Scope and Contents Includes: letter from MS to Catherine Soames on the end of her marriage to [Arthur] Nicholas Soames; correspondence on Rupert Soames's engagement and Charlotte Hambro [earlier Charlotte Soames]'s wedding to 3rd Lord Peel, with correspondents including Diana, Princess of Wales and Nicholas Soames; press cuttings on MS and "Winston Churchill: his life as a painter"; letters between MS and Sir Robert Fellowes [Private Secretary to the Queen and Keeper of the Queen’s Archives] on Churchill's...

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Letters between MS and Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, on his engagement to Lady Diana Spencer [later Diana, Princess of Wales] and the marriage of MS's parents, and copies of the order of service and ceremonial for the wedding. Also includes an invitation to [Arthur] Nicholas Soames's wedding.

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Includes copies of the Bill of Abdication, press cuttings, an issue of Cavalcade magazine on the crisis, printed Dominion debates and a memorandum by ELS on King Edward VIII [later Edward, Duke of Windsor] and Wallis Simpson [later Wallis, Duchess of Windsor].

Scope and Contents Comprising: "SSRC Grants - the First Three Years", undated [1990]; "Slaves of Time", 1991; article on death for the "Encyclopedia of Time", 1992; "Open University Open About Death", 1993; introduction to "Innovations in Information", 1993; comment on the Commission on Social Justice, 1994; "Moral Intelligence", 1994; "The Significance of U3A", 1994; with Chelly Halsey, "Family and Community Socialism", 1995; " Why Where?", 1995; "Threatened Americanisation of Privatised Crematoria", 1995;...

Scope and Contents Correspondence, mainly with 1st Lord Stonehaven, Governor General [earlier John Baird] and also with Stanley Bruce, Prime Minister, on subjects including: Australian Elections; the British General Election in 1929 and LSA's blame of Winston Churchill [Chancellor of the Exchequer] for the Conservative Party's defeat; the work of [William] Bankes Amery [Representative of the British Government in Australia under the Empire Settlement Act]; the state of the Australian Parliament; the British...

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The bulk of the collection consists of the papers of Lord Hailes as Governor-General and Commander-in-Chief of the Federation of the West Indies, 1958-1962, showing, in fascinating detail, the working out of this experiment in federation. There are numerous papers relating to Lord Hailes's long tenure of office as Assistant, Deputy Chief, and finally Chief, Whip and these include many letters from his fellow Conservatives showing the high esteem in which they held him.Amongst the...

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12" gramophone records.

Scope and Contents Annotated transcripts of television and radio interviews and broadcasts by JEP on subjects including: Charles Bradlaugh; the aims of the Ulster Unionists; collective Cabinet responsibility for policy; control of Britain's money supply and national and Parliamentary sovereignty; the trial of Socrates; the powers of the monarchy; Thomas Hobbes; the role of the House of Lords; JEP's career; Shakespeare's sonnets; Sir Martin Gilbert's biography of Sir Winston Churchill; the causes of the...

Scope and Contents Correspondence and papers on the future of the Civil List (money provided by Parliament to meet the official expenses of the Royal Household), including: letter from Andrew Turnbull, Principal Private Secretary to the Prime Minister, with a draft statement from Margaret Thatcher on the future of the List; correspondence between NK and Thatcher; briefing for and rough notes of a meeting with 13th Lord Airlie, Lord Chamberlain and Sir William Heseltine, Private Secretary to the Queen; draft...

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Includes: letters between CSC and Queen Elizabeth on her and King George VI's gratitude to Winston Churchill, meeting for lunch and the Queen asking to be kept fully informed; letters between Sir Alan Lascelles [Private Secretary to the King] and [Thomas] Leslie Rowan [Private Secretary to Churchill] the King and Queen's good wishes while Churchill was suffering from pneumonia; a letter from Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester, on Churchill's health.

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Sir Alan Lascelles [Private Secretary to King George VI] on Winston Churchill's chapter on Richard III in his "History of the English Speaking Peoples"; Queen Elizabeth, thanking CSC for her sympathy [on the death of her father, 14th Lord Strathmore and Kinghorne], and also on the christening of the Duke of Gloucester's son (2); Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester, on his son's christening; Princess Mary, Princess Royal, on her son, Lord Lascelles [later 7th Lord...

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Correspondents include: Princess Margaret, thanking CSC for a dinner party; King Haakon of Norway on subjects including the death of his niece and daughter-in-law Crown Princess Martha; Lady [Mary] Rachel Davidson, Lady-in-Waiting to Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent; Princess Ingeborg of Sweden on the death of her daughter Crown Princess Martha of Norway;

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Press cuttings on Winston Churchill's broadcast.

Scope and Contents Papers and correspondence about the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. Correspondents include: [John] Jock Colville [Joint Principal Private Secretary to Churchill], on court dress and the Coronation Ball (4); Lawrence Sabatini, Principal, Ministry of Works, on whether staff could watch the procession from the roof of 10 Downing Street [London]; Cecily ["Chips'] Gemmell, personal secretary to Clementine, on arrangements for the procession and dress (4); Sir Harry Batterbee, Coronation...

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Coronation invitation and certificate of appointment for McKenna as a member of the Coronation Committee, and order of ceremony for the investiture of Edward, Prince of Wales [later King Edward VIII and Edward, Duke of Windsor].

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Unfortunately few political papers or correspondence exist, and the most valuable section is Horsbrugh's own collection of presscuttings, HSBR 2.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Unfortunately few political papers or correspondence exist, and the most valuable section is Horsbrugh's own collection of presscuttings, HSBR 2.

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"Seven Queens", written by Godfrey Turton and printed by George Buday, with a note to WSC from Turton and Buday.

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Written during Lascelles' employment as Edward, Prince of Wales' (the future King Edward VIII, later Prince Edward, Duke of Windsor) private secretary.
Correspondence and notes about the Abdication Crisis (LASL 3/8-3/9) are closed.

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, on her memories of her visit to France in 1938 with King George VI; Sir Robert Armstrong, thanking CS for congratulations on his KCB; 2nd Lord Elton on a comic verse about CS. Also includes: the text of a poem by Sir John Betjeman and Mary, Lady Wilson, on CS's life peerage; press cuttings on his becoming a director of National Westminster Bank Limited; text of CS's speech at the Financial Times conference in Madrid [Spain],...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Harold Armstrong on the history of the South African War, particularly ill-treatment of pro-British Boers (2); Mary Arnold-Forster; Cyril Bailey [President of the Classical Association]; Stanley Baldwin, Prime Minister, on subjects including thanking LSA for his sympathy during the Abdication Crisis (4); Jacques Bardoux on subjects including the Franco-Soviet Pact and the crisis in Europe over Italy's invasion of Abyssinia [later Ethiopia] (4); 2nd Lord Beatty...

Scope and Contents Correspondents (mainly congratulating LSA on his appointment as Parliamentary Under-Secretary for the Colonies) include: Sir William Allardyce, Governor of the Bahamas (2); Brigadier-General Sir Hugh Baikie; Henry Birchenough; General Sir William Birdwood; Reginald Brock; John Buchan [later 1st Lord Tweedsmuir]; Lionel Curtis on the British colonial section in the peace negotiations; Lord Curzon; Thomas Comyn-Platt, offering to work as LSA's Private Secretary (2); Alison Cuninghame; Violet...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Sir Henry Birchenough; Sir Herbert Creedy [Secretary of the War Office]; J L Garvin; Margaret Lloyd George; Frederick Kellaway, Secretary, Department of Overseas Trade, on a threatened miners' strike; David Lloyd George, Prime Minister, asking LSA to act as a Civil Commissioner during a strike; Andrew Bonar Law [Lord Privy Seal] on LSA acting as a Civil Commissioner; Oliver Locker-Lampson, on LSA eventually succeeding 1st Lord Milner as Secretary of State for the...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Sir Edward Grigg [later 1st Lord Altrincham], on taking up his position as Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Kenya, a vote on his salary and his work as Secretary to the Rhodes Trustees (2); Sir Kenneth Anderson; Sir Abe Bailey, supporting LSA's position on Iraq; Stanley Baldwin, Prime Minister; Sir Otto Beit on appointing Grigg's successor as Secretary to the Rhodes Trustees (2); Gertrude Bell [Oriental Secretary to the High Commissioner for Iraq, Sir Henry Dobbs]...

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The bulk of the collection consists of the papers of Lord Hailes as Governor-General and Commander-in-Chief of the Federation of the West Indies, 1958-1962, showing, in fascinating detail, the working out of this experiment in federation. There are numerous papers relating to Lord Hailes's long tenure of office as Assistant, Deputy Chief, and finally Chief, Whip and these include many letters from his fellow Conservatives showing the high esteem in which they held him.Amongst the...