Papers accumulated by Henry Winston (Peregrine) Churchill

Includes: letter from the War Office on the Government's thanks to the committee of the American Hospital Ship Fund for their offer to fit out the SS Maine as a hospital ship; letter from the committee to Lady Randolph thanking her for her work as their chairman; a telegram from Lady Randolph to [?] 1st Lord Rothschild on reaching South Africa and a telegram from Cecil Rhodes welcoming her; Lady Randolph's first class train ticket for Durban; a letter from Elihu Root, American Secretary of War, expressing the American Army's thanks to the committee; a letter from Sir Edward Ward [Permanent Under-Secretary of State, War Office] expressing the Secretary of State for War's gratitude for the work of the Maine; letter from Charlotte Knollys, lady-in-waiting to Queen Alexandra, on Lady Randolph's memoirs, on the Queen's request for her to avoid the subject of the "train"; Lady Randolph's admittance card to the trial of Sir Roger Casement; two letters from 2nd Lieutenant Ivan Marks describing his flying experience in France and on his chances of being declared fit; letters to Lady Randolph from people trying to find hospital work and in thanks for her kindness while they were patients at the American Women's Hospital at Lancaster Gate [London].

Also includes: a score card from a shooting party at Sandringham [Norfolk], with participants including the Prince of Wales [later King Edward VII]; copy of Lady Randolph's death certificate.