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Found in 449 Collections and/or Records:
(Untitled), c 1945
Transcript of a letter from WSC (Royal Military College, Sandhurst [Camberley, Surrey]) to "Jack" [John S Churchill] thanking him for a present, discussing arrangements to visit Harrow, and informing him that [Lord Randolph Churchill and Lady Randolph Churchill] are returning [from Japan] to Monte Carlo as [Lord Randolph] has been advised to have "perfect quiet". Typed. 2 copies. Original letter at CHAR 28/152A/31.
(Untitled), 29 Nov [1894]
Letter from WSC (Royal Military College, Sandhurst [Camberley, Surrey]) to "Jack" [John S Churchill] informing him that [Lord Randolph Churchill and Lady Randolph Churchill] are returning [from Japan] to Monte Carlo and commenting on [Lord Randolph's] health "if he keeps perfectly quiet he may yet get well- though he will never be able to go into Politics." Signed manuscript. Typed transcripts at CHAR 28/152A/35-36.
(Untitled), c 1945
Transcript of letter from WSC (Royal Military College, Sandhurst [Camberley, Surrey]) to "Jack" [John S Churchill] informing him that [Lord Randolph Churchill and Lady Randolph Churchill] are returning [from Japan] to Monte Carlo and commenting on [Lord Randolph's] health "if he keeps perfectly quiet he may yet get well- though he will never be able to go into Politics." Typed. 2 copies. Original letter at CHAR 28/152A/34.
(Untitled), 29 Jul [1896]
Letter from WSC (35a, Great Cumberland Place [London]) to "Jack" [John S Churchill] in which he discusses the route of the P & O express and says that he will not see him until he returns from India; discusses his speech; and asks him to write often. Signed manuscript.
(Untitled), 03 May 1898
Part of a letter from WSC (4th (The Queen's Own) Hussars, Bangalore, India) to "Jack" [John S Churchill] in which he expresses sorrow that "Mamma" [Lady Randolph Churchill] has not written to him, asks Jack to find out why she is "so unkind", and says that the mistakes in ["The Malakand Field Force"] have caused him "acute pain". Manuscript.
(Untitled), 31 Jul 1900
(Untitled), 19 Mar 1945
Letter from Sir Shane Leslie [Cousin to WSC] (Glaslough, County Monaghan, [Eire]) to Desmond [? Desmond Morton, Personal Assistant to WSC] suggesting that WSC and CSC might want to see his daughter Anita who has been in Alsace [France] all winter and has the Croix de Guerre and the Maquis medal: "Anita arrived here on Friday and neutrality was horribly infringed by playing bands and cheering crowds!". With annotation by ?WSC referring matter to CSC.
(Untitled), 26 Mar 1945
Letter from CSC to WSC stating that Anita Leslie is Sir Shane Leslie's daughter, that "I believe she has done very good service" in North Africa and Alsace [ France], recommending that WSC asks her to luncheon, and regretting that she will not be there. [Initialled typescript].
(Untitled), 28 Mar 1945
Note from Kathleen Hill [Personal Secretary to WSC] to John Colville [Prime Minister's Private Secretary] informing him that Anita Leslie has accepted the invitation to lunch at Chequers [Buckinghamshire] on Friday and asking him to arrange for the car to call for Miss Leslie at 12.20 pm and to combine her with Commander Guest if he accepts. [initialled typescript] With further ms annotations by Kathleen Hill and John Colville regarding arrangements.
(Untitled), 28 Mar 1945
Note from John Colville [Prime Minister's Private Secretary] to WSC asking whether he wants to invite Miss Anita Leslie and Lieutenant-Commander Raymond Guest to luncheon on Friday at 1.30 pm. [Initialled typescript] With annotation in red by WSC: "Yes at Chequers. Friday. I shall go down Thursday myself. arrange transport." With further pencil annotations by Kathleen Hill [Personal Secretary to WSC] regarding Anita Leslie's address.
(Untitled), 11 May 1945
Note from Leslie Rowan [Prime Minister's Private Secretary] to WSC informing him that Sir Shane Leslie [Cousin to WSC] telephoned to let him know that Lieutenant John Leslie, a prisoner in Germany for five years, had now returned safely and was on his way to Ireland. [Initialled typescript].
(Untitled), 02 Jun 1945
Text of telegram from WSC to Sir Shane Leslie [Cousin to WSC] expressing his delight that "John is safe after his long tribulations" [see CHAR 20/198A/42]. [typescript] With note regarding despatch.
(Untitled), 19 Apr 1945
(Untitled), 27 Mar 1945
Note from Jo Sturdee [later Lady Onslow, personal secretary to WSC] to John Colville [Prime Minister's Private Secretary] stating that CSC has kept the photographs for her scrap book and thinks that a message of thanks should be sent from WSC to General Sir Frederick Pile [General Officer Commanding in Chief Anti-Aircraft Command]. [Typescript].
(Untitled), 02 Apr 1945
Letter from WSC to General Sir Frederick Pile [General Officer Commanding in Chief Anti-Aircraft Command] thanking him for the photographs of Mary [Mary Churchill, later Lady Soames] taken with her Battery in Belgium and on the cross-Channel journey, and stating that CSC is keeping them for her scrapbook. [Carbon].
(Untitled), 30 Mar 1945
(Untitled), 14 Apr 1945
(Untitled), 30 Mar 1935
(Untitled), 03 Apr 1935
Letter from [Violet Pearman], Private Secretary to WSC to Harold Robinson, [Chairman, India Defence League, Lancashire Group], with thanks for his letter and enclosures on the India Bill; also reporting that Randolph Churchill was "laid up with a bad attack of jaundice and would be out of action for some time". [Carbon].
(Untitled), 18 Jul 1935
Letter from WSC to Kenneth Henderson, Legal Department, Associated Newspapers, commenting that he was satisfied with the outcome of Randolph Churchill's libel action against Sir Thomas White. [in which Randolph made an out of court payment of 1,000 pounds]. Stating that he particularly appreciated the chivalrous manner in which the Daily Mail rated Randolph's interests above their own. [Carbon].
(Untitled), 16 Aug 1935
(Untitled), 17 Aug 1908
Letter from Blanche [Lady] Airlie (Airlie Castle, Clythe [Scotland]) to Mrs West [Lady Randolph Churchill] congratulating her on WSC's engagement to Clementine [Hozier, later CSC] and commenting on her fondness for Clementine.
(Untitled), c 1912
Letter from "Clemmie" [CSC](Admiralty Yacht "Between Portsmouth [Hampshire] and Queenstown [South Africa]") to "B M" [Lady Randolph Churchill] in which she says that she hopes that [Lady Randolph] is better; describes her stay on the "Enchantress"; comments that Diana [Churchill, later Diana Bailey and Diana Sandys] is enjoying herself; and reports that WSC has been flying twice and that she has flown once with Lieutenant Spenser Grey.
(Untitled), c 1913
Letter from Clementine [CSC](Admiralty, Whitehall) to "B M" [Lady Randolph Churchill] in which she apologises for losing her temper, explains that it was because [Lady Randolph] appeared to ignore "Goonie" [Gwendeline Churchill], and invites her to dine with WSC.
(Untitled), [1876]
Letter from [Lady Randolph Churchill] to [Lord Randolph Churchill] in which she discusses the pain of being separated from him, breakfast with [Henry] Standish and [Helene] Standish, reports compliments on her skating from Madame de Sagan and says that she is not lonely with "dear Winston"[WSC].