Description | Typescript and manuscript correspondence; including telegraphic correspondence; notes, memoranda and miscellanea; may contain copy correspondence [and drafts]; relating to protest against proposal for a General Election, 1922 Correspondents: J[ohn] C[harles] Williams [Lord-Lieutenant of Cornwall, 1918-1936], William Sutherland, McCurdy, Macnamara, George Younger [National Unionist Association], Neville Chamberlain [Rt. Hon. Arthur Neville; half-brother of Austen Chamberlain; Conservative MP for a Birmingham division, 1918-40; while in opposition (1920-31) reorganized Conservative Central Office; postmaster-general, 1922], R. A. Sanders, Herbert M[erton] Jessel [1st Baron Jessel; London Whip, Unionist Central Office, 1920-1927], [Lt-Col. Rt. Hon. Sir] John Gilmour [Junior Lord of the Treasury, 1921-1922; Scottish Unionist Whip, 1919-1922 and 1924], David Lloyd George [1st Earl Lloyd George of Dwyfor; Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury, 1916-1922], Arthur John Bigge [1st Baron Stamfordham; Private Secretary to Queen Victoria, 1895-1901, and to Prince of Wales, 1901-1910], Derby, Fitzwilliam, [John] P. Croal [Editor of the 'Scotsman', 1905-1924], J. Baldwin, Spender Clay, E. A. Bagley, [H. W. S.] Chilcott [MP], H. Conyers Surtees, H. Greer, Rowland Burdon [MP], Rt. Hon. John W[aller] Hills [Financial Secretary to Treasury, 1922-1923], P. Lloyd-Greame, Rt. Hon. Leopold Stennett Amery [Parliamentary and Financial Secretary to the Admiralty, 1921-1922; First Lord of the Admiralty, 1922-1924], Pike [Pease], Austen Chamberlain [acting as Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1919-1921, Leader of the House and Lord Privy Seal, 1921-1922] and others Includes: /1 Manuscript list of papers, [1922]; /7-/9, /14, /27 Typescript memoranda [including copy] of Sutherland, McCurdy, Neville Chamberlain, and Austen Chamberlain respectively relating to political situation and Dissolution, including Irish question, timing, party grounds, etc, 1921; /15 Newspaper cutting relating to Second Chamber Reform; /40b-/40c Newspaper pages from 'The Scotsman'; /79-/79c Typescript list of names, including constituencies and reasons against General Election and newspaper cuttings relating to reactions of Unionist Leaders, 1922 |