn [later 1st Lord Hailes, Conservative Chief Whip] (3); James Thomas [later 1st Lord Cilcennin, Vice-Chairman of Conservative and Unionist Party] (6); various representatives of Conservative and Unionist Central Office including George Christ (14); 1st Lord Woolton [earlier Frederick Marquis, Chairman, Conservative and Unionist Central Office] (11); Sir [James] Clifford Tozer on Plymouth [Devon] Fair; Moss Turner-Samuels; Julius Holmes [Minister,...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: William Mabane [Director, Kemsley Newspapers] asking if WSC could contribute to the Sunday Chronicle on United Europe and fears of a Socialist State; Marjorie Madan on publishing quotations from WSC (4); Stuart Mais on dedicating a book to WSC; 1st Lord Margesson; Louis Marin, member, French National Assembly; Reginald Marnham [WSC's neighbour] (4); Douglas Marshall, MP for Bodmin [Cornwall] conveying greetings from his constituency; John Martin [former Private...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: "Bobbety" [5th Lord Salisbury, earlier Lord Cranborne] on WSC's party political broadcast (22 December 1951); 1st Lord Samuel (2); Samuel Hammersley; Thomas Driberg [later Lord Bradwell] on a proposed broadcast debate between WSC and Herbert Morrison [Deputy Prime Minister]; Michael Foot on the proposed debate; Donald Murray, Foreign Office; "Pepe", Duke de San Lucar la Mayor; Sir John Dalton on the Savage Club; Sir Douglas Savory on forecasts of the 2nd World War;...

Scope and Contents Includes: cutting from the Daily Telegraph on a broadcast by President [Franklin] Roosevelt on ?13 February 1943 on matters including the unconditional surrender of the Axis Powers and the situation in North Africa; list of members of the Other Club; copies of poem by [Arthur] Weber-Brown on WSC and Roosevelt; extract from a lecture given by WSC to the Royal United Services Institution on 17 April 1901 on the war in South Africa; cutting from the St Louis Post-Dispatch [United States] on the...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Sir Norman Brookes, President, Lawn Tennis Association of Australia, inviting WSC to visit Australia; Norman Martin, Agent-General for Victoria, Australia, on the Australian Government's invitation to WSC; Kenneth Sandford on a proposed lecture tour by WSC in Australia and New Zealand (2); Count Edward Reventlow [Danish Minister in Britain] on an invitation for WSC to visit Denmark; 5th Duke of Palmella [Portuguese Ambassador to Britain] on a proposed visit to...

Scope and Contents Correspondents on WSC's visit include: General Ira Eaker, Deputy Commander, United States Army Air Forces (2); Dwight Eisenhower on subjects including the death of Harry Hopkins [Special Adviser and Assistant to Franklin Roosevelt], and histories of the Second World War (5); Harry Butcher, former naval aide to Eisenhower, on publishing his diaries; J C Thomson [British Consul, Miami] (3); Sir Francis Evans [British Consul-General, New York]; Clarence Streit, President, Federal Union; Millard...

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Photograph album kept by Major John S Churchill, relating to his service in the Oxfordshire Hussars, and also the South African Light Horse during the Boer War. Includes photographs of the armoured train ambushed by Boers in November 1899, where Winston Churchill was captured, and the Hospital Ship Maine, managed by Lady Randolph Churchill [earlier Jennie Jerome]. Also includes assorted memorabilia, telegrams etc, and some loose items.

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Cuttings of war correspondence about WSC’s capture in South Africa by Boers and escape during Boer War; illustrations, cartoons and photos of WSC’s reception in Durban.

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Also includes some documents

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Press-cuttings of articles by LSA for the Times on the South African War.

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Press-cuttings of articles by LSA for the Times on the South African War.

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Head and shoulders portrait photograph of WSC with moustache wearing uniform and hat.

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Cuttings of WSC’s speeches on Boer War, Education, Budget, Trade Unions.

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Cuttings of WSC’s speeches and letters to the press on Finance, Free Trade, Boer War, and Army Scheme, Aliens Bill.

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Notes and drafts for speech by WSC on The South African War Manuscript and typescript.

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Typescript copy of WSC's speech on Mr Brodrick's scheme for Army Reform, 13 May 1901. [Typed on "G.R." headed notepaper, and therefore typed after 1910] Published Complete Speeches I, pp.76-86.

Scope and Contents Cutting from the Bath Daily Chronicle on speech by WSC at Primrose League Fete at Claverton Manor, Bath, 26 Jul 1897. [This was WSC's first political speech] Published: Complete Speeches I, pp.25-28.Printed pamphlet, published by Oldham Conservative Association, containing text of WSC's speech at the Empire Theatre, Oldham, 25 Jul 1900 on the South African War and his candidature Extract pub. Complete Speeches I, pp.53-54.Typescript copy of WSC's speech on the South African War at the...

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Manuscript notes for speech in Oldham on the South African War Unpublished.

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Transcripts summarising letters from LSA to Chirol [Director of the Foreign Department of the Times] on LSA's work as the Times war correspondent in South Africa, particularly his discussions with Sir Alfred Milner [British High Commissioner for South Africa] and on Cecil Rhodes.

Scope and Contents Memoranda, notes and articles on War Office and army reform relating to LSA's series of articles for the Times, The Problem of the Army, including: account by LSA of writing the articles and his subsequent involvement in reform; extract from speech by Major-General Sir Frederick Roberts on improving the army (1881); notes on colonial forces, particularly in South Africa; annotated reprint of the articles; outline by 2nd Lord Esher [Chairman of the War Office Reconstitution Committee, earlier...

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Photograph of the train line near Frere station, Natal [South Africa], where WSC was captured. White marks indicate the graves of 3 men killed in the affair and buried by the Boers. The wreck of the train is not actually shown.

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Photograph of WSC, facing the camera, astride a pony which is standing in profile with its head down. WSC is wearing the uniform of [?] a Lieutenant in the South African Light Horse, while another soldier stands at the pony's head. The wreck of the armoured train is clearly visible just behind WSC, with more soldiers standing behind it in the distance.