| Title |
Personal correspondence with friends and colleagues |
| Reference |
LASL 8 |
| Covering Dates |
1906–1981 |
| Extent and Medium |
18 files |
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| Content and context |
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The earlier letters are mainly of domestic interest, containing family or personal observations. The later letters are chiefly concerned with books or points of historical information on which Alan Lascelles was consulted.
These files are arranged by individual correspondent in chronological order.
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| Churchill/LASL 8 contains: |
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1
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Letters to Letty Manners [Lady Violet Manners] (67). Later Lady Elcho and Lady Violet Benson. With a letter to Guy Charteris, 28 December 1909.
1 file. |
1906–1971 |
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2
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Letters to Mary Vesey (3). Later Mary Herbert.
1 file. |
1910 |
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3
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Correspondence with Bunt Goschen [George Gerard Goschen] (3). With a letter from his daughter, Tana, undated.
1 file. |
1917–1947 |
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4
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Letters to Flora Russell (42). Flora Russell was the sister of Conrad Russell. With a letter from Joan Lascelles, 25 August 1961.
1 file. |
1924–1965 |
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5
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Letters to Maurice Headlam (3). Comprising letters about fishing in Canada. One of the letters has a fly attached to it. Including statistics for fishing expeditions on the Bonaventure River, 1932-5. With an illustrated letter from Paul Philip Howell, about reading the letters, 4 September [1977], and a letter to Paul Philip Howell from one of his children, enclosing the letters and putting him in contact with Alan Lascelles, 12 July 1977.
1 file. |
1932–1977 |
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6
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Correspondence with John Gore.
3 files. |
1930–1980 |
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7
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Correspondence with and about Sir Winston Churchill.
1 file. |
1932–1966 |
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8
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Letters from Sir Harold Nicolson and correspondence with Nigel Nicolson. Comprising letters from Sir Harold Nicolson, 1953-4, 1960-1, 1966-7 (7), and correspondence with Nigel Nicolson, about publication of his father's diaries, in particular passages about King Edward VIII and the Abdication Crisis, 1965-8 (19).
1 file. |
1953–1968 |
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9
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Correspondence with Mary, Lady Soames (5). With a letter from Alan Lascelles to John Gore about Lady Soames' biography of her mother, Clementine Churchill, 24 July 1979.
1 file. |
1964–1979 |
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10
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Letters from Lord Birkenhead [Frederick Winston Furneaux Smith, 2nd Earl of Birkenhead] (5). About his biography of Lord Halifax [Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax] and proposed book on Sir Winston Churchill. Including a note on his correspondence with Lord Birkenhead by Alan Lascelles, 25 September 1965; a letter from Lady Halifax, 13 September [1965]; a note from Chloe Otto on behalf of Lord Birkenhead, 17 June 1975; and a letter from Lady Birkenhead [Sheila Smith, Countess of Birkenhead], about the death of her husband, 12 July 1975.
1 file. |
1965–1975 |
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11
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Letters from Brandon Baldwin [Arthur Windham Baldwin, 3rd Earl Baldwin of Bewdley] (28). Mainly comprising personal reminiscences of his father, Stanley Baldwin [1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley].
1 file. |
1967–1975 |
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12
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Letter from Elizabeth Hussey enclosing her poem about her husband, Christopher Hussey. With further copies of the poem typed on paper with an engraved letterhead of their home, Scotney Castle, Kent (2); and a printed pamphlet containing copies of the commendation by Richard Church at Christopher Hussey's memorial service at Goudhurst Church, 15 April 1970, and of the discourse by Osbert Lancaster at the memorial service at St Paul's, Covent Garden, 23 April 1970.
1 file. |
9 September 1970 |
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13
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Correspondence with Rupert Hart-Davis (67). Mainly comprising letters from Rupert Hart-Davis (65), with letters from Alan Lascelles (2).
1 file. |
1968–1981 |
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14
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Letters from General Sir David Fraser (7). Comprising letters about his biography of Lord Alanbrooke [Field Marshal Alan Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke].
1 file. |
1974–1977 |
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15
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Letters to Lady Delia Peel (9).
1 file. |
1975–1980 |
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16
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Letters from Charles Douglas-Home (9).
1 file. |
1974–1978 |
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