| Description | These records comprise two separate series of correspondence files kept by Smalley Baker in his role as Dean and founder of the Holdsworth Club.The largest series consists of files of correspondence to and from former students of the Faculty of Law written mostly during the Second World War and primarily relating to students or graduates who were on active service during that conflict. Some of this correspondence continued into the post war period and a small number of files were continued by later Deans of the Faculty of Law and contain letters to and from former students which date from the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. This set of files is a rich and important source of information for tracing the lives of former students of the Faculty of Law during the Second World War and provides details about the numbers of students on active service and those involved in other war work, and about the number of students wounded, killed or taken prisoner during the conflict
The other series consists of files of correspondence to and from Holdsworth Club presidents 1931-1948 concerning the presidential addresses which were given during their term of office. These files often include printed copies of presidential addresses and some include correspondence with Smalley Baker about other Holdsworth Club activities or about mutual acquaintances in the legal profession |