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Letter from Lady Randolph Churchill [Edinburgh] to WSC, on the publication of WSC's letters from India in the Daily Telegraph.

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Letter from Lady Randolph Churchill, Bridlemere, Newmarket, to WSC, on the war in India.

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Letter from Lady Randolph Churchill, Highclere Castle, to WSC, on the war in India, and on WSC's letters to the Daily Telegraph.

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Letter from Lady Randolph Churchill, 35a Great Cumberland Place, to WSC, on the war in India, and on the Christmas celebrations at Blenheim Palace, particularly the "theatricals they were putting on for charity, commenting that the "whole of Oxford may turn up, or any vulgarian from London who chooses to pay 10s to see the Churchills playing the fool.

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Letter from Lady Randolph Churchill, Chatsworth, Derbyshire, to WSC, suggesting that he should write to the Prince of Wales [later King Edward VII] about his experiences in India, on the publication of The Story of the Malakand Field Force, on the possibility of WSC joining Kitchener's force in Egypt, and on John S Churchill's future career, stating that he would go to Germany for a year, learn book- keeping & German, & one of these days make a fortune".

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Cutting from The New York World, article, "Churchill on Cuba's War" The cutting was sent to WSC by Edith Cooper Hough of Worcester, Mass., U.S.A. in 1952.

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Letter from Colonel John Brabazon, Marlborough Club, Pall Mall, London, to WSC, on the success of WSC's libel action against A C Bruce Pryce.

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Statement of WSC's claim for £20,000 damages for libel against A C Bruce Pryce, [Printed, 2 copies].

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Letter from Sir George Lewis [WSC's solicitor] to WSC, On libel action against A C Bruce Pryce, sending Pryce's retraction and apology, and a cheque for £400.

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Retraction and apology by A C Bruce Pryce, withdrawing "all and every imputation" against WSC's character [Pryce had accused WSC of "acts of gross immorality of the Oscar Wilde type".

Scope and Contents Letter from Albert Edward, Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII), Mar Lodge, Braemar, to WSC, on his objection to serving soldiers writing for newspapers and expressing strong opinions on the conduct of operations. Hoping that WSC's book would be "history and not military criticism". Stating that Parliamentary and Literary life would suit him best "the monotony of military life in an Indian Station can have no attraction for you - though fortunately some officers do put up with it or else...

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Printed orders of General Sir William Lockhart, for the Tirah Expeditionary Force, including the appointment of WSC as Orderly Officer to the General Officer Commanding the Force.

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Nominal Roll of "Made up Troop", A Squadron, 21st Lancers, [at the Battle of Omdurman].

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Report from Captain Aylmer Haldane, Pretoria, South Africa to the Chief of Staff, Natal Field Force, on the capture of an armoured train at Frere, including praise of WSC's actions in saving the engine "he was frequently exposed to the full fire of the enemy. I cannot speak too highly of his gallant conduct".

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Letter from P J Joubert to F W Reitz, advising against WSC's release from captivity, [in Afrikaans].

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Search Warrant following WSC's escape from the Boers, with photograph taken in Egypt, 1898 [in Afrikaans, with translation].

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Letter from [H C Breaul], Acting Commissioner of Police, Pretoria, to Justice of the Peace Schweizer-Reneke, description of WSC with photograph [in Afrikaans, with translation].

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Letter from [H C Breaul], Acting Commissioner of Police Pretoria, South Africa, to ?, on WSC's escape to Durban via Lorenco Marques [in Afrikaans, with translation].

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Letter from [H C Breaul], Acting Commissioner of Police, Pretoria, to Justice of the Peace Schweizer-Reneke, description of WSC [typescript copy, in Afrikaans, with translation].

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Letter from William Blackwood & Sons, Publishers, George Street, Edinburgh, to Lewis & Lewis, Solicitors, London, on allegations that WSC had broken his parole as a Prisoner of the Boers in South Africa, by WSC in "Twice Captured" by Lord Rosslyn, stating that the statement would be deleted in future editions.

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Certificate of WSC's Service as a Lieutenant in the South African Light Horse, 2 January - 23 March 1900, signed by Lt-Colonel Julian Byng, later Lord Byng.

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Account by WSC of his escape from the Boers [typescript with ms amendments by WSC, on Admiralty notepaper, probably drafted in connection with a libel action against William Blackwood & Sons, heard on 20 May 1912].

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WSC's Commission as Captain in the Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars.

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Note on WSC's military service and his qualification for the Territorial Decoration [carbon].

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Letter from CSC to WSC, congratulations on promotion to command the 6th Royal Scots Fusiliers, and on WSC's present of a silver cigar box to the Headquarters Staff at XXXIII Corps, advising him not to use "gruesome picture of the Blucher turning turtle", but to give a plain box with an inscription Typescript transcript at CHAR 1/118B/16-17.