Janus: The Papers of Leopold Amery

Churchill/AMEL contains:
1	Public and Political
2	Correspondence
3	Constituency
4	Elections
5	Press Cuttings
6	Family and Personal
7	Diaries
8	Literary
9	Financial
10	Photographs
11	Recordings

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The Papers of Leopold Amery

Title	Elections
Reference	AMEL 4
Covering Dates	1905–1951
Extent and Medium	5 archive boxes

Content and context

This series includes correspondence, campaign material, speeches and cuttings from LSA's election campaigns.

Index Terms

Elections

Churchill/AMEL 4 contains:

Election letters 1905: Wolverhampton election [Staffordshire]. Letters of support and sympathy on LSA's 1905 campaign from correspondents including: L J Maxse [Editor of the National Review] (2); 6th Lord Dartmouth [earlier Lord Lewisham]; Hugh Arnold-Forster; 4th Duke of Sutherland [earlier Lord Stafford]; Harold Hodge; Charles Mander; John Walter, the Times; 1st Lord Northcliffe [earlier Alfred Harmsworth]; George Parkin; Halford Mackinder; [Charles] Moberly Bell; Edmund Powell; George Buckle [Editor of the Times]; Charles A'Court-Repington; Sir Ian Hamilton; George Tryon; Charles Boyd; Sir [Edouard] Percy Girouard; Reginald Plumptre; Henry Birchenough; Leonard Courtney; J L Garvin, Editor of the Outlook; Samuel Hughes (3). Also includes: rough speech notes on Canada and defence.
1 file.

Jul 1905-Jan 1906

Election letters 1908: Wolverhampton election [Staffordshire]. Letters and telegrams of support and sympathy sent before and after LSA's 1908 campaign, from correspondents including: 'Jugs' [Geoffrey Amery] (4); Sir Ian Hamilton (2); Max Aitken [later 1st Lord Beaverbrook] commenting on the chances that LSA would be opposed by Winston Churchill; 1st Lord Roberts (2); Frederick Oliver (4); Charlotte, Lady Winchester; [Joseph] Austen Chamberlain (5); John Mills (2); Arthur Balfour (2); Violet Markham [later Violet Carruthers] (2); Francis Dyke Acland [Financial Secretary, War Office] apologising for having campaigned against LSA; Henry Birchenough (2) and Mabel Birchenough; 1st Lord Northcliffe (2) and Mary, Lady Northcliffe [earlier Alfred Harmsworth and Mary Harmsworth]; Charles Boyd; Joseph Coudurier de Chassaigne [George Saint-Clair]; Archibald Boyd-Carpenter; Alfred Lyttelton; Harold Amery; 1st Lord Milner; Henry Chaplin (2); H A Gwynne; Henry Wickham Steed; Kathleen, Lady Falmouth; Sir George Drummond; Arthur Griffith-Boscawen; 2nd Lord Ridley; [Robert] Erskine Childers; [Charles] Moberly Bell; Madeleine, Lady Midleton; John Boraston; John Buchan [later 1st Lord Tweedsmuir]; Alexander Fuller-Acland-Hood [later 1st Lord St Audries] (2); 1st Lord Cromer [earlier Evelyn Baring]; Andrew Bonar Law; Sir William Mitchell-Thomson [later 1st Lord Selsdon]; Edward Goulding [later 1st Lord Wargrave]; 2nd Lord Newton [earlier Thomas Legh]; Henry Lygon; Charles Booth; Charles A'Court-Repington; Robert Borden [Leader of the Canadian Conservative Party]; [Arthur] Basil Williams; Arthur Lee; Sir Gilbert Parker; George Parkin; Edward Grigg [later 1st Lord Altrincham]; William Bridgeman; Rudyard Kipling; W Gough Allen, secretary of the Wolverhampton East Conservative Association (4).
2 files.

Mar 1908-Jul 1908

Election letters 1910: Wolverhampton election [Staffordshire] and Bow and Bromley election [London]. Letters of support and sympathy on LSA's campaigns in January and December 1910, from correspondents including: Mary, Lady St Helier [earlier Mary Stanley, then Mary, Lady Jeune]; Charles Grant Robertson (2); Robert Brand; 1st Lord Northcliffe [earlier Alfred Harmsworth] (2); Robert Borden [Leader of the Canadian Conservative Party]; Arthur Steel-Maitland; Sir William Anson; Sir Ian Hamilton; 1st Lord Roberts; Frederick Oliver; John Capper; Sir Foster Cunliffe; Edward Peacock; George Buckle; Andrew Bonar Law; John Mills; Edgar Stogdon.
1 file.

Jan 1910-Jan 1911

Election letters 1911: Birmingham election [Warwickshire]. Letters and telegrams sent before and after LSA's 1911 campaign, from correspondents including: Charles Vince, Secretary of the Birmingham, Aston, and Handsworth Liberal Unionist Association, on choosing LSA as candidate for a Birmingham seat, particularly the chances of Jesse Collings, MP for Bordesley, Birmingham, resigning his seat (8); Joseph Chamberlain (3); George Buckle (3); 1st Lord Northcliffe [earlier Alfred Harmsworth]; Alfred Lyttelton and Edith Lyttelton; Sir Gilbert Parker; 2nd Lord Selborne [earlier Lord Wolmer]; John Capper; Edward Peacock; Cosmo Lang, Archbishop of York; George Parkin; Robert Gilson; James Welldon; Robert Borden [Leader of the Canadian Conservative Party]; Sir George Drummond; Valentine Chirol on LSA's success and the death of [Charles] Moberly Bell [Managing Director of the Times]. Also includes: notes on the Bordesley Division.
1 file.

Apr 1909-May 1912

Election material 1906-11: East Wolverhampton 1906, 1908, 1910. Election material for LSA's campaigns in Wolverhampton [Staffordshire], mainly from his 1908 campaign, including pamphlets, photographs, cuttings and statements on the counting of the votes and alleged irregularities in the campaign.
2 files.

Jul 1905-Jan 1910

Election material 1906-11: Bow and Bromley. Election material for LSA's 1910 campaign in Bow and Bromley [London], including pamphlets, photographs, cuttings and speech notes.
1 file.

Feb 1910-Dec 1910

Election material 1906-11: Birmingham. Election pamphlet for LSA's 1911 campaign in Sparkbrook Division, Birmingham [Warwickshire].
1 file.

1911

Election material 1918: Birmingham. Includes: pamphlets; speech notes; press-cuttings; messages of support from David Lloyd George, Prime Minister and Andrew Bonar Law [Leader of the Conservative Party].
1 file.

Nov 1918-Dec 1918

Election material 1919-21: Birmingham. Includes: Christmas messages from LSA to his fellow-workers in the Sparkbrook Division of Birmingham [Warwickshire]; notes for Unionist workers and speakers.
1 file.

Dec 1918-Dec 1921

Election material 1922: Birmingham. Includes: speech notes and draft election address; pamphlets.
1 file.

Oct 1922-Nov 1922

Election material 1923: Birmingham. Includes: pamphlets; electoral addresses; pamphlets for the Liberal and Labour candidates; speech by LSA on Imperial Preference and the cotton trade; draft speech notes.
1 file.

Nov 1923-Dec 1923

Election material 1924: Birmingham. Includes: election address by Stanley Baldwin, Prime Minister; pamphlets; rough speech notes. . Also includes congratulations on LSA's victory from individuals including: Sir Edward Lucas; John Obed Smith; Sir [James] Percy Fitzpatrick; 1st Lord Bearsted [earlier Marcus Samuel]; Sir George Macdonogh; Alfred Gough; [William] Mackenzie King; Augustus Bartolo; Ugo Mifsud; Hugo Hirst; [William] Waters Butler; Sir Roderick Jones; Stanley Baldwin.
1 file.

Oct 1924-Nov 1924

Election material 1929: Birmingham. Includes: constituency Christmas card; statement on LSA's public record, with a note on his achievements at the Colonial Office.
1 file.

Jan 1929-Dec 1929

Election material 1930: Birmingham. Includes: printed notices for mass meetings.
1 file.

Feb 1930-May 1930

Election material 1931: Birmingham. Includes: pamphlets; notices of public meetings; statement on LSA's public record.
1 file.

Oct 1931

Election material 1935: Birmingham. Includes: statement on LSA's public record; notices of public meetings; accounts of election expenses and receipts.
1 file.

Nov 1935

Election 1945: miscellaneous material. Includes: receipts; pamphlets and Conservative Party publications; statements on LSA's public record; source material for LSA's memoirs ["My Political Life"] with a review of the 1950 election; draft election address and annotated speech notes; notes on the local Communist Party campaign against LSA.
1 file.

Oct 1944-Apr 1950

Election 1945: questionnaires. Questionnaires on various policy areas, received and circulated by Conservative Central Office, with suggested replies. Also includes some correspondence on the questionnaires and typical questions from constituents on policy issues.
1 file.

Jun 1945

Election 1945: engagements, addresses etc. Correspondence on LSA's election engagements, speeches and other business, with correspondents including: John Dodge, candidate for Gillingham Division, Kent; representatives of the Birmingham Unionist Association; Marjorie Maxse, Vice-Chairman of the Conservative Party (4); representatives of Birmingham Unionist Association; 1st Lord Elton [General Secretary of the Rhodes Trust]; Robert Cary; Sir Norman Seddon-Brown; Percy Cohen [Head of Library and Information Department, Conservative Central Office] (2). Also includes: texts of LSA's responses to criticism of his policy on the famine in Bengal [India], with notes on British achievements in Indian welfare and extracts from the Bengal Famine Inquiry Commission report; local Communist leaflet against LSA; speech notes; notes on the attitude of the Labour and Liberal Parties to the Singapore naval base during LSA's time as First Lord of the Admiralty; extracts from speeches by LSA on the build-up to war in the 1930's; expenses; suggested replies to questions on various policy areas.
1 file.

May 1945-Apr 1951

Election 1945: speeches. Texts of speeches and articles by LSA on subjects including: post-war reconstruction; the Washington Loan Agreement; the future of Conservatism; British links with Europe; the economic and political future of India; post-war Europe and the Commonwealth; German attempts to break up Yugoslavia.
1 file.

Apr 1941-Jul 1946

Election 1951: cuttings, correspondence. Correspondents include: 5th Lord Salisbury [earlier Lord Cranborne] explaining that he would not have much say in choosing a new Cabinet but agreeing to pass on LSA's availability; 1st Lord Kemsley [Chairman of Kemsley Newspapers, earlier James Berry]; Alan Lennox-Boyd [later 1st Lord Boyd of Merton]; Geoffrey Hirst, on LSA's help in his campaign (2); Ian Fraser, asking if LSA would speak in his constituency; 1st Lord Woolton, Chairman of the Conservative Party [earlier Frederick Marquis]; Sir [Thomas] Shenton Thomas; Joan Dodd, Conservative Central Office Speakers' Department (3). Also includes: reports of election speeches by LSA; speech notes; press-cuttings on the 1951 election and new Government.
1 file.

Feb 1950-Nov 1951