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Estimate from A W Southon and Sons, Builders (Edenbridge [Kent]), for work at Chartwell, fitting a new lavatory basin in the Work Room on the top floor, and fitting a partition between WSC's room and the Maid's Room, for 24l 13s and painting Horatia Seymour's cottage, for 4 pounds.

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Estimate from A W Southon and Sons, Builders (Edenbridge [Kent]), for decorating Mrs Jackson's cottage at Chartwell, for 36l 6s.

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Letter from [Grace Hamblin], Private Secretary to CSC, to [Robert Burns], Private Secretary [to the Minister of Supply] requesting a permit for timber for repairing a cottage at Chartwell [Kent] which was full of dry rot, and becoming uninhabitable. [Carbon].

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Letter from A W Southon and Sons, Builders (Edenbridge [Kent]) to CSC, reporting on the condition of the cottage occupied by A E Hill [Head Gardener, Chartwell, Kent] which was badly affected by dry rot.

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Note from Mary Shearburn [Secretary to WSC, later Mary Thompson] to WSC, on a leak in the roof at Chartwell [Kent] which could be repaired with sail cloth and tar, stating that to obtain the sail cloth it was necessary to obtain a Priority Order from the Ministry of Supply [annotated by WSC with a note to the Private Office, asking them to arrange this "if it is not improper"].

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Letter from Kathleen Hill [Secretary to WSC] to the Telephone Manager, Tunbridge Wells Area [Kent], requesting an extension from the Westerham 93 switchboard to the office at Chartwell, and confirming that the extension from Westerham 81 in the Cottage bedroom [at Chartwell] was to be left as at present to maintain communication with the Manor Office. [Carbon].

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Letter from Kathleen Hill [Secretary to WSC] to the Telephone Manager, Tunbridge Wells Area [Kent], asking if it would be possible to move the Westerham 93 switchboard from the Cottage [at Chartwell] to Chartwell Manor, where it could be connected when WSC re-occupied the house in 2-3 months time, also asking if it would be possible to install separate telephones in the Cottage, and Stable Cottage. [Carbon].

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Letter from Grace Hamblin [Private Secretary to CSC] to Ben Smith [Brasted, Kent], on two copper beech trees at Chartwell, which obstructed the light at the front of the house, which CSC wished to have removed, asking if he would be interested in buying them. [Carbon].

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Letter from [Grace Hamblin, Private Secretary to CSC] to Kent War Agricultural Executive Committee, asking if it would be possible to use German prisoners-of-war to remove barbed wire from the Chartwell estate [Kent]. [Carbon].

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Note from Grace Hamblin [Private Secretary to CSC] to CSC, on the possibility of using German prisoners-of-war to clear barbed wire from the Chartwell estate [Kent], also on the possibility of employing a second gardener, and on the removal of two copper beech trees from in front of the house.

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Letter from Ben Smith (Brasted, Kent), to Grace Hamblin [Private Secretary to CSC], reporting on the condition of two copper beech trees at Chartwell, offering 7 pounds for them, and suggesting that CSC could easily dispose of a good quantity of trees on the estate, particularly in the wood bordering Puddledock Lane, earning a considerable sum of money, and helping the National Effort.

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Letter from A W Southon and Sons, Builders (Edenbridge [Kent]) to CSC, with an estimate for removing the existing hot water apparatus from the Nursery Wing at Chartwell, at 43 pounds.

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Letter from Sevenoaks and District Electricity Company Limited, to CSC, on the cooker and water heater at Jackson's Cottage, Chartwell [Kent].

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Specification for the installation of electric heating in WSC's Clothes Room, Mary Churchill [later Mary Soames]'s Room and the New Bathroom in the Nursery Kitchen [Chartwell, Kent].

Scope and Contents Letter from CSC to A W Southon and Sons, [Builders, Edenbridge, Kent], on alterations to Chartwell: the caretaker couple were to have Mary Churchill [later Mary Soames]'s former bedroom (Tower Room) as their sitting room, with the cock-loft as their kitchen and the room next to the cock-loft as their bedroom, and a larder on the roof outside the cock-loft; CSC's visiting staff were to have the west bay fronted room as their sitting room, and the room next to that was to be the Cook's...

Scope and Contents Letter from McKenna & Co., Solicitors, London, to Nicholl, Manisty & Co., Solicitors, London, on account from Jackson and Boyce Ltd for work at Morpeth Mansions, stating that they felt that any further meetings between Jackson & Boyce and Charles Goodwin [WSC's architect] would be "an absolute waste of time", and that although they could not agree to the matter being referred to an independent architect, they would have no objection to the matter being referred to a "Master"...

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Correspondence between Commander Charles Thompson [Personal Assistant to WSC], Colonel [? Denys Hicks], 1st Anti-Aircraft Division, and Major A McGrath [? Military Assistant] to the Commander-in-Chief, Home Forces, on defence and security arrangements for Chartwell [Kent].

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Letter from WSC to Miss G Lamont [Administrator, Chequers, Buckinghamshire] thanking her for the birthday cake.

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Correspondence between Francis Brown [Private Secretary to WSC], WSC, Lieutenant-General Bernard Paget [Commander-in-Chief, Home Forces] and "Bert" [10th Duke of Marlborough, earlier Lord Blandford] on arrangements for Marlborough to be Liaison Officer to General Hugh Ellis, Regional Commissioner, Southern Command and also on the defences of [?] Chequers [Buckinghamshire].

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Letter from WSC to A V Alexander, First Lord of the Admiralty, thanking him for the use of Admiralty House as a room at 10 Downing Street was unusable.

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Letter from [Frederick] Root [Private Secretary to Minister of Works and Buildings] (Lambeth Bridge House, London) to Eric Seal [Prime Minister's Principal Private Secretary] (10 Downing Street) on their Surveyor's drawing for an air-raid shelter at Chartwell [Kent]. Signed typescript preceded by file note.

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Letter from [Charles] Thompson [Personal Assistant to WSC] to [Frederick] Root [Private Secretary to Minister of Works and Buildings] on WSC's views of a modified scheme for an air-raid shelter at Chartwell [Kent]. Carbon copy.

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Letter from [Frederick] Root [Private Secretary to Minister of Works and Buildings] (Lambeth Bridge House, London) to [Charles] Thompson [Personal Assistant to WSC] on time and costs for a modified scheme for an air-raid shelter [at Chartwell, Kent]. Signed typescript.

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Notes from "C R T" [Charles Thompson, Personal Assistant to WSC] to [Eric] Seal [Prime Minister's Principal Private Secretary] on who will pay and time and costs for an air-raid shelter at Chartwell [Kent]. Manuscript notes with Seal's annotated replies.

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Note from WSC (10 Downing Street) to [Charles] Thompson [Personal Assistant to WSC] dated 12 January on an air-raid shelter for Chartwell [Kent]. Initialled. Typed reply from Thompson dated 23 January on proposed scheme and costs. Further annotated reply from WSC.