Papers accumulated by Henry Winston (Peregrine) Churchill

Subjects covered include: Jack and Winston's holiday in Switzerland; the good effect that Japan was having on Lord Randolph Churchill's health; her own impressions of Japan, particularly of Kyoto, a rickshaw ride and the funeral of a local governor; reports on the war [the first Sino-Japanese war]; Jack's progress at Harrow; her distress at being so far away from her sons; the results of one of Winston's exams at Sandhurst and the need to pass and try hard; asking him not to take foolish risks at riding and not to think too much about his amusement but to work at his German; Lady Randolph's report on the work of the hospital ship Maine; her concern for her sister, Leonie Leslie [earlier Leonie Jerome] during her pregnancy; press criticisms of Winston's despatches from the Boer War; whether she should marry George Cornwallis-West; the devotion of Pamela Plowden [later Pamela, Lady Lytton] to Winston; his future career; publishing arrangements with Longman's for ["London to Ladysmith"] and arguments against turning the book into a play; writing her own "Hospital Letters".

Also includes a letter from Lady Randolph on Winston's behalf to Inspector Campbell of the Natal Government Railways, thanking the armoured train staff for their testimonial to Winston's courage in attempting to save the train from attack.