| Description | Letters in this series are characterised by their focus on Cynthia's public life, particularly her involvement in politics and charitable and fund raising work. Cynthia's political development can be charted through this correspondence, from her participation in constituency affairs in Harrow, as the wife of the serving Conservative and Independent MP, Oswald Mosley, through her membership of the Labour party and her election as Labour MP for Stoke-on-Trent in 1929, and her subsequent resignation and involvement in Mosley's New Party. The series also contains letters relating to Cynthia's charitable work before her marriage, and to her work at the War Office during the last years of the First World War. The letters chart the course of Cynthia's political career, reflecting the fact that it was affected by her husband's political decisions to a great extent, but also illustrate her interest in social welfare in her own right, and her activities undertaken independently of Oswald Mosley, such as her visit to Russia in 1930.
The file also contains a letter addressed to Cynthia in 1936, three years after her death. |