Finding Aid
Williams family fonds. -- 1835-1930. -- 75 cm of textual records. -- 2 photographs : b&w.
Box 1:
F.1 Lord Alfred Spencer Churchill. Re Churchill’s involvement with electric railways. Offprint of Churchill’s memorandum, “Improvements in Apparatus for Propelling Vehicles by Electricity Upon Railways and Tramways,” as well as correspondence and other documents concerning the patenting of his invention. There is one unrelated document in the series and that is an 1884 election flyer issued by Churchill to the Electors of Woodstock.
F.2-3 Harriett, Lady Alfred Spencer Churchill. Letters from America, 1873-1874. Holograph copies of letters written to her children Daisy, Janie and Vi, and journal extracts, in a notebook. Loose in the notebook is part of the original journal, dated 1 November 1873, Montreal, Canada; one original letter to her children, 14 November 1873; and an undated letter to her from the Gordon Boys’ Orphanage in Dover. Also one pocket diary containing entries from January-July 1873.
F.4 Williams family genealogy and family coat of arms. Research was undertaken by Herbrand Williams from 1917 to 1928. Includes copies of birth and marriage certificates, correspondence, family trees, seals, and other items, including his wife’s Russian passport with 2 b& w photographs.
Box 2:
Adeline (“Daisy”) Spencer Churchill, wife of Col. W.H. Williams.
Pocket diary, 1 Jan. 1879-14 Jan. 1880; diary, 17 Sept. 1881-21 Aug. 1882; address book, 29 May 1888; diary about her son, Herbrand Williams, 1901-1913
Printed materials: news clippings, advertisements. Envelopes, miscellaneous lists
Box 3:
Correspondence
F.1-F.7 Herbrand Williams to his mother Mrs. W.H. Williams
1916 1 letter
1917 18 letters
1918 1 letter
1925 25 letters
1930 15 letters
1931 9 letters
1936 1 letter
F.8-F.14 To Herbrand Williams from his mother Mrs. W.H. Williams
[1914] 1 letter
1923 12 letters
1924 2 letters
1925 33 letters
N.d. 4 letters
Box 4:
F.1-F.8 Geoffrey Williams to his mother, Mrs. W.H. Williams
N.d. a young Geoffrey answering questions posed by his mother
1914 1 letter
1915 17 letters
1916 28 letters
1917 1 letter
1918 23 letters
N.d. 14 letters, written from various ships
Box 5:
F.1 To Colonel W.H. Williams from his son, Geoffrey Williams
1915 1 letter
1916 2 letters
F.2 To Colonel Williams from his son Herbrand Williams
1917 1 letter
F.3 To Mrs. W.H. Williams from her husband Colonel Williams
1897 14 letters
N.d. partial letter
F.4 To Mrs. W.H. Williams from daughter-in-law Xenia Poushkine
1930 1 letter
1940 1 letter
N.d. 1 letter
1931 To Mrs. W.H. Williams from B. Poushkine
F.5-9 To Herbrand Williams from Geoffrey Williams
1914 1 letter
1915 9 letters
1919 2 letters
N.d. letterhead, HMS Queen, 6 letters and postcards.
F.10 Herbrand Williams to Aileen
1917 1 letter
F.11 Telegram from Buckingham Place to Herbrand Williams, 1918
F.12 To Mrs. W.H. Williams
1915 Signature illegible, written from H.M. Dockyard, Portsmouth
5 letters and postcards from tradesmen
