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Photo shows WSC sitting on steps, with a cigar in his mouth, looking towards Mary Churchill [later Mary Soames], a toddler, who is looking straight to the camera.

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Photo of bricklaying at Chartwell. WSC stands holding a trowel with Sarah [Churchill, later Sarah Beauchamp, Sarah Oliver and Sarah, Lady Audley] and Mary [Churchill, later Mary Soames] as children.

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A series of lectures given in the Michaelmas Term, 1961.

Scope and Contents Notes for WSC's broadcast (3 May, BBC) to the Polish people on 150th anniversary of the Polish Constitution, commenting on the attack on Poland by Germany, Polish resistance, and praise for Poles in exile in Britain. Also includes cuttings from the Listener containing the text of WSC's speech entitled "Poland will remain unconquerable". Published: Complete Speeches VI, pp 6385-7.Notes for WSC's broadcast (recorded 29 May, broadcast 2 June) to the people of Canada, on Canada's support in the...

Scope and Contents Working papers on adolescents and young people, covering subjects such as the teenage market, clothing, leisure and youth club membership, crime and deviance, employment, girls and young housewives, sex and marriage, and the 'generation gap'. Consists largely of press cuttings, articles, and survey data, with Mark Abrams's annotations and notes. Including drafts of Mark Abrams's articles "Britain's Youth" (1955), "The New Consumer" (1958), "Advertising and the Teenage Market" (1959), and...

Scope and Contents Illustrated typed version of recorded interview between Mark Abrams and his grandson Dominic Abrams, with foreword and images added by Dominic Abrams. The interview was recorded on 19 September 1984 and transcribed in 2002, with an introduction to the transcription by Dominic Abrams, 22 February 2012. The transcription includes extracts from an interview with Mark Abrams conducted by Rebecca Abrams in 1986 and additional information provided by Rebecca Abrams, Paul Walman and Sonia...

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Receipt from W.P. Blackburn & Son, Funeral Directors, Broadstairs, £35 14s 7d, for coffin for Marigold Churchill, and transportation from Broadstairs to London.

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WSC's Pass Books for Investment Account with Cox & Co., March-Sept 1921, the books contain extensive notes by WSC on his finances, 1921-23, including details of his Childrens' Trust, his South African investments, Chartwell, estimates of his income and expenditure, and expenses and receipts for The World Crisis [2 items].

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Letter from WSC to Charles Sims, commenting unfavourably on Sims' portrait of Diana and Sarah Churchill, particularly the expressions on the faces of the children [2 carbon copies].

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Letter from Charles Sims to WSC, on his portrait of Diana and Sarah Churchill.

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Letter from Diana Churchill to WSC, on holiday at Frinton, enclosing three photographs of Randolph, Diana and Sarah Churchill, Penelope and Angela Dudley-Ward and Giles and Esmond Romilly.

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Letter from Randolph Churchill to WSC, on holiday at Frinton.

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Letter from Sarah Churchill to WSC, on holiday at Frinton.

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Letter from CSC, 2 Sussex Square, London, to WSC, on her health, and that of the children, asking him not to open a letter written to him on "Black Monday" [2 January].

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Letter from CSC, Hotel Mont-Fleury, Cannes, France, to WSC, on success in Cannes tennis tournament, and on her decision to tell her mother and Venetia Montagu about her pregnancy, also on building work at 2 Sussex Square, and account of conversation with Lord Derby on Lord and Lady Curzon, describing Curzon as a "fat sneak".

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Letter from CSC to WSC, on the possibility of buying a house at Frinton; the imminent arrival of the new "kitten" [Mary Churchill, later Lady Soames] and WSC's stay in France.

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Letter from CSC to WSC, on WSC's stay in France; French politics and the death of Arthur Griffith and its effect on Irish politics.

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Letter from CSC to WSC, on the possibility of buying a house in Frinton, and on Diana and Randolph's booby prize in the Frinton tennis tournament.

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Letter and telegram from CSC to WSC, wedding anniversary greetings; on the possibility of buying a county house, with account of visit to her aunt, Mary Hozier.

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Letter from CSC to WSC, on the election campaign in Dundee.

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Draft of WSC's Children's Settlement Trust.

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Statement of the effect of the dispositions contained in WSC's draft will.

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Letter from "Goonie" [Lady Gwendeline Churchill, formerly Lady Gwendeline Bertie] (The Lodge, Brackley, Northamptonshire) to "B M" [Lady Randolph Churchill], expresses concern for her health, discusses plans to go to Scotland on the [Admiralty yacht] Enchantress with WSC and "Jack" [John S Churchill] and reports that the "boys" [John G Churchill and Peregrine Churchill] are well. Signed manuscript.

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Letter from "Goonie" [Lady Gwendeline Churchill, formerly Lady Gwendeline Bertie] (10 Talbot Square, Hyde Park [London]) to "B M" [Lady Randolph Churchill] in which she says that she and "Jack" [John S Churchill] would be prepared to do anything for her and that Jack is concerned about her and would "give his blood for your happiness". Signed manuscript.

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Letter from "Goonie" [Lady Gwendeline Churchill, formerly Lady Gwendeline Bertie] (41 Cromwell Road [London]) to [Lady Randolph Churchill] in which she says that she would like a short coat for the baby [Peregrine Churchill] and a day gown for herself and reports that the health of John [G Churchill] has improved and that "Clemmie" [CSC] has gone to Blenheim. Signed manuscript.