Janus: Other Deposited Collections Relating to Sir Winston Churchill

Churchill/WCHL contains:
1	Correspondence
2	Boer War
3	Churchill's Recorded Speeches
4	Photographs and drawings
5	Death, Funeral and other Commemorative Items
6	Miscellaneous Items
7	Books of Condolence
8	Financial Affairs
9	Proofs for Churchill Biography
10	Albums
11	Various Documents Gifted to Sir Winston Churchill
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Other Deposited Collections Relating to Sir Winston Churchill

Title	Miscellaneous Items
Reference	WCHL 6
Covering Dates	1704–2012
Extent and Medium	8 archive boxes

Churchill/WCHL 6 contains:

Bodmin Parliamentary Division Handbill with poem to WSC.

Jul 1945

Letter from WSC with thanks for birthday present.

Greeting (in Latin) from Princeton University to Churchill College on centenary of WSC's birth.

1974

Xerox copy of page of Daily Telegraph re WSC's election to the Athenaeum.

27 May 1955

Notes on WSC by Sir Edgar O R Jones KBE.

Copy of The Strand magazine article about tanks.

Sep 1919

Speech by Winston Churchill [grandson of WSC] to Cambridge Union.

10 Mar 1978

Programme of concert at St Martin's Church Room Ruislip featuring Lady Randolph Churchill.

10 Dec 1913

Framed tribute to WSC from Ecuadorean Government.

1942

Copies of The Evening Standard, Evening Gazette, and Evening News all published during the General Strike.

8 May 1926–11 May 1926

Volume - Proceedings of the Presentation of the Williamsburg Award to Sir Winston S Churchill.

1955

WSC's medal and citation for the Premio Liberadado e Democracia of the Association of Ex Combatants of Brazil.

4 May 1965

WSC's drawing of his design for a Commodity Sterling Dollar.

1951

Two poems by Geoffrey Swain re WSC.

1964–1965

Memoir of WSC by Professor R V Jones.

1965

Who Goes Home (Winston Spencer Churchill 1874-65). Cutting from The Listener by C Day Lewis.

28 Jan 1965

The Sinews of Peace speech by WSC to Westminster College, Fulton, Missouri.

05 Mar 1946

L'hommage du Parlement Britannique a Winston Spencer Churchill.

25 Jan 1965

Xerox copy of Japanese cartoon featuring WSC.

1945

Churchill. A small booklet containing photograph and extracts of speeches.

1940

16mm film taken by Sir John Colville of Churchill at Marrakech [Morocco], the Netherlands and planting two trees at Churchill College.

Jan 1959–17 Oct 1959

Duplicate Library of Congress index cards re Churchilliana.

Royal decree authorising Duke of Marlborough to use name and arms of Churchill.

1817

Sir Winston's Newchapel Stud book.

1962

Pamphlets and photographs of submarine HMS Churchill.

Lists and xeroxes of Churchilliana in Reeves collection in Dallas Museum of Art, Texas.

1986

Xerox of part of Sir Winston Churchill's speech in the Assembly of the Council of Europe proposing a European Army. Copied from a copy in the archives of the Council of Europe.

Letter, partly typed, partly in hand of his secretary, Miss Anning, and signed by WSC with corrections to Major James B Pond re forthcoming election and arrangements for lecture tour of US and Canada. With associated correspondence re: identification and sale of letter.

31 Jul 1900–1986

Series of 6 Navigation Logs with flight records and report sheets for WSC's wartime visit to Moscow and Teheran via Gibraltar and Cairo, signed by navigator (Squadron Leader C T Kimber) and WSC.

01 Aug 1942–24 Aug 1942

Xerox copy of Minutes of the Bangalore United Services Club (showing sum of money owed by WSC being written off).

01 Jun 1899

Collectors cards with photographs of WSC, letter of thanks for birthday gift from WSC, letter and cuttings re Field Marshal Haig and family.

Copies of letters to W E Thompson, President of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce.

Apr 1926-Jan 1929

Book by Denton J Snider "European History chiefly ancient in its progress" (Sigma Publishing Company, Missouri, 1908). Sent to WSC in 1945.

1908

Book by Denton J Snider "A walk in Hellas or the Old and the new" (Missouri, 1881). Sent to WSC in 1945.

1881

Photocopy of Visitors Book for Chartwell Manor (WSC's house in Kent from 1922). Records signature of guest and date of visit. Supplied by the National Trust, Chartwell for private research use in the Archives Centre.

1924–1967

Notes for WSC's broadcast on the 80th birthday of Field Marshal Jan Smuts, recorded at Chartwell, Kent. Carbon copy, with pencil annotations in later unknown hand.

08 May 1950

Contemporary printed copy of poem in Norwegian by Gunnar Kvaerk produced to commemorate Winston Churchill's visit to Oslo.

13 May 1948

Copies of 15 photographs of Churchill's visit to 481 Battery, Edenbridge, Kent, where Mary Churchill was stationed in the ATS, from the Double family scrapbook. "The Photographs of an A-A Gunner". Includes:. 6/38/1: photo of Churchill with General Sir Frederick Pile, GOC-in-C, Anti-Aircraft Command (and unknown officer). . 6/38/3: "The Prime Minister and Subaltern Churchill". 6/38/4: photo includes General Sir Hastings Ismay between Churchill and Mrs Churchill. 6/38/13: "The PM, Mrs Churchill & Subaltern Churchill". (None of the other photographs had any additional information). Extract from "Memoirs of an A.A. Gunner, 1938 - 1944", the journal kept by Lt Col Guy Chignell, commander of the artillery regiment at Edenbridge. Photocopies of the title page, and of Chapter 14 "Diver Deployment" (pp 91 - 9, especially p 94), covering Churchill's visit.

Jul 1944

Memoir written by Sir John Walley. Reflects on personal impressions of WSC gained from his civil service career. Includes mention of WSC's attitude to Humbert Wolfe, Sir John's war work at Southport under Bevin, his subsequent work in London on Irish labour, coal mining, and the recruitment and training of nurses, Churchill's caretaker government and the Beveridge Report, Churchill's attitude to child support in 1952.

01 May 1995

Cigar box previously owned by WSC.

Internal memorandum from Jack Barclay Ltd, noting the delivery of an Austin car to WSC.

03 Jun 1938

Ms note on the House of Commons debate on the No-Confidence motion in WSC.

Jul 1942

Photocopy of Appointment Book for Sir Winston Churchill's weekends at Chequers, maintained by his police escort commander, Inspector George Fitzgerald Scott.

Oct 1941-May 1945

Photocopies of Winston Churchill's engagement cards. Cards for May-Jun 1940, Oct-Sep 1940, June 1941 & Dec 1941 are missing.

Sep 1939-June 1945

Medical notes and accounts for WSC.

1937–1963

Anecdote on WSC going hunting with the Old Surrey and Burstow Hunt.

c 1954

Video copy taken from original 8mm colour film of Sir Winston Churchill at tree planting ceremony for Churchill College.

17 Oct 1959

8 decorated cigar bands for Churchill cigars produced in Cuba by various manufacturers. Mounted on a single sheet and presented to the Archives Centre by Senor Roberto Arango, a collector.

Photocopies of Home Office material relating to the award of the Albert Medal to Mrs Caroline Hughes and WSC's recommendation of the award as Home Secretary.

Standard letter sent in response to donation for the Red Cross Aid to Russia Fund. The letter comprises a facsimile reproduction of the handwriting of Clementine Churchill, later Baroness Spencer-Churchill.
1 item.

Nov 1941

Photocopy of a letter, 9 August 1955, from Churchill to the Park Forest Lions Club, Illinois, United States, thanking them for the gift of a lion cub, Rusty. Includes copy photographs of Rusty, and a copy photograph of Churchill receiving a plaque for Rusty's cage.

1955–1957

Photocopy of Churchill's article 'The Chicago Scandals', P.T. O'Conners Weekly, in which he reviews Upton Sinclair's book 'The Jungle'. With attached correspondence between Upton Sinclair, Robert Hastings and others. Also a photocopy of The Inlander, February 1901, including Churchill's article 'Success in Journalism'. This material formed part of the Robert Hastings collection.

1963

Facsimile of Letter from Lord Montgomery of El Alamein to the Head Master of Lancing College, John Dancy, 16 October 1960, describing a visit by Churchill to the College on 2 July 1940. Also, an article by Dr Janet Pennington from the Lancing College Magazine, Spring 1994, describing the use of Lancing College by the Admiralty during the Second World War.

1960–1994

Note passed between Churchill and Clement Attlee, undated, and drawing of a crocodile by Churchill's secretary, Jane Portal.

1950

Memoir of Randolph and Sarah Churchill by Jerry O'Connell.

2000

Account of WSC's visit to Madeira, January 1950. Reminiscences by Rupert d'Almada Mullins, former General Manager of Blandy Brothers and Company Limited, of WSC's visit to Madeira.
1 file.

c 2004

U Boat 1207. Photo of U Boat 1207 plus copies of minute from WSC thanking the crew of HMS Viceroy for sending him brandy which they retrieved when the U Boat sank.
1 file.

14 May 1945

Letter from WSC to Bernard J Farmer thanking him for sending a copy of his "Bibliography of the works of Sir Winston Churchill" (1958), 4 February 1958. Includes copy of the bibliography, 1958.
1 folder containing 2 items.

1958

Material relating to Harold Edwards and WSC. Papers relating to Brigadier Harold Edwards [Consulting Surgeon-Major, Central Mediterranean Forces] being called in to see WSC at Lake Como [Italy], September 1945, to treat a hernia. Includes notes by Edwards on the meeting, including remarks by WSC about the war and the international situation, a copy of a letter of thanks from WSC to Edwards and later correspondence with Martin Gilbert on his biography of WSC.
1 file.

Sep 1945-Aug 2005

Material relating to WSC's speech at Zurich "The tragedy of Europe", 19 Sep 1946. Includes a cutting from a Swiss newspaper and the text of a piece by Robert Rhodes James about the speech plus transcripts of background material.
1 file.

1996

Notebook of films shown to Churchill. Copy of notebook kept by Joseph Hill with lists of films shown to Churchill at various official venues, also including copy of a photograph of the Long Gallery at Chequers [Buckinghamshire] set up for a film show.
2 items.

Apr 1942-Apr 1945

Reference no longer in use: moved to BRDW V 2/2.

Reference no longer in use: moved to BRDW V 2/8.

Papers on the operation to remove WSC's appendix. Medical papers on WSC's operation for appendicitis, 1922, with accompanying correspondence, including a letter from WSC's surgeon, Sir Crisp English, to his doctor, 1st Lord Dawson, on whether to allow WSC to go to Dundee for the General Election, a letter from WSC to English on his convalescence and its effect on his polo playing and later correspondence between WSC and English.
1 file.

1922–1946

Speeches from WSC and others in tribute to Sir Emsley Carr. Copies of press reports from a luncheon at the Dorchester, London, in honour of Sir Emsley Carr's fifty years as Chairman and Editor of the News of the World.
1 file.

May 1941

Notebook and memorabilia kept by WSC's nurse. Items kept by Sister Muriel Thomson, one of WSC's private nurses, including: her notebook of day reports on WSC's nursing care, November-December 1960; reference signed by WSC and CSC; unused place cards from Aristotle Onassis's yacht Christina; copies of standard thank you messages from WSC and CSC; signed photograph of Sarah Churchill [also Sarah Beauchamp, Sarah Oliver, and Sarah, Lady Audley]; photograph of Sarah reading aloud from Savrola to WSC; copy of an article by Muriel Thomson on her work for WSC.
2 files.

1955–1965

Churchill memorabilia. Includes: mounted extract from speech, January 1940, "Let us to the task"; reprint of speeches to the United States Congress and Canadian Senate and House of Commons, December 1941; Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery's message to the troops before D-Day; Illustrated London News 80th birthday tribute; a Daily Mirror tribute; commemorative booklets on Chartwell, Kent.
1 file.

1940–1966

Memoir on WSC's visit to Miami. Copy of a memoir by Harvie Walford on WSC's visit to Miami [United States] in January 1946 and of Walford's visit to Chartwell [Kent] as a student in 1949.
1 file.

1996

Newspapers about WSC and CSC's wedding. Illustrated articles about WSC and CSC's wedding including: "Miss Clementine Hozier's wedding. What the bridesmaids will wear." with details of bridesmaids dresses and some of CSC's outfits; "Mr Churchill's wedding: 700 presents and a wonderful cake" which notes that the Women's Social and Political Union will not be making a demonstration at the wedding; "Today's great wedding. Miss Clementine Hozier's wedding dress" which includes photographs of the bridesmaids; "The Churchill wedding: Cupid in the Cabinet" on the wedding, crowds and gifts; and "The Churchill wedding: St Margaret's crowded with distinguished guests" which includes a photograph of WSC and CSC leaving the church.
1 file.

07 Sep 1908–13 Sep 1908

Newspaper cuttings relating to WSC. Collated by Dr R Hardee Rives of Enfield, North Carolina, and coveri stories about WSC in the US and UK media.
3 files.

c 1965–2001

Programme for a Conservative mass meeting. Programme for a mass meeting of the National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations Women's National Advisory Committee, at the Royal Albert Hall, London, which WSC was to address.
1 item.

May 1954

Churchill Watch. Piece of Bulgarian anti-British and [?] anti-Russian wartime propaganda, printed in the shape of WSC's watch.
1 item.

c 1941-c 1944

Churchill in No 10 and Eisenhower in the White House: a Groundling's view sixty years on. Text of a talk by Sir Peter Marshall, former Private Secretary to Sir Roger Makins, British Ambassador to the United States [later 1st Lord Sherfield], given to the Pilgrims Society, on Churchill's visit to Washington, June 1954.
1 file.

Nov 2012

Invitation cards to Royal Wedding between Princess Elizabeth and Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten. Includes WSC and CSC's invitation cards; a letter from the Boy Scout Headquarters arranging for Battison to attend the wedding; a newspaper cutting reporting on the event; and an explanatory letter from Battison.
Creator: Peter Battison.
1 file.

13 Oct 1947–09 Feb 2013