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Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)AC24/8/1-55
TitleMiscellaneous official correspondence and papers, 1926
Extent55 items
Date1926
DescriptionMiscellaneous typescript and manuscript correspondence and miscellanea; mainly arranged alphabetically by surname; including [copy correspondence] and drafts; in various languages; may contain envelopes; may contain personal papers; relating to survey of Foreign Affairs at the Imperial Conference, D. C. L.'s from Oxford for Briand and Austen Chamberlain, Akademischer Austauschdienst, General Strike, biography of Joseph Chamberlain [Rt. Hon. Joseph Austin; father of Austen Chamberlain], King George V's birthday, Gosse on being Knighted, Hyman on leaving the Council of the League of Nations, trip to Glasgow, the Dominions and a Peace Pact, addition of new members, including Germany, into League of Nations, quotations of Joseph Chamberlain, American view of League of Nations, Locarno, etc, including newspaper cutting, 1926
Correspondents: Stanley Baldwin [First Earl Baldwin of Bewdley; Prime Minister, 1924-1929], Bearsted, Birchenough, Birdwood, Cave, J. W. Chambers, Rev. Hugh B. Chapman, Derby, Cecily Debenham, Diane Chamberlain [Beatrice Diane Maxwell [nee Chamberlain], daughter of Austen Chamberlain], James Louis Garvin [Editor-in-Chief of the Encyclopaedia Britannica', 1926-1929; 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], Farrer, Arthur John Bigge [1st Baron Stamfordham; Private Secretary to Queen Victoria, 1895-1901, and to Prince of Wales, 1901-1910], Edmund Gosse, Herriot, Samuel [John Gurney] Hoare [1st Viscount Templewood of Chelsea; MP with seat in Cabinet, 1923-1924 and 1924-1929; various political offices], W. A. Holman, Hyman, [Kelly], Samuel Kenrick [maternal relation of Austen Chamberlain], Philip Kerr, Klotz, Lumley, J. H. Morgan, [George] Gilbert [Aime] Murray [Professor; writer; Chairman League of Nations Union, 1923-1938], Mrs. Musgrave, Earl of Oxford, Malcom E. Peabody [maternal relation of Mary Carnegie], Bishop of St. Davids, [Sir Walford Harmood Montague] Selby [Principal Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, 1924-1932], Ernest L. Wild, Austen Chamberlain [acting as Foreign Secretary, 1924-1929] and others
LanguageEnglish
Access StatusOpen
Physical Description/30a is in addition to /30; /30a is a newspaper cutting

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