- SW/11/57
- Item
- c. 1860s - 1900s
Part of Spence Watson/Weiss Papers
Black and white portrait photograph
Part of Spence Watson/Weiss Papers
Black and white portrait photograph
Portrait Photograph of David Lloyd George
Part of Spence Watson/Weiss Papers
Black and white portrait photograph
Consists mainly of letters to Robert Spence Watson. Topics include, but are not limited to, British politics and the Liberal party, contemporary Europe, Armstrong College (later Newcastle University), the Peace Society, lectures at the Literary and Philosophical Society of Newcastle upon Tyne, and contemporary literary and scientific achievements. Other regular recipients of letters include Elizabeth Spence Watson, Frederick Weiss, and Charles Prestwich Scott.
The Spence Watson's wide-ranging public activism, make their correspondence a valuable source of opinions on the social and political matters of the day from a wide range of prominent persons.
Watson, Robert Spence, 1837-1911, Politician and Reformer