Janus: The Papers of Lord Hailsham

Churchill/HLSM 8/6 contains:
1	General correspondence
2	Letters to Lord Hailsham
3	Correspondence with Miss Horton
4	Letters of condolence on the death of Lady Hailsham
5	Press cuttings about the death of Lady Hailsham
6	Correspondence about the Lady Hailsham Memorial Fund

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The Papers of Lord Hailsham

Title	Letters of condolence on the death of Lady Hailsham
Reference	HLSM 8/6/4
Covering Dates	1978
Extent and Medium	15 files

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Letters from members of the Royal Family and from members of Lord Hailsham's family are closed.

Churchill/HLSM 8/6/4 contains:

Letters of condolence on the death of Lady Hailsham. Mainly comprising telegrams sent to Lord Hailsham in Australia and letters from individuals in Australia. Including a telegram from Jeremy Thorpe, 11 May 1978; a telegram from James Callaghan, 11 May 1978; a telegram from Frederick Peart, Baron Peart, 11 May 1978; a telegram from Edward Heath, 11 May 1978; a letter from Sir Donald Tebbit, British High Commissioner in Australia, conveying the text of a telegram from Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother, 13 May 1978; and a telegram from Hartley Shawcross, Baron Shawcross, 11 May 1978. With some replies from Lord Hailsham.
1 file.

10 May 1978–19 May 1978

11 May 1978–2 June 1978

Letters of condolence on the death of Lady Hailsham. Mainly comprising letters from friends. Including a letter from Kenneth Baker, 10 May 1978; a letter from Lady Diana Cooper, undated; a letter from Denzil Freeth, 12 May 1978; a letter from Christopher Sykes, 13 May 1978; a letter from Robert Carr, Baron Carr of Hadley, 15 May 1978; a letter from Lady Elwyn-Jones [Polly Elwyn-Jones], 15 May 1978; a letter from Sir Geoffrey Howe, 15 May 1978; a letter from Sir Denys Page, 13 May 1978; a letter from Peter Goldman, 15 May 1978; a letter from John Montagu-Douglas-Scott, 9th Duke of Buccleuch, 12 May 1978; a letter from Sir Louis Gluckstein, 11 May 1978; and a letter from Mervyn Stockwood, Bishop of Southwark, 12 May 1978.
1 file.

10 May 1978–19 May 1978

Letters of condolence on the death of Lady Hailsham. Mainly comprising letters from institutions and members of the public.
1 file.

10 May 1978–14 June 1978

Letters of condolence on the death of Lady Hailsham. Mainly comprising letters from institutions and members of the public. Including a letter from Sir Alexander Spearman, 11 May 1978; a letter from John Widgery, Baron Widgery, 11 May 1978; a letter from Alec Douglas-Home, Baron Home of the Hirsel, 10 May 1978; a letter from Bryan Magee, 10 May 1978; a letter from Anthony Grant, 10 May 1978; a letter from Nicholas Fairbairn, undated; a telegram from Harold Macmillan, 15 May 1978; a letter from Sir Hugh Linstead, 14 May 1978; and a letter from Angela Boileau, 10 May 1978.
1 file.

10 May 1978–16 May 1978

Letters of condolence on the death of Lady Hailsham. Mainly comprising letters from friends, institutions and members of the public. Including a letter from Ian Orr-Ewing, Baron Orr-Ewing, undated; a letter from Bob Boothby, Baron Boothby, 15 May 1978; letters from Frank Pakenham, 7th Earl of Longford, May 1978 (2); a letter from Lady Forester [Priscilla Forester], 10 May 1978; a letter from Henry Monck, 6th Viscount Monck, 11 May 1978; a letter from Sir Gilbert Longden, 16 May 1978; a letter from Gordon McKenzie, 12 May 1978; and a letter from Lady Townsend [Mary Townsend], 1978.
1 file.

10 May 1978–18 May 1978

Letters of condolence on the death of Lady Hailsham. Mainly comprising letters from friends. Including a letter from Robert MacGill,11 May 1978; a letter from Barnett Janner, Baron Janner, 15 May 1978; a letter from John Biggs-Davison, 12 May 1978; a letter from Julian Amery, 15 May 1978; a letter from Peter Thorneycroft, Baron Thorneycroft, 16 May 1978; a letter from Michael Adeane, Baron Adeane, 14 May 1978; letters from Frederick Elwyn-Jones, Baron Elwyn-Jones, May 1978 (2); a letter from Leslie Scarman, Baron Scarman, 14 May 1978; a letter from Michael Vyvyan, 12 May 1978; a letter from Patrick Devlin, Baron Devlin, 11 May 1978; a letter from Kathleen Field, 10 May 1978; a letter from Robert Sheldon, 11 May 1978; a letter from Edward du Cann, 10 May 1978; a letter from Kenneth de Courcy, 10 May 1978; a letter from Eldon Griffiths, 10 May 1978; a letter from Robin Day, 17 May 1978; a letter from Nicholas Scott, undated; a letter from Christopher Soames, Baron Soames, 17 May 1978; a letter from David Eccles, 1st Viscount Eccles, 16 May 1978; a letter from Sir Douglas Dodds-Parker, 22 May 1978; a letter from Martin Salmon, 12 May 1978; a letter from Tom Denning, Baron Denning, undated; a letter from Archibald Gordon, 5th Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair, 12 May 1978; a letter from Lady Karminski [Susan Karminski], 12 May 1978; a letter from Maurice Macmillan, 22 May 1978; a letter from Dame Margaret Cole, 13 May 1978; a letter from Alan Lennox-Boyd, 1st Viscount Boyd of Merton, 13 May 1978; a letter from Roy Jenkins, 15 May 1978; a letter from Gerald Balfour, 4th Earl of Balfour, 16 May 1978; a letter from Alexander Todd, Baron Todd, 11 May 1978; a letter from John Sparrow, 14 May 1978; a letter from Henry Brooke, Baron Brooke of Cumnor, 19 May 1978; and a letter from Lady Pamela Berry [Lady Hartwell], 15 May 1978.
1 file.

10 May 1978–24 May 1978

Letters of condolence on the death of Lady Hailsham. Mainly comprising letters from friends. Including a letter from Lady Helen Asquith, 19 May 1978; a letter from Mervyn Stockwood, Bishop of Southwark, 24 May 1978; a letter from David English, 15 May 1978; a letter from Billy Loudon, 14 May 1978; a letter from Lady Prudence Loudon, undated; a letter from Jim Scrymgeour-Wedderburn [Henry James Scrymgeour-Wedderburn], 11th Earl of Dundee, 16 May 1978; a letter from Tim Bergqvist, 18 May 1978; a letter from Hartley Shawcross, Baron Shawcross, 14 May 1978; a letter from Döe Howard, undated; a letter from Richard Ollard, 11 May 1978; a letter from Merlyn Rees, 16 May 1978; a letter from John Kemp, 1st Viscount Rochdale, 14 May 1978; and a letter from Dennis Walters, 15 May 1978.
1 file.

10 May 1978–25 May 1978

Letters of condolence on the death of Lady Hailsham. Mainly comprising letters from friends, institutions and members of the public. Including a letter from Jacqueline, Lady Killearn, 17 May 1978; a letter from Sir Geoffrey Jackson, 11 May 1978; a letter from William van Straubenzee, 19 May 1978; a letter from Arnold Goodman, Baron Goodman, 18 May 1978; a letter from Michael Fraser, Baron Fraser of Kilmorack, 10 May 1978; a letter from Mark Bonham Carter, 12 May 1978; a letter from Kenneth Lindsay, 16 May 1978; a letter from Charles Douglas-Home, 16 May 1978; and a letter from Peter Kerr, 12th Marquess of Lothian, 18 May 1978.
1 file.

10 May 1978–31 May 1978

Letters of condolence on the death of Lady Hailsham. Mainly comprising letters from friends. Including a letter from Hinch [Victor Montagu], 10 June 1978; a letter from Sir James Pitman, 4 June 1978; a letter from Felicité Gwynne, undated; a letter from Sir Henry Studholme, 11 May 1978; a letter from Jack Simon, Baron Simon of Glaisdale, 12 May 1978; a letter from Fred Peart, Baron Peart, 16 May 1978; a letter from Sir Isaiah Berlin, 12 May 1978; a letter from Jack Wolfenden, Baron Wolfenden, 14 May 1978; a letter from Ludovic Kennedy, 15 May 1978; a letter from Nicholas Ridley, 11 May 1978; a letter from Sir David Renton, 15 May 1978; a letter from John Nott, undated; a letter from Sir Keith Joseph, 16 May 1978; a letter from Alick Buchanan-Smith, 16 May 1978; a letter from Sir Ian Bowater, 14 May 1978; and a letter from Garth Lean, 31 May 1978. Also including a colour photograph of Lord Hailsham at the Churchill Dinner in Calgary, Canada, 1978.
1 file.

10 May 1978–13 June 1978

Letters of condolence on the death of Lady Hailsham. Mainly comprising letters from friends. Including a letter from Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester, 5 June 1978; a letter from Donald Coggan, Archbishop of Canterbury, 11 May 1978; a letter from Lord Louis Mountbatten [Admiral of the Fleet Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma], 10 May 1978; a letter from George Thomas, 15 May 1978; a letter from William Whitelaw, 12 May 1978; a letter from Jeremy Thorpe, 12 May 1978; a letter from Len Murray, 13 May 1978; a letter from Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon, 15 May 1978; a letter from Lady Helen Asquith, 11 May 1978; a letter from Bertram Bowyer, 2nd Baron Denham, 11 May 1978; a letter from Jack Donaldson, Baron Donaldson of Kingsbridge, 10 May 1978; a letter from Peter Rawlinson, Baron Rawlinson of Ewell, 10 May 1978; a letter from Tony Benn, 10 May 1978; a letter from Michael Hicks Beach, 2nd Earl St Aldwyn, 11 May 1978; a letter from Ian Gilmour, undated; a letter from Gerald Gardiner, Baron Gardiner, 11 May 1978; a letter from Bill Anstruther-Gray [William John St Clair Anstruther-Gray], Baron Kilmany, 10 May 1978; a letter from Francis Pym, 10 May 1978; a letter from John Junor, 10 May 1978; a letter from Reginald Manningham-Buller, 1st Viscount Dilhorne, 11 May 1978; a letter from Maureen Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, Marchioness of Dufferin and Ava, 11 May 1978; a letter from Ernest Marples, Baron Marples, 25 May 1978; a postcard from Lady Diana Cooper, 8 June 1978; a letter from Freddie Ayer [Professor Sir Alfred Ayer], 1 June 1978; a letter from John Maud [John Primatt Redcliffe-Maud], Baron Redcliffe-Maud, 25 May 1978; and a letter from Charles Smyth, 28 June 1978.
1 file.

10 May 1978–12 July 1978

Letters of condolence on the death of Lady Hailsham. Mainly comprising letters from friends. Including a letter from Elizabeth Pakenham, Countess of Longford, 5 July 1978; a letter from Jack Simon, Baron Simon of Glaisdale, 10 December 1978; a letter from June Gordon, Marchioness of Aberdeen and Temair, 15 May 1978; a letter from Stormont Mancroft, 2nd Baron Mancroft, 19 May 1978; a letter from Frederick Elwyn-Jones, Baron Elwyn-Jones, 17 May 1978; a letter from Airey Neave, undated; a letter from Derick Heathcoat Amory, 1st Viscount Amory, 15 May 1978; a letter from Matthew Ridley, 4th Viscount Ridley, 16 May 1978; a letter from Hugh Cudlipp, 15 May 1978; a letter from Lady Zuckerman [Joan Zuckerman], 16 May 1978; a letter from Lady Foot [Dorothy Foot], 16 May 1978, and Sir Dingle Foot, 15 May 1978; a letter from Gerald Ellison, Bishop of London, 14 May 1978; a letter from Sir Michael Havers, 13 May 1978; a letter from Malcolm Muggeridge, 22 May 1978; a letter from David Niven, 17 May 1978; a letter from Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 6th Marquess of Salisbury, 13 May 1978; a letter from Eric Ponsonby [Frederick Edward Ponsonby], 10th Earl of Bessborough, 16 May 1978; a letter from Raymond Jolliffe, 5th Baron Hylton, undated; a letter from Lady Hylton [Perdita Jolliffe], May 1978; and a letter from Stuart Blanch, Archbishop of York, 16 May 1978.
1 file.

10 May 1978–10 December 1978

Letters of condolence on the death of Lady Hailsham. Mainly comprising letters from friends, institutions and members of the public. Including a letter from Richard Wilberforce, Baron Wilberforce, 14 May 1978; a letter from Lady Rawlinson [Elaine Rawlinson], undated; a letter from Lady Fairfax-Lucy [Alice Fairfax-Lucy], 24 May 1978; a letter from David McKenna, 23 May 1978; a letter from Sir Robert Lowry, 23 May 1978; a letter from Ralph Assheton, 1st Baron Clitheroe, 22 May 1978; letters from Norman St John-Stevas, May 1978 (2); a letter from Lady Denning [Joan Denning], 18 May 1978; and a letter from Douglas Jay, 20 May 1978.
1 file.

1978

Letters of condolence on the death of Lady Hailsham. Mainly comprising letters from friends. Including a letter from Lady Forester [Priscilla Forester], 25 May 1978; a letter from Michael Ramsey, Baron Ramsey of Canterbury, 24 June 1978; a letter from Edward Boyle, Baron Boyle of Handsworth, 5 June 1978; a letter from David Lloyd, 2nd Baron Lloyd, 30 May 1978; a letter from Thelma Cazalet-Keir, 28 May 1978; a letter from Robert Turton, Baron Tranmire, 5 June 1978; a letter from Hugh Percy, 10th Duke of Northumberland, 26 May 1978; a letter from Sir Eric Sachs, 4 June 1978; a letter from Immanuel Jakobovits, 29 May 1978; a letter from Elizabeth Pakenham, Countess of Longford, 15 May 1978; a letter from Harold Sebag-Montefiore, 15 May 1978; a letter from Rab Butler, Baron Butler of Saffron Walden, 22 May 1978; a letter from Patricia O'Kane [formerly Patricia, Lady Jellicoe], undated; a letter from Dennis Walters, 25 May 1978; a letter from Henry Harrod, 25 May 1978; a letter from Toby Low, 1st Baron Aldington, 21 May 1978; a letter from Winston Churchill, 23 May 1978; and a letter from Garth Lean, 20 May 1978.
1 file.

1978

Letters of condolence on the death of Lady Hailsham. Mainly comprising letters from members of the public.
1 file.

13 May 1978–19 June 1978