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- 1919 (Creation)
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1 file correspondence
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Mostly correspondence on official matters, including arrangements for a visit to Switzerland, requests to visit, relationships with Russia, socialism, the loss of the Elland constituency from the Liberals, an annotated draft of a letter from the National Peace Council protesting against the terms of the Treaty of Versailles, reflections on World War I, the Union of Democratic Control (UDC), requests to speak to and stand for the Independent Labour Party, notes on Lord Loreburn's book Foreign Affairs , a letter making arrangements for a female member's involvement with the UDC after marriage and a description of the library of Professor R. Saitschick (in German).
Correspondents include Irene Cooper Willis, Bertrand Russell, E H Haywood, Edward Carpenter, Romain Rolland, Hida M Howsin, Hugh Bell, John Bell, Francis Julius de Guingand, Ramsay MacDonald, George Lansbury, Robin Price, Frederick Seymour Cocks, E D Morel, George Herron, Clifford Allen, Will Arnold-Forster, B Boothroyd, Erskine Childers, E H Haywood, W E Moll and Arthur Stephenson.
One letter is in French
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Open to the public
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- English
- French
- German