Janus: The Papers of Sir Alan Lascelles

Churchill/LASL contains:
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4	Correspondence with colleagues and with Joan Lascelles about the Royal Family and Royal duties
5	First World War correspondence
6	Correspondence from India
7	Family correspondence
8	Personal correspondence with friends and colleagues
9	Miscellaneous personal correspondence
10	Honours and awards
11	Literary papers
12	Press cuttings
13	Photographs
II	Lascelles family correspondence and other papers
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The Papers of Sir Alan Lascelles

Title	Miscellaneous personal correspondence
Reference	LASL 9
Covering Dates	1922–1980
Extent and Medium	6 files

Content and context

Mainly comprising letters from authors consulting Alan Lascelles about incidents in his career, letters from friends and politicians, letters of congratulation on various honours, and letters on his retirement.

Churchill/LASL 9 contains:

Correspondence with individuals. Including a letter from Field Marshal Julian Byng, 1st Viscount Byng of Vimy, commenting on the success of the Prince of Wales' visit to Canada, 25 September 1927; a letter from John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, about becoming Governor General of Canada, 6 December 1935; letters from Field Marshal Alan Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke, 1947, 1963 (2); a letter from Sir Iain Colquhoun, 9 October 1948; a Christmas note from Sir Stafford Cripps, 22 December 1948; a letter from Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, 26 March 1957; a letter from William Morrison, Speaker of the House of Commons, 8 May 1958; letters from John Betjeman, 1961-4 (4); letters from Roy Jenkins, mainly about his biography of Herbert Asquith, 1963-74 (4); a letter from Oliver Brett, 3rd Viscount Esher, 17 February 1963; letters from Lady Ridley [Nathalie Ridley], undated, 1963 (2); a letter from Sir Alec Douglas-Home, 23 October 1963; a letter from Sir Colin Coote, about the First World War, 4 November 1963; letters from Edward Bridges, 1st Baron Bridges, 1944-65 (3); a letter from Glen Byam Shaw, 15 August 1965; a letter from Moira Lyttelton, Viscountess Chandos, 4 February 1966; a letter from David Charteris, 12th Earl of Wemyss, 28 April 1966; letters from Katharine Asquith, 1966, 1970 (2); a letter from Dennis Silk, about Siegfried Sassoon, 10 June 1966; letters from Elizabeth Pakenham, Countess of Longford, 1966-70 (3); letters from Harold Macmillan, 1967, 1975 (2); letters from Mike Pearson, Prime Minister of Canada, 1967, 1970 (2); letters from Laurence Irving, 1968-87 (3); a copy of a letter from Violet Bonham Carter, Baroness Asquith of Yarnbury, to Robert Townsend Smallbones, about her comments on General Charles de Gaulle during a television broadcast, 23 January 1968, and a letter from Violet Bonham Carter, 8 February 1968; correspondence with Marcel Pagnol, 1968 (2); and a letter from Jock Colville, 14 January 1969.
1 file.

1927–1970

Correspondence with individuals. Including letters from Duff Hart-Davis, mainly about Peter Fleming, 1972-7 (5); correspondence with Malcolm Muggeridge, 1971 (2); a letter from Osbert Lancaster, 9 December 1971; a letter from Dora Maclagan, 24 December 1971; a letter from George Lascelles, 7th Earl of Harewood, 16 February 1972; letters from Julian Fane, 1972 (3); letters from John Oaksey [John Lawrence, 4th Baron Trevethin and 2nd Baron Oaksey], undated, 1972-4 (3); correspondence with Donald Coggan, Archbishop of York, mainly about the Duke of Windsor, 1972 (4); letters from Christopher Sykes, 1972-4 (3); letters from Dame Felicitas Corrigan, mainly about Siegfried Sassoon, August 1973 (2); a letter to Dame Rebecca West, about Sir Harold Nicolson, 28 October 1973; correspondence with Nicholas Bentley, 1974 (3); a letter from Julian Huxley, 12 June 1971; correspondence with Sir Ralph Richardson, 1975 (2); letters from Nicholas Mosley [3rd Baron Ravensdale], about his biography of Julian Grenfell, 1974 (8); a letter from Bernard Fergusson, Baron Ballantrae, 1975-9 (5); letters from Philip Howard, about the Royal Family, 1976-7 (5); and correspondence with Philip Ziegler, 1977 (2).
1 file.

1971–1977

Correspondence with individuals. Including letters from Sir John Masterman, 1976-7 (2); correspondence with Robert Lacey, 1976 (3), with a letter from Sir Martin Charteris, 16 November 1976; letters from Max Egremont [Max Wyndham, 2nd Baron Egremont], 1977-80 (7); a letter from Sir Arthur Norrington, 11 April 1977; a letter from Sir Martin Charteris, 13 June 1977; a letter from Adam Ridley, partly about his work for Margaret Thatcher, 12 November 1977; a letter to Philip Ziegler, 12 July 1978; a letter from General Sir Charles Loyd, about the First World War, undated; correspondence with Hugo Vickers, 1980 (2); correspondence with John Joliffe, about Raymond Asquith, 1979-80 (3); and correspondence with Michael Brock, about Margot Asquith, 1980 (3).
1 file.

1976–1980

Miscellaneous personal, historical and literary correspondence and papers. Including letters from J. M. Barrie [Sir James Matthew Barrie], enclosing a draft speech for the Prince of Wales to use at the dedication of a memorial to the sons and relatives of members of the Houses of Parliament killed in the First World War, November 1922 (2), with a note from Alan Lascelles indicating that the Prince of Wales did not use the speech; a list of codes prepared by Alan Lascelles for use in telegrams and telephone conversations during the Second World War, 1941; correspondence about Josephine Tey's novel 'Daughter of Time', including a note from Winston Churchill, 30 December 1952, letters from Jock Colville, April 1952, copies of letters from G. M. Trevelyan [George Macaulay Trevelyan], 22 April 1952, and Isolde Wigram, 12 December 1952, and an exchange of notes between Alan Lascelles and Sir Michael Adeane, May 1952 (2); a letter from Lord Porchester [Henry Herbert, Baron Porchester], 18 November 1956; signatures of guests at a dinner to celebrate the publication of the memoirs of Lord Ismay [General Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay], including Sir Winston Churchill's signature, 26 September 1960; a letter to Roger Fulford about his review of Kenneth Young's biography of A. J. Balfour [Arthur James Balfour], 24 February 1963; a letter to Rupert Hart-Davis, 20 April 1964; a letter from Raymond Mortimer, enclosing a poem parodying Thomas Hardy by Cecil Day-Lewis, 12 March 1965; a letter from Sir Colin Anderson, 12 December 1966; letters from Sir Leslie Farrer, January 1967 (3); and correspondence with Piers Dixon, 1974, 1977 (2).
1 file.

1922–1977

Congratulations on appointments. Letters of congratulation and a press cutting on Alan Lascelles' appointment as Private Secretary to George VI and to the Privy Council.
1 file.

1943

Congratulations on retirement. Letters of congratulation on Alan Lascelles' retirement as Private Secretary to Queen Elizabeth II and on his GCB.
1 file.

1952–1953