Janus: The Papers of Leopold Amery

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The Papers of Leopold Amery

Title	Literary
Reference	AMEL 8
Covering Dates	1895–1974
Extent and Medium	40 archive boxes

Content and context

This series includes notes, texts and correspondence on literary works by LSA, including: a work by LSA on economics, "The Awakening"; LSA's memoirs, "My Political Life", including the unpublished fourth volume (which LSA died before he could complete); "A Balanced Economy"; a collection of addresses and lectures by LSA, "Loose Leaves"; and "The Life of Joseph Chamberlain".

Churchill/AMEL 8 contains:

The LSA Song Book. Pamphlet from LSA's 1910 election campaign.
1 item.

1910

"Canada as an Imperial Factor", by Hamar Greenwood.
1 item.

1913

Round Table Studies and Study Group private publications: annotated untitled volume on Canada.
1 item.

1910

Round Table Studies and Study Group private publications: The Australian People.
1 item.

c 1910

Round Table Studies and Study Group private publications: New Zealand Notes.
1 item.

c 1910

Round Table Studies and Study Group private publications: The Irish Question.
1 item.

1914

Round Table Studies and Study Group private publications: untitled volume.
1 item.

c 1912

Round Table Studies and Study Group private publications: First Series No II.
1 item.

1914

Round Table Studies and Study Group private publications: The Round Table Movement, its past and future.
1 item.

1913

Round Table Studies and Study Group private publications: Part I (untitled). Includes some annotations.
1 item.

c 1914

Round Table Studies and Study Group private publications: Part II (untitled).
1 item.

c 1914

Round Table Studies and Study Group private publications: Part III (untitled).
1 item.

c 1914

Round Table Studies and Study Group private publications: Second Series Instalment C.
1 item.

1914

Round Table Studies and Study Group private publications: Second Series Instalment D.
1 item.

1914

Round Table Studies and Study Group private publications: Second Series Instalment E.
1 item.

1915

Round Table Studies and Study Group private publications: index of 25 years 1910-1935.
1 item.

1936

Round Table Studies and Study Group private publications: a quarterly review of British Commonwealth Affairs No 118.
1 item.

Mar 1940

Round Table Studies and Study Group private publications: a quarterly review of British Commonwealth Affairs No 119.
1 item.

Jun 1940

Round Table Studies and Study Group private publications: a quarterly review of British Commonwealth Affairs No 162.
1 item.

Mar 1951

Parliamentary Companion.
1 item.

Aug 1915

Higher Direction of War. Manuscript "given several times to Imperial Defence College, 1925-30".
1 item.

c 1925

"The Stranger of the Ulysses". Book of fantasies by LSA, including typed postscript [dated 1951] and inscribed 'Birdie Amery' [AFA].
1 item.

1934–1951

"Days of Fresh Air": correspondence. Correspondence on LSA's account of mountaineering, skiing and travelling, including: correspondence from Christy and Moore Limited, LSA's literary agents; royalty statements; correspondence from Jarrolds, publishers; corrections.
1 file.

1939–1953

"Days of Fresh Air". Notes on illustrations, background material and correspondence for LSA's account of mountaineering, skiing and travelling.
1 file.

c 1934-c 1953

"Days of Fresh Air". Papers on LSA's account of mountaineering, skiing and travelling, including: annotated typescript, with royalty statement; Alpine Club speech, 1929; newspaper article by LSA.
1 file.

Dec 1929–1951

"Man Proposes". Annotated typescript of text of comic play.
1 file.

c 1930-c 1940

"In the Rain and the Sun": illustrations. Papers for LSA's account of mountaineering, skiing and travelling, including some annotations.
1 file.

c 1945-c 1946

"In the Rain and the Sun": correspondence and press cuttings. Correspondence on LSA's account of mountaineering, skiing and travelling.
1 file.

1945–1953

"Future of Politics". Annotated typescript of foreword and chapters I and II, with notes and cuttings, and some source material.
1 file.

Jul 1946-Oct 1946

Notes for "The Awakening". Including printed material concerning international trade and the Trade Charter; reports from the Geneva Conference of September 1947.
1 file.

Dec 1945-Sep 1947

Notes for "The Awakening". Including newspaper cuttings on economic affairs used as source material.
1 file.

Aug 1947-Sep 1947

Notes for "The Awakening". Including newspaper cuttings on economic affairs used as source material and a letter from LSA to the Times on short and long-term economic policy.
1 file.

Jun 1947-Sep 1947

Notes for "The Awakening". Including printed material and newspaper cuttings on economic affairs.
1 file.

Apr 1947-Sep 1947

Notes for "The Awakening". Including [mostly] newspaper cuttings on economic affairs, with notes on the Marshall Plan.
1 file.

Jun 1947-Sep 1947

Notes for "The Awakening". Includes: printed material, 'The Vital Issue - An Economic Policy for Britain and the Empire' and 'Agriculture in Britain's National Economy'; typescript of 'Peacetime Mutual Aid', an article by LSA for the Economist; handwritten notes; newspaper cuttings; a memorandum by [Stanley] Paul Chambers on dealing with the economic crisis. Also includes correspondence with: Sir Norman Kipling, Director General of the Federation of British Industries; Sir Hubert Henderson, Professor of Political Economy, University of Oxford.
1 file.

Oct 1944-Sep 1947

Notes for "The Awakening". Includes: printed material, 'The Uses and Abuses of Economic Planning', by Sir Hubert Henderson, Professor of Political Economy, University of Oxford; correspondence with Sir Hubert Henderson, with typescripts of papers written by him while Economic Advisor to the Treasury; newspaper cuttings.
1 file.

Feb 1944-May 1947

Notes for "The Awakening". Includes: newspaper cuttings; notes; correspondence with Sir Hubert Henderson, Professor of Political Economy, University of Oxford; annotated typescript of speech [delivered by LSA?] in Cardiff [Wales] May 1946.
1 file.

Oct 1944-Sep 1947

Notes for "The Awakening". Includes correspondence thanking LSA for complementary copies and commenting on LSA's work, with correspondents including: Bernard Baruch; Israel Sieff, President of Marks and Spencers Limited; John Foster Dulles, Secretary of State for the United States; Clement Attlee, Prime Minister; Sir [Richard] Stafford Cripps, Chancellor of the Exchequer; Sir Hubert Henderson, Professor of Political Economy, University of Oxford. . Also includes: correspondence with MacDonald and Company, publishers, discussing the distribution of the book prior to printing; correspondence with Christy and Moore Limited, LSA's literary agents; press cuttings and reviews; receipts for book royalties and book sales; some source material, including cuttings on the British and American economic crisis, Parliamentary Debates booklet from the House of Lords and notes on the function of exchange rates.
1 file.

1947–1948

Fantasies and miscellaneous poems. Includes: typescripts of poems by LSA; 'Songs of Canadian Climbers'; 'Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam'; 'Jesus Meets Paul' by Alexander Paterson.
2 files.

1895–1974

Obituaries and appreciations. Texts and cuttings by LSA and others on individuals including: Professor Sir Reginald Coupland, University of Oxford; King George VI; Sir Ralegh Phillpotts, Chairman of the British Tabulating Machines Company; Field Marshal Jan Smuts, Prime Minister of South Africa; Mohandas Gandhi; Chaim Weizmann, President of Israel; 1st Lord Hirst; 1st Lord Moyne [earlier Walter Guinness]; 1st Lord Lloyd; Alfred Noyes; Major-General Sir Fabian Ware; Sir Dougal Malcolm, President of British South Africa Company; Sir Leslie Boyce; Sir Rhys Rhys-Williams; Frank Pember, Fellow of All Souls College, University of Oxford; 1st Lord Simon, Fellow of All Souls College, University of Oxford; Mary Hamar Greenwood; Sir Reginald Coupland; Sir John Chancellor; Sir Hesketh Bell; 1st Lord Wavell; Joseph Chamberlain; Jan Hofmeyr; Edward Strutt; 1st Lord Baldwin; Sir [Edward] Humphrey Leggett; 1st Lord Croft; 2nd Lord Lytton; 1st Lord Chattisham [earlier William Brass]; 1st Lord St Just [earlier Edward Grenfell]; [Robert] Cary Gilson; 1st Lord Tweedsmuir [earlier John Buchan]; Herbert Sidebotham; Sir [Joseph] Austen Chamberlain; Admiral Sir William Fisher; Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson. . Also includes: letter of appreciation from Queen Mary over the sympathy given after the death of King George VI; script for Sir Winston Churchill's speech delivered at the death of the king; correspondence with L.M. Gaskell and Isie Smuts.
2 files.

1922–1955

Appreciations. Texts and cuttings by LSA and others on individuals including: 1st Lord Balfour; Sir [Joseph] Austen Chamberlain; 1st Lord Baldwin; 1st Lord Tweedsmuir [earlier John Buchan]; Major-General Sir Fabian Ware; Edward Whymper; [Frederick Cyril] Nugent Hicks, Bishop of Lincoln; Fabyan Sparke Amery; John Sparke Amery.
1 file.

1912–1949

Sir Winston Churchill: appreciations. Includes: annotated typescript for Sir Winston Churchill's obituary by LSA; articles written by LSA to mark Churchill's seventieth and eightieth birthdays; galley proof for 'Winston Spencer Churchill, Servant of Crown and Commonwealth'.
1 file.

1934–1955

Correspondence: Christy and Moore, literary agents. Correspondence concerning the publication of: LSA's memoirs, "My Political Life"; 'Loose Leaves'; 'Days of Fresh Air'; 'In the Rain and the Sun'; 'The Stranger of the Ulysses'.
1 file.

1936–1953

Correspondence on BBC articles, reviews and prefaces. Correspondents include: Sir John Craik Henderson, relating to 'Parliament, A Survey'; representatives of Cassell and Company Limited, relating to 'Winston Spencer Churchill, Servant of Crown and Commonwealth'; Sir James Marchant, on comparisons between David Lloyd George and Sir Winston Churchill. . Also includes: appreciations by LSA of Sir Winston Churchill for his retirement and eightieth birthday; articles by LSA on South Africa.
1 file.

1953–1955

Articles for 1st Lord Kemsley. Also includes: correspondence with 1st Lord Kemsley [Chairman of Kemsley Newspapers Limited, earlier James Berry] and representatives of Kemsley Newspapers Limited; correspondence concerning confusion over the charges from a flight made by LSA to Amman [Jordan]; 'A Harrow School Guidebook' by LSA.
1 file.

1945–1953

Letters to the press. On subjects including: the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade [G.A.T.T.]; the Suez Canal, Egypt; the Middle Eastern situation; British trade policy. Also includes appreciations of: Ermine, Lady Elibank; 1st Lord Milner; 1st Lord Simon.
1 file.

1953–1955

Messages. Including message of goodwill to newspapers, magazines, journals and also: East Anglian Empire Day Rally; United Zionist Revisionists of Great Britain; Committee for a Jewish Army; Indian Comforts Fund annual report; Jewish Agency of Palestine; South African Zionist Federation; Chartered Institute of Secretaries; National Defence Committee; Sparkbrook Unionist Association; Second Anniversary of the Anschluss.
1 file.

1933–1953

Interviews. Including notes on conversations with: Mr Messersmith, American Minister in Vienna [Austria]; Dr Kurt von Schuschnigg; Eduard Benes. Also includes published interview with LSA for the Liverpool Daily Post and a profile of LSA for European Correspondents.
1 file.

1937–1949

Swiss Lectures. Including translations in French and German; 'La Taske de la Mission du Cabinet Britannique a L'Inde', 'Ruckblick auf Britisch-Indien': correspondence with the British Legation, Berne [Switzerland].
1 file.

1946–1948

"Thought and Language". Including: typescript and handwritten notes; correspondence with Mont Follick, with corrections to text and correspondence with representatives of the English Association. Also includes printed material: 'Arms and the Man', by Field Marshal 1st Lord Wavell; 'Modern Languages' March 1949 vol. XXX no. 2; 'On Expression' by John Galsworthy.
1 file.

1948–1950

"The Elizabethan Spirit". Includes: letters of thanks to LSA for complementary copies of book and comments on LSA's work; correspondence between LSA and Basil Blackwell regarding publication; correspondence relating to a Swiss publication of the book. . Also includes notes and annotated typescript of the text.
1 file.

1948–1949

"Conservative Future". Includes correspondence with representatives of the Stanhope Press; newspaper reviews.
1 file.

1946–1947

"British Commonwealth in World Affairs". Includes: press cuttings from the Commonwealth and Empire Review.
1 file.

1949

"The German Colonial Claim": correspondence. Includes correspondence with: W and R Chambers Limited, publishers; J. Rousseaux on corrections to the text (3); E. Landsberg, Financial Editor of the Cape Times, South Africa; Sir Frank Fox, journalist and 'ghost writer', reporting to LSA on progress with the manuscript (5). . Also includes Fox's outline of the book and LSA's detailed comments on Fox's manuscript.
1 file.

1938–1939

"The Washington Loan Agreement". Includes correspondence with: Leonard Moore, director of Christy and Moore Limited, LSA's literary agents; Macdonald and Company, publishers; Sir Keith Murdoch [the Herald, Melbourne]; J L Garvin [editor of the Observer]; Thomas Balogh (2). . Also includes: lists of papers and individuals to whom review copies are to be sent; newspaper reviews; an introduction to the North American edition of the text.
1 file.

1946–1949

"The Framework of the Future". Correspondence relating to publication, thanking LSA for complementary copies and commenting on LSA's work, with correspondents including: Leslie Hore-Belisha; A L Rowse, Fellow of All Souls College, University of Oxford; 1st Lord Greenwood; G M Trevelyan, Master of Trinity College, University of Cambridge; R A Butler, Minister of Education. . Also includes: press cuttings; lists of organisations and individuals to be sent complementary copies; notes for an introduction to the text; correspondence with Brendan Bracken, Minister of Information, on Bracken's refusal to assist LSA with the production of the book.
1 file.

1943–1948

"Parliament: A Survey". Includes: correspondence with Sir Gilbert Campion [Clerk of the House of Commons] regarding publication; details of the agreement between LSA and Allen and Unwin, publishers; typescripts of lectures 'The Nature of British Parliamentary Government' and 'The Nature of the Constitution', including a copy of the latter annotated by Sir David Keir, Master of Balliol College, University of Oxford; papers circulated for the University of London Study Group on Parliamentary Government including 'Delegated Legislation' by Sir Cecil Carr, 'The Committee System of the American Congress and the Parliament of the (Third) French Republic' by Professor Sir Denis Brogan and 'Defects in the Procedures and machinery of the House of Commons' by Sir Gilbert Campion. . Also includes: memoranda of the disadvantages of British Parliamentary Government and the dangers inherent in the British Parliamentary system by individuals including; George Young, Fellow of All Souls College, University of Oxford; John Petrov Plamenatz, Fellow of All Souls College; Professor Sir Dennis Brogan; LSA [?].
1 file.

1947–1953

"Thoughts on the Constitution". Including: press cuttings of reviews; typescript of text.
1 file.

1947

"Thoughts on the Constitution". Includes correspondence with: representatives of Oxford University Press; Sir Carleton Allen, Fellow of University College, University of Oxford (2); John Foster [Commonwealth Relations Office], on amendments to the text (4); Sir Kenneth Wheare, Fellow of All Souls College, University of Oxford; [William] Mackenzie King, Prime Minister of Canada; Leonard Moore of Christy and Moore Limited, LSA's literary agents. . Also includes: copies of letters from LSA to potential reviewers; draft of an additional chapter [foreword or postscript] for the second edition and comments on first draft of a lecture by individuals including 1st Lord Hankey] (2) and George Young, Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford (5).
2 files.

1946–1954

Miscellaneous personal memoirs: miscellaneous political. Includes: articles on the Empire; accounts of visits by Winston Churchill to Harrow School; text of speeches by LSA on Pan American Union and the British Empire, the Empire Unity campaign, Imperial Preference and the export trade and the United States and Imperial Preference; proof of a lecture by Sir Stephen Tallents [former Secretary to the Empire Marketing Board] on the origin of the film documentary; articles on the economic and trade situation; notes for LSA's visit to Hull [Yorkshire] in December 1946; texts of speeches by Churchill on future policy, 1945-46; speech notes for LSA's speech in Gloucester on the record of the Labour Government, November 1946; text of a speech by [Robert] Anthony Eden [later 1st Lord Avon] on Conservative policy and objectives.
1 file.

Oct 1945-May 1949

Miscellaneous personal memoirs: policy notes. Includes: Conservative Party notes on current politics; issue of the Spectator on peace-time conscription; Conservative Central Office newsletters; Canadian Manufacturers' Association booklet on Imperial Preference.
1 file.

May 1946-Jun 1949

Miscellaneous personal memoirs: policy notes. Includes: rough notes on future politics; Conservative policy pamphlets; booklet by 1st Lord Kennet [earlier Edward Hilton Young] on errors about democratic government; cutting from the Economist on the 1946 Transport Bill; booklet from 1st Lord McGowan, Chairman of Imperial Chemical Industries Limited, on the ICI staff grade scheme; notes on James Burnham's "The Managerial Revolution"; selected quotations from former Conservative leaders.
1 file.

Sep 1939-Dec 1946

Miscellaneous personal memories: draft autobiography. Draft written by LSA in the form of a letter to [? Juliet Glyn, later Juliet, Lady Rhys Williams], on subjects including: his childhood; student years; work for the Times; campaign for army reform; early political career; work during the First World War; and time with 1st Lord Milner at the Colonial Office.
1 file.

Sep 1920

Draft for a proposed book. Text, notes and source material for a restatement of Conservative political philosophy, designed as a follow-up to LSA's "The Forward View", with chapters on subjects including: the European political and economic revolution following the First World War and the influence of Communism following the Second World War; relations between Europe, the United States and Asia, LSA's doubts about the future of the United Nations and view of the Commonwealth.
1 file.

Apr 1946–1954

Memoirs: notes and texts on sources. Notes and cuttings [? for use in "My Political Life"], including text on Frederick Oliver's influence on history.
1 file.

Dec 1947-Jun 1950

Memoirs: personal memoirs and descriptions A - Z. Texts and cuttings of articles and obituaries by LSA and others [? for use in "My Political Life"], on individuals including: Winston Churchill; Edmund Burke; Stanley Baldwin, with a letter from Sir Alan Lascelles [Private Secretary to King George VI] on Baldwin's appointment as Prime Minister in 1923; 1st Lord Tweedsmuir [earlier John Buchan]; Anne, Lady Cave; Joseph Chamberlain; [Arthur] Neville Chamberlain; Lionel Curtis; 1st Lord Curzon; Sir Edmund Davis; General Dwight Eisenhower; Admiral Sir William Fisher; [Robert] Cary Gilson; 1st Lord Greenwood; Lionel Hichens; Jan Hofmeyr; Mary Inge; Benjamin Jowett; Field Marshal 1st Lord Kitchener; T E Lawrence ["Lawrence of Arabia", also T E Shaw]; 1st Lord Lloyd George; 11th Lord Lothian [earlier Philip Kerr]; Dame Edith Lyttelton; 8th Lord Lucas of Crudwell [earlier Auberon Herbert]; 1st Lord Lloyd, with letters from Blanche, Lady Lloyd and Sir Clement Jones; Major-General Orde Wingate; [William] Mackenzie King; Leo Maxse; George Meredith; Field Marshal 1st Lord Milne; Reginald McKenna; Kevin O'Higgins; Geoffrey Pyke; Field Marshal 1st Lord Roberts, with extracts from letters by LSA on Roberts's death and funeral; 1st Lord St Just [earlier Edward Grenfell]; Edward Strutt; [William] Sanford Evans; 1st Lord Snowden; James Thomas; Field Marshal 1st Lord Wavell; Sir Herbert Walker; Sir Fabian Ware; Sir Warren Fisher; Chaim Weizmann; George Wyndham; King Peter of Yugoslavia.
2 files.

Nov 1914-Jul 1950

Memoirs: stray verses. Poems and songs by LSA and others, including: LSA's "Song of the Eagle Ski Club", "The Two Workmen", "Westminster Fair", "The Alpine Club Camp Song", "The Union Jack Forever" and "Venus Cyrenaica"; letter from [Alfred] Duff Cooper [later 1st Lord Norwich] thanking AFA for sending him a copy of LSA's "Sursum Cor"; comic poems by Sir Dougal Malcolm; poems by Rudyard Kipling and sent to LSA by 1st Lord Webb-Johnson, with a letter to Webb-Johnson from Franklin Roosevelt.
1 file.

Sep 1899-Jun 1952

Unfiled papers. Includes: notes for speeches to the British Yugoslav Society and on the Closed Shop system; papers on the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association's Coronation Luncheon in 1953; LSA's Honorary Degree from the University of Cambridge, with associated papers.
1 file.

Aug 1949-May 1953

Reminiscences: unfiled papers. Includes: quotations and articles on LSA; source material and rough notes for [? "My Political Life"]; copy of the entry on LSA written by Josiah Wedgwood for the Committee on the History of Parliament; report of a conversation between AFA and Winston Churchill in 1942 on subjects including LSA and India and the need for knowledge of other countries.
1 file.

May 1914-Jan 1949

Prefaces and reviews. Texts and cuttings of work by LSA, with related correspondence, on subjects including: the atomic bomb; Conservatism, in reviewing "The Pendulum of Politics" by Aubrey Jones; politics and realism, in reviewing a Chatham House survey of British security; Cecil Rhodes, in reviewing Stuart Cloete's "African Portraits"; "The Story of Burma" by F Tennyson Jesse; the embassy of Sir William Norris to India; "The Unsung: The Record of the British Services in India" by [Katherine] Maud Diver; "Imperial Commonwealth" by 1st Lord Elton; [? "Drifting to War"] by Sir Malcolm Campbell'; [? "Europe Must Unite"] by Count Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi; [? "Foreign Systems of Colonial Administration in the Far East"] by Sir Hesketh Bell.
1 file.

c 1928-Oct 1946

Articles. Texts and cuttings of articles by LSA, with related correspondence, on subjects including: the political deadlock in India; the visit to India by members of the Cabinet; India and the Empire; the Empire and the Navy; Cecil Rhodes; walks on Dartmoor [Devon]; the United States and Imperial Preference; the leftward trend in Europe; the [?] 1940 Budget of Sir John Simon.
1 file.

c 1940-Dec 1946

"My Political Life": index of source material.
1 file.

c 1950-c 1955

"My Political Life": notes for Volume I, "England Before the Storm". Draft texts, notes and source material, including: extracts from LSA's diaries; introduction to a work by Hugh Arnold-Forster on military needs, written by LSA for Field Marshal 1st Lord Roberts; memorandum on the Army Estimates 1904-5 by Arnold-Forster as Secretary of State for War; paper by LSA on the defence problem from the Imperial standpoint, 1909; notes and proofs on tariff reform, including a draft prospectus by LSA for the Compatriots' Club advocating Imperial Preference and series of articles by LSA such as, "Old Answers to New Problems"; letter from David Bonner-Smith, Admiralty Librarian; articles by LSA on the Marconi Affair; comments from Norman Gibbs, Historical Section, Cabinet Office; extracts from a speech by 1st Lord Morley in 1914 on the army and Ulster [Northern Ireland].
2 files.

Feb 1904-Jun 1951

"My Political Life": correspondence and notes for Volume II, "War and Peace". Correspondence, notes and source material, with correspondents including: Sir Stephen Tallents [former Secretary to the Empire Marketing Board]; Violet, Lady Milner [earlier Lady Edward Cecil]; Sir Hugh Thornton [former Private Secretary to 1st Lord Milner] on subjects including Milner's suggestion that Marshal Ferdinand Foch should replace Marshal Philippe Petain as General-in-Chief in 1918 and details of Milner's staff (6); 9th Lord Bessborough [earlier Lord Duncannon] on the War Cabinet's debate on whether to recall General Sir Douglas Haig [Commander-in-Chief] from France in 1918; William Worsfold on the meeting of the Supreme War Council in 1918; O W Stebbings, Conservative Research Department (5); Major-General Sir Hereward Wake on military events in January 1918 (5); 1st Lord Hankey (7); Sir Vincent Baddeley [former Assistant Secretary of the Admiralty] (4); Margot, Lady Davson; Sir [Arthur] Cosmo Parkinson, recalling his time at the Colonial Office; Robert Wiseman [former Assistant Secretary, Colonial Office]; Sir Charles Jeffries [former Principal, Colonial Office]; George Plant [former Secretary, Oversea Settlement Committee, Dominions Office] (2); Sir Edward Harding [former Assistant Under-Secretary of State, Dominions Office]; Sir William McLean, Colonial Office Information Department; Alec Joyce [Head of Information Department, Commonwealth Relations Office]. Also includes: notes on Palestine and the Balfour Declaration, including a letter from Chaim Weizmann [President of the World Zionist Organisation and Jewish Agency for Palestine]; letter from 4th Lord Salisbury on drafting the defence resolutions of [? the Imperial Conference, 1923]; extracts from Thornton's diary, December 1917; Milner's report on his journey to France in March 1918; copy of a letter from LSA to Stanley Baldwin, Prime Minister, on the economic situation and his concerns about Winston Churchill's forthcoming Budget (1927); letter from Lord Athlone [Governor-General of South Africa] on the use of LSA's recent visit to South Africa during his Empire Tour; copies of letters from LSA to King George V and the Prince of Wales [later King Edward VIII and the Duke of Windsor] on his visits to New Zealand, Australia and South Africa during the Empire Tour; text of a broadcast by Hankey on inter-Imperial relations, recalling the Balfour Formula of 1926; reprint of an article by LSA on the Imperial Conference, 1926; note of a talk with Margery, Lady Greenwood on reprisals by the Black and Tans; history of discussions with South Africa over Basutoland [later Lesotho], Bechuanaland [later Botswana] and Swaziland, 1909-39.
3 files.

Nov 1923-Apr 1953

"My Political Life": notes for Volume II, "War and Peace". Notes and correspondence, with correspondents including: Sir Leslie Wilson on the break-up of the Liberal-Conservative coalition in 1922; 2nd Lord Astor. Also includes: copies of letters from LSA to Stanley Baldwin, Prime Minister, 1927-28, on safeguarding of industry, economic policy and reform of the House of Lords; copies of letters from LSA to Major-General Charles Callwell on preserving the alliance with Romania in 1915 and to General Sir Henry Rawlinson on the inadequacy of forces sent to the Dardanelles and the general situation in the Balkans; copies of letters from LSA in December 1914, including his Christmas message to his constituency, a letter to 1st Lord Milner on strengthening the forces in France and changes needed in post-war Imperial policy, a letter to [? (Joseph) Austen Chamberlain] looking ahead to 'a war of exhaustion' and a letter to 2nd Lord Selborne on the need for national service.
2 files.

Dec 1914-Mar 1952

"My Political Life": notes and correspondence for Volume III, "The Unforgiving Years". Notes and correspondence, with correspondents including: 1st Lord Halifax [earlier Edward Wood and Lord Irwin] on the fall of the Chamberlain Government and the Soviet invasion of Finland, explaining that Britain could not have helped the Finns any more than they already had (6); Keith Feiling [Chichele Professor of Modern History, University of Oxford] on subjects including his view that LSA had been too hard on [Arthur] Neville Chamberlain (3); Sir Harold Nicolson, lending LSA his diaries and commenting on the form of his memoirs (3); Samuel Hammersley; Clement Davies on subjects including warning received before Germany's invasion of the Netherlands and the decision to accept Winston Churchill as Prime Minister after Chamberlain (4); Paul Emrys-Evans on the Labour Party's decision to accept Churchill as Prime Minister, the Watching Committee, responsibility for Britain's failure to rearm in the 1930's and dealings with Germany and Italy (7); 1st Lord Reith on the Labour Party's decision to accept Churchill (2); Walter Elliot; 1st Lord Hore-Belisha on concerns about France's defences in 1939, his own decision to press for compulsory military service, strengthening of the Territorial Army and his resignation as Secretary of State for War in 1940 (4); Clement Attlee on his meeting with Chamberlain before his resignation (2); Sir Orme Sargent, commenting on LSA's treatment of the build-up to war (3); Sir Horace Wilson [former Head of the Civil Service], recalling Chamberlain's resignation and negotiations with Germany in 1939 (2); John Sparrow; Norman Gibbs [Chichele Professor of the History of War in the University of Oxford]; Sir Herbert Williams; O W Stebbings, Conservative Research Department (5); 1st Lord Percy of Newcastle; 1st Lord Templewood [earlier Sir Samuel Hoare] on the India Act (2); Sir Reginald Leeper on the Stresa Conference, 1935; Sir William Haley, Editor of the Times; 1st Lord Vansittart [former Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs] on policy towards Italy and Germany, particularly suspicions that Pierre Laval [former French Foreign Minister] had encouraged Italy to invade Abyssinia [later Ethiopia] and being side-tracked himself in the Foreign Office (5); 1st Lord Campion; Sir [George] Joseph Ball [former Director of the Conservative Research Department] on alleged secret contact between himself and Count Dino Grandi [former Italian Ambassador to Britain] (7). Also includes: summaries from LSA's diaries; notes on a talk with Clement Davies on the eve of war; comments by Julian Amery.
5 files.

Mar 1940-Apr 1955

"My Political Life": publishing contract. Agreements between LSA, Amery Publications Limited and Hutchinson and Company Limited, publishers.
1 file.

Oct 1952-Dec 1952

"My Political Life": correspondence for Volume I, "England Before the Storm". Correspondents sending congratulations, comments, corrections and thanks for copies, and also on publication business, include: representatives of Hutchinson and Company Limited, publishers (13); Walter Crocker; Sydney Walton; Professor Sir Douglas Savory; John Biggs-Davison, Conservative Research Department (2); Richard Church; John Allen; 1st Lord Nathan; Arthur Goodhart; Sir Harold Nicolson (2); Patrick Mayhew; Violet, Lady Milner [earlier Lady Edward Cecil]; Isabel, Lady Sykes (4); Mary Carnegie [earlier Mary Chamberlain] (2); Sir Dougal Malcolm (3); Basil Liddell Hart; 1st Lord Altrincham [Editor of the National and English Review, earlier Edward Grigg]; Arthur Bryant; G M Trevelyan; representatives of Pearn, Pollinger and Higham Limited, authors' agents (24); John Sparrow, Warden of All Souls College, University of Oxford (2); [Angela] Fiona, Lady Craigavon; Colin Coote, Managing Editor of the Daily Telegraph and Morning Post; [Maurice] Harold Macmillan [later 1st Lord Stockton]; Sir William McLean, Colonial Office Information Department; [William] Vaughan Reynolds, Editor of the Birmingham Post (2); Hamish Hamilton, Managing Director of Hamish Hamilton Limited, Publishers; Professor Norman Gibbs (3); Enid Moberly Bell (2); Cecil, Lady Craigavon; [Hugh] Christopher Arnold-Forster (2); Norman Robertson, High Commissioner for Canada in Britain; Samuel Ratcliffe. Also includes: press cuttings with extracts from the volume; list of illustrations; description of the volume; chapter summaries.
2 files.

Mar 1948-Apr 1954

"My Political Life": correspondence for Volume II, "War and Peace". Correspondents sending congratulations, comments, corrections and thanks for copies, and also on publication business, include: Sir Hereward Wake (3); Caroline, Lady Bridgeman; 1st Lord Altrincham [Editor of the National and English Review, earlier Edward Grigg]; Sir Desmond Morton; Sir Herbert Stanley; William Simnett; Edmund de Rothschild; Christopher Roundell [former Chief of Staff, Civil Commissioners' Department]; representatives of Hutchinson and Company Limited, publishers (10); Basil Liddell Hart (2); 'Bertie' 6th Lord Clarendon [earlier Lord Hyde] (3); Alan Agnew, Managing Director of Punch; Sir Norman Brook [Secretary of the Cabinet, later 1st Lord Normanbrook] on allowing LSA to publish from Cabinet Office records (3); representatives of Pearn, Pollinger and Higham Limited, authors' agents (4); representatives of the Illustrated London News (3); [Arthur] Terence Maxwell; Walter Taplin, Editor of the Spectator; Rhoda, Lady Birley; Sir Thomas Lloyd [Permanent Under-Secretary for the Colonies]; Norah, Lady Davis (3); Terence de Vere White (2); James Thomas, First Lord of the Admiralty [later 1st Lord Cilcennin]; Laura, Lady Lovat; Sir Harold Nicolson; Hugh Fraser; Adeline, Lady Hankey; Edwina, Countess Roberts [earlier Edwina Lewin] (2); 1st Lord Hankey; Julian Amery; Sir Ronald Storrs. Also includes: list of illustrations; extracts of draft text; original dust jacket; receipts from Picture Post Library; photographs of a bust of Kevin O'Higgins; draft description of Volume II.
2 files.

Apr 1953-Aug 1954

"My Political Life": correspondence for Volume II, "War and Peace". Correspondents, commenting on a draft chapter on the Commonwealth, include: Bernard Braine; Sir William McLean, Colonial Office Information Department (4); 1st Lord Swinton [Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations, earlier Philip Cunliffe-Lister and Philip Lloyd-Greame]; [Leonard] David Gammans. Also includes: copies of economic surveys from New Zealand. This file may relate to "A Balanced Economy".
1 file.

Feb 1952-Jun 1953

"My Political Life": correspondence for Volume III, "The Unforgiving Years". Correspondents, sending congratulations, comments, corrections and thanks for copies and also on publication business, include: Humphry Berkeley, Conservative Political Centre (2); Sir Arthur Bryant; Edward Beddington-Behrens; 1st Lord Brand; 1st Lord Balfour of Inchrye; Sir Geoffrey Davson [later Sir Anthony Glyn]; Clement Davies (2); Keith Feiling; 1st Lord Hore-Belisha; Sir David Keir, Master of Balliol College, University of Oxford; Sir Geoffrey Mander; 6th Lord Winterton [earlier Lord Turnour]; John Sparrow, Warden of All Souls College, University of Oxford (3); Angela Thirkell; 1st Lord Soulbury [earlier Herwald Ramsbotham]; Samuel Ratcliffe, commenting on LSA's treatment of the Abdication Crisis; Sir Walford Selby on the differences between Stanley Baldwin's administrations in the 1920's and 1930's; Sir Dougal Malcolm; Alan Pryce-Jones, Editor of the Times Literary Supplement; Paul Emrys Evans; representatives of Hutchinson and Company Limited, publishers (12); Sir Percivale Liesching [Permanent Under-Secretary of State, Commonwealth Relations Office]; Sir Norman Brook [Secretary of the Cabinet, later 1st Lord Normanbrook] on allowing LSA to publish from Cabinet Office records; representatives of Pearn, Pollinger and Higham Limited, authors' agents (5); Harry Whates, Editor of the Birmingham Mail; Cecil Beaton; Howard Coster (2); Alan Agnew, Managing Director of Punch; William Aitken (2); 1st Lord Templewood [earlier Sir Samuel Hoare]; Anthony Greenwood [Arthur Greenwood]. Also includes: collected reviews of Volume I, "England Before the Storm" and Volume II, "War and Peace"; draft description of Volume III; lists of illustrations.
1 file.

Dec 1953-Dec 1955

"My Political Life": correspondence for Volume IV. Correspondents include: 1st Lord Alanbrooke [former Chief of Imperial General Staff, earlier Sir Alan Brooke] on subjects including strategic bombing policy (4); Francis Turnbull [former Principal Private Secretary to LSA as Secretary of State for India] (2); Graham Spry [former Personal Assistant to Sir (Richard) Stafford Cripps and member of the Cripps Mission to India] (2); Sir Arthur Lothian [former British Resident at Hyderabad] on relations with the Indian Princes (4); Major-General Ian Playfair, Cabinet Office (2); Andrew Acheson [Assistant Secretary, Cabinet Office]; John Ehrman [Historian, Cabinet Office] (4); Professor James Butler [Chief Historian for the Official Military Histories of War]; Sir Norman Brook [Secretary of the Cabinet, later 1st Lord Normanbrook] on allowing LSA access to Cabinet Office records (3); Sir Percivale Liesching [Permanent Under-Secretary of State, Commonwealth Relations Office] on allowing LSA access to India Office records (2); 1st Lord Soulbury [earlier Herwald Ramsbotham]; Flora, Lady Lugard; Margery Perham, on borrowing LSA's letters from the Lugards (2); Arthur Magnay (writing to Sir Arthur Lothian [British Resident at Hyderabad, 1942-46]) after LSA's death to suggest that Lothian should finish Volume IV in order to give a true picture of LSA's Indian policy during the war. Also includes: press cutting; map of Yugoslavia.
1 file.

Apr 1950-Apr 1959

"My Political Life": notes for corrections, Volume IV. Correspondents include: Andrew Acheson, Assistant Secretary, Cabinet Office; Professor James Butler [Chief Historian for the Official Military Histories of War]; Major-General Ian Playfair; John Ehrman [Historian, Cabinet Office]; 1st Lord Salter; Clement Attlee, recalling the decision to keep [Arthur] Neville Chamberlain and Lord Halifax [earlier Edward Wood and Lord Irwin] out of the War Cabinet; Robert Boothby, recalling the rebellion against Chamberlain; General Sir Alan Brooke [Chief of Imperial General Staff, later 1st Lord Alanbrooke] writing in 1943 on the Iraq-Persia Command being downgraded and the importance of airborne forces both during and after the war; Graham Spry [former Personal Assistant to Sir (Richard) Stafford Cripps and member of the Cripps Mission to India] on the mission. Also includes: notes of a talk with 1st Lord Alanbrooke]; rough notes; press cuttings; issues of Hansard covering debates on India, 1941-42, with a letter from LSA to Winston Churchill [Prime Minister] on moderate Indian opinion and Dominion status; India Office statement on the Cripps Mission; copies of letters from LSA to Field Marshal Sir John Dill [Chief of Imperial General Staff] on his concerns about British policy towards Iraq in 1941, Yugoslav prisoners of war, control of the defence of Burma [later Myanmar] and airborne forces, with a letter from Dill on praise received by Indian troops; copies of letters and memoranda by LSA featured in the book's appendix on the case for airborne operations, war planning and a review of the Indian situation.
2 files.

Jul 1940-Jul 1955

"My Political Life": Volume IV, chapters 1-5. Text, including annotations by Francis Turnbull [Principal Private Secretary to LSA as Secretary of State for India], covering: the war effort; LSA's Indian policy; the war in the Middle East; Winston Churchill, Prime Minister and Franklin Roosevelt, President of the United States; the Churchill Government, 1940-41.
1 file.

c 1953-c 1955

"My Political Life": Volume IV, chapters 6-8. Text, including annotations by Francis Turnbull [Principal Private Secretary to LSA as Secretary of State for India] on LSA's Indian policy.
1 file.

c 1953-c 1955

"My Political Life": Volume III, "The Unforgiving Years", original typescript chapters 1-11. Annotated typescript, covering: economic and Empire policy, 1929-31; the collapse of the Conservative Government and formation of the Coalition Government; Imperial Preference; the India Act; LSA's travels in Europe, meeting with Hitler and LSA's non-political work; pacifism, the Italian invasion of Abyssinia [later Ethiopia] and the drift to war; the abdication crisis; appeasement.
4 files.

c 1953-Dec 1954

"My Political Life": Volume III, "The Unforgiving Years", original typescript chapters 12 to end. Annotated typescript, covering: the Munich Crisis; the build-up from Munich to the outbreak of the Second World War; the formation of the War Cabinet, early months of the war and fall of [Arthur] Neville Chamberlain.
3 files.

c 1953-Dec 1954

"A Balanced Economy": source material on agriculture. Includes: cuttings; letters from 2nd Lord Cranworth [earlier Bertram Gurdon], Thomas Dugdale [Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, later 1st Lord Crathorne], Marcus Sieff and Sir Desmond Morton, Treasury, commenting on LSA's chapter on agriculture; text of a lecture by Sir Harold Hartley on agriculture as a potential source of raw materials for industry; essays on food production; annual review and fixing of farm prices, 1952; statistics for animal feed imports and subsidies; Ministry of Agriculture leaflet and statement on livestock exports; memorandum on food imports from Ireland; notes taken by LSA from various sources; House of Lords official reports covering a debate on food production, April-May 1952; pamphlet by Henry Walston on Labour Party agricultural and food policy.
2 files.

1937-Dec 1952

"A Balanced Economy": new source material on agriculture. Includes: cuttings; letters from 'Top' [3rd Lord Selborne, earlier Lord Wolmer], 1st Lord Hudson [former Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries] and 7th Lord Radnor [Chairman of the Forestry Commission, earlier Lord Folkestone] commenting on LSA's chapter on agriculture; annotated partial draft of LSA's chapter on agriculture.
1 file.

Oct 1952-May 1953

"A Balanced Economy": source material on agriculture in the United States. Includes: cuttings; information bulletins, including reports of the United States Department of Agriculture.
1 file.

Apr 1950-Apr 1953

"A Balanced Economy": source material on agriculture. Includes: cuttings; booklet on the Agricultural Research Service; annotated partial draft of LSA's chapter on agriculture; comments from the National Farmers' Union.
1 file.

Jun 1953-Oct 1953

"A Balanced Economy": source material on agriculture in the Empire. Includes: cuttings; Empire Industries Association bulletin and historical note on Imperial Preference; letter from and text of a series of lectures by Sir William McLean on the social and economic development of the Empire; reports of the Colonial Office Colonial Primary Products Committee, 1948-49; report of the Commonwealth Economic Committee, reviewing Commonwealth agriculture as related to production and trade.
1 file.

Feb 1940-Mar 1953

"A Balanced Economy": correspondence and source material on agriculture. Correspondents commenting on LSA's draft chapter on agriculture include: Henry Walston; Thomas Williams [former Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries]; Marcus Sieff; 1st Lord Bledisloe [earlier Charles Bathurst] (2); Walter Elliot; Professor Solly Zuckerman; Thomas Dugdale [Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, later 1st Lord Crathorne]; Sir James Scott Watson [Chief Scientific and Agricultural Adviser to Ministry of Agriculture, and Director-General of the National Agricultural Advisory Service]; 2nd Lord Iveagh [earlier Lord Elveden]; 1st Lord Halifax [earlier Edward Wood and Lord Irwin]; 3rd Lord Melchett [earlier Julian Mond]; 11th Lord Balfour of Burleigh [Chairman of the Hill Lands (North of Scotland) Commission]; Eric Englund, Agricultural Attache, American Embassy in London (3). Source material includes: article by LSA on Canada and the sterling area; Ministry of Food bulletins and report on American agriculture; survey of Irish food supplies and trade with Britain; report of the Hill Lands (North of Scotland) Commission; issue of the House of Lords official report, covering a debate on food production, November 1952; reprint of articles from the Times on growing more food; National Farmers' Union information bulletin.
1 file.

Sep 1949-Oct 1953

"A Balanced Economy": source material on finance and taxation. Includes: comments on LSA's proof chapter on taxation from individuals including 1st Lord Brand (3), Alan Green, Director of the Scapa Group Limited, 1st Lord Kennet [earlier Edward Hilton Young] and [Stanley] Paul Chambers; cuttings; article by Sir Robert Sinclair on an industrial view of taxation and savings; Bank of England memorandum on [?] LSA's proof chapter; issue of the House of Lords official report, covering a debate on economic problems, particularly a speech by 9th Lord Hawke.
1 file.

Apr 1952-Apr 1953

"A Balanced Economy": correspondence on investment and taxation. Correspondents on LSA's draft include: Sir Cecil Kisch; 11th Lord Balfour of Burleigh, Chairman of Lloyds Bank; [Stanley] Paul Chambers, Deputy Chairman of Imperial Chemical Industries Limited; Leslie Gamage, General Electric Company Limited (2); Sir Charles Hambro [Chairman of Hambros Bank Limited]; Sir Dougal Malcolm; Sir Desmond Morton, Treasury; [William] Walker Shepherd, Chairman of Turner and Newall Limited; Siegmund Warburg, Director of S. G. Warburg and Company Limited.
1 file.

Jan 1953-Feb 1953

"A Balanced Economy": source material on aviation. Includes: cuttings, mainly from the Times survey of British aviation; memoranda by the Air League of the British Empire on the employment of aviation to accelerate the development of the colonial Empire and the expansion of British aircraft production.
1 file.

Aug 1952-Oct 1952

"A Balanced Economy": source material on industry (second revise). Includes: corrected draft of LSA's chapter on the industrial prospect; memorandum by [?] LSA on Government financial support for export production.
1 file.

Feb 1953-Jul 1953

"A Balanced Economy": comments and additional source material on industry and export. Annotated draft of LSA's chapter on the industrial prospect, with comments from individuals including: Sir Desmond Morton, Treasury; 3rd Lord Halsbury, Managing Director of the Research Development Corporation [earlier Lord Tiverton] (2); Ernest Lever, Chairman of Richard Thomas and Baldwins Limited and of the Steel Company of Wales, Limited; Sir Ben Lockspeiser, Secretary to the Committee of the Privy Council for Scientific and Industrial Research; Sir Harry Railing [Vice-President of the Engineering and Allied Employers' National Federation]; Sir William Thomas, Chairman of the British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC). Also includes: cuttings; text of an address by Lockspeiser on science and the textile industry; paper by Halsbury on the development gap; bulletins of the Empire Industries Association and British Empire League; memorandum on air transport policy by the Council of the Air League of the British Empire; text of an address by Lockspeiser on progress in aeronautical science and engineering; article by Professor Ely Devons on aspects of British export trade.
1 file.

Jul 1951-Mar 1953

"A Balanced Economy": source material on finance (second revise). Includes: text of an address by [Stanley] Paul Chambers, Deputy Chairman of Imperial Chemical Industries Limited, on the problem of capital for British industry; cuttings; Treasury estimates of national income and expenditure, 1948-52 and economic surveys for 1952-53; annotated draft of LSA's chapter on investment and taxation.
1 file.

Sep 1952-Oct 1953

100

"A Balanced Economy": page proof revise, parts I and II. Includes: cuttings; issue of Hansard covering a debate on the economic situation; Empire Industries Association and British Empire League bulletin; note on wheat supplies in the United States from Thomas Dugdale [Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, later 1st Lord Crathorne]; comments on LSA's notes on New Zealand and Australia from their High Commissions.
1 file.

Nov 1953

101

"A Balanced Economy": beginnings. Includes: draft annotated by Sir Simon Marks; texts of articles by John Hammond on beef and mutton supplies and the future of livestock; draft texts on the gold situation, taxation, food production and investment by LSA; draft annotated by 1st Lord Weir.
1 file.

Dec 1948-Aug 1952

102

"A Balanced Economy": corrections. Includes: text of an address by Graham Spry on Britain, the United States and wheat; record of a symposium of the Australian and New Zealand Association for the advancement of science, on the conduct of external relations by Commonwealth countries.
1 file.

Jan 1954-Jun 1954

103

"A Balanced Economy": correspondence on industrial reconstruction. Correspondents include: Sir [Alfred] Guy Garrod; [John] Gibson Jarvie; Alan Green, Director of the Scapa Group Limited; Sir Harold Hartley, Chairman of the British Electricity Authority; Frank Hillier, Secretary-General of the Air League of the British Empire (2); Sir William Larke (2); Sir Alliott Verdon-Roe; [William] Walker Shepherd, Chairman of Turner and Newall Limited. Also includes: drafts of LSA's chapter on the industrial prospect, with comments by Garrod, Jarvie, Larke and 1st Lord Weir; issues of "Aircraft Engineering" on the development of flying boats.
1 file.

Oct 1952-Jan 1953

104

"A Balanced Economy": source material on the balance of trade, devaluation etc. Includes: cuttings; a paper by Sir Hubert Henderson, Professor of Political Economy, University of Oxford, on the emerging pattern of international trade; text of a speech by 1st Lord Layton on the exchange value of the pound; short economic survey; policy memorandum of the Empire Industries Association; reprint of articles from the Times on the dollar gap.
1 file.

Feb 1947-Jan 1951

105

"A Balanced Economy": correspondence and memoranda. Correspondence, chiefly thanks for complementary copies, and also commenting on LSA's work, requesting permission to quote and contributing source material, with correspondents including: [Eric] Gordon England; Sir [James] Angus Gillan (2); Herbert Butterfield; John Biggs-Davison, Conservative Research Department (2); Sir Charles Webster; Sir [John] Gilbert Laithwaite; Sir Ronald Cross; [Daniel] Roland Michener; Sir [Charles] Willoughby Norrie; 3rd Lord Aberdare [earlier Clarence Bruce]; Randolph Churchill; Robert Menzies, Prime Minister of Australia; Sidney Holland, Prime Minister of New Zealand; Henry Walston; Ralph Rayner; Patrick Medd; 1st Lord Soulbury [earlier Herwald Ramsbotham]; 1st Lord Bracken; [Hugh] Fletcher Moulton; [Stanley] Paul Chambers; Sir Philip McBride; Louis St Laurent, Prime Minister of Canada; George Henry; 3rd Lord Melchett [earlier Julian Mond]; Gerald Graham; Evelyn Emmet; Walter Crocker, High Commissioner for Australia to India; Sir Roland Welensky; 1st Lord Mountbatten; 1st Lord Merriman; Harold Gibson (2); 1st Lord Chatfield; Shri Jawaharlal Nehru [Prime Minister of India]; Roger Norton; 3rd Lord Selborne [earlier Lord Wolmer]; 1st Lord Percy of Newcastle; 1st Lord Cherwell [earlier F A Lindemann]; Sir Alan Lascelles; Ralph Assheton [later 1st Lord Clitheroe]; Maurice Petherick; Sir Keith Joseph; Sir [Harold] Leslie Boyce; Professor Solly Zuckerman (4); Margot, Lady Davson; Sir Patrick Hannon; Professor Malcolm Cooper (3); G M Trevelyan; Gordon Lang; 7th Lord Stanhope [earlier Lord Mahon]; Harmar Nicholls; 1st Lord Hailey; 5th Lord Salisbury [earlier Lord Cranborne]; Vivian Carter; 1st Lord Simonds; 1st Lord Horder; Sir Thomas White, High Commissioner for Australia in Britain (2); Siegmund Warburg; Professor Sir [William] Keith Hancock; Sir Reginald Dorman-Smith; 1st Lord Kennet [earlier Edward Hilton Young] (2); Arthur Greenwood; 1st Lord Athlone; Sir Hugh Beaver; 12th Lord Airlie; [Ernest] Meredyth Hyde-Clarke, Secretary of the Colonial Employers' Federation; Sir Arthur Longmore, Royal Over-Seas League; 1st Lord Templewood [earlier Sir Samuel Hoare]; 1st Lord Courthope; Sir Thomas Comyn-Platt; Eric Bullus; representatives of Hutchinson and Company Limited, publishers (10); Sir Simon Marks (2); representatives of Pearn, Pollinger and Higham, authors' agents (8); Marcus Sieff (5); Mirza Ispahani, High Commissioner for Pakistan in Britain; Geoffrey Faber; [George] Peter Thorneycroft, President of the Board of Trade; 1st Lord Balfour of Inchrye, Chairman of the Empire Industries Association and British Empire League; Sir Cecil Weir; R A Butler, Chancellor of the Exchequer (2); Bernard Braine; Norman Robertson, High Commissioner for Canada in Britain; Sir Frederick Doidge, High Commissioner for New Zealand in Britain; 1st Lord Samuel; 1st Lord Weir; Sir Harry Railing; Gwilym Lloyd-George [later 1st Lord Tenby]; Geoffrey Lloyd, Minister of Fuel and Power; James Thomas, First Lord of the Admiralty [later 1st Lord Cilcennin] on Patrick de Laszlo's fibreglass yacht; Patrick de Laszlo; Sir Desmond Morton, Treasury (2). Also includes: drafts of the foreword and description of the book.
4 files.

Feb 1952-Mar 1955

106

"A Balanced Economy": source material on gold and sterling. Includes: cuttings; essays; texts of papers by LSA on the sterling situation and gold situation.
1 file.

Jan 1952-Mar 1953

107

"A Balanced Economy": source material on the dollar gap and balance of payments. Includes: text of a speech by Robert Menzies, Prime Minister of Australia, on Australian import restrictions; excerpts from the report of the American President's Materials Policy Commission; correspondence with Reginald Winter, Secretary of the British Empire Producers' Organisation, on American subsidies; memorandum presented to the American State Department by the British Embassy in Washington on difficulties in trade with the United States; draft memorandum by LSA on attempting to form an economic policy to meet the dollar gap; report of the European League for Economic Co-operation on the dollar gap; text of a speech by LSA to the American Chamber of Commerce on Anglo-American economic relations.
1 file.

Apr 1946-Jul 1952

108

"A Balanced Economy": source material on Empire trade and sterling. Includes: cuttings; trade figures; paper by LSA on the future policy of the Empire Industries Association; essay on the pound sterling by Roy Harrod; text of a speech by LSA on the economic crisis, 1947; article by LSA on non-discrimination, customs union and preference; memorandum by LSA on the sterling situation; text of an address by Sir Douglas Copland, Vice-Chancellor of the Australian National University, on Australian foreign policy; figures from [Edwin] Hartley Leather on the Canadian economy; bank reviews of the economic situation.
1 file.

Sep 1947-Feb 1953

109

"A Balanced Economy": source material on Marshall Aid and the European Recovery Programme. Includes: cuttings; copies of Hansard covering the debate on the American Aid and European Payments (Financial Provisions) Bill; copy of and report on the Economic Co-operation Agreement between the British and American governments; article by Sir [James] Arthur Salter on the wider implications of the Marshall Plan; summary of reports on the European Recovery Programme.
1 file.

Nov 1947-May 1949

110

"A Balanced Economy": source material on the economy and general. Includes: cuttings; text of article by LSA on taxation and economic policy; letter from [George] Peter Thorneycroft, President of the Board of Trade, on using subsidies in domestic and export production; Empire Industries Association policy memorandum on the economic crisis; proof and draft of memoranda for Cabinet by LSA, including "Towards a Balanced Economy: the present mischief"; Empire Industries Association and British Empire League bulletins, with the texts of speeches by LSA as president, on the economic crisis ; memorandum by LSA, "Operation Survival" on the crisis in the balance of trade with the United States; copy of the 1948 short economic survey.
1 file.

Feb 1947-Aug 1952

111

"A Balanced Economy": source material on Imperial preference. Includes: cuttings; text of a speech by [James] Harold Wilson, President of the Board of Trade, on British trade with the sterling area; articles by LSA on non-discrimination, customs union and preference, and the United States and the Commonwealth; text of a speech by [Maurice] Harold Macmillan [later 1st Lord Stockton] on ruin or recovery; copies of Hansard covering debates on the economic situation (particularly GATT, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade) and closer co-operation within the sterling area; article by Sir Herbert Williams on customs unions; bulletins of the Empire Industries Association and British Empire League; memorandum on the importance of preference to the sugar, wine, canned fruit, coffee and tobacco industries; Empire trade figures; text of a speech by LSA on the United States and Imperial preference; paper by LSA on Empire sugar preference.
1 file.

Nov 1943-Sep 1952

112

"A Balanced Economy": source material on coal and minerals. Includes: United States Council of Productivity report on the British electricity system; corrected proofs of LSA's papers on the need for a coal revolution and on Britain's neglected mineral wealth; cuttings.
1 file.

Apr 1953-Sep 1953

113

"A Balanced Economy": source material on coal and domestic minerals. Includes: cuttings; an article by Sir Herbert Merrett on prospects for coal.
1 file.

Mar 1952-Sep 1952

114

"A Balanced Economy": source material on coal (second edition). Includes: report of the Fuel Research Board, 1951; report by David Price, Imperial Chemical Industries Limited, on the national fuel situation, December 1951; annotated draft of a paper by LSA on the need for a coal revolution; press cuttings on the coal industry; paper on nationalisation from the worker's view; text of an article by 1st Lord Citrine on the problems of electricity supply; correspondence with Claude Lancaster and Geoffrey Lloyd, Minister of Fuel and Power, on LSA's paper on coal; proof of a lecture by [Edward] Humphrey Browne, Director-General of Production, National Coal Board, on improving coal production.
1 file.

Dec 1951-Dec 1953

115

"A Balanced Economy": source material on minerals. Includes: a paper on lead-zinc mining; report of the Ministry of Fuel and Power mineral development committee; drafts of a paper by LSA on Britain's neglected mineral wealth, with correspondence with individuals including Sir William Larke, Sir [James] Arthur Salter, Minister of Materials and Philip Cunliffe-Lister, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster [earlier Philip Lloyd-Greame, later 1st Lord Swinton]; paper by Alexander Fleck [Deputy Chairman of Imperial Chemical Industries Limited] on potassium deposits in Yorkshire; post-war recommendations of the Non-ferrous Metallic Ores Committee.
1 file.

Jul 1949-Jan 1953

116

"A Balanced Economy": source material on science and new industries. Includes: statistics on book exports; memorandum by Patrick de Laszlo [Managing Director of Halmatic Limited] on laminated glass; text of lecture by 1st Lord McGowan [President of Imperial Chemical Industries, Limited, ICI] on "One Hundred Years of Chemistry".
1 file.

Sep 1951-Dec 1952

117

"A Balanced Economy": source material on coal and fuel. Includes: Ministry of Fuel and Power reports on domestic fuel policy, the use of power resources and mining; National Coal Board proposals on coal use; annotated copy of the Paley Commission report on the need for a coal revolution; annual reports and gazettes of the British Coal Utilisation Research Association.
2 files.

Mar 1945-Mar 1953

118

"A Balanced Economy": source material on the Dominions. Cuttings.
1 file.

Jul 1952-Feb 1953

119

"A Balanced Economy": source material on the Dominions (second revise) and proofs. Cuttings, annotated draft proofs and corrected texts.
1 file.

c 1950-Nov 1953

120

"A Balanced Economy": additional source material on the Dominions. Cuttings.
1 file.

Feb 1953-Jul 1953

121

"A Balanced Economy": source material on colonies other than Africa. Cuttings.
1 file.

Jan 1952-Jan 1953

122

"A Balanced Economy": source material on colonies (second revise). Includes text of LSA's "A Commonwealth Survey".
1 file.

Apr 1953-Aug 1953

123

"A Balanced Economy": additional source material on colonies. Cuttings.
1 file.

Feb 1953-May 1953

124

"A Balanced Economy": source material on Africa. Cuttings.
1 file.

Jan 1952-Dec 1952

125

"A Balanced Economy": source material on Canada. Cuttings.
1 file.

Jan 1949-Feb 1953

126

"A Balanced Economy": source material. Source material on the economies of South Africa, Central Africa, Ceylon [later Sri Lanka], India and Pakistan.
1 file.

Jan 1952-Feb 1953

127

"A Balanced Economy": proofs.
1 file.

May 1952

128

"A Balanced Economy": distribution. Includes distribution lists, reviews and letters of thanks for complementary copies.
2 files.

Jan 1954-Sep 1954

129

Annotated draft of "Nigeria" by Gerald de Gaury.
2 files.

c 1955

130

Guide to St Vincent's, West Indies. Includes loose photographs of local inhabitants and dignitaries, [?] taken by AFA.
1 file.

1907–1911

131

"Last and First in Burma" by Maurice Collis. Annotated draft proofs.
2 files.

c 1956

132

"Loose Leaves": chapters and unfiled papers. Includes: draft contents list; text of address by LSA to the Kipling Society on Rudyard Kipling; text of an oration delivered by LSA at the London School of Economics and Political Science on the Commonwealth and the world.
1 file.

1954

133

"Loose Leaves": correspondence and notes. Correspondence with representatives of Pearn, Pollinger and Higham Limited, author's agents, Christy and Moore Limited, literary agents, and the Oxford University Press, on finding a publisher for "Loose Leaves", with drafts of the preface, contents list and postscripts to earlier work.
1 file.

Apr 1950-Jun 1955

134

"Loose Leaves": drafts. Drafts texts and notes for collected addresses and articles by LSA, including: "The Lost Philosopher"; "The London Library"; "Trojan War"; "From Agamemnon to Allenby"; "Edmund Burke"; "Canada an Imperial Nation"; "Benjamin Disraeli"; a postscript to "What I would do with the World"; "The British Monarchy"; "The Empire through American spectacles"; "Lord Tweedsmuir" [earlier John Buchan]; a preface to the autobiography of Kingsley Fairbridge; "The Spirit of Adventure"; "Stanley Baldwin"; "Magna Carta"; a review of Sir [Joseph] Austen Chamberlain's "Politics from Inside"; reviews of J L Garvin's "The Life of Joseph Chamberlain"; a review of Harold Armstrong's biography of Jan Smuts.
1 file.

1920–1950

135

"Loose Leaves": preface.
1 file.

c 1954

136

"Loose Leaves": chapter 1, Magna Carta. Text of an address given by LSA at the annual Magna Carta celebration at Runnymede [Surrey].
1 file.

Jul 1933

137

"Loose Leaves": chapter 2, The Elizabethan Spirit. Text of a presidential address given by LSA to the Devonshire Association.
1 file.

Jun 1948

138

"Loose Leaves": chapter 3, Edmund Burke. Text of an article by LSA for an American collection.
1 file.

1942

139

"Loose Leaves": chapter 4, Benjamin Disraeli. Text of an article by LSA for John o'London's Weekly.
1 file.

Sep 1937

140

"Loose Leaves": chapter 5, Empire and Commonwealth. Text of an inaugural address given by LSA at York to the teachers' course on Empire matters.
1 file.

Aug 1943

141

"Loose Leaves": chapter 6, The Commonwealth in the World. Text of an address given by LSA at [? the University of Cape Town, South Africa].
1 file.

Aug 1953

142

"Loose Leaves": chapter 7, The English Thinking World. Text of an address given by LSA to the English Speaking Union.
1 file.

Nov 1949

143

"Loose Leaves": chapter 8, British Links with Europe. Text of an address given by LSA at the United Nations University Centre, with a later postscript on the importance of a united Europe as a defence against Communism.
1 file.

Nov 1945–1954

144

"Loose Leaves": chapter 9, America, Europe and the Commonwealth. Text of an address given by LSA to the English Speaking Union.
1 file.

Mar 1952

145

"Loose Leaves": chapter 10, From Agamemnon to Allenby. Text of an address given by LSA to the Manchester University Historical Society on the history of the Levant.
1 file.

1937

146

"Loose Leaves": chapter 11, British Responsibilities in the Middle East. Text of an address given by LSA to the Anglo-Israel Association.
1 file.

Jan 1951

147

"Loose Leaves": chapter 12, The South African War. Text of an article by LSA for the Times giving a retrospect of the Boer War after fifty years.
1 file.

Oct 1949

148

"Loose Leaves": chapter 13, The Missionary Field. Text of an address given by LSA at the Mansion House, London, in celebration of the 250th anniversary of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel.
1 file.

Mar 1948

149

"Loose Leaves": chapter 14, The Aim of Education. Text of an address given by LSA to the Conservative Teachers' Association.
1 file.

1938

150

"Loose Leaves": chapter 15, The London Library. Text of an address given by LSA to the London Library on the importance of libraries.
1 file.

Jul 1947

151

"Loose Leaves": chapter 16, Harveian Society. Text of an address given by LSA to the Harveian Society on the purpose of evolution.
1 file.

May 1951

152

"Loose Leaves": chapter 17, Thought and Language. Text of a presidential address given by LSA to the English Association.
1 file.

Nov 1949

153

"Loose Leaves": chapter 18, Horatian Society Dinners. Texts of speeches given by LSA to the Horatian Society on the poet Horace.
1 file.

1935–1953

154

"Loose Leaves": chapter 19, At the Sabine Farm. Text of an essay by LSA on an imaginary meeting with the poet Horace.
1 file.

1931

155

"Loose Leaves": chapter 20, The Odyssey. Text of a presidential address given by LSA to the Classical Association.
1 file.

Jan 1936

156

"Loose Leaves": chapter 25, The Lost Philosopher. Text of a dialogue by LSA on classical philosophy and the early years of Christ.
1 file.

c 1954

157

Proposed history of Marks and Spencer. Correspondence with Israel Sieff, Vice-Chairman of Marks and Spencer Limited, and William Foyle, Managing Director of W and G Foyle, Limited, with notes and source material.
1 file.

Aug 1954-Mar 1955

158

"Philosophy": outline plans. Notes for a projected book by LSA.
1 file.

c 1945-c 1947

159

"Philosophy": general. Notes and source material for a projected book by LSA, including letters from him to Jan Smuts and Stuart Hampshire on Holism and Spinoza, the text of a lecture by LSA to the Harveian Society on the purpose of evolution and correspondence with 1st Lord Samuel on physics.
2 files.

Feb 1927-May 1955

160

"Philosophy": purposive evolution. Notes and source material for a projected book by LSA.
2 files.

Jan 1948-May 1955

161

"Philosophy": thought and language. Notes and source material for a projected book by LSA.
1 file.

Oct 1947-Sep 1950

162

"Philosophy": immortality, religion, ethics. Notes and source material for a projected book by LSA.
1 file.

Mar 1942-Jan 1954

163

Typescript draft of a biographical account of LSA's part in the Second World War.
2 files.

c 1945-c 1955

164

"The Life of Joseph Chamberlain": press cuttings on Chamberlain. Cuttings of speeches and letters to the press, either written by Chamberlain [Secretary of State for the Colonies] or concerning him, on subjects including: tariff reform and Free Trade; colonial policy and South Africa.
2 files; Fragile..

Jul 1902-Jul 1903

165

"The Life of Joseph Chamberlain": letters to Chamberlain. Letters to Joseph Chamberlain and used by LSA, from correspondents including: Michael Davitt on the Nationalist view of a proposed visit by Chamberlain to Ireland and misrepresentation of his own view of the Irish political situation and Irish Home Rule (5); Ernest Pretyman.
1 file; Fragile..

Jun 1885-Aug 1903

166

"The Life of Joseph Chamberlain", Volume III. Set of printed maps for correction: West Africa, 1898; Fashoda and after [later Kodok, Sudan]; the Boer War.
1 file.

Aug 1934-Sep 1934

167

"The Life of Joseph Chamberlain". Advice by LSA to Julian Amery on his biography of Joseph Chamberlain, particularly on Free Trade.
1 file.

May 1952