Leisure time activities
Found in 415 Collections and/or Records:
(Untitled), 05 Jul 1922
Letter from WSC to Lt-Colonel E D Miller, on his decision not to play any further polo that year for health reasons, and asking for his ponies to be sent to Sir Archibald Sinclair (later Lord Thurso), who would keep and play them for the rest of the season [carbon].
(Untitled), 11 Jul 1922
Letter from Charles Sims to WSC, on his portrait of Diana and Sarah Churchill.
(Untitled), 18 Dec 1926
Letter from WSC to Admiral Lord Keyes, on his visit to the Mediterranean Fleet, and on the possibility of playing polo during his stay [carbon].
(Untitled), 05 Sep 1931
Letter from WSC to E Merrick Tylor [Managing Director of the Excess Insurance Company Limited], agreeing to let him have one of his paintings "as a memento of our transactions", hoping that he would keep it in his own house and not part with it "because I do not think very much of these daubs. I am shy of their undue exposure." [Carbon].
(Untitled), 09 Feb 1932
Account from Equitable Cigar Stands, New York, $12, for 100 Royal Derby cigars.
(Untitled), 21 May 1905
Letter from John Morley [Lord Morley] (Flowermead, Wimbledon Park, [London]) to WSC regretting that he is otherwise engaged on 26 May. Thinks that if ministers hang on for another session it may give WSC time to get his pictures off the easel.
(Untitled), 15 Dec 1919
Letter from Sir Ian Hamilton (1 Hyde Park Gardens, [London]) to WSC explaining that he may omit some parts of his Gallipoli diary when it is published (but not his references to "the wickedness at the end which bust up the whole show") and praising WSC's painting of a cedar.
(Untitled), 09 Jan 1922
Letter from [WSC] to Lord Riddell [earlier Sir George Riddell] thanking him for a Christmas box of cigars and praising his handling of the American press at the Washington Conference on disarmament.
(Untitled), 30 Aug 1922
Letter from WSC to Frederick Guest expressing regret that he (WSC) is not fit enough to play polo, and asking for background information, particularly on the figures relating to the Coalition Liberals and the number of Ulster [Ireland] members, in Guests's estimate of the General Election, which [David Lloyd George] thinks is too optimistic. Carbon copy.
(Untitled), 03 May 1924
Letter from C H H Burleigh (7 Wilbury Crescent, Hove, Sussex) to [Maurice Bonham Carter] asking whether he could choose two or three of WSC's pictures for the Brighton Autumn Exhibition. Sent with CHAR 2/133/14.
(Untitled), 25 Jan 1926
Letter from Edward Marsh to E H Francis (The Expert Cigarette Company) stating that WSC does not smoke cigarettes and therefore cannot patronise Francis's company. Carbon typescript copy.
(Untitled), 13 May 1927
Letter from Edward Marsh to Arthur Quigley conveying WSC's regret that he does not think his (WSC's) pictures are good enough for public exhibition. Carbon typescript copy.
(Untitled), 10 May 1927
Letter from Arthur Quigley (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool) to WSC inviting him to contribute pictures for the gallery's autumn exhibition and enclosing CHAR 2/152/14 and CHAR 2/152/15.
(Untitled), 09 Jun 1927
Letter from WSC (Chartwell) to Hazel, Lady Lavery thanking her for information about E Blythe's campaign [see CHAR 2/152/91], expressing delight that Sir John Lavery is progressing and reporting that he is trying to paint the Palladian Bridge at Wilton [Wiltshire]. Typescript copy.
(Untitled), 16 Aug 1927
Letter from [Clarice Fisher] to Edward Rosslyn Mitchell stating that WSC does not think his paintings are good enough for exhibition. Carbon typescript copy.
(Untitled), 12 Aug 1927
Letter from Edward Rosslyn Mitchell (138 West George Street, Glasgow, [Scotland]) to WSC conveying the request of the Paisley Art Club that he loan two of his paintings for their annual exhibition.
(Untitled), 17 Sep 1935
Letter from Sir Abe Bailey (38 Bryanston Square [London]) to WSC, commenting on his painting, and asking him to write to 17th Lord Derby [earlier Lord Stanley] in order to "square things with him". Bailey adds that he doesn't see anything but trouble for Italy and Abyssinia [later Ethiopia], as Benito Mussolini will have trouble climbing down. Manuscript.
(Untitled), 01 Aug 1935 - 02 Aug 1935
Letter from WSC to Maurice Petherick, sending a cheque in settlement of a wager [that the India Bill would pass during the session including the Federal System]; further copies sent to Arthur Crossley and Richard Law [later 1st Lord Coleraine]; includes notes by Violet Pearman and WSC.
(Untitled), 10 Aug 1935
Letter from the Private Secretary to Arthur Crossley, to [Violet Pearman, Private Secretary to WSC], acknowledging receipt of WSC's cheque for 4 pounds [in settlement of a wager that the India Bill would pass during the session including the Federal System].
(Untitled), 23 Jul 1936
Letter from Oliver Locker-Lampson to Violet Pearman, Private Secretary to WSC, on his bet with WSC that Stanley Baldwin [Prime Minister] would not retire before the Coronation; asking for the details. [Annotated "Bet 25 pounds to 5 pounds in favour of Mr Baldwin staying in till the Coronation"].
(Untitled), 27 Jul 1936
Letter from [Violet Pearman], Private Secretary to WSC to Oliver Locker-Lampson, confirming that his bet with WSC was 25 pounds to 5 pounds in favour of Stanley Baldwin staying on [as Prime Minister] till the Coronation. [Carbon].
(Untitled), 27 Nov 1911
(Untitled), 09 Sep 1910
(Untitled), 23 Aug [1910]
(Untitled), 31 May [1914]
Minute from WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty], to the Director of the Air Division, Admiralty, [Captain Murray Sueter] asking for a dual Maurice Farman aircraft to be sent to Eastchurch [Kent], on the following Tuesday, and that two skilful flyers should "get thoroughly acquainted with her", stating that he hoped to use the aircraft himself on the Thursday. [Carbon].