| Description | Printed, typescript and manuscript correspondence, notes and miscellanea; may contain copy correspondence and extracts; relating to the cases of Sir Basil Thomson and Sir Joseph Byrne, and their respective dismissals from the Secret Service and the Royal Irish Constabulary, 1921
Correspondents: Walter Hume Long [1st Viscount Long of Wraxal; First Lord of the Admiralty, 1919-1921], 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], Charles Townshend, [Sir (Norman Fenwick)] Warren Fisher [Permanent Secretary of HM Treasury and Official Head of HM Civil Service, 1919-1939], French, Ian Macpherson, David Lloyd George [1st Earl Lloyd George of Dwyfor; Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury, 1916-1922], Rt. Hon. Andrew Bonar Law [Leader of Unionist Party, 1911-1921 (resigned); Leader of the House of Commons, 1916-1921 (resigned); Lord Privy Seal, 1919-1921 (resigned)], Joseph Burne, Austen Chamberlain [acting as Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1919-1921, Leader of the House and Lord Privy Seal, 1921-1922] and others
Includes: /9 Publication cutting relating to speech of Leader of the House; /10 Publication cutting relating to Sir Basil Thomson's reply to the Home Secretary; /16 Typescript notes relating to case of Sir Joseph Byrne; /17-/24 Manuscript note and typescript extracts from 1919-1920 correspondence of French, Macpherson, Long, Lloyd George, and Bonar Law relating to Sir Joseph Byrne |