Janus: The Dilke-Crawford-Roskill Papers

Churchill/REND contains:
1	Charles Wentworth Dilke I and his wife: correspondence
2	William W Dilke of Chichester [West Sussex] (brother of Charles Wentworth Dilke).
3	Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke (son of Charles Wentworth Dilke)
4	Sir Charles Dilke II (son of Charles W Dilke I)
5	Papers concerning John Keats including correspondence of Charles Wentworth Dilke and Sir Charles Dilke (2nd Bart)
6	Ashton Wentworth Dilke (son of Sir Charles W Dilke I)
7	Maye Eustace Smith (married Ashton Dilke then William Russell Cooke)
8	Sybil Dilke (married John Roskill)
9	Dilke: Miscellaneous correspondence
10	Dilke family history
11	Various correspondence
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The Dilke-Crawford-Roskill Papers

Title	Ashton Wentworth Dilke (son of Sir Charles W Dilke I)
Reference	REND 6
Covering Dates	1858–1977

Churchill/REND 6 contains:

AWD and his brother Charles: correspondence (37 pages, heavily mutilated). AWD to CWD I (l letter in French). AWD to CWD II (2 letters in French).
1 file.

1860–1882

AWD to Mrs Chatfield from Trinity Hall, Cambridge.
23 pages.

1869–1870

3-6/9

Letters by AWD to his grandmother, Mrs Chatfield, and his brother, Charles Dilke.

1869–1883

Letters to AWD. Correspondents include: J Arnaud, Chambre des Deputés, Paris; E A Beck, fellow of Trinity Hall, Cambridge, and Tutor to AWD; Charles Bradlaugh; E G Brewer; J Bryce re the Election and Parliament; Joseph Chamberlain re 'The Examiner'; Joseph Cowen, MP on The Irish Land Bill, Parnell, County Suffrage, Redistribution; Joseph Cowen re Newcastle election; G M Crawford, Paris re Gambetta; Jule Ferry; L Hartmann; Henry Dickens; Lord Edward Fitzmaurice re Ireland; Fun (magazine); A Glover; Richard Grosvenor; Ethelberta Harrison; Helen M Harrison; Sidney G Holland; . W W Knollys; Alex Macmillan; Jindrich Maly; John Morley including draft replies re 'The Examiner', Joseph Cowen and AWD's resignation; A Fletcher Moulton; Vojta Naprvstek; The Revd J J Raymond; Lord Rosebery; Horace Rumbold; George Shee; J C Swann; and H D Wane.
1 file.

1868–1898

Letters from Russians. Correspondents include: 'Anton', Paris, re L Hartmann; A Drashuzov, Yalta and Moscow; Ladislas Dzwigalski, London; Vladimir Gaiers, Brighton; L Hartmann, London; Kavalevsky; B Lavrova, Paris. re L Hartmann; German Lopatin, Paris and London; P Makarov, London; N Petrovsky; Josef Trotho; Ivan Turgeniev, Paris re AWD's translation of Virgin Soil and comments on novels by Dostoevsky, Tolstoy and others worth translating, also a press cutting review of AWD's translation of Virgin Soil; Ivan Vernadsky, Kharkov; 2 essays (in English) on Russian absolutism and the condition of the working classes; authors evidently Russian, but unknown.

1872–1886

Letters by AWD. To T Lewis Farley, E J Francis and Mrs Lynn Linton.

1875–1880

Letters of introduction and passports.

1871–1874

2 packets of AWD's hair; flowers from his grave; miscellaneous verses; miscellany re election as MP for Newcastle-on-Tyne and resignation (poll card, etc); verses; Map, 'Environs d'Alger';1 page from a manuscript essay apparently by AWD on capitalism, communism and Russia; articles.

1874–1883

The New Zealand Slavonic Journal 1977, Vol 1, article re Ashton Dilke (Ed Professor Waddington).

1977

Extract from Obituary Notice on A W Dilke from The Times.

13 Mar 1883

Manuscript by AWD on House of Commons paper [answering criticisms of his actions and possibly his speeches on various Parliamentary Bills]; also manuscript "Presentation of London Cabinet Measures".

Incomplete manuscript by AWD [possibly part of unfinished work "Russian Power"] or intended as separate article. Describes Bratski Monastery at Kiev.

"The Imperial Idea in Christianity". Incomplete manuscript by AWD.

Printed pamphlets. 1. Pamphlet in Russian, published in London 1858, "The Russian people and Socialism". 2. Pamphlet in Russian, published 1872, subject not identified. 3. Booklet in Russian, published 1874, subject not identified. 4. Booklet in Russian, published 1875, subject not identified. 5. Pamphlet "Russia and England in Central Asia, a Problem". Author and date unknown. 6. Fragment of article "Local Government among Different Nations", pages 315-20. 7. Article "A Visit to Shamyil's country in the Autumn of 1870" by Edwin Ransom, from Fraser's Magazine Jan 1873.

1858–1875

Russian newspaper cuttings. Kept by AWD.

1874–1875

Russian newspaper cuttings.

1874–1875

Pamphlets. "The Radical Club Rules". "The Imperial Parliament Series" (Ed Sydney Buxton). Equivalents of British and Russian weights and measures in AWD's hand.

Lithographs of Russian people and places. Probably intended as illustrations for AWD's book "Russian Power" or for a travel book by him.

25-6/28

"Russian Power".

1870–1875