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Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)NC1/20/1/110-112
Title1917 letters
Extent3 items
Date1917
DescriptionLetters from Neville Chamberlain to Mary E. Carnegie dated 1917.

A summary of the principal topics of each of the letters is given below:
/110: (from National Service Department): Neville's 'relief to get away from London'; regret that Mary and William could not go to Rowfant. 31 May.
/111: (from Rowfant): Neville's resignation as Director of National Service; Neville feeling he is unable to return to municipal politics; Neville having broke his principle 'that no man could be a minister without first securing an apprenticeship in the House [of Commons]' in becoming Director of National Service and that 'nothing would induce me now to accept another post in the Gov[ernmen]t (not that it is likely to be offered me) without being in the House'; Neville's 'thorough sickening of politics and politicians'; Neville's uncertainty about what he is to do next. 14 August.
/112: (from Westbourne): Mary's Christmas presents to Neville and his family; Dorothy and Frank; lack of news about Norman Chamberlain who was missing; Anne's health; Neville getting nearer to an opportunity for a House of Commons seat; Neville not 'going back' on his decision to enter the House of Commons but expressing his reluctance and saying 'I do not look forward to life in the House nor do I expect to make a success there, at my age and under the stigma of failure'; Code's conversation with Neville regarding the S. C. U. [Street Children's Union?]. 25 December.
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