| Description | Miscellaneous typescript and manuscript correspondence; mainly arranged alphabetically by surname; may contain copy correspondence, [dictation, drafts], and extracts; relating to proposals for a Financial Policy, Tariff Reform, Safeguarding of Industries Act, Reparation, Bradbury's threatened resignation from Reparations Commission, Air Force and Air Ministry, Disposal of Imperial Fund, appointments of Crawford and [William Robert Wellesley] Peel [1st Earl Peel; Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, 1921-1922; Minister of Transport, 1921-1922; Secretary of State for India, 1922-1924 and 1928-1929] to Cabinet, Paris Conference, proposed alliance with Greece, Fisher's offer of resignation, Geddes' leaving the House of Commons, Air Ministry and Admiralty, Near Eastern Crisis, murder of [Field-Marshal Sir] Henry [Hughes] Wilson [Various political and military offices], Lord Justice Clerkship, Scottish Office, Estimates Court, National Expenditure, expenses of Prince of Wales' dinner, 1886 and 1888 correspondence and extracts of Joseph Chamberlain [Rt. Hon. Joseph Austin; father of Austen Chamberlain] relating to Gladstone [Rt. Hon. William Ewart Gladstone] [Prime Minister 1869; 1880-1885; 1886; 1892-1894; various other political offices], Woodings publication of book about Joseph Chamberlain, Anglo-French relations, Navy and Army, etc, 1922
Correspondents: Rt. Hon. Leopold Stennett Amery [Parliamentary and Financial Secretary to the Admiralty, 1921-1922; First Lord of the Admiralty, 1922-1924], Stanley Baldwin [First Earl Baldwin of Bewdley; President of Board of Trade, 1921-1922; Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1922-1923], John Bradbury, [Rt. Hon. Sir Winston (Leonard Spencer)] Churchill [secretary of State for the Colonies until October 1922], Henry Page Croft, George Curzon [1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston; Leader of the House of Lords, 1916-1924; Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, 1919-1924; various other political offices], Rt. Hon. Herbert Albert Laurens Fisher [President of the Board of Education, 1916-1922], Eric Geddes, F. E. Guest, [Maurice Pascal Alers Hankey] [1st Baron of The Chart; Cabinet, 1919-1938, and Clerk of the Privy Council, 1923-1938], Rt. Hon. Andrew Bonar Law [Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury, 1922-1923], Ronald McNeill, Robert Munro, [Lt-Col. Rt. Hon. Sir John] Gilmour [Junior Lord of the Treasury, 1921-1922; Scottish Unionist Whip, 1919-1922 and 1924], C. D. Murray, John A. Hope, P. Pilditch, Alfred Smithers, Marshall Stevens [MP], Leslie Wilson [Joint Parliamentary Secretary], Crawford, Winterton, William Woodings [Board of Trade; Confidential Private Secretary to Joseph Chamberlain], James Louis Garvin [Editor of 'The Observer', 1908-1942; author of 'The Life of Joseph Chamberlain', Vol. I, 1836-1885, Vol. II, 1885-1895, Vol. III, 1895-1900, 1934], Neville Chamberlain [Rt. Hon. Arthur Neville; half-brother of Austen Chamberlain; postmaster-general, 1922], Wraxall, Austen Chamberlain [acting as Leader of the House and Lord Privy Seal, 1921-1922] and others |