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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Papers, correspondence and accounts notes on the breeding, buying and selling of horses in which CS had an interest or shares.

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Letter from CS to Sir Winston Churchill on his investments and the progress of Churchill's stud and racehorses.

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Minutes on subjects including: work at Chartwell [Kent], including the work done by German prisoners of war; Churchill's war memoirs; Churchill's black swans; the racehorses Colonist II, Le Pretendant and Welsh Abbot. Also includes rough speech notes by Churchill for a meeting of the 1922 Committee, mainly relating to Egypt, c 1955, a later note on Colonist II and some of CS's racing accounts, 1981-85.

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Comprising: Home, Clevedon, Eton; Sandhurst and Examinations; The Grenadier Guards; Racing: a Story of the Inevitable; Ireland; Canada; South African War 1900-1902; Tennis, Hunting, Stalking, Golf, Fishing and Shooting; The First German War: France and Belgium; Italy; Some Notes on the Battle of Vittorio Veneto and After; From Aldershot to Washington; and War Office 1922-26.
With correspondence with Field Marshal Sir William Robertson, 1925 (2).

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Correspondence, accounts, cuttings and photographs.

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Papers and correspondence on the partnership known as the Hamsell Stud, between CS and [A D D] Tim Rogers (former aide to Sir Winston Churchill), which was formed to own and manage the horses and interests in horses left to CS by Churchill.

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Press photographs, mainly of WSC with his racehorse Colonist II, and also with Canyon Kid.

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Includes Colonist II, Loving Cup and Non-Stop.

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Correspondence, with some copies of letters from Churchill to CS, on subjects including: Churchill's and CS's racing colours; Churchill's membership of the Jockey Club; Churchill's racehorses, including Colonist II and High Hat; figures for his stud at the time of his death.

Scope and Contents Subjects include: the General Election; Churchill's and Randolph Churchill's constituency campaigns; [Arthur] Christopher Soames's duodenal ulcer; tensions in Randolph's marriage to June Churchill [earlier June Osborne]; work on Volume IV of the war memoirs; Chartwell [Kent], including the black swans, improvements in the farms, particularly Bardogs, the cattle, the stud farm, "the sulky, ill-mannered cat" and Rufus the poodle; the racehorse Colonist II's entry in the Winston Churchill...

Scope and Contents Subjects include: various speeches, May 1954; Clementine's treatment [for neuritis]; a weekend at Chequers [Buckinghamshire], May 1954; the health of Clarissa Eden [earlier Clarissa Churchill, later Clarissa, Lady Avon], Churchill's agreement with [Robert] Anthony Eden [Foreign Secretary, later 1st Lord Avon] over the Geneva conference [on Indochina and Korea] and hopes for a ceasefire, while also avoiding a break with the United States; a debate on MPs' pay and a row in the Conservative...

Scope and Contents Subjects include: worries about Clementine's health; stays by Churchill at La Pausa with Emery Reves [earlier Imre Revesz], and Wendy Reves, Roquebrune [France]; the health of Diana Sandys [earlier Diana Churchill and Diana Bailey]; meeting Aristotle Onassis; visits from [Marguerite] Daisy Fellowes, earlier Daisy de Broglie, R A Butler and [William] Somerset Maugham; work on ["A History of the English-Speaking Peoples"] with Churchill's literary assistants, [Richard] Denis Kelly and Alan...

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Photo shows WSC smiling and holding his hand out to his horse Colonist II in the enclosure at Hurst Park racecourse [for the Winston Churchill stakes]. A crowd of smiling people watch.

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Photo shows WSC standing in a raised racecourse box, waving his hat and smiling broadly with a cigar in his mouth. Beneath him is a crowd of smiling people.