| Description | This series largely consists of correspondence written to Oswald Mosley during the course of his active political career, but also includes correspondence written to his second wife, Diana (nee Mitford) during the 1930s and 1950s, as well as some draft and copy correspondence written by Mosley, and a small number of letters concerning him or his affairs.
Most of this correspondence is of a political or formal nature, and contains letters written by politicians and other public figures, particularly during the 1920s, when Mosley was an MP, firstly for Harrow as a Unionist and later Independent candidate, and afterwards for Smethwick where he represented the Labour party.
Correspondence dating from the 1930s and 1940s also includes letters from members and supporters of the British Union of Fascists, which Mosley founded in 1932, after the demise of his short-lived New Party, and post-war correspondence from individuals, both in Britain, and in other countries, who were sympathetic to Mosley's political philosophy and policies as leader of the Union Movement, ,
A small proportion of the letters in this series relates to Mosley's personal and domestic life, and to his social and leisure interests.
Although the correspondence spans the entire period of Mosley's adult life, there is more material from the 1920s and 1930s than from the post-war period.
Letters from friends and some political contacts address Mosley as 'Tom'; letters from people who knew him on a personal level in later years sometimes address him as 'Kit'. |