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LevelFile
Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)AC42/4/1-36
TitleMiscellaneous official and personal correspondence and papers, 1937
Extentapprox. 37 items
Date1937
DescriptionMiscellaneous printed, typescript and manuscript correspondence, memoranda, and miscellanea; may contain extracts [and copy correspondence]; [contains correspondence in French]; contains personal papers; relating to appointment of Austen Chamberlain to Coronation Commission of George VI, Chamberlain's article published in 'Daily Telegraph' and 'New York Times', Countess Greffulhe's visit to Paris at inauguration of 'Art et Tourisme', Richard Chamberlain's [paternal uncle of Austen Chamberlain] Trust, Duke of Windsor, M. Krofta taking place of Benes on Commission de Consiliation Franco-Neetlandaise, Cordwainers' Court, Locarno and German Colonial Claims, Chamberlain's negotiation with Stresemann, formation of group of Conservative English and French MP's , Chamberlain's lecture at L. S. E., Submarine Signal Co., Chamberlain's articles on German Colonial Claims and on 'Grey' published in 'Daily Telegraph', Garter Service at Windsor, reception at Speaker's House for Coronation Committee, death of Chamberlain, Cordwainers' Banquet, conditions of peace which Germans would have imposed, etc, 1937
Correspondents: [Stanley Baldwin; 1st Earl of Bewdley; Prime Minister 1935-1937], F. Hobbes Allen, Countess Greffulhe, Neville Chamberlain [Rt. Hon. Arthur Neville; half-brother of Austen Chamberlain; Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1931-1937], [Sir Walford Harmood Montague] Selby [Principal Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, 1924-1932; Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary in Vienna, 1933-1937; Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary in Lisbon, 1937-1940], Corbin, F. W. Mander, Miss Harvey, Sir Robert Vansittart, Burgeot, Politis, Eliot Wadsworth [President, Boston Chamber of Commerce], Lord Derby, Prof. Trevelyan, William [George] Tyrrell [1st Baron Tyrrell of Avon; various political offices], Sir Hames Leigh Wood, Buckingham Palace, Frank Field, W. F. Crosse, Joseph Driscoll, Austen Chamberlain and others
Includes: /1 Typescript list of papers, [1937]; /27-/30 Manuscript and typescript letters from Philip W. Richardson, R. I. [Suney], [William Waldegrave Palmer] Selborne [2nd Earl of Selborne; MP; various political offices] and Sir Philip [Hartog] to Ivy Chamberlain [nee Dundas; wife of Austen Chamberlain], relating to death of Austen Chamberlain; /32 Newspaper page from 'Evening Telegram', Toronto, relating to German Colonial Claims
LanguageFrench
Access StatusOpen
Physical Description/27a is in addition to /27; /32 is a newspaper cutting

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