Janus: The Papers of Lord Lloyd of Dolobran

Churchill/GLLD contains:
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3	Personal: Photographs
4	Personal: Lady Lloyd and additional material
5	Personal: David Lloyd
6	Eastern affairs: Turkish telegrams
7	Eastern affairs: Constantinople
8	Eastern affairs: Cockerell correspondence
9	Eastern affairs: War
10	India: Bombay [Mumbai] Presidency
11	India: India Group
12	Egypt: Telegrams
13	Egypt and Sudan: Correspondence
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The Papers of Lord Lloyd of Dolobran

Title	Eastern affairs: Cockerell correspondence
Reference	GLLD 8
Covering Dates	1903–1915
Extent and Medium	2 boxes [8 files and 1 volume]

Content and context

Letters to and from Samuel Pepys Cockerell.

Index Terms

Spain

Churchill/GLLD 8 contains:

Letters to George Lloyd from his friend Samuel Pepys Cockerell. Letters from Britain including news of friends, domestic politics, mutual acquaintances in the civil service, comment on overseas events, and description of official visit to Manchester. Letter from Spain [31 Dec 1905], where he had recently arrived to take up posting as Commercial Attaché, with description of the journey, Madrid, and people met there. Also includes letter from Cockerell to Hubert Llewellyn Smith at the Board of Trade, recommending Lloyd for commerical mission to Australia.
1 file.

1903–1905

Letters to George Lloyd from his friend Samuel Pepys Cockerell. Letters from Spain (mostly Madrid), with two letters from London. With news and discussion of events, trade, and politics in Spain, and comment on Lloyd's letters. Includes description of visit to Rio Tinto mines.
1 file.

1906

Letters to George Lloyd from his friend Samuel Pepys Cockerell. Letters from Spain and from the Foreign Office in London. With letters from various locations in Spain, and including descriptions of places visited, discussion of politics and trade, and concerns about his career. Also includes two letters from Lloyd to Cockerell, one with account of impressions of Constantinople, and letter to Lloyd from Pat Ramsay in Constantinople [15 Dec 1908] concerning meeting of the Turkish Parliament and suspicions of German involvement of plots to overthrow Kiamil Pasha.
1 file.

1907–1908

Correspondence between George Lloyd and his friend Samuel Pepys Cockerell. Including letters from Lloyd in Canada, Italy, and Constantinople where holidaying with Blanche. On subjects including Lloyd's marriage, international affairs, politics, and trade. Also including letter from Cockerell outlining the terms of his will, letters to Cockerell from Blanche Lascelles [then Lloyd], including one thanking him for taking them flying, and newspaper cuttings about Cockerell flying.
1 file.

1910–1912

Correspondence between George Lloyd and his friend Samuel Pepys Cockerell. Including: news from Lloyd of domestic politics, including controversy over Tariff Reform; letters from Cockerell in locations including China and France, on subjects including international banking and trade issues, international alliances made by the Japanese and the threat to Manchuria, and Chinese politics; letters from Lloyd holidaying in East Africa with Blanche.
1 file.

1913

Correspondence between George Lloyd and his friend Samuel Pepys Cockerell, and letters from Cockerell to Blanche Lloyd. Including letters at the outbreak of war, expressing their eagerness to take part in the fighting, and letters from Egypt and the Middle East where both were posted, with discussion of events there. Including comment from Lloyd on the blameworthiness of the British government in hesitating regarding Germany [4 Aug 1914], and observation on receiving marching orders for France that the men have been issued with swords (without training in using them) and rifles (without ammunition) [c. 20 Oct 1914].
1 file.

1914–1915

Correspondence between George Lloyd and his friend Samuel Pepys Cockerell. Letters from Lloyd in locations including Cairo [Egypt], Dornoch [Scotland, UK], and St Petersburg [Russia], with discussion of politics in Russia, international affairs including popular opinon of the Kaiser, and the Persian Railway. Letters from Cockerell (some with pages missing) on subjects including Venezuala. Also includes letter of sympathy to Lloyd on Cockerell's death, possibly from one of Cockerell's sisters [initialled only], and annotated newspaper article from the Manchester Daily Dispatch, 'France under protection: A narrative of commercial axe-grinding', by Yves Guyot.
1 file.

Copies of will and letters of condolence on Samuel Pepys Cockerell's death. Handwritten copy of S. P. Cockerell's testamentary wishes, and typed copies of letters of condolence to his family. Also including copies of obituaries, and of letter from housemaster when leaving house at Eton [1893] and from Trinity College when leaving university [1900].
1 file.

1915

Letters from Samuel Pepys Cockerell to David Lloyd. Letters typed up as an account of the war by Samuel Cockerell, entitled 'David's Diary, by SPC'.
1 volume.

Oct 1914-Mar 1915