| Description | Contains corresondence and papers relating to Germany and other areas of Europe. Includes:
/1 Handbill 'Our Blockade has caused this!': Printed handbill with image of two starving Austrian children; with question 'We are responsible, how can we stop it?', and urging 'Write to Lloyd George and say you won't stand it. Raise the Blockade everywhere'. Produced by the International Women's League, printed by National Labour Press. Written in unidentified handwriting in top corner: 'Suppressed! May 19[19]'. [Leaflet featured in Old Bailey trial of Eglantyne Jebb, 1919].
/2 Russian Babies' Fund appeal handbill: Printed handbill for contributions to the fund, affiliated to 'Friends War Victims' Relief Fund'. 25 July 1919.
/3 Letter from E. H., Leipzig [to enclose an unspecified item]: Encloses an item which might be useful; alludes to photographs sent to Mr Hawker which could be used to indicate appreciation for work in Leipzig [c 1920].
/4 Letter from I. O. Ford, Adel Grange, Leeds, to Dorothy Buxton: Gives impressions of Frankfurt from her recent visit there, meeting with Lujo Brentano in Munich, plight of starving children and hopelessness of doctors, political feeling in Germany and indignation at the 'Lusitania', the role of the Emperor, being implored 'to wake up the Labour Party and to tell every English person of their plight'. 22 July [1920].
/5 Letter from E. Hobhouse, Berlin, to Dorothy Buxton: Describes the plight of German children in Berlin, the need for soap, bed sheets, nappies and 'unpolished rice'. 24 July 1920.
/6 Incomplete letter from unknown correspondent, Vienna, to Dorothy Buxton: She is willing to continue being of assistance after Buxton's departure back to England; notes the work of the local authorities to assist the relief work, the state of two children with bone conditions, the appalling want: photographs are not exaggerated. 28 July 1920.
/7 Letter from E. Hobhouse, Bude, Cornwall, to Dorothy Buxton: She is willing to continue being of assistance after Buxton's departure back to England; notes the work of the local authoriries to assist the relief work, the state of two children with bone conditions, the appalling want: photographs are not exaggerated. 28 July 1920.
/8 Letter from Hilda Clark, Freundesmission, Vienna, to Dorothy Buxton: Requests support for the clothing programme, hopes to place young people out under the agricultural scheme, asks for support for the Passport Office scheme to encourage immigration into England and the Colonies, hopes that the attack in the Catholic Times will not make it difficult for grants to be made. 11 October 1920. This letter was enclosed within the following letter (SCF/SC/DB/4/9).
/9 Incomplete letter from unidentified writer [?Dorothy Buxton], London, to 'Dearest V': Miss Hobhouse has asked whether there could be a meeting to which Frau Professor Fischer of Leipzig could speak; encloses copies of her article in 'The Contemporary' which contains information from her report on German children [not present]; asks whether [the recipient] could take up the question of emigration from Austria; encloses a letter from Hilda Clark (SCF/SC/DB/4/8). [In another hand]: the writer has seen the recipient since dictating the letter; of 'emigration' and 'schools' the latter is more important; alludes to Eg's [Eglantyne Jebb's] doctor. 21 October 1920.
/10 Copy minutes of Special Meeting of Save the Children Fund Council held to consider the Children's Charter: Record of the meeting where the Charter was discussed and redrafted, with resolutions to ask Save the Children International Union to consider and if possible accept, the charter. 26 January 1923.
/11 Typescript copy letter from [the International Council of Women] to Mme de Bunsen: Relates to the possibility of Save the Children Fund and the International Council of Women coming to an arrangement regarding the Children's Charter.
8 April 1924.
/12 Copy resolution of Eglantyne Jebb regarding the Children's Charter: Record of the resolution that the Charter drawn up jointly by representatives of Save the Children Fund and National Council of Women of Great Britain may be commended to supporters as the basis for further study. 18 September 1924.
/13 Copy of revised draft of the Children's Charter: Revision as agreed by representatives of Save the Children Fund and the National Council of Women, 29 July and 1 August 1924.
/14 Cutting from the Manchester Guardian with obituary of Eglantyne Jebb: Noted in manuscript: by Ethel Sidgwick. 5 January 1929.
/15 Save the Children headed notepaper: honorary secretary: Mrs C. R. Buxton: c 1920. |
| Administrative History | [Isabella Ormaston Ford, 1855-1924, known for her work in the suffrage, trade union and labour movements]
[Emily Hobhouse (1860-1926) welfare campaigner, chairman of the Russian Babies' Fund] |