The Papers of Leopold Amery

Correspondence, mainly between LSA (as senior Trustee) and 1st Lord Elton, General Secretary of the Rhodes Trust, on subjects including grants awarded by the Trust, finding a biographer for Cecil Rhodes, publishing a history of the Trust for its jubilee, Commonwealth students at the London House hall of residence [later Goodenough College], articles by the Trustees (particularly LSA) in the American Oxonian, the Rhodes Scholars Jubilee Reunion, taking Rhodes Scholars from Germany, the Rhodes Trust Bill, the Empire Youth Movement, and Indian Rhodes Scholarships. Other correspondents include: Geoffrey Sargeant, Director of Extra-Mural Studies, University of Cape Town [South Africa] (3); John Lowe, Dean of Christ Church College, Oxford, on subjects including passing on a request by Robert Blake, Tutor in Politics, Christ Church, to write Rhodes's biography, and on new Trustees (5); Robert Blake; Sir Harold Hartley on a Commonwealth and Empire conference organised by the Duke of Edinburgh; Frank Aydelotte [American Secretary to Rhodes Trustees] on subjects including the American Oxonian (5); Paul Havens, Editor of the American Oxonian (3); 1st Lord Freyberg; Sir David Smith, Chancellor of the University of New Zealand; Edgar Williams, Warden of Rhodes House; John Colville [Joint Principal Private Secretary to the Prime Minister] (2); Sir Dougal Malcolm; Violet, Lady Milner (3); Sir Francis Wylie on German Rhodes scholarships (2); Vincent Harlow [Beit Professor of the History of the British Commonwealth, Oxford]; 1st Lord Altrincham [earlier Edward Grigg] on subjects including Kenyan scholarships (4); Sir Carleton Allen, Warden of Rhodes House, on subjects including his retirement (3); Professor William Macmillan; 2nd Lord Baldwin of Bewdley (2); 2nd Lord Devonport, Chairman of the Kingsley Fairbridge Memorial [earlier Gerald Kearley] (2); [Daniel] Roland Michener, commenting on the recent Canadian elections (1949); Sir Ernest Oppenheimer (2); Sir Edward Peacock, on subjects including appointing new Trustees (4); Geoffrey Dawson [earlier Geoffrey Robinson]; Sir Girja Bajpai [Secretary to Government of India Department of Education, Health, and Lands] on Indian Rhodes Scholarships.

Also includes: text of LSA's foreword to the History of the Trust; annual reports; text of speech by LSA at the Rhodes Scholars Jubilee Reunion Dinner, with other papers on the joint jubilee and Cecil Rhodes centenary; text of LSA's tribute to Sir Francis Wylie; article by Carleton Allen on the German Rhodes Scholars; text of LSA's speech at the Rhodes Trustees Dinner on the legacy of Cecil Rhodes and the future of the next generation.