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LevelFile
Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)OJL/1/16
TitleMrs Lucy Baldwin
Extent2 items
Date1929
DescriptionCorrespondence with Lucy Baldwin [1869-1945, campaigner for maternity care].

/1 Letter from Lucy Baldwin to Oliver Lodge, written from 10 Downing Street, dated 16 January 1929. Baldwin writes that her husband has read Lodge's book. She agrees that a law needs to be amended, writing: 'To me it has always seemed most degrading to the honour of womanhood that they should be employed in such mean spirited work as striving to incriminate a human being for a technical offense.' She asks for news of Lady Lodge.

/2 Copy of letter from Oliver Lodge to Lucy Baldwin, dated 17 January 1929. Lodge sends news of his wife who is gravely ill.
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