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Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus
Found in 70 Collections and/or Records:
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'The Press and the Public', 1951 - 1956
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/FRWS 1/1
Scope and Contents
Annotated typescript and handwritten manuscript for book on the history of journalism and newspaper reading habits in Britain, later published as 'Dangerous Estate: The Anatomy of Newspapers' (London: Longmans, 1957). Comprising drafts of chapters 1, 3, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, and 15. With letter from Metropolitan Typewriting Office.
Dates:
1951 - 1956
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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The Sun (UK), 1962 - 1964
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/ABMS 5/40
Scope and Contents
Working papers on the founding of The Sun newspaper (UK), covering subjects such as the end of the Daily Herald; projected readership and target audiences; advertising; women, young readers, and leisure; and the influence of Mark Abrams's market research survey for The Sun, 'The Newspaper Reading Public of Tomorrow' (1964). Consists largely of press cuttings, articles, advertising, and survey data, with Mark Abrams's notes on the relationship between class, new professions, changes in...
Dates:
1962 - 1964
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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'Thirty Million Newspapers', 1951
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/FRWS 1/4
Scope and Contents
Handwritten manuscript on the history of journalism; probably an earlier draft of the book later published as 'Dangerous Estate: The Anatomy of Newspapers' (London: Longmans, 1957).
Dates:
1951
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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(Untitled), 02 Dec [1896]
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/152A/68
Scope and Contents
Letter from WSC (Bangalore [India]) to "Jack" [John S Churchill] on subjects including: the news that his butterfly collection has been destroyed by a rat; a forthcoming polo match; thanks for copies of the Strand magazine and comments on a story by [Arthur] Conan Doyle; a pony race meeting in which he was placed third 3 times; the arrival of "Lily" [his pony]; the plants in his garden; and the deaths of soldiers. Signed manuscript. Typed transcript at CHAR 28/152A/69-74.
Dates:
02 Dec [1896]
Conditions Governing Access:
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(Untitled), c 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/152A/69-74
Scope and Contents
Transcript of a letter from WSC (Bangalore [India]) to "Jack" [John S Churchill] on subjects including: the news that his butterfly collection has been destroyed by a rat; a forthcoming polo match; thanks for copies of the Strand magazine and comments on a story by [Arthur] Conan Doyle; a pony race meeting in which he was placed third 3 times; the arrival of "Lily" [his pony]; the plants in his garden; and the deaths of soldiers. Typed. 2 copies. Original letter at CHAR 28/152A/68.
Dates:
c 1945
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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(Untitled), 07 Dec [1896]
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/152A/75-76
Scope and Contents
Letter from WSC (Bangalore [India]) to "Jack" [John S Churchill] on subjects including: thanks for his letter; his wounded kneecap which was caused by a "sequel to a bearfight" at a dinner the previous evening with instructions not to tell [James] Welldon about the incident "he would be bound to view it with stern disapproval - never having...come into contact with the slightly elevated and inebriated subaltern"; his opinion of hypocrisy within the clergy and of religion; his progress with...
Dates:
07 Dec [1896]
Conditions Governing Access:
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(Untitled), c 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/152A/77-82
Scope and Contents
Transcript of a letter from WSC (Bangalore [India]) to "Jack" [John S Churchill] on subjects including: thanks for his letter; his wounded kneecap which was caused by a "sequel to a bearfight" at a dinner the previous evening with instructions not to tell [James] Welldon about the incident "he would be bound to view it with stern disapproval - never having...come into contact with the slightly elevated and inebriated subaltern"; his opinion of hypocrisy within the clergy and of religion; his...
Dates:
c 1945
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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(Untitled), 09 Mar [1897]
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/152A/96-98
Scope and Contents
Letter from WSC (Government House, Guindy [India]) to "Jack" [John S Churchill] in which he discusses a race that his pony "Lily of the Valley" is due to compete in and his plans to sail to England; advises Jack to read Alexandre Dumas in French to learn French history ("the history of the most versatile, witty and attractive nation in the world") and become acquainted with the French character; and defends his letter-writing style. In a postscript he reports that "Lily" was placed fourth....
Dates:
09 Mar [1897]
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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(Untitled), c 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/152A/99-106
Scope and Contents
Transcript of a letter from WSC (Government House, Guindy [India]) to "Jack" [John S Churchill] in which he discusses a race that his pony "Lily of the Valley" is due to compete in and his plans to sail to England; advises Jack to read Alexandre Dumas in French to learn French history ("the history of the most versatile, witty and attractive nation in the world") and become acquainted with the French character; and defends his letter-writing style. In a postscript he reports that "Lily" was...
Dates:
c 1945
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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(Untitled), 31 Mar [1897]
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/152A/107-108
Scope and Contents
Letter from WSC (Bangalore [India]) to "Jack" [John S Churchill] in which he discusses Jack's Greek friend and advises him to appreciate enthusiasm as "it is the sort of madness that wins great battles and performs great actions", giving examples of achievers "whom you would call 'cracked'" including Garibaldi, Wilberforce, [Lord] Byron, and Raphael. Signed manuscript. Envelope present. Typed transcript at CHAR 28/152A/109-112.
Dates:
31 Mar [1897]
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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(Untitled), c 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/152A/109-112
Scope and Contents
Transcript of a letter from WSC (Bangalore [India]) to "Jack" [John S Churchill] in which he discusses Jack's Greek friend and advises him to appreciate enthusiasm as "it is the sort of madness that wins great battles and performs great actions", giving examples of achievers "whom you would call 'cracked'" including Garibaldi, Wilberforce, [Lord] Byron, and Raphael. Typed. 2 copies. Original letter at CHAR 28/152A/107-108.
Dates:
c 1945
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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(Untitled), 02 May 1942
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/53C/221
Scope and Contents
Letter from WSC to Robert Graves expressing pleasure in his "Sergeant Lamb" books.
Dates:
02 May 1942
Conditions Governing Access:
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(Untitled), 23 Aug [1910]
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 12/4/42-43
Scope and Contents
Letter from [Edward Marsh] (Home Office) to WSC including the following points: the reaction to WSC's memorandum on prison reform by Sir Evelyn Ruggles-Brise [Chairman of the Prison Commission] and Mr Blackwell (who criticised the plans for a board to ensure uniform sentencing policy and the system of classified institutions); WSC's proposed visit to Dartmoor [prison, Devon] and the remaining preparation of the Shop Hours Bill. He also encloses two novels by [Elizabeth] Arnim [not present]....
Dates:
23 Aug [1910]
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers.
This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
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(Untitled), 15 Jun 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/194B/129
Scope and Contents
Letter from WSC to Major John Dodge stating that his literature is first rate [carbon].
Dates:
15 Jun 1945
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(Untitled), 11 Jul 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/194B/176
Scope and Contents
Letter from WSC (Chateau Bordaberry, Near Hendaye, B.P. [France]) to Lord Beaverbrook [earlier Sir Max Aitken] recommending that he read "La Verite sur L'Armistice" by Albert Kammerer and especially the part dealing with their visit to Tours [carbon].
Dates:
11 Jul 1945
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(Untitled), 20 Feb 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/196/35
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Letter from John Martin [Prime Minister's Principal Private Secretary] to Anthony Brooke marked "private" thanking him for the book "Who Dies Fighting" which reached him in the Crimea [Yalta, Soviet Union] , and commenting that WSC has expressed an interest in reading it [carbon].
Dates:
20 Feb 1945
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers.
This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
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(Untitled), 22 Feb 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/196/36
Scope and Contents
Letter from Anthony Brooke (Sarawak Government Offices, Millbank House, Westminster, SW1 [London]) to John Martin [Prime Minister's Principal Private Secretary] confirming that he should keep the book "Who Dies Fighting" as long as he likes since WSC is reading it: states that WSC should also read a letter by Colonel Stewart who violently regrets the publication and says he will try to send this; refers to Martin's recent experience [? Yalta Conference] and hopes that he found time to enjoy...
Dates:
22 Feb 1945
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers.
This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
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(Untitled), 11 Jul 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/195B/172
Scope and Contents
Letter from WSC (Chateau Bordaberry, Near Hendaye [France]) to Lord Beaverbrook [earlier Max Aitken, Lord Privy Seal] advising him to read "La Verite sur L'Armistice" by Albert Kammerer "especially the part which deals with our visit to Tours" [carbon].
Dates:
11 Jul 1945
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers.
This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
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(Untitled), 10 Aug 1941
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/41/100
Scope and Contents
Telegram from WSC to Minister of State, Middle East [Oliver Lyttelton, later 1st Lord Chandos]: "Hornblower admirable" ["Captain Hornblower, RN", by C S Forester].
Dates:
10 Aug 1941
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(Untitled), [22] [Nov] [1873]
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/92/43-44
Scope and Contents
Letter from Jennie [Jerome, later Lady Randolph Churchill]([Paris, France]) to [Lord] Randolph [Churchill] in which she says that she is looking forward to seeing him although she hopes that he will refrain from making "tiresome remarks", discusses the possibility of going riding as she has found a chaperone and says that she has been reading Horace.
Dates:
[22] [Nov] [1873]
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers.
This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
/
The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill
/
Chartwell Papers
/
Acquired Papers
/
Letters from Jennie Jerome [later Lady Randolph Churchill] to Lord Randolph Churchill. The file includes material relating to her engagement to Lord Randolph and the letters are characterised by the inclusion of French words and phrases. All items are manuscript and signed unless otherwise described.
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(Untitled), 26 Jan 1874
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/94/7-9
Scope and Contents
Letter from Jennie [Jerome, later Lady Randolph Churchill](Paris [France]) to [Lord] Randolph [Churchill] including: thanks for his telegram; jealousy of his preoccupation with politics; her opinion of "Lettres a une inconnu" and the author's observations about [William] Gladstone and a request that he should not ignore the kisses on the page. Envelope present.
Dates:
26 Jan 1874
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers.
This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
/
The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill
/
Chartwell Papers
/
Acquired Papers
/
Acquired Papers. Letters from Jennie Jerome, later Lady Randolph Churchill to Lord Randolph Churchill. The file includes material relating to her engagement to Lord Randolph and preparations for their wedding and the letters are characterised by the inclusion of French words and phrases. All items are manuscript and signed unless otherwise described.
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(Untitled), [Jan] [1874]
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/94/18-20
Scope and Contents
Letter from Jennie [Jerome, later Lady Randolph Churchill](Paris [France]) to [Lord Randolph Churchill] including: disappointment that [George] Brodrick has decided to stand as a candidate [in the Woodstock, Oxfordshire election]; regret at her abuse of Khinenbuller; her confidence in the happiness of their future; her anger at being treated like a child by him and request that he should tell her his troubles; an invitation from the Prefet de la Seine; her desire to assist him with the...
Dates:
[Jan] [1874]
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers.
This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
/
The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill
/
Chartwell Papers
/
Acquired Papers
/
Acquired Papers. Letters from Jennie Jerome, later Lady Randolph Churchill to Lord Randolph Churchill. The file includes material relating to her engagement to Lord Randolph and preparations for their wedding and the letters are characterised by the inclusion of French words and phrases. All items are manuscript and signed unless otherwise described.
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(Untitled), 14 Jan 1897
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/23/10-11
Scope and Contents
Letter from WSC (Bangalore [India]) to "Mamma" [Lady Randolph Churchill] in which he reports that he has stayed with Sir Arthur Havelock, Governor of the Presidency; describes his success at polo and reports that he is about to go on manoeuvres. He thanks her for sending him 12 volumes of Macaulay; says that he is reading the Republic of Plato and Winwood Reade's "The Martyrdom of Man", and makes observations on religion. He also says that he is envious of "Jack's" [John S Churchill's]...
Dates:
14 Jan 1897
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers.
This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
/
The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill
/
Chartwell Papers
/
Acquired Papers
/
Acquired Papers: Letters from WSC to Lady Randolph Churchill and also John S Churchill and Reginald Barnes. The file contains letters written by WSC about his time in Bangalore with the 4th Hussars; his posting to the Malakand Field Force with Sir Bindon Blood and about his first literary endeavours ("Savrola", "The Scaffolding of Rhetoric" and "The Story of the Malakand Field Force"). The file also contains two letters from Sir Bindon Blood. All items are manuscript and signed unless otherwise described.
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(Untitled), 04 Feb [1897]
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/23/15
Scope and Contents
Letter from WSC (Bangalore [India]) to "Mamma" [Lady Randolph Churchill] in which he says that he is busy as acting-adjutant, that he finds it difficult to find material for his letters and is losing touch with England, discusses polo and his reading and asks her to find him a source of detailed parliamentary history.
Dates:
04 Feb [1897]
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers.
This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
/
The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill
/
Chartwell Papers
/
Acquired Papers
/
Acquired Papers: Letters from WSC to Lady Randolph Churchill and also John S Churchill and Reginald Barnes. The file contains letters written by WSC about his time in Bangalore with the 4th Hussars; his posting to the Malakand Field Force with Sir Bindon Blood and about his first literary endeavours ("Savrola", "The Scaffolding of Rhetoric" and "The Story of the Malakand Field Force"). The file also contains two letters from Sir Bindon Blood. All items are manuscript and signed unless otherwise described.
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(Untitled), 18 Feb 1897
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/23/18-19
Scope and Contents
Letter from WSC (Bangalore [India]) to "Mamma" [Lady Randolph Churchill] in which he discusses: his disappointment at not being allowed to play in a polo tournament and the resulting unpopularity of Sir Mansfield Clarke; the work of an adjutant and his enjoyment of the position; his own military career and the possibility that he will stay in the army for two more years; and his gardening and reading.
Dates:
18 Feb 1897
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers.
This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
/
The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill
/
Chartwell Papers
/
Acquired Papers
/
Acquired Papers: Letters from WSC to Lady Randolph Churchill and also John S Churchill and Reginald Barnes. The file contains letters written by WSC about his time in Bangalore with the 4th Hussars; his posting to the Malakand Field Force with Sir Bindon Blood and about his first literary endeavours ("Savrola", "The Scaffolding of Rhetoric" and "The Story of the Malakand Field Force"). The file also contains two letters from Sir Bindon Blood. All items are manuscript and signed unless otherwise described.