| Title |
Diaries and journals |
| Reference |
SPRS 5 |
| Covering Dates |
1890–1972 |
| Extent and Medium |
15 archive boxes; Many of the First World War diaries have sections cut from the pages. |
|
| Content and context |
Includes ELS's detailed journals from his time as a liaison officer with the French Army during the First World War, and also journals which he kept in 1940 while Head of the British Mission to General Charles de Gaulle, which include copies of ELS's official correspondence. |
| Churchill/SPRS 5 contains: |
|
1
|
Journal by unknown writer.
1 volume. |
1890–1893 |
|
2
|
Diary. ELS's diary as 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Dublin Fusiliers.
1 volume. |
1904 |
|
3
|
Diary. ELS's diary as 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Dublin Fusiliers.
1 volume. |
1905 |
|
4
|
Diary. ELS's diary as 2nd Lieutenant in the 8th King's Royal Irish Hussars, including orders for manoeuvres and an examination paper for the officer class.
1 volume and 1 file. |
1907 |
|
5
|
Diary. ELS's diary as 2nd Lieutenant in the 8th King's Royal Irish Hussars.
1 volume. |
1908 |
|
6
|
Address book.
1 volume. |
c 1906-c 1910 |
|
7
|
Journal. ELS's journal as liaison officer with the French Tenth Army.
1 volume. |
25 Oct 1914–07 Jan 1915 |
|
8
|
Journal. ELS's journal as liaison officer with the French Tenth Army, including meetings with Winston Churchill.
1 volume. |
09 Mar 1915–21 May 1915 |
|
9
|
Journal. ELS's journal as liaison officer with the French Tenth Army.
1 volume. |
09 Jun 1915–12 Aug 1915 |
|
10
|
Journal. ELS's journal as liaison officer with the French Tenth Army.
1 volume. |
30 Aug 1915–13 Oct 1915 |
|
11
|
Journal. ELS's journal as liaison officer with the French Tenth Army, including discussions with Winston Churchill, particularly on ELS joining him.
1 volume. |
14 Oct 1915–15 Dec 1915 |
|
12
|
Journal. ELS's journal as liaison officer with the French Tenth Army, including discussions with Winston Churchill.
1 volume and 1 file; Unbound pages at end of journal in separate file.. |
16 Dec 1915–26 Feb 1916 |
|
13
|
Journal. ELS's journal as liaison officer with the French Tenth and Sixth Armies, also including a letter from General Victor d'Urbal, commander of the Tenth Army, to Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig [Commander-in-Chief of the British Expeditionary Forces] on his high regard for ELS and regret at losing him.
1 volume and 1 file; Loose paper filed separately.. |
[27 Feb] 1916–03 Jun 1916 |
|
14
|
Journal. ELS's journal as liaison officer with the French Sixth Army.
1 volume. |
14 Jun 1916–11 Sep 1916 |
|
15
|
Journal. ELS's journal as liaison officer with the French Sixth and Tenth Armies, also including a letter from General Emile Fayolle, commander of the Sixth Army, to General Joseph Joffre, Commander-in-Chief of the French armies, recommending ELS for Citation a L'Ordre de L'Armee, and a telegram cancelling ELS's leave and ordering his return.
1 volume and 1 file; Loose papers filed separately.. |
12 Sep 1916–24 Dec 1916 |
|
16
|
Journal. ELS's journal as liaison officer with the French Tenth Army and as part of the British military mission to the French Ministry of War. Also includes: messages from the British Fourth Army on prisoner statements and the German advance (25 February), and the situation on 17 March; a telegram from Marshal Robert Nivelle, French Commander-in-Chief, on the United States entering the war (7 April); messages from the British headquarters on the German offensive of 15 April and progress on 19 April; a telegram ordering ELS to report for duty as Assistant Military Attache in Paris.
1 volume and 1 file; Loose papers filed separately.. |
[14 Jan] 1917–05 May 1917 |
|
17
|
Journal of ELS and MS. Journal kept by ELS and MS while ELS was Head of the British Military Mission in Paris, also including: telegrams from MS to ELS from St Jean de Luz on subjects including her distress [following a miscarriage] and assuring him of her affection; ELS's letter of appointment as Brigadier-General; a letter from ELS to Major-General Sir Frederick Maurice [Director of Military Operations, Imperial General Staff] on attempts by General Sir Henry Wilson, Chief of General Staff and Marshal Ferdinand Foch to have him replaced, particularly on Foch's hostility towards him; a letter from Lord Robert Cecil [Assistant Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, later 1st Lord Cecil of Chelwood] to Francis Bennett-Goldney on difficulties in ELS's and MS's marriage; a telegram and letter from Wilson warning ELS that their conversation (on ELS's fear that he would be replaced) was confidential and then assuring him that he would not move him; a letter from ELS to Major-General Sir George Macdonogh [Director of Military Intelligence] on strikes at St Etienne; a letter from Major-General Sir Frederick Maurice on his recollections of the German advance in 1914 and asking about French reaction to his public criticism of war policy; letters from ELS to Wilson on subjects including French policy towards Romania and the Balkans, the situation in Alsace-Lorraine and American fears that the German army might break the peace.
1 volume and 1 file; Loose items filed separately.. |
23 Oct 1917-May 1919 |
|
18
|
Address book. Chiefly for French addresses.
1 volume. |
c 1920 |
|
19
|
Journal. Subjects include: the custody battle for MS's children; financial ventures in Eastern Europe and a visit to Prague [Czechoslovakia] with Sidney Reilly; meeting Eduard Benes [Premier of Czechoslovakia].
1 volume. |
22 Mar 1921–31 Dec 1921 |
|
20
|
Journal. Subjects include: financial ventures in Eastern Europe with Sidney Reilly; the death of ELS's grandmother, Lucy Hack; campaigning for adoption as parliamentary candidate for Loughborough [Leicestershire].
1 volume. |
01 Jan 1922–08 Oct 1922 |
|
21
|
Log book of ELS's yacht MV Bittern. Account of sailing off the French coast with friends including Alan Herbert, with photographs.
1 volume. |
13 Jul 1929–04 Oct 1929 |
|
22
|
Log book of ELS's yacht MV Bittern. Account of sailing off the south coast, Channel Islands and Netherlands, with photographs, including some of MS and Michael Spears ("Peti").
1 volume. |
30 Jun 1930–28 Sep 1930 |
|
23
|
"Where is it?". Book of sailing notes, on good harbours, etc.
1 volume. |
1929–1938 |
|
24
|
Address book.
1 volume. |
c 1930-c 1940 |
|
25
|
English address book.
1 volume. |
c 1930-c 1940 |
|
26
|
French address book.
1 volume. |
c 1930-c 1940 |
|
27
|
Appointments diary.
1 volume. |
1932 |
|
28
|
Appointments diary.
1 volume. |
1933 |
|
29
|
Appointments diary.
1 volume. |
1934 |
|
30
|
Appointments diary.
1 volume. |
1935 |
|
31
|
Appointments diary.
1 volume. |
1936 |
|
32
|
Appointments diary.
1 volume. |
1937 |
|
33
|
Appointments diary.
1 volume. |
1938 |
|
34
|
Appointments diary.
1 volume. |
1939 |
|
35
|
Appointments diary.
1 volume. |
1940 |
|
36
|
Journal and accompanying papers. ELS's journal kept during "Operation Menace", the Anglo-French landings at Dakar [Senegal], including a large number of copies of telegrams and correspondence from the same period between ELS and individuals including: Vice-Admiral Sir John Cunningham [Vice-Admiral Commanding First Cruiser Squadron]; Major-General Sir Frederick Maurice; General Charles de Gaulle; the Admiralty; Winston Churchill, Prime Minister.
1 volume and 1 file. |
30 Aug 1940–28 Oct 1940 |
|
37
|
Journal and accompanying papers. ELS's journal kept following "Operation Menace", the Anglo-French landings at Dakar [Senegal], including a large number of copies of telegrams and correspondence from the same period between ELS and individuals including: Major Desmond Morton [Personal Assistant to Winston Churchill]; MS; General Charles de Gaulle, Chief of Free French. . Also includes aerial photographs of the Dakar expedition.
1 volume and 2 files. |
25 Oct 1940–19 Nov 1940 |
|
38
|
Appointments diary.
1 volume. |
1941 |
|
39
|
Appointments diary.
1 volume. |
1942 |
|
40
|
Appointments diary.
1 volume. |
1942 |
|
41
|
Appointments diary.
1 volume. |
1943 |
|
42
|
Appointments diary.
1 volume. |
1943 |
|
43
|
Pocket diary.
1 volume. |
1943 |
|
44
|
Appointments diary.
1 volume. |
1944 |
|
45
|
Appointments diary.
1 volume. |
1945 |
|
46
|
Appointments diary.
1 volume. |
1946 |
|
47
|
Appointments diary.
1 volume. |
1947 |
|
48
|
Journal. Journal of ELS's visit to South Africa and the mines of the Ashanti Goldfields Corporation Limited, Gold Coast [later Ghana].
1 volume. |
Jan 1947–18 Mar 1947 |
|
49
|
Appointments diary.
1 volume. |
1948 |
|
50
|
Appointments diary.
1 volume. |
1949 |
|
51
|
Appointments diary.
1 volume. |
1950 |
|
52
|
Appointments diary.
1 volume. |
1951 |
|
53
|
Appointments diary.
1 volume. |
1952 |
|
54
|
Appointments diary.
1 volume. |
1954 |
|
55
|
Appointments diary.
1 volume. |
1955–1956 |
|
56
|
Appointments diary.
1 volume. |
1957–1959 |
|
57
|
Appointments diary.
1 volume. |
1960–1961 |
|
58
|
Appointments diary.
1 volume. |
1962–1964 |
|
59
|
Pocket diary.
1 volume. |
1963 |
|
60
|
Pocket diary.
1 volume. |
1964 |
|
61
|
Appointments diary.
1 volume. |
1965 |
|
62
|
Appointments diary.
1 volume. |
1966 |
|
63
|
Pocket diary.
1 volume. |
1966 |
|
64
|
Appointments diary.
1 volume. |
1967–1968 |
|
65
|
Appointments diary.
1 volume. |
1968–1969 |
|
66
|
Pocket diary.
1 volume. |
1970 |
|
67
|
Pocket diary.
1 volume. |
1972 |
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