Description | Memoranda of Joseph Chamberlain providing summaries of correspondence relating to the Round Table Conference [held from 24 Dec 1886-26 Feb 1887], details of Conference meetings on 13 and 14 Jan, and 3 Feb, and discussions with Sir William Vernon Harcourt [Chancellor of the Exchequer, Feb-Aug 1886] and John Morley [Viscount Morley of Blackburn: MP]; with correspondence from Henry P. Cobb [MP] and Lord Thring [Henry Thring, 1st Baron Thring: Parliamentary counsel, 1868-1886] relating to necessity for agreement between Liberals, and meeting between Chamberlain and William Gladstone [Prime Minister, 1886]; and printed memorandum, 'Sir William Harcourt's Statements on Proceedings at the Round Table Conference in his speech at Derby, Feb 27th', 1889 |