Jack Lawson was born in Whitehaven on 16 October 1881, but moved to Co. Durham at the age of nine. He left school aged 12 to work in the pits, beginning as a trapper at Boldon Colliery. After a short period at Ruskin College, Oxford, in his
twenties, he returned to the pits and came increasingly to prominence as a miners' leader. In 1919 he was elected to Parliament. He was Labour MP for Chester-le-Street 1919-1949, was in the first Labour government, 1924, as Financial Secretary to
the War Office, again held junior ministerial office from 1929-1931 as Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Labour, Margaret Bondfield, and was Secretary of State for War between August 1945 and October 1946, and lord lieutenant of Co. Durham
1949-1958. His died on 3 August 1965. He published several books, including
(London, 1932), an autobiography of his early life, and numerous articles, partly supporting himself during his parliamentary
career and afterwards by his journalism. He was created Baron Lawson in 1950.
The Lawson Papers contain: a variety of correspondence concerning Jack Lawson's public and personal life; diaries, scrapbooks and journals, including several detailed accounts of travels abroad on official missions; his political journalism;
literary works, including continuations of the autobiography
; drafts of publications, speeches, and broadcasts; and sermon notes. The collection also contains newspaper cuttings and photographs. However,
little of significance is present from Lawson's periods of ministerial office.
The papers were donated to Durham University Library by: Hon. Mrs Irene Lawson in two accessions, Misc.1992/93:2 and Misc.1994/95:7; Mrs Ruth Ross, Misc.2016/17:91 and Misc.2019/20:81.
Open for consultation. Access to a few items will be limited under the terms of the UK Data Protection Act 1998.
Permission to make any published use of material from the collection must be sought in advance from the Sub-Librarian, Special Collections (e-mail PG.Library@durham.ac.uk) and, where appropriate, from the copyright owner. The Library will assist
where possible with identifying copyright owners, but responsibility for ensuring copyright clearance rests with the user of the material.
Access to the collection was formerly through the use of two box lists, now superseded.
Copy birth and death certificates of Clive Lawson, Add.MS.1923.
British Library
Letters to Albert Mansbridge, Add MS 65253.
Durham County Record Office
Debate on Trades Unions, in
, (1934): Headlam family of Holywell, D/He 116.
Publications, and public reception of, (1932, 1945): Miscellaneous Documents, D/X 94/156, D/X 1543/333.
Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College, London
Papers of Sir Arthur Wynne Morgan Bryant (1899-1985), D/4: letters from JJL to Bryant, early 1940s.
J. Lawson,
, (Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1932).
J. Lawson,
, (Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1934).
J. Lawson,
, (Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1936).
J. Lawson,
, (Labour Publications Department, London, 1939).
J. Lawson,
, (Methuen & Co., London, 1941).
J. Lawson,
CorrespondenceDates of creation: 1914-1965
Extent: 2 boxes
LAW 1/1/1 10 February 1914
Letter from J. Turnbull, solicitor, Market Place, Durham, to JJL, 6 Twizell Lane, West Pelton, Co Durham: encloses the umpire Turnbull's award concerning Twizell Colliery, [not present].Note: for another award concerning Twizell Colliery, dated 5 March 1897, see
LAW 1/2/4.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/2 13 February 1914
Letter from J. Turnbull, solicitor, to JJL: clarifying detail of Twizell award; copy letter sent to Mr F.O. Kirkup.
Paper 2f
LAW 1/1/3 17 February 1914
Letter from Thomas Trotter, [Joint Committee], Miners' Association, 16 North Road, Durham, to JJL: concerning a clause in [an unidentified award], and the unlikelihood of securing payment of “winning price in cases where
the wall has gone beyond the ordinary pillar distance”.
Paper 2f
LAW 1/1/4 25 January 1915
Letter, with enclosure, from R. Donald Bain, [Aykley-heads], Durham, to JJL: umpire in the Harton arbitration case; encloses award (see
LAW 1/2/6).
Paper 1f; 3f
LAW 1/1/5 24 January 1916
Letter, with enclosure, from Norman Nisbet, Harperley Hall, Tantobie S.O., Co Durham, to JJL, 21 Sion Hill, Clifton, Bristol: making a correction to the enclosed Ouston Winning award, and submitting the same for JJL's signature, (see
LAW 1/2/8).
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/6 [?1917]
Letter from C. Howe: provides prices agreed upon for mechanical coal cutting (flitters, coal cutters, drillers, coal fillers), with advice on negotiations. Endorsed with pencil sketch of a mechanical cutter/conveyor.[Note: a date of 1917 is suggested by
LAW 1/1/7].
Paper 2f
LAW 1/1/7 4 August 1917
Letter from Thomas Carr, Miners' secretary, Chopwell Lodge, to JJL: concerning conveyor agreement; encloses book, [not present].Note: for another agreement concerning mechanical coal cutting, see
LAW 1/1/6.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/8 5 November 1919
Letter from Robert Smillie, 29 Miller Street, Larkhall, to JJL, c/o Jack Gilliland, 16 Fife Avenue, Chester-le-Street: illness prevents personal role at Chester-le-Street election campaign; outline of an election address, to the workers, the
electors, and to the mothers, supporting JJL's candidacy. See also,
LAW 1/2/23A.
Paper 4f
LAW 1/1/9-59 26 November - 27 December 1919
Congratulatory letters and messages upon JJL's election as MP for Chester-le-Street. Items are listed chronologically, and then alphabetically; noting the correspondent's name and address, and the extent of each item; other noteworthy content is
also described.
Paper 62f
LAW 1/1/9 26 November 1919
Bart, [Ruskin College], Oxford.
1f
LAW 1/1/10 26 November 1919
[T. H.] Cann, Durham T., [General Secretary of the Durham Miners' Association].
1f
LAW 1/1/11 26 November 1919
Diamond, Royal Automobile Club.
1f
LAW 1/1/12 26 November 1919
Gray, East Boldon: JJL's old school.
1f
LAW 1/1/13 26 November 1919
Arthur Henderson, Jim Middleton, Egerton Wake, Marion Phillips, Ted Gill, Herbert Tracey, Will Henderson and all party staff, Cambridge Street.
1f
LAW 1/1/14 26 November 1919
Hodges, Southampton Row, London: sitting in London today.
1f
LAW 1/1/15 26 November 1919
Peter Lee, chairman, and vice-chairman Durham County Council, Southampton Row, [London].
1f
LAW 1/1/16 26 November 1919
Lindsay, Labour party, House of Commons: coal debate.
1f
LAW 1/1/17 26 November 1919
Alf Lowerson, Fence Houses.
1f
LAW 1/1/18 26 November 1919
[Egerton] Wake, Cambridge Street.
1f
LAW 1/1/19 26 November 1919
Weir, Northumberland Miners' Council, Newcastle upon Tyne.
1f
LAW 1/1/20 27 November 1919
J. Addison, Greenside.
1f
LAW 1/1/21 27 November 1919
Gomm, Oxford.
1f
LAW 1/1/22 27 November 1919
Kelly family, Stanley, Durham.
1f
LAW 1/1/23 27 November 1919
R. Lawson, Dawdon, Seaham Harbour.
1f
LAW 1/1/24 27 November 1919
Alice Lee, Wheatley Hill.
1f
LAW 1/1/25 27 November 1919
Steward, Tynedock.
1f
LAW 1/1/26 27 November 1919
Chairman of Woodford Labour party, Liverpool Street.
1f
LAW 1/1/27 27 November 1919
Dawdon Lodge, Seaham Harbour.
1f
LAW 1/1/28 26 November 1919
John Armstrong, checkweighman, Cambois Colliery, 3 Bridge Street West, Cambois, Blyth, Northumberland: a 1909 alumnus of Ruskin College.
2f
LAW 1/1/29 26 November 1919
William Bainbridge, 68 Croft Avenue, South Shields.
2f
LAW 1/1/30 26 November 1919
Mr and Mrs T. W. Bell, 8 Struan Terrace, East Boldon: “Joe & Mrs Armstrong join with me in a wireless of congratulation around the tea table at 3.50 pm”.
2f
LAW 1/1/31 26 November 1919
Saul Cullum, treasurer, Mainsforth Lodge, Durham Mining Association, Ferryhill.
1f
LAW 1/1/32 26 November 1919
George Davison, 170 Hornsey Lane, London.
1f
LAW 1/1/33 26 November 1919
W. How, Pelton Fell Workmen's Club Society Ltd, Glenside Terrace, Pelton Fell.
1f
LAW 1/1/34 26 November 1919
Ted Hutchinson, secretary, Felling Brotherhood, 13 Rowlandson Terrace, Felling: illness of JJL's friend Mr Rule; proposes speaking engagement.
1f
LAW 1/1/35 26 November 1919
Robert Richardson, House of Commons.
1f
LAW 1/1/36 26 November 1919
J. W. Taylor, Durham Colliery Mechanics' Association, Central Office, 3 Tenter Terrace, Durham.
1f
LAW 1/1/37 27 November 1919
G.J.S. Bott, 22 High Street, Ripley, Derbyshire: war veteran, served with JJL; old colonel, Henry Bentinck; “the attitude of the employer is going back to the old pre-war standard, if anything it is more
aggressive”.
2f
LAW 1/1/38 27 November 1919
Ben Dodd, general secretary and agent, The Labour Party Darlington Branch, Post Office Chambers, Northgate, Darlington.
1f
LAW 1/1/39 27 November 1919
J. Errington, Friendly Society, Northumberland & Durham Miners' Permanent Relief Fund, 5 Queen's Square, Newcastle on Tyne: recalls stoppages at Boldon Colliery.
1f
LAW 1/1/40 27 November 1919
B.A. Gilmore, 4 Ardenvohr Street, Belfast.
1f
LAW 1/1/41 27 November 1919
George Green, Miners' secretary, Philadelphia Lodge, Durham Miners' Association, Newbottle Fence Houses.
1f
LAW 1/1/42 27 November 1919
Ben Jackson, Council School Mixed, Dunston-on-Tyne: JJL's dispatch runner and typist during the Easington contest.
2f
LAW 1/1/43 27 November 1919
Lina [Laird], 7 Moore Avenue, Dunston on Tyne: quoting Burns' [ “Earnest cry and prayer ” to the Scotch Representatives], “In gath'ring votes...”.
1f
LAW 1/1/44 27 November 1919
J.A. Mills, Durham County Asylum, Winterton, Ferryhill.
1f
LAW 1/1/45 27 November 1919
The National Union of General Workers, Northern District, Unity Chambers, Atheneum Street, Sunderland.
1f
LAW 1/1/46 27 November 1919
J.A.L. Robson, 6 Victoria Terrace, Durham.
2f
LAW 1/1/47 27 November 1919
Henry Soones, honorary secretary, Wallsend and District Labour Party, 13 Burn Avenue, Wallsend-on-Tyne.
1f
LAW 1/1/48 27 November 1919
John Storey, insurance agent, Insurance Department, Northumberland & Durham Miners' Permanent Relief Fund, 6 Queen's Square, Newcastle on Tyne.
1f
LAW 1/1/49 27 November 1919
John Sutherland, Boldon Colliery.
2f
LAW 1/1/50 28 November 1919
J.G. Dunkerton, Hawthorn Bank, 4 St James' Road, Carlisle.
2f
LAW 1/1/51 28 November 1919
Dick Lawson, Dawdon Lodge, Durham Miners' Association, Dawdon, Seaham Harbour.
1f
LAW 1/1/52 28 November 1919
Ralph Smith, secretary, Sailors and Soldiers Club, Middle Chare, Chester-le-Street: on behalf of local members of the National Federation of Discharged and Demobilized Sailors and Soldiers.
2f
LAW 1/1/53 29 November 1919
J. Hinde, 3 Gladstone Terrace, Boldon Fell.
1f
LAW 1/1/54 29 November 1919
W.P. Richardson, Durham Miners' Association, Red Hill, Durham.
1f
LAW 1/1/55 29 November 1919
M.F. Walsh, No. 254992, Chape[l]town Barracks, R.F.A., Leeds: encloses cuttings from
Daily Mirror and Yorkshire Evening Post, [not present]; JJL taken his seat in the Commons; awaiting transit to India; Irish Home Rule.
1f
LAW 1/1/56 6 December 1919
Rev Walter H. Armstrong, Wesley's Chapel, 49 City Road, London.
1f
LAW 1/1/57 18 December 1919
John Barker, financial secretary, Cumberland Miners' Association, Miners' Offices, John Street, Workington: on behalf of Old St Helens and Siddick Lodges.
1f
LAW 1/1/58 15 December 1919
J. Gibson, secretary, Hanley House, Chester-le-Street: Chester-le-Street Methodist Circuit; also congratulating JJL on becoming an alderman of Durham County Council.
2f
LAW 1/1/59 27 December 1919
M.R. Roberts, 196 Charles Street, Boldon Colliery.
2f
LAW 1/1/60 26 January 1923
Letter from William Hogg, Burt Hall, Newcastle upon Tyne, to JJL: offers thanks on behalf of governors of Aged Miners Homes Association for JJL's waiving of his lecture fee.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/61 1 July 1923
Postcard from J.D. Robinson, 10 Oxborne Road, Chester-le-Street, to JJL, House of Commons: commends JJL's speech on pensions, reported in the Chester-le-Street
Chronicle.
Paper 1 postcard
LAW 1/1/62 10 August 1923
Letter from W. Gavazzi King, Entertainment Tax Committee, Broadmead House, Panton Street, Haymarket, London, to JJL, House of Commons: offers thanks for JJL having joined the, defeated, vote to abolish Entertainment Duty, fulfilling an election
pledge.
Paper 2f
LAW 1/1/63 14 August 1923
Lieutenant-Colonel A. Pownall, Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Postmaster General, General Post Office, London, to JJL: opening hours of Birtley Sub Post Office.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/64 12 September 1923
Letter from R. Hobson, clerk, Birtley Parish Council, 6 Gladstone Terrace, Birtley, Co. Durham, to JJL: offers thanks to JJL for restoring the midday opening hour at Birtley [Sub] Post Office.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/65 21 July 1924
Letter from Joseph William Walker, honorary secretary, Coundon Grange, Eldon and St Andrews Branch of the Bishop Auckland Labour Party, 19 Paddy's Row, Eldon Lane, Bishop Auckland, to JJL, House of Commons: requests JJL convey the branch's thanks
to John Dawson MP for a “fighting” speech made at Eldon Lane Club Hall.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/66 21 November 1924
Letter from T. Wams, Gordon House, Cockfield, to JJL: suggesting JJL's candidacy for the Teesdale Division of the County Council.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/67 18 March 1925
Letter from D.B. Lawley, organizer, The National League of the Blind of Great Britain and Ireland, 5 Infirmary Road, Blackburn, to JJL: offers thanks for JJL's attendance at a Shrewsbury meeting; requests JJL relinquish his adoption of Lowestoft
Division, and adopt Shrewsbury in its place.
Paper 2f
LAW 1/1/68 17 April 1925
Letter from J.R. Carr, clerk, Urban District Council of Washington, Council Chambers, New Washington, Co. Durham, to JJL, House of Commons: offers thanks for JJL's aid to a council deputation's negotiations with the Ministry of Health and the
Public Works Loans Board.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/69 20 June 1925
Letter from T. Parkinson, Russell House, Waterhouses, Co. Durham, to JJL: commends JJL's speech on the Finance Bill, printed in this day's
Durham Chronicle; compares newspaper pictures of Ascot [races] with Durham mining villages; four hundred men and boys at Waterhouses Colliery given 14-days notice.
Paper 3f
LAW 1/1/70 25 June 1925
Letter from Maggie M. Dollar, 9 Derby Buildings, Kings Cross, London, to JJL: offers thanks of the South East St Pancras Labour Party Women's Section for a tour of the House of Commons.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/71 28 June 1925
Letter from M. Ellen Wilson, secretary, Banbury Local Labour Party Women's Section, Tracey House, Bath Road, Banbury, to JJL: offers thanks to JJL for a tour of the House of Commons; Miss E. Wilkinson.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/72 7 July 1925
Letter from Mrs Elizabeth Flack, 3 Falshaw Street, Washington Station, Co Durham, to JJL: offers thanks re London race-week visit.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/73 8 August 1925
Letter from Harold Jevons, clerk, Durham County Council, Shire Hall, Durham, to JJL, Twizell Lane, West Pelton, Beamish, Co Durham: Ministry of Agriculture's land drainage schemes for the relief of unemployment to be continued this year, as
previous four years; conditions to be circulated.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/74 9 December 1925
Letter from J. Robertshaw, president, and W. Adamson, secretary, Langley Park Lodge, Durham Miners' Association, Langley Park Colliery, near Durham, to JJL: offers thanks to JJL for his support; Association to test the Lodge's evidence concerning
an appeal that had formerly been turned down by the Court of Referees.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/75 3 January 1926
Letter from Cuthbert Headlam, Holywell, Durham, to JJL: Langley Park [appeal] case hearing on 13 January.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/76 4 January 1926
Typescript circular from W. P. Smith, 24 ½ Durham Road, Birtley, to JJL: solicits JJL's assistance in establishing a court of enquiry concerning the inadequate qualifications of marine wireless operators, citing the Board of Trade relaxation of
the Wireless Telegraphy Act 1919 and incidents concerning the ships “Coronado” and “Aguila”.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/77 8 January 1926
Letter from L. G. Scorgie, deputy controller, H.M. Stationary Office, Princes Street, Westminster, to JJL:
Land settlement in England and Wales, 1919-1924, and Report of the Chief Registrar (Part IV) on Trade Unions, dispatched; refers JJL to Oversea Settlement Department concerning emigration
under a scheme for reduced fares.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/78 11 January 1926
Letter from A. Errington, secretary, Federation of Women's Sections, Chester-le-Street Divisional Labour Party, 100 Pitfield Street, Sacriston, to JJL: offers thanks for JJL's assistance.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/79-82 4 February - 25 March 1926
Petition of Birtley Unemployed Organisation concerning a refused grant application for street improvements [as an unemployed worker scheme], with subsequent correspondence from T.S. Chegwidden on behalf of Sir Arthur Steel-Maitland [Minister of
Labour], Chester-le-Street Rural District Council, and Birtley Unemployed Organisation. The petition bears the receipt stamp of the Ministry of Works. See also
LAW 2/7/2/37.
Paper 4f
LAW 1/1/83-84 11 and 26 February 1926
Letters from Joseph Currey, 6 Alexandra Terrace, Sunniside, Co. Durham, to JJL: requests the men and boys of suspended Marley Hill coal mine might not be compelled to visit Dunston on Tyne Labour Exchange three times per week, complaining of the
distance; with reference to a Ministry of Labour circular making certain concessions.
Paper 1f; 1f
LAW 1/1/85 3 March 1926
Letter from Norman Riddell, 15 Clifford Street, Chester-le-Street, to JJL: offers thanks for copy of Hansard.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/86 13 April 1926
Letter from A. Saunders, chairman of the Meeting and president of the National Conference of Friendly Societies, to JJL, House of Commons: offering the thanks of a list of Associations of Approved Societies for JJL's support concerning the
Economy (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/87 9 June 1926
Letter from Robert Hudson, clerk, Birtley Parish Council, to JJL, House of Commons: offers thanks to JJL for his action concerning the batoning of pickets in Birtley township.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/88 10 June 1926
Letter from Syd Lavers, Miners' secretary, Black Horse Lodge Birtley, Durham Miners' Association, to JJL: reporting progress concerning the purchase of four acres of land for Birtley Miners' Welfare Scheme; interview with Mr Endicott.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/89 18 July 1926
Letter from Norman Riddell, 15 Clifford Street, Chester-le-Street, to JJL: commending JJL's unparliamentary behaviour in his defence of the workers' standard of life and also his refusal, at Ramsay MacDonald's request, to apologise to the
Speaker, as reported in the
Sunday Worker.
Paper 2f
LAW 1/1/90 22 July 1926
Letter from Andrew Linn Nelden, The Englewood Sanitarium Inc., Lynwood Lodge, West Englewood, New Jersey, USA, to JJL, House of Commons: offers thanks for JJL having given the writer's daughter a tour of the House of Commons.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/91 4 August 1926
Letter from George A. Bate, secretary, Waldridge Lodge, Durham Miners' Association, 2 Byron Cottages, Edmondsley, Co Durham, to JJL: offers thanks for JJL's work concerning extended [unemployment] benefit.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/92 9 August 1926
Letter from Robert Hobson, clerk, Birtley Parish Council, 6 Gladstone Terrace, Birtley, Co. Durham, to JJL: [alternative] access road to cemetery; thanking JJL for his interest.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/93 29 August 1926
Letter from George A. Bate, secretary, Waldridge Lodge, Durham Miners' Association, 2 Byron Cottages, Edmondsley, Co. Durham, to JJL: thanking JJL for his successful representation of their cases.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/94 31 August 1926
Letter from R.V. Dickinson, clerk, Chester-le-Street Union, Union Offices, Chester-le-Street, to JJL: acknowledging receipt of the Board of Guardians (Default) Act, 1926.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/95-97 15 September 1926
Letter from Robert Hobson, clerk, Birtley Parish Council, 6 Gladstone Terrace, Birtley, Co. Durham, to JJL, House of Commons: requesting JJL's aid in establishing a speed limit through Birtley, enclosing:
Paper 2f; 1f; 1f; stamped envelope
LAW 1/1/96 15 September 1926
Copy letter from Durham County Council to Hobson declining to move on the matter.
LAW 1/1/97 15 September 1926
Durham County Constabulary statistical report of road deaths and injuries at Birtley 1924-1926.
LAW 1/1/98 7 October 1926
Letter from Harold Jevons, clerk, Durham County Council, Shire Hall, Durham, to JJL: JJL's letter concerning speed limits to be submitted to the County Works Committee; reiterating and providing grounds for past decisions not to impose such
limits in the county.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/99-103 26 November - 20 December 1926
Correspondence from William A. Horn, fuel officer, [Coal Control Committee], Chester-le-Street Rural District Council, Union Offices, Chester-le-Street, to JJL, House of Commons and Woodside, Beamish: concerning proceedings instituted by the
District Council under the Coal (Emergency) Directions, and the Home Office's remission of certain fines; noting JJL's remarks in the House of Commons on the subject; and requesting the Home Office reconsider the decision; includes copy
correspondence to Horn from the Director of Public Prosecutions and the Home Office.Note: see also
LAW 1/3.
Paper 5f
LAW 1/1/104 30 November 1926
Letter from Ernest J. G. Lockyear, Carlingford Villas, Radstock, to JJL, House of Commons: thanking JJL for his visit and complimenting his “discourses on Sunday”.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/105 1 December 1926
Letter from J. Jackson Bell, St Matthews Vicarage, Salmon Lane, Stepney, to JJL: offers thanks for a tour of the House of Commons, and commenting upon the House's welcome [upon the return] of [Joseph] Kenworth of [Central] Hull.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/106 8 December 1926
Letter from Charles Robinson, Miners' Secretary, Vale Pit Lodge, Durham Miners' Association, Springwell, via Gateshead, to JJL, House of Commons: listing “severity, indeed savagery” of management policies of John
Bowes & Partners Ltd, owners of Vale Pit, [in the aftermath of the strike]: no priority for former employees over outsiders; Local Agreements and unemployed lodge officials not recognised; “the colliery agent brutally
told a Lodge deputation that their side “had won”, & that the miners were “up against a brick wall””; “[w]e are beaten to the dust, & they mean
to plant their feet on our necks”.
Paper 1f
Temporarily unavailable for consultation in our Search Room. On exhibition in the Penned & Printed gallery at Palace Green Library until May 2025.
LAW 1/1/107 12 December 1926
Letter from William Kay, secretary, Harraton Lodge, Durham Miners' Association, Fatfield, Washington, Co. Durham, to JJL, House of Commons: offers thanks to JJL for his prompt action concerning [Harraton Colliery] management policy not to employ
ex-service men, the policy now withdrawn; Silksworth Colliery, pursuing a similar policy, being addressed by R. Richardson, MP.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/108 28 January 1927
Letter from P.J. Blundun, Ministry of Labour, Montagu House, Whitehall, to JJL: reporting action of the Ministries of Health and Labour, the [Labour] Exchange and the Poor Law Authorities to correct a benefit payments deficiency brought to the
writer's attention via JJL; the problem having arisen “with the provision for the repayment to Poor Law Authorities out of unemployment benefit of excess relief”.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/109 31 January 1927
Letter from William Johnson, Trench Hall, Ravensworth, Gateshead, to JJL: reporting Lord Ravensworth will now lease a site at Kibblesworth; valuation and report of whole Ravensworth Estate an immediate priority; Ravensworth to travel abroad. [See
also
LAW 1/1/111].
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/110 1 February 1927
Letter from John H. Mole, Sanitary Surveyor etc., Chester-le-Street Rural District Council, to JJL, Beamish: revision of building byelaws, and JJL's efforts on the council's behalf.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/111 2 February 1927
Letter from Dave, The Green, Kibblesworth, to JJL: returns Ravensworth's letter [?
LAW 1/1/109]; offers thanks for JJL's support in obtaining land for Lodge.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/112 14 March 1927
Letter from R.V. Dickinson, clerk, Chester-le-Street Rural District Council, to JJL, House of Commons: revision of Byelaws, Streets & Buildings; thanking JJL for his aid in the retention of certain clauses.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/113 4 April 1927
Letter from Joseph Cape, corresponding secretary, Craghead Lodge, Durham Miners' Association, 1 Pemberton Terrace South, Craghead, Co. Durham, to JJL: offers thanks re unemployment pay.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/114 5 April 1927
Letter from Miles Hardy, 26 Manor View, New Washington, Co. Durham, to JJL: requesting tour of House of Commons for Mrs and Miss Brandon, wife and daughter of a master blacksmith at Washington [Glebe] colliery; thanking JJL
“for the fight you put up for the Guardians”.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/115 16 May 1927
Letter from Joseph P. Corm, secretary, Chester-le-Street and District Licensed Victuallers Association, Butchers Arms, Chester-le-Street, to JJL: lobbying for licence tax reform, and removal of restricted hours for the sale of tobacco
products.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/116 postmarked 23 June 1927
Postcard from [?James Ramsay MacDonald], The Hillocks, Lossiemouth, to JJL: thanking JJL for his news; returning [to London] on pressing business; “you did right with the letter”.
Paper 1 postcard
LAW 1/1/117 11 July 1927
Letter from Syd Lavers, secretary, Pelaw Main and Ravensworth Collieries Local Federation Board, Durham Miners' Association, 1 New South Terrace, Birtley, to JJL, House of Commons: offers thanks to JJL for his efforts at the Ministry of Labour
for the Lodge's members.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/118 25 July 1927
Letter from Horace Plunkett, The Horace Plunkett Foundation, 10 Doughty Street, London, to JJL, House of Commons: visit to Kibblesworth Colliery; political aspect of management; Mr Strong; “I have never known the
position more difficult than it has been since the disastrous conflict of last year”.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/119 30 September 1927
Letter from Syd Lavers, secretary, Pelaw Main and Ravensworth Collieries Local Federation Board, Durham Miners' Association, 16 Pine Street, Birtley, to JJL, Beamish: offers thanks to JJL for his efforts for the Lodge's friends at Bewick Main in
their claim for unemployment benefit.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/120 19 January 1928
Letter, with additional note, from R. Richardson, general secretary, Birtley British Legion, Assembly Rooms, Birtley, Co. Durham, to JJL, Woodside, Beamish: offers thanks for JJL's assistance for ex-servicemen; additional note reporting on the
success of the Legion's annual meeting; trainees question.
Paper 1f; 1f
LAW 1/1/121 7 July 1928
Letter from Alex MacKenzie, deputy chief constable of Argyll, Lochgilphead, to JJL, House of Commons: offers thanks for a tour of the House of Commons.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/122 27 November 1928
Letter from M. Jordan, The Anchorage, Washington Station, Co. Durham, to JJL, House of Commons: offers thanks for JJL's support concerning Geedan Automatic Safety Stop patent.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/123 1 February 1929
Letter from H.M. Office of Works, Storey's Gate, Westminster, to JJL, House of Commons: acknowledging receipt of correspondence between Chester-le-Street Rural District Council and JJL.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/124-125 13 February 1929
Letter, with enclosure, from John M. Mole, Highways and Sanitary Surveyor, Chester-le-Street Rural District Council, to JJL, House of Commons: making up of a street at Birtley housing estate, property of H.M. Office of Works; returns letter from
Office of Works.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/125 7 February 1929
Letter from [Charles Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 7th marquess of] Londonderry, H.M. Office of Works, to JJL, House of Commons: delay to works caused by a change of plan concerning sewerage.
Paper 2f
LAW 1/1/126 [May 1929]
Letter from a “Labourite to the End”, Ouston, Co. Durham, to JJL: lyrics of an election song in support of JJL, “March along Jack Lawson, march along”.[Note: “another four years of misery”, the 1924-1929 Conservative Government inferred.]
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/127 Friday [1930s]
Letter from [Viscountess] Dorothy Downe, Hillington Hall, King's Lynn, to JJL: four sets of girls' clothing, made by Girl Guides at the instruction of cousin Miss [Honor] Elwes for the unemployed, directed by the writer to Northern miners.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/128 16 January 1931
Letter from Thomas Shaw, [chairman], Imperial War Graves Commission, 3 Sanctuary Buildings, Great Smith Street, London, to JJL: invitation to JJL to become an ““unofficial”” member
of the Imperial War Graves Commission, following the death of Harry Gosling; with a tribute to Gosling's unifying role on the Commission.
Paper 2f
LAW 1/1/129-130 17 January 1931
Copy letter, with duplicate, from E.A. Hitchman, to the private secretary to the Secretary of State for War: acknowledging receipt of
LAW 1/1/128.
Paper 1f; 1f
LAW 1/1/131 20 January 1931
Letter from Sir Fabian Ware, [vice-chairman], Imperial War Graves Commission, 82 Baker Street, London, to JJL, Ministry of Labour: hopes JJL will accept appointment; encouraging involvement of Mr Charleton and Mr Ammon in arrangements for another
parliamentary group's visit [to the continent], which JJL might accompany; departure to India; prospect of an interesting year ahead in France and Belgium.
Paper 2f
LAW 1/1/132 21 January 1931
Copy letter from JJL to Thomas Shaw, Secretary of State [for War], [chairman], Imperial War Graves Commission, 3 Sanctuary Buildings, Great Smith Street, London: acceptance of appointment to the I.W.G.C..
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/133-134 21 January 1931
Copy letter, with duplicate, from JJL to Sir Fabian Ware, [vice-chairman], Imperial War Graves Commission, 82 Baker Street, London: notifying Ware of his acceptance, and of his intention to join the parliamentary group on its visit in the Spring
or Summer.
Paper 1f; 1f
LAW 1/1/135 22 January 1931
Letter from H.J.B. Clough, private secretary [of the Secretary of State for War], War Office, to JJL: acknowledging receipt of
LAW 1/1/132.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/136 23 January 1931
Letter from Captain E.J. King, personal assistant to the vice-chairman, Imperial War Graves Commission, 3 Sanctuary Buildings, Great Smith Street, London, to JJL, Ministry of Labour: notification that a royal warrant has been applied for.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/137 9 March 1931
Letter from Captain E.J. King, personal assistant to the vice-chairman, Imperial War Graves Commission, 3 Sanctuary Buildings, Great Smith Street, London, to JJL, Ministry of Labour: notification of receipt of a royal warrant for JJL's
appointment, and invitation to attend a meeting of the Commission on 15 April.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/138 10 March 1931
Copy letter from JJL to Captain E.J. King, [personal assistant to the vice-chairman], Imperial War Graves Commission, 3 Sanctuary Buildings, Great Smith Street, London: looking forward to meeting on 15 April and future work for the
Commission.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/139-141 21 May 1931
Letter from Margaret Bondfield, [Minister of Labour], Ministry of Labour, Montagu House, Whitehall, to JJL, Montagu House: conveying the Prime Minister's strong disagreement with comments of the director of the International Labour Office,
published in a report to the International Labour Conference, concerning UK ratification of the Washington Hours Convention; requesting JJL to convey this personally to the director. To this letter are attached:
Paper 1f; 1f; 1f
LAW 1/1/140 21 May 1931
Letter from Walter M. Citrine, general secretary, Trades Union Congress General Council, Transport House, Smith Square, London, to Margaret Bondfield, [Minister of Labour]: pressing for a date for the second reading of the Hours of Industrial
Employment Bill, citing the Director's Report of the International Labour Office and an earlier indication by the minister and the attorney general to expedite the matter; Geneva conference.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/141 21 May 1931
Letter from Margaret Bondfield, [Minister of Labour], to Walter M. Citrine: re-emphasises commitment of the government to passing the Hours of Industrial Employment Bill as soon as possible, the parliamentary programme providing no opportunities,
however, in this session.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/142A-B 4-5 June 1931
One page from a scrapbook [not present in the collection], to which are pasted a letter and a newspaper cutting relating to a speech made by JJL at the 15th session of the International Labour Conference in Geneva, defending the social reform
programme of the British government and their intention to implement the Washington Eight-Hours Convention.
Paper 2f
LAW 1/1/142A Friday [5 June 1931]
Letter from JJL, Les Bergues, Genève, to Bella Lawson: account of JJL's speech to the conference on Wednesday 3 June, noting reactions of Shinwell, Bondfield, the British delegation, and the press; interminable conference; climbs Mont Blanc on
Sunday.[Note: for
The Times' account of this speech, see Thursday, 4 June 1931, p.14; Issue 45840; col A.]
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/142B [4 June 1931]
Daily News cutting: “Geneva plain speaking. British Ministers' protests”.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/143 8 June 1931
Letter from G.H. Ince, Ministry of Labour, to JJL, Hotel des Bergues, Geneva: relays Prime Minister's commendation of JJL's conference speech and its positive reception in the UK.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/144 24 August 1931
Letter from J. Ramsay MacDonald, Prime Minister, 10 Downing Street, Whitehall: statement of regret at the resignation of the government, explaining the reasons for having taken this course of action.
Paper 2f
LAW 1/1/145 3 September 1931
Letter from C. Pattinson, Legislative Assembly, Edson, Alberta, Canada, to JJL, House of Commons: letter of introduction for Rev W.H. Dickerson, former secretary of the Canadian Labour Party, now settling in England; comments on actions of
MacDonald and Snowden.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/146 6 June 1934
Letter from John Turnbull, British Legion, Chester-le-Street Branch, Station Road, Chester-le-Street, to JJL, House of Commons: reaction to JJL's [declining] his appointment as vice-president of the branch.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/147 1 September 1934
Letter from T.J. Hogarth, Instructional Centre, Ministry of Labour, Employment and Training Department, Kielder, Northumberland, to JJL, Woodside, Beamish: arrangements for JJL's visit, suggesting itinerary includes Kielder, Whickhope Summer
Camp, Redesdale Camp, Carter Bar and Kershopefoot, and a farewell camp concert for a group of men concluding a 3-month course. Endorsed with pencil notes by JJL.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/148 22 October 1934
Letter from F.C. Sillar, Imperial War Graves Commission, 32 Grosvenor Gardens, London, to JJL: visit [to France] a great success; encloses cutting from the
Echo du Nord reprinting a letter from JJL to the mayor of an unidentified [French] town, [not present]; expenses; finance meeting.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/149 2 March 1935
Letter from Charles Splevins, secretary, Bewicke Main Miners' Lodge, 13 Elder Gardens, Eighton Banks, Wrekenton, Gateshead-on-Tyne, to JJL, House of Commons: offering thanks for JJL's spirited resistance to the Unemployment Act 1935; all
unemployed.
Paper 2f
LAW 1/1/150 17 November 1935
Letter from Charlton Curry, Weetwood, Whickham, Newcastle upon Tyne, to JJL: congratulates JJL on his re-election; Curry unseated [?from Bishop Auckland]; thanks JJL for his past help.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/151 10 July 1936
Letter from Geoffrey Fry, [private secretary to the Prime Minister], 10 Downing Street, Whitehall, to JJL, House of Commons: enclosing, at Prime Minister's request, copy of
Ashridge Journal, [not present].
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/152 postmarked 15 July 1936
Postcard from A Weston-super-Mare Admirer, to JJL, House of Commons: supports JJL's “leadership against the means test”; urges local council membership or Labour Party affiliation to disqualify a person from
chairing an appeals tribunal.
Paper 1 postcard
LAW 1/1/153 21 July 1936
Letter from J.W. Sunderland, secretary, Great Harwood and District Weavers, Winders, and Beamers' Association, 8 Town Hall Street, Great Harwood, Blackburn, to Rhys Davi[e]s MP [for Westhoughton], House of Commons: makes case that Unemployment
Assistance Board regulations exacerbate the conditions of cotton weavers, being ordinarily [of late] under-employed. See also,
LAW 1/2/84.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/154 8 October 1936
Letter from F. Tynell, Imperial War Graves Commission , 32 Grosvenor Gardens, London, to JJL, 7 Woodside, Beamish: encloses itinerary of JJL's joint inspection, with G.W. Klerck, of British war cemeteries in France and Belgium, 2-5 October 1936
(see
LAW 1/2/113).
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/155 3 December 1936
Letter from H.F. Chettle, Anglo-German-French Mixed Committee, Imperial War Graves Commission, 32 Grosvenor Gardens, London, to JJL, House of Commons: encloses draft minutes of the committee's first meeting, requesting any amendments (see
LAW 1/2/112).
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/156-158 1 March 1937
Letter, with enclosures, from John C.W. Reith, [director-general], BBC, Broadcasting House, London, to JJL, 7 Woodside, Beamish: short history of the General Advisory Council, decision to reappoint with additional members; invitation that JJL
join the council; encloses list of current members, and extract from a memorandum approved at the last council meeting, outlining its functions.
Paper 1f; 1f; 2f
LAW 1/1/157 [March 1937]
List of 26 members of the General Advisory Council.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/158 [1937]
Extract from Memorandum (G.A.C./57), “On the future of the General Advisory Council”.
Paper 2f
LAW 1/1/159 5 August 1937
Letter from Miss M.J. Scupham, secretary, on behalf of Mr Mason, Foreign Office, to D.C. Biggs: encloses laissez passers [travel documents] for JJL for Greece, Syria and Egypt; Turkish Embassy rarely issue such
documents, but have notified the governor of Canakkale [of JJL's visit].
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/160 22 November 1937
Letter from W. James, chairman, British Legion Club, Ypres Branch, 67 Chaussée de Bruges, Ypres, Belgium, to JJL, House of Commons: congratulates JJL on his promotion to the Opposition front bench; appeal for funds.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/161 26 January 1938
Letter from Leslie Hore-Belisha, [Secretary of State for War], War Office, to JJL: anticipating Army Annual Bill; invitation to JJL to serve on a committee to enquire into a Court of Appeal on decisions of courts-martial, providing terms of
reference, and listing the intended members of the committee.
Paper 2f
LAW 1/1/162 28 January 1938
Letter from C.W. Allan Hodgson, clerk, County Council of Cumberland, The Courts, Carlisle, to W. Whiteley MP, House of Commons: encloses Cumberland County Council memorandum for the Royal Commission on the Geographical Distribution of the
Industrial Population, for distribution among the Northern Group of Members of Parliament, (see
LAW 1/2/135).
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/163 2 March 1938
Circular from T.H. Howard, secretary, North-East Development Board, Northumberland House, Northumberland Street, Newcastle upon Tyne: enclosing Statement of Evidence submitted by the Board to the Royal Commission on the Geographical Distribution
of the Industrial Population, (see
LAW 1/2/136).
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/164 18 March 1938
Letter from H.J. Creedy, War Office, to JJL, House of Commons: notification of JJL's appointment to the Committee on Courts-Martial, citing terms of reference, and membership.Note: Endorsed by JJL with pencil notes for an eulogy for an unidentified person.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/165 15 March 1938
Letter from Leslie Hore-Belisha, [Secretary of State for War], War Office, to JJL: commends JJL's speech on Army Estimates, noting requirement “to catch up the very serious arrears of material and man-power”;
provides answers to points in JJL's speech concerning officer shortage, improvements in conditions of service, standards of accommodation, accounting for increases in expenditure on Territorial Army and Army Reserves, clothing costs, national
security redactions in the bill concerning warlike stores, House oversight of Defence Services spending.
Paper 7f
LAW 1/1/166 19 May 1938
Letter from Imperial War Graves Commission, 32 Grosvenor Gardens, London, to JJL, House of Commons: notification that JJL's report of his tour in the East was circulated on 25 October 1937, and enclosing a copy (see
LAW 1/2/117).
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/167 21 July 1938
Letter from Oliver Holt, Imperial War Graves Commission, 32 Grosvenor Gardens, London, to JJL, House of Commons: enclosing photographs of a parliamentary group's visit to Etaples, a presentation ceremony, and Notre Dame de Lorette, (see
LAW 3/1); notes wide press coverage of the visit.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/168 27 July 1938
Letter from Major W.R.F. Osmond, secretary, War Office, to JJL, House of Commons: encloses draft report for the next day's meeting of the Army and Air Force Courts-Marshal Committee, (see
LAW 1/2/144).
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/169 27 March 1939
Letter from [Sir] John Anderson, Home Office, to JJL: encloses memorandum on Civil Defence Regional Organisation; seeks approval to nominate JJL as Deputy Regional Commissioner for the Northern Region, under Sir Arthur Lambert, in the event of an
emergency, (see
LAW 1/2/153).
Paper 2f
LAW 1/1/170 31 August 1939
Copy letter from JJL to Sir John [Anderson]: accepting appointment as Deputy Regional Commissioner, once a bill is passed sanctioning a sitting MP to do so; JJL declines a salary.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/171 30 September 1939
Letter from [?], Home Office, to JJL: confirming £150 allowance for the salary of JJL's secretary, and payment of expenses not in excess of £500.
Paper 2f
LAW 1/1/172 14 November 1939
Letter from J. Adams, King George's Jubilee Trust, St James's Palace, to JJL, House of Commons: forwarding JJL's (unidentified) enclosure to the National Playing Fields Association; looks forward to meeting JJL “when
this racket is over”.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/173-177 23 December 1939 - 22 January 1940
Correspondence from army servicemen, offering their thanks to Bella Lawson as secretary of the West Pelton Women's Labour Section for Christmas parcels.
Paper 6f; 4 stamped envelopes
LAW 1/1/173 23 December 1939
Lance-Corporal William Martin, C Company, 5th Battalion RTR [Royal Tank Regiment], Harpenden.
Paper 1f, with stamped envelope
LAW 1/1/174 postmarked 23 December 1939
Private W. Jackson, 4457285, 9th [Battalion] Durham Light Infantry, HQ Company Signals, Burt Terrace, Drill Hall, Gateshead.
Paper 1f, with stamped envelope
LAW 1/1/175 [December 1939 x January 1940]
Private Henry Sharp, 7258435, RAMC [Royal Army Medical Corps].
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/176 postmarked 3 January 1940
Private W. Little, 4453225, B Company, 8th Battalion Durham Light Infantry, Chadlington, Oxford.
Paper 2f, with stamped envelope
LAW 1/1/177 22 January 1940
Private T. Robson, 4457324, 9th [Battalion] Durham Light Infantry, HQ Company Signals, Burt Terrace, Drill Hall, Gateshead.
Paper 1f, with stamped envelope
LAW 1/1/178 [January 1940]
Notice of the annual meeting of Pelton Local Labour Party, from H. Theobald, secretary, 7 Mole Terrace, Perkinsville, [Pelton, Chester-le-Street, Co. Durham], with agenda.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/179 19 November 1940
Letter from Thomas S. Blythe, director, Blythe & Sons (Birtley) Ltd, Brick Manufacturers, Birtley Station, Co. Durham, to JJL, House of Commons: offers thanks for JJL's support in the matter of releasing the firm's workmen from the army.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/180 28 November 1940
Letter from Herbert Morrison, Minister of Home Security, to JJL: invitation to JJL to serve on committee to oversee a scheme to supply woollen comforts for Civil Defence Services; committee membership; funding, in collaboration with the WVS;
encloses circular to local authorities [not present].
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/181 March 1941
Letter from Ernest Bevin, [Minister of Labour], Ministry of Labour and National Service, Montagu House, to JJL, House of Commons: acceptance of JJL's resignation from the King's Roll National Council; JJL's interest dating from his membership of
the 1922 Select Committee [on Government training of disabled ex-servicemen].
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/182 2 July 1941
Letter from Winston Churchill, Prime Minister, 10 Downing Street, to JJL: acknowledges receipt of JJL's impressions of public speeches made by Admiral Sir Edward Evans.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/183 10 July 1941
Letter from B.B. [Brendan Bracken], 10 Downing Street, to JJL, House of Commons: in agreement with Attlee in advising against JJL's acceptance of an invitation to visit Canada as a representative of the British Labour Movement.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/184 31 October 1941
Letter from Teddy Evans [Admiral E.R.G.R. Evans], [London Regional Commissioner for Civil Defence], HQ London Civil Defence Region, PO Box 501, London, to JJL, Deputy Regional Commissioner for Civil Defence, Regional Headquarters, Newcastle:
bombing in the North; JJL meeting with Attlee; Alfred Bossom; ““cheer-up” parties for London Civil Defence folk, and other worthy Londoners” .
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/185 25 November 1941
Letter from Anthony Eden, [Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs], Foreign Office, to JJL: invitation to JJL to attend a lunch at the Foreign Office for five visiting American Congressmen on 28 November.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/186 26 November 1941
Telegram from Anthony Eden, [Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs], Whitehall, to JJL, Grammar School, Newcastle on Tyne: repeats invitation to JJL to attend a lunch at the Foreign Office for five visiting American Congressmen on 28 November.
Note: endorsed with acceptance.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/187 4 February 1942
Letter from George Walden, secretary, Pelton Labour Party Men's Section, 2 Elm Street, Pelton, Co. Durham, to JJL, 7 Woodside, Beamish: acknowledges receipt of JJL's annual membership fee; welcomes a visit by JJL to the Men's Section, suggesting
their next meeting on 4 March at the Miners' Institute at Ouston.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/188 13 August 1942
Letter from [Charles Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 7th marquess of] Londonderry, Mount Stewart, Newtownards, County Down, to JJL: as chancellor of Durham University, invites JJL to join the Council of the Durham Colleges, the death of Alderman Smith
making a vacancy.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/189 17 August 1942
Letter from Herbert Morrison, Ministry of Home Security, to JJL: following consultation with [Sir Arthur] Lambert, [Northern Region Commissioner for Civil Defence], permission for three-month leave of absence granted, for JJL's visit to
China.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/190 18 September 1942
Vaccination certificate for JJL, issued by Dr W. Bruce Allan, Newfield, Pelton Fell, Chester-le-Street: typhoid, paratyphoid A and B, cholera, smallpox; JJL “vaccinated on several previous occasions”.[Note: these vaccinations were probably made in preparation for JJL's visit to China.]
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/191 14 November 1942
Letter from James Hilton, War Department, Services of Supply, Office of the Chief of Special Service, at 2225 Maravilla, Hollywood, California, USA, to JJL, House of Commons: envy at JJL's presence at the city of Chongqing, reported by the China
News Service; making in Hollywood an instructional film for the US Army on China and it's war effort; recalls JJL's week-end with Hilton in London in 1935; admiration for Chinese people.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/192 18 January 1943
Letter from G.W. Clay, Main HQ 50 (M) Division, MEF, to JJL: at request of 10 Corps, informs JJL of the composition of 152 Brigade.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/193 15 February 1943
Letter from [Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, Viscount] Cranborne, Lord Privy Seal, Gwydyr House, Whitehall, to JJL, House of Commons: acknowledges receipt of JJL's letter and enclosure; congratulates JJL on success of mission to China.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/194 8 April 1943
Letter from Mary E. Sutherland, Chief Woman Officer, The Labour Party, Transport House, (South Block), Smith Square, London, to JJL, House of Commons: solicits an article for
The Labour Woman, June issue, on JJL's visit to China; enquires about JJL's delivery to Madame Chiang Kai Shek of a message from the Standing Joint Committee of Working Women's Organisations; encloses draft paragraph
reporting JJL's delivery of the same, for publication in a report to the National Conference of Labour Women. Cover slip, initialled D.C.B. and dated 10 August 1943, enquires “Has anything been done about this?”
Paper 1f; 1f; 1f; stamped envelope
LAW 1/1/195 17 April 1943
Letter from A[lan] Lascelles, [private secretary to the king], Windsor Castle, to JJL: JJL absence from the north during visit of the king and queen; shipyards; mining agreement; shortage of willing miners.
Paper 2f
LAW 1/1/196 5 July 1943
Letter from G.S. Fillingham, 70th Battalion Durham Light Infantry, Westwick Camp No.3, Barnard Castle, Co. Durham, to JJL, House of Commons: offers thanks for a tour of the Houses of Parliament given by JJL to a party of non-commissioned
officers.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/197 16 July [1943]
Letter from M.A. Oxford, 7 Cornwall Mews, London, to JJL: recently returned from China; wife the former secretary to the commercial counsellor at the British Embassy; the writer solicits a secretarial position of some kind; closure of American
base at Hengyang.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/198 4 August 1943
Letter, with enclosure, from E.L. Hall, Directorate of Camouflage, Ministry of Home Security, Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, to JJL: solicits JJL's assistance concerning an application for a direct commission in the RAFVR Administrative and
Special Duties Branch; appointment to the Directorate of Camouflage terminated; encloses copy correspondence between the writer and the Air Ministry, and a résumé of the writer's technical qualifications and experience.
Paper 2f
LAW 1/1/199 17 September 1943
Letter from W.J. Noble, Methodist Missionary Society, 25 Marylebone Road, London, to JJL, Woodside, Beamish: encloses five copies of
The Atlantic Charter and the Pacific Races, by the Rev J.W. Burton, requesting its distribution to fellow members of parliament, (see
LAW 2/2/19).
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/200 15 October 1943
Letter from [?Harold B. Rattenbury], Methodist Missionary Society, 25 Marylebone Road, London, to JJL, Northern Regional Headquarters, Eskdale Terrace, Newcastle upon Tyne: provides a précis of the Chinese poem “Cheng
Ch'i Ko” [Zhengqige] by Wen Tien Chiang [Wen Tianxiang], and of an inscription by General Feng [Yuxiang] to JJL, dated at the Military Headquarters, 31st year of the Republic, 6 December [1942], (see
LAW
1/2/175/9); compliments Feng's calligraphy and scholarship, when considered against his lack of formal training; writes to Dr Edwards at the School of Oriental Studies concerning any existing translations.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/201 17 November 1943
Letter from H.H. Kung, The Executive Yuan, Chungking, China, to JJL: impending visit of the Chinese People's Mission to Great Britain, reciprocating the British parliamentary mission's visit to China; emphasises Chinese government's democratic
intentions, hitherto delayed by the war; stresses common struggle against “Fascist Japan” as well as Nazi Germany.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/202 19 November 1943
Letter from Major Alex H. Spalding, 5 Indian Infantry Brigade W/S Company, I.E.M.E., M.E.F., to JJL: recalls [?early 1943] meeting JJL visiting an Indian Division in the Benghazi area, enclosing three negatives of photographs taken on that
occasion (see
LAW 3/1); greets friends in the north east.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/203 22 February 1944
Letter from Sir John Maxwell, [Northern Regional Transport Commissioner], Ministry of War Transport, 41-45 Grey Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, to JJL, Northern Civil Defence Region, Northern Regional Headquarters, Eskdale Terrace, Newcastle upon
Tyne: workmen's bus service from the Ship Inn to Birtley; congratulates JJL on Sunday Postscript BBC broadcast.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/204 10 August 1944
Letter from Evert Barger, 8 Priory Avenue, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, to JJL: disappointment at not meeting prior to Barger's departure on the U.N.R.R.A. (United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration) Balkan Mission; notes the
severance of the writer's connection with China; critical of British policy towards China; account of British Council activity in China, enclosing May 1944 memorandum, “Suggestions for the promotion of Sino-British cultural
relations”, (see
LAW 1/2/196); prospects for future council activity in China; Professor [Percy M.] Roxby of Liverpool University; poor relations between academia and the council, and the Foreign Office; work
in China by Professors Hughes, Dodds, Needham; urges use by the council of academics with first-hand experience of China, namely, Hughes, Tawney, Margery Fry, A. D. Lindsay.
Paper 4f; 4f
LAW 1/1/205 22 August 1944
Letter from George Cruddas, The Dunes, Coast Road, Redcar, Yorkshire, to JJL: encloses photographs of the opening of a “Wings of Victory” campaign Industry and Trades Day, at Redcar, (see
LAW 3/1).
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/206 31 August 1944
Letter from H.W.A. Bleach, Ministry of War Transport, Regional Transport Commander, 41-45 Grey Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, to JJL, Northern Civil Defence Region, Northern Regional Headquarters, Eskdale Terrace, Newcastle upon Tyne: approval of
provision of a bus service to convey a Salvation Army Band between Newfield and Langley Moor.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/207 18 September 1944
Letter from Clement Attlee, Privy Council Office, Great George Street, London, to JJL: invitation to JJL to be appointed to the Court of Durham University.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/208 12 October 1944
Letter from Herbert W. Wadge, 99 Parsonage Lane, Enfield, Middlesex, to JJL: congratulates JJL on his appointment as vice-president of the British Council; headmaster of Enfield Technical School; invitation to address the school on British
Council work; Chester-le-Street family roots.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/209 26 October 1944
Airmail letter from L.A.C. (Leading Aircraftman) R. Bone, 1122497, 159 Maintenance Unit, RAF, C.M.F., to JJL, House of Commons, redirected c/o Mr Colegrove, Nab End, Cumnor: following “a properly organised discussion on
the proposed Demobilisation”, lobbies that a similar allowance be made for overseas service as has been proposed for length of service; Chester-le-Street resident.Note: endorsed with censor's approval for dispatch.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/210 14 November 1944
Letter from J.K. Hope, clerk, Durham County Council, Shire Hall, Durham, to JJL, Woodside, Beamish: record of votes cast in 1919 election, 17838 for JJL, 5313 for [D.] Gilmore.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/211 29 December 1944
Letter from F.H. Rushford, Durham County Advertiser & General Printing Co. Ltd, Newspaper House, Durham, to JJL: SW Durham flooding threatening eastern coalfield; 70 million tons of coal submerged; pumping operations by Dorman Long and Co.
Ltd; solicits a question in parliament to the Minister [?of Fuel and Power]; “if ever there was a case for nationalisation, this is it”.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/212 23 February 1945
Letter from R. Sallon,
Daily Herald, Editorial Office, 2-12 Endell Street, London, to JJL: encloses, at Ernest Jay's suggestion, original artwork of a caricature of JJL; suggests a personal sitting.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/213 22 March 1945
Letter from J. Smailes, Head Master, The Secondary School, Chester-le-Street, to JJL: commends JJL's address to pupils and parents at yesterday's Speech Day.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/214 16 May 1945
Letter from unidentified person, House of Commons, to JJL: providing address of “our pilot”, Warrant Officer J.A. Colegate, Middle East Command.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/215 4 June 1945
Letter from Winston Churchill, Prime Minister, 10 Downing Street, to JJL: notification of JJL's appointment to the Privy Council, upon the dissolution of parliament.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/216 4 July 1945
Letter from Moelwyn Hughes, The Hospital, Sully, Glamorgan, to JJL: congratulates JJL on his elevation [to the Privy Council].
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/217 31 July [1945]
Letter from Andrew T. Brown, Manor House, Ferryhill, Co. Durham, to [JJL]: requests a tour of the Houses of Parliament.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/218-338 27 July - 27 August 1945
Correspondence to JJL in reaction to his re-election in the 5 July 1945 general election, and to his appointment as Secretary of State for War. In the following list, (in alphabetical order), correspondents' names and addresses are noted, with
the extent of each letter; other noteworthy content is also described.
Paper 150f
LAW 1/1/218 5 August 1945
[?], 12 Evelyn Mansions, Carlisle Place, London.
1f
LAW 1/1/219 3 August 1945
[?], House of Lords.
1f
LAW 1/1/220 5 August 1945
Hester Alington, The Deanery, Durham.
1f
LAW 1/1/221 3 August 1945
[?Alan] Appleyard, Lambeth Bridge House, London: formerly of Birtley.
1f
LAW 1/1/222 3 August 1945
John Atkinson, clerk, City and County of Newcastle upon Tyne, Town Clerk's Office, Town Hall, Newcastle upon Tyne.
1f
LAW 1/1/223 5 August 1945
W.H. Bartholomew, Garden House, Upper Woodford, Near Salisbury.
2f
LAW 1/1/224 4 August 1945
Pat Bartley, 79 Ings Road, Redcar, Yorkshire: written on 1945 Chester-le-Street stationary, Bartley being JJL's election agent, located at Central Labour Committee Rooms, 6-7 Ashfield Terrace, Chester-le-Street; Fr O'Hea, Oxford; comments on
Labour appointments - Pethick-Lawrence peerage, Bevan, Shinwell; coal nationalisation; 18 August conference, proposes JJL address re “The Labour Government's Immediate Plans”.
3f
LAW 1/1/225 11 August 1945
R. Bell, clerk, Chester-le-Street Rural District Council, Union Offices, Chester-le-Street.
1f
LAW 1/1/226 6 August 1945
Will Bell, 10 Selborne Grove, Bradford: former resident of Boldon; family news.
1f
LAW 1/1/227 8 August 1945
Tom Benson, Apple Tree Cottage, Toddington, Littlehampton, and 9 Rutland Court, New Church Road, Hove.
1f
LAW 1/1/228 5 August 1945
[Henry Betterton, 1st baron] Rushcliffe, Ballindarroch, Scaniport, Inverness.
1f
LAW 1/1/229 4 August 1945
[William] Birdwood, [1st baron] Birdwood of Anzac, House of Lords: “father of the Army”.
1f
LAW 1/1/230 5 August 1945
Sir Harry Brittain, Kirklands, Headley, Hants: William Wedgewood Benn, A.V. Alexander, Ernest Bevin; British Council.
1f
LAW 1/1/231 [July x August] 1945
Guy Burgess, Reform Club, Pall Mall, London: in Foreign Office for the past year; recalls the
Week in Westminster BBC programme; suggests meeting; welcomes appointment of Hector MacNeile.
1f
LAW 1/1/232 7 August 1945
C. Harold [?Carter], Fenny Bridges, Honiton.
1f
LAW 1/1/233 5 August 1945
Sir Felix Cassel, Putteridge Bury, Luton: fellow member of the Oliver Committee [Courts-Martial].
1f
LAW 1/1/234 15 August [1945]
George Catlin, 2 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea: Arthur Greenwood; election speaking tour.
1f
LAW 1/1/235 14 August 1945
Chiang Kai-shek, Chungking: with triplicate reply.
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LAW 1/1/236 6 August 1945
Hugh P. [?Chider], USA: urges American visit by Labour leaders; assistant vice-president of the City Bank Farmers Trust Company.
1f
LAW 1/1/237 14 August 1945
Warrant Officer J.A. Colegate, 1334354, 56 P.T.C., RAF, C.M.F.: recalling a flight with JJL in Southern Italy; Sir Archibald James.
2f
LAW 1/1/238 8 August 1945
Colin R. Coote,
The Daily Telegraph and Morning Post, Fleet Street, London: former fellow member of the Select Committee on Pensions.
1f
LAW 1/1/239 3 August 1945
Rev. J.S. Corlett, 64 Kingsway, Pendlebury, Manchester.
1f
LAW 1/1/240 7 August 1945
Oliver [Baldwin, Viscount] Corvedale, No. 6, War Office Selection Board, The Officers' Mess, Brockham Park, Betchworth, Surrey.
1f
LAW 1/1/241 7 August 1945
J.R. Coxon, Chief Warden, Durham County Civil Defence, Wardens' Service, Chief Warden's Office, Birtley District Co-op Society, Spout Lane, Washington.
1f
LAW 1/1/242 28 July 1945
Colonel Crookshank, Army & Navy Club, Pall Mall, London: notes JJL's appointment to Privy Council.
1f
LAW 1/1/243 4 August 1945
Sir William Crosthwaite, Exchange Place, Middlesbrough.
1f
LAW 1/1/244 5 August 1945
Lionel Curtis, All Souls College, Oxford.
1f
LAW 1/1/245 3 August 1945
S.T. Divers, 4 Davies Avenue, Leeds: former Brigadier HQ 8th Army, recalls JJL's “cheering” visit.
1f
LAW 1/1/246 7 August 1945
Major F. Downie, 33 Stafford Court, Kensington, London.
1f
LAW 1/1/247 5 August 1945
J.F. Duff, Warden, Durham Colleges in the University of Durham, 38 North Bailey, Durham: Durham University to use Lumley Castle.
1f
LAW 1/1/248 5 August 1945
Herbert Ellissen, The Old Bakehouse, Horam, East Sussex: Imperial War Graves Commission.
1f
LAW 1/1/249 3 August 1945
Arthur Evans, Carlton Club, St James's Street, London.
1f
LAW 1/1/250 27 July 1945
G.S. Fillingham, United Service Club, Pall Mall, London.
2f
LAW 1/1/251 14 August 1945
James T. Fletcher, mayor, Borough of Redcar, Municipal Buildings, Redcar: invitation to speak at opening of Thanksgiving Week.
1f
LAW 1/1/252 3 August 1945
J.J. Gascoigne, Lyndhurst, Underhill Road, Cleadon, Sunderland.
1f
LAW 1/1/253 before 8 August 1945
W.S. Goodall, Dunelm, Carlton Avenue, Barrow-in-Furness.
1f
LAW 1/1/254 13 August 1945
R. Gordon-Finlayson, Pentlow Hall, Cavendish, Suffolk: fellow member of the Imperial War Graves Commission.
1f
LAW 1/1/255 8 August 1945
Edgar Granville, House of Commons: requesting a visit to the troops in France and Germany be arranged.
1f
LAW 1/1/256 8 August 1945
Mrs H. Grasset, 3 St John's Road, London: recalls JJL's meeting with Captain A. Grasset in Italy.
2f
LAW 1/1/257 30 July 1945
Ernest Green, general secretary, The Workers' Educational Association, 38a St George's Drive, Victoria, London, to JJL: 60 WEA students or tutors in the new House.
1f
LAW 1/1/258 3 August 1945
Tom Greenwell, Maycroft, Glentrammon Road, Green Street Green, Farnborough, Kent.
1f
LAW 1/1/259 4 August 1945
Gordon Grimsdale, 13 Gerald Road, London: ex-Army, recalls meeting in Chungking.
1f
LAW 1/1/260 7 August 1945
Han Lih-wu, Chungking.
1f
LAW 1/1/261 3 August 1945
J.W. Haswell, The Laurels, Chester-le-Street.
1f
LAW 1/1/262 4 August 1945
J. Henderson-Stewart, House of Commons.
1f
LAW 1/1/263 4 August 1945
F. Higginson, Imperial War Graves Commission.
1f
LAW 1/1/264 6 August 1945
Major K.R. Hill, 110067, Medical Research Team, 37 General Hospital, Accra, Gold Coast, WAF [West Africa Force]: present at a JJL open air election meeting in Washington; West Africa a “pathologist's
“paradise””; family news; recalls camping at Seaham.
2f
LAW 1/1/265 3 August 1945
James [Hilton], 1218 N. la Cienega, Hollywood, California: soothing Americans' reaction to the election result.
1f
LAW 1/1/266 8 August 1945
R. Percy Hodder-Williams, Hodder and Stoughton Ltd, Weald Place, Sevenoaks, Kent.
1f
LAW 1/1/267 29 July 1945
[?Reg Holmston], 132 Woodcote Valley Road, Purley, Surrey, and Ministry of Labour and National Service, 24 Sardinia Street, Kingsway, London, to JJL: offers assistance re Further Education and Training Scheme.
1f
LAW 1/1/268 6 August 1945
Daniel [?Hopkins], North London Magistrates Court, 82 Stoke Newington Road, London.
1f
LAW 1/1/269 9 August 1945
Leslie Hore-Belisha, 16 Stafford Place, London.
1f
LAW 1/1/270 4 August 1945
Thomas Hornsby, Ministry of Fuel and Power, Regional Controller, Northern B Region, Milburn House, Newcastle upon Tyne: war with Japan.
1f
LAW 1/1/271 4 August 1945
Arthur James, Brackley Grange, Brackley, Northamptonshire.
1f
LAW 1/1/272 14 August 1945
A.H. Johnston, Co-operative Wholesale Society Limited, 1 Balloon Street, Manchester: Robert Taylor.
1f
LAW 1/1/273 3 August 1945
G.H. Jones, secretary, Midland Miners' Federation, Lady Bank, Tamworth, Staffordshire.
1f
LAW 1/1/274 4 August 1945
Corporal Alan Kennaugh, 84 Group Provost and Security Unit, RAF, B.L.A.: German reaction to election result, and to Potsdam communique; journalist.
1f
LAW 1/1/275 5 August 1945
Jacqueline Killearn, British Embassy, Alexandria.
1f
LAW 1/1/276 9 August 1945
Harold King, (clerk of Somerset County Council), 2 The Drive, Batts Park, Taunton: former deputy clerk of Durham County Council, 1921-1927; Jack Gilliland.
1f
LAW 1/1/277 3 August 1945
V.K. Wellington Koo, [Ambassador], Chinese Embassy, 49 Portland Place, London.
1f
LAW 1/1/278 11 August 1945
V.K. Wellington Koo, [Ambassador], Chinese Embassy, 49 Portland Place, London: conveying a message from Dr T.V. Soong, president of the Executive Yuan, currently in Moscow; with duplicate copy reply to Dr Soong.
1f; 2f
LAW 1/1/279 6 August 1945
A. Lee, clerk, Little Lumley Parish Council, Castle Dene, Fence Houses, Co. Durham.
1f
LAW 1/1/280 3 August 1945
Mackenzie Livingstone, London.
1f
LAW 1/1/281 5 August 1945
Canon H.K. Luce, headmaster, Durham School, School House, Durham: JJL speech day; urges visit by Ellen Wilkinson, Secretary of State for Education.
2f
LAW 1/1/282 3 August 1945
Rev. J. McManners, The Vicarage, Ferryhill, Co. Durham.
1f
LAW 1/1/283 4 August 1945
Hamed and Mildred Mahmud, Toukh, [?Egypt].
1f
LAW 1/1/284 4 August 1945
[Sir] Adam Maitland, Beechland, Henley-on-Thames, Oxon.: former MP.
1f
LAW 1/1/285 6 August 1945
A. Mansbridge, Windways, Dartmouth Road, Paignton, S. Devon: Ruskin College.
1f
LAW 1/1/286 7 August 1945
A. Marsh-Roberts, c/o Salem Mansions, Salem Road, Bayswater, London.
1f
LAW 1/1/287 7 August 1945
Lieutenant-Colonel P.H.M. May, 1st Battalion The Durham Light Infantry, C.M.F., DO/1.
1f
LAW 1/1/288 23 August 1945
Count Guido Memmo, and Lieutenant-Colonel McDougall, Rome: Imperial War Graves Commission.
1f
LAW 1/1/289 7 August 1945
H. Mensforth, The Red House, St John's Road, Hazlemere, Buckinghamshire: former colleague at the War Office.
1f
LAW 1/1/290 5 August 1945
Michael Merry, 14 Kings Road, Wallsend on Tyne: enclosing copy letter, dated 22 April 1945, to Field Marshal Montgomery appealing for son's promotion.
1f; 1f
LAW 1/1/291 6 August 1945
E.C. Morris, Headquarters, Northern Command, York.
1f
LAW 1/1/292 9 August 1945
George Muff, Redlands, Woodhall Land, Stanningley: invitation to visit No.2 War Office Selection Board, Jaffa Lines, Catterick Camp, Colonel Waller, president; with triplicate copy reply, declining.
1f; 3f
LAW 1/1/293 3 August 1945
[M. Dunbar] Nasmith, Flag Officer in Charge, P.L.A. Building, Trinity Square, London: War Graves Commission.
1f
LAW 1/1/294 7 August 1945
Tom O'Brien, North London.
1f
LAW 1/1/295 7 August 1945
Charles P[ickering], Fawley Lodge, Henley-on-Thames.
1f
LAW 1/1/296 4 August 1945
Frank Pakenham, 8 Chadlington Road, Oxford: enclosing a letter detailing a case for JJL's attention.
1f
LAW 1/1/297 6 August 1945
H.E. Pitt, Waren House, Belford, Northumberland.
1f
LAW 1/1/298 7 August 1945
H.B. Porter, Dominion House, 110 Fenchurch Street, London.
1f
LAW 1/1/299 7 August 1945
T.B. Wilson Ramsay, 10 King's Bench Walk, Temple, London: MP for the Western Isles, 1929-1935.
1f
LAW 1/1/300 4 August 1945
[?Randall], [vice-chairman], [British Council], 3 Hanover Street, London.
1f
LAW 1/1/301 4 August 1945
John Derby [Alfred Edward John Rawlinson], bishop of Derby, Beadsall Mount, Near Derby: renews acquaintance; conveys a serving chaplain's observation of a degeneration of officers' and serving men's sexual morals, following the abandonment of
“non-fraternisation” orders, urging speedier demobilisation and grants of leave.
2f
LAW 1/1/302 4 August 1945
William Redfern, The Institute of Journalists, 29 Brandling Place South, Newcastle upon Tyne: critical of press “mingling of news with comment” during the election; amalgamation of the Institute of Journalists and
the National Union of Journalists; newspaper monopolies - “[w]e want freedom, not licence to abuse it”; demobilisation of son in India.
1f
LAW 1/1/303 6 August 1945
J. Stewart Reid, 4 Eslington Terrace, Newcastle upon Tyne.
1f
LAW 1/1/304 17 August 1945
David Robertson, House of Commons.
1f
LAW 1/1/305 3 August 1945
Lionel K. Robinson, William H. Robinson Ltd, 16 & 17 Pall Mall, London.
1f
LAW 1/1/306 4 August 1945
J.D. Rose, pharmacist, 18 Ormonde Street and 1 Bede Burn Road, Jarrow-on-Tyne.
1f
LAW 1/1/307 4 August 1945
D. & J. Russell, Crannoch, Carberry Park, Leven, Fife: resident at Sheffield.
2f
LAW 1/1/308 9 August 1945
W.D. Sainty, 25 Golden Noble Hill, Colchester, Essex: former fellow RFA driver.
1f
LAW 1/1/309 [July x August] 1945
Mrs M. Sanders, secretary, Birtley Labour Women's Section, 9 Neville Crescent, Birtley, Co. Durham: “bloodless Revolution” for the Labour Party.
2f
LAW 1/1/310 5 August 1945
Averil Sanderson, North Cottage, Cromer.
1f
LAW 1/1/311 7 August 1945
A.D. Saward, secretary, The British Air Line Pilots Association, 7 Park Lane, London.
1f
LAW 1/1/312 4 August 1945
Captain Sir G. Leighton Seager, Assistant Welfare Officer, Monmouthshire Territorial Army Association, Monmouthshire County Military Welfare Committee, St Mellons and District, Bryn Ivor Hall, Castleton, near Cardiff: acquainted with Sydney
Walton and Lord Teviot.
1f
LAW 1/1/313 12 August 1945
Catherine Sellsirk, Score Farm, Ilfracombe.
1f
LAW 1/1/314 20 August 1945
T. Shaw, 4 Cleveland Crescent, North Shields: unacquainted since 1929.
2f
LAW 1/1/315 27 July 1945
William Shaw, secretary, Musselburgh Labour Party, Labour Club Rooms, 2 Bridge Street, Musselburgh: thanks JJL for addressing the electors in Musselburgh.
1f
LAW 1/1/316 4 August 1945
Henry Slack, Glasgow.
1f
LAW 1/1/317 7 August 1945
Ferdie Smith, Ruskin College, Oxford: eleven ex-students re-elected or elected as Members of Parliament, and two ex-members of staff, and a member of the governing council, enclosing list [fragment remains].
2f
LAW 1/1/318 5 August 1945
Sir Archibald Southby, House of Commons.
1f
LAW 1/1/319 4 August 1945
Speed, Greek Mil.
1f
LAW 1/1/320 9 August 1945
James R. Spencer, General Manager, The Liverpool Daily Post and Echo Ltd, Victoria Street, Liverpool.
1f
LAW 1/1/321 5 August 1945
William P. Spens, Chief Justice of India, 19 Akbar Road, New Delhi: war with Japan.
1f
LAW 1/1/322 5 August 1945
Joseph Staines, Wesley Manor, Ferndale, Glamorgan: formerly a messenger at JJL's first Council election.
1f
LAW 1/1/323 10 August 1945
T.S. Stephenson, St John's Chapel, Weardale.
1f
LAW 1/1/324 14 August 1945
Jack R. Sterling, Oakdene, Shipley Road, Westbury-on-Trym, Bristol.
2f
LAW 1/1/325 27 August 1945
Edward [Turnour, 6th earl] Winterton, Stable Flat; Shillinglee Park, Chiddingfold.
2f
LAW 1/1/326 6 August 1945
Robin Turton, Upsall Castle, Thirsk: General [Douglas] Graham.
1f
LAW 1/1/327 4 August 1945
Stanley Unwin, 4 Oak Hill Park, Hampstead, London: shortage of persons skilled in book production, urging priority demobilisation for such persons; British Council.
1f
LAW 1/1/328 3 August 1945
Robin [Vane-Tempest-Stewart, Viscount] Castlereagh, The Mill House, Highcliffe, Hampshire: welcomes fair election result; critical of father's attitude to miners and the Londonderry Collieries ( “a sort of bank to
finance his social and political activities elsewhere” ), disclaiming any involvement for more than ten years.
2f
LAW 1/1/329 6 August 1945
Captain S. Keell Walenn, 10 Kingswear Road, London.
1f
LAW 1/1/330 13 August 1945
Corporal R.L. Walker, 111 Supply Depot, Liverpool, New South Wales, Australia: cottages for Old Age Pensioners in NSW.
1f
LAW 1/1/331 6 August 1945
Sir John Wardlaw-Milne, Grayswood Place, Haslemere, Surrey.
1f
LAW 1/1/332 10 August 1945
Sam Watson, Durham Miners' Association, Red Hill, Durham.
1f
LAW 1/1/333 5 August 1945
Leading Aircraftman William Watson, 1037908, 612 Squadron Orderly Room, RAF Station Langham, Near Holt, Norfolk: resident of Chester-le-Street, and former election campaign helper alongside Jack Gilliland and Mrs Bruce; Grigg
““the enemy of the forces””; appointment of Fred J. Bellenger [as Financial Secretary to the War Office] approved of; surprise at Viscount Lambton's votes tally; Alma [Lawson], nursing
at Relton Hospital, then ATS; Alan Kennaugh; dissatisfaction at speed of demobilisation.
4f
LAW 1/1/334 4 August 1945
Myers Wayman, 41 Thames Street, Windsor, Berks: Sunderland resident.
1f
LAW 1/1/335 4 August 1945
William Westwood, Newcastle upon Tyne.
1f
LAW 1/1/336 6 August 1945
B.C. Wheston, Soudan, Beach Road, Jersey: 1929 Salisbury [general] election; underwent German occupation with wife and two daughters.
2f
LAW 1/1/337 5 August 1945
R. Whigham, Bradbury Private Hotel, North Berwick, East Lothian.
1f
LAW 1/1/338 27 July 1945
J.S. Wilson, Chester-le-Street Urban District Council.
1f
LAW 1/1/339 1 August 1945
Request slip from Charles Howard, Serjeant at Arms, to JJL, concerning the return of JJL's Military Identity card, Army Form B.2606.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/340 3 August 1945
Letter from Charles D [?], Bourne House, Bath Road, Chippenham, to JJL, House of Commons: JJL deserving of a good post in the new Government.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/341 6 August 1945
Letter from Mary Williamson, 44 Southbrook Road, Lee, London, to JJL: argues for earlier demobilisation for her son, now posted to the Far East; service record.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/342 14 August 1945
Letter from Tom Hopkinson, Editor,
Lilliput and Picture Post, 43-44 Shoe Lane, London, to JJL, Secretary of State for War, War Office: encloses pictures, one of which is featured in the current issue of the
Picture Post.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/343 20 August 1945
Letter from Barnett Janner, House of Commons, to JJL, War Office: offers thanks for JJL's note about the New Park housing estate in Leicester; and his, [Herbert] Bowden, and [Terence] Donovan's thanks for JJL's time.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/344 19 October 1945
Letter from Lieutenant Commander Len Jackson RNVR, Editor, SEAC, Daily Newspaper of South East Asia Command, Statesman House, Calcutta, to JJL, War Office: encloses photographs of JJL's tour; meeting at Dum Dum airfield [Kolkata], after a
fifteen-year lapse in their acquaintance.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/345 26 November 1945
Draft letter from JJL, War Office, to the Prime Minister [Clement Attlee]: referencing a second cabinet decision to release a number of doctors from the armed forces, “violating ... the principal of Age &
Service”, tenders his resignation as Secretary of State for War; affirms support for all other Government policies, and reaffirms personal friendship.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/346 [1946]
Letter from T.W. Hardy, 73 Gordey Lane, Warrington, Lancashire, to JJL: recounts demobilisation experience, commending speed and quality of suit of clothes.
Paper 2f
LAW 1/1/347 1 January 1946
Letter from G.H. Jones, secretary, Midland Miners' Federation, Lady Bank, Tamworth, Staffordshire, and W.E. Jones, secretary of the Yorkshire Mineworkers' Association, to JJL, War Office: delegates of the National Union of Mineworkers tasked to
contact in Italy representatives of the recently formed Mineworkers Union of Italy; letters of credit declined by Italian banks; commend assistance of Major Dow, Army Paymaster, and Private Harrison at the Commercial Bank, Naples.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/348 26 January [1946]
Letter from [General Sir] R.F. Adam, Viceroy's House, Delhi, to JJL: report of first part of tour of troops in India, Burma, Malaya and Java; repatriation and release less egregious issues; “younger army”, the
inexperience of NCOs a concern to their commanders “if faced with an emergency”; JJL's visit “saved what might have been a difficult and unpleasant situation”; Army education,
resistance to the establishment of a Formation College in India; irregular mails; departs for Middle East tomorrow.
Paper 3f
LAW 1/1/349 1 February 1946
Letter from [Field Marshal] B.L. Montgomery, [1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, Commander-in-Chief], Tactical Headquarters, British Army of the Rhine, to JJL: encloses unidentified document [not present] on a “highly
important subject” requiring robust handling else “we shall do no good in Germany”; recovering from influenza in Switzerland; offers thanks for his appointment as Chief of the Imperial General Staff.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/350 3 July 1946
Letter from [Field Marshal] B.L. Montgomery, [1st Viscount] Montgomery of Alamein, CIGS, War Office, to JJL: encloses unidentified pamphlet [not present], intending to initiate training in the army on the same subject.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/351 8 August 1946
Letter from [Field Marshal] B.L. Montgomery, [1st Viscount] Montgomery of Alamein, CIGS, War Office, to JJL, Woodside, Beamish: hopes for JJL's speedy return to office, his health recovered.
Paper 1f; envelope
LAW 1/1/352 9 August 1946
Letter from E.B.B. Speed, Permanent Under-Secretary of State for War, Fort Cottage, Solva, Pembrokeshire, to JJL: reaction to news of JJL's move to a nursing home; reassurance that War Office business will be sustained, the writer returning on 19
August.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/353 17 August 1946
Letter from William Whiteley, Hamburg, to JJL: hopes for JJL's quick return; regrets JJL's absence from the writer's “interesting although distressing” tour of the troops; accompanied by [Frederick J.] Bellenger
[Financial Secretary to the War Office] and [A.C.W.] Drew [principal private secretary to the Secretary of State for War]; inspection of Hamburg, then Ruhr and Berlin.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/354 18 August 1946
Letter from James Callaghan, 13 Ashford Road, Maidstone, to JJL: hopes for JJL's speedy recovery; prospect of tough October parliamentary session; case correspondence passed to Bellenger; dissatisfaction among troops at speed of
demobilisation.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/355 21 August 1946
Letter from E.B.B. Speed, War Office, to JJL: wishes for JJL's full recovery, JJL having been discharged from the nursing home; acceptance of Lord Justice Lawrence's invitation to attend the judgement of the Nuremberg Court in September.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/356 22 August 1946
Letter, on House of Commons stationary, from Owen Rattenbury, 68 Grosvenor Road, Muswell Hill, London, to JJL: wishes for JJL's recovery; reports on the financial position of the Workers' Temperance League, listing major donors, and requesting
further donation; suggesting greater role for the League in Chester-le-Street, noting existing work of the Sons of Temperance, Rechabites etc., but emphasising JJL's constituency's particular amenability to the League, stressing its requirement for
members to also be Labour Party, Trades Union or Co-operative Society members.
Paper 2f
LAW 1/1/357 10 September 1946
Letter from M.D. Methven, Close House Farm, Coach Road, Ravensworth, Co. Durham, to JJL, Woodside, Beamish: outlines industrial development within JJL's parliamentary division, including at Team Valley Trading Estate, Chester-le-Street and
Birtley.
Paper 4f
LAW 1/1/358 2 October 1946
Letter from Clement Attlee, 10 Downing Street, to JJL, War Office, redirected to 84 Claverton Street, London: recalls JJL's request “last summer” to retire from the government; a new organisation for defence having
been made, JJL can now be released; commends JJL's handling of demobilisation at the War Office; recalls close working relationship since 1924.
Paper 1f; envelope
LAW 1/1/359 2 October 1946
Draft letter from JJL to Clement Attlee, Prime Minister: acknowledges Attlee's letter (
LAW 1/1/358); pride of his membership in the government and in its achievements, and in the conduct of the army under his
charge; looks forward to working on the back benches; personal friendship.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/360 5 October 1946
Letter from Charles Pickering, Fawley Lodge, Henley-on-Thames, to JJL, Woodside, Beamish: response to newspaper report [of JJL's retirement from the government]; JJL to visit Norfolk; visits troops at Brancepeth and Morpeth.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/361 5 October 1946
Letter from Henry MacGreagh, Judge Advocate General, to JJL: regret at JJL's resignation.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/362 5 October 1946
Letter from William [Jowitt], Lord Chancellor, House of Lords, to JJL: hoping JJL might soon return to [parliament].
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/363 10 October 1946
Letter from Ernest Bevin, United Kingdom Delegation, Paris, c/o Foreign Office, to JJL: offers thanks for JJL's handling of the demobilisation scheme, “with which I was so closely associated”; pressure of work.
Paper 2f
LAW 1/1/364 31 October 1946
Letter from Fred Bellenger, Secretary of State for War, War Office, to JJL: urges careful management for JJL's complete recovery; visit to Chequers.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/365 3 December 1946
Letter from R. Hurst Mather, Alderman Smith Grammar School, Washington, Co. Durham, to JJL, Woodside, Beamish: arrangements for a visit to the Houses of Parliament.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/366 3 January 1947
Letter from Oliver [Baldwin, parliamentary secretary to the Secretary of State for War], War Office, to JJL: invitation to attend, and, at Attlee's request make the only speech, at a House of Commons lunch to celebrate the Attlees' silver wedding
anniversary, given by those Labour Members of Parliament who were re-elected in the 1931 election.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/367 3 January 1947
Letter from Carol Johnson, Parliamentary Labour Party, House of Commons, to JJL, Woodside, Beamish: arrangements for the Attlee silver wedding anniversary dinner.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/368 6 January 1947
Letter from R. Hurst Mather, Alderman Smith Grammar School, Washington, Co. Durham, to JJL, Woodside, Beamish: arrangements for a visit to the Houses of Parliament, and the senior prefects' attendance at Question Time or an evening session.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/369 10 January 1947
Letter from R. Hurst Mather, Alderman Smith Grammar School, Washington, Co. Durham, to JJL, Woodside, Beamish: re-arrangement of a visit to the Houses of Parliament.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/370 29 January 1947
Letter from Hugh Gaitskell, Ministry of Fuel and Power, 7 Millbank, London, to JJL, Woodside, Beamish: replies at the Minister's request; for stated policy reasons, the Ministry declines to support new types of stretcher designed by Councillor
Cullinan and Dr McLaren, demonstrated at Usworth Colliery in 1945.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/371 28 February 1947
Letter from Fred [Bellenger], Secretary of State for War, War Office, to JJL: concern for JJL's health; cites cases of ill-health of Herbert [Morrison] and Ellen Wilkinson as examples not to follow.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/372 7 March 1947
Letter from James Chuter Ede, Home Secretary, Whitehall, London, to JJL: in response to JJL highlighting the award of the British Empire Medal to two employees at Ravensworth Colliery, cites war arrears as causing delays in issuing of medals.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/373 25 August 1947
Letter from Councillor E. Farbridge, chairman, Stanley Urban District Council, 4 North Thorn, Stanley, Co. Durham, to JJL: offers thanks for JJL's intention to mention the Morrison Colliery Disaster Distress Fund, chaired by the writer, in an
appeal to be broadcast by JJL on Wednesday afternoon.[Note: the Louisa Colliery (including Morrison Old Colliery) disaster occurred on 22 August 1947.]
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/374 30 October 1947
Letter from [?], Privy Council Office, to JJL, House of Commons: encloses order re-appointing JJL to the Court of the University of Durham, (see
LAW 1/2/229).
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/375 19 December 1947
Letter from Aveline Renwick, County of Durham Education Committee, Clarence Terrace School, Nursery Department, to JJL: offers thanks for a visit by JJL to the school.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/376-380 24 December 1947
Letter (a-b) and duplicate copy letter (A-B etc.), with enclosures, from F. Anderson, W.T. Henley's Telegraph Works Company Limited, 51 & 53 Hatton Garden, London, to JJL, Woodside, Beamish: factory at Newtown, Birtley; enclosing copy letters
setting out the technical and general aspects of the business; export potential; offers thanks for JJL's practical support.
Paper 2f; 6f; 2f; 6f
LAW 1/1/377 23 December 1947
Copy and duplicate copy letter from S.E. Goodall, chief engineer, [W.T. Henley's Telegraph Works Company Limited], to The Regional Controller, Ministry of Supply, Northern Area, Clarendon House, Clayton Street West, Newcastle upon Tyne: detailed
representation why a Civil Building Licence should not be withdrawn, as proposed, and why work on the new factory at Newtown, Birtley, might not be suspended without incurring expensive, time-consuming and damaging losses.
Paper 2f; 2f
LAW 1/1/378 23 December 1947
Copy and duplicate copy letter from S.E. Goodall, chief engineer, [W.T. Henley's Telegraph Works Company Limited], to Mr Wake, The Regional Controller, Ministry of Supply, Northern Area, Clarendon House, Clayton Street West, Newcastle upon Tyne:
providing reasons why work on the new factory at Newtown, Birtley, might not be suspended as proposed by the Ministry's Engineering Industries Division; war damage limiting output of North Woolwich Works; new factory to replace existing smaller
factory at Birtley; Newcastle Zinc Oxide Company; output and employment projections; export market; technical improvements.
Paper 2f; 2f
LAW 1/1/379-380 16 December 1947
Copy and duplicate copy letters from C.J. Newbery, Ministry of Supply, Engineer Industries Division, Shell Mex House, Strand, London, to W.T. Henley's Telegraph Works Company Limited, Newtown, Birtley, Co. Durham: notifications that the company's
building licence application for a new factory [at Birtley] has been selected for indefinite suspension, citing a policy decision to prioritise capital investment in 1948, announced 23 October 1947, and noting steel erection stage proviso.
Paper 2f; 2f
LAW 1/1/381 29 December 1947
Letter from S.E. Goodall, Chief Engineer, W.T. Henley's Telegraph Works Company Limited, 51 & 53 Hatton Garden, London, to JJL, 84 Claverton Street, Westminster: JJL to meet with the Minister [of Supply], and Mr Wake, Regional Controller for
the Northern Area; supplies contract completion percentages in preparation for JJL's meeting; classifies JJL's representations as being made for his constituents, rather than for the firm.
Paper 2f
LAW 1/1/382 12 April 1948
Letter from Anthony Bevin, 10 Downing Street, to JJL: invites JJL to contribute a book to the Cabinet Room Library, started in 1931 by Ramsay MacDonald.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/383 27 May 1948
Letter from John Freeman, House of Commons, to JJL: having conferred with his brother, provides history of a flag presented to JJL at Insein [Myanmar], formerly property of a Company that fought at Kohima [India], and one of a number used to mark
the position of the Company's Headquarters, but probably not at that battle.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/384 3 June 1948
Letter from Ida J. Tinkler, House of Commons, to JJL, House of Commons: encloses typescript copies of extracts from an unidentified official report; typescripts of JJL's questions to follow.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/385 17 February 1949
Letter from Mrs Margaret Gibb, Woman Organiser, The Labour Party, Northern Region, 5-8 Percy Chambers, 33 Percy Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, to JJL: invitation to walk with the women of Chester-le-Street Division at Durham Women's Annual Gala;
Aneurin Bevan and Jennie Lee, chief guest speakers. See
LAW 1/2/232.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/386 23 March 1949
Letter from Clement Attlee, 10 Downing Street, to JJL: JJL's lord-lieutenancy proposed.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/387 31 March 1949
Letter from A. Lascelles, Buckingham Palace, to JJL: offers congratulations on JJL's appointment as lord-lieutenant of Co. Durham.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/388 1 April 1949
Letter from Anthony Bevin, 10 Downing Street, to JJL: notification of JJL's appointment as lord-lieutenant.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/389 11 May 1949
Letter from Herbert Morrison, Privy Council Office, Great George Street, London, to JJL: reassuring JJL that a lord-lieutenant may remain a member of the Court of the University of Durham, indeed many lord-lieutenants are ex-officio members of
such courts.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/390 11 May 1949
Letter from Oliver Whitfield, honorary general secretary, The Durham County Association of Teachers, Dunbritton, Washington, Co. Durham, to JJL, House of Commons: invitation to attend an inaugural tea and meeting of the Durham County Refresher
Course at Durham, to be addressed by David Hardman, MP; encloses 1948 inaugural programme, [not present]; congratulates JJL on lord-lieutenancy.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/391 19 July 1949
Letter from Austin Kirkup, Morton House, Fence Houses, Co. Durham, to JJL, House of Commons: notes JJL's reference to pit heaps in a report of a speech at Jarrow; urges a crusade against such pit heaps; heaps attributed to use of mechanical
conveyors; German custom of storing waste material in the pit itself, as used to be the practice in Co. Durham, deemed too expensive; disqualifying “active, growing, burning heaps”, others might be planted with gorse,
broom and “other humble but green and flowering shrubs”; South West Durham Improvement Association active in such work until 1939; County “so used to ugliness that we don't feel or recognise
it”.
Paper 3f; stamped envelope
LAW 1/1/392 25 July 1949
Letter from Sam Watson, National Union of Mineworkers, Durham Area, Red Hill, Durham, to JJL, House of Commons: arrangements for miners' service at Gateshead.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/393 28 July 1949
Letter from Austin Kirkup, Morton House, Fence Houses, Co. Durham, to JJL, [Woodside, Beamish]: welcomes JJL's intention to address active as well as inactive pit heaps, anticipating powerful resistance; presents detailed analysis for the growth
of pit heaps and the growing cost of the practice, using statistics from Lambton and Hetton pits between 1938 and 1949 and the Reid Report [1945]; argues for storage of such waste in pit workings [underground]; the writer a former Collieries
Agent.
Paper 3f
LAW 1/1/394 29 July 1949
Letter from Austin Kirkup, Morton House, Fence Houses, Co. Durham, to JJL: proposing meeting.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/395 5 August 1949
Letter from G.S. McIntire, honorary secretary, The County Borough of Sunderland Savings Committee, Town Hall, Sunderland, to JJL, Woodside, Beamish: acknowledging JJL's acceptance of an invitation to launch the National Savings Week.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/396 18 October 1949
Letter from Robert Chapman, Undercliff, Cleadon, near Sunderland, to JJL, Woodside, Beamish: invitation to present awards to the Tyne Dock Ambulance Class, to provide a needed boost in public interest in their work; enclosing letter of James
Burrows, honorary secretary of the class, providing a history of the class's achievements, [letter returned by JJL to Chapman].
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/397 24 October 1949
Letter from Robert Chapman, Undercliff, Cleadon, near Sunderland, to JJL, Woodside, Beamish: notes JJL acceptance of invitation (
LAW 1/1/396); Advisory Committee.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/398-568 26 February-20 May 1950
Congratulatory correspondence upon JJL's appointment to the peerage as Baron Lawson of Beamish. Items are listed chronologically, and then alphabetically; noting the correspondent's name and address, and the extent of each item; other noteworthy
content is also described.
Paper 197f
LAW 1/1/398 26 February 1950
Sarah Wilson, 5 Bethany Terrace, Catchgate, Annfield Plain: sister Mrs Gibbon.
2f
LAW 1/1/399 27 February 1950
W. [?], Tees Conservancy Commission, Chairman's Room, Middlesbrough.
2f
LAW 1/1/400 27 February 1950
Hester Alington, The Deanery, Durham.
1f
LAW 1/1/401 27 February 1950
W. Appleby, 86 Fenham Hall Drive, Newcastle upon Tyne: former representative of the British Legion on the King's Roll Council, with JJL.
1f
LAW 1/1/402 27 February 1950
Joe and Andrew Armstrong, Boldon Colliery.
1f
LAW 1/1/403 27 February 1950
William Armstrong, 8 Dilston Terrace, South Gosforth, Newcastle upon Tyne.
1f
LAW 1/1/404 27 February 1950
John Atkinson, clerk, City and County of Newcastle upon Tyne, Town Clerk's Office, Town Hall, Newcastle upon Tyne.
1f
LAW 1/1/405 27 February 1950
Colonel Richard Atkinson, 80 Moorside, Newcastle upon Tyne: writes as chairman of the Durham Army Cadet Committee, Chairman of the Pre-Services Committee of the Territorial and Auxiliary Forces Association for the County of Durham, and as
Commandant of Army Cadets in the County of Durham; JJL the Honorary Colonel of the 9th Battalion during his tenure at the War Office.
1f
LAW 1/1/406 27 February 1950
Avie, Torquay.
1f
LAW 1/1/407 27 February 1950
Pat Bartley, Barwood, 15 Oxford Avenue, Washington, Co. Durham.
2f
LAW 1/1/408 27 February 1950
[Wentworth Beaumont, 2nd Viscount] Allendale, Bywell Hall, Stocksfield-on-Tyne, Northumberland: doubts of lords-lieutenant concerning appeal, proposed by the Lord Mayor of London, to re-build Mechlenberg Square in London,
“in gratitude for food parcels from abroad”.
1f
LAW 1/1/409 27 February 1950
Will Bell, 10 Selborne Grove, Bradford: recalls Boldon Colliery and Oxford, 1900-1914.
2f
LAW 1/1/410 27 February 1950
Denis G. Berry, Director, Newcastle Chronicle & Journal Ltd, Kemsley House, G.P.O. Box 101, Newcastle upon Tyne.
1f
LAW 1/1/411 27 February 1950
Arthur Bryant, 18 Rutland Gate, London: Authors' Society.
1f
LAW 1/1/412 27 February 1950
John W. Cassels, School of Agriculture, Houghall, Durham.
1f
LAW 1/1/413 27 February 1950
[William Cecil, 5th marquess of] Exeter, Burghley House, Stamford, to JJL: with stamped envelope; encloses resolution concerning Lord Mayor of London's [proposed Mechlenberg Square appeal]; objection against lords-lieutenant appearing as
““licensed beggars””.
1f
LAW 1/1/414 27 February 1950
C. W. Clarke, Clovelly, Owton Manor Lane, West Hartlepool: former Engineer and Surveyor of Easington, and “the creator of the new town of Peterlee”; the new town's name “decided upon by me
after I had read your delightful book “Peter Lee””.
1f
LAW 1/1/415 27 February 1950
Jack Cohen, Mayor, Mayor's Chamber, Town Hall, Sunderland.
1f
LAW 1/1/416 27 February 1950
Stafford Cripps, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Treasury Chambers, Great George Street, London.
1f
LAW 1/1/417 27 February 1950
Cumbers, Etworth Press, London.
1f
LAW 1/1/418 27 February 1950
Tom Dixon, Kopriva, 25 Park Terrace, Dunston.
1f
LAW 1/1/419 27 February 1950
James Duff, Elvet Garth, Durham: invitation to the installation of G. M. Trevelyan as Chancellor of the university.
1f
LAW 1/1/420 27 February 1950
A. E. Edwards, Chief Constable, County Borough of Middlesbrough.
1f
LAW 1/1/421 27 February 1950
David Gammans MP, 19 Buckingham Palace Mansions, London.
1f
LAW 1/1/422 27 February 1950
Garment, Falkirk.
1f
LAW 1/1/423 27 February 1950
Jack Gilliland, Winterton Hospital, Sedgefield, Stockton-on-Tees: quickening evolution of Socialism.
1f
LAW 1/1/424 27 February 1950
Jack Gordon, Thornley, York Avenue, Jarrow.
1f
LAW 1/1/425 27 February 1950
Mary and Albert Gowland, Blanchland, Via Shotley Bridge, Co. Durham.
1f
LAW 1/1/426 27 February 1950
Alan J. Gray, 3 Manor Place, Sunderland: formerly a returning officer at Seaham in 1918; recollects hearing speak Hardie, Crooks, Blatchford, Snowden, and “the perspiring orator” Grayson; involvement with Friendly
Societies, presiding over a recent international conference in Sweden; accountant for British Transport Commission, now agreeing terms of compensation for road hauliers.
1f
LAW 1/1/427 27 February 1950
A. E. Grundy, 21 Far West Street, East Stanley, Co. Durham: a miner's wife; disappointment at election result, and hopes the Government will fight on.
1f
LAW 1/1/428 27 February 1950
Fred and Lizzie Haram, 172 Harton Lane, Tyne Dock, South Shields.
1f
LAW 1/1/429 27 February 1950
Tom Harker, County Council of Durham, Head Master, The Modern School, Bullion Lane, Chester-le-Street.
1f
LAW 1/1/430 27 February 1950
Tom and Annie Hepple, Bythorne, Lyndhurst Crescent, Low Fell.
1f
LAW 1/1/431 27 February 1950
John G. Herron, 54 Esplanade, Whitley Bay.
1f
LAW 1/1/432 27 February 1950
F. Higginson, Imperial War Graves Commission, 32 Grosvenor Gardens, London.
1f
LAW 1/1/433 27 February 1950
[John Hindley, 1st Viscount] Hyndley, [Chairman], National Coal Board, Hobart House, Grosvenor Place, London.
1f
LAW 1/1/434 27 February 1950
R. Paul Hodder-Williams, Weald Place, Sevenoaks, Kent.
1f
LAW 1/1/435 27 February 1950
Ralph Hodder-Williams, Chairman, Hodder & Stoughton Ltd, St Paul's House, Warwick Square, London: recommends parts of Exmoor, JJL having been appointed [vice-chairman] to the National Parks Commission.
2f
LAW 1/1/436 27 February 1950
T. J. Hogarth, 10 Town Bank Road, Ulverston, Lancashire: retired from Ministry of Labour; recalls JJL visit to Kielder Camp and Whickhope.
1f
LAW 1/1/437 27 February 1950
Bill Hoines, 5 Willow Cott, Great Leighs, Chelmsford, Essex: JJL's support for Sunderland A.F.C..
3f
LAW 1/1/438 27 February 1950
Sir Montague Hughman, Milton Court, Dorking, Surrey.
1f
LAW 1/1/439 27 February 1950
[William] Jowitt, Lord Chancellor, House of Lords.
1f
LAW 1/1/440 27 February 1950
Ken Johnstone, Kemsley Newspapers Ltd, Kemsley House, London: foundation of 11th Battalion Durham Light Infantry; former Conservative candidate for Wallsend.
1f
LAW 1/1/441 27 February 1950
Alan Kerr, 21 Falcourt Close, Sutton, Surrey: reviews miners' struggle for Socialist goals in Co. Durham during 20th century, contrasting with more Conservative south; requests information to support a public debate on coal.
4f
LAW 1/1/442 27 February 1950
Stanley Leyland, 4 Pages Hill, London.
1f
LAW 1/1/443 27 February 1950
[Major] George M. Long, Secretary, Territorial and Auxiliary Forces Association of the County of Durham, 53 Old Elvet, Durham.
1f
LAW 1/1/444 27 February 1950
S. Riley Lord, Newbus Grange, Neasham, Near Darlington: appearance of “a reprieve from the consequences of the proposed wild and unreasonable schemes of the present Government”.
1f
LAW 1/1/445 27 February 1950
A. C. Lothian, Royal Northern Club, Aberdeen.
1f
LAW 1/1/446 27 February 1950
Colonel G. G. Mallinson, 24/32 Stowell Street, Newcastle upon Tyne.
1f
LAW 1/1/447 27 February 1950
Colonel G. G. Mallinson, 24/32 Stowell Street, Newcastle upon Tyne: recalls chats in 13 Group RAF mess, and on journeys from London.
1f
LAW 1/1/448 27 February 1950
Albert Mansbridge, 296 Dartmouth Road, Paignton, Devon: quoting (freely) from letter from JJL, “work work ... is in ... [my] system”; met at Ruskin College.
1f
LAW 1/1/449 27 February 1950
R. Hurst Mather, Headmaster, Alderman Smith Grammar School, County Council of Durham, Washington, Co. Durham.
1f
LAW 1/1/450 27 February 1950
M. D. Methven, North Eastern Trading Estates Ltd, Team Valley, Gateshead-on-Tyne.
1f
LAW 1/1/451 27 February 1950
Billy Moore, 6 Garthlands, Darlington: former canvasser for [the Labour Party] in Co. Durham, 1906-1914.
1f
LAW 1/1/452 27 February 1950
Frank Nicholson, Southill Hall, Near Chester-le-Street.
1f
LAW 1/1/453 27 February 1950
W. P[?], County of Durham Education Committee, North Western Division, Divisional Education Office, Derwent Street, Blackhill, Consett, Co. Durham: writing on behalf of the Governors of Consett Grammar School.
1f
LAW 1/1/454 27 February 1950
Fred Porter, 313 Preston Old Road, Blackburn: regret at death of Joseph Henderson; curriculum vitae enclosed, suggesting personal qualification and suitability for a seat in the House of Lords.
1f; 1f
LAW 1/1/455 27 February 1950
Fred Porter, 313 Preston Old Road, Blackburn.
1f
LAW 1/1/456 27 February 1950
Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Philip Richardson, Aldenholme, Ellesmere Road, Weybridge: former MP [for Chertsey], 1922-1931, and Chairman of the National Rifle Association; recalls JJL presenting prizes at Bisley in 1946; repeats call that the
“unpaid patriotic service” of N.R.A. members might by publicly recognised, noting no member had been honoured for such service since 1860.
2f
LAW 1/1/457 27 February 1950
Denys Kilham Roberts, Secretary-General, The Society of Authors, 84 Drayton Gardens, London: two dramatic sketches by JJL presently being considered by Gilliam, B.B.C. Features Department.
1f
LAW 1/1/458 27 February 1950
E. J. Robinson, Vicarage Cottage, Kingsdown, Deal.
1f
LAW 1/1/459 27 February 1950
Jack Robinson, Lyncroft, Leadgate, Co. Durham.
1f
LAW 1/1/460 27 February 1950
Elsie M. Royston, Feltham, Low Row, Near Richmond, Yorkshire: formerly of Spennymoor; observations on conservatism of local area, inviting good speakers.
1f
LAW 1/1/461 27 February 1950
E. Shinwell, Secretary of State for War, War Office.
1f
LAW 1/1/462 27 February 1950
Waldron Smithers MP, Shelleys, Knockholt, Kent.
1f
LAW 1/1/463 27 February 1950
James R. Spencer, General Manager, The Liverpool Daily Post and Echo Ltd, Victoria Street, Liverpool.
1f
LAW 1/1/464 27 February 1950
Edith M. Steel, Willis Vean, Mullion, Helston, Cornwall: recalls JJL's kindness to Sinclair Steel when in hospital.
1f
LAW 1/1/465 27 February 1950
Jack Stirling, Oakdene, Shipley Road, Westbury-on-Trym, Bristol.
1f
LAW 1/1/466 27 February 1950
Eric St Johnston, County Constabulary Headquarters, Aycliffe, Darlington, Co. Durham: invitation to a dinner on Friday.
1f
LAW 1/1/467 27 February 1950
John Swinney, 2 Osbaldeston Gardens, Newcastle upon Tyne.
1f
LAW 1/1/468 27 February 1950
T. B. Tate, Sea View, Alnmouth, Northumberland: former colleague in the Regional Commission for Civil Defence.
1f
LAW 1/1/469 27 February 1950
Tom and Connie Temple and Andrew [?Temple], 16 East Walk, East Barnet, Hertfordshire: Tom Bell; Pat Bartley; death of Ralph Barrass; Henry Bainbridge; election support for the defeated Dr Taylor at Barnet.
1f
LAW 1/1/470 27 February 1950
Tom Thompson, 4 Hedworth Lane, Boldon Colliery, Co. Durham.
2f
LAW 1/1/471 27 February 1950
Harold Tuff, The Vicarage, Sacriston, Co. Durham.
1f
LAW 1/1/472 27 February 1950
H. Hampton Vick, 2 Queen's Square, Saville Row, Newcastle upon Tyne.
1f
LAW 1/1/473 27 February 1950
Spencer Wade, The Rectory, Whickham, Newcastle upon Tyne.
1f
LAW 1/1/474 27 February 1950
Sydney Walton, 3 St James's Square, London.
1f
LAW 1/1/475 27 February 1950
Sir Angus Watson, Whitewell, Adderstone Crescent, Newcastle upon Tyne.
1f
LAW 1/1/476 27 February 1950
Sir Myers Wayman, Chairman and Managing Director, The Mayfair-Dunn Group, Mayfair Building, Sunderland: colleague in the National Savings Movement.
1f
LAW 1/1/477 27 February 1950
Rev. Dr Robert F. Wearmouth, Featherstone Bungalow, Balcombe Road, Horley, Surrey.
1f
LAW 1/1/478 27 February 1950
A. P. Willey, Holly Mount, Highbury Avenue, Springwell, Gateshead: fellow local preacher.
1f
LAW 1/1/479 27 February 1950
James R. Wilson, 11 Jamaica Street, Peterhead, Aberdeenshire: recalls JJL's donation to the Methodist Church at Peterhead; family history, recalling visit of William Booth to Peterhead.
2f
LAW 1/1/480 27 February 1950
Nellie Wilson, Lindisfarne Hotel, Holy Island.
1f
LAW 1/1/481 28 February 1950
H. Bradley, Headmaster, The Grammar School, Consett, Co. Durham: extends invitation for 10 March event to Bella Lawson.
1f
LAW 1/1/482 28 February 1950
D. H. Brown, Cob Cottage, Warwick: former Deputy County Surveyor of Co. Durham, prior to appointment as County Surveyor for Warwickshire in 1920.
1f
LAW 1/1/483 28 February 1950
R. P. [?Care], Judicial Office, House of Lords: Secretary of the Lords-lieutenant Association.
1f
LAW 1/1/484 28 February 1950
Sir William Cartwright, Heather Royd, Alwoodley Gates, Leeds: Lord Ammon; [Thomas] Benfold, deputy-lieutenant.
1f
LAW 1/1/485 28 February 1950
Isobel Cripps, 11 Downing Street.
1f
LAW 1/1/486 28 February 1950
Sir John Smedley Crooke, Hopwood, Alvechurch, Worcestershire: grateful for JJL's words upon a presentation made to Crooke by the House of Commons Branch of the British Legion; former MP for Birmingham Deritend, 1922-1929, 1931-1945]; admiration
for JJL since 1922, “for the way in which you stood up to your Party!”.
1f
LAW 1/1/487 28 February 1950
A. A. Denholm, Long Garth, Whitesmocks, Durham.
1f
LAW 1/1/488 28 February 1950
Marie Duberley, Plawsworth Cottage, Chester-le-Street: stamped envelope; born 1877; seeks protection from the Coal Board stealing her water, citing 99-year lease made in 1903, and annual sums for several collieries.
2f
LAW 1/1/489 28 February 1950
W. Errington, Clyde Vale, Smailes Lane, Rowlands Gill, Co. Durham.
1f
LAW 1/1/490 28 February 1950
B. Ifor Evans, Principal, Queen Mary College, University of London, Mile End Road, London: notes JJL's friends in America.
1f
LAW 1/1/491 28 February 1950
Hugh Gaitskell, Ministry of Fuel and Power, 7 Millbank, London.
1f
LAW 1/1/492 28 February 1950
Cuthbert Headlam, Holywell, Durham.
1f
LAW 1/1/493 28 February 1950
J. M. Herring, Mayor of Durham, 26 Silver Street, Durham.
1f
LAW 1/1/494 28 February 1950
Austin Kirkup, Morton House, Fence Houses: bee keeper, to send honey for the grandchildren.
1f
LAW 1/1/495 28 February 1950
Jack Lawson, Travellers Rest Hotel, 91 Regent Street, Blyth.
1f
LAW 1/1/496 28 February 1950
George E. Meachim, 5 Heather Road, Welford Road, Leicester: with JJL at Woolwich.
1f
LAW 1/1/497 28 February 1950
Alderman J. R. S. Middlewood, 2 Dent Street, Tindale Crescent, Bishop Auckland, Co. Durham.
1f
LAW 1/1/498 28 February 1950
Thomas Murphy, General Secretary, The Showmen's Guild of Great Britain, 230-231 Abbey House, Victoria Street, Westminster, London.
1f
LAW 1/1/499 28 February 1950
W. D. Parry, Cartref, Northumberland Avenue, Bishop Auckland, Co. Durham: recalls voting from overseas in 1918 election, and later by-election victory.
1f
LAW 1/1/500 28 February 1950
Charles S. Perkins, clerk, Gosforth Urban District Council, Council Chambers, Gosforth, Northumberland.
1f
LAW 1/1/501 28 February 1950
J. Metcalf Philipson, The Church of the Divine Unity, Durant Hall & Minor Hall, Ellison Place, Newcastle upon Tyne: renews invitation to preach at Newcastle, enclosing letter from Rev. Herbert Barnes, [not present].
1f
LAW 1/1/502 28 February 1950
Eugene Ramsden, The Wheatleys, Gomersal, Near Leeds.
1f
LAW 1/1/503 28 February 1950
John Derby [Alfred Edward John Rawlinson], bishop of Derby, Beadsall Mount, Near Derby.
1f
LAW 1/1/504 28 February 1950
J. Arthur Rodwell, Highfield House, Durham.
1f
LAW 1/1/505 28 February 1950
Dr J. Main Russell, Wemyss, 1 Stockarth Lane, Oughtibridge, Sheffield.
1f
LAW 1/1/506 28 February 1950
Rev. Dr W. E. Sangster, The Methodist Church, Westminster Central Hall, London.
1f
LAW 1/1/507 28 February 1950
Hugh L. Swinburne, Staward Hall, Langley-on-Tyne, Northumberland.
2f
LAW 1/1/508 28 February 1950
S. J. Tate, 43 Low Willington, Co. Durham: recalls reading JJL's memoirs in the
Sunday Sun.
2f
LAW 1/1/509 28 February 1950
Frank & Lizzie Tombleson, 14 Atkinson Road, Fulwell, Sunderland.
2f
LAW 1/1/510 28 February 1950
John Troup, Headmaster, Hookergate Grammar School, High Spen, Rowlands Gill: Labour Party supporter at Spennymoor since 1920
1f
LAW 1/1/511 28 February 1950
John Turnbull, Springfield, Chester-le-Street.
1f
LAW 1/1/512 28 February 1950
Robin [Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 8th marquess of Londonderry], Wynyard Park, Billingham on Tees, Co. Durham: received commission as deputy-lieutenant of Co. Durham.
1f
LAW 1/1/513 28 February 1950
Bob Whisling, 3 Struan Terrace, East Boldon, Co. Durham.
2f
LAW 1/1/514 1 March 1950
Lieutenant-Colonel T. H. Birkbeck, 17th Parachute Battalion (D.L.I.) T.A., T.A. Centre, Burt Terrace, Gateshead.
1f
LAW 1/1/515 1 March 1950
George Catlin, 2 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, London: speaking tour; working in consultation with William Whiteley.
1f
LAW 1/1/516 1 March 1950
Reginald J. Davis, St Paul's House, Warwick Square, London.
1f
LAW 1/1/517 1 March 1950
H. W. Dawson, 46 Garden Avenue, Langley Park, Durham.
1f
LAW 1/1/518 1 March 1950
Ann and William Errington, Ermelo House, Sacriston.
1f
LAW 1/1/519 1 March 1950
Mr and Mrs Finley, 36 Shiney Row.
1f
LAW 1/1/520 1 March 1950
D. Follows, The British Air Line Pilots Association, 9-10 Marble Arch, London: JJL formerly vice-president of the Association.
1f
LAW 1/1/521 1 March 1950
Hardie M. B. Henderson, 40 Oxford Road, Peterborough, Northamptonshire: in the 1945 election spoke for [Stanley] Tiffany [MP for Peterborough], losing by 144 votes; recalls encounters with Tom Summerbell, Peter Curran, Cunninghame Graham.
2f
LAW 1/1/522 1 March 1950
R. C. McLean, University of Wales, University College, Newport Road, Cardiff.
1f
LAW 1/1/523 1 March 1950
T. T. J. Sheffield, 87 Cambridge Road, Middlesbrough: deputy-lieutenant for Co. Durham.
1f
LAW 1/1/524 1 March 1950
Mrs M. E. Trewhitt and A. J. L. Findley, 36 Eleanor Street, Cullercoats.
1f
LAW 1/1/525 1 March 1950
Ada and Ted Walker, 18 Plantation View, Twizell Beamish, Co. Durham.
1f
LAW 1/1/526 2 March 1950
J. Bowman, [Chairman] National Coal Board Northern Division, Chairman's Office, Fourth Floor, Collingwood Buildings, Newcastle upon Tyne.
1f
LAW 1/1/527 2 March 1950
J. T. Charlton Deas, 20 Humbledon View, Sunderland.
1f
LAW 1/1/528 2 March 1950
H. F. Chettle, Fonthill Gifford, Tisbury, Wiltshire.
1f
LAW 1/1/529 2 March 1950
Sir John Dodd, 230 Royal Exchange, Manchester, as from The Rock Hotel, Gibraltar.
1f
LAW 1/1/530 2 March 1950
Eric Hall, City of Leicester Education Committee, Leicester College of Art, School of Drawing and Painting.
1f
LAW 1/1/531 2 March 1950
Mark Hodgson, Chairman, Northern Regional Board for Industry, Claredon House, Clayton Street West, Newcastle upon Tyne.
1f
LAW 1/1/532 2 March 1950
Right Honourable Leslie Hore-Belisha, 16 Stafford Place, London.
1f
LAW 1/1/533 2 March 1950
Charles and Eileen Pickering, Gosport.
1f
LAW 1/1/534 2 March 1950
Charles Pickering, 10 The Crescent, Alverstoke, Hampshire: JJL's son-in-law a candidate in an East Riding constituency in the 1950 election.
1f
LAW 1/1/535 2 March 1950
W. J. Slim, Chief of the Imperial General Staff, War Office.
1f
LAW 1/1/536 2 March 1950
Arthur Swinnerton, postmarked London N.W.1.
1f
LAW 1/1/537 2 March 1950
T. Augustus Toote, Chambers, Nassau, Bahamas: recalls a tour led by JJL of the House of Commons in August 1949.
1f
LAW 1/1/538 2 March 1950
Mrs Ruby Watson, Secretary, Council of the Order of St John for Co. Durham, 2 Osborne Terrace, Jesmond, Newcastle upon Tyne: on behalf of Lord Gort, chairman, and Council members.
1f
LAW 1/1/539 2 March 1950
J. Willis, Honorary Secretary, Chester-le-Street Labour Party, 15 The Green, Chester-le-Street.
1f
LAW 1/1/540 3 March 1950
Tom Brown, Secretary, Sunderland & District Trades Council, 37 Dene Lane, Fulwell, Sunderland: recalls JJL's actions for the Council at the last May Day celebrations.
1f
LAW 1/1/541 3 March 1950
G. F. McDougal, Durham County Bowling Association, 20 Eastwood Gardens, Low Fell, Gateshead.
1f
LAW 1/1/542 3 March 1950
Professor A. Victor Murray, President, Cheshunt College, Cambridge: George Borrow, John Clare; Will Lawther.
1f
LAW 1/1/543 3 March 1950
Adolf Schmidt, 176 Carmel Road, Darlington: Alligator Leather goods, Bishop Auckland.
1f
LAW 1/1/544 4 March 1950
Lady Laetitia N. Hutchison, Thurle Grange, Streatley-on-Thames: daughter of the Dean of Worcester; Ernest Bird; sees Chuter Ede at Epsom College meetings.
1f
LAW 1/1/545 4 March 1950
James Hilton, 1218 N. La Cienega, Hollywood, California: sends latest novel in a few months; successful radio show.
1f
LAW 1/1/546 4 March 1950
Clyde Lawson, Lawson's Appliances, 89-91 on the Square, Monmouth, Illinois: provides and seeks genealogical information, father's Durham roots, coal mining in America.
2f
LAW 1/1/547 4 March 1950
L[eon] Usher, 6 Ivanhoe Terrace, Chester-le-Street.
1f
LAW 1/1/548 5 March 1950
Teddy [Edward R.G.R. Evans, 1st baron] Mountevans, Andvord, Golå, Harpefoss St., Norway: arrives Newcastle 27 March on S.S. Bretagne, too late to sponsor JJL at his induction to the House of Lords; ill-health, recovering; urges additional
autobiography.
2f
LAW 1/1/549 5 March 1950
Mark Hodgson, Bellfield, 31 Kenton Road, Gosforth, Newcastle upon Tyne: invitation to attend Men's Anniversary Service at Woodbine Road Methodist Church, Rev. Clipson of Whitechapel preaching.
1f
LAW 1/1/550 5 March 1950
Albert and Isabel Sayes, and Graham, 96 Princes Road, Middlesbrough: Perkinsville.
1f
LAW 1/1/551 5 March 1950
Win and Ralph, 373 Hurcott Road, Kidderminster, Worcestershire.
2f
LAW 1/1/552 6 March 1950
W. M. and S. A. Clark, 2 East View, Fishburn, Stockton-on-Tees.
2f
LAW 1/1/553 4 March 1950
Rosalind Stopford, President, The Durham County Branch of the National Gardens Guild, Hallgarth House, Hallgarth Street, Durham.
1f
LAW 1/1/554 8 March 1950
T. W. Bell, clerk, Consett Urban District Council, Medomsley Road, Consett, Co. Durham.
1f
LAW 1/1/555 8 March 1950
R. M. Percival, Secretary, North Eastern Trading Estates Ltd, Team Valley, Gateshead-on-Tyne.
1f
LAW 1/1/556 8 March 1950
John Polwarth, Canadian Representative, B.B.C., 354 Jarvis Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada: R. S. Lambert, and JJL's past association with the Film Institute.
1f
LAW 1/1/557 8 March 1950
J. J. Shipston, clerk, Urban District of Stanley, Council Offices, Stanley, Co. Durham.
1f
LAW 1/1/558 13 March 1950
George Minto, Circuit Secretary, 6 Cookson Terrace, Chester-le-Street.
1f
LAW 1/1/559 17 March 1950
M. Dunbar Nasmith, Imperial War Graves Commission, 32 Grosvenor Gardens, London: JJL a member for seventeen years.
1f
LAW 1/1/560 22 March 1950
Bill Cully, Little House, Cavesham, Norwich.
1f
LAW 1/1/561 22 March 1950
Harold Neal, House of Commons: on behalf of the Miners' Parliamentary Group.
1f
LAW 1/1/562 24 March 1950
S. Holgate, Secretary, The Durham Colleges, 38 North Bailey, Durham.
1f
LAW 1/1/563 27 March 1950
Mrs Parr, 24 Leckford Road, Oxford: formerly of Medomsley.
1f
LAW 1/1/564 5 April 1950
Bob [Coxon], 5 Westfield Crescent, Springwell, Gateshead: with invitation to Women's Section Victory Social.
1f
LAW 1/1/565 [February x April 1950]
Alice [Colegrove], Nab-End, 115 Cumnor Hill, Oxford.
1f
LAW 1/1/566 [February x April 1950]
S. A. Gibbons, Honorary Secretary, Federation of Labour Women, Jarrow Division, 7 Shelley Avenue, Boldon Colliery, Co. Durham.
1f
LAW 1/1/567 [February x April 1950]
Lance Grindle, Society Steward West Pelton Methodist Church, 21 Plantation View, West Pelton, Beamish, Co. Durham.
2f
LAW 1/1/568 [February x April 1950]
Catherine Trotter, The Lodge, 57 The Avenue, Cheam , Surrey.
2f
LAW 1/1/569 2 March 1950
Letter from Clement Attlee, Prime Minister, 10 Downing Street, to JJL: election, and children's part in it; feelings concerning appointments and rejects.
Paper 1f; envelope
LAW 1/1/570 25 March 1950
Letter from G. L. Tossell, District Organiser and Honorary Secretary, Darlington and District Branch B.P. Guild of Old Scouts, 28 Langholm Crescent, Darlington: as JJL unable to attend personally, requests personal message to all Durham County
Scouts for the Darlington Gang Show Souvenir Programme.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/571 29 March 1950
Letter from W. Barne, Secretary-General, The Grand Priory in the British Realm of the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem, Chancery, St John's Gate, Clerkenwell, London, to JJL: notification of JJL's appointment by the
King, on 3 March 1950, as a knight in the Order of St John; encloses memorandum of instructions, and latest annual report of the Chapter-General [not present]; envelope addressed to the Accountant of the Order, for remittance of £3 fee for insignia;
2" black grosgrain silk swatch of the riband of the Order, and note.
Paper 3f; envelope; textile swatch
LAW 1/1/572-573 6 April 1950
Letter from R. B. Thorogood, National Parks Commission, Devonshire House, Mayfair Place, London, to JJL, 7 Woodside, Beamish: funding Norfolk and Suffolk Broads restoration, an estimate requiring more detailed phasing, and enclosing letter from
H. Oswald Brown; Mr Mobbs.
Paper 1f; 1f
LAW 1/1/573 31 March 1950
Copy letter from H. Oswald Brown, Norfolk County Council, County Offices, Thorpe Road, Norwich, to R. B. Thorogood, National Parks Commission, Devonshire House, Marfair Place, London: V. I. Gaster, Mr Mobbs, Sir Patrick Duff, R. I. Maxwell, and
delay in provision of more detailed Mobbs report, [with phasing].
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/574/1-2 22 September 1950
Letter from Miss K. E. Gilbert, Private Secretary, W. T. Henley's Telegraph Works Company Limited, Milton Court, Dorking, Surrey, to JJL, 16 Forthbridge Road, Clapham Common, London: encloses notes of Sir Montague Hughman, chairman, made for a
speech at the opening of the company's Birtley Works, and requesting a copy of JJL's notes for his reply.
Paper 1f; 3f
LAW 1/1/574/2 [March 1950]
Copy notes of Sir Montague Hughman, Chairman, made for a speech at the opening of the company's Birtley Works on 16 October 1950.
Paper 3f
LAW 1/1/575 [Christmas-tide], [February 1950 x 1965]
Letter from [Lieutenant-Colonel] Mark Leather, 2nd Battalion Durham Light Infantry, Barnard Castle: offers thanks for JJL's visit and talk to the battalion.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/576 28 April 1951
Letter from A. Lascelles, Buckingham Palace, to JJL, House of Lords: notification of the King's permission for JJL to travel abroad on 15 May, part of a parliamentary delegation to Yugoslavia.
Paper 1f; envelope
LAW 1/1/577 20 January 1951
Letter from Arthur Street, National Coal Board, Hobart House, Grosvenor Place, London, to JJL: recalls, when Permanent Secretary to John Hynd, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster in charge of German and Austrian affairs, attending a meeting with
JJL at the War Office, and his “agreeable” and “understanding” attitude; encloses for distribution copies of the writer's Rhoose address, and which quotes from
A man's life.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/578 7 January 1952
Letter from Martin Charteris, Private Secretary to the Princess Elizabeth, Clarence House, St James's, to JJL, 7 Woodside, Beamish: Colonel Greenwell; declines request that Princess Elizabeth open the new dry dock at Sunderland on 4 September
1952.
Paper 1f; envelope
LAW 1/1/579 22 January 1952
Letter from E. Russell-Jones, Honorary Area Secretary, British Legion Northern Area, 34a Coney Street, York, as from 14 Alexandra Road, Harrogate, to JJL, 7 Woodside, Beamish: invitation to attend the Festival of Remembrance at the Albert Hall on
8 November.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/580 24 January 1952
Letter from Rob Chapman, Undercliff, Cleadon, Near Sunderland, to JJL, 7 Woodside, Beamish: submits for consideration to be appointed deputies-lieutenant of Co. Durham, Sir Andrew Common, Lieutenant-Colonel Macgowan Chapman, Lieutenant-Colonel
Ronald M. Percival, and Major Aubone Surtees; dinner on 25th January.
Paper 2f
LAW 1/1/581 21 August 1952
Letter from Winston Churchill, Prime Minister, 10 Downing Street, to JJL: acknowledges JJL's recommendation concerning Colonel Sir Leonard Ropner, for his services to the County Territorial Association, noting, however, that Ropner's baronetcy
was conferred only last January.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/582 29 October 1952
Letter from W. G. Agnew, Privy Council Office, Whitehall, to JJL, Beamish: encloses Order in Council, dated 21 October, reappointing JJL to the Court of the University of Durham, (see
LAW 1/2/244).
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/583 23 January 1953
Letter from Lieutenant-General Sir Frederick A. M. Browning, [Treasurer, Office of the Duke of Edinburgh], Buckingham Palace, to JJL, Woodside, Beamish: acknowledging receipt of letter from the County Borough of Sunderland offering Freedom of the
City to the Duke of Edinburgh, and requesting a visit by the Duke in September.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/584 22 October 1953
Letter from Anthony [Eden], Foreign Office, to JJL: acknowledges JJL's note; back at work, and “beginning to feel really fit again”.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/585 27 November 1953
Letter from A. Lascelles, Buckingham Palace, to JJL: offers thanks for JJL's letter [upon Lascelles' retirement]; recalls with gratitude JJL's support in 1943;
A man's life frequently loaned, “a masterpiece”.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/586-609 22 February - 29 October 1954
Correspondence, papers and ephemera received by JJL concerning a visit by the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh to Tyneside, South Shields and Sunderland, 29 October 1954. Items are listed in chronological order, with the extent; any other
noteworthy content is also recorded.
Paper 43f
LAW 1/1/586 22 February 1954
Edward Ford, [Assistant Private Secretary to the Queen], Buckingham Palace: reading
A man's life.
2f
LAW 1/1/587 11 March 1954
Edward Ford, Buckingham Palace.
1f
LAW 1/1/588 16 March 1954
Edward Ford, Buckingham Palace.
1f
LAW 1/1/589 16 March 1954
Edward Ford, Buckingham Palace.
1f
LAW 1/1/590 19 March 1954
Alec Muir, [Chief Constable], County Constabulary Headquarters, Aycliffe, Darlington, Co. Durham.
1f; 1f
LAW 1/1/591 22 March 1954
Edward Ford, Buckingham Palace.
1f
LAW 1/1/592 30 March 1954
Edward Ford, Buckingham Palace.
1f
LAW 1/1/593 8 April 1954
Edward Ford, Buckingham Palace: presentation of Mr Luxmoore, clerk to the lieutenancy.
1f
LAW 1/1/594 23 April 1954
Edward Ford, Buckingham Palace.
2f, with envelope
LAW 1/1/595 27 April 1954
Alec Muir, [Chief Constable], County Constabulary Headquarters, Aycliffe, Darlington, Co. Durham: invitation to JJL to inspect County Parade of the Special Constabulary on 23 May in Durham.
1f; 1f; 1f
LAW 1/1/596 1 May 1954
Alec Muir, [Chief Constable], County Constabulary Headquarters, Aycliffe, Darlington, Co. Durham.
1f
LAW 1/1/597 15 June 1954
Edward Ford, Windsor Castle: Queen to be attended by Sir Michael Adeane.
1f
LAW 1/1/598 18 June 1954
Edward French, Chairman, Hebburn Urban District Council, Chairman's Parlour, Council Offices, Argyle Street, Hebburn.
1f
LAW 1/1/599 30 June 1954
Alec Muir, [Chief Constable], County Constabulary Headquarters, Aycliffe, Darlington, Co. Durham.
1f
LAW 1/1/600 2 July 1954
M. R. Adeane, [Assistant Private Secretary to the Queen], Buckingham Palace.
1f, 1f, with envelope
LAW 1/1/601 6 July 1954
M. R. Adeane, Buckingham Palace.
1f
LAW 1/1/602 7 July 1954
Alec Muir, [Chief Constable], County Constabulary Headquarters, Aycliffe, Darlington, Co. Durham.
1f
LAW 1/1/603 30 August 1954
M. R. Adeane, Balmoral Castle.
1f
LAW 1/1/604 postmarked 16 September 1954
Envelope from the office of the Private Secretary to the Queen, Balmoral Castle.
1f
LAW 1/1/605 18 September 1954
M. R. Adeane, Balmoral Castle: enclosing lists of personal recommendations for presentations at Jarrow, South Shields and Sunderland; also found enclosed, tickets and invitations to the reserved enclosure and platform on Tyne Bridge, and the
programme for events at Gateshead Town Hall, 29 October 1954.
1f, 2f, 5f; with envelope
LAW 1/1/606 25 October 1954
M. R. Adeane, Buckingham Palace.
1f
LAW 1/1/607 25 October 1954
M. R. Adeane, Buckingham Palace.
1f
LAW 1/1/608 [October 1954]
Route and timetable for the royal visit, in triplicate.
2f (x3)
LAW 1/1/609 29 October 1954
M. R. Adeane, Buckingham Palace: enclosing second letter to JJL officially conveying the Queen's thanks, marked up for public release in pencil.
1f, 1f; with stamped envelope
LAW 1/1/610-613 29 March - 6 April 1954
Correspondence concerning a teacher's failure or inability to satisfy the terms of his professional probation, petitioning JJL for assistance, on the strength of an old acquaintance.
Paper 2f, 2f, 1f; 1f
Access to items LAW 1/1/610-613 will be limited under the terms of the UK Data Protection Act 1998.
LAW 1/1/610 3 April 1954
Letter seeking assistance from JJL, and enclosing LAW 1/1/611-612.
2f
LAW 1/1/611 [April 1954]
Curriculum vitae.
2f
LAW 1/1/612 29 March 1954
Letter from Florence Horsbrugh, Minister of Education, Curzon Street, London, to David Llewellyn MP, House of Commons.
1f
LAW 1/1/613 6 April 1954
Reply from JJL, undertaking to speak with persons involved.
1f
LAW 1/1/614/1-2 3 April 1954
Letter, with enclosure, from Alderman Harry Hodgson, 2 Stevenson Street, Houghton-le-Spring, Co. Durham, to JJL: recommending Francis Craggs for a public honour, to mark fifty-two years working for the Country's Transport, with North Eastern
Railway, Sunderland District Omnibus Company and (formerly) Sunderland District Electric Tramway; a Boer War veteran; cutting enclosed.
Paper 2f; 1f;
LAW 1/1/614/2 2 April 1954
Newspaper cutting,
Durham Chronicle and Chester-le-Street Chronicle: article by Francis Craggs on tramways in the Houghton-le-Street area.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/615 6 April 1954
Letter from JJL to Alderman Harry Hodgson, 2 Stevenson Street, Houghton-le-Spring, Co. Durham: to consider Hodgson's recommendation of Francis Craggs, (see
LAW 1/1/614).
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/616 30 March 1954
Letter from G. J. Malpass, Personnel Manager, Birtley Company Limited, Birtley, Co. Durham, to JJL, Beamish: invitation, at the National Savings Committee Commissioner for Northern Region D. A. Worgan's suggestion, to address the Company's
workers on 7 April, on the subject of National Savings.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/617 7 April 1954
Letter from JJL to G. J. Malpass, Personnel Manager, Birtley Company Limited, Birtley, Co. Durham: apologises for inability to attend a meeting, (see
LAW 1/1/616).
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/618 30 July 1954
Letter from W. C. V. Addiscott, National Parks Commission, 3 Chester Gate, Regent's Park, London, to JJL, 7 Woodside, Beamish: encloses, for approval, draft of address by JJL to the National Conference of the National Housing and Town Planning
Council at Scarborough on 27 October.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/619 15 November 1954
Letter from [Giles S. H. Fox-Strangways, 6th earl of] Ilchester, 14 Montagu Square, London, to JJL: case of Bowes Museum, raised by JJL, not within remit of the Standing Commission on Museums, but supported there by Professor A. E. Richardson,
and the writer; offer of a meeting.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/620 1 February 1955
Letter from Clement Attlee, House of Commons, to JJL: congratulates JJL on his re-appointment to the vice-chairmanship of the National Parks Commission.
Paper 1f; envelope
LAW 1/1/621-661 2 February - 29 November 1955
Correspondence and other papers concerning a visit by the Duke of Edinburgh to Gateshead and Darlington, 15 November 1955; opening of the Technical Institute at Gateshead and the Girls High School at Darlington. Includes correspondence from:
Lieutenant-General Sir Frederick A. M. Browning, [Treasurer, Office of the Duke of Edinburgh]; [Lieutenant-Commander] Michael Parker, [Private Secretary to the Duke of Edinburgh]; H. Hopkins, Darlington Town Clerk; C. D. Jackson, Gateshead Town
Clerk; Alan Muir, Chief Constable, Durham County Constabulary; Brigadier R. G. W. Melsome; Major-General J. M. K. Spurling; Diana Lyttelton; J. H. Miller; Alderman J. R. S. Middlewood; S. Riley Lord. Noteworthy items:
Paper 55f
LAW 1/1/623 19 February 1955
H. Hopkins, Town Clerk, County Borough of Darlington, 11, Houndgate, Darlington: encloses information on Darlington Girls' High School, Patons & Baldwins Ltd, and The Darlington & Simpson Rolling Mills.
1f; 2f
LAW 1/1/633 8 September 1955
Alan Muir, Durham County Constabulary, Chief Constable's Office, Aycliffe, Darlington, Co. Durham: Brigadier Melsome, General Evans; opening of Washington Old Hall, Mr Nicholson of Sunderland.
1f
LAW 1/1/661 29 November 1955
Michael Parker, Buckingham Palace: JJL the only lord-lieutenant to have flown in the [Queen's Flight] helicopter to date.
1f
LAW 1/1/662 23 February 1955
Letter from J. T. Roberts, Assistant Secretary of Commissions, Lord Chancellor's Office, House of Lords, to JJL: notification of the Lord Chancellor's approval of the appointment of 24 persons to the County of Durham Commission of the Peace, also
appointing ex-officio Justices C. F. C. Lawson, and John Brown.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/663 24 February 1955
Letter from J. K. Hope, County Clerk, County of Durham, Shire Hall, Durham, to JJL, Woodside, Beamish: political neutrality of the Advisory Committee to the lord-lieutenant, enclosing extracts from the 1948 Report of the Royal Commission on
Justices of the Peace; resignation of Matthew Tate from the Commission.
Paper 1f, 1f;
LAW 1/1/664 18 March 1955
Letter from Clement Attlee, House of Commons, to JJL: unspecified meeting dissatisfactory, only Percy Collick speech worthy of the occasion; commends JJL's speech in the Defence Debate.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/665 10 April 1955
Letter from Anthony Eden, Prime Minister, 10 Downing Street, to JJL: offers thanks for JJL's letter.
Paper 1f; envelope
LAW 1/1/666 13 June 1955
Letter from Dr R. Rutherford, The Firs, Langley Park, Durham, to JJL: encloses photograph of JJL taking the salute and inspecting the parade of the South Durham Area St John Ambulance Brigade, 8 May 1955, (see
LAW
3/1).
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/667 14 June 1955
Letter from Miss M. E. Fawcett, Matron, Shotley Bridge General Hospital, Shotley Bridge, Consett, Co. Durham, to JJL, 7 Woodside, Beamish: encloses photographs of the Nurses' Prize giving; Nurse Wilson, gold medallist.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/668 1 October 1955
Letter from Nancy Astor, Rest Harrow, Sandwich, Kent, to JJL: apologises for having missed the opening of Washington Old Hall, noting a family connection to the Washington family in Virginia.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/669 3 October 1955
Letter from Winthrop W. Aldrich, [Ambassador], Embassy of the United States of America, London, to JJL, 7 Woodside, Beamish: offers thanks for hospitality at Durham Castle and Washington Old Hall; visit to Durham Cathedral.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/670 27 February 1956
Letter from J. R. Kayll, Waldridge Lane House, Chester-le-Street, Co. Durham, to JJL, Beamish: offers thanks for appointment as deputy-lieutenant for the County of Durham.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/671-684 10 May - 1 October 1956
Correspondence and other papers concerning a visit by Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother to the Bowes Museum and St Mary's College, University of Durham, 1 November 1956. Includes correspondence from: M. J. Gilliat, Private Secretary to Queen
Elizabeth The Queen Mother; Thomas Wake, Curator, The Bowes Museum and Park; Hugh Dalton; W. Watson; E. T. Close; Alan Webster; H. J. Boyden; H. E. Birkbeck; [Christopher Vane, 10th baron] Barnard; J. Allison; J. Smith; A. A. Luxmoore; [Standish
Vereker, 7th Viscount] Gort. Noteworthy items:
Paper 15f
LAW 1/1/683 24 September 1956
A. A. Luxmoore, Wilson & Co., 5 North Bailey, Durham: Brigadier Melsome; presentations, and deputy-lieutenants in Barnard Castle region; Durham Assizes and absence of the High Sheriff prevent the writer, as Under-Sheriff, from attending at
Bowes.
2f
LAW 1/1/684 1 October 1956
[Standish Vereker, 7th Viscount] Gort, Fort Garry Hotel, Winnipeg: accepting Bowes invitation; Mr S. Bird, Boston.
1f
LAW 1/1/685 21 September 1956
Letter from Michael Adeane, [Private Secretary to the Queen], Balmoral Castle, to JJL, 7 Woodside, Beamish: notification of the extension of JJL's appointment [as lord-lieutenant of Co. Durham] for two years.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/686 [September x December 1956]
Letter from Lieutenant-Colonel S. W. Warwick, 2 Holmlands Park, Chester-le-Street to JJL: welcomes the extension of JJL's term of duty as lord-lieutenant.
Paper 2f
LAW 1/1/687 3 December 1956
Letter from G. A. Lawson, Headmaster, Ford Modern School, Hylton, Sunderland, to JJL: offers thanks for JJL's attendance and inspirational speech at an unspecified evening event.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/688 11 February 1957
Letter from Major-General J. H. N. Poett, Colonel, The Durham Light Infantry, The Staff College, Camberley, Surrey, to JJL, 7 Woodside, Beamish: celebrations of the bi-centenary of the raising of the Durham Light Infantry in 1958; good reports
from the 1st Battalion at Aden.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/689 20 March 1957
Letter from Michael Adeane, [Private Secretary to the Queen], Buckingham Palace, to JJL, Woodside, Beamish: JJL's letter, concerning plans for “a great youth demonstration” in Co. Durham during the summer of 1958,
forwarded to the Duke of Edinburgh's Treasurer.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/690 8 June 1957
Letter from S. Bloomfield, 23 Valley View, Longshanks Lane, Birtley, Co. Durham, to JJL: royal recognition of the diamond wedding anniversary of the writer's wife's parents, Mr and Mrs Frank Allison.
Paper 2f
LAW 1/1/691 15 June 1957
Letter from S. Bloomfield, 23 Valley View, Longshanks Lane, Birtley, Co. Durham, to JJL: enclosing marriage certificate [of Mr and Mrs Frank Allison].
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/692 16 September 1957
Letter from Major-General J. H. N. Poett, Colonel, The Durham Light Infantry, Commandant's Office, Staff College, Camberley, to JJL, 7 Woodside, Beamish: offers thanks for JJL's attendance and speech at [D.L.I.] re-union the previous day.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/693-696 26 September - 4 October 1957
Correspondence and other papers concerning a visit by the Duke of Edinburgh to shipbuilding and engineering yards on the River Tyne, 20 December 1957: Hawthorn Leslie, Swan Hunter, Wigham Richardson, Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Company,
Pametrada. Includes correspondence from: [Hugh Percy, 10th duke of] Northumberland [and lord-lieutenant of Northumberland]; James Orr, [Private Secretary to the Duke of Edinburgh]. Noteworthy item:
Paper 5f
LAW 1/1/696 26 September 1957
[Hugh Percy, 10th duke of] Northumberland [and lord-lieutenant of Northumberland], Alnwick Castle, Northumberland: inclusion of Hawthorn Leslie in Hebburn, Co. Durham, brings the visit also within JJL's remit; encloses timetable of visit.
2f
LAW 1/1/697 2 October 1957
Letter from Quintin Hogg [2nd Viscount Hailsham], [Lord President of the Council], Privy Council Office, Whitehall, to JJL: “I will respect your wishes, since, with your deep sense of public duty, you are the best judge
in such matters”.
Paper 1f; envelope
LAW 1/1/698 7 October 1957
Letter from Major-General J. H. N. Poett, Colonel, The Durham Light Infantry, Commandant's Office, Staff College, Camberley, to JJL, 7 Woodside, Beamish: JJL, already the president of the Durham Light Infantry Old Comrades Association; invitation
to be the Association's Patron.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/699 10 October 1957
Letter from Major-General J. H. N. Poett, Colonel, The Durham Light Infantry, Commandant's Office, Staff College, Camberley, to JJL, 7 Woodside, Beamish: acknowledges JJL's acceptance of the office of Patron.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/700 5 September 1958
Letter from [Christopher Vane, 10th baron] Barnard, Raby Castle, Staindrop, Darlington, Co. Durham, to JJL, 7 Woodside, Beamish: anticipating taking up the duties of the lord-lieutenancy from JJL.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/701 6 September 1958
Letter from W. L. Burn, Bombay House, Wolsingham, Co. Durham, to JJL: offers his appreciation for JJL's term as lord-lieutenant.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/702 20 September 1958
Letter, with enclosures, from [Thomas Corbett, 2nd baron] Rowallan, Chief Scout, The Boy Scouts Association, 25 Buckingham Palace Road, London, to JJL: invitation to JJL to continue as president of the Co. Durham Scout Council.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/703 15 October 1958
Letter from Paul Williams, House of Commons, to JJL, 7 Woodside, Beamish: regret at JJL's retirement [lord-lieutenancy].
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/704 16 October 1958
Letter from E. Shinwell, House of Commons, to JJL: commends JJL's seven-year lord-lieutenancy.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/705 16 October 1958
Letter from Robert Chapman, Undercliffe, Cleadon, Near Sunderland, to JJL: congratulates JJL on the completion of his lord-lieutenancy.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/706 17 October 1958
Letter from Harold [M. Abrahams], National Parks Commission, 3 Chester Gate, Regent's Park, London, to JJL, 7 Woodside, Beamish: reaction to biographical article about JJL published in the
Manchester Guardian the previous day; conveys Commission's best wishes on JJL's retirement.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/707 22 October 1958
Letter from J. H. S. Wild, Dean of Durham, The Deanery, Durham, to JJL: commends JJL's lord-lieutenancy; need for “breaking down of the barriers which isolate different groups from one another, geographically and
socially ... I think you have done more than any other in recent years to bring the ideal of a real community nearer”.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/708 5 December 1958
Letter from Charles Pannell, Honorary Secretary, Trade Union Group, Parliamentary Labour Party, House of Commons, to JJL, House of Lords: invitation to attend a dinner in the Harcourt Room, House of Commons, to honour veterans of the
Parliamentary Labour Party.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/709 19 December 1958
Letter from C. Winston Pownall, Headmaster, Barbara Priestman Special School for the Deaf, Sea View Road, Sunderland, to JJL, Woodside, Beamish: recalling Founders' Day visit of JJL to the school, encloses copy of a poem [not present] by Mrs
Louie Smith inspired by that occasion, requesting permission to dedicate the same to JJL.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/710 19 January 1960
Letter from Clement Attlee, Cherry Cottage, Prestwood, Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire, to JJL: lawsuit; USA lecture tour next month, his agents promoting Anglo-American friendship; suggests JJL undertake lecture tour.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/711 8 March 1960
Letter from William Strang, House of Lords, to JJL: commends JJL's speech on mines made the previous day; motion about electrification and the landscape.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/712 18 October 1960
Letter from Hugh [Gaitskell], House of Commons, to JJL, 7 Woodside, Beamish: “outlook is a bit troublesome but, like you, I feel convinced that if we can only stand firm together we will get through this and emerge
stronger at the end of it”.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/713 8 August 1962
Letter from Clement Attlee, Westcott Martin's End Lane, Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire, to JJL: “great volume of opposition to the C.M. [European Common Market] policy”, cross-party; completed
Sunday Express article elaborating speech.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/714 8 August 1962
Letter from Albert [Alexander], Right Honourable Viscount Alexander of Hillsborough, Well House Farm, West Mersea, Essex, to JJL: health and pressures of work; citing Shakespeare's
The life and death of King John, anticipates divisive “big fight” on the European Common Market; the country's liberties stem from the priority of “the
authority of God's Word”.
Paper 2f
LAW 1/1/715 17 August 1962
Letter from Pat [Bingham, 6th earl Lucan], 11 Hanover House, London, to JJL: strong feelings behind speech; illness of Alderman George Elmer, and gift of
A man's life.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/716 25 September 1962
Letter from Hugh [Gaitskell], House of Commons, to JJL: acknowledges JJL's kind letter.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/717 11 July 1963
Typescript letter (incomplete) from House of Commons Library, to JJL: data on “Accidents and mechanization in British coal-mining” 1927-1961, under headings, (1) All deep-mined coal production in Great Britain; (2)
National Coal Board mines only.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/718 29 September 1964
Letter from Anthony Harris, Manager, Ministry of Labour Employment Exchange, Bridge End, Chester-le-Street, to JJL, Woodside, Beamish: appeal re disallowment of a person's unemployment benefit claim on grounds of absence from Great Britain.
Paper 1f
Access to item LAW 1/1/718 will be limited under the terms of the UK Data Protection Act 1998.
LAW 1/1/719 5 November 1964
Letter from Harold [Macmillan], Prime Minister, 10 Downing Street, to JJL: offers thanks for JJL's letter; “[i]t was a bit noisy, but I think the point will tell in the long run”.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/720 4 January 1965
Letter from Harold [Macmillan], Prime Minister, 10 Downing Street, to JJL: acknowledges JJL's recommendation of Mr A[lbert] V. Hilton for a life peerage.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/1/721 11 July 1965
Letter from Clement Attlee, 1 King's Bench Walk, Temple, London, to JJL: notes JJL's absence from House of Lords, the writer and Chuter Ede the last of their generation still attending; critical of House of Commons; West Indies voyage in August;
written review of the life of Lord Halifax [
Earl of Halifax: The Life of Lord Halifax, (1965)], “curious bird ... very interesting as he was [to] our generation. He had a curious conscience which could justify anything”; good
reports from the army of the Government's service ministers; “[w]hat a long time since you and I functioned there at the W.O.”.
Paper 1f
Papers and reports (including mining papers)Dates of creation: [1897]-1965
Extent: 5 boxes
Mining
Reference: LAW 1/2/1
Dates of creation: Undated, [1897 x 1919]
Extent: 1fPaper
Agenda for fixing price in five quarter, with consideration prices. Annotated in JJL's hand, Chophill [Beamish].
LAW 1/2/2 Undated, [1897 x 1919]
Bewicks Drift: weekly tabulation of shift wages between 8 January and 4 March, comparing old and new modes of working; with list of men's claims.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/2/3 Undated, [1897 x 1919]
Alma, Low Main Seam, Bewick Drift: list of various metrics [to be determined], including “average previous to working Longwall”; with list of men's claims.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/2/4 5 March 1897
Agreement (annotated) between the owners of Twizell Colliery and their workmen. Clauses: the whole price, narrow work, band prices, kirving and nicking, set out, laid out, wet work, putting, hewers when putting, helping up. Signed: John Humble
and William Severs, owners; Robert Wilson, James [?Shivels] and Robert Scott, workmen. Subscribed with shorthand note.
Paper 1f (in 3 pieces)
LAW 1/2/5 [1910s]
“We, the Mine Workers' International bring fraternal greetings to our comrades of the International Federation of Trades Unions.” Typescript speech, author unknown, annotated and corrected by hand.
3f
LAW 1/2/6 25 January 1915
Award of Richard Donald Bain of Aykley-heads, mining engineer, and umpire, to fix the prices and conditions for cutters, cleaners out and drillers working in connection with the heading machines in Bensham and Hutton Seams at Harton Colliery. For
related correspondence, see
LAW 1/1/4.
Paper 3f
LAW 1/2/7 21 August 1915
Award of Charles William Newlands of South Shields, solicitor, and umpire, to arbitrate in a pay dispute between the workmen of the owners of [Washington Colliery]; Austin Kirkup, mining engineer, for the owners, and JJL, for the workmen, having
failed to agree an award.
Paper 3f
LAW 1/2/8 22 January 1916
Arbitration award concerning hewing prices at Ouston Winning Pit. Norman Nisbet, mining engineer, arbitrator for the owners; JJL, checkweighman, arbitrator for the workmen. Four copies of the superseded incorrect award; one copy of the revised
award: all signed by both arbitrators. For related correspondence, see
LAW 1/1/5.
Paper 5f
LAW 1/2/9 2 August - 4 October 1916
Certificate of exemption from military service for JJL, checkweighman, living at 6 Twizell Road, West Pelton, Beamish. Stamped 2 August and 4 October 1916.
Paper 2f
LAW 1/2/10 14 November 1916
Award of William Wilkinson of Bishop Auckland, solicitor, and umpire, to arbitrate in a pay and conditions dispute between the workmen of the owners of Tanfield Lea Colliery (Margaret and Wind Pits); Frederick Kirkup, mining engineer, for the
owners, and William House, miners' agent, for the workmen, having failed to agree an award. See also,
LAW 1/2/9.
Paper 5f
LAW 1/2/11 [November 1916]
Tanfield Lea Colliery: statement showing prices paid for pulling up jigger conveyors and the workmen's averages. See also,
LAW 1/2/8.
Paper 2f
LAW 1/2/12 30 October 1917
Award of John Adair of 10 The Avenue, Durham, umpire, to arbitrate in a pay and conditions dispute between the workmen of the owners of Mainsforth Colliery (Longwall, Busty Seam); Matthew Henry Kellett, mining engineer, for the owners, and JJL,
for the workmen, having failed to agree an award.
Paper 2f
LAW 1/2/13 8 June 1918
Agreement between the workmen and owners of West Pelton Alma Colliery, concerning pay rates on Shield Row and Main Coal Seams. Signatories: G. Holden, owners; John Willins and John Dodd, workmen.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/2/14 19 October 1918
Agreement between the workmen and owners of Alma Pit West Pelton Colliery, concerning pay rates on Inbye Low Main seam. Signatories: G. Holden, owners; Anthony Smith, John Willins, John Dodd, William Forster.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/2/15 13 August 1919
H. M. Imrie, Chopwell Colliery, Ebchester, Newcastle upon Tyne, to JJL, Twizell Lane, Beamish, and T. Carr, Chopwell: minutes of a meeting at Coal Trade Hall, Newcastle, 12 August 1919, between a deputation from [Chopwell] Miners' Lodge (JJL, T.
Carr, Joseph Cook) and the owners of Chopwell Colliery (H. M. Imrie and W. Armstrong).
Paper 4f
Military
Reference: LAW 1/2/282-283
Dates of creation: [1918]
Certificate of appreciation issued by the General Commanding no. 5 Demobilization Area to JJL, Driver, (no. 255071) Royal Horse and Royal Field Artillery, upon demobilization, for his services rendered during the First World War. Stamped on the
reverse, 56(R) Battery R.F.A. With envelope.
Accessioned, 24 February 2017: Misc.2016/17:91.
Political and public
Reference: LAW 1/2/16-17
Dates of creation: 29 February 1908
Extent: 1f (x2)Paper
Notice (2 copies) of a debate of the Oxford Union Society on 5 March 1908: “That, in view of the rapid growth of the Labour Movement, this House regards the existing connection between Oxford and the industrial classes
of the nation as dangerously inadequate”. Moved by R. V. Lennard, New College. Opposed by R. S. A. Palmer, University College. JJL, Ruskin College, and J. H. Thorpe, Trinity College, speaking third and fourth respectively.
LAW 1/2/18 [1913]
The land: an open letter to his cousin, the Right Hon. Winston S. Churchill, MP, by the Duke of Marlborough, K.G. Booklet. Annotated in pencil by JJL.[Note: the booklet reprints material first published in the
Daily Mail in March 1913.]
Paper 24p
LAW 1/2/19 19 July 1913
Durham Miners' Association annual gala ephemera: race course platform ticket; tea ticket, Royal County Hotel; Queen ... & Albert Rooms, County Hotel [ticket]; envelope addressed to JJL.
Paper 4 items
LAW 1/2/20 December 1918
Election address by JJL to the electors of Seaham Division. Pasted on paper backing.
Paper 2f
LAW 1/2/21 [1919 x 1920s]
Manuscript research notes on the 1919 Report of the Royal Commission on the coal industry.
Paper 8f
LAW 1/2/22 [1919 x 1949]
Manuscript research notes on late eighteenth-century British laws to ameliorate the conditions of miners, notes taken from
Encyclopaedia Britannia.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/2/23-26 October-November 1919
File of public addresses, posters and other canvassing material relating to JJL's Labour candidacy for Chester Division in the November 1919 by-election.
Paper 1 file
LAW 1/2/23A 5 November 1919
Election address by Robert Smillie in support of JJL, (see
LAW 1/1/8). Pasted on paper backing.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/2/23B [November] 1919
“Early recollections of Mr John Lawson, C.C.” Reprinted from the
Chester-le-Street Chronicle (2 copies). First copy pasted on paper backing. Second copy with one correction, in ink.
Paper 1f (x2)
LAW 1/2/24-26 [November 1919]
Election poster, with portrait photograph of JJL (3 copies).
Paper 1f (x3)
LAW 1/2/27 [1920s x 1949]
“It has been well said that there are two Branches of Labour which more than any other lend themselves to pen and tongue for dramatic and arresting statement.”. Manuscript notes for a speech on mines and miners;
(Norwegian link).
Paper 6f
LAW 1/2/28 [1922 x 1945]
“Dreams”. Manuscript poem, in three stanzas, by James C. Welsh [MP].
Paper 2f
LAW 1/2/29-30 [1922 x 1951]
“Jack Lawson, MP - the man”. Election song or ballad, by J. Clark of Addycombe, Newcastle Road, Chester-le-Street. Two manuscript versions.
Paper 1f; 1f
LAW 1/2/31 21 July 1922
Invitation, personal cards, and covering note to JJL and Bella Lawson for a garden party at Buckingham Palace.
Paper 4f
LAW 1/2/32 October 1924
Election address by JJL to the electors of Chester-le-Street Division, for the general election of 29 October 1924. Pasted on paper backing.
Paper 3f
LAW 1/2/33 December 1924
General Staff, War Office Christmas card (blank), illustrated with a photograph of the main staircase at the War Office.
Paper; textile tie 4f
LAW 1/2/34 2 September 1925
Programme of a visit by the imperial parliamentary delegation to Bell Island, Newfoundland, including inspections of surface and underground works. See also,
LAW 2/1/42.
Paper 2f
LAW 1/2/35 21 May 1926
Bulletin no. 83, issued by the Press Bureau of the U.S.S.R. Embassy, London. Includes items on foreign trade, grain production, Ukrainian economy, unemployment, floating rest homes, metric measures, educational institutions in rural areas.
Paper 2f
LAW 1/2/36 [July 1926]
Election poster for Margaret Bondfield, Labour candidate. Printed and published by the Co-operative Wholesale Society Limited, Pelaw-on-Tyne. [?Wallsend by-election, July 1926.]
Paper 1f
LAW 1/2/37 [after 21 August 1926]
Written answer of Sir William Joynson-Hicks, Home Secretary, to a question from JJL concerning prosecutions under the ordinary law in connection with the industrial dispute since 1 May [1926]; answer provides figures to 21 August 1926.[Note: there is related material, concerning prosecutions under emergency powers, in the constituency case files series (LAW 1/3), however access to this series will be limited by provisions of the UK Data Protection Act 1998.]
Paper 1f
LAW 1/2/38-39 31 August 1926
Two questions from JJL to the president of the Board of Trade and the Secretary of Mines concerning coal imports and prices, respectively; with the answers of Colonel Lane Fox, [Secretary for Mines].
Paper 2f
LAW 1/2/40 [1927 x 1930]
Manuscript research notes on the Poor Law, with particular regard to conditions in Chester-le-Street and Bedweltry.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/2/41 1930
Parish Councillor's Guide. A complete guide to the duties, powers and liabilities of parish councils, by R. C. Maxwell. 3rd edition.
Paper 1 volume
[LAW 1/2/42 not used]
LAW 1/2/43 2 July 1931
Durham Miners' Association balance sheet for General Fund, half-year to 2 July 1931.
Paper 6f
LAW 1/2/44 4 December 1931
Durham County Mining Federation Board. Statement on wages, and accountants' report (dated 30 November 1931).
Paper 16p
LAW 1/2/45-47 13 November-15 December 1931
Durham Miners' Association circular to Lodge officials concerning scholarships for adult students at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, and containing a notice of the same from the Trades Union Congress General Council, and enclosing a
circular from each university's board of extra-mural studies describing the scholarship/bursary schemes.
Paper 2f; 1f; 1f
LAW 1/2/46 13 November 1931
Circular issued by the University of Cambridge Board of Extra-Mural Studies concerning its scheme of bursaries for adult students.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/2/47 [1931]
Circular issued by the University of Oxford Delegacy for Extra-Mural Studies concerning its scheme of University scholarships for adult students.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/2/48 30 June 1933
Menu with list of speakers, and guest list, for a luncheon in honour of Henry W. Nevinson, chaired by General Sir Ian Hamilton, at the Criterion Restaurant, [London].
Paper 1f; 2f
LAW 1/2/49-98 1934-1936
Papers relating to the Unemployment Assistance Act and its regulations. Filed within a file originally created for the Hours of Employment Bill, 1929. Newspaper cuttings from this file now filed at:
LAW
3/2/17/13;
LAW 3/2/18/1-4.
Paper 1 file
LAW 1/2/49-50 [1934-1936]
Manuscript notes by JJL on the Unemployment Assistance Act Regulations.
3f; 1f
LAW 1/2/51-73 12 December 1934-20 July 1936
Copies of questions put by JJL, (and Major Milner, George Hall), to Ministers on the following subjects: Coal Mines (Regulation Act, 1911 (ponies); Government subsidies and guarantees; administration of the Miners' Welfare Acts; wheat quota; home
water vessels oil duty concession; “Queen Mary” loan; industry subsidies; Unemployment Insurance Fund; Jubilee national holiday and casual workers under the Unemployment Insurance Acts and regulations; transitional
payments; unemployed juvenile education; charitable assistance and Unemployment Assistance Board assessments; state grants for public works, and the Unemployment Grants Committee; Unemployment Assistance accounts; report of Unemployment Assistance
Board investigation into breakdown of regulations in January 1935; unemployment benefits; Unemployment Assistance Board advisory committees; administration costs [of the Unemployment Assistance Board]; claimants and their dependants.
23f
LAW 1/2/74 11 December 1934
Unemployment Assistance Act, 1934: Draft Unemployment Assistance (Determination of need and assessment of needs) Regulations, 11 December 1934.
Annotated in pencil by JJL.
8p
LAW 1/2/75 29 January 1935
Parliamentary debates, House of Commons, 29 January 1935, vol. 297, no. 26, columns 157-312.
Questions to Ministers: Coroners' inquests (Committee of Inquiry); Land Settlement Association;
Supply. Considered in
Committee. Civil Service, Supplementary estimates, 1934: Unemployment Assistance Board; Grants to local authorities in distressed areas (England and Wales; Scotland); Special areas fund.
Annotated in pencil by JJL.
1 volume
LAW 1/2/76 8 February 1935
Unemployment Assistance (Temporary Provisions) Bill, 1935. Annotated in pencil by JJL.
6f
LAW 1/2/77-83 18-28 February 1935
Annotated extracts from
Parliamentary debates, House of Commons: 18 February 1935, columns 13-20, 37-40; 21 February 1935, columns 545-548, 501-512; 26 February 1935, columns 929-932, 945-948; 28 February 1935, columns 1269-1272. Exchanges on
Unemployment, and the Coal Industry: work-sharing schemes; assistance regulations; statistics; hours of work; miners; Insurance Fund (debt); school-leaving age; juveniles; juvenile instruction centres (JJL); unemployment assistance; Goole; Public
Assistance Committees; medical treatment; Unemployment Act, 1934; colliery companies (merger); shot-firing; [mining] accidents; glove industry; Birmingham Court of Referees; hosiery trade; agricultural workers.
Paper 10f
LAW 1/2/84 23 December 1935
Statement submitted to the Rt. Hon. E. A. Brown, M.C., MP Minister of Labour, Friday, 13th December, 1935, on the position of underemployed weaving operatives under the Unemployment Acts and the Regulations. Pamphlet
issued by the Amalgamated Weavers' Association. See,
LAW 1/1/153.
12p
LAW 1/2/85 21 February 1936
Unemployment Insurance Act, 1935. Report of the Unemployment Insurance Statutory Committee ... on the financial condition of the Unemployment Fund on 31st December, 1935. Annotated in pencil by JJL.
40f
LAW 1/2/86 April 1936
Ministry of Labour report for the year 1935. Annotated in pencil.
1 volume
LAW 1/2/87 [April 1936]
Notes by JJL on the
Ministry of Labour Report for the year 1935.
1f
LAW 1/2/88-89 10-11 June 1936
Annotated extracts from
Parliamentary debates, House of Commons: 10-11 June 1936, columns 213-216, 363-366. Exchanges on Unemployment: transitional payments and public assistance; national health insurance; transitional payments and
allowances (JJL); statistics.
Paper 2f
LAW 1/2/90 8 July 1936
Unemployment Assistance Act, 1934: Draft Unemployment Assistance (Determination of need and assessment of needs) Regulations, 8 July 1936.
Annotated by JJL.
8p
LAW 1/2/91 13 July 1936
Notes on the Unemployment Assistance Regulations, 1936, by J. L. Smyth. Issued by the Trades Union Congress General Council, Social Insurance Department. Typescript. Annotated in pencil.
3f
LAW 1/2/92-96 [July 1936]
Parliamentary speech notes by JJL relating to the first report (June, 1936) of the Unemployment Assistance Act, 1934, to an investigation into the breakdown of the 1934 Regulations, and to the passing of the 1936 Regulations, [July 1936].
6f; 6f; 6f; 3f; 9f
LAW 1/2/97 20-21 July 1936
Parliamentary debates, House of Commons, 21 July 1936, vol. 315, no. 128, columns 195-414.
20 July 1936
Supply. Considered in Committee: Navy, Army, and Air supplementary estimates, 1936;
Navy, Army, and
Air supplementary expenditure, 1934.
21 July 1936
Questions to Ministers: British Army: Territorial Force (National Defence Companies); France, Belgium and United Kingdom (Meeting, London);
Unemployment Assistance Act, 1934: Motion for
approval of regulations - [Mr E. Brown]; Amendment - [Mr Greenwood]; Debate adjourned;
Isle of Man (Customs) Bill.
Adjournment: Southern Rhodesia (Natives Registration Act).
Annotated in pencil.
1 volume
LAW 1/2/98 1929
File cover for documents [not present] relating to the Hours of Employment Bill, 1929. The former content of the file is indicated by an index (98A) pasted to the front inside cover. The front cover is marked “Lawson” in JJL's handwriting. File re-used by JJL to file LAW 1/2/49-97.
1 file
LAW 1/2/99-101 9 May 1935
Programme, with compliment slip, for the presentation of Addresses by the Houses of Parliament to King George V in Westminster Hall on the twenty-fifth anniversary of his accession; with Hansard text of the House of Commons' Address and the
King's reply (
Parliamentary debates, House of Commons, 9 May 1935, columns 1107-1111)
Paper 1 volume; 1f; 2f
LAW 1/2/102-104 4 July 1935
Items relating to a welcoming luncheon given by the Empire Parliamentary Association (UK) to delegates from the Overseas Legislatures of the Empire, at Westminster Hall, 4 July 1935.
Paper 3 items
LAW 1/2/102 4 July 1935
Menu and toast list.
Paper 2f
LAW 1/2/103 4 July 1935
Table and seating plans, with guest list.
Paper 2f
LAW 1/2/104 4 July 1935
Speech of welcome at the Empire Parliamentary Association, made by Stanley Baldwin, Prime Minister, and annotated and corrected in Baldwin's hand. Superscribed by JJL with note of the gift of the pages by Baldwin to JJL, the
“B.B.C. alone had verbatim report”.
Paper 3f
LAW 1/2/105-118 1917-1942
File of papers, artificially grouped here, relating to JJL's role (appointed 1931) as a member of the Imperial War Graves Commission, [from 1960 named the Commonwealth War Graves Commission].
Paper 1 file
LAW 1/2/105-106 10 May 1917
Two copies of an Order in Council approving the charter of incorporation of The Imperial War Graves Commission, with draft charter annexed. In the second copy of the draft charter a clause relating to the appointment of members to the Commission
is highlighted in pencil.
Paper 10p; 10p
LAW 1/2/107 3 March 1931
Royal warrant to JJL, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Labour, appointing him a member of the Imperial War Graves Commission.
Paper 1f (in 2 pieces)
LAW 1/2/108-111 September 1935
Imperial War Graves Commission inspection of British war cemeteries in Northern Italy, 8-13 September: papers, journal, draft report, typescript report. For newspaper cutting, see
LAW 3/2/17/5; for postcards,
depicting cemeteries at Cesuna, Asiago, and the war damaged Asiago in 1919, see
LAW 3/3/3.
Paper 4 items
LAW 1/2/112 8-9 June 1936
Draft minutes of the first meeting of the Imperial War Graves Commission Anglo-German-French Mixed Committee. JJL present. See
LAW 1/1/155.
Paper 23p
LAW 1/2/113 8 October 1936
Imperial War Graves Commission inspection of British war cemeteries in France and Belgium, 2-5 October 1936: itinerary of inspection made by JJL with G. W. Klerck. See
LAW 1/1/154.
Paper 4f
LAW 1/2/114 29-30 April 1937
Third draft programme of the Imperial War Graves Commission Anglo-German-French Mixed Committee meeting at Berlin.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/2/115-117 [August-September 1937]
Journal and report of an Imperial War Graves Commission inspection by JJL of British war cemeteries in the Near East (Gibraltar, Port Said, Suez, Cairo, Lydda, Beersheba, Gaza, Deir-el-Belah, Damascus, Beirut, Gallipoli, Therapia, Haidar Pasha,
Thessaloniki, Athens, Piraeus, Alexandria).
Paper 73f; 52f; 8f
LAW 1/2/115 [August-September 1937]
“A journey through the Near East.” Manuscript journal and travelogue by JJL. [Perhaps a fair copy of a contemporaneous journal, see pp. 56-56a].
74f
LAW 1/2/116 [September 1937]
Typescript version of “A journey through the Near East”, with introduction, and manuscript corrections.
53f
LAW 1/2/117 [September 1937]
Typescript report by JJL “on his recent tour in Egypt, Palestine, Syria, Turkey and Macedonia”, 10 August-11 September 1937, with introductory letter from JJL to [Sir Fabian] Ware, [Vice-Chairman, Imperial War
Graves Commission]; see also
LAW 1/1/166.
8f
LAW 1/2/118 [January 1942]
“General report from May 1940 until my arrival in London January 1942.” Report of W. J. Hogan, a gardener employed by the Imperial War Graves Commission at Merville cemetery, France, describing life through the
fall of France and occupation, and his and his family's subsequent clandestine journey to Free France, and thence to UK via Spain and Portugal.
Paper 4f
LAW 1/2/119 November 1935
Election address by JJL to the electors of Chester-le-Street Division for the general election of 14 November 1935.
Paper 2f
LAW 1/2/120 November 1935
Rhyming election address by Joe Curtis to the electors of Chester-le-Street Division in support of the Labour Party, and criticising Tory policies on spending, Unemployment Assistance and the means test.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/2/121 13 December 1935
Appointment of JJL and Miss Edith H. Major to the Selection Committee, by the trustees under the Miners' Welfare National Scholarship Scheme, A. E. Faulkner, Under Secretary for Mines, C. Eaton, Principal Assistant Secretary Board of Education,
and W. W. McKechnie, Secretary Scottish Education Department.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/2/122-123 23 January 1936
Items relating to the obsequies for Rudyard Kipling.
Paper 2f; 4f
LAW 1/2/122 23 January 1936
Form of Service, at Westminster Hall.
Paper 2f
LAW 1/2/123 23 January 1936
Order of Service at the burial, at Westminster Abbey.
Paper 4f
LAW 1/2/124 [June 1936]
The Nazi Party. The state and religion. By Adolf Hitler. With a foreword by Hugh Dalton, MP Friends of Europe publications, no. 41. Issued by Friends of Europe, 122 St Stephen's House, Westminster.[Note: dated from Foreword.]
Paper 24p
LAW 1/2/125 10 December 1936
Text of a message from King Edward VIII to the Houses of Parliament, and containing the text of his Declaration of Abdication, signed the same day. Typescript, annotated in pencil by JJL noting that the text was issued by the Vote Office
“immediately after [the] Speaker had read [the] Declaration of Abdication. Before there was time to Print”.
Paper 2f
LAW 1/2/126 5 March 1937
Balance sheet of the fund raised for Mrs [Peter] Lee. Will Lawther, Honorary Treasurer. Issued from the Durham Miners' Association.
Paper 2f
LAW 1/2/127-128 20 May 1937
Items relating to a Review of the Fleet at Spithead by King George VI on 20 May 1937.
Paper 2 items
LAW 1/2/127 20 May 1937
Invitation to JJL and Bella Lawson to attend the Review of the Fleet by King George VI at Spithead on 20 May 1937.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/2/128 20 May 1937
Review of the Fleet by King George VI. Booklet, listing flag officers, ships present at the review, with notes on ships and Admiralty chart plan of the ships' moorings at Spithead and route of the royal yacht.
Paper 1 volume
LAW 1/2/129-136 October 1937-February 1938
Papers relating to the Royal Commission on the Geographical Distribution of the Industrial Population.
Paper 1 file
LAW 1/2/129-134 5 October-2 December 1937
Minutes of evidence taken on days 1-2, 5-8. Evidence from the Ministries of Health (England and Wales; Scotland), Electricity Commission, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, Ministry of Transport. Annotated by JJL.
Paper 6 items
LAW 1/2/135 January 1938
Memorandum prepared by Cumberland County Council. See,
LAW 1/1/162.
Paper 1 volume
LAW 1/2/136 February 1938
Evidence submitted by the North-East Development Board. See
LAW 1/1/163.
Paper 1 volume
LAW 1/2/137-146 1919, 1938-1945
Material relating to the reform of the administration of justice within the Army and Air Force, principally concerning the activity of the Army and Air Force Courts Martial Committee, constituted in March 1938 “to
consider whether it is desirable and practicable that a person convicted by Court-Martial should have the right of appeal to a civil judicial tribunal against its conviction and to make recommendations”.
Paper 1 file
LAW 1/2/137 1919
Report of the Committee constituted by the Army Council to enquire into the law and rules of procedure regulating military courts-martial. Front cover only.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/2/138 1938
List of suggestions made for the consideration of the Army and Air Force Courts Martial Committee. Annotated by JJL.
Paper 2f
LAW 1/2/139 [?1938]
Notes by JJL relating to appeals from Army and Air Force courts-martial.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/2/140 4 July 1938
Draft minutes of the Army and Air Force Courts Martial Committee meeting, War Office. Members present: Roland Oliver (chairman), Tristram Beresford, Sir Felix Cassel, JJL, Air Vice-Marshal Sir Charles A. H. Longcroft, General Sir Felix Ready,
Major W. R. F. Osmond, H. H. Hobbs. Annotated in pencil by JJL.
Paper 4f
LAW 1/2/141-143 [1938]
[First draft] Report of the Army and Air Force Courts Martial Committee, with two sets of related unbound typescript papers.
Paper 30f; 7f; 3f
LAW 1/2/144-145 1938
Draft Report of the Army and Air Force Courts Martial Committee (see also
LAW 1/1/168), with two copies of an unsigned statement of disassociation [by JJL] from part of the Committee's reported findings.
Paper 42f; 2f
LAW 1/2/146 15 March 1945
Army and Air Force (Annual) Bill, 1945.
Paper 6f
LAW 1/2/147 [1938]
Planning or chaos?, by Fred Henderson. Penny pointers to Socialism series, no. 1. Published by the Labour Party.
Paper 1 volume
LAW 1/2/148 [1938]
Notes for a speech on the subject of unemployment, comparing County averages.
Paper 2f
LAW 1/2/149 31 May 1938
Schedule of sailings and fares of the Anchor Line Eastern Service, no. 7. Annotated in red crayon, highlighting the voyage of the S.S. “Castalia”, from Karachi to Liverpool, via Bombay, Suez, Port Said, Marseilles,
Gibraltar, 25 August-23 September.
Paper 16p
LAW 1/2/150 1939
Assurance of victory. Ministry of Information publication.
Paper 32p
LAW 1/2/151 [February 1939]
Main recommendations of Royal Commission on safety in coal mines. Published by the Mineworkers' Federation of Great Britain.
Paper 36p
LAW 1/2/152 23 February 1939
Form issued by the Air Raid Precautions Office, Chester-le-Street R.D.C., detailing JJL's enrolment and posting to Emergency Communications, [Beamish].
Paper 1f
LAW 1/2/153 20 March 1939
Civil Defence regional organisation. Memorandum issued from the Office of the Lord Privy Seal, Home Office. For related correspondence, see
LAW 1/1/169.
Paper 3f
LAW 1/2/154 August 1939
Cover only of,
Labour fights for workmen's compensation, by JJL. Labour Party pamphlet.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/2/155 [?1939 x 1945]
Home and Camp Hospital addresses for Private Joseph Jackson in Pelton, Co. Durham, and Killingham, Yorkshire, respectively.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/2/156 [1940]
Manuscript notes for a speech on pay rates [armed services and industrial sectors].
Paper 1f
LAW 1/2/157 [March 1940]
Finland. Interim report of the Labour delegation. Delegation members: Sir Walter Citrine, Philip J. Noel-Baker, John Downe. Published by the National Council of Labour; with illustrations, and map on front cover.
Paper 48p
LAW 1/2/158 June 1940
Palace of Westminster air raid precautions (Centre Curtain) refuge ticket, for JJL.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/2/159 1941
JJL's 1941 Labour Party Pelton Men's Section membership card, recording payment of annual subscription of 5s.
Paper 2f
LAW 1/2/160 March 1941
The S.J. Frame monthly. March 1941 issue. Published by S. J. Frame, trustee. Secretary and manager of Trade Associations, 21 King Street East, Toronto.
Paper 2f
LAW 1/2/161 [May 1941]
“Report on Spain.” Briefing paper issued by the Empire Parliamentary Association. Annotated on dorse in pencil by JJL with notes for a speech on industrial employment, the war effort, and release of servicemen to
industry. [For perhaps related speech notes, see
LAW 1/2/175/11].
Paper 3f
LAW 1/2/162 6 August 1941
Parliamentary debates, House of Commons, 6 August 1941, columns 2033-2036: Appropriation Bill - War Situation. Speech by JJL, with (part) reply of Anthony Eden, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.
Paper 2f
LAW 1/2/163 [October] 1941
Emergency powers (defence) act, 1939. Report by the Secretary of State as to the action taken under regulation 18B of the Defence (General) Regulations, 1939, during the period 1st September, 1941, to 30th September,
1941.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/2/164-167 22 September 1941-29 March 1945
Home Security Intelligence Summaries (all regions).
Incomplete series of twelve-hourly reports of enemy activity and damage, covering the United Kingdom, received by JJL as Deputy Commissioner for Civil Defence of the Northern
Region. The reports cover the following periods, although within any particular month not all the reports are present.
Paper 1 box
LAW 1/2/164 September-December, 1941
42f
LAW 1/2/165 January-April, June-September, 1942
97f
LAW 1/2/166 February-March, June-December, 1944
180f
LAW 1/2/167 February-March, 1945
18f
LAW 1/2/168-169 3 October 1941
Home Security Intelligence Summaries (Northern region, Newcastle).
Series of damage report, special reports, and situation report relating to enemy action in the Northern region, 2-3 October 1941; with former binder (stained).
Paper 4f; 1 binder
LAW 1/2/169 [1941]
1 binder
LAW 1/2/170 December 1941
Man-power. Memorandum on the principal new measures to be introduced by His Majesty's Government in pursuance of their man-power policy.
Paper 4p
LAW 1/2/171 4-5 December 1941
Programme of a tour by JJL, as Deputy Regional Commissioner, of Emergency Rest Centres in the East Riding of Yorkshire, 4-5 December 1941, issued by the County Council: lists 21 centres, and capacities.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/2/172 10 December 1941
Parliamentary debates, House of Commons, 10 December 1941, vol. 376, no. 14, columns 1513-1660.
Japanese attack in Malaya: British Naval losses.
Questions to Ministers.
National Service
[Money].
National Service Bill.
Royal assent to Bill passed.
Paper 74p
LAW 1/2/173 19-20 January 1942
Programme for a visit by the Duke of Kent to Newcastle, Sunderland, Durham, Hartlepool, and Middlesbrough, 19-20 January, listing presentees.
Paper 2f
LAW 1/2/174 May 1942
Resolutions for the 41st annual conference of the Labour Party, Central Hall, Westminster, 25-28 May 1942.
Paper 16p
LAW 1/2/175/1-27 15 October 1942-January 1943
Papers and journal relating to a parliamentary mission to China, and of a subsequent tour of British forces in the East, Middle-East and Africa by JJL. The journal exists in manuscript, and in various typescript drafts for an unpublished account
of the journey entitled variously “China”, “Over the hump to China”, or “Flight over China”.
Paper 1 box
LAW 1/2/175/1 [1940s]
Map of China: physical (1:36,000,000); topographical (1:7,500,000; Shanghai region, 1:2,500,000; Paracel [Xisha] Islands, 1:12,000,000). Annotated in ink, marking the cities of Kunming, Chengdu, Chongqing, Xi'an, Gungkwan [?Tongguan], and
Tibet.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/2/175/2 [October 1942]
Notes on the geographical size of China, in comparison to Britain and France.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/2/175/3 15 October-30 December 1942
JJL's manuscript China journal. Written in a notepad (broken into two parts) in pencil, marked up in ink with chapter sections; pages 67-86 and 154-157 blank.
Paper 1 volume (157f)
LAW 1/2/175/4-5 1 November 1942
Outline of irrigation constructions and brief description concerning existing managements and future prospects of the irrigation engineering in Szechwan Province. (Typescript).
Notes on the Tukiangyien irrigation system. (Carbon
copy).
Reports issued by the Bureau of Hydraulic Engineering, Kwanhsien, Szechwan, China. For related photographs, see
LAW 3/1.
Paper 24f; 11f
LAW 1/2/175/6 [1942]
Unknown printed item in Chinese script.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/2/175/7 10 November [1942]
Invitation to JJL to attend a dinner at the British Embassy.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/2/175/8 1 December, 31st year of the Republic of China [1942]
Souvenir signature book, commemorating a tea party in the Administration Building of West China Union University, Chengdu, to welcome the British parliamentary mission, and presented to the mission by the Chengdu branch of the Sino-British
Cultural Association (C. Chang; Y. S. Kuo; Eva D. Spicer; S. T. Wang; G. M. Hickson).
Paper 1 volume
LAW 1/2/175/9 6 December, 31st year of the Republic of China [1942]
“Cheng Ch'i Ko”, poem by Wen Tien Chiang [Wen Tianxiang], copied and inscribed by General Feng [Yuxiang] to JJL. Dated at the Military Headquarters. See
LAW 1/1/200.
Paper 1 volume
LAW 1/2/175/10 [1943]
Notebook, containing in manuscript, draft of chapter 2 of an unpublished account of the visit to China.
The notebook also contains various other short literary, autobiographical and religious works or fragments by JJL, including: an
autobiographical fragment explicitly continuing on from
A man's life (see
LAW 2/4/1/3); an autobiographical fragment written on JJL reaching seventy years of age; a short essay,
beginning, “There is a beauty about Age, in great numbers of women, which is beyond that of youth”; “Dawn” (see
LAW 2/4/2/14).
Paper 1 volume (42f)
LAW 1/2/175/11 [December 1942]
“The political framework of Turkey.” Briefing paper issued by the Empire Parliamentary Association. Annotated on dorse in pencil by JJL with names and addresses of servicemen, and with notes for a speech on
maximising industrial employment for the war effort.[Note: JJL visited Turkey between 28 December 1942 and 1 January 1943 as part of his tour of the Middle East on his return from China. An additional Empire Parliamentary Association briefing paper, on Spain, published in 1941, is also endorsed
with penciled speech notes by JJL, and which may be a continuation of the same address outlined here, see
LAW 1/2/161.]
Paper 2f
LAW 1/2/175/12 1938
Colour topographical map of the Republic of Turkey, with administrative provinces shown, and population table (Yeni Türkiye Cümhuriyeti Haritasi). Scale: 1:2,000,000. Printed in Turkish.[Note: JJL visited Turkey between 28 December 1942 and 1 January 1943 as part of his tour of the Middle East on his return from China.]
Paper 1f
LAW 1/2/175/13 2 February 1943
Laissez-passer authorising JJL to travel from Portugal to the UK, issued by the British Embassy, Lisbon.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/2/175/14 [1943]
“China”. Chapters 1-3 in manuscript, typescript and carbon copy.
Paper 1 file
LAW 1/2/175/15 [1943]
“Flight over China”. Chapters 2, B and K in typescript; chapter 2 with corrections in ink.
Paper 1 file
LAW 1/2/175/16 [1943]
[Work on China.] Single typescript page, corrected in pencil, from an otherwise missing draft.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/2/175/17/1-2 [1943]
“Over the hump to China”. Typescript, corrected in ink, and (incomplete) carbon copy.
Paper 138p; 118p
LAW 1/2/175/18/1-2 [1943]
Notes for two speeches on the China and the parliamentary delegation's visit there.
Paper 9f; 2f
LAW 1/2/175/19-28 18 August-18 November 1943
China newsweek. Issues 50, 53-58, [?61], 62-63. Published by the Chinese Ministry of Information, London.
Paper 10 items
LAW 1/2/176 July 1943
After an air raid. What everyone should know. Emergency Rest & Feeding Centres, billeting, etc. Pamphlet issued by the City & County of Newcastle upon Tyne.
Paper 12p
LAW 1/2/177-179 July-December 1943
Material, artificially collected here, relating to the Education Act, 1944.
Paper 1 file
LAW 1/2/177 July 1943
Educational Reconstruction. White paper. Annotated by JJL.
Paper 1 volume
LAW 1/2/178 December 1943
Education Bill, 1943. Explanatory memorandum by the president of the Board of Education.
Paper 14p
LAW 1/2/179 [December 1943]
Notes by JJL on the Education Bill, 1943, and the Explanatory memorandum.
Paper 2f
LAW 1/2/180 1944
Statistical digest from 1938. Ministry of Fuel and Power.
Paper 69p
LAW 1/2/181 1944
A national health service. Ministry of Health, Department of Health for Scotland. White paper.
Paper 86p
LAW 1/2/182 1944
A national health service. The white paper proposals in brief. Ministry of Health, Department of Health for Scotland.
Paper 32p
LAW 1/2/183 [1944]
Social security, by J. Smyth. Post war discussion pamphlets series, no. 1. Annotated in pencil.
Paper 1 volume
LAW 1/2/184 [1944]
Education, by Barbara Drake. Post war discussion pamphlets series, no. 2.
Paper 1 volume
LAW 1/2/185 January 1944
A talk on India, by H. B. T. [Henry Bernard Turle].
Paper 12p
LAW 1/2/186 January 1944
Minimum Wages. Minutes of the proceedings of The National Reference Tribunal under the Conciliation Scheme in the coalmining industry, at a meeting on Minimum Wages, at the Ministry of Labour and National Service, 5-6
January 1944. Issued by the Mineworkers' Federation of Great Britain.
Paper 48p
LAW 1/2/187-189 January, March, May 1944
Three issues of the
Labour Party bulletin: January 1944, no. 3, vol. III (section on the Education Bill annotated in pencil); March 1944, no. 5, vol. III; May 1944, no. 7, vol. III. January issue annotated in pencil by JJL.
Paper 6f; 6f; 6f
LAW 1/2/190-191 January-February 1944
Material relating to Service pay and allowances, a White Paper on which subject was issued in April 1944.[Note: Frederick Bellenger, the Financial Secretary to the War Office between 1945 and 1946, succeeded JJL as Secretary of State for War in 1946.]
Paper 1 file
LAW 1/2/190 January 1944
Service Pay and allowances. Memorandum by F. J. Bellenger, [MP]. Annotated in pencil by JJL.
Paper 2f
LAW 1/2/191 16 March 1944
Service Pay and allowances. Memorandum by F. J. Bellenger MP
Paper 5f
LAW 1/2/192 9 February 1944
Parliamentary debates, House of Lords, 9 February 1944, vol. 130, no. 20, columns 737-756:
Motion: Bombing policy.
Question: Magistrates in Juvenile Courts.
Paper 12p
LAW 1/2/193 15 February 1944
Parliamentary debates, House of Lords, 15 February 1944, vol. 130, no. 21, columns 757-802:
Supreme Court of Judicature (Amendment) Bill.
Disabled Persons (Employment) Bill.
Landlord and Tenant
(Requisitioned land) Bill.
Motion: Post-war work.
Question: Juvenile Delinquents in Scotland.
Paper 26p
LAW 1/2/194 16 February 1944
Parliamentary debates, House of Lords, 16 February 1944, vol. 130, no. 22, columns 803-862:
India (Attachment of states) Bill.
Motion: Preservation of historical and art treasures.
Paper 32p
LAW 1/2/195 20 April 1944
Parliamentary debates, House of Commons, 20 April 1944, vol. 399, no. 63, columns 343-486:
Questions to Ministers: India (News, censorship); Domestic workers (Priority); Business of the House.
Supply:
Considered in Committee; Civil estimates, 1944.
Empire and Commonwealth unity.
Paper 72p
LAW 1/2/196 May 1944
Suggestions for the promotion of Sino-British cultural relations, by Evert Barger. For related correspondence, see
LAW 1/1/204.
Paper
LAW 1/2/197 24 May 1944
Parliamentary debates, House of Commons, 24 May 1944, vol. 400, no. 82, columns 715-898:
Questions to Ministers: British prisoners of war, Far East: Inquiry Centre; Tangier (German officials); RAF pay and
allowances (White paper proposals).
Supply: Considered in Committee; Civil estimates, 1944; Foreign affairs; Prime Minister's statement.
Royal assent to Bills passed.
House of Commons (Hours of sitting).
Paper 94p
LAW 1/2/198-199 [after May 1944]
Two National Savings Campaign [May] 1944 certificates of honour, presented to The Shepherds Beamish and Station Road No. 1 Beamish savings groups.
Paper 1f; 1f
LAW 1/2/200 [1944]
The international post-war settlement. Report by the National Executive Committee of the Labour Party to be presented to the London annual conference, 29 May-2 June 1944.
Paper 8p
LAW 1/2/201 [1944]
Full employment and financial policy. Report by the National Executive Committee of the Labour Party to be presented to the London annual conference, 29 May-2 June 1944.
Paper 8p
LAW 1/2/202 [1944]
Post-war organisation of British transport. Report by the National Executive Committee of the Labour Party to be presented to the London annual conference, 29 May-2 June 1944.
Paper 24p
LAW 1/2/203 22 June 1944
Grenville House, Dolphin Square, [London], [air raid] shelter ticket issued to JJL, living at 84 Claverton Street, [Pimlico].
Paper 1f
LAW 1/2/204 23 June 1944
Parliamentary debates, House of Commons, 23 June 1944, vol. 401, no. 96, columns 477-580:
Questions to Ministers.
Officer prisoners of war, Germany (Shooting).
Air raids (Flying bombs).
Supply:
Considered in Committee; Civil estimates.
Employment policy.
Paper 54p
LAW 1/2/205 29 June 1944
Parliamentary debates, House of Commons, 29 June 1944, vol. 401, no. 99, columns 769-938:
Questions to Ministers: Discharged service personnel (Re-settlement); Emergency hospitals (Military patients, service
rations); Air raids (Flying bombs); Polish Government (Military supplies, Agreement); Armed forces, overseas (Home transfers); Business of the House.
Supply: Considered in Committee; Civil estimates, 1944; Ministry of Information.
Coal mines
(Directed youths).
Paper 88p
LAW 1/2/206-207 [August] 1944
Roads and road transport. Reconstruction of roads and development of road transport. Report issued by the British Road Federation, with introductory circular dated August 1944.
Paper 1f; 1 volume
LAW 1/2/208 2 August 1944
Parliamentary debates, House of Commons, 2 August 1944, vol. 402, no. 118, columns 1355-1568:
Questions to Ministers: Equal pay (Royal Commission); Czechoslovakia (Liberation Agreements).
Adjournment (Summer
recess).
Consolidated Fund (Appropriation) Bill.
Paper 110p
LAW 1/2/209 28 September 1944
Privy Council appointment of JJL to the Court of the University of Durham.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/2/210 [1945 x 1949]
List of unidentified [public office] holders, 1919-1945, beginning with the name Gilmour and terminating with Lambton; with other names, addresses and jottings. Manuscript in JJL's hand.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/2/211; 286 January 1945
JJL's personal bound copy of a programme for a visit by Members of Parliament to Eighth Army, 11-14 January 1945: San Benedetto, Mezzano, Ravenna, Caledon Camp, Faenza area of operations, Ancona; with covering letter from S/Ldr Ronald Beresford
Lees enclosing 6 photographic prints of the visit (see LAW 3/1).
Paper 6f
LAW 1/2/212 15 February 1945
Parliamentary debates, House of Commons, 15 February 1945, vol. 408, no. 33, columns 363-524:
Questions to Ministers: Ex-service personnel (Business grants scheme); Electoral registration (Business premises vote);
Evacuated children, Wallasey (Treatment); General Franco (Prime Minister's letter); Business of the House.
Forestry policy (Departmental responsibility).
Local Government white paper (Reconstruction).
Royal assent to Bills
passed.
Air accidents.
Paper 84p
LAW 1/2/213 March 1945
Coal mining. Report of the Technical Advisory Committee. Ministry of Fuel and Power. Annotated.
Paper 150p
LAW 1/2/214 17 April 1945
Parliamentary debates, House of Commons, 17 April 1945, vol. 410, no. 62, columns 1-168:
List of Government and principal officers of the House.
Questions to Ministers: Prisoners of war, Germany; Anglo-Swedish
Monetary Agreement; Business of the House.
New Member (Sponsors).
President Roosevelt.
Supply: Considered in Committee; Civil estimates, 1945.
World Security Conference, San Francisco.
Paper 92p
LAW 1/2/215 17 April 1945
Parliamentary debates, House of Lords, 17 April 1945, vol. 135, no. 44, columns 1105-1164:
Motions: The late president Roosevelt; World Organization for Peace.
Paper 32p
LAW 1/2/216 17-18 April 1945
Parliamentary debates, House of Commons, 17-18 April 1945, vol. 410, no. 63, columns 169-340:
17 April 1945 (continuation)
Supply: Considered in Committee; Civil estimates, 1945.
World
Security Conference, San Francisco.
18 April
Questions to Ministers: Austria (Inter-Allied Commission); Railways (Summer services); Members' salaries; Repatriated prisoners of war (Rations).
Service personnel, Far
East (Welfare arrangements).
Requisitioned land and war works Bill.
Ministry of Fuel and Power: Consideration of Lords amendments.
Ministry of Civil Aviation [Money].
Ministry of Civil Aviation Bill.
Paper 88p
LAW 1/2/217 May 1945
Unemployment Fund investment account. Account showing the nature and amount of the securities held by the National Debt Commissioners at 31st March 1945 as investments for moneys, forming part of the Unemployment Fund, paid
over to them by the Ministry of Labour and National Service under sections 58 (3) and 114 (9) of The Unemployment Insurance Act, 1935. (Presented pursuant to Act 25 Geo. V., c. 8. s. 58 (4).)
Paper 1f
LAW 1/2/218 May 1945
Campaign stars and the Defence medal. Committee on the grant of honours decorations and medals in time of war.
Paper 16p
LAW 1/2/219 May 1945
National Parks in England and Wales. Report by John Dower. Ministry of Town and Country Planning.
Paper 58p
LAW 1/2/220 17-18 May 1945
Parliamentary debates, House of Commons, 17-18 May 1945, vol. 410, no. 81, columns 2751-2898:
17 May 1945 (continuation)
Family Allowances Bill.
Welsh Church (Burial grounds)
Bill.
Agriculture (Artificial insemination) Bill.
Agriculture (Artificial insemination) [Money].
Coastal areas (Rehabilitation grants).
18 May 1945
Campaign stars and Defence medal.
Questions to
Ministers.
Adjournment (Whitsuntide): Foreign broadcasting services; Members and Ministers (Franked mail); Severn barrage and hydro-electric scheme; Ministry of Works (Transferred Army officers).
Paper 74p
LAW 1/2/221 [July 1945]
Election address, in manuscript.
Paper 8f
LAW 1/2/222 3 August 1945
Notice of the administration of oaths of office to principal secretaries of state, before the lord president of the [Privy] Council [Herbert Morrison]: James Chuter Ede, Christopher Viscount Addison, George Henry Hall, JJL, Frederick William
Pethick-Lawrence, William Wedgwood, Viscount Stansgate, Joseph Westwood.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/2/223 3 August 1945
Notice of delivery of seals of office by the King to the Principal Secretaries of State, as
LAW 1/2/222.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/2/224 16 September 1945
Programme for a visit by JJL, Secretary of State for War, to the Royal Artillery Depot (India): lists staff; functions; welfare organisations; entertainments; complement since July 1945.
Paper 4f
LAW 1/2/225 October 1945
21st (British) Army Group in the campaign in North-West Europe, 1944-1945. Lecture by Field-Marshal Sir Bernard L. Montgomery to the Royal United Service Institution, London on 3 October 1945. Inscribed to JJL by the
author.
Paper 36p; map
LAW 1/2/226 18 December 1945
Resolution of the Borough of Clitheroe conveying appreciation of and gratitude towards No. 1 Training Battalion Royal Engineers, stationed at Clitheroe, 1939-1945.
Seal: common seal of the borough affixed.
Paper 1f
Seal: paper seal
LAW 1/2/227 [1946]
Agenda for the 45th annual conference with nominations for the election of the National Executive Committee and other national officers. Labour Party annual conference, Bournemouth, 10-14 June 1946.
Paper 56p
LAW 1/2/228 26 July 1947
Order of Service for the 38th Miners' Festival Service at Durham Cathedral, 26 July 1947. Annotated in pencil by JJL with the livery colours of the bands of Brancepeth, Dean and Chapter, and Thornley Collieries.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/2/229 28 October 1947
Notice of Privy Council reappointment to the Court of the University of Durham of Sir Cecil Algernon Cochrane, Countess Grey, JJL, Sam Watson. For related correspondence, see
LAW 1/1/374.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/2/230 1948
Labour Party 47th annual conference postcard (blank), depicting the conference hall at Scarborough, and portrait photographs of Clement Attlee and Emanuel Shinwell.
Paper 1 postcard
LAW 1/2/231 [March 1949 x 1958]
Manuscript research notes on the qualifications of a d[eputy]-l[ieutenant], as defined by the Militia Act 1882 and the Deputy Lieutenants Act 1918.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/2/281 13 April 1949
Letters patent appointing JJL Keeper of the Rolls in County Durham until 17 October 1956, the day after he reaches the age of seventy-five.
Accessioned, 24 February 2017: Misc.2016/17:91.
LAW 1/2/284 13 May 1948
Warrant of appointment of JJL as Deputy Lieutenant of County Durham, issued by Robert Chapman, Vice-Lieutenant on behalf of Col. Charles Vane-Tempest-Stewart the 7th Marquess of Londonderry, Lord Lieutenant and Custos Rotulorum of County Durham;
with seal bearing the armorial achievement of the 7th Marquess of Londonderry.
LAW 1/2/232 2 July 1949
Programme for the Durham Labour Women annual gala, at Wharton Park, Durham City, 2 July 1949: listing chief speakers, fraternal delegates, and the order of procession. See
LAW 1/1/385.
Paper 2f
LAW 1/2/233 23 November 1949
Parliamentary debates, House of Commons, 23 November 1949, vol. 470, no. 191, columns 331-636:
Oral answers to questions: British Guiana (Franchise inquiry); Enugu colliery, Nigeria (Disturbances); Export trade,
dollar markets; Air accident inquiry report (Minister's comments).
Festival of Britain (Supplementary provisions) Bill.
Parliament Square (Improvements) Bill.
Adjournment debate: Income tax arrears (Ex-service men).
Written answers
to questions: Malaya (Financial assistance).
Paper
LAW 1/2/285 19 December 1949
Letter to JJL from A.J. Phelps notifying JJL of his appointment by the Chancellor of the Exchequer to be Steward and Bailiff of the Chiltern Hundreds.
LAW 1/2/234 [1950s x 1965]
Speech on the theme of education, perhaps for an address to a school.
Paper 9f
LAW 1/2/235 [1950 x 1965]
Manuscript fragment of a draft speech on the theme of Youth Services in a changing world.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/2/236 [1950 x 1965]
Fragment of a speech, describing population changes in Co. Durham caused by the nineteenth-century growth of the coal industry.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/2/237 1950
Labour Party jubilee certificate, recording JJL's membership of the party.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/2/238 [February 1950 x 1951]
Red notebook containing manuscript notes for a speech on the subject of Dictators and the British Labour Movement (political and industrial).[Note: date inferred from JJL reference to “the Complete Devastation of the Russianists at the recent General Election”, and other contextual evidence.]
Paper 1 volume
LAW 1/2/239 [June 1950]
Burnhope, Peartree and Holmside roll of honour, 1939-1945. Burnhope and United Services Welcome Home Committee, 1939-1945. Copy inscribed and presented to JJL, 10 June 1950, by members of Burnhope War Memorial Committee to commemorate an
unveiling ceremony.
Paper; textile tie 8f
LAW 1/2/240 12 May 1951
Invitation to JJL and Bella Lawson to attend a visit by Princess Margaret to the Durham County Girl Guides' Association, with inspection and march past, 12 May 1951 at Palace Green, Durham City. Endorsed with further invitation to a service at
the Cathedral.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/2/241 May-June 1951
Parliamentary delegation visit to Yugoslavia.
File of preparatory papers, subsequent report, and JJL journal and writings concerning the visit by a parliamentary delegation to Yugoslavia, 15-26 May 1951.
Paper 1 file
LAW 1/2/241/1 [May 1951]
List of members of the parliamentary delegation to Yugoslavia, led by JJL.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/2/241/2 [May 1951]
Memorandum concerning UK trade with Yugoslavia, under the headings: Trade Agreement; Present Economic Situation; Present Yugoslav Trade with the United Kingdom.
Paper 2f
LAW 1/2/241/3 [May 1951]
Tabulated statistical summary of UK trade with Yugoslavia, 1948-1950.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/2/241/4 [May 1951]
Report of the chairman (JJL) of the parliamentary delegation to Yugoslavia. (14th-25th May, 1951).
Paper 2f
LAW 1/2/241/5 14 May-29 June 1951
Journal, with associated loose papers, of JJL's visit to Yugoslavia, chairing a parliamentary delegation. The journal continues through June, recording the Easington Colliery disaster - “[o]ne of the saddest days of my
life” - and JJL's visit to Australia, 5-19 June 1951 (Shannon, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Honolulu, Sydney, Canberra, Fiji, Honolulu, San Francisco, Chicago, New York, Goose Bay in Labrador, UK).
Paper 1 volume
LAW 1/2/241/6 [May 1951]
“How I came to go to Yugoslavia.” Speech notes, endorsed “Luncheon”.
Paper 13f
LAW 1/2/242 1952
The British worker, by Ferdynand Zweig. Annotated in pencil by JJL.
Paper 1 volume
LAW 1/2/243 25 January1952
“Lieutenancy of the County of Durham.” Notes (corrected typescript), by A. A. Luxmoore: naming the lord-lieutenant, vice-lieutenant, and fifty deputy-lieutenants; and with historical note on the history of the
lieutenancy, with short biographies of the sixteen lords-lieutenant for Co. Durham since 1536.
Paper 9f
LAW 1/2/244 21 October 1952
Privy Council [re-]appointment of Countess Grey, JJL, Sam Watson, E. F. Collingwood to the Court of the University of Durham; see
LAW 1/1/582.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/2/245-247 26 October 1952
Material relating to a visit by the Princess Royal to Darlington, 26 October 1952.
Paper 4 items
LAW 1/2/245 26 October 1952
Programme booklet for the opening of Darlington Y.M.C.A., Park Street, by the Princess Royal.
Paper 2f
LAW 1/2/246 26 October 1952
Platform admission ticket in the name of Bella Lawson, with platform seating plan, for the opening of Darlington Y.M.C.A., Park Street, by the Princess Royal.
Paper 1f; 1f
LAW 1/2/247 26 October 1952
Admission ticket to the unveiling and dedication by the Princess Royal of the 50th (Northumbrian) Infantry Divisional Signal Regiment (Territorial Army) war memorial at St Cuthbert's Church, Darlington.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/2/248 1953
Road map of Hordaland fylke, Norway: 2 sections (North and South). The towns Mundheim, Fosse, Viköy and Norheimsund circled in ink.
Paper 1 volume
LAW 1/2/249 27 May 1953
An account of the proceedings in Westminster Hall on Wednesday, 27th May, 1953 on the occasion of the coronation luncheon given by all branches of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II,
with an historical note on coronation feasts in Westminster Hall. Booklet.
Paper 1 volume
LAW 1/2/250 22 August 1953
“I deem it a great Honour to have been invited by the Town Council of Jarrow to declare Open this Memorial Hall.” Manuscript. Speech notes.
Paper 11f
LAW 1/2/251 20 November 1953
Menu, toast list, and programme of music, for a luncheon at the Mansion House, following the presentation of the honorary freedom of the City of London to Clement Attlee. Music performed by the Aylmer Orchestra, under Harold Williams.
Paper; textile tie 4f
LAW 1/2/252 8 July 1954
Menu and toast list for a luncheon at Wearhead Filter House, upon the inauguration of Sunderland and South Shields Water Company's Burnhope pipe-line scheme; with description of the Wearhead filtration plant.
Paper 2f
LAW 1/2/253 June-July 1954
Material relating to a dinner at Lancaster House on 15 July 1954, at which the lieutenants of Counties presented to Queen Elizabeth II a picture of her coronation by T. C. Cuneo.
Paper 4 items
LAW 1/2/253/1 June 1954
Circular from Richard Cave, Secretary of the Association of Lieutenants of Counties, enclosing invitation to the dinner.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/2/253/2 15 July 1954
Dinner invitation card.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/2/253/3 15 July 1954
Menu, music programme, and list of lieutenants of Counties. Music performed by the orchestra of the Royal Horse Guards (The Blues), under Captain J. E. Thirtle.
Paper; textile tile 4f
LAW 1/2/253/4 [15 Jul 1954]
Dinner seating plan. JJL's personalised copy.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/2/254-259 29 October 1954
Material relating to a visit to Gateshead, South Shields and then Sunderland by Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh.
Paper 6 items
LAW 1/2/254-255 29 October 1954
Programme for a visit to Gateshead by Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh, with list of presentees, and route of the royal party (2 copies).
Paper 2f (x2)
LAW 1/2/256-257 29 October 1954
Programme for a visit to South Shields by Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh, with list of presentees, and route of the royal party (2 copies).
Paper 2f (x2)
LAW 1/2/258-259 29 October 1954
Programme for a visit to Sunderland by Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh, with list of presentees, and route of the royal party (2 copies). Copy LAW 1/2/258: list of presentees supplemented in JJL's hand.
Paper 2f (x2)
LAW 1/2/260 [1955 x 1964]
Draft manuscript fragment of an election speech, arguing against an incumbent [Conservative] Government.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/2/261 1955
Durham County Boy Scouts Association programme for 1955.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/2/262 1 January 1955
Durham County Boy Scouts Association directory of Commissioners, Local Association Secretaries, Districts and Local Associations.
Paper 5f
LAW 1/2/263 February 1955
A programme of nuclear power. White paper. Annotated.
Paper 22p
LAW 1/2/264 5 April 1955
Order of proceedings for the official opening of Grindon Close branch library, museum and grounds, (see
LAW 2/4/2/7).
Paper 1f
LAW 1/2/265 28 September 1955
Invitation to JJL and Bella Lawson to a luncheon at Durham Castle, 28 September 1955, and to an opening ceremony of Washington Old Hall. The invitation, issued by the Committee for the Preservation of Washington Old Hall, is made by JJL,
lord-lieutenant, and Charles Sumner Bird, chairman of the American-British Commonwealth Association. See
LAW 1/2/273.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/2/266 15 November 1955
Invitation (as admission ticket) from F. Pattison, mayor of Gateshead, and Mrs M. Gunn, chairman of the Education Committee, to JJL and Bella Lawson to attend the opening of Gateshead Technical College by the Duke of Edinburgh.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/2/267 4 May 1956
Menu for a lieutenancy dinner, held in the Royal County Hotel, Durham, 4 May 1956: with list of officers of the lieutenancy. Annotations: front cover date amended in manuscript to 10 May 1957; list of officers also marked off.
Paper 2f
LAW 1/2/268 4 June 1956
Material relating to a visit by Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh to Stockton-on-Tees.
Paper 2 items
LAW 1/2/268/1 4 June 1956
Invitation to JJL and Bella Lawson to attend the royal party at the High Street, Stockton-on-Tees, and afterwards at a buffet luncheon in the Maison de Danse, Yarm Lane.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/2/268/2 4 June 1956
Programme of the royal visit, with list of presentees, and the route of the royal party.
Paper 2f
LAW 1/2/269 1 November 1956
Programme of a visit by Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother to the Bowes Museum: with list of the museum's Sub-Committee, and officials of the Education Department of Durham County Council. Programme of events corrected in JJL's hand. [?Back cover
missing].
Paper 5f
LAW 1/2/270 January 1957
The Durham coalfield, 1947-1957. Transitional years reviewed. By E. H. D. Skinner, chairman, Durham Division, National Coal Board. Reprint of an article first published in a Coal Supplement of the
Newcastle Journal. Annotated in pencil [by JJL].
Paper 16p
LAW 1/2/271 [November 1957]
Notes for a speech made upon the publication of a report into an accident at Windscale. [Note: probably relates to the fire at Windscale, 10 October 1957, and the Penney Report.]
Paper 1f
LAW 1/2/272 19 July 1958
Illustrated souvenir programme for the 75th Annual Gala of the Durham Miners' Association at Durham Racecourse, 19 July 1958: with circular to members of the National Union of Mineworkers, Durham Area, from Sam Watson, General Secretary. Lists:
platform speakers, D.M.A. Agents and Executive Committee, [historical] Gala dates and speakers, strikes and stoppages (since 1872), mining disasters (1869-1957), mining accidents and fatalities (1955-1957); with historical chronology, 1869-1957,
tabulation of case work (1957) and Pieceworkers' average earnings (1950-1958), and statistical survey of the mining industry in Co. Durham (1930-1957).
Paper 32p
LAW 1/2/273 1959
Washington Old Hall. A short history. With an account of the opening ceremony, September 28, 1955. By Eric Underwood. See
LAW 1/2/265.
Paper 20p
LAW 1/2/274 1 November 1960
Paper Admittance ticket of the Honourable Mrs C. F. C. Lawson to the opening of Parliament, standing in the Royal Gallery.
LAW 1/2/275 27 July 1963
Material relating to the Presentation of Colours to the 8th Battalion the Durham Light Infantry (Territorial Army) by Princess Alexandra, Colonel in Chief, at Palace Green, Durham City, 27 July 1963.
Paper 2 items
LAW 1/2/275/1 27 July 1963
Invitation, from Colonel R. S. McLaren, Honorary Colonel, and Lieutenant-Colonel G. Robertson, D.L.I.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/2/275/2 27 July 1963
Programme: lists officers of the 8th Battalion the Durham Light Infantry, and those on parade; order of parade and music; illustrations of the Queen's Colour and the Regimental Colour; Form of the Consecration Service; history of the
battalion.
Paper 8f
LAW 1/2/276 12 February 1964
Parliamentary debates, House of Lords, 12 February 1964, vol. 255, no. 36, columns 553-636:
Questions: Advisory Committee on grants for overseas sports; Hyde Park; Kensington Gardens; Training of Commonwealth law
students.
Motion: Staggered holidays;
Statement: Overseas Volunteer Service.
Paper 44p
LAW 1/2/277 [January x August 1965]
Invitation from Harold Wilson and his wife to JJL and Bella Lawson for 8 July [1965] at Downing Street.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/2/278 6 May 1965
Houses of Parliament lists of adjournments and all-party notices, issued 6 May 1965.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/2/279 7 May 1965
House of Lords programme of parliamentary business, 11-13 May 1965.
Paper 1f
LAW 1/2/280 13 September 1965
Material relating to the memorial service for JJL at Durham Cathedral, 13 September 1965.
Paper 2 items
LAW 1/2/280/1 13 September 1965
Order of Service.
Paper 2f
LAW 1/2/280/2 13 September 1965
Address delivered by Maurice [Harland, the Bishop of] Durham at the memorial service for JJL, upon the text of Daniel Chapter 10, verse 19: “O man greatly beloved, fear not: peace be unto thee, be strong, yea be
strong”. Signed by the bishop. Text amended and annotated.
Paper 9f
CorrespondenceDates of creation: 1908-1965
Extent: 2 boxes
Correspondence and enclosures concerning his unofficial activities and personal life.
LAW 2/1/1 4 March 1908
Letter from Albert Mansbridge, The Workers' Educational Association, to JJL: Jack Lawson (JJL) to speak at the Union Society; reform of Oxford [University]; advocates a better informed understanding of [the university] among
“Labour people”.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/2 2 June 1908
Letter from W Mitroff, 35 Elgin Avenue, [London], to JJL: expecting group photograph of the students [?of Ruskin College]; plans for Mitroff's further technical education, his English studies continue; greets Mr Parks and Mr Whitehead;
[Franco-British] London exhibition; invitation to visit; requests “an account of questions agitating the English workmen at the present time”.
Paper 2f
LAW 2/1/3 10 August 1908
Letter from Arnold, The Barn, Hadleigh Road, Frinton, Sussex, to JJL, 34 Wells Row, Boldon Colliery, Co. Durham: sorrow at JJL's absence from Oxford; unprecedented friendship “between a 'Varsity man & a Ruskin
man”. “We will agitate day & night until we revolutionise England. Let us be ashamed of ourselves until we see every man well clothed, well fed & well housed & all the Lords in the lethal
chamber.”
Paper 2f; stamped envelope
LAW 2/1/4 [1908]
Reference from John Johnson, J. H. Cann, S. Guthaist and John Wilson, Durham Miners' Association, of the “more than ordinary ability ... upright character and keen desire to do his duty” of JJL,
“a most suitable person to look after the interests of any body of workmen whom he may be called upon to represent”.
Paper 2f
LAW 2/1/5 26 August 1908
Reference from Dennis Hird, principal of Ruskin College, of JJL's qualities and character. Envelope later endorsed: “Re-applying for a job as check-wayman, 1909” [sic].
Paper 2f; stamped envelope
LAW 2/1/6 13 January 1909
Letter to JJL and reference from William Moore Ede, The Deanery, Worcester Cathedral: prospects for effective work as checkweighman; meanwhile, holding his seat on the [Durham] County Council for JJL to run as the Union candidate; [J. J.] Prest
an awkward manager at Horden colliery.
Paper 4f
LAW 2/1/7 1 April 1909
Letter from C. S. Buxton, Ruskin College, to JJL, 5 East View, Boldon Colliery: resignation of Dennis Hird, [principal of the College]; deprecates the conduct of the students.
Paper 2f; 1 stamped envelope
LAW 2/1/8 5 May 1909
Letter from C. S. Buxton, Ruskin College, to JJL: their shared opinion on the action of the students; misconceptions of the Executive Committee's intentions; impossibility of reinstating Dennis Hird, or of reopening the inquiry; desirability of
“more systematic” representation of trades unions on the Council. Pointes.
Paper 2f
LAW 2/1/9 8 July 1911
Letter from C. S. B[uxton], Wye, Kent, to JJL: suggests JJL's Canadian travel plan might be funded by harvesting there; proposes seasonal working holidays for city dwellers; shared support for the [National] Insurance Bill, anticipating its
positive impact upon the rural economy and the likely quick loss of the inefficient larger farms.
Paper 2f
LAW 2/1/10 3 September 1911
Letter from [Lady] Phyllis S[ydney] Buxton, Newtimber Place, Hassocks, Sussex, to JJL: anticipates event on Monday.
Paper 2f
LAW 2/1/11 16 September 1911
Letter (mourning stationary) from Phyllis S. Buxton to JJL, subsequent to the death of C. S. Buxton, [31 August 1911]: queries arrangements in hand for the funding of a man recommended by JJL to attend Ruskin College, to supplement £10 per annum
already promised by Mr George Trevelyan.
Paper 2f
LAW 2/1/12 18 September 1911
Letter from Averil D. Furniss, Whirlow House, Oxford, to Mrs [Bella] Lawson: regrets the death of [C. S. Buxton]; plans to visit the North; [child] Irene.
Paper 2f
LAW 2/1/13 21 August 1912
Letter from C. Pattinson, Nanaimo, Box 798, British Columbia, Canada, to JJL: account of labour conditions in eastern and western Canada, comparative to Britain, and Pattinson's journey west in search of work (clay pit, quarry, mining camp);
attempts to start a union (“three camps out of four [on Vancouver Island] are organized”); appointed International Organizer for the United Mine Workers of America, involving much travel; recalls a shared Oxford
[University] acquaintance named Vrooman; Chinese labourers [on Vancouver Island] organizing within the union - “[a]s far as his own class is concerned he is a good union man”. Account of the state of the socialist
movement: “[w]e are living in a new country and therefore our movement is highly theor[et]ical. We are Revolutionists because we have not the conditions such as you have in the old Country. We have not the questions to face
such as feeding of school children or the unemployed tho that question is rapidly forcing itself upon us. The evils are coming here and bye and bye we will have to face them but at present we are Revolutionists and can afford to ignore these mere
practical questions that obscure the issue. We belong to the Rev[olution]<ary> class conscious proletarian element of the socialist party; none of your laborism for us”. Describes encouraging political representation of socialists in the
[legislative assembly of British Columbia]; “[f]reethought is very aggressive here”. Notes with approval JJL's support for “the forward policy of the Durham miners”; requests a copy of
this [policy pamphlet], and of one issued by the Welsh miners.
Paper 6f
LAW 2/1/14 21 October 1912-23 February 1916
Letters, and enclosures, from William Lawson (d. 1916). Into this file have been collected all the extant letters of William Lawson, addressed both to his brother JJL and Bella his wife, and also to others of his family and friends.
Paper 45f
LAW 2/1/14/1 21 October 1912
Letter, from Ruskin College, to Jack and Bella Lawson: academic studies; Durham Forward Movement; Furniss family.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/14/2 9 November 1912
Paper delivered by William Lawson to a “mixed” audience:
Recent legislation for miners; with covering note.
Paper 10f
LAW 2/1/14/3 [December 1914 x March 1916]
Part of a letter, without an address: conscription and militarism; effect of military service upon his character; quality of (territorial) officers.Note: Second lieutenant William Lawson joined the 17th battalion of the Durham Light Infantry, which was formed in October 1914. He was attached to the 8th battalion on 25 August 1915. He was killed by a sniper on 27 March 1916. He is buried at
Chester Farm cemetery.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/14/4 19 March 1915
Letter, to JJL: advice to JJL, following his decision to join up; 17th D.L.I.; contrasts camps of 17th and 20th D.L.I. at Cannock Chase and Barnard Castle respectively; warns against recruiting sergeants steering him into the 2nd Durhams -
“you must join the New Armies”; positive impressions of the British Army; necessity of discipline; personal confidence; quality of battalion and the officers; hard last three months; warns JJL, joining as a private,
to “be careful with your privileged prejudices. All men are prejudiced - but all man are not active in brain like you”. Endorsed in another hand with the address of the Director of Graves, Registration and Enquiries,
General Headquarters, B.E.F., France.
Paper 3f
LAW 2/1/14/5-6 5 August 1915
Letter, from Deerbolt Park Camp, Barnard Castle, to JJL: camp life; bugle calls; asks after JJL's Oxford trip; Richardson; visit of Sir Henry and Lady Jones; encloses a poem by David MacGill, given with “some prints of
war poetry” to William Lawson by the wife of Principal [?Edward] Caird, via Sir Henry Jones.
Paper 1f; 1f
LAW 2/1/14/6 [1914]
The great war. The recruit. A poem by David MacGill, annotated. Endorsed in the hand of Jack Lawson: “Mrs Caird. The wife of dear old Principal Caird sent him this so he asked me to preserve
it. Will was very friendly with her”.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/14/7 [28 August 1915 x March 1916]
Letter, from 50th Northumbrian Division, Base Depot, No. 18 Camp, [Le] Havre, to Jack and Bella Lawson: now attached to 8th D.L.I.; training; depart by train tonight for headquarters.
Paper 2f
LAW 2/1/14/8 16 September 1915
Letter, from 8th D.L.I., 151st Brigade, 50th Division, British Expeditionary Force, to Mr [H. Sanderson] Furniss: Furniss relieves a man for service [in France]; enrolment in W.E.A. War-time Comradeship; trench and dug-out conditions, enemy 200
yards away; impression of LLoyd George speech at Bristol, and his interest in him since the start of the war; Professor Sir Henry Jones' familiarity with Lloyd George; importance of establishing an over-whelming supply of high explosive shells;
account of a night-time dangerous digging detail; home thoughts; morale; poor Saxon morale - “would all surrender tomorrow” - contrasted with that of Prussian officers; three types of German army soldier, Prussian (
“keen” ), Bavarian ( “fair” ), Saxon ( “seldom show fight” ); offers thanks for “the Broadsheets”; leaves this post on
Saturday night.
Paper 4f
LAW 2/1/14/9 7 November 1915
Letter, from Billets, 8th D.L.I., B.E.F., to Mr [H. Sanderson] Furniss: six wet days in trenches, [then billets], returns to trenches tomorrow night; kit; relief; impressed by speech of Prime Minister Asquith, and critical of [Edward] Carson's
reply; non-belligerence of Greece; “wearing down process ... will give mankind a shaking”; account of a nearby country house, ransacked, and a faithful dog; Tom Horn, a Ruskin alumnus, joins R.A.M.C.; will write to
the
Collegian.
Paper 3f
LAW 2/1/14/10 15 November 1915
Letter, from Rest - Belgium, 8th D.L.I., B.E.F., to JJL: off the line since Saturday; morning training; to learn French; assigned, with [Arthur M.] Jones, out of the Beamish & Stanley Group, to No. 1 and No. 2 Platoons 'A' Company.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/14/11 19 November 1915
Letter, from Belgium, addressed “Dear little girl”: uncle Marsh; poor opinion of Belgian country; Edna.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/14/12 5 December 1915
Letter, [from La Crèche village, near Bailleul, France], to JJL: boredom; [Arthur M.] Jones; in small village; mud and busy roads prevent walking; exercising; books from Sir Henry Jones; Captain Veitch; poor progress with French studies; leave
due shortly before Christmas; account of that day's Wesleyan service.
Paper 4f
LAW 2/1/14/13 8 December [1915]
Letter, [from La Crèche village, near Bailleul, France], to JJL: visit to neighbouring town for baths and hair-cuts; use of slang military terms irresistible; unspecifiable changes; expects to be home on leave on 15th or 16th.
Paper 2f
LAW 2/1/14/14 25 December 1915
Letter (unfinished), to Mr [H. Sanderson] Furniss: returned to battalion yesterday, in Belgium; rations, and tinned Christmas pudding; account of carols sung by men and N.C.O.s outside dugout, “a fair long way from the
front line”, and dugout life; W.E.A. Christmas message received and liked; Rupert Brooke; death of Philip A. Brown, a veteran of Loos. Subscribed in the hand of H. S. F.: “evidently unfinished”.
Paper 2f
LAW 2/1/14/15 11 January 1916
Letter, to Jack and Bella Lawson: out of the trenches for two days; account of the killing of [Private R. H.] Longmuir, a member of his digging detail by a sniper, and of his burial at night in [Maple Copse]; now “sure Fritz is beaten”; writes to George this morning.
Paper 2f
LAW 2/1/14/16 11 January 1916
Letter to George [Lawson]: Arthur [M. Jones] well; returns to trenches in two days; account of chatting with some [King's Own Scottish] Borderers from Whitehaven, Cumberland, in a wood, among them the son of Jim Rothery; boxer Willie Geddes; Tom
Lawson; plentiful food parcels.
Paper 2f
LAW 2/1/14/17 4 February 1916
Letter, to Mr [H. Sanderson] Furniss: marriage, Mrs [William] Lawson teaching until after the war; good health; placed in command during the leave of Captain [?Baldwin]; visit to renowned city, with ruined cathedral [?Ypres], compared to Osney
Abbey, Oxfordshire; loss of friends; pet fox terrier; letter from Brown; Somerville in Canada, letters to whom [?from William Lawson] published in the
Collegian.
Paper 2f
LAW 2/1/14/18 23 February 1916
Letter, to JJL: received cutting from JJL about patrols; “nothing to read for a wonder but beastly "John Bulls"”; Captain Baldwin; Schofield, a South African; non-participant in the recent action; visit to Hill 60;
[food] parcels; nothing to read, books etc. never being carried on one's person; visits of [Arthur M.] Jones now in Machine Gun Corps, stationed nearby; recommends
The Bystander's Fragments of France, [by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather] - “In and Out” hanging in the dugout; awaits Wells [?H. G. Wells].
Paper 3f
LAW 2/1/15 10 April 1914
Letter from H. Sanderson Furniss, Stone End Farm, Ascott-Under-Wychwood, to JJL: congratulates JJL on his selection, suggested in January, as the [parliamentary] candidate for north-west Durham; regrets the failure to move a resolution to promote
more students [at Ruskin College] from [County] Durham; Chipping Norton strike [at Bliss Tweed Mill]; memoir of C. S. Buxton to be published privately in June, JJL's letters to be returned; anticipates visit to Durham for “the great day” [?Miners' Gala]; invitation to Stone End Farm for the Whitsuntide meet; offers loan of G. D. H. Cole's
The world of labour. Greets Will [Lawson].
Paper 2f
LAW 2/1/16 7 August 1914
Letter from H. Sanderson Furniss, Chesnut Close, Ascott-under-Wychwood, to JJL: their friendship; thanks for a “refreshing and inspiring” visit, regretting that the Furniss' political views attract both the dislike
of unsympathetic neighbours and the suspicion of [working class] allies. Greets George Lawson. Oxford Summer School: Lowth, son of [T.] Lowth of the National Union of Railwaymen. Preference for neutrality rather than entering the war, even having
read the official papers. No news of Slater. Doubts [Ruskin] College will continue to operate through the war; contingencies at Oxford.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/17 21 March 1915
Letter from Phyllis S. Buxton, Government House, Cape Town, South Africa, to Mrs [Bella] Lawson: unusually wet season (70" in 2 months); patriotism; welcomes the employment of women, and anticipates great changes in their lives; sailed from
England, with [Frederic] Cresswell; bitter attitude towards South African labour leaders there and abroad, complicated by a fear of losing control of the native [black] mining workers, “that's a very real terror in this country always”; describes visit to the Crown Mines, Johannesburg, making comparison to a mine at Stanley, and their working methods; considers racial discrimination in the industries, and the
effects of reform; notes the state control of industry in Britain; dislike of the
Labour leader newspaper.
Paper 8f
LAW 2/1/18 2 April [?1915]
Letter from Lina Laird, Oban House, New Road, Washington, to JJL: contributed, writing as “Minna”, an article on George Borrow to next issue of
Labour leader; reviews Balzac's Le père Goriot, with comparisons to Hugo; and Jack London's White fang, noting the author's Californian political ambitions;
and Charles G. Roberts; presentation of John Ruskin's The stones of Venice, and Richard Jefferies The story of my heart.
Paper 4f
LAW 2/1/19-20 10 and 12 May 1915
Letter from T. Richardson, 29 Lancaster Park, Richmond, Surrey, to JJL: Lawson's letter, redacted, sent to the Under-Secretary for War [Harold Tennant], and enclosing Richardson's covering letter, and its “curt
reply”; passing of War Office vote ends for the present all debate on the matter in the House of Commons.
Paper 1f; 1f
LAW 2/1/21 6 September 1915
Postcard, postmarked Bristol, from JJL to his daughter Rene [Irene] Lawson, 6 Twizell Lane, West Pelton, Beamish.
Paper 1 postcard
LAW 2/1/22 30 November 1915
Letter from Phyllis Buxton, Government House, South Africa, to Mrs [Bella] Lawson: Christmas thoughts; encloses “a little card of our “native problem”” [not present]; monitors
William Lawson's regiment in the lists [of casualties].
Paper 2f
LAW 2/1/23 29 December [1915]
Letter from Averil [D. Furniss], Bear Place, Twyford, Berkshire, to Bella [Lawson]: busy; new lodgings; shutting up house at Ascott; female servants engaged in munitions and hospital work, and a W.E.A. class; death of Stephen Reiss; regrets
conscription, a “citizen army” a characteristic of a socialist state; attitude toward anticipated upheaval after the war, and “an educated, spiritual Democracy”; growing Tory antagonism
towards unions; surprise at [the marriage of] William Lawson.
Paper 6f
LAW 2/1/24 13 January 1916
Letter from William Moore Ede at Hammerwood, Oxted, Surrey, as at Worcester [Deanery] to JJL: with one of his sons; Chatt, and scheme of Penny Dinners for school children, Sam Storey's opposition to his re-election as [Durham] County Council
District Clerk; attitude toward prosecuting the war against Germany; sadness at social reforms sacrificed “for my life time, & for many years to come”, viz. more Miners' Homes; Christian ethical programme for
post-war English society, citing JJL's [?education] work with pitmen; Home Reading Union; encloses pamphlets [not present]; dislike of conscription, but should not be opposed.
Paper 2f
LAW 2/1/25 31 March 1916
Telegram from George [Lawson], Boldon Colliery, to JJL, Twizell Lane, Beamish, West Pelton: “Regret Jones writes Will fatally injured sniper”.
Paper 1f; 1 envelope
LAW 2/1/26 2 April 1916
Letter from Will Bell, 19 Eamont Gardens, West Hartlepool, to Jack and Bella Lawson: condolences.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/27 23 June 1916
Letter from Averil [D. Furniss], 18 Albion Street, Hyde Park, London, to Bella [Lawson]: welcomes Bella's recovery; widow of William Lawson; details plans for Ruskin College, [H. S. Furniss having been appointed Principal].
Paper 4f
LAW 2/1/28 [?after March 1918]
Letter (incomplete), from Lina [Laird], to [Bella Lawson]: account of a country walk near Dunston, [Tyne and Wear]; pay rise to 30/- a week; loneliness, war having brought no change, in contrast to her friends; account of love frustrated by
exigencies of war; joined Mawson & Swan's circulating library; enquires after Mr Degeyter at Birtley and Mr Roberts; Alf's leave cancelled due to influx of wounded at York.
Paper 4f
LAW 2/1/29 21 November 1918
Postcard from Tommy, [Kherson, Ukraine], to W. Lawson at Pit Row, Boldon Colliery: acknowledges receipt of postcard at Sarona, [Crimea, Ukraine]. The postcard is a river scene of Kherson on the Dnieper, in Ukraine. Postmark: Odessa, dated
“12 11 10”.
Paper 1 postcard
LAW 2/1/30 7 December 1918
Letter from R[ichard] Lawson, [Dawdon Lodge, Seaham Harbour] to George and Mary Jane [Lawson], on stationary for John Lawson 1918 election, and Durham Miners' Association Dawdon Lodge: campaign news; JJL at Dawdon Miners' Hall, Seaham Colliery,
Seaham Harbour; Richard Lawson, Thomas Schofield, Rev. J. Herron, speakers and organisers on JJL's behalf; poor organisation and scheduling; George Bloomfield; JJL demobilised on 28 November; Dawdon Lodge supportive; local Labour Committees; Church
Street, Seaham Harbour meeting plans; Horden Rag Time Band; speeches unreported; events planned at the four New Collieries, Wheatley Hill, and the fair at Thornley and Shotton; Wingate, South Hetton, Murton, Seaham Colliery and Seaham Harbour -
“the great drawbacks”; letters of support from JJL's Lodge and Pelton Fell Soldiers and Sailors Society to be printed and distributed.
Paper 3f
LAW 2/1/31 11 November 1919
Letter from R. & C. Whitfield, 5 Primrose Terrace, Hunwick, Willington, to JJL: monitoring Chester-le-Street election in the
Herald, wishing luck and expecting success; concern for JJL's health.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/32 15 November 1919
Letter from Jack Gascoigne, Witton Gilbert, Durham, to JJL: requests JJL's support for Gascoigne's application for post of Inspector under the County Education Committee; notes JJL's successful election [13 November 1919].
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/33 [1920s]
Postcard from I[rene] Lawson to Mrs Kirup, School, Grange Ville, Pelton: Irene Lawson in [?London] with Mrs Gilliland [wife of JJL's agent] and JJL. Postcard, printed in Paris, is of The Great Gate House at Hampton Court Palace.
Paper 1 postcard
LAW 2/1/34 8 December 1920
Postcard from JJL, Killarney, County Kerry, Ireland, to Bella Lawson, 6 Twizell Lane, Beamish: [A. G.] Cameron chairman of the [Labour] Commission to Ireland; motored sixty miles today; staying this night at Killarney. Postcard is of a painting
of Muckross Lake, Killarney. Note: postmarked 9 December, however the Commission's Report diary records their stay at Killarney on 8 December.
Paper 1 postcard
LAW 2/1/35 postmarked 26 April 1921
Postcard from JJL, travelling along the coast to St Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex, to Bella Lawson: speaks tonight at St Leonards-on-Sea; now engaged in “the Battle of Labour”. Postcard is of the cliff at Fairlight,
Hastings.
Paper 1 postcard
LAW 2/1/36 postmarked 8 June 1921
Postcard from Adolph Tuck, Raphael Tuck & Sons, to R. Richardson esquire, MP: printed lobby against an increase in postage rates for picture postcards. Postcard is of a painting of the Houses of Parliament from St Thomas' Hospital.
Paper 1 postcard
LAW 2/1/37 postmarked 5 August 1923
Postcard from JJL at Arras, France, to Bella Lawson, Woodside, Beamish: just arrived, to view the grave of William Lawson. Postcard depicts the ruined nave, taken from the choir, of Arras Cathedral, after the bombing.
Paper 1 postcard
LAW 2/1/38 postmarked 25 August 1923
Postcard from JJL, Morecambe, Lancashire, to Bella Lawson, 6 Twizell Lane, Beamish: Wilde family; leaving Morecambe; may return early. Postcard depicts Heysham village and Point, near Morecambe.
Paper 1 postcard
LAW 2/1/39 postmarked 16 August 1925
Postcard from JJL at [Quebec], Canada, to Bella Lawson, Woodside, Beamish: chapel; itinerary, Montreal, Toronto, Newfoundland. Postcard depicts Montmorency Falls, Quebec.
Paper 1 postcard
LAW 2/1/40 17 August 1925
Postcard from JJL, Montreal, Canada, to Bella Lawson. Postcard depicts Chateau Frontenac and Dufferin Terrace, Quebec.
Paper 1 postcard
LAW 2/1/41 20 August [1925]
Postcard from JJL, Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada, to Bella Lawson: traversed the whirlpool below the falls on a trolley. Postcard depicts Horseshoe Fall from below, Niagara Falls.
Paper 1 postcard
LAW 2/1/42 1 September 1925
Postcard from JJL, St John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, to Bella Lawson: arrived last night; staying with Sir Patrick McGrath, [president of the Legislative Council of Newfoundland]; departs for New York 6 September. See also,
LAW 1/2/34.
Paper 1 postcard
LAW 2/1/43 19 October 1925
Letter from Enid and Alexander Johnson, 65 West Eleventh Street, [New York], USA, to JJL: Margaret's apartment borrowed during JJL's New York stay; invitation to visit again; encloses
Herald Tribune cutting concerning JJL or a person of the same name [not present].
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/44 1 September 1926
Postcard from M. W., Holy Island, Scotland, to Bella Lawson: health improved; notes increase in Bella Lawson's work-load. Postcard depicts a beach scene at the coves, Holy Island.
Paper 1 postcard
LAW 2/1/45 8 April 1927
Letter from JJL, Beamish, to Mr Baldwin: recounts JJL's first reading of James Thomson's poem
The seasons, and his taste in poetry; appreciation of a poem entitled “The land”.
Paper 4f
LAW 2/1/46 19 September 1928
Letter from Stuart Hodgson,
The Daily News, Bouverie Street, London, to Dr. Moore Ede, The Deanery, Worcester: highly commending an article by JJL and drawn to the Hodgson's attention by Ede as “a masterpiece of its
kind”, suggesting it would merit “the greater part of a leader page”, and noting the need to introduce JJL to the newspaper's audience; a second article rejected on grounds of length, suggesting book-form
publication.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/47 15 November 1928
Letter from Harold Macmillan, Macmillan & Co. Ltd, St Martin's Street, London, to JJL, Woodside, Beamish: returns manuscript of
Pay Friday, commending the writing's authenticity but criticising its structure; suggests publication in serial form.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/48 28 November [1928]
Letter from G. Eden,
Daily News Political Correspondent, Press Gallery, [House of Commons], to JJL: editor judges [JJL's] article will “make a “splash””; accordingly being
held over until the King's health is restored.Note: date of 1928 inferred from the allusion to the illness of the King, and other correspondence with the
Daily News around this date. George V fell seriously ill in November 1928 with septicaemia.
Paper
LAW 2/1/49-50 11 December 1928
Letter, with enclosure, from Eleanor S. Symes, 24 Earl's Terrace, Kensington, London, to JJL: returns typescript of [fourteen] short stories (see below), commending in particular the dialogue and dialect, but noting the danger of alienating
readers by over-insisting on the superlative qualities of miners; advises chapters best published serially, then in a book-form collection - but one of loosely connected sketches rather than a continuing story; encloses suggested corrections,
revisions and alterations; advises retention of book publication rights in any serialisation deal; also encloses a gift of last year's
The writers and artists' yearbook; proposes meeting.
Paper 1f; 17f
LAW 2/1/50 [December 1928]
Typescript [copy editor] corrections and revision notes for fourteen typescript chapters by JJL, [returned with typescript]:
Pay Friday;
The big meeting;
The break;
Drama in the shaft;
The chapel;
The battle;
The tower on the hill;
A summer morning;
Downhill;
Mary pays;
The
Fosters;
The Hansoms;
The caller;
Today. [The typescripts referred to may be those now filed at
LAW 2/4/1/1].
Paper 17f
LAW 2/1/51 24 December 1928
Postcard from Oswald and Cynthia Mosley, [?Savehay Farm, Denham, Buckinghamshire], to JJL, House of Commons, redirected to Beamish: Christmas and new year wishes.
Paper 1 postcard
LAW 2/1/52 2 January 1929
Letter from William Mellor, The
Daily Herald, 2 Carmelite Street, London, to JJL: notes publication of one of JJL's sketches [
Benny] in the
Daily News, which might have been considered for
the
Daily Herald's short story series; invites submission of another.Note:
Benny was published in the
Daily News on 2 January 1929, see
LAW 2/1/56.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/53 2 January 1929
Letter from William Bell, 10 Selborne Grove, Bradford, Yorkshire, to JJL: commends JJL's short story
Benny, published in the Daily News.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/54 5 January [1929]
Letter from William Moore Ede, Deanery, Worcester, to JJL: welcomes attention won by JJL's short story
Benny, noting a market for mining stories; a copy sent to Stanley Baldwin, [Prime Minister].
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/55-56 5 January 1929
Letter, and enclosure, from William H. Robinson, Dealer in rare books and ancient manuscripts, 4-6 Nelson Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, to JJL: arranges meeting with Charles Askew of Herbert Jenkins Ltd publishers.
Paper 1f; 1f
LAW 2/1/56 5 January 1929
Letter from Charles Askew, Herbert Jenkins Ltd Publishers, 3 York Street, St James's, London, to William H. Robinson, 4-6 Nelson Street: agrees London meeting with JJL.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/57-58 7 January 1929
Letter, and enclosure, from Stuart Hodgson,
Daily News and
Westminster Gazette, Bouverie Street, London: confirming JJL's retention of book rights for
Benny; enclosing re-publication permission
request; inviting more submissions.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/58 5 January 1929
Letter from A. Bowman, General Secretary, The industrial peace union of the British Empire, 18 Abingdon Street, Westminster, to The Editor,
Daily News, Bouverie Street, London: request to re-publish Benny“the hero of the Mine” in his organisation's journal, acknowledging the
Daily News and the Westminster Gazette, and begging loan of JJL's portrait print block. Superscribed by JJL with note of refusal.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/59 10 January 1929
Letter from Charles Askew, Herbert Jenkins Ltd Publishers, 3 York Street, St James's, London, to JJL: returning JJL's sketches, praising the style but noting inconsistency; does not object to JJL marketing the sketches, as
“[t]hey may attract attention if issued and mean good publicity for the novel”.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/60 13 January [1929]
Letter from Hastings Bertrand Lees-Smith [MP], 12 North Square, Golders Green, London, to JJL: commends JJL's story [
Benny]; writer is recovering his health.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/61 15 January 1929
Letter from Arnold Dawson, Literary Editor,
Daily Herald, 2 Carmelite Street, London, to JJL, Woodside, Beamish: rejects The Hansoms, Today and The caller, as
insufficiently fictional for use in the newspapers series of tales; accepts [Drama in the shaft]; notes JJL's suggestion to run notices of his stories in issues prior to their publication; suggests the
New leader may publish the [rejected] sketches.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/62 23 January 1929
Letter from Stuart Hodgson,
Daily News and Westminster Gazette, Bouverie Street, London, to JJL, House of Commons: accepts unspecified article.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/63-64 11 February 1929
Letter, with enclosure, from Henry Archibald Taylor, Director, Newspaper Features Ld, 23 Fleet Street, London, to JJL, House of Commons: returns JJL's outline for six articles with alterations, as sent to printer, the series now entitled
“Meet the miner”; requests emphasis of the human over the political, editors tolerating only as much “political propaganda” as is necessary to correct misinterpretation of the miners'
outlook; will consider an autobiographical article.
Paper 2f; 2f
LAW 2/1/64 [February 1929]
Typescript outline for six articles by JJL, annotated by Newspaper Features Ld copy editor, “Meet the miner. Six revealing articles on the mystery man of industry”:
The mystery man of industry; Yesterday's miner, and to-day's; King Coal's realm; Prosperity and depression;
Pit and parliament; What of the future?.
Paper 2f
LAW 2/1/65 21 Feburary 1929
Letter from Henry Archibald Taylor, Director, Newspaper Features Ld, 23 Fleet Street, London, to JJL, House of Commons: returns second article [
Yesterday's miner, and to-day's]; confirms the publisher's interest solely concerns newspaper publication rights.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/66 14 June 1929
Letter from Stuart Hodgson, [
Daily News and Westminster Gazette], 19-22 Bouverie Street, London, to JJL, House of Commons: promises imminent publication of unspecified article; congratulates JJL on his appointment
[as Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Labour, on 11 June 1929].
Paper 2f
LAW 2/1/67 28 June 1929
Letter from F. Smith, [Secretary], Ruskin College, to JJL, House of Commons: notice of JJL's unanimous re-election as president of the College Fellowship; congratulations on JJL's parliamentary re-election and recent appointment [in the second
Labour government].
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/68 12 December 1930
Copy letter from JJL to Phillip [
sic] Inman, John Quill Ltd, 12 and 13 Henrietta Street, London: encloses
The miner and
The big meeting, making twelve sketches sent in total, namely:
The shaftman (see
LAW 2/4/2/61);
The manager (see
LAW 2/4/2/44);
The fore shift (see
LAW 2/4/2/33);
The Hansoms (see
LAW 2/4/2/28);
The Saclas family [Sackless] ;
The battle (see
LAW 2/4/2/4);
The tower on the
hill (see
LAW 2/4/2/75);
A summers morn;
The spread-over (see
LAW 2/4/2/66);
Pay
Friday. Two “printed” articles [also submitted]:
The putter;
The dreamer [?see
LAW 2/4/1/3]. Expresses
flexibility over titling the various pieces. [Much of this material was reworked by JJL into a continuous narrative work entitled variously
Geordie or
Pay Friday: see
LAW 2/4/1/1].
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/69 16 December 1930
Letter from Philip Inman, John Quill Ltd, Literary Advisers, 12 and 13 Henrietta Street, London, to JJL, Minister of Labour, Montagu House, Whitehall: has submitted “in complete form” JJL's work
“as a book” to Hodder & Stoughton; serial publication a wiser second choice; offer to help JJL's daughter, following their recent introduction.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/70 17 December 1930
Copy letter from JJL to The Very Rev. William Moore Ede, The Deanery, Worcester: news of his literary work, relaying their mutual acquaintance Philip Inman's decision to submit to Hodder & Stoughton, noting Ede's earlier introduction of JJL
to the publisher at a time when JJL was dissatisfied with its form, and soliciting his influence at the firm in the matter; notes specific literary pieces on
The big meeting [Durham Miners' Gala], and “that famous interview in the Library at Whitburn Rectory, just before I went to Oxford”; apologises for earlier prevarication.
Paper 2f
LAW 2/1/71 17 December 1930
Copy letter from JJL to Philip Inman, John Quill Ltd, Literary Advisers, 12 and 13 Henrietta Street, London: acknowledges Inman's submission to Hodder & Stoughton.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/72 7 June 1931
Postcard from JJL, Hôtel du Montenvers, Chamonix, France, to Bella Lawson, Woodside, Beamish: impressions of the mountain scenery. Postcard depicts the hotel and the Aiguille du Dru, Chamonix.
Paper 1 postcard
LAW 2/1/73 9 July 1932
Letter from F. L. Stevens, Editor, The
New Clarion, 2 Carmelite Street, London, to JJL, 7 Woodside, Beamish: congratulates JJL on [Daily] Herald article; invites 1200-word submission on the subject of the Durham Miners, to be
published on 16 July, in time for the Gala; with pasted notice [from 9 July issue] of forthcoming articles by Neil Lyons, Harold J. Laski, and JJL.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/74 11 September 1932
[Copy] letter from JJL, 7 Woodside, Beamish, to the Librarian, [unspecified]: introduces
A man's life, and his intentions for the work's influence on, and on the behalf of, miners.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/75 20 September 1932
Letter from A. E. J. Rawlinson, Archdeacon of Auckland, as from The College, Durham, to JJL: introduces himself, enclosing letter of introduction from William Moore Ede [not present]; commends
A man's life, recommended to the Bishop-Designate of Jarrow [James Gordon], and will be to all future Durham ordinands; proposes a meeting.
Paper 2f
LAW 2/1/76 postmarked 17 February 1933
Postcard from A. L. Rowse [?at Whitehaven], to JJL, Beamish: commends
A man's life. Postcard depicts the north and west piers at Whitehaven.
Paper 1 postcard
LAW 2/1/77 14 December 1933
Letter from William Hazelton, Secretary (writing as Secretary of the Joint Committee), The Educational Settlements Association. A national federation of People's Colleges, Mary Ward House, Tavistock Place, London, to JJL, Houses of Parliament:
requests delivery of deferred article by JJL on Residential Adult Education for February number of the
Highway; A. Barratt Brown, [principal of Ruskin College]; commends
A man's life. Note: see pamphlet
Residential colleges for adult education,
LAW 2/2/13
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/78 postmarked 23 December 1933
Postcard from A. E. J. Rawlinson, The College, Durham, to JJL, Woodside, Beamish: Christmas wishes. Postcard depicts the pillars in the nave of Durham Cathedral.
Paper 1 postcard
LAW 2/1/79-80 28 December 1933
Letter from R. S. Lambert, Editor,
The Listener, Broadcasting House, London, to JJL, 7 Woodside, Beamish: invites JJL to write 800-word review in the [January issue of]
Listener of
Memoirs of the
unemployed, by H. L. Beales and R. S. Lambert, published by Gollancz [1934], for £3 3s.Note: for JJL's review, see
LAW 2/4/7/3
Paper 1f; 1f
LAW 2/1/80 [December 1933]
Compliment slip from the Editor of the B.B.C.
Listener magazine.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/81 postmarked 1934
Postcard from JJL, Land's End, Cornwall, to Bella Lawson, 7 Woodside, Beamish: greetings from Land's End; visited St Ives. Postcard depicts Land's End.
Paper 1 postcard
LAW 2/1/82 11 January 1934
Letter from James, [?Hereford] Road, Wanstead, London, to JJL: arrangements for visit of JJL and Bella Lawson; unemployment situation; supports JJL's decision to publish his book [?
Under the wheels] with Hodder and Stoughton, and commends the inclusion of “the extra House of Commons bit”, hoping for serialisation in the [Daily]
Herald, and noting the topicality of the subject.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/83 17 May 1934
Letter from R. A. Rendall, Director of Talks, B.B.C., Broadcasting House, London, to JJL, 7 Woodside, Beamish: encloses programme of talks, drawing JJL's attention to the series “From Tolpuddle to T.U.C.”; proposes
JJL take part in a broadcast discussion with Lt-Col. C. M. Headlam on “Trade Unionism in Politics”, on 7 June.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/84 19 June 1934
Letter from Arthur Porritt, Editor,
The Christian World and Independent Ltd, Ludgate House, 110-111 Fleet Street, London, to JJL, House of Commons: commends JJL's submission Life's
Turning-points, undertaking to publish as the first of the publication's [Turning-points] series. [See Who goes home? pp. 95-98].
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/85-86 17 August 1934
Letter, with enclosure, from Harry Cooper, 24 Hillside, Witton Gilbert, Durham, to JJL: reminds JJL of their meeting at the House of Commons, and of JJL's writing (?in
John Bull) of the dramatic potential of the mine as a setting for “Great Drama”; encloses dramatic work
3 a.m., winner of the Markham Prize; welcomes JJL's
support for the work.
Paper 1f; 20f
LAW 2/1/86 [1934]
3 a.m., by Harry Cooper. Typescript, corrected and revised in black ink.
Paper 20f
Binding: Bound with string
LAW 2/1/87 27 February 1935
Letter from W. G. Lake, Director, British Museum, London, to JJL: queries the source of an image used to illustrate JJL's article “On the Night Express”,
Daily Herald, 27 February 1935, the negative belonging to Lake.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/88 2 March 1935
Postcard from Reg Baker, 23 Montford Place, London, to JJL, Beamish: commends JJL's article “On the Night Express” , and asks after more work by JJL on the subject of railways.
Paper 1 postcard
LAW 2/1/89 1 July 1935
Letter from Lina [Laird], 34 Armstrong Street, Dunston on Tyne, to Bella Lawson: renews contact; health; isolation; tenants; Mr and Mrs Plews; Bella Lawson's recent poor health; three holidays with the Workers Travel Association to Germany
(Cologne to Wiesbaden), Switzerland (Bernese Oberland), and the Black Forest and Oberammergau - “one of the most memorable experiences of my life”; solicits renewal of their friendship.
Paper 3f
LAW 2/1/90 22 July 1935
Letter from George Walker, 14 Byron Street, Easington Colliery: “anxious like many more miners in this county” that Peter Lee's life be written; urges JJL well-qualified to do so.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/91 postmarked 2 August 1935
Postcard from Rene [Irene Lawson] and Fred at Little Crosthwaite Farm, Keswick, to Bella Lawson, Woodside, Beamish: Jack and Nora staying at the farm; return Saturday night. Postcard depicts Little Crosthwaite Farm with the Dod hill behind.
Paper 1 postcard
LAW 2/1/92 17 September 1935
Letter from J. R. Spencer, Editor
Sunday Sun, Newcastle Chronicle Ltd, Westgate Road, Newcastle upon Tyne, to JJL, Woodside, Beamish: reports success of series; proposes two more articles, in addition to the existing six, offering 13 guineas (£13
13s).
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/93 postmarked 13 September 1935
Postcard from JJL at Paradiso, Lugano, Switzerland, to Clive Lawson, Woodside, Beamish: affectionate greeting. Postcard depicts the funicular up Monte San Salvatore, with Paradiso below.
Paper 1 postcard
LAW 2/1/94 4 July 1936
Letter from Rev. J. S. Mawhinney, Bay du Vin Beach, New Brunswick, Canada, to JJL: commends
Under the wheels; encourages JJL to continue; Durham upbringing, miner father.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/95 [?postmarked 29 July 1936]
Postcard from E. Nicholson at Aldwick Bay, Bognor Regis, to Bella Lawson, Woodside, Beamish: holiday greeting; notes Craigweil was used by King George V to recuperate [in 1929]. Postcard depicts the south front of Craigweil House at Bognor
Regis.
Paper 1 postcard
LAW 2/1/96 25 August 1936
Letter from Margot Asquith, Countess of Oxford and Asquith, Scotland (and 44 Bedford Square, London), to JJL: returns from the Scottish coast ( “on the links” ) to London with Princess [Bibesco], when she hopes to
meet JJL for lunch; JJL journeyed with the writer and her children; earnestly urges moderation upon the Labour party, and in all things, citing Spain as an object lesson in “the folly, & bestiality of
violence”, and noting her daughter Princess Bibesco's familiarity with most of the public figures there.
Paper 2f
LAW 2/1/97 8 September 1936
Letter from Rev. Ernest F. McLean, The Methodist Church Silsden Circuit, Bourne House, Silsden, Keighley, Yorkshire, to JJL: intention to lecture on
A man's life at a rally of a neighbouring circuit, mostly comprised of weavers; commends the book; solicits an encouraging closing message for his audience.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/98 17 September [?recte October] 1936
Letter from Margot Asquith, Countess of Oxford and Asquith, 44 Bedford Square, London, to JJL: bewails state of Europe; sleepless since renouncing hunting in Leicestershire; wishing to give JJL
Lay sermons; notes her failure to benefit financially from her autobiography's high sales due to having sold the rights; commends JJL's book, and “the late” Labour party Conference;
urges moderation and non-violence. Note: the 1936 Labour party conference was held at Edinburgh, 5-9 October.
Paper 2f
LAW 2/1/99 18 September 1936
Letter from John Miller, The Engineer (North Eastern Area), London & North Eastern Railway, York, to JJL, House of Commons: offers his and his wife's thanks for presentation copy of
A man's life, and commendation of the work.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/100 6 November 1936
Letter from Margot Asquith, Countess of Oxford and Asquith, 44 Bedford Square, London, to JJL: again promises to send copy of autobiography; reports the appreciation of her friends and family for
A man's life; solicits an invitation to her, daughter Princess Bibesco and son Anthony Asquith to dine with JJL and some of his friends at the House of Commons.
Paper 2f
LAW 2/1/101 19 November 1936
Letter from Robert Blatchford, The Firs, Horsham, Sussex, to JJL: acknowledges JJL's gift of
Peter Lee with its tribute to Blatchford's Britain for the British on p.136 “with understanding; but with a rather grim smile”; contradicts an inference
that peace be more likely under Labour, predicting war, ruin and defeat should the party return to power due to the workers' helplessness, tragic “blundering and blindness”, their “follys
[sic] and their surly self-righteousness”; identifies the belligerence of Germany, Italy, Russia and Japan as threats to the British Empire; apologises for outspokenness.
Paper 2f
LAW 2/1/102-103 20 November 1936
Letter, with enclosure, from Alice Lee, 4 Church Street, Durham, to JJL: offers thanks for a [sum of money], and JJL's assistance; recalls encouraging visits of JJL and Mr Lowther; reports Lowther “paid the other
over”, thus lifting from Lee's family “the uncertainty and dread” [of poverty].Note: Alice Lee probably alludes to a public subscription for the family in Peter Lee's memory, administered by JJL and Lowther, see
LAW 2/7/2/195.
Paper 1f; 1f
LAW 2/1/103 20 November 1936
Letter from Alice Lee to JJL: offers her thanks for [presentation] copy of
Peter Lee, with commendation for the work; family's gratitude for JJL's recording for posterity Lee's life and work.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/104 23 November 1936
Letter from William J. Davey, Woodlea, 54 Lyford Road, Wandsworth Common, London, to JJL: mutual acquaintance, Arthur Henderson, a very old friend; commends
Peter Lee; employed 61 years with the Hawksley engineering firm, meeting Peter Lee in connection with the Burnhope Reservoir, and noting its completion £50,000 under estimate; fellow Methodist; encloses
“a few recollections of my long life” [not present].
Paper 2f
LAW 2/1/105 24 November 1936
Letter from Thomas V. Skerratt, County Police Station, Brandhall Road, Warley, Langley, Birmingham, to JJL: praises
A man's life, noting parallels with own upbringing; champions miners' cause; detailed history of his family's life, recounting a home at Blackbank near Newcastle-under-Lyme, father working as a miner in several pits,
uncle George [Skerratt] retiring as Chief Inspector with Staffordshire County Constabulary, father's mining injury in a fall, father's attitude to alcohol and later teetotalism, potteries and tile factories, a brother in the Grenadier Guards,
Worcestershire County Constabulary, father's compensation upon retirement for poor health from employer, account of a man saving his father's life in a pit fall ( ““It shall fall on me before thee
Dick”” ).
Paper 5f
LAW 2/1/106 10 May 1937
Letter from Raiph Hodder-Williams, Hodder & Stoughton Ltd, St Paul's House, Warwick Square, London, to JJL, House of Commons: encloses three copies of
A man's life, published this day at 2/6d.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/107 postmarked 6 August 1937
Postcard, postmarked “Grays Essex”, from JJL on board P. & O. S.N. Co's S.S. Chitral, to Clive Lawson, The Camp, Ebden's Farm, Whitburn, Sunderland: ship to call at Plymouth; [Sir Charles Harington] Harington,
governor of Gibralter, also on board. Postcard depicts the ship Chitral.
Paper 1 postcard
LAW 2/1/108 12 August 1937
Postcard from JJL, Marseilles, to Clive Lawson, Woodside, Beamish: visiting P. & O. Electric Ship Strathnaver; sails tomorrow morning on the Chitral for Port Said.
Paper 1 postcard
LAW 2/1/109 14 August 1937
Letter card from JJL, S.S. Chitral, postmarked at sea and then at London, to Bella Lawson, The Camp, Ebden's Farm, Whitburn, Sunderland: depicts the S.S. Chitral and internal views of the first class dining saloon, the first saloon lounge, a
portion of the first saloon smoking room, and the first saloon verandah café.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/110 4 January 1937 [
recte 1938]; postmarked 1938
Postcard from JJL, travelling by rail through Perpignan, France, into [Spain], to Bella Lawson, Woodside, Beamish: travelling with “our good friend” [Hannen] Swaffer, (see
LAW
2/4/2/65).
Paper 1 postcard
LAW 2/1/111 8 January 1938
Letter from [Stanley Baldwin, first Earl] Baldwin of Bewdley, Astley Hall, Stourport, to JJL: Imperial War Graves [Commission]; treatment in London for arthritis; invitation to visit.
Paper 2f
LAW 2/1/112 17 June 1938
Letter from Ian Fraser, St John's Lodge, (Inner Circle), Regent's Park, London, to JJL: praises JJL's tribute to Herbert Smith broadcast in the 7 o'clock [B.B.C.] news.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/113 postmarked 20 August 1938
Postcard, (postmarked Liverpool), from Bella Lawson [on board the M.V. Circassia], to Alma, Woodside, Beamish: arrived safely. Postcard depicts the M.V. Circassia at sea.
Paper 1 postcard
LAW 2/1/114 21 November 1938
Letter from Maria Leiper, Editor, Simon and Schuster, Inc., 386 Fourth Avenue, New York, USA, to Hodder & Stoughton, Ltd, St Paul's House, Warwick Square, London: declines
A man's life, doubting Simon and Schuster “would be able to do any more with it than Fleming Revell and Company”.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/115 13 December 1938
Letter from Philip Inman, Methuen & Co. Ltd, 36 Essex Street, Strand, London, to JJL, The House of Commons: arrangements for a lunch at the Union Club or at Charing Cross Hospital; positive reaction to proposed children's book, requesting
manuscript to read to his children on holiday.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/116 late December 1938
Letter from JJL to Clive [Lawson]: Christmas rhyme by JJL, taking in Santa Claus, Snow White and [Dodgson's] Alice; greets Bella Lawson, Alma and Clive.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/117 4 January 1939
Letter from Josiah C. Wedgwood, 903 Howard House, Dolphin Square, London, to JJL: praises
A man's life; Tom Birt; surprise at the contents of the autobiography, despite eighteen years' acquaintance in the House of Commons - now has “for you a greater respect [than] that for any
other in the House”; Elswick [shipyard], 1900-1902; James Clare takes him to his first socialist “speech making” in a Durham mining village in 1891.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/118 5 January 1939
Letter from Josiah C. Wedgwood, 903 Howard House, Dolphin Square, London, to JJL: testifies to his emotional response to
A man's life, further praising it and JJL's qualities; wishes to meet JJL and his wife.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/119 3 February 1939
Letter from Edith Lee, Dunelm, 20 East Parade, Promenade, Whitley Bay, to JJL: thanks for JJL's role in eliciting a cheque [?loan] from Lady Cripps, and for his and others' assistance to the family; loans to be repaid.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/120 1 June 1939
Letter from Edward R.G.R. Evans, 76 Cadogan Square, London, to JJL: returns separately a copy of
South with Scott, autographed with a penguin, and a portrait photograph, for Clive Lawson; thanks JJL for his service.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/121 6 June 1939
Letter from Edward R.G.R. Evans, 76 Cadogan Square, London, to JJL: reading
A man's life - comparing Bob Sharples with Lieutenant [Henry Robertson] Bowers in Captain Scott's last expedition; encloses an abbreviated edition of Adventure, youth and duty [not
present], for Clive Lawson.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/122 22 June 1939
Letter from Edward R.G.R. Evans, 76 Cadogan Square, London, to JJL: praises
A man's life, admiring particularly his handling of the death, [near Ypres], of William Lawson in 1916. “It took a lot of courage to write that chapter, and somehow I wonder whether the
national spirit today is quite up to the standard of 1916. We shall probably learn the answer within the next two years.”
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/123 26 October 1939
Letter from Alfred Bossom, 5 Carlton Gardens, London, to JJL, House of Commons: Admiral [Edward] Evans to send JJL a reference to a published report of [his] action with H.M.S. Broke [on 20 April 1917]; Scott Film.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/124 4 November 1939
Letter from Thomas L. Spencer, 104 Carter Knowle Road, Sheffield 7, to Frank Collindridge, MP for Barnsley, House of Commons: encloses photograph (see
LAW 2/4/1/6/10 and
LAW
2/4/1/6/24) of Silkstone Memorial of the Huskar Pit disaster there, 4 July 1830 [
recte 1838], and listing names of the 26 boys and girls drowned.
Paper 2f
LAW 2/1/125 11 November 1939
Letter from Alfred Bossom, 5 Carlton Gardens, London, to JJL, House of Commons: arrangements for a meeting between Admiral Evans and JJL at the House of Commons.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/126 31 May 1940
Letter from Edward R.G.R. Evans, Ministry of Aircraft Production, Millbank, London, to JJL, House of Commons: returned from Norway; already in another job.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/127 9 December 1940
Letter from Major [J.] Dudfield Rose R.A.M.C., No. 6 General Hospital, Luton, Bedfordshire, to JJL: hospital posted ““out East”” on active service; appointed to South Coast Defence
scheme following Dunkirk, then surgical specialist at [No. 6 General Hospital]; discusses policy of bombing cities ( ““Coventrating”” ), justifying his utilitarian support for such a
policy with personal experiences of German war crimes during the retreat from France, encounters with captured German airmen, the popularity in Germany of the philosophy of Nieztsche and Hegel; his consequent realisation that distinguishing between
the German people and Nazism is no longer sustainable; identifies “Nazi philosophy” with the German people, even in defeat - “[t]he only solutions are complete extermination or a religious
revival ...”; Italians “even more despicable than one imagined”; parents remain in Jarrow, declining evacuation to a cottage in Edmundbyers; Christmas wishes.
Paper 3f
LAW 2/1/128 [before March 1941]
Letter fragment from Josiah C. Wedgwood, to JJL: tracing genealogy of JJL's grandfather, Wedgwood's 6th cousin.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/129 5 March 1941
Letter from Josiah C. Wedgwood, House of Commons, to JJL: commends JJL and Tom [?Williams]'s “great example of unselfish patriotism”.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/130 12 July 1941
Letter from Edward R.G.R. Evans, H.Q. London Civil Defence Region, P.O. Box 501, London, to JJL, House of Commons: invitation to lunch at 76 Cadogan Square with R. D. Grenfell, J. Griffiths and W. Taylor; South Wales [event] successful, Grenfell,
Griffiths and Arthur Horner all speaking.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/131 14 April 1942
Letter from Edward R.G.R. Evans, H.Q. London Civil Defence Region, Exhibition Road, London, to JJL, House of Commons: thanks JJL for his praise for Evans' [B.B.C.] broadcast.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/132-135 2-11 May 1942
Letters of condolence to Bella Lawson and (LAW 2/1/134) Jack Lawson upon the death of Clive Lawson, from: Private Connie Dodd W/168535; J. Tweddle; Mrs J. A. Kirkup; Edward R.G.R. Evans.
Paper 1f; 1f; 2f; 1f
LAW 2/1/136 22 August 1942
Letter from Fred, Belmont, (envelope postmarked Gloucester), to JJL, Woodside, Beamish: news sheets distributed; authorises JJL to change Fred's [sur]name [to Lawson]; disagreements with army authorities; Colonel Pickering; hopes for [his
assignment to an] Officer Cadets Training Unit.
Paper 1f; stamped envelope
LAW 2/1/137-138 5 March 1943
Letter, with enclosure, from Cuthbert Barker, solicitor, Bentinck Terrace, Newcastle upon Tyne, and Cheapside Chambers, Newcastle-upon-Lyme, Staffordshire, to JJL: Mr [C. Fred C.] Donnelly's name-changing process, to Lawson, completed, and public
notices published; deed poll to be dispatched; encloses itemised bill.
Paper 1f; 2f
LAW 2/1/138 25 February 1943
Bill itemising charges for changing the name of C. F. C. Donnelly to C. F. C. Lawson by deed poll, stamped receipt dated 12 March 1943. Endorsed in JJL's hand: “Fred's Name”.
Paper 2f
LAW 2/1/139 12 August 1943
Letter from Guy Burgess, B.B.C., Broadcasting House, London, to JJL: suggests date for [broadcasting]
Who goes home?; invites JJL to present Week in Westminster in the event of a recess session; Quintin Hogg.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/140-442 20 February-28 March 1944
Correspondence to JJL in reaction to his “Sunday Postscript”, entitled variously
Human life or
Mortal man and immortal art, first broadcast by the B.B.C. Home Service [Home and Forces Programme (London)] on 20 February 1944 following the 21.00 news, at 21.20, and
repeated the following day following the 13.00 news, at 13.15; the full talk was printed in the B.B.C.'s
The Listener magazine on 24 February 1944, pp. 203-204 (see also
LAW
2/4/3/41, and
LAW 2/4/2/69). In the following list, (in date then alphabetical order), correspondents' names and addresses are noted, with the extent of each letter; unless otherwise stated, the response is
one of supportive agreement; other noteworthy content is also described.
Paper 402f
LAW 2/1/140 Undated [20 February x March 1944]
Anonymous veteran: petrol rationing; casualty rates of airmen and petrol tanker drivers; poor rate of service pay; entertainment; consequences “for these poor lads who were reared on the dole” of a second front;
“[w]e hardly dare speak the truth so I must remain anonymous”; the war “an awful climax to years of bad government”.
3f
LAW 2/1/141 Undated [20 February x March 1944]
Anonymous, a warden at a hostel: invective accusing JJL of minimising the “vandalism of the Anglo-American destruction of Italy's macthless [sic] heritage”, e.g. Monte Cassino;
deprecates the employment of “frail half-starved women of India” in the coal mines; ridicules American pledge to rebuild Italy.
2f
LAW 2/1/142 Undated [20 February x March 1944]
Anonymous, “Very interested listener”: calls for national repentance; diatribe against Roman Catholicism; Joseph Hocking; [R. A.] Butler, [president of the Board of Education].
2f
LAW 2/1/143 Undated [20 February x March 1944]
D. K. Burgess, 38 St Bartholomew's Road.
1f
LAW 2/1/144 Undated [20 February x March 1944]
Mr and Mrs George Jefson, 26 George Street, Mill Street, Bradford, Manchester.
1f
LAW 2/1/145 Undated [20 February x March 1944]
Edith Roberts: condemns bombing of non-combatants [cities], noting “the majority of poor folks feel the same”.
1f (incomplete)
LAW 2/1/146 Undated [20 February x March 1944]
Lady Marjorie Stirling, 1 The Grove, Highgate Village, London: broadcast answers letter to
The Times by Lord Esher [“Artistic treasure and human life.” 9 February 1944; p.5; Issue 49775; col. E ].
1f
LAW 2/1/147 Undated [20 February x March 1944]
Rev. C. Ashlin West, 28 Summerfield Crescent, Edgbaston: miners generally against employment of pit-boys; divergence of British and American strategy regarding bombing and second front.
1f
LAW 2/1/148 20 February 1944
Anonymous, “One of the workers of the world”.
1f
LAW 2/1/149 20 February 1944
Anonymous, “One of many listeners”.
1f
LAW 2/1/150 20 February 1944
Fred Back, Councillor, Lynwood, Cunliffe Street, Coal Aston, Sheffield.
1f
LAW 2/1/151 20 February 1944
G. A. Bannister, Ashville, West Road, Bowdon, Cheshire.
1f
LAW 2/1/152 20 February 1944
E. Bass, 32 Brunswick Square, Hove, Sussex
1f
LAW 2/1/153 20 February 1944
John Bell, 14 Alexander Terrace, Evenwood, Bishop Auckland, [Co. Durham]: answers Lords speech [against indiscriminate bombing] of Dr Cosmo Lang; old acquaintance of JJL.
1f
LAW 2/1/154 20 February 1944
Le Bishop and family, Southsea.
1f
LAW 2/1/155 20 February 1944
Thomas Brady, All Saints, 49 Rochsolloch Road, Airdrie: a Catholic curate; echoing JJL's talk, deprecates also “the sub-ordination of man to the state”.
2f
LAW 2/1/156 20 February 1944
Philip W. Bryant, President, Ye Olde Holte Bowling Club, Villa Park: highlights falling production and employment in the motor trade.
1f
LAW 2/1/157 20 February 1944
Charles H. S. Buckley, The Vicarage, Gulval, Penzance, Cornwall: re wireless technology, notes the writer was on board a ship 100 miles from the Titanic when she went down, learning only of the disaster upon reaching Ireland.
1f
LAW 2/1/158 20 February 1944
A. G. Bullen, 29 Newstead Road, Liverpool: critical of Monte Cassino bombing; Castel Gandolfo.
1f
LAW 2/1/159 20 February 1944
Kathleen Caris, Court Farm, Bishampton, Pershore, Worcestershire: bombed out of London, urges post-war housing construction; husband in India; psychological, philosophical effect of a [first] child.
3f
LAW 2/1/160 20 February 1944
Lt Col. John Burke Cole, [Midlands] as from the Travellers Club, Pall Mall, London.
2f
LAW 2/1/161 20 February 1944
Pte. C. M. Colquhoun, Medical Research Council and National Hospital Queen Square, Research Unit: laboratory assistant, R.A.M.C; father's career, Boer war, Sunderland, first world war, Castleton mine, unemployment in 1926, current service.
2f
LAW 2/1/162 20 February 1944
Ed Connor, 23 Lindom Avenue, Mains Park, Chester-le-Street.
1f
LAW 2/1/163 20 February 1944
Maurice F. Cook, 28a Seymour Road, Hampton Wick, Kingston-on-Thames: answers Lord Lang and the Bishop of Chichester.
1f
LAW 2/1/164 20 February 1944
Stella and Joseph Dolinger, 61 Parkhurst Road, London.
1f
LAW 2/1/165 20 February 1944
J. Donald, 8 Oak Villas, Manningham, Bradford.
1f
LAW 2/1/166 20 February 1944
G. O. Earenshaw, Whincote, Thorndon Cross, Okehampton: advocates adoption of empire debt free currency, and abolition of taxation, enclosing pamphlet [not present].
1f
LAW 2/1/167 20 February 1944
Mrs Evelyn Ellis, 44a St Andrew Street, Cawsand, Plymouth: Beatrice Wright [?MP for Bodmin].
1f
LAW 2/1/168 20 February 1944
Mrs M. W. Ellis, Plas Penrhyn Mawr, Bwlchtocyn, Abersoch, S. Caernarfonshire.
2f
LAW 2/1/169 20 February 1944
Walter L. Elmer, Melrose House, 20 Bennett Street, Bath.
2f
LAW 2/1/170 20 February 1944
William H. Fullerton, The Methodist Manse, Ballina, Co. Mayo, Eire: memories of preaching the Durham circuit; Cliff College trekkers; Rev. J. G. Brice; state of Methodism in his circuit in [Co. Mayo].
1f
LAW 2/1/171 20 February 1944
M. Godfrey, 6 Erith Terrace, Hylton Road, Sunderland:
Under the wheels.
1f
LAW 2/1/172 20 February 1944
A.S.M. E. Greenslade, South Foreland Battery, St Margaret's Bay, Near Dover, Kent.
3f
LAW 2/1/173 20 February 1944
Stanley J. Hall, Wendlebury House, Near Bicester, Oxfordshire.
1f
LAW 2/1/174 20 February 1944
H. M. Hallsworth, Chesneys, St Ives, Huntingdonshire.
1f
LAW 2/1/175 20 February 1944
M. Harding, 3 Guildford Square, Lynemouth, Morpeth, Northumberland: son four years a prisoner of war.
1f
LAW 2/1/176 20 February 1944
Captain H. M. B. Henderson R.E., 117-119 High Street North, Dunstable, Bedfordshire.
1f
LAW 2/1/177 20 February 1944
Rev. Shaun Herron, Toc H, Brotherton House, North Grange Road, Headingley, Leeds.
1f
LAW 2/1/178 20 February 1944
Robert S. Holliday, Laundry House, Workington, Cumberland: JJL preaching at Workington; invitation to local preachers' Mutual Aid Week-end.
1f
LAW 2/1/179 20 February 1944
Miss Hattie M. Humphreys, 163 Newport Road, Cardiff.
2f
LAW 2/1/180 20 February 1944
Broughton H. Hurd, Glenthorne House, Putney Park Avenue, London: urges such a commendable “broad “classless” humanitarian outlook” from the Labour party at the next election.
1f
LAW 2/1/181 20 February 1944
Edna Hutchinson, 5 Linden Road, Bishop Auckland, Co. Durham: army allowance.
3f
LAW 2/1/182 20 February 1944
William Jackson, Stavros House, Station Road, Washington Station.
1f
LAW 2/1/183 20 February 1944
L[lewelyn] F[rederick] Menzies Jones, Burnham Thorpe, Eton College, Windsor.
1f
LAW 2/1/184 20 February 1944
Percy Kisley, Church View, Cockfield, Bishop Auckland, Co. Durham: coal hewer, shift begins at 02.30.
1f
LAW 2/1/185 20 February 1944
Henry and Margaret [?McClueir], Eyston Lodge, Foxearth, Sudbury, Suffolk.
1f
LAW 2/1/186 20 February 1944
Mrs J. M. McIntosh, 65 High Street, Lochwinnock, Renfrewshire.
2f
LAW 2/1/187 20 February 1944
F/O R. A. Mackintosh, Officer's Mess, RAF Station, Locking, Near Weston-super-Mare.
1f
LAW 2/1/188 20 February 1944
R. Macleod, Airds Bay, Taynuilt, Argyll.
1f
LAW 2/1/189 20 February 1944
A. A. [?Makant], Whitecroft, Upper Swanswick, Bath.
1f
LAW 2/1/190 20 February 1944
E. W. Martindell, Oakley, Hook, Hampshire.
1f
LAW 2/1/191 20 February 1944
Thomas Millar, 35 Hallworth Avenue, Audenshaw, Manchester: former Secretary of Bill Quay (Gateshead, Co. Durham) Labour party.
2f
LAW 2/1/192 20 February 1944
W. M. Morgan, Secretary, Union of Post Office Workers, Glasgow Telegraph Section, 1739 Great Western Road, Glasgow.
1f
LAW 2/1/193 20 February 1944
Robert Murray, Arlan-Rhu, Carlibar Road, Barrhead: old acquaintance of JJL's, [former MP for West Renfrewshire]; encloses unidentified “book of trifles” by the writer.
1f
LAW 2/1/194 20 February 1944
Miss Margaret Neumeyer, Harboro' Grange, Harboro' Road, Sale, Cheshire: a refugee, and a pupil at Sale High School for Girls.
1f
LAW 2/1/195 20 February 1944
Col. R. S. Newton, Oak Haven, Moss Lane, Bramhall, Cheshire.
1f
LAW 2/1/196 20 February 1944
Mrs Edna Lee Park, Frinsted, Manor Road, Sidmouth, South Devon.
1f
LAW 2/1/197 20 February 1944
W. L. Pattison, 19 Kings Gate, Aberdeen.
1f
LAW 2/1/198 20 February 1944
John L. Pigneguy, 18 Seaside Road, Lancing, Sussex.
1f
LAW 2/1/199 20 February 1944
George Pratt, 6 Cranmere Avenue, Northampton.
1f
LAW 2/1/200 20 February 1944
Jessie Purse, Eastholm, Gates Avenue, Lochwinnoch, Renfrewshire: scriptural diatribe against corruption in governing and privileged classes.
2f
LAW 2/1/201 20 February 1944
W. B. Redmayne, The Village House, Dalston, Carlisle.
1f
LAW 2/1/202 20 February 1944
Rev. T. W. Sanders, Swaythling Methodist Hall, Burgess Road, Southampton: native of Shildon, Co. Durham.
1f
LAW 2/1/203 20 February 1944
Mrs L. G. Scott, 64 Vale Avenue, Horwich: “war widow 1918, war mother 1940”: impassioned attack on war, and on post-war housing plans.
1f
LAW 2/1/204 20 February 1944
E. F. Sheldon, The Cottage, London Road, Wheatley, Oxford: family history, blacksmiths, bicycle then motor trade, now at Morris aeroplane repair works.
1f
LAW 2/1/205 20 February 1944
James Sillavan, Spencer's Fallow, Prestbury, Cheshire.
1f
LAW 2/1/206 20 February 1944
Mrs Smithson, 28 Woodside Avenue, Leeds.
1f
LAW 2/1/207 20 February 1944
Matt J. Smyth, 429 Ansty Road, Wyken, Coventry: pacifist plea on grounds of common humanity.
3f
LAW 2/1/208 20 February 1944
Ernest Storr, 34 Topcliffe Road, Thirsk, Yorkshire: retired Methodist minister, formerly working in Durham circuit; I.L.P. member from 1907; spoke for Pete Curran, and met JJL at Jarrow election, 1910; John Gilliland.
1f
LAW 2/1/209 20 February 1944
A. E. Steadman-Lewis, St Andrew's Church, Bournville, Weston-super-Mare.
1f
LAW 2/1/210 20 February 1944
R. (Bob) Swinhoe, 12 Honeypot Lane, Kingsbury: son of late Jack Swinhoe; old family acquaintance; worked in the pit with and greatly admired William Lawson.
1f
LAW 2/1/211 20 February 1944
1f
LAW 2/1/212 20 February 1944
Philip Vos, H. 5 & 6 Albany, Piccadilly, London.
1f
LAW 2/1/213 20 February 1944
Rev. F. W. Walton, Warton Vicarage, Tamworth.
1f
LAW 2/1/214 20 February 1944
Sydney Walton, The White Cottage, Sudbury Hill, Harrow: transmission suspended by a bombing raid.
1f
LAW 2/1/215 20 February 1944
North West.
1f
LAW 2/1/216 20 February 1944
E. Beverley White, Downholm, Friars Bay, Peacehaven: resident at Ferryhill Rectory (Co. Durham) during the first world war; queries miners' decision to strike.
2f
LAW 2/1/217 20 February 1944
Rev. W. J. Genberthy White, 22 North Lodge Terrace, Darlington: 2d. and ½d. postage stamps affixed.
1f
LAW 2/1/218 20 February 1944
Charles Young, Warden, Talbot House Services Club, 32 Lowther Street, Carlisle.
1f
LAW 2/1/219 21 February 1944
[Anonymous], Ferndown Drapery Store, Wimborne Road, Ferndown, Dorset.
1f (?incomplete)
LAW 2/1/220 21 February 1944
[Anonymous] Merchant Navy seaman, Greenfield, Luddendenfoot, Yorkshire.
1f (incomplete)
LAW 2/1/221 21 February 1944
John M. Andrews, Maxwell Court, Comber, County Down: 5-year apprenticeship in flax-spinning industry; Minister of Labour; brother Tom [Andrews] lost on the Titanic, and encloses a book of his life and the disaster [?
Thomas Andrews, shipbuilder, (1912)], [not present].
1f
LAW 2/1/222 21 February 1944
R. W. Armistead, The Confectioner; Green End, Hawley Drive, Hale Barns, Cheshire.
1f
LAW 2/1/223 21 February 1944
A. Agilvie, Micklethwaite, Wetherby, Yorkshire: a nurse, having served in South Africa during the Boer War, and during both world wars; impact in Southampton of the sinking of the Titanic; Dunkirk casualties; four sons on active duty, one a
prisoner of war, one having volunteered from America.
1f
LAW 2/1/224 21 February 1944
E. H. B.: encloses unspecified gift [not present].
1f
LAW 2/1/225 21 February 1944
Florence Baldwin, 47 Talbot Road, London: argues for priority of world cultural treasures.
1f
LAW 2/1/226 21 February 1944
Anna Barlow, 150 Grosvenor House: castigates unimaginative and apathetic politicians during the 1930s depression.
1f
LAW 2/1/227 21 February 1944
J. C. Barnett, Lymington House, Four Marks, Alton, Hampshire.
2f
LAW 2/1/228 21 February 1944
Henry Berry, [Chairman], Metropolitan Water Board, Chairman's Room, New River Head, Rosebery Avenue, London: “need for preservation of human personality and individuality” in town planning; quotes Dr Theodora
Kimball re goal of government “to serve the health, wealth and happiness of our people”.
1f
LAW 2/1/229 21 February 1944
M. B. Beverley, Beverley Bros., 61 Thoroughfare, Halesworth, Suffolk.
1f
LAW 2/1/230 21 February 1944
Lady Shirley Blacker, Oak Hill House, Frensham, Surrey.
2f
LAW 2/1/231 21 February 1944
James Brown, The Mount, 64 Otto Terrace, Sunderland.
1f
LAW 2/1/232 21 February 1944
William Browning, 27 Blackburn Drive, Ayr: former Co. Durham teacher, married to a Durham mining village schoolmistress, with a daughter a Durham University graduate.
1f
LAW 2/1/233 21 February 1944
Elsie Burroughs, 10c Rawlinson Road, Oxford: encloses two publications, one containing 1914-1918 writings of the writer's brother, the other [
The story of the great hope], by the writer herself, [neither present].
1f
LAW 2/1/234 21 February 1944
H. V. T. Burton, 97 High Street, Tring: speed limits; gloss on Hippocrates' “Ars longa, vita brevis”.
1f
LAW 2/1/235 21 February 1944
Rev. J. W. Chismon, 395 Park Road, Oldham, Lancashire.
1f
LAW 2/1/236 21 February 1944
W. S. Clare, Holmleigh, Heald Road, Bowdon.
1f
LAW 2/1/237 21 February 1944
A. Clayfield, Metals Limited, Andover Street & Banbury Street, Birmingham: formerly Royal Field Artillery, recounts the ““accidental”” destruction of a German observation post in
the spire of Lens Cathedral in 1917, there having been issued orders not to target the church.
1f
LAW 2/1/238 21 February 1944
E. Close, Kiplin Drive, Scorton, Yorkshire: “I am a Victorian & agree with all you say”; formerly employed by the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings, defends their enduring value to society.
1f
LAW 2/1/239 21 February 1944
E. Collins, Christian Action Fellowship, 30 Beaconsfield Road, Birmingham.
1f
LAW 2/1/240 21 February 1944
Rev. B. J. Corder, Radnage Rectory, High Wycombe.
1f
LAW 2/1/241 21 February 1944
Mr & Mrs A. Cramb, Oswald Place, Leven, Fifeshire.
1f
LAW 2/1/242 21 February 1944
C. Denham, Redriff, Claremont Road, Seaford.
1f
LAW 2/1/243 21 February 1944
Charles A. Earl, 3 Molyneux Road, Farncombe, Surrey: “imperialist war”; argues bombing of cities “deliberately” targets civilians; observes changing perceptions of Finland and
Russia; Christian and socialist.
1f
LAW 2/1/244 21 February 1944
M. Edgerton, Fir Tree Cottage, Lower Road, Myddle, Shropshire: “a war workers widow”; balances the cultural heritage saved against the servicemen lost and the subsequent privation of their widows and
dependants.
2f
LAW 2/1/245 21 February 1944
Mrs J. Evans, Oakwood House, Chilworth Road, Upper Bassett, Southampton: son, RAF, killed at the beginning of the war.
2f
LAW 2/1/246 21 February 1944
Rev. W. Lionel Evans, Trinity Presbyterian Church, Barry; 148 Jenner Road, Barry.
1f
LAW 2/1/247 21 February 1944
W. J. Farmer, Tir Nan Oge, Helston, Cornwall: condemns rising population of industrial centres, “at the expense of all that makes like worth while”, and pleas for a Minister for Beauty.
1f
LAW 2/1/248 21 February 1944
Alice Fawcitt, Stainton House, Bowes Close, Ramshaw, Evenwood, Near Bishop Auckland.
1f
LAW 2/1/249 21 February 1944
William Fairey, 65 Pontefract Road, Castleford: worked fifty years in colliery; pensions, and LLoyd George; trade union activity (pre-1893) - “8 Hrs Work 8 Hrs Play 8 Hrs Bed & 8/- a day”; alienated by strikes
of 1893, disassociating himself from unions and strikers ever since; Ben Pickard; opposes daylight saving time; a conservative; approves of Beveridge Report, and sketches a proposal made by the writer to [James] Maxton [MP] for abolition of all
unions and a universal state pension.
2f
LAW 2/1/250 21 February 1944
Fred B. Fenwick, Fenwick Ltd, Northumberland Street, Newcastle upon Tyne.
1f
LAW 2/1/251 21 February 1944
J. A. Forbes, 29 All Saints Road, Shildon, Co. Durham.
1f
LAW 2/1/252 21 February 1944
J. C. York, 6 Cooperative Terrace, Fence Houses, Co. Durham.
1f
LAW 2/1/253 21 February 1944
J. Foster, 49 First Avenue, Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex: enclosure [not present].
1f
LAW 2/1/254 21 February 1944
Annie Fowler, 8 Athlone Avenue, Blackpool.
1f
LAW 2/1/255 21 February 1944
Mrs E. M. Freeman, Overstone, 71 Wepre Park, Connah's Quay, Chester.
1f
LAW 2/1/256 21 February 1944
Alice A. Gibson, 8 West Grove Avenue, Dalton, Huddersfield: “Victorian spirit”.
2f
LAW 2/1/257 21 February 1944
Jimmy Gilchrist, 536 Main Street, Bellshill, Lanarkshire: ex-miner; economies; demands the rebuilding of Coventry Cathedral, or any church, be postponed until sufficient housing has been built; proposes measures to increase productivity in mines;
Russian operation to “rais[e] power direct from the coal face without hewing”; James Anthony Fraude; government contractor, working around Scotland; Salvation Army; quotes Richard Le Gallienne's
“War”.
2f
LAW 2/1/258 21 February 1944
Rev. Sidney J. Goldston, The Rectory, Chingford: met JJL when he addressed the Chelmsford Diocesan Conference; eldest son, RAF squadron leader, killed.
1f
LAW 2/1/259 21 February 1944
Arthur Graham, Woodbine, Railway Road, Ilkley, Yorkshire.
1f
LAW 2/1/260 21 February 1944
David Gray, Lambton Estate Office, Fence Houses.
1f
LAW 2/1/261 21 February 1944
Mark Greenwood, Secretary, Rochdale and District Chrysanthemum Society, 8 Kenion Road, Bamford, Rochdale: cites John Ruskin and William Morris; urges an end to the electoral truce - slighting the chances of re-election of [Evelyn] Walkden, [MP
for Doncaster] and [George] Muff, [MP for Hull East].
1f
LAW 2/1/262 21 February 1944
Richard Grundy, Annechy House, Albert Road, Tamworth, Staffordshire: Worksop flour mills; encloses pamphlet [not present] suggesting distribution among servicemen.
2f
LAW 2/1/263 21 February 1944
R. Hankinson, 79 Easton Road, New Ferry, Cheshire.
4f
LAW 2/1/264 21 February 1944
J. A. Harding, Fairways, Roundwood Lane, Haywards Heath.
1f
LAW 2/1/265 21 February 1944
Robert W. Hardy, Battons House, Savile Town, Dewsbury, Yorkshire.
1f
LAW 2/1/266 21 February 1944
Rosena Hardy, Grimsby: defends the sanctity of human life against forces of science and “the Satanic Movement in Anglo Catholicism”; recommends JJL meet Rev. Rash and Rev. McKelvey at Buckingham Gate.
1f
LAW 2/1/267 21 February 1944
J. M. Hardwick, St John's, 13 Horton Crescent, Rugby: born at Shotton Colliery; grandfather James Manisty, rector of Easington; father T. Frederick Hardwick, vicar of Shotton; brother-in-law Sydney Reynolds, rector of Burnmoor.
1f
LAW 2/1/268 21 February 1944
Joseph Harkness, 1 Livingstone Road, Birmingham.
1f
LAW 2/1/269 21 February 1944
Wilfred H. Harrison, 76 Morthen Road, Wickersley, Rotherham.
1f
LAW 2/1/270 21 February 1944
Mrs J. Harvey, 30 Ogle Street, Hucknalll, Nottinghamshire.
1f
LAW 2/1/271 21 February 1944
Thomas Hayes, 63 Corrour Road, Newlands, Glasgow.
1f
LAW 2/1/272 21 February 1944
John J. Head, Church Street, Dervock, County Antrim: service family; increasing price of coal, little benefiting the miner; employment history and pension status, contrasting public and private sector provision; increases in taxation not matched
by pensions reform; necessary post-war settlement.
3f
LAW 2/1/273 21 February 1944
F. M. Heward, Longhope, New Road, Teignmouth.
1f
LAW 2/1/274 21 February 1944
Herbert B. Hillary, Mosleigh, Coleshill Heath Road, Marston Green, Birmingham: formerly of Tow Law, Co. Durham; Horner's Toffee Factory, Chester-le-Street; father manager of Weardale Company's Tow Law colliery; cousin overman at Black Prince
colliery; housing against “churchianity”.
1f
LAW 2/1/275 21 February 1944
C. N. A. Hodan, Manchester House, 20 Abergele Road, Colwyn Bay, North Wales.
1f
LAW 2/1/276 21 February 1944
Hodsoll, Ministry of Home Security, Home Office Building, Whitehall, London: air raid made some of broadcast hard to hear.
1f
LAW 2/1/277 21 February 1944
John Hollis, The Mill, Hornsea, East Yorkshire.
1f
LAW 2/1/278 21 February 1944
John Hope, Chief Engineer's Branch, Headquarters, Southern Command, Salisbury: effect of broadcast on a service audience.
1f
LAW 2/1/279 21 February 1944
Robert K. Hough, Windyridge, The Ridgeway, Smeeth, Near Ashford, Kent.
1f
LAW 2/1/280 21 February 1944
Ifor Hael Jones, Llys Menai, Beaumaris, Anglesey.
1f
LAW 2/1/281 21 February 1944
J. W. Jones, 11 Park Crescent, Wigan.
2f
LAW 2/1/282 21 February 1944
Margaret Kelf, 15 Park Lane, Wembley, Middlesex.
1f
LAW 2/1/283 21 February 1944
Dr James Kelly, Chairman, The Orphan Homes of Scotland, Bridge of Weir, Renfrewshire: 1,300 children and young people in such homes.
1f
LAW 2/1/284 21 February 1944
A. Kingsmith, North Sydmonton House, Newbury: son serving in Italy.
1f
LAW 2/1/285 21 February 1944
Mrs G. King-Smith, Homelea, Bitton, Near Bristol: son serving in Italy since Salerno; encloses poem by son [not present].
2f
LAW 2/1/286 21 February 1944
George J. Lambert, 13 Firswood Avenue, Stoneleigh, Surrey: higher schools examination student; requests detail on mine working conditions in 1860s and in JJL's early youth, querying efficacy of government supervision of 1842 law against children
working underground.
3f
LAW 2/1/287 21 February 1944
F. Lardent, Christian Truth Institute, 174 Forest Hill Road, London: air raid interruption; encloses tracts [not present].
1f
LAW 2/1/288 21 February 1944
Phyllis Newman Lawson, 14 Frederick Street, Sunderland: listened with three fire-watching companions; Education Bill; mutual friend Bart Kelly.
1f
LAW 2/1/289 21 February 1944
James Liddle, 1 Edgewell Road, Prudhoe, Northumberland: raises case of those injured before 1924, unjustly treated in recent changes to compensation rates.
1f
LAW 2/1/290 21 February 1944
Col. J. W. Lincoln, Territorial Army Association for the County of Berkshire, Yeomanry House, Castle Hill, Reading: former D.L.I.
1f
LAW 2/1/291 21 February 1944
Nance Littlewood, 27 Bridgeland Street, Bideford, Devon: questions miners' demands, in war time.
2f
LAW 2/1/292 21 February 1944
Rev. W. W. Lucas, The Rectory, Drayton Parslow, Bletchley, Buckinghamshire: scriptural argument on the priority of God over man and human concerns.
1f
LAW 2/1/293 21 February 1944
J. M., postmarked Leeds.
1f
LAW 2/1/294 21 February 1944
James S. Marshall, 73 High Street, Totnes, Devon: formerly of Blyth, Northumberland.
1f
LAW 2/1/295 21 February 1944
G. H. Middleton, West Elloe, 16 Southlea Avenue, Southbourne, Bournemouth.
1f
LAW 2/1/296 21 February 1944
Lilian Mitford, 23 Handforth Road, London: Tynesider.
1f
LAW 2/1/297 21 February 1944
J. Valpy Moffat, c/o Sun Insurance Office Ltd, Wrest Park, Silsoe, Bedford: encloses leaflet on The Universal Order [?religio-philosophical group].
1f
LAW 2/1/298 21 February 1944
Hettie L. Moxey, 2 Huntly Mansions, Christchurch Road, Bournemouth: V.A.D. nurse.
1f
LAW 2/1/299 21 February 1944
Rev. F. Pearn, Secretary of the Synod, The Methodist Church, 40 Park Road, Sittingbourne, Kent: interrupted by enemy aircraft.
1f
LAW 2/1/300 21 February 1944
Robert H. Pentland, Herbalist, William Street, Lurgan.
1f
LAW 2/1/301 21 February 1944
W. W. Perkins, Cumnock, Castle Cary, Somerset: encloses unidentified privately published book “(passed by M[inistry] O[f] I[nformation])”, containing “an idea of how the protection of
human life may be assured”.
1f
LAW 2/1/302 21 February 1944
A. J. Pillar, 20 Boyne Park, Tunbridge Wells: urges change in official attitude toward road deaths.
2f
LAW 2/1/303 21 February 1944
Rev. David Pughe, The Manse, New Road, Youlgrave, Derbyshire: 12 years since their last meeting.
2f
LAW 2/1/304 21 February 1944
L. J. Reeves, Holmstay, Stallington Road, Blythe Bridge, Stoke-on-Trent.
1f
LAW 2/1/305 21 February 1944
Bryn Roberts, General Secretary, National Union of Public Employees, Civic House, Aberdeen Terrace, Blackheath, London.
1f
LAW 2/1/306 21 February 1944
Lt Col. J. H. Robson, Officer Commanding, 3rd Cadet Battalion, Royal Northumberland Fusiliers, Headquarters, 5 Eldon Place, Newcastle upon Tyne.
1f
LAW 2/1/307 21 February 1944
A. B. Roole, The Rectory, Berwick St John, Shaftesbury, Dorset: road deaths.
1f
LAW 2/1/308 21 February 1944
Percy Sargant, Gastrells, Rodborough, Stroud, Gloucestershire: encloses
Quarterly Notes of the Protestant British-Israel League, October 1943 [not present] and January 1944, with articles highlighted for JJL's attention (see
LAW 2/2/21).
1f
LAW 2/1/309 21 February 1944
Isabel and Albert Sayes, 96 Princes Road, Middlesbrough, Yorkshire: personal friend of JJL.
1f
LAW 2/1/310 21 February 1944
Phyll Sharman, 139 Holmes Avenue, Hove.
4f
LAW 2/1/311 21 February 1944
Mrs E. M. Shaw, 10 Harcourt Road, Uckfield, Sussex.
1f
LAW 2/1/312 21 February 1944
Franklin Sibley, Vice-Chancellor's Lodge, Reading: formerly, with JJL, on the Miners' Welfare Scholarship Selection Committee.
1f
LAW 2/1/313 21 February 1944
G. Grant Simons, 56 Chester Avenue, Cleveleys, Lancashire: employed at the Ministry of Pensions for over twenty years; proposes meeting.
1f
LAW 2/1/314 21 February 1944
B. S. Wignall Simpson, Ulpha Vicarage, Broughton in Furness.
1f
LAW 2/1/315 21 February 1944
H. Smith, 29 Queen Victoria Street, Rochdale.
1f
LAW 2/1/316 21 February 1944
[Rev.] Sydney Smith, Nunthorpe Vicarage, Middlesbrough.
1f
LAW 2/1/317 21 February 1944
J. Brown Spark, Spark's, 34 Dundas Street, Edinburgh.
1f
LAW 2/1/318 21 February 1944
A. A. Standen, 35 The Avenue, Burrsville, Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.
2f
LAW 2/1/319 21 February 1944
Betty Stanton, 47 Highfield Gardens, Golders Green, London: encloses tract [not present].
1f
LAW 2/1/320 21 February 1944
David C. Stewart, Manor of Currie, Currie, Midlothian.
1f
LAW 2/1/321 21 February 1944
Mrs K. T., 68 Regents Park Road, Finchley, London.
1f
LAW 2/1/322 21 February 1944
J. Taylor, 15 Parkside Way, Harrow, Middlesex: Ryhope upbringing.
1f
LAW 2/1/323 21 February 1944
Kathleen Taylor, Glendalough, Apley, Ryde, Isle of Wight.
2f
LAW 2/1/324 21 February 1944
David F. Thompson, Hopewell House, Bothenhampton, Bridport: diatribe against clerics, Catholicism, French and Portuguese “prison states”, B.B.C. and M.O.I. medievalists, stream lined elocutionists, bombing of
Protestant German civilians; urges more information on Count [Carlo] Sforza, Professor [Gaetano] Salvemini, [Benedetto] Croce, International Brigades, Abyssinia.
1f
LAW 2/1/325 21 February 1944
Mrs L. Thornton, 10 Dovesdale Road, Bankfoot, Bradford, Yorkshire.
2f
LAW 2/1/326 21 February 1944
J. H. Griffith, Argoed, Denbigh, North Wales.
1f
LAW 2/1/327 21 February 1944
Alice Trumble, 124 Bordesley Road, Morden, Surrey: Lord Shaftesbury.
5f
LAW 2/1/328 21 February 1944
Charles Turner, 2 Sandy Lane, Stretford, Manchester: author; identifies absentee landlords as root cause of world distress; advocates nationalisation.
1f
LAW 2/1/329 21 February 1944
J. Nicholls Turner, 35 The Esplanade, Atlantic Lea Front, Portcawl: Ramsay MacDonald; fostering friendship between S. Wales and the U.S.S.R.
2f
LAW 2/1/330 21 February 1944
E. A. H. Vernon, 2 Penhale Road, Eastbourne, Sussex: interrupted by air raid.
1f
LAW 2/1/331 21 February 1944
Albert Voyle, Sunhaven, Elm Grove, Kirby Cross, Essex: sold
Liverpool Echo at the age of eight; served in first world war; Congo missionary, 1922.
1f
LAW 2/1/332 21 February 1944
George Walker, 17 Glebe Terrace, Easington Colliery, Co. Durham.
1f
LAW 2/1/333 21 February 1944
Alan Ward, Summerhill, 19 Kingfield Road, Sheffield: art of greater value than human life.
1f
LAW 2/1/334 21 February 1944
Will Ward, Oak Bank, Burswell Villas, Hexham-on-Tyne: acquaintance of JJL, formerly of Low Fell; Rev. Percy Bailey; JJL to visit Hexham Central [church] on 15 April.
2f
LAW 2/1/335 21 February 1944
C. Wardle-Harpur, The Vicarage, Coleford Road, Sheffield.
1f
LAW 2/1/336 21 February 1944
Fabian Ware, Imperial War Graves Commission, 32 Grosvenor Gardens, London: Rudyard Kipling; “[y]ou do realise, don't you, that what made me take up this work nearly thirty years ago was a sense of sanctity of human life?
I was determined to do all I could not to let the “militarists” get away with it again & hide their dead in charnel-houses or massed unmarked mounds, as they did as late as the Napoleonic wars & the wars of
1870”; “return to a humanism”.
1f
LAW 2/1/337 21 February 1944
J. W. Whitfield, 155 Victoria Road North, Southsea: offers corrections to misquotations and misleading impressions left by broadcast.
1f
LAW 2/1/338 21 February 1944
Burnett R. Wilkinson, Director, Havmor Ltd, Team Valley, Gateshead-on-Tyne.
1f
LAW 2/1/339 21 February 1944
W. H. White and A. White, W. H. White & Son, 1 Sandown Road, Brislington, Bristol.
1f
LAW 2/1/340 21 February 1944
Mrs R. G. Willavise, 523 Caerleon Road, Newport, Monmouthshire.
1f
LAW 2/1/341/1-2 21 February 1944
Arthur F. Williams, Seven Oaks, Bexton, Knutsford, Cheshire: encloses copy correspondence (January-February 1944) to the Prime Minister, the Home Secretary, the Lord Chancellor, the Minister of Information, and Charles F. White MP, re
“3 3/4 yrs. of Deliberate Lying and Persecution by Mr H. Morrison, Home Sec.”, jamming of foreign radio broadcasts (since 6 November 1942), state surveillance; 2½d. stamp (loose) enclosed.
1f; 11f
LAW 2/1/342 21 February 1944
George Wright, Ashleigh, Anwick, Sleaford, Lincolnshire: personal history; “[w]e get too much of Dr Joad and Julian Huxley & not enough of Henry Broadhurst, Joseph Arch, and General Booth”.
1f
LAW 2/1/343 22 February 1944
Anonymous, postmarked Portishead, Bristol.
1f
LAW 2/1/344 22 February 1944
M. J. Bell-Richards, 65 Hill Rise, Birstall, Leicester: old acquaintance of JJL; attended “the last Socialist Congress in Vien[n]a”.
1f
LAW 2/1/345 22 February 1944
Betty, Fourays, Strandway, Felpham, Bognor Regis, to Sydney [?Walton, The White Cottage, Sudbury Hill, Harrow].
1f
LAW 2/1/346 22 February 1944
John and Esther Black, 12 Heworth Road, Washington, Co. Durham.
2f
LAW 2/1/347 22 February 1944
Dorothy [?Blenney], Forelands, Weston-super-Mare, Somerset: coal owners' daughter and grand-daughter.
2f
LAW 2/1/348 22 February 1944
Janet Bocking, Throckley, Redbourn Way, Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire: Labour councillor; family history.
1f
LAW 2/1/349 22 February 1944
A. D. Briggs, 60 The Avenue, Clayton, Bradford.
1f
LAW 2/1/350 22 February 1944
Louisa Cammack, 50 Warwick Road, Upton, Wirral: critical of modern secular and sex education; retired nurse.
4f
LAW 2/1/351 22 February 1944
L. V. Cartwright, 26 Birch Tree Avenue, Birstall, Leicester: critical of JJL's perceived pessimism.
1f
LAW 2/1/352 22 February 1944
J. B. Cook, 2 Edward Street, Esh Winning, Durham: miner; JJL's talk at Durham following his China trip.
1f
LAW 2/1/353 22 February 1944
Mildred L. Cotterell, Ham Frith, Grove Park, Wanstead: met JJL on voyage from Marseilles to Cairo, via Tangiers.
1f
LAW 2/1/354 22 February 1944
Thomas Dixon, Alltycham, Pontardawe, Swansea: family history.
2f
LAW 2/1/355 22 February 1944
Marie Shaw Essex, Pharais, Greys Cottages, Babbacombe, Torquay, S. Devon.
1f
LAW 2/1/356 22 February 1944
Fred [Colegrove], Nab-End, 116 Cumnor Hill, Oxford.
1f
LAW 2/1/357 22 February 1944
A. E. Fryer, Cadney, Brigg, [Lincolnshire].
1f
LAW 2/1/358 22 February 1944
Harry Gerrard, James Holden & Son Limited, 30 Brown Street, Manchester: mutual acquaintance Joe Toole.
1f
LAW 2/1/359 22 February 1944
S. Goldwater, 160 Osborne Road, Jesmond, Newcastle on Tyne.
1f
LAW 2/1/360 22 February 1944
Ada C. L. Gummersall, 3 North Park Terrace, Heaton, Bradford, Yorkshire: street design to minimise road deaths.
1f
LAW 2/1/361 22 February 1944
Mrs R. Hunwick, 124 Worlds End Lanem Quinton, Birmingham.
5f
LAW 2/1/362 22 February 1944
Miss Ellen A Jones, 249 Cromwell Road, London: miners' strike, fuel and paper shortages.
6f
LAW 2/1/363 22 February 1944
Roy Jones, Heenan Road, Old Colwyn, North Wales: Mrs Farrell of the Spennymoor Settlement a cousin.
1f
LAW 2/1/364 22 February 1944
J. N. Keeling, Chaplain, RAF Station, Wilmslow, Manchester.
1f
LAW 2/1/365 22 February 1944
James H. Kerley, 18 Waverley Park, Edinburgh.
1f
LAW 2/1/366 22 February 1944
F. Lilliott, Overland, Ash, Canterbury.
1f
LAW 2/1/367 22 February 1944
R. J. Lines, Dispensing Chemist, Royal Parade Pharmacy, Hunstanton.
1f
LAW 2/1/368 22 February 1944
Mrs M. Mackay, Milngavie, Scotland.
1f
LAW 2/1/369 22 February 1944
E. Marshall, Managing Director, The Northumberland Whinstone Co. Limited, Milburn House, Newcastle upon Tyne: contrasts JJL's broadcast sentiments with his stance taken in 1943 [against] further damage to Hadrian's Wall; account of the effect of
the Company's quarrying on the Wall to date; development agreement superseded by Preservation Order.
1f
LAW 2/1/370 22 February 1944
Miss Sarah Mintens, Thornbank, [?] Road, Bath, Somerset.
1f
LAW 2/1/371 22 February 1944
Flora Pankhurst, 20 Firswood Avenue, Stoneleigh, Ewell, Surrey: family history.
2f
LAW 2/1/372 22 February 1944
D. E. Potter, 29 Gourock Road, Eltham: encloses leaflet on the People's Common Law Parliament [not present]; repeal of the Bank Charter, and reconstruction without debt.
2f
LAW 2/1/373 22 February 1944
Whitmore Richard, County Court Judge (retired), Woodfield, Hoole, Chester.
1f
LAW 2/1/374 22 February 1944
A. C. Robbins, 65 Harford Drive, Cassiobury Park, Watford, Hertfordshire.
1f
LAW 2/1/375 22 February 1944
Mrs Margaret Roberts, 8 Hampden Terrace, Mount Florida, Glasgow.
1f
LAW 2/1/376 22 February 1944
J. H. Staplin, 6 Walmer Terrace, Eighton Banks, Gateshead: personal history.
1f
LAW 2/1/377 22 February 1944
Mrs Dolores Symons, Moorfield Lodge, 40 Moor Road, Leeds.
1f
LAW 2/1/378 22 February 1944
Mrs M. Teague, Melrose, The Common, Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire.
1f
LAW 2/1/379 22 February 1944
H. J. Vester, 5 Falconer Street, Acomb Road, York: enclosing [theological] booklet, [not present].
1f
LAW 2/1/380 22 February 1944
Jos. Wedgwood, 197 Westmorland Avenue, Blackpool , Lancashire.
1f
LAW 2/1/381 22 February 1944
E. G. Whittaker, Chief Agent and Secretary, City of Sheffield Conservative & Unionist Federation.
1f
LAW 2/1/382 22 February 1944
M. Whitwell, 1 Middleton Grange Lane, West Blackpool: homes not memorials.
2f
LAW 2/1/383 22 February 1944
[Wilkinson], 16 Beverley Road, Anerly, [London].
1f (?incomplete)
LAW 2/1/384 22 February 1944
C. Williams, 144a King Street, Aberdeen, Scotland.
1f
LAW 2/1/385 22 February 1944
M. L. Williams, Southdene, Booths Hill, Lymm, Near Warrington.
1f
LAW 2/1/386 22 February 1944
Mrs M. S. Wood, 3 St Albans Place, Tynemouth, Northumberland.
1f
LAW 2/1/387 22 February 1944
W. S. L. Woodcock, 218 Quay Road, Bridlington.
2f
LAW 2/1/388 22 February 1944
M. B. Endean and E. G. Wright, Essex House, 97 Woodcote Grove Road, Coulsdon, Surrey.
2f
LAW 2/1/389 23 February 1944
Mrs M. Easton, 152 Windsor Road, Torquay, Devon.
2f
LAW 2/1/390 23 February 1944
Mrs J. England, Bristol.
1f
LAW 2/1/391 23 February 1944
David Gunmill, 60 Wingrove Gardens, Newcastle upon Tyne: formerly employed at W. H. Robinson's Bookshop in Grainger Market, Newcastle upon Tyne, once frequented by JJL; Dumas.
2f
LAW 2/1/392 23 February 1944
[Sir] George Hamilton, Cransford Hall, Saxmundham: former MP [for Altrincham (1913-1923), and Ilford (1928-1937)].
1f
LAW 2/1/393 23 February 1944
Tom Henderson, 7 Geoffrey Avenue, Neville's Cross, Durham: encloses a photograph taken in July 1933 of some [public] event, [perhaps to be found in unsorted photographs
LAW 3/1].
1f
LAW 2/1/394 23 February 1944
Mrs E. Hopps, Old Durham Farm.
2f
LAW 2/1/395 23 February 1944
Rev. M. G. Leadbitter, The Rectory, Moretonhampstead, Newton Abbot, Devon: quotes from Polly Peabody's
Occupied territory.
1f
LAW 2/1/396 23 February 1944
C. Muckett, 10 Mayhall Road, Portsmouth: [re-directed to 84 Claverton Street, London].
1f
LAW 2/1/397 23 February 1944
Charles Riel, 21 Royal York Crescent, Clifton, Bristol.
1f
LAW 2/1/398 23 February 1944
U. K. Ridley, West Hoathly: postcard depicts West Barn at West Hoathly.
1f
LAW 2/1/399 23 February 1944
S. A. Thompson, 134 Grosvenor Road, [London].
1f
LAW 2/1/400 23 February 1944
Jake [Wood], 17 King Street, Pelaw, Gateshead, Co. Durham.
1f
LAW 2/1/401/1-2 24 February 1944
Mrs Anne Chippindale, 95 Altton Road, Easterly Road, Leeds: encloses poem “Can we ever forget?”.
2f; 1f
LAW 2/1/402 24 February 1944
E. P. Dunham, Willington Circuit Secretary, Estate Office, Brancepeth, Durham: invitation to attend a Sunday service at Willington.
1f
LAW 2/1/403 24 February 1944
Thomas D. Fenby, Mayor of the Borough of Bridlington, Town Hall, Bridlington: a friend of JJL.
1f
LAW 2/1/404 24 February 1944
John H. Peet, Waltham, Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire.
1f
LAW 2/1/405 24 February 1944
Mr and Mrs Sharples, 15 Codale Avenue, Bispham, Blackpool.
2f
LAW 2/1/406 24 February 1944
Miss Elizabeth S. Walmsley, The Haven, Bundoran, County Donegal, Ireland.
1f
LAW 2/1/407 25 February 1944
A. A. Baily, 43 High Street, Glastonbury.
1f
LAW 2/1/408 25 February 1944
Thomas C. Gwynne, Catson, Little Dewchurch, Hereford: personal history; West Riding colliery Sunday School.
1f
LAW 2/1/409 25 February 1944
Eric Harrison, 29 Orchard Street, Lincoln.
1f
LAW 2/1/410 25 February 1944
Mrs M. Hughes, The Croft, New Inn Lane, Trentham, Stoke-on-Trent.
2f
LAW 2/1/411 25 February 1944
Mrs Ingram, 13 Trafalgar Terrace, Darlington: formerly of Page's Buildings, Boldon Colliery.
1f
LAW 2/1/412 25 February 1944
T. W. Lasey, 61 Bents Road, Sheffield: former MP [for Sheffield Attercliffe, 1918-1922].
1f
LAW 2/1/413 25 February 1944
Mrs Joyce A. Lee, Berwyn, 152 Loose Road, Maidstone, Kent.
1f
LAW 2/1/414 25 February 1944
Rev. William Richardson, Lingfield, 3 Essex Road, Thame, Oxfordshire: Northumberland mining upbringing; Tommy Burt and Charles Wilson.
1f
LAW 2/1/415 25 February 1944
Ethel A. Robinson, 37 Chantry Road, Moseley, Birmingham: acquainted with JJL at Boldon Colliery before 1914.
2f
LAW 2/1/416 25 February 1944
Mary H. Rowe (Bell), 41 Front Street, Stanley, Durham.
1f
LAW 2/1/417 26 February 1944
Major-General H. Lethbridge Alexander, The Cottage, Flimwell, Hawkhurst, Kent.
1f
LAW 2/1/418 26 February 1944
Frederick Dean, Milnthorpe, Westmorland: family history; falling demand for education among current working class.
1f
LAW 2/1/419/1-2 26 February 1944
Kathleen Douglas-Menzies, Newtonairds, Dumfries: encloses letter dated 20 February and poem, dated same day, “Let not rancour's fountain rise / Nor bitter thinking sour the eyes”.
1f; 2f
LAW 2/1/420 26 February 1944
Thomas Hedley, Greystones, Racecourse Lane, Northallerton: personal history.
1f
LAW 2/1/421 26 February 1944
Edwin A. Pinkney, Local Preachers Secretary, Carlisle (Cecil Street) Circuit, 18, Etterby Lea Grove, Carlisle.
1f
LAW 2/1/422 26 February 1944
Joseph Reavley, 24 Ravensdale Road, Darlington: invitation to attend a Methodist service at Darlington (negatived by JJL).
1f
LAW 2/1/423 26 February 1944
G. H. Worthington, 129 Blackhorse Road, Longford, Near Coventry: personal and family history; encloses two poems [not present], one on a twelve-week strike at Exhall Colliery, before 1914, and the other on the fire at the same colliery; Tom Mann;
Rev. J. T. Barkley; commemorative jug, presented to a northern pit manager in 1825, inscribed “Success to the miners who work under ground / There are no better men in this world to be found”.
1f
LAW 2/1/424 27 February 1944
H. F. Baldwin, Laverton House, Fairford, Gloucestershire.
1f
LAW 2/1/425 27 February 1944
R. S. Bell, 34 Buckingham Road, Cheadle Hulme, Near Stockport: family history; Chester-le-Street and Methodism, Burt, Fenwick, Wilson; Beamish Cricketers.
1f
LAW 2/1/426 27 February 1944
Miss Roberta Glasgow, 8 Rose Mount, Oxton, Birkenhead.
1f
LAW 2/1/427 27 February 1944
J. M. [?Montony], Rose Cottage, Purley: protests at JJL's remarks concerning the destruction of Monte Cassino, “a crime against the Roman Catholic Church”.
1f
LAW 2/1/428 27 February 1944
George Taylor, 21 Hurstwood Road, [?Sunderland].
2f
LAW 2/1/429 27 February 1944
Lynette Tollemache, Cloves Cottage, Eastbourne.
2f
LAW 2/1/430 27 February 1944
Lilian Varley, 11 Greenfield Road, Meadowhead, Sheffield: headmaster; critical of declining educational standards; commends old pupil teacher system; suggests special films and plays for children, citing pre-war Russian precedent.
2f
LAW 2/1/431 27 February 1944
L. B. Wilson, 51 Osborn Road, Forest Gate, [London].
2f
LAW 2/1/432 28 February 1944
S. N. Storey, Fire Guard Officer, Blaydon Urban District Council, Fire Guard Department, Council Offices, Blaydon-on-Tyne: invites JJL to attend Methodist service at Benwell (negatived by JJL).
1f
LAW 2/1/433 1 March 1944
Brab [John Brabazon, 1st baron Brabazon of Tara], 70 Pall Mall, [London].
1f
LAW 2/1/434 1 March 1944
Mrs L. Pat Brigham, Newtown School, Waterford, Éire: former resident of Crook; taught at Pelton.
1f
LAW 2/1/435 1 March 1944
Bernard M. Doyle, 372 Barlow Moor Road, Chorlton Cum Hardy, Manchester.
3f
LAW 2/1/436 1 March 1944
Elsie M. H. Campbell, Braemead, 11 South Cliff Avenue, Eastbourne.
1f
LAW 2/1/437 1 March 1944
E. M. Tait, 2 St Luke's Villas, Cheltenham.
1f
LAW 2/1/438 2 March 1944
W. M. Field, 197 Camberwell Grove, [London]: broadcast interrupted by air raid.
1f
LAW 2/1/439 2 March 1944
Arthur W. Satterthwaite, Heathdene, 158 Fulbridge Road, Peterborough.
2f
LAW 2/1/440 5 March 1944
F. Ellis, 73 Russell Drive, Torrisholme, Morecambe: former secondary school teacher at Washington, Co. Durham.
1f
LAW 2/1/441 6 March 1944
“Catholic Teacher”, postmarked Chester: plea re Catholic schooling; postcard depicts the Hotel Majestic, New York.
1f
LAW 2/1/442 28 March 1944
Violet Wyncoll, Secretary to [Guy] Burgess, B.B.C. Broadcasting House, London: returns loaned letters.
1f
LAW 2/1/443 [1944]
Letter from Samuel J. Looker, The Book Nook, Grange Road, South Green, Billericay, Essex: encloses the writer's
Green branches: selected poems (1941), [not present].Note: JJL made two broadcasts in 1944 which described his discovery of a love of reading, in February (
Mortal man and immortal art, or Human Life) and April (Books that have influenced me); it is not clear to which broadcast Looker refers.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/444 Tuesday [?late 1944]
Letter from JJL, House of Commons, to Miss Biggs: Hodder & Stoughton “just making “do”” [in the current extreme circumstances]; provides a paragraph on the statue of Samuel
Johnson on the Strand, its inscription, and the shell of St Clement Danes church, suggesting the passage's inclusion in the introduction [to
Who goes home?, see
LAW 2/4/1/7A]. See also,
LAW 2/3/5.[Note: a photograph, published 13 September 1944 in an unidentified newspaper [
... Echo], depicts this statue; the caption notes its survival despite its proximity to several recent flying bomb explosions, see
LAW 3/2/26/13].
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/445 22 February 1944
Letter from Rev. George H. Simpson, Superintendent Minister of The Dome Mission Methodist Church, Brighton, at 25 West Drive, Brighton, to JJL, House of Commons: invitation to make an afternoon address at the Dome Mission; reports popular
services; commends JJL's B.B.C. Postscript [
Human life] of 20 and 21 February.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/446 24 March 1944
Letter from F. Alex. Wills, “The Vagabond”, 10 Gladstone Terrace, Gateshead, to JJL, House of Commons: invitation to write an introduction to Wills'
The little kingdom; testifies to the wide impact and militancy of JJL's B.B.C. Sunday Postscript [Human life]; a factory volunteer since the start of the war; boy [?son] guided round the
House of Commons by JJL.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/447 24 March 1944
Letter from Matt Forster, 521 12th Street East, Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, Canada, to JJL: reaction to JJL's B.B.C. broadcast on China [?
Back from China], re-broadcast on C.B.C.'s Radio News Reel; expatriate now settled in Canada; seventeen years in Canada, farming, casual work, study ( “the old
Lawson strategy” ), Post Office; John Oxberry; Windy Nook, Gateshead; wounded and discharged in World War I, then represented by JJL to Mr Norman Humble for his re-employment; Sergeant Instructor in Canadian Army, but discharged as medically
unfit; Jordan Forster, son, Royal Canadian Navy on Atlantic convoy duty; mother and mother-in-law in Co. Durham; Joyce Forster, daughter; wife Jennie.
Paper 9f (two pages town in two and subsequently repaired with paper and adhesive)
LAW 2/1/448 4 April 1944
Letter from Arthur Bryant, The White House, East Claydon, Near Bletchley, Buckinghamshire, to JJL: lecturing to the Home Fleet; commends JJL's B.B.C. broadcast [
Human life], and testifies to its resonance with the opinions of military personnel concerning [post-war] reconstruction and human dignity; purely rationalist outlook insufficient; encloses English saga, [not present].
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/449 8 May 1944
Letter from Ada and Arthur Godfrey, 386a Great West Road, Heston, Hounslow, Middlesex, to JJL: reaction to B.B.C. broadcast [
Books that have influenced me]; influence of JJL's autobiographical and biographical writing; Education Bill.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/450 31 July 1944
Letter from Sydney Walton, 3 St James's Square, London, to JJL: praises JJL's
Who goes home?; proud to be the work's dedicatee; typescript to Mr Barton at The Epworth Press.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/451/1-2 8 August 1944
Letter, with cutting, from W. Foster, 21 Newton Road, St Helens, Lancashire, to JJL: encloses cutting from
Wigan Osberver, announcing JJL's appointment as vice-chairman of the British Council, providing a short biography of JJL, and drawing parallels to the life of Stephen Walsh, MP for Ince, [Lancashire, 1906-1929].
Paper 2f
LAW 2/1/452-467 14 August-13 December 1944
Letters of praise and reaction to the second edition of
A man's life, written to JJL, from the following correspondents.
Paper 23f
LAW 2/1/452 14 August 1944
Harold Neal, Anneslea, Cromford Road, Langley Mill, Near Nottingham.
1f
LAW 2/1/453 16 August 1944
Daniel [?Hopkins], North London Police Court, Stoke Newington, London.
1f
LAW 2/1/454 16 August 1944
John W. Turner, 12 Elmfield Terrace, Darlington: Sydney Walton a mutual friend.
1f
LAW 2/1/455 19 August 1944
Alice and Fred [Colegrove], Nab-End, 116 Cumnor Hill, Oxford.
2f
LAW 2/1/456 20 August 1944
E.C. Start, 80 Shanklin Drive, Leicester.
2f
LAW 2/1/457 20 August 1944
Tom Brown, 393 Leigh Road, Hindley Green, Near Wigan: with account of beginning work aged 12 at Priestner's Pits.
4f
LAW 2/1/458 21 August 1944
[George] Leighton Seager, Bryn Ivor Hall, Castleton, Near Cardiff: noting parallels in the lives of JJL and Seager's father, and his building of the William Seager Memorial Homes in Cardiff; mutual friends Sydney Walton (dedicatee), and Charles
Twist (1942 China trip).
1f
LAW 2/1/459 28 August 1944
William Barbery,
Daily Express, Fleet Street, London.
1f
LAW 2/1/460 19 September 1944
Jim and Annie Elder, Browns Crescent, Eighton Banks: Bob Taylor.
3f
LAW 2/1/461 24 September 1944
Alec Walkden, Meadowside Road, Great Bookham, Surrey.
1f
LAW 2/1/462 2 October 1944
Ernest Green, General Secretary, The Workers' Educational Association, 38a St George's Drive, Victoria, London: will review in the
Highway; encloses book [?Education for a new society].
1f
LAW 2/1/463 2 October 1944
Mark Hodgson, General Secretary, United Society of Boilermakers & Iron & Steel Shipbuilders, Lifton House, Eslington Road, Newcastle upon Tyne.
1f
LAW 2/1/464 27 October 1944
Arthur Bryant, The White House, East Claydon, Near Bletchley, Buckinghamshire: completing
The years of endurance; [armed] services lecturing; will review in Illustrated London News; to meet at Oxford.
1f
LAW 2/1/465 9 November 1944
J. H. Staplin, 6 Walmer Terrace, Eighton Banks, Gateshead: settled at Tow Law, Country Durham from Tavistock, Devon; James [Jim] Elder; “John Wilson”.
3f
LAW 2/1/466 6 December 1944
S. E. R. Fenning, Egglescliffe Rectory, Stockton-upon-Tees.
1f
LAW 2/1/467 13 December 1944
Annie and Will Errington, Ermelo House, Sacriston.
1f
LAW 2/1/468 11 September 1944
Letter from Edward R.G.R. Evans, H.Q. London Civil Defence Region, Exhibition Road, London, to JJL, House of Commons: JJL's appreciation of
British Polar Explorers; invitation to dine, with Alfred Bossom; V-1 threat diminished, but “a new “V” has made its appearance”.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/469 16 September 1944
Letter from A. Clayton,
The Northern Echo, Priestgate, Darlington, to JJL, Northern Civil Defence Region, Northern Regional Headquarters, Broadway West, Newcastle-upon-Tyne: encloses photograph, for use in JJL's “book of Sketches” [Who goes home?].
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/470 21 October 1944
Letter from F[rederick] G. Peake, The Holmes, St Boswells, Roxburghshire, to JJL: JJL's resignation from post of Deputy Regional Commissioner; admiring former subordinate to JJL at the Regional Headquarters; shared understanding of Eastern
Oriental peoples' religious outlook; critique of western materialism; notes a growing revulsion in the East to European interference; anticipates Palestine question to be disruptive of British policy in the region; dismisses possibility of a
parliamentary career due to his age and lack of independent wealth.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/471 11 December 1944
Letter from Arthur Bryant, The White House, East Claydon, Near Bletchley, Buckinghamshire, to JJL: sending his new book [
Years of victory, 1802–1812]; departs for Middle East in January.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/472 [?1945]
Note from Patrick, House of Commons, to JJL, [House of Commons]: commends JJL's [B.B.C.] broadcast on Parliament.[Note: date of this note inferred from the existence of a B.B.C. broadcast by JJL on “The Parliament ”, part three of a series
The pattern of English life, and broadcast in May 1945. However, JJL also made numerous Week in Westminster programmes, from 1943, and this note may refer to one of these broadcasts.]
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/473 8 January 1945
Letter from Arthur Bryant, The Athenæum, Pall Mall, London, as from The White House, East Claydon, Near Bletchley, Buckinghamshire, to JJL: thanks JJL for his generous praise for Bryant's book; JJL in Italy.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/474 18 February 1945
Letter from Muriel E. Walters, Lyndhurst, Penzance, to JJL: thanks for JJL's ““remembrancings””, and photograph of his dog; mother of Winifred Lewellin James; description of
appearance and habits of Rev. Thomas ““Papa”” James, in Australia; Rev. Ensor Walters; Peter; [?encloses] rough copy of comments by George Bernard Shaw on
A man's life, [presumably taken from a letter from Shaw to Ensor Walters, see (
LAW 2/1/481)].
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/475 20 March 1945
Letter from L. A. Sample, Dunelm, 105 Woodyates Road, Lee, London, to JJL: seeking copy of
A man's life; emigrants from Seaham Harbour; wireless broadcasts.Note: superscribed by D. C. B. [JJL's Parliamentary Secretary] with note for action, 23 March 1945.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/476 3 April 1945
Letter from Lily Elder, Greenside, 18 Bonnington Avenue, Great Crosby, Liverpool, to JJL: offers thanks for JJL's tribute to her father and mother [?Jim and Annie Elder]; reminiscences of Bob Taylor, gatherings at Eighton Banks home, Jack Luke
(now in Africa), David Martin, Dick Logan; Jennie [Elder]; death of mother.
Paper 8f
LAW 2/1/477 11 April 1945
Letter from Edward Hunter, City Chambers, Glasgow, to JJL: authored review of
A man's life in the
Durham Chronicle, [“Jack Lawson writes great literature. A Scottish tribute”, 16 March 1945, see
LAW
3/2/27/5]; appreciative response to the article.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/478 14 April 1945
Letter from L. Atkinson, 5 Nelson Square, Stainforth, Near Doncaster, to JJL: a miner and member of Stainforth Labour party, from Blyth; praises
A man's life and The man in the cap, requesting the addresses of publishers.
Paper 2f
LAW 2/1/479 11 June 1945
Letter from Arthur Bryant, The Athenæum, Pall Mall, London, as from The White House, East Claydon, Near Bletchley, Buckinghamshire, to JJL: thanks for JJL's help concerning Major Thomas; congratulations on appointment to the Privy Council;
regrets election controversies, has declined invitation to stand, requiring independence, an instinctive Tory.
Paper 2f
LAW 2/1/480-481 14 June 1945
Note, enclosing letter, from Sydney Walton, 3 St James's Square, London, to JJL: encloses, with the permission of Mrs Ensor Walters, a typescript copy of a letter from G. B. Shaw to Rev. C. Ensor Walters, in part concerning JJL's
A man's life. [See also
LAW 2/1/474].
Paper 1f; 4f
LAW 2/1/481 4 February 1933
Typescript copy letter from George Bernard Shaw, Canadian Pacific Steamships Ltd, Empress of Britain, at sea in the Gulf of Siam upon a world cruise, to Rev. C. Ensor Walters, 52 Lyford Road, Wandsworth Common, London: comparative study of the
religions of Egypt and India; supreme toleration of Hinduism, as against Islam and Christianity; account of Islam as a reaction against “Manifold Monotheism”; Jainism; notes, in all faiths, subsequent to their
foundation, a common tendency to demotic reversion to heterodox hybrid polytheism, a source of difficulty for modern orthodox; as against “the few who have religious sense” ( “equally at home
and equally estranged in all the Temples of all the faiths” ), analyses the faith of the “multitudinous average man” as a progression through mental (and therefore bodily) cures effected by preaching, miracles,
begging, fear, and sacrifices of declining value and increasing symbolism; advocates acting within this [religious narrative], rather than any humanist dialectic, “if you are to make a decent human being of him”;
notes correspondence between fundamentalism and good governance in Jamaica and Rhodesia; draws parallel to English mining village culture, citing
A man's life. “You must start, however, with a knowledge of what the underground world was before Methodism came and saved it. In those days the men were demons and the women savages. Jack
Lawson was a demon and his mother was a savage (it was by the grace of God that she did not main or kill the ten children whom she had to bring up, mostly in one room); but they were honest, upright demons and savages, with solid characters; and it
was Methodism that did that for them. I very much doubt Shavianism would have been equally successful.”; observations on the scale of religious buildings, Shaw more impressed by the feats of their fundamentalist destroyers, testimony of such
buildings' power in the popular imagination; promises Walters a copy of his collection of articles [Doctors' delusions: crude criminology and sham education (1932)] on authorised medicine and surgery -
“it can cure nothing”.
Paper 4f
Original is held by the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, Texas. George Bernard Shaw Collection II/46/5. Published in Shaw's
Everybody's Political What's What (1944), and Collected letters 1926-1950, pp. 322-325.
LAW 2/1/482 4 July 1945
Letter from V. Edmund Grimley, Textile Exchange Buildings, 1 St Paul's Churchyard, London, to JJL, Secretary for War: writing biography of Clement Attlee; requests biographical material, anecdotes, impressions etc., promising non-attribution.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/483 5 July 1945
Letter from Dick and Mary J. Lawson, Mount Stewart Street, Dawdon, to JJL and Bella Lawson: Lawson fighting Hull election; account of seafaring and mining career of father; childhood diet; conversation with Dr W. Soo, Chinese ambassador, member
of a Coal Delegation, at Dawdon colliery; family news; congratulates JJL on his appointment to the Privy Council.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/484 30 July 1945
Letter from Private Charles Hamilton 4974183, A.C.C. [Army Catering Corps] attached to A Company, 4th Battalion, Cheshires, Warminster, Wiltshire, to his uncle JJL: congratulates JJL on keeping his seat, and on being appointed to the Privy
Council; introduces himself as the son of Jenny Hamilton of Boldon Colliery; serving with the Green Howards when JJL visited the troops in the desert west of Benghazi, Libya; resident at West Bromwich, Staffordshire; demobilised in November, no. 19
Group (after eleven years in the British Army).
Paper 5f
LAW 2/1/485 [August] 1945
Letter from H. Hutchinson, Secretary Heaton Methodist Church, 42 Derwentdale Gardens, High Heaton, Newcastle upon Tyne, to JJL: encloses appointments plan for Heaton Methodist Church; in view of JJL's recent appointment, seeks confirmation JJL
will still speak on “China as I saw it” at an evening service on 30 September.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/486 7 August 1945
Letter from Anonymous, “Another Mother Worshipper”, Newbury, to JJL: in response to
A man's life, a tribute to JJL's mother, and providing short history of the struggles of the writer's mother.
Paper 2f
LAW 2/1/487-488 23 August 1945
Two letters to Sydney Walton, dedicatee of
Who goes home?, discussing JJL's writing and career, from:
487. S. Dubner, Roseneath, Mount Ararat Road, Richmond, Surrey; Harrow discussion group, and atomic bomb; transferred from the Cabinet Offices to Ministry
of Education; thanksgiving service at St Paul's Cathedral; 3f;
488. Randall Williams, Casterbridge, Nower Hill, Pinner, Middlesex; Godfrey Elton's [Imperial Commonwealth]; 2f.
Paper 3f; 2f
LAW 2/1/489 25 August 1945
Letter from Arthur Bryant, The White House, East Claydon, Near Bletchley, Buckinghamshire, to JJL: congratulates JJL on his appointment as [Secretary of State for War]; JJL to Italy; urges support for newly founded community centres and further
development of the “self and community education” that evolved in the armed services during the war; Bernard Paget in Cairo; Educational work in the Middle East Force.
Paper 1p
LAW 2/1/490 4 September 1945
Letter from John [?Swan], 5 The Villas, Red Hill, Durham City, to JJL: JJL to South East Asia; provides address of Flight lieutenant Rowland C. Swan, based at H.Q. Air Command, Ceylon [Sri Lanka].
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/491 1 November 1945
Letter from Edward R.G.R. Evans, [1st baron Mountevans], 76 Cadogan Square, London, to JJL, War Office: accepts JJL's congratulations [for his peerage]; recently returned from Norway, settling his wife and her family's interests there following
the German occupation.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/492 7 November 1945
Letter from Lionel Elvin, Principal, Ruskin College, Oxford, to JJL, War Office: reports foundation and scheme of scholarships, the gift of Sir Malcolm Stewart, and asking JJL's consent, in accordance with Stewart's wishes, that half of the
scholarships to be in JJL's name.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/493 18 December 1945
Letter from A[lan] Lascelles, [Private Secretary to the King], Buckingham Palace, to JJL: thanks JJL for his own copy of
Who goes home?.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/494 4 February 1946
Letter from [Field Marshal] Bernard Law Montgomery, [1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein], Commander-in-Chief, Tactical Headquarters, British Army of the Rhine, writing from Switzerland, to JJL: praises
A man's life; on holiday after influenza.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/495 [August-September 1946]
Letter from A[rabella] Susan Lawrence, Flat 4, 28 Braham Gardens, London, to JJL: sympathises with JJL's poor health.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/496 8 August 1946
Letter from [Rev.] Spencer [Wade], The Rectory, Whickham, Newcastle upon Tyne, to JJL: reaction to JJL entering Newcastle Nursing Home for an operation; urges lighter work-load; critical of an attack upon JJL by an army colonel in the House of
Commons. Note: Martin Lindsay, MP for Solihull called for JJL's resignation during a debate on British Army Recruiting, HC Deb. 2 August 1946 vol. 426 c.1441.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/497 9 August 1946
Letter from Dick Lawson, 38 Ash Crescent, Parkside, Seaham, to Bella Lawson, Woodside, Beamish: hopes for JJL's recovery; health concerns; looks forward to his return to parliament.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/498 10 August 1946
Letter from Sir John Jarvis, Hascombe Court, Near Godalming, to Bella Lawson: sympathy upon JJL's illness; shared cause on Tyneside, “as we have both worked for Jarrow”.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/499 12 August 1946
Letter from H. Maddison, 10 Home Avenue, Low Fell, Gateshead, to JJL: invitation to lead a service to celebrate the diamond jubilee of the Chow Dean [Methodist] chapel in September 1947; greetings from Jack Cole.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/500 13 August 1946
Letter from Stella Reading [Stella Isaacs, marchioness of Reading], Chairman, Women's Voluntary Services, 41 Tothill Street, Westminster, to Bella Lawson, Woodside, Beamish: encloses dehydrated soups for JJL, to speed his reported recovery.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/501 13 August 1946
Letter from Patrick Hannon, MP [for Birmingham Moseley], 22 Northumberland Avenue, London, to JJL, War Office: welcomes JJL's reported recovery; condemns the attack [of Martin Lindsay on 2 August] on JJL in the House of Commons, praising JJL's
work as Secretary of State.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/502 14 August 1946
Letter from John Derby [Alfred Edward John Rawlinson], bishop of Derby, Beadsall Mount, Near Derby, to JJL, War Office: recalls their Durham acquaintanceship; welcomes JJL's reported recovery; praises
Who goes home? and A man's life.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/503 15 August 1946
Letter from Mary, princess royal and countess of Harewood, Harewood House, Leeds, to JJL: wishes for a speedy recovery, enclosing grapes from her garden.
Paper 1fr
LAW 2/1/504 16 August 1946
Letter from Arthur Bryant, as from Rapsgate, Cirencester, to JJL: encloses unnamed volume from a work by Bryant; notes JJL's poor health.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/505 20 August 1946
Letter from Rt Hon. Viscount Greenwood, Chairman, Dorman Long & Co. Ltd, Terminal House, 52 Grosvenor Gardens, London, to JJL: welcomes reports of JJL's recovery, and return to public service.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/506 20 August 1946
Letter from Sam Watson, Bede Rest, Beech Crest, Durham, to JJL: returned from Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Convention, [at Regina, Saskatchewan], Canada (Labour Party paternal delegate); welcomes news of JJL's recovery, advising lighter
work-load and such more conducive to his literary abilities.
Paper 2f
LAW 2/1/507-508 21 August 1946
Letter, with seven enclosures, from M. Richardson, 36 Laburnum Crescent, Kibblesworth, Gateshead, to JJL: wishes for JJL's recovery; a [coal] screener; encloses [7] cartoons.
Paper f
LAW 2/1/508/1-7 [1946]
Seven political cartoons, in ink and pencil, by “Billie” [M. Richardson].
Paper 7f
LAW 2/1/508/1
“Blinded by the old school tie.” A reaction to Martin Lindsay MP's criticism of JJL in the House of Commons on 2 August.
LAW 2/1/508/2
“No matter how heavy the task; have faith. You shall be guided in your weakness.” Ministry of Fuel and Power.
LAW 2/1/508/3
“Sacrifice & Honesty. A monument to the past.”
LAW 2/1/508/4
“Be strong. Forward then, to a brighter future.” A representation of Herbert Morrison, MP for Lewisham East.
LAW 2/1/508/5
“This heritage”. An ironic depiction of a “happy childhood” of unemployment and two world wars.
LAW 2/1/508/6
“The big bang.” Ministry of Fuel and Power.
LAW 2/1/508/7
“The curtain opens. A new day.”.
LAW 2/1/509 23 August 1946
Letter from George Garrigan, 50 Fitzwilliam Avenue, Wath on Dearne, Near Rotherham, to JJL: good wishes for JJL's recovery; notes controversies over Palestine, Trieste, Dardanelles and the peace treaties; pledges support for the Government; urges
action on the mines, family allowances, old age pensions, and the National Health Scheme; Pat.
Paper 2f
LAW 2/1/510 30 August 1946
Letter from Lord Rochester [Ernest Lamb, 1st baron Rochester], 14 Worcester Place, Oxford, to JJL: relief at Fred Colegrove's report of JJL's improving health.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/511 30 August 1946
Letter from Will Lawther, Kingsley, 31 Manor Drive, Wembley Park, Middlesex, to JJL: departs for U.N., New York, on 14 September on the Queen Mary; representative of the T.U.C.; sending copies of JJL's books to Czechoslovakia; hopes to review
A man's life for a Czech newspaper.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/512-513 2 September 1946
Letter, with enclosures, from Major S. G. Haughton, Cullybackey, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, to JJL, Woodside, Beamish: concern for JJL's recovery; encloses copy letter and other papers, dated August 1946, from Conolly H. Gage to Herbert
Morrison.
Paper 1f; 3f
LAW 2/1/513 August 1946
Copy letter from Conolly H. Gage, House of Commons, to Herbert Morrison urging the allocation of a B.B.C. radio wavelength covering Northern Ireland, rather than continue to share one wavelength with the North of England; attached are a copy
newspaper report concerning the allocation of a new wavelength for the West of England and Midland regions, and a report on “The wavelength position in the Northern Ireland region of the B.B.C.”.
Paper 1f; 1f; 1f
LAW 2/1/514 5 September 1946
Letter from Sir Angus Watson, Whitewell, Adderstone Crescent, Newcastle upon Tyne, to JJL, Woodside, Beamish: praise for
A man's life and JJL's qualities; Methodism; infers from increasing revenues a greater consumption of alcohol among the younger working class generation; suggests the Communist-Rationalist Labour Central College the
cause of a generation of agnostic Labour leaders; challenges JJL's distinction of Communism and State Socialism.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/515 11 September 1946
Letter from Patrick Hannon, MP, 22 Northumberland Avenue, London, to JJL, Woodside, Beamish: welcomes JJL's recovery, commending his fortitude as Secretary of State for War.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/516 13 September 1946
Letter from C. H. Dabbs, 2 Shurland Avenue, Leysdown, Sheppey, Kent, to JJL: regrets JJL's retirement; a soldier and trade unionist since 1919; testifies to JJL's popularity in the British Army; discounts Conservative threat; urges continued
parliamentary career.
Paper 2f
LAW 2/1/517 16 September 1946
Letter from Edward Cowen, Secretary, Durham Miners' Association, Ravensworth Lodge, 17 Cowen Gardens, Team Colliery, Gateshead, to JJL: thanks for JJL's speech at the presentation of testimonials to Mr Kazon and Mr Sinstey for saving the life of
William Hall in a fall on 6 December 1945.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/518 17 September 1946
Letter from [Sir] Jocelyn Lucas, MP [for Portsmouth South], House of Commons, to JJL, War Office: wishes JJL better; compliments JJL's character and integrity.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/519 6 October 1946
Letter from Hanna Gascoigne, Underhill Road, Cleadon, Sunderland, to JJL and Bella Lawson: Hannah Todd; report of JJL's resignation foreshadowed in a March conversation; Women's Land Army; Jonathan Brown.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/520 7 October 1946
Letter from Will Bell, 10 Selborne Grove, Bradford, to JJL: regrets JJL's retirement; expects ““elder statesman”” role; recalls a frank discussion of their ambitions at Cleadon Hill
in 1910, and offers his congratulations upon his achievements; Hanna Gascoigne; George Young.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/521 7 October 1946
Letter from Leonard [?], Eastfield, Riding Mill, Northumberland, to JJL: sympathy concerning JJL's illness; trunk roads work delayed by Treasury.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/522 8 October 1946
Jim Callaghan, MP for Cardiff South, House of Commons, to JJL: thanks JJL for his “courtesy, kindliness and helpfulness” when at the War Office; delight at JJL's intention to remain in parliament.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/523 8 October 1946
Letter from J. H. Staplin, 6 Walmer Terrace, Eighton Banks, Gateshead, to JJL: notes JJL's reported poor health; condemns [Martin] Lindsay, MP; war record and subsequent death of his son; former serviceman; [?Jim] Elder; critical of the workers'
obsession with wages, their impatience with political measures and tendency for intemperate industrial action; “[t]oo few of us realise “our freedom ends when it interferes with the freedom of
another”. Freedom is a great thing, but grace & service are equally great, & can play a great part in increasing the strength & vigour of Freedom.”
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/524 9 October 1946
Letter from James Hilton, 1218 N. La Cienega, Hollywood, California, U.S.A, to JJL: wishes JJL a full recovery, his illness and operation having been reported in the
New York Times; death of mother; father to return to visit England; writing a film scenario, and planning a new novel [?Nothing so strange]; last novel sold well [So well remembered], but not yet on sale in England; misgivings at current world events; observes general post-war disillusionment greater than that which followed the first world war; “[o]nly
individual happiness can be assured to those who can find it and keep it”.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/525 13 October 1946
Letter from Harry Martin, Oaks Farm Cottages, Newthorpe, Nottinghamshire, to JJL: praises as inspirational
A man's life, comparing Martin's early life on a farm to that of JJL in the mine; requests JJL recommend an educational reading list.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/526 14 October 1946
Letter from M. Dinsdale, Waratah, Sandringham Crescent, East Herrington, Co. Durham, to JJL: requests autographed copy of
A man's life.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/527 21 October 1946
Letter from Rev. Owen G. Barrow, The Rectory, Schreiber, Ontario, Canada, to JJL, House of Commons: praise for
Who goes home? and JJL's character, drawing a comparison to the young generation's materialism, “an ancient folly”.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/528 21 October 1946
Letter from Fred and Alice [Colegrove], Nab-End, 116 Cumnor Hill, Oxford, to JJL: expect JJL back down south before November.
Paper 2f
LAW 2/1/529 23 October 1946
Letter from Arthur Bryant, 18 Rutland Gate, London, to JJL: commends JJL's great service; being awarded an honorary degree at Edinburgh tomorrow.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/530 11 December 1946
Letter from Jack Stirling, Oakdene, Shipley Road, Westbury-on-Trym, Bristol, to JJL: regret at JJL's resignation and ill-health; relays former servicemen's high opinion of JJL; son [Derek Stirling] serving at Gibralter; Lt Col. J. W. Albones now
chief recruiting officer, Northern Command;
Paper 2f
LAW 2/1/531 16 December 1946
Letter from Rev. G. E. Tarr, The Dome Mission, Dorset Gardens, Brighton, to JJL: repeats invitation for JJL to attend the mission's anniversary on 11 June 1947.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/532 29 December 1946
Letter from J. W. Fearon, 25 Alma Road, Liverpool, to JJL: Lowea mine disaster fund; praises JJL's writing, hoping his retirement may occasion more such work.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/533 3 January 1947
Letter from Sydney Walton, 3 St James's Square, London, to JJL: invites JJL as his guest to the annual dinner of the Northumberland and Durham Association.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/534 5 January 1947
Letter from Clement Attlee, Prime Minister, 10 Downing Street, to JJL: acknowledges JJL's birthday telegram.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/535 [February 1947]
Letter from B. E. Woods, Springfield Hall Community Church, 200 Wandsworth Road, London, to JJL: invitation to speak at Methodist Mission rally; Lord Ammon, chair.Note: subscribed by JJL, “wrote Feb 16, '47”.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/536 4 February 1947
Letter from Rev. Walter Newby, Dagenham Central Hall (Methodist Church), Heathway, Dagenham, Essex, to JJL: prayers for JJL's recovery; awaits JJL's response to an invitation [to address the church].
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/537 17 February 1947
Letter to Jean Robinson, Lyncroft, Leadgate, Co. Durham, to JJL: JJL to attend Christian Endeavour Weekend, 19 April; requests the title of JJL's talk.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/538 18 February 1947
Letter from Jack Stirling, Oakdene, Shipley Road, Westbury-on-Trym, Bristol, to JJL: son Derek recalled to England for W.A.S.B. [?W.O.S.B - War Office Selection Board], tours Spain.
Paper 3f
LAW 2/1/539 6 March 1947
Letter from James R. Spencer, General Manager, The
Liverpool Daily Post and Echo Ltd, Victoria Street, Liverpool, to JJL: publication of Curly Wee [by Maud Budden] prevented by 50% re-export levy; petitions
JJL to lobby Stafford Cripps, [president of the Board of Trade]; encloses copy of letter sent to Liverpool Board of Trade yesterday [not present].
Paper 2f
LAW 2/1/540-541 15 March 1947
Letter, [with enclosure], from Victor Murray, President, Cheshunt College, Cambridge, to JJL: invitation to address the chapel, 16 May, and afterwards to talk “informally round the fire (Shinwell permitting!)”.
Paper 1f; 1f
LAW 2/1/541 [1947]
“Post-war planning. Cheshunt College plans for the future.” Magazine article, by an unknown author, torn from an unidentified religious publication, found with the above letter.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/542 Sunday 22 February [probably 1948]
Letter from Cooper Hall, 13 Urban Gardens, Washington, Co. Durham, to JJL: offers thanks for tour of the House [of Commons]; Question Time; praises
Who goes home?.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/543 10 September 1948
Letter from Robin [Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 8th marquess of Londonderry], Wynyard Park, Billingham on Tees, Co. Durham, to JJL: JJL proffered as an example to the writer's son; censures his father for abandoning Co. Durham during the [1930s]
depression “when he was most needed”, the impetus coming from his mother.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/544 14 July 1947
Letter from R. Percy Hodder-Williams, Weald Place, Sevenoaks, Kent, to JJL: the writer's retirement; praises
A man's life.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/545 24 September 1947
Letter from Rt Hon. J[ohn] R[obert] Clynes, 41 St John's Avenue, London, to JJL: current crisis more severe than 1931 “episode”; loans proof copy of the 1920-1931 chapter of the history of the Labour party [?
The British Labour party, edited by Herbert Tracey, (1948)]; Philip Snowden's sincerity and integrity contrasted (silently) to behaviour of Ramsay MacDonald; Clynes' pioneer work for Labour, little remembered, winning
an irreversible transformation in the status of [the movement].
Paper 2f
LAW 2/1/546 4 October 1947
Letter from John Finlay, 56 Dumbuck Crescent, Dumbarton, to JJL: gift of a drawing to JJL; Sunderland course.
Paper 2f
LAW 2/1/547 27 November 1947
Letter from [Arthur Bryant], Rapsgate, Cirencester, to JJL: chair of Ashridge Council; chair of Red Cross Hospital Library; over-worked; reaction to
The man in the cap: the life of Herbert Smith; effect of industrial revolution on social life of Lancashire villages (researched for The age of elegance); argues Socialism fails to
address the worker as producer, concentrating overly on increasing his power as a consumer; “[t]he supreme object of society should be to make men want to work, willingly and gladly”; doubts that either
“the destructive and inhuman device of the unemployment pool” or “the power of Whitehall” can solve this; encloses Postman's horn [not present];
possibility of JJL obtaining his copyright [of The man in the cap] should Methuen decide against reprinting; travels to London only for committees.
Paper 2f
LAW 2/1/548 1 December 1947
Letter from Arthur Bryant, Rapsgate, Cirencester, to JJL: will review [
The man in the cap] in the Illustrated London News next week.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/549 December 1947
Letter from Osbert Sitwell, Renishaw Hall, Renishaw, Near Sheffield, to JJL: offers thanks for JJL's letter.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/550 23 January 1948
Letter from Arthur Bryant, 18 Rutland Gate, London, to JJL: pays tribute to JJL's books, as “a vital link in the broken history of the English people”; extended reminiscence of Edwardian England; petitions JJL to
moderate the Colonial Office's handling of the case of his brother-in-law Anthony Brooke [Rajah Muda of Sarawak], outlining two demands, namely, a judicial enquiry into the cession of Sarawak, and the admittance of Brooke to Sarawak in order to
pursue a civil action for libel there; has written to the Lord Chancellor; offers JJL access to some unpublished 17th-century records from the Haigh pits near Wigan.
Paper 3f
LAW 2/1/551 31 January 1948
Letter from W. Perry, 24 Percy Road, Leytonstone, London, to JJL, House of Commons: praises
A man's life; enquires for a copy of JJL's article “Watch Winston”.
Paper 2f
LAW 2/1/552 14 February 1948
Letter from Arthur Bryant, Rapsgate, Cirencester, as from 18 Rutland Gate, London: his philosophical balance, lost in the city, recovered in the natural world; reprint of
The man in the cap; welcomes the good opinion of Sam Watson; encloses reply (via W. J. Brown, [MP for Rugby]) from Arthur Creech Jones, [Secretary of State for the Colonies], with departmental commentary to Bryant's
letter, [neither letter nor commentary are present]; encloses a further printed response from Bryant to W. J. Brown [not present]; encloses cutting from Singapore Free Times, quoting the Sarawak
Gazette [not present]; Dayak and Malay attitudes to cession; likens the Colonial Office's policy to that adopted in Africa, and warns that the traditions and character of the inhabitants of Sarawak are such that they will
“withdraw... from us all faith and trust”; lectures at Joint Services Staff College.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/553 14 June 1948
Letter from John Bell, 20 Hadrian Avenue, Chester-le-Street, Co. Durham, to JJL: thanks for gift of unspecified book, and for JJL's hospitality at the House of Commons.
Paper 2f
LAW 2/1/554 9 October 1948
Letter from Arthur Bryant, 18 Rutland Gate, London, to JJL: encloses unspecified book, the reprint of which quickly sold out.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/555 15 October 1948
Letter from Denys Kilham Roberts, Secretary-General, The Society of Authors, 84 Drayton Gardens, London, to JJL, House of Commons: invitation of the Committee of Management that JJL allow his name to go forward for re-election to the Committee,
for a three year term beginning August 1949.
Paper
LAW 2/1/556 19 October 1948
Letter from Denys Kilham Roberts, Secretary-General, The Society of Authors, 84 Drayton Gardens, London, to JJL, House of Commons: JJL to return [to the Committee of Management]; JJL a willing lobbyist on Society matters.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/557 1 January 1949
Letter from Teddy [Edward R.G.R. Evans, 1st baron Mountevans], 76 Cadogan Square, London, to JJL, Woodside, Beamish: spent Christmas with family at Wirral, Cheshire; encloses new updated and “beautifully
illustrated” edition of
South with Scott [not present]; will keep JJL's letter with that from the King, thanking him for his war-time service as Regional Commissioner for London; offers to replace JJL's copy of Adventurous life; attributes the writer's peerage to JJL, requesting “one day the real story of how it all came about”.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/558 20 February 1949
Letter from Robin [Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 8th marquess of Londonderry], 101 Park Street, London (on Carlton Club stationary), to JJL: JJL's suitability for the appointment of lord-lieutenant for Co. Durham; sympathy for the miners, and wish that
Seaham had been a model pit; desire to act as one of JJL's deputies in Co. Durham.
Paper 2f
LAW 2/1/559 16 March 1949
Letter from R. T. Rivington, Registrar, Stationers' Hall, London, to JJL, House of Commons: acknowledges receipt of JJL's work
The tale of two shafts, enclosing an application form for its registration, [not present].
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/560 20 March 1949
Letter from Will Bell, 10 Selborne Grove, Bradford, to JJL: remarks on JJL's commendation, in his official capacity, of Bell's son Graham Bell for his distinguished war service; sons Raymond Bell at the Treasury, and Graham Bell at the Ministry
of Fuel [and Power]; Hannah Gascoigne.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/561 16 April 1949
Letter from Arthur Bryant, Smedmore House, Wareham, Dorset, to JJL: national unity.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/562 31 May 1949
Letter from Arthur Bryant, Smedmore House, Wareham, Dorset, to JJL: offers thanks for gift of [Malcolm Stewart's ancestor's] book, with JJL's personal inscription.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/563 16 June 1949
Letter from Leonard Cutts, Hodder & Stoughton Ltd, St Paul's House, Warwick Square, London, to JJL: new edition of
A man's life scheduled for publication in early autumn.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/564 16 June 1949
Letter from Arthur Bryant, 18 Rutland Gate, London, to JJL: Bryant's C.B.E.; intends, through his writing, “to make my brave, kindly, shrewd, enduring though sometimes, perhaps, rather confused, countrymen realise the
full greatness of their heritage and of all that might be built on it”; remarks on his present book on the industrial revolution; impending meeting at “the Author's Society” [?The Society of Authors].
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/565 11 August 1949
Letter from Leonard Cutts, Hodder & Stoughton Ltd, St Paul's House, Warwick Square, London, to JJL: solicits JJL's public support for the enclosed
The claims of the Free Churches [not present], “a contribution to the Cause”.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/566 16 October 1949
Letter from Geordie Phillips, Grange Villa, [Chester-le-Street, Co. Durham], to JJL: manuscript autobiographical accounts of two voyages, on the “Lucy” (Gateshead - Folkestone - Gateshead; coal, and chalk), and on
the “Scotia” (Hartlepool - Folkestone - Sundsvall (Sweden) - Folkestone; coal, ballast, and timber), c.1905.
Paper 11f
LAW 2/1/567 31 October 1949
Letter from Rev. Harold G. Johnson, 20 Holyrood Crescent, Glasgow, to JJL: commends
Peter Lee; suggests JJL write a fuller autobiography.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/568 5 January 1950
Letter from F. H. Rushford, Durham County Press Ltd, Newspaper House, Durham: encloses photographs (see
LAW 3/1); article on JJL (see
LAW 3/2/31/5).
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/569 12 February 1950
Letter from Captain John L. Judd, Director of Music, Royal Signals Band, 7 Selection Regiment, Royal Signals, Catterick Camp, Yorkshire, to JJL: requests signed copy of
A man's life.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/570 3 March 1950
Letter from Sir James Duff, Warden, The Durham Colleges, 38 North Bailey, Durham, to JJL: JJL agrees to join appeal to restore Durham castle's Norman chapel.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/571 10 March 1950
Letter from H. Foster, Editorial Manager, University of London Press Limited, Little Paul's House, Warwick Square, London, to JJL:
A man's life to be published, slightly abridged, in new schools series; J. J. Sullivan, editor.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/572 13 March 1950
Letter from R. W. Birtle, Hillcroft, Bethany Terrace, Annfield Plain, to JJL: application for JJL to attend a Sunday evening service at St John's Methodist church at Annfield Plain.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/573 26 March 1950
Letter from Jack Gilliland, Station Road, Sedgefield, Stockton-on-Tees, to JJL: health of writer's father; visit of Lord Londonderry.
Paper 2f
LAW 2/1/574 22 April 1950
Letter from Bob Muncaster, Fairfax, Waldridge Road, Chester-le-Street, to JJL: solicits JJL's support for an application of the writer's daughter to King's College.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/575-579 9 June - 27 September 1950
Correspondence concerning an objection by JJL to tree felling at Beamish Forges by Urpeth Estates Ltd, and the institution of a tree preservation order.
Paper 5f
LAW 2/1/575 9 June 1950
Letter from P. S. A. Sydenham, Regional Controller, Ministry of Town and County Planning, Regional Office, Government Buildings, Kenton Bar, Newcastle upon Tyne, to JJL, Woodside, Beamish.
1f
LAW 2/1/576 20 June 1950
Letter from J. Sanders, Deputy Clerk, Chester-le-Street Rural District Council, Union Offices, Chester-le-Street to JJL, Woodside, Beamish.
1f
LAW 2/1/577 4 July 1950
Letter from T[om] Williams, [Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries], Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, to JJL, Woodside, Beamish.
1f
LAW 2/1/578 6 July 1950
Letter from P. S. A. Sydenham, Regional Controller, Ministry of Town and County Planning, Regional Office, Government Buildings, Kenton Bar, Newcastle upon Tyne, to JJL, Woodside, Beamish.
1f
LAW 2/1/579 27 September 1950
Letter from Hugh Dalton, 32 St James's Square, London, to JJL, Woodside, Beamish. Encloses a record of a speech made by George Lingren, on Dalton's behalf, at the opening of Peterlee, 23 September 1950, [not present].
1f
LAW 2/1/580 August 1951
Postcard from Teddy Mountevans [Edward R.G.R. Evans, 1st baron Mountevans], [Norway], to JJL, House of Lords: welcomes first news from JJL since his return from Yugoslavia, America and Australia; returns himself end September; sending a book for
JJL's granddaughter. Postcard depicts two timber Norwegian houses.
Paper 1 postcard
LAW 2/1/581 4 February 1952
Letter from Karola von Kempis, Kitzburg beim Walberberg, Kreis Bonn a/Rls, to JJL: friendship kindled by a mutual love of the writings of Thomas à Kempis;
A man's life; visit to London; invitation to visit Kitzburg.
Paper 2f
LAW 2/1/582-586 22 May - 25 November 1953
Correspondence from the Forestry Commission, (North East England Conservancy), District Office, Widehaugh, Hexham, Northumberland, to JJL, 7 Woodside, Beamish: felling on Bewicks Farm and Forge Bank; acquisition of land from the Shaftoe family;
rubbish tip.
Paper 5f
LAW 2/1/587 (stamped) 28 November 195[3]
Letter from Quintin Hogg, Viscount Hailsham, The Corner House, Heathview Gardens, Putney Heath, London, to JJL: offers thanks for JJL's friendship; sad occasion, “since it is hard to suffer at the hands of old
allies”.[Note: the dating of this item is uncertain, being either 1953 or 1955; the debate in the House of Lords on 25 November 1953, led by Viscount Hailsham, on the Government's Television Policy, may be the “sad
occasion” alluded to.]
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/588 18 December 1953
Letter from Arthur Bryant, 18 Rutland Gate, London, to JJL: offers thanks for JJL's tributes to his work.
Paper 2f
LAW 2/1/589-614 28 March - 4 April 1954
Correspondence to JJL in reaction to his talk,
Something of my philosophy, first broadcast by the B.B.C. Home Service to All Regions on 28 March 1954, after the 21.00 news, at 21.15; and subsequently published in
The Listener. In the
following list, (in date then alphabetical order), correspondents' names and addresses are noted, with the extent of each letter; unless otherwise stated, the response is one of supportive agreement; other noteworthy content is also described.
Paper 37f
LAW 2/1/589 28 March 1954
Montague Nesfield Cookson, 44 Cedar Road, Sutton, Surrey: encloses
A heretic's answer to communism [not present], by the brother of the writer, Claude Edward Cookson; a copy also sent to Aneurin Bevan.
2f
LAW 2/1/590 28 March 1954
W. H. Coward, Croft House, Burton, Westmorland.
1f
LAW 2/1/591 28 March 1954
Lionel E. Horne, 3 Worcester Road, Moreton-in-Marsh, Gloucestershire: reminiscent of George Lansbury.
2f
LAW 2/1/592 28 March 1954
Michael Jordan, 7 Pinewood Avenue, North Gosforth, Newcastle upon Tyne: short account of working life and politics - miner at Usworth Colliery, war service, self-education, Roman Catholicism, opposition to Usworth strike, fascism and John
Marchbanks, Butney pit, Ministry of Supply.
3f
LAW 2/1/593 28 March 1954
Mrs Marguerite Munn, 53 Pope's Grove, Twickenham, Middlesex: recalls first meeting with JJL following an earlier B.B.C. broadcast; running school for “mentally retarded” children.
2f
LAW 2/1/594 28 March 1954
Edith W. Gordon Smith, Beech Croft, Helsby, Cheshire.
1f
LAW 2/1/595 28 March 1954
C. Lisle Watson, Pitt Street Settlement, 191-193 East Surrey Grove, Peckham.
1f
LAW 2/1/596 29 March 1954
A. E. Buckby, 33 Oak Road, Kettering.
2f
LAW 2/1/597 29 March 1954
Hardie M. B. Henderson, President, Peterborough Local Labour Party: memories of early political and Methodist activity with JJL; manages North Eastern Region coal and coke accounts; Whitburn strike.
1f
LAW 2/1/598 29 March 1954
William [Shaw Kerr], Bishop of Down and Dromore, The See House, 32 Knockdene Park South, Belfast: quotes Bertrand Russell's
The impact of science on society, and Russell's identification of “Christian love, or compassion ... [as a] ... motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative
necessity for intellectual honesty”.
2f
LAW 2/1/599 29 March 1954
Rev. Sam Rowley, 131 Nottingham Road, Nuthall, Nottinghamshire.
1f
LAW 2/1/600 29 March 1954
Lord Semphill, The Athenaeum, Pall Mall, London.
1f
LAW 2/1/601 29 March 1954
Belle Small, 3 Lancaster Grove, London.
1f
LAW 2/1/602 29 March 1954
[John Campbell Boot, 2nd baron] Trent, Villa Millbrook, Jersey.
1f
LAW 2/1/603 30 March 1954
Arthur Bryant, 18 Rutland Gate, London: requests permission to publish words from a letter of JJL's praising the writer's work.
2f
LAW 2/1/604 30 March 1954
Percy Cardew, 7 Park Lea Road, Roker, Sunderland: Mosley Common [Methodists].
1f
LAW 2/1/605 30 March 1954
[?Dancy] Davies, Tanyfron, Aberayron, Cardiganshire.
1f
LAW 2/1/606 30 March 1954
John and Mary Fiddes, Homewood, Walker Drive, Muchalls, Aberdeen: Mary Fiddes nee Yarrow, her father formerly at Handen Hold Colliery, and mother a member of the Weslyan Church, at West Pelton, known to JJL.
3f
LAW 2/1/607 30 March 1954
Henry William Green, Secretary to the Trustees [of Radlett Methodist Church], 14 Moor View, Frogmore Park Street, Near St Albans, Hertfordshire: invitation to open Radlett Methodist Church bazaar, Hertfordshire, 30 October; heard JJL preach on
the Crook circuit.
1f
LAW 2/1/608 30 March 1954
Rev. James I. Macnair, Chairman of the Governors, The Scottish National Memorial to David Livingstone Trust, 62 Polwarth Terrace, Edinburgh: with unidentified enclosure, [not present].
1f
LAW 2/1/609 30 March 1954
Frederick G. Summersgill, Cliff Cottage, Pateley Bridge, Harrogate.
1f
LAW 2/1/610 31 March 1954
Donald Boyd, Chief Assistant, Talks (Home Sound), The B.B.C., Broadcasting House, London: encloses “as broadcast” copy of
Something of my philosophy (see
LAW 2/4/2/64).
1f
LAW 2/1/611 31 March 1954
James Curbison, 54 Elmsleigh Gardens, Cleadon, Near Sunderland: Shields councillor, and [Methodist] preacher.
1f
LAW 2/1/612 31 March 1954
Sydney Walton, 3 St James's Square London: forwards two letters of appreciation from Eric Pigott, assistant editor of
The Methodist Recorder, and Rev. Jacob Richardson, [not present].
1f
LAW 2/1/613 1 April 1954
Austin Kirkup, Morton House, Fence Houses, Co. Durham.
1f
LAW 2/1/614 4 April 1954
R. Wardle Sheldon, 38 Buckingham Road, Chorlton cum Hardy, Manchester: first met JJL in a Wesleyan boarding house at Blackpool before the First World War, JJL attending a conference; twenty-five years acting, with his wife, as
“father and mother to a family of 240 boys and girls, destitute children under the care of Stoke on Trent”.
2f
LAW 2/1/615 2 April 1954
Letter from Arthur Bryant, 18 Rutland Gate, London, to JJL: acknowledges JJL's permission [for publication of a quotation from a private letter]; observes the tide against materialism is turning.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/616 2 April 1954
Letter from John Chalmers, President, The Boy's Brigade, The North of England District, 78 Dean Road, South Shields, to JJL, Beamish: invitation for JJL to take the salute at Durham Cathedral at the celebration of the centenary of the birth of
the Brigade's founder [William Alexander Smith] on 15 May.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/617 2 April 1954
Letter from Allan Lubbock, Adhurst St Mary, Petersfield, to JJL: offers his thanks for a copy of
A man's life; JJL's delight in reading the books by the writer's uncle John [Lubbock, 1st baron Avebury].
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/618 2 April 1954
Letter from J. Rickard, Denham, 23 Hall Drive, Alkrington, Middleton, Manchester, to JJL: invitation to JJL to address men of the Manchester League.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/619 6 April 1954
Copy reply from JJL, declining.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/620 31 March 1954
Letter from C. A. Kirkpatrick, Trust Secretary, Strickland Street Methodist Church, 168 Buddle Road, South Benwell, Newcastle upon Tyne, to JJL, Woodside, Beamish: invitation to JJL to chair an anniversary service at Strickland Street on 22 May;
Herbert Silverwood; R. Walker and the West Pelton Male Voice Choir.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/621 6 April 1954
Copy reply from JJL, declining.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/622 6 June 1954
Letter from L[en] M. Bland, 4 Morestone Street, South End, Mt Isa, N. W. Queensland, [Australia], to JJL: commends
A man's life; recalls children's election song, c. 1909, about JJL, “Vote. Vote. Vote for Jackie Lawson, he's the man that's sure to win, if we buy a penny gun we'll make the Tories run”
etc.; JJL in 1921 and 1926, “climbing the hill with that gammy leg”; contrasts JJL with Thomas Carlyle and Karl Marx, as “one of us”; Methodism; royal tour.
Paper 2f
LAW 2/1/623 2 August 1954
Letter from Len [M.] Bland, 4 Morestone Street, South End, Mt Isa, N. W. Queensland, [Australia], to JJL: memories of JJL and his activity during a miners' strike [?1926].
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/624 26 September 1954
Letter from Len M. Bland, 4 Morestone Street, South End, Mt Isa, N. W. Queensland, [Australia], to JJL: last attended the Miners' Gala 26 years ago; reaction to reading
A man's life; JJL opens the pit-head baths at Beamish, read in the Durham Chronicle; death of a miner at Mount Isa.
Paper 3f
LAW 2/1/625 12 December 1954
Letter and invoice, from Eda [?] Imbrec, House of Commons, to JJL: encloses [manuscript and typescript of] JJL's
The room of memory, with invoice for typing the same, (see
LAW 2/4/2/59/1A).
Paper 2f
LAW 2/1/626 12 January 1955
Letter from Isabella Cobb, [Office of] Sydney Walton, 3 St James's Square, London, to JJL: encloses retyped short work by JJL [
The room of memory], (see
LAW 2/4/2/59/1B).
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/627 3 June 1955
Letter from Robin [Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 8th] marquess of Londonderry, Wynyard Park, Billingham on Tees, Co. Durham, to JJL: recovering his health; visit of [James] Kenneth Hope on JJL's behalf; Sunderland [football] loss.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/628 9 June 1955
Letter from Robin [Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 8th] marquess of Londonderry, Wynyard Park, Billingham on Tees, Co. Durham, to JJL: JJL's political sincerity contrasted with unprincipled ministers with few morals of today, citing [David] Eccles and
[Peter] Thorneycroft.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/629 19 November 1955
Letter from Sir Montague Hughman, Quarries Hotel, 97 Coombe Road, Croydon, Surrey, to JJL, Woodside, Beamish: former chairman of Henley's; recalls, with gratitude, JJL's support for the firm when establishing itself at Birtley; brief summary of
the firm's growth.
Paper 2f
LAW 2/1/630 24 November 1955
Letter from [Alexander Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 9th] marquess of Londonderry, Wynyard Park, Billingham on Tees, Co. Durham, to JJL: offers thanks for JJL's letter [of condolence upon the death of the 8th marquess].
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/631-661 20 February 1956
Letters to JJL and Bella Lawson, congratulating them on their golden wedding anniversary, from the following correspondents: Fred and Lizzie; Connie and Will Lewcock; George W. H. Ford; H. C. Atkinson, President, Old Peoples' Christian
Association; Miss Mildred Emerson; Mr and Mrs B. Lee; W. Joyce Thompson; G. French; M. L. Rothfield, Town Clerk, Borough of Jarrow; Mr and Mrs F. M. Dixon; John Swinney; Mrs Edith Hasler Miller; K. G. Sillar, Board of Trade & Ministry of Supply;
L. O. Williams, Town Clerk, Hartlepool; John [Ramsbotham], Bishop of Jarrow; Kitty; Charles H. Nicholas; Harold E. Kitching; The mayor and citizens of Durham; Rev. Spencer Wade; Mrs Annie May; William Baines; Harry and Katie Wilson; Nancy Dames;
John Turnbull; Hardie M. B. Henderson, Chairman, The Northumberland and Durham Association in Peterbrough and District; John Wallace, Assistant Civil Defence Officer, County Council of Durham; Teddy Porter; E. J. O. Dodds; Colonel H. L. Lislet;
James Duff.
Noteworthy items:
Paper 35f
LAW 2/1/636 [February 1956]
Mr and Mrs B. Lee, 3 Portland Crescent, Bolsover, Near Chesterfield: an “old comrade” from 1908-1909.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/650 21 February 1954
Rev. Spencer Wade, The Rectory, Whickham, Newcastle upon Tyne; 2f; encloses typescript poem commemorating the occasion.
Paper 1f; 1f
LAW 2/1/651 24 February 1954
Mrs Annie May, 97 Norwood Road, Southport: recalls a visit to Southport by the Lawsons; Arthur Greenwood, Dr Marion Phillips, Margaret Bondfield, Anthony Greenwood.
Paper 2f
LAW 2/1/662 13 March 1956
Letter from E. Alan Hitchman, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, London, to JJL, House of Lords: drinks invitation.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/663 13 April [1956 x 1965]
Letter from Clement Attlee, Cherry Cottage, Prestwood, Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire, to JJL: success of Bella Lawson's operation reported at front bench meeting; wishes for her full recovery.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/664 6 July 1956
Letter from Eda Imbrec, House of Commons, to JJL: invoice [for typing work]. Endorsed with a quotation from Proverbs 20 verse 24, in JJL's hand.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/665 24 August 1956
Letter from Jack Fletcher, 5 North Terrace, Chopwell, Newcastle upon Tyne, to JJL: grandson of Harry Bolton; requests a meeting; will attend Birmingham University on a County Major Scholarship.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/666 5 September 1956
Letter from Martin, Royal County Hotel, Durham, to JJL and Bella Lawson: offers thanks for their hospitality; visits the bishop of Durham.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/667 24 September 1956
Letter from G. W. West, Branch Secretary, Sunderland and Durham Fund for the Blind, The Royal National Institute for the Blind, Sutherland Memorial Hall, Jesmond Road, Newcastle upon Tyne, to JJL, 7 Woodside, Beamish: acknowledges receipt of a
donation made to the Fund by Mr Craik and his family, via JJL.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/668 19 December 1956
Letter from Annie and Bob Surgenor, 3300 Maynard Road, Shaker Heights, Ohio, USA, to JJL and Bella Lawson: Christmas greetings and family news.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/669 22 March 1957
Letter from Arthur Bryant, 18 Rutland Gate, London, to JJL: preparing a version of [
The Turn of the Tide, 1939–1943] for serialisation; passes on JJL's messages to Field Marshal Alan Brooke.
Paper 2f
LAW 2/1/670 11 March 1958
Letter from Stanley Lawson, 10 Dudley Road, Mission Bay, Auckland, [New Zealand], to JJL, 7 Woodside, Beamish: world air tour; requests a meeting when the writer and [?his sister] Leonie reach England.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/671 2 April 1958
Letter from J. W. Telford, Lord Mayor, Town Hall, Newcastle upon Tyne, to JJL: acknowledges JJL's representations on behalf of Charles Weatherspoon in his application to the City Police Force.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/672 19 May 1958
Letter from Larrie Smith, 9 Acklam Avenue, Grangetown, Sunderland, to JJL: encloses another poem [not present], recently published.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/673 6 August 1958
Letter from J. H. S. Wild, Dean of Durham, The Deanery, Durham, to JJL: JJL's reading of a lesson at the Territorial Service on 6 July; considers the comparative merits of the language of the Bible in the King James Bible, and in more modern
translations, and when each is best deployed.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/674 9 October 1958
R. J. Pumphrey, Department of Zoology, The University of Liverpool, to JJL: encloses a short memoir of Lord Avebury [John Lubbock, 1st baron Avebury], [not present].
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/675 15 January 1959
Letter from [Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount] Montgomery of Alamein, Islington Mill, Alton, Hampshire, to JJL, House of Lords: offers his thanks for JJL's letter, praising his integrity when at the War Office.
Paper 1f; stamped envelope
LAW 2/1/676 17 January 1959
Letter from Alice G., 1220 Kastle Drive, Lexington, Kentucky, USA, to JJL and Bella Lawson: family news.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/677 16 February 1959
Letter from G. S. McIntire, Town Clerk, County Borough of Sunderland, Town Hall, Sunderland, to JJL: guest arrangements for a ceremony conferring [upon JJL] the Freedom of the city.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/678-680 19 March 1959 - 25 March 1959
Letters to JJL and Bella Lawson, offering congratulations on JJL's being honoured with the Freedom of the city of Sunderland.
Paper 3f
LAW 2/1/678 19 March 1959
C[lem] Todd, 19 West Lea Road, Seaham, Co. Durham.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/679 21 March 1959
W. Trotter, Secretary, Chester-le-Street Divisional Labour Party, 25 Richardson Terrace, Washington, Co. Durham.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/680 25 March 1959
Maurice [Harland], Bishop of Durham, Auckland Castle, Bishop Auckland, Co. Durham.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/681 25 March 1959
Letter from H. D. Hughes, Principal, Ruskin College, Oxford, to JJL, Woodside, Beamish: invitation to JJL to attend the opening of Bowerman House at the College, celebrating its diamond jubilee, on 28 June; Bob Willis, chairman of the T.U.C. to
open the House, Clement Attlee, and JJL, to speak.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/682 28 May 1959
Letter from F. Alex. Wills, “The Vagabond”, Lintley View House, Slaggyford, Carlisle, to JJL: account of the writer's retirement, house-hunting, and life at Slaggyford; invitation to visit.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/683 18 November 1959
Letter from R. G. Burnett, The Methodist Recorder, 176 Fleet Street, London, to JJL, 7 Woodside, Beamish: invites JJL to contribute a short piece of writing, part of a series “By this I live”.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/684 18 February 1960
Letter from Norman Birkett, 1st baron Birkett, Challens Green, Chalfont St Giles, Buckinghamshire, to JJL: reaction to
A man's life, gifted by JJL; travels to Ulverston tomorrow.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/685 15 January 1960
Letter from Wilfrid Rose, 96 Sydenham Road, West Hartlepool, Co. Durham, to JJL: thanks JJL for his friendship and enduring concern for his father, recently deceased, C. Rose of Greatham Hospital.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/686 29 August 1960
Letter from May and Frank Beals, 3039 Delta Avenue, Long Beach 10, California, USA, to JJL: family news; trailer holidays to Canada; presidential election.
Paper 2f
LAW 2/1/687 20 September 1960
Letter from Major L. L. Fleming, Regimental Depot the D.L.I., Brancepeth Castle, Co. Durham, to JJL, 7 Woodside, Beamish: offers thanks to JJL for his attendance at the annual re-union of the Durham Light Infantry.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/688 7 November 1960
Letter from [F. Alex. Wills,] “The Vagabond”, Lintley View House, Slaggyford, Carlisle, to JJL: country and church news from Slaggyford; JJL invited to visit the Methodist church.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/689-691 16-18 January 1961
Letters to JJL commending an article of his in the
Journal.
Paper 4f
LAW 2/1/689 16 January 1961
William Barnes, 23 Front Street, Lumley, Chester-le-Street, Co. Durham: former Deputy at Lumley Colliery; daughter married the son of Norman Pentland MP.
Paper 2f
LAW 2/1/690 17 January 1961
Sir Angus Watson, Whitewell, Adderstone Crescent, Newcastle upon Tyne.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/691 18 January 1961
Thomas Green, 4 Joicey Homes, Shiney Row, Houghton-le-Spring.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/692 postmarked 28 January 1961
Letter from N. Charlton, Mess 17 A.X.S.T., Collingwood, T.S. Arethusa, Lower Upnor, Rochester, Kent, to JJL, Woodside, Beamish: rejoined [training] ship; Easter leave, suggesting visit to see JJL.
Paper 2f; stamped envelope
LAW 2/1/693 [c. 1961]
Letter from Norman Charlton, Mess 17 A.X.S.T., T.S. Arethusa, Lower Upnor, Rochester, Kent, to JJL: leave application; offers thanks for gift of 10 shillings.
Paper 2f
LAW 2/1/694 14 July 1961
Letter, with poem, from Ernest Nattrass, 11 Bethany Gardens, Catchgate, Stanley, to JJL: JJL to attend the Miners' Gala; writer wounded in 1918, subsequently working “about the mines”; father, William Nattrass,
Primitive Methodist preacher (Chester-le-Street circuit) and miner; encloses typescript poems entitled “Coal”, and “Hope!”.
Paper 2f; 1f
LAW 2/1/695 18 July [1961]
Letter from Pat [Patrick Spens, 1st baron Spens], House of Lords, to JJL: general concern at ill-health of JJL (knee); Alfred Robens to be sponsored at his introduction to the House of Lords by another miner in place of JJL, Gordon Macdonald.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/696 25 July 1961
Letter from Mark Hancock, Bus Stop, Grassy Lake, Alberta, W. Canada, to JJL and Bella Lawson: offers congratulations on their 55th wedding anniversary, and encloses cutting [from
Durham Advertiser], (see
LAW 3/2/42/2); the writer's mother delivered JJL as a baby.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/697/1-2 23-26 October 1961
Letter from Lord Longford, The National Bank Limited, 13-17 Old Broad Street, London, to JJL, Beamish: encloses letter from the Director of Veterinary Studies, Edinburgh.
Paper 1f; 1f;
LAW 2/1/697/2 23 October 1961
Letter from Professor A. Robertson, Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies, Summerhall, Edinburgh, to The Earl of Longford, c/o The National Bank Limited: acknowledges Lord Longford's representations in support of Elaine Campbell Lawson's
application for admission to the School in October 1962.
1f
Seal: Paper
LAW 2/1/698 5 January 1962
Letter from Robert Stead, Controller, North Region, Broadcasting House, Piccadilly, Manchester, to JJL, Woodside, Beamish: invitation to a dinner at Grey College, 17 January; B.B.C. “experiment in local broadcasting in
Durham”, 15-19 January.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/699 13 January 1962
Letter from D. Hay, Borough Librarian, Borough of Whitehaven, Public Library & Museum, Catherine Street, Whitehaven, Cumberland, to JJL, 7 Woodside, Beamish: encloses a copy of the April 1948 issue of the
Whitehaven Review, containing “Release” by JJL, and an article by Harry Hollinson on JJL's life, (see
LAW 2/4/4/2).
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/700 10 April 1962
Letter from Crackers [?Captain P. H. M. May], Headquarters 149 Infantry Brigade (T.A.), Fenham Barracks, Newcastle upon Tyne, to JJL: offers thanks for JJL's contribution to a Regimental television programme; D.L.I. programme broadcast 21.45, 12
April [1962].
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/701 5 May [1962]
Letter from Harry [Henry Charles Hovell-Thurlow-Cumming-Bruce, 7th baron Thurlow], Ainderby Manor, Northallerton, to JJL: sails on 7 June; regret at leaving the North.[Note: handwritten notes by JJL on the dorse of this letter place it in one of the years 1951, 1956 and 1962; Major-General the Lord Thurlow relinquished his appointment as General Officer Commanding, Northumbrian District and 50 Infantry
Division (T.A.) on 31 May 1962, and for this reason 1962 is favoured as the probable date for this item.]
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/702 11 May 1962
Letter from Rev. Jonathan W. Brown, 6 Chase Gardens, Twickenham, Middlesex, to JJL: refers JJL to “Easter 1927”, a short story by Sid Chaplin published in the Manchester Guardian, 23 April 1962; visit to House of
Lords.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/703 25 May 1962
Letter from Tom Dobbin, Assistant Public Relations Officer, National Coal Board, Durham Division, Team Valley Trading Estate, Gateshead, to JJL, 7 Woodside, Beamish: encloses copy of
Coal News; offers thanks for interview.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/704 21 June 1962
Letter from J. H. S. Wild, Dean of Durham, The Deanery, Durham, to JJL: JJL to read the first lesson at the St John Ambulance Brigade Church Parade, Durham Cathedral, 24 June.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/705 23 June 1962
Letter from Canon W. A. Lathaen, S. Andrew's Vicarage, Roker, Sunderland, to JJL: encloses copy of a
Spectator review of August 1914 [by Barbara Tuchman]; “[c]ertainly whatever started in August 1914 has not finished its course - something like lifting the lid of Pandora's box”.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/706 5 August 1962
Letter from Celia Reiss, 51 Brockswood Lane, Welwyn Garden City, to JJL: requests biographical information and memories of the writer's husband, Richard Reiss, during their time together at Ruskin College, in preparation for a private memoir.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/707 9 August 1962
Letter from Celia Reiss, 51 Brockswood Lane, Welwyn Garden City, to JJL: offers thanks to JJL for his memories of Richard Reiss, with short account of his life and passing.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/708 27 August 1962
Letter from J. H. S. Wild, Dean of Durham, The Deanery, Durham, to JJL: arrangements for 9 September annual re-union of the D.L.I. Regimental Association, JJL invited to read a lesson; illness of Wild's wife.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/709 30 April 1964
Letter from T. Bayles Naylor, Superintendent Minister, The Methodist Church (Redcar, Saltburn & Guisborough Circuit), 55 Randolph Street, Saltburn-by-the-Sea, Yorkshire, to JJL: invitation to address a family gathering at the Milton Street
Methodist Church, 5 October; invitation prompted by B.B.C. interview with JJL concerning Sunderland football attendances.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/710 18 August 1964
Letter from F. Haywood, Manager, Co-operative Wholesale Society Ltd Bankers, P.O. Box 6, 99 Leman Street, London, to JJL, Woodside, Beamish: reassurance concerning the security of JJL's account, reporting balance.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/711 9 December 1964
Copy letter from J. E. Roberts, 114 Edward Street, Broomhill, Cannock, Staffordshire, to Jennie [?Lee, MP for Cannock]: renewing proposal to award a Civil List grant or pension to Jack Hilton, a case represented once before by JJL.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/712 2 January 1965
Letter (incomplete) from unknown writer, 9 Queens Close, Hadthorpe, Near Worksop, Nottinghamshire, to Bella Lawson: recalls Mrs Brown and The Hermitage.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/713 15 January 1965
Letter from Isabella Cobb, [Office of] Sydney Walton, St James' Court, Buckingham Gate, London, to JJL, Woodside, Beamish: clearing and closing the office, following the [death] of Sydney Walton; returns manuscript (
LAW 2/4/1/5 typescript C) of, and publishers' correspondence concerning,
Peter Lee.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/714 22 July 1965
Letter from Clement Attlee [1st] earl Attlee, 1 King's Bench, Temple, London, to Miss Lawson: reaction to news of JJL's hospitalisation, conveying sympathies; “I have loved and admired him ever since we first
met”.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/715 postmarked 26 July 1965
Letter, with envelope, from Norman Charlton, on passage to Norway, M/S. Avogado, Houlder Lines, 53 Leadenhall Street, London, to JJL, General Hospital, Chester-le-Street, Co. Durham: wishes for JJL's recovery; career progressing.
Paper 1f; 1 stamped envelope
LAW 2/1/716 3 August 1965
Letter from Mary Wilson, 31 Waldridge Road, Chester-le-Street, Co. Durham, to JJL: wishes for JJL's recovery; shared regard for Brother Lawrence's [
The practice and the presence of God].
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/717-907 3 August 1965-21 October 1965
Correspondence to Bella Lawson and her daughters Alma and Rene [Irene], written upon the death of JJL. Items are filed in date then alphabetical order.
Correspondents (letters): Vera and Adrian and Celia Conley, Fiona; Alice [?Colegrove];
Mrs Rhoda Anderson; Dick and Shirley Annand; Edith Bartley; Pastor Stanley P. L. Belcher; Mrs Mary H. Best, Minutes Secretary, Methodist Local Preachers Mutual Aid Association; J. Colman, Pelton Ward Committee; W. B. Cowie, Ministry of Pensions and
National Insurance; Theresa Local (née Cullen); Miss Minnie Curry (and Chester-le-Street Urban Savings Committee); Fred M. Dawson, Billingham Urban District Council; Oswald C. Dickenson; Betty Duggan-Keen; Nora Eckersley; Laurie Edwards; Ron Evers,
Regional Council, The Labour Party, Northern Regional Office; Norman Fenwick, Secretary, Disabled Drivers Association, Sunderland Seaham and District Group; F. Fish, Pelton Local Labour Party; M. A. Fitzpatrick, Daily Sketch & Daily Graphic; H.
Gascoigne; Thomas D. Gibbs, clerk, Chester-le-Street Urban District Council; Jack Gribbin; Tom, May and Beatrice Grundy (and Circuit Local Preachers); Pamela Havelock-Allan; J. Hay; C. D. Jackson, Town Clerk, County Borough of Gateshead; Arthur C.
Jones, clerk, Washington Urban District Council; J. Kelly; Lieutenant Colonel Bertram C. Laight, The Salvation Army; The Principal, Ruskin College, Oxford; Gilbert Lee, Co-operative Wholesale Society Limited; Cyril A. Mitchinson, clerk, Urban
District Council of Shildon; William Owen, Chairman Northern Group of Labour Members of Parliament; C. A. Pearson, former Parliamentary Correspondent of the local N.U.T. Association; Norman and Maud Pentland; J. Quinn, clerk, Consett Urban District
Council; Celia Reiss; Ridley, Acting County Commissioner, The Boy Scouts; Dorothy Riddell (Labour Women's Federation, and the Federation of ... Voluntary Workers); J. Sanders, clerk, Chester-le-Street Rural District Council; [Malcolm] Shepherd [2nd
baron Shepherd], Government Chief Whip, House of Lords (Labour peers); J. J. Shipston, clerk, Urban District of Stanley; David Simon (Bishop Auckland and District Choral Society); Mrs Ivy Spry, Secretary, Durham County Labour Women's Advisory
Council; Tom Harker; S. and K. W. Surtees; G. T. Taylor; Graham Titterington; R. H. Urwin, Chairman, Chester-le-Street Rural District Council; Spencer Wade; Sam and Jennie Warwick; Major C. Lisle Watson; Leslie Watson, Chairman, Durham County
Association of Youth Clubs; R. Watson, Circuit Secretary; J. L. Whale (née Cissie Caveney); J. G. Willetts; Queen Elizabeth II; C. H. Bell, County Secretary, British Legion; Joseph S. C. Berry, clerk, Urpeth Parish Council; Eva and Billy [?Lawson];
J. T. Brockbank, Clerk of the Peace, Durham County Council; J. Bushnell; W. J. Chalmers, Director-General, Commonwealth War Graves Commission; Sir Robin Chapman, County Treasurer of the Boy Scouts; Bob Coxon (and Durham County Council Labour Group);
Dora Curry; Hilda Davies; Colonel J. Dean, Superintendent, Finchale Abbey Training Centre for the Disabled; Thelma Denholm; William Dent; Elizabeth Forster; Tom and Evelyn Fuge; J. Elizabeth Greenhill; G. E. Hearn, High Wycombe Branch Secretary,
Amalgamated Engineering Union; Miss Lydia Hill, The Labour Party, Woman Organiser, Northern Regional Office; C. H. Hocking, District Secretary, The Workers' Educational Association, Northern District; Oliver Holt; Kenneth Hope; C. D. Jackson, Town
Clerk, County Borough of Gateshead; Dr Hugh A. F. Mackay; Reg and Ada Meakin; Douglas Nicholson; Princess Alexandra; J. R. Passey, clerk, Urban District Council of Bishop Auckland; Dr J. Main Russell; Albert Sayer; Captain Paul V. Scarborough, The
Salvation Army; [Patrick] Spens, [1st baron Spens]; Joseph Staines; William Tate; Leon, Millie, Peter Usher and family; A. Watson, Mayor of Sunderland; Frederick T. Willey, Minister, Ministry of Land and Natural Resources; Harry David; Mrs G. M.
Edgar; S. A. Sadler Forster, Chairman, The Industrial Estates Management Corporation for England; Lieutenant-Colonel H. J. Gillman, Vice-Chairman, Council of the Order of St John for Co. Durham; Colonel J. W. Grant, Territorial and Auxiliary Forces
Association of the County of Durham; Brian Harrison, Newsview, Tyne Tees Television Limited; A. E. Morgan; D. Peveler, District Commissioner, National Savings Movement; J. Roberts, Lodge Secretary, National Union of Mineworkers (Durham Area), Boldon
Lodge; Elsie and Harry Robson; Violet [Brown, Viscountess] Ruffside; [William] Strang, National Parks Commission; Joan Talbot, Women's Voluntary Service for Civil Defence; J. Urwin, Secretary, Birtley British Legion Club & Institute Ltd; Mrs
Ruby Watson, County Secretary, The St John Ambulance Brigade; Margaret Wild; General Sir Nigel Poett, Colonel, The Durham Light Infantry; Sir William Gray; Lord Inglewood; Doris E. Thomas, Newton Aycliffe Maternity & Child Welfare Voluntary
Committee; C. T. Evans, Secretary-General, Order of the Hospital of St John in Jerusalem; John Tilney MP; R. V. Dudley-Clarke, Administrative Secretary, British Rheumatism & Arthritis Association; Sir John Dodd; Mary Sutherland; [Clement]
Attlee, [Bradford]; Lord Hilton of Upton; Rev. A. Spurr; J. Hennessy, The Disabled Drivers' Association; Professor Kenneth R. Hill; Hannah R[ushford]; E. Balton; Councillor Mrs A. Clayton (and Durham Women's Advisory); Elsie and Stan Grabham; Mary
Harris (and High Hold and Beamish Darby and Joan Club); J. S. Little; Stella [Isaacs, marchioness of] Reading; Alice Scorer, Secretary, Sacriston Local Labour Party Ward Committee; Louise Scott; W. Trotter, Chester-le-Street Divisional Labour Party;
Mrs Alice Grainger; Lord Devonport; Norman Coates; Tony Lambton; Craig W. Starmer; T. Sutcliffe, Chairman, The Methodist Church, Darlington Circuit; W. J. Chalmers, Director-General, Commonwealth War Graves Commission; J. Urwin, Secretary, Birtley
British Legion Club & Institute Ltd; Taylor Wright; James Duff.
Correspondents (sympathy cards): Ernest and Hannah Armstrong; Phyllis Bailey; Mr & Mrs R. Barron; Jennie Bell; Mr & Mrs J. S. C. Berry & Son; L. Corbett; Crewdson
family, Whitehaven; Mrs C. M. Davison, County Councillor; Mrs Len Elliott and family; Mrs J. Emmerson, Nancy and John; J. D. Farish, Councillor; Bill and Edith Graham; Grange Villa Labour Women's Section; Grange Villa Over 60s Club; Mr & Mrs H.
Greener and family; Councillor Arthur Grey; Nan Hall; Lord and Lady Hilton of Upton; Ald and C. C. Mrs Hirst; Mrs Holyoake and family; E. Jopling; John and Cynthia Lockwood; Nan Marshall; Mary and Cecil Milburn; Mrs Moore; Mr Richardson and staff of
Ward 6, Dryburn Hospital; St Paul's Church Parents' Group; I. Sanderson and P. Clough; May Shuker; Springwell Women['s Labour] Section; E. Straker, Secretary, Fatfield Women's Labour Section; Jean Tait; Mrs B. Urwin; Lord and Lady Uvedale; West
Pelton Cooperative Women's Guild.
Noteworthy items:
Paper 213f
LAW 2/1/725 4 August 1965
W. B. Cowie, Room 1371 Central Office, Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance, Newcastle upon Tyne: offers condolences as chairman of the Northern Group of the Royal Institute of Public Administrators, of which body JJL was president.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/735 4 August 1965
Norman Fenwick, Secretary, Disabled Drivers Association, Sunderland Seaham and District Group, 9 Laurel Avenue, Denside, Seaham: JJL the Association's (formerly the Invalid Tricycle Association) first and only president.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/756 4 August 1965
Ridley, Acting County Commissioner, The Boy Scouts, Durham County Association, County Headquarters, 47 North Bailey, Durham: JJL president.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/761 4 August 1965
[Malcolm] Shepherd [2nd baron Shepherd], Government Chief Whip, House of Lords: Labour peers; Lord Blyton to represent the Prime Minister and the Parliamentary Labour Party at the funeral.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/763 4 August 1965
David Simon, 5 Granville Road, Bishop Auckland, Co. Durham: on behalf of the Bishop Auckland and District Choral Society; JJL president.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/766 4 August 1965
S. and K. W. Surtees, Riverdene, 10 Crichton Avenue, Chester-le-Street, Co. Durham: remembering JJL's wartime aid to the British Prisoners of War Association.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/773 4 August 1965
Leslie Watson, Chairman, Durham County Association of Youth Clubs, Hallgarth House, Durham City: JJL president.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/776 4 August 1965
J. G. Willetts, 8 The Rise, Kenton, Newcastle upon Tyne: acquainted with JJL as Secretary of State for War.
Paper 2f
LAW 2/1/783 5 August 1965
W. J. Chalmers, Director-General, Commonwealth War Graves Commission, 32 Grosvenor Gardens, London: JJL a member of the Commission, 1931-1947, and chairman whilst Secretary of State for War, 1945-1946.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/784 5 August 1965
Sir Robin Chapman, Cherry Tree House, Cleadon, Near Sunderland: Chapman the County Treasurer of the Boy Scouts; JJL the president of the Durham County Territorial Association.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/788 5 August 1965
Colonel J. Dean, Superintendent, Finchale Abbey Training Centre for the Disabled, Durham: JJL closely associated with the work of the centre.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/791 5 August 1965
Elizabeth Forster, Flat 27, Brook House, Basildon, Essex: niece.
Paper 2f, with envelope
LAW 2/1/794 5 August 1965
G. E. Hearn, High Wycombe Branch Secretary, Amalgamated Engineering Union, 4 Auckland Road, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire: left Pelton area in the 1930s to find work; recalls a soup kitchen at West Pelton Church Hall organised by JJL, Bella
Lawson, Isaac Fuge, E. Morralee, J. Robinson and others.
Paper 3f
LAW 2/1/797 5 August 1965
Oliver Holt, Penham House, Shepton Montague, Wincanton, Somerset: formerly Private Secretary to Sir Fabian Ware, vice-chairman of the War Graves Commission.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/808 5 August 1965
[Patrick] Spens, [1st baron Spens], Beacon Cottage, Beneden, Kent: met JJL on War Graves Commission.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/817 6 August 1965
Lieutenant-Colonel H. J. Gillman, Vice-Chairman, Council of the Order of St John for Co. Durham, 2 Osborne Terrace, Jesmond, Newcastle upon Tyne: JJL president.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/818 6 August 1965
Colonel J. W. Grant, Chairman, Secretary, Territorial and Auxiliary Forces Association of the County of Durham, 53 Old Elvet, Durham: JJL president.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/825 6 August 1965
[William] Strang, National Parks Commission, 1 Cambridge Gate, Regent's Park, London: JJL former deputy chairman.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/834 9 August 1965
C. T. Evans, Secretary-General, Order of the Hospital of St John in Jerusalem, Chancery of the Order, St John's Gate, Clerkenwell, London: on behalf of Lord Wakehurst, the Lord Prior; JJL a knight of the Order, and president of the Council in
Durham.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/835 9 August 1965
John Tilney MP, 3 Victoria Square, London: fellow member of parliamentary delegation to Yugoslavia [1951], with Peter Carrington, Douglas Marshall, Bob Mellish et al.; recalls visit to a coal mine, the conditions of which reminded JJL of mines in
England in the 1850s, as reported to JJL by his grandfather.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/836 11 August 1965
R. V. Dudley-Clarke, Administrative Secretary, British Rheumatism & Arthritis Association, 11 Beaumont Street, London: JJL vice-president.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/840 12 August 1965
Lord Hilton of Upton, House of Lords: JJL and Hilton used same London hotel for many years.
Paper 1f, with envelope
LAW 2/1/842 14 August 1965
J. Hennessy, Chairman, The Disabled Drivers' Association, Chester-le-Street Group, 2 Front Street, Esh, Co. Durham: JJL a patron.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/848 [August 1965]
Elsie and Stan Grabham, 2St Columbas Cottage, Southwick, Sunderland: niece.
Paper 2f
LAW 2/1/853 [August 1965]
Louise Scott, 65 Chillingham Road, Heaton, Newcastle: cousin.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/861 1 October 1965
W. J. Chalmers, Director-General, Commonwealth War Graves Commission, 32 Grosvenor Gardens, London: reporting a resolution of the Commission on 30 September.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/864 21 October 1965
James Duff, Low Middleton Hall, Middleton-One-Row, Darlington: reports a speech made at the lieutenancy dinner in Durham.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/907 [August x October 1965]
List of messages of condolence and farewell [?from flower cards] from various persons and organisations, including (and not listed above): General and Mrs K. C. Appleyard; Mr & Mrs W. Michael; Dr Morell; British Air Line Pilot[s']
Association; governors, staff and students of Ruskin College; Jack and Charlotte Homes; Washington Local Labour Party; Mr & Mrs R Warnaby; West Pelton Methodist Church; Mr T. Stewart; Mr & Mrs McGough; H. G. Bincher; nephew John and Edna
Jennick; Mrs Hardcastle; Mr & Mrs Hall.
Paper 3f
Personal correspondence following the death of JJL
Reference: LAW 2/1/908
Dates of creation: 2 October 1965
Extent: 1fPaper
Letter from Miss Dorothy Peacock, Honorary Secretary, Bishop Auckland & District Choral Society, 8 Deerness Road, Bishop Auckland, to Bella Lawson: appointment of Bella Lawson as the Society's first honorary vice-president; JJL former
president.
LAW 2/1/909 postmarked 8 March 1966
Letter (incomplete) from Stanley Lawson, postmarked New Zealand (see
LAW 2/1/670), to Alma Lawson, 7 Woodside, Beamish: recalling 1958 visit to England.
Paper 3f; stamped envelope
LAW 2/1/910 4 July 1966
Letter from J. T. Brockbank, clerk, Durham County Council, County Hall, Durham, to Bella Lawson; on behalf of the Libraries and Museums Committee offers thanks for the gift of multiple copies of
A man's life.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/911 postmarked 25 July 1967
Postcard, postmarked Chester-le-Street, from unidentified person, to C. F. C. Lawson, 24 Park Road North, Chester-le-Street, Co. Durham: acknowledges C. F. C. Lawson's contribution to improvements to Chester-le-Street town; Lawrence's
“The red boy” (Master Charles Lambton) reproduced on the stamp. Postcard depicts five views of Chester-le-Street.
Paper 1 postcard
LAW 2/1/912 9 November 1967
Covering note with receipt for donation, from Sir Robert Bellinger, Lord Mayor of London, Attlee Memorial Appeal, to Bella Lawson.
Paper 1f; 1f; stamped envelope
LAW 2/1/913 26 January 1968
Letter from Ian [Ramsey], bishop of Durham, Auckland Castle, Bishop Auckland, Co. Durham, to Mrs Lawson: offers condolences on the death of Bella Lawson; admiration for JJL, acknowledging the role of Bella Lawson in his success; Bella Lawson
present at Maundy luncheon.
Paper 1f
Undated personal correspondence
Reference: LAW 2/1/914
Dates of creation: [early 20th-century]
Extent: 1 postcardPaper
Postcard (unfinished) to Sarah. Postcard depicts “The Bank” at Whitburn.
LAW 2/1/915 [mid 20th-century]
Letter from Tom Elder, Brookside, Newbiggin-in-Teesdale, Co. Durham, to JJL: staying with Jim [Elder]; six stanza poem about Cauldron Snout, on the River Tees; eighteen stanza poem “Money hills”; Gray Lady legend
[at Beamish]; suggests walking High Cup Nick on JJL's next visit.
Paper 3f
LAW 2/1/916 [1934]
Letter from Edna [Lawson] and Davy, Brookside, Newbiggin-in-Teesdale, Co. Durham, to JJL: offers thanks for [dedication] in [
Under the Wheels]; family and country holiday news, staying with Mr and Mrs Elder.
Paper 2f
LAW 2/1/917 [?April 1945 x 1965]
Postcard from Bella Lawson [at Derwentwater, Cumberland], to Irene Lawson, Woodside, Beamish: JJL health better; plan to return Tuesday. Postcard depicts Derwentwater and the Lodore Hotel.
Paper 1 postcard
LAW 2/1/918 31 March [1945 x 1957]
Letter from Anthony Brown, Domons Flat, Maypole Road, East Grinstead, Sussex, to JJL: offers thanks for inscribed copy of
Who goes home?; [B.B.C.] script on Will Lawther.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/919 [mid 20th-century x 1965]
Letter from Rev. B. E. Woods, Superintendent, The Methodist Church, Springfield Hall Community Church, 200 Wandsworth Road, London, to JJL: cancellation of JJL attendance at the church due to illness; proposes instead JJL's presence at a
Christian Propaganda Rally the following winter.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/920 [1930s x March 1950]
Telegram from Teddy [Edward R.G.R.] Evans, to JJL, House of Commons: lunch arrangements.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/921 [?March 1950 x 1965]
Letter from Leslie [?], Dulwich, written on House of Commons stationary, to JJL: appreciation of JJL's writings; early life in mining village; old friend Marshal Henry Haddock; invitation to stay; departs for Vienna on Monday.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/922 [March 1950 x 1965]
Letter from Millie, 226 Manchester Road, Heaton Norris, Stockport, Cheshire, to JJL: praise for
Peter Lee and JJL's writing.
Paper 2f
LAW 2/1/923 [March 1950 x 1965]
Letter from Hannah R[ushford], The Grey Tower, Durham, to JJL: praises JJL's public activity.
Paper 1f
LAW 2/1/924 [mid 20th-century x 1960s]
Letter from Millie Carter, 52 Kirkstone Avenue, Fulwell, Sunderland, to Isabella [Lawson]: family news; St Columba church community, and Mr Jupp.
Paper 2f
LAW 2/1/925 [mid 20th-century x 1963]
Christmas card from Hugh and Dora Gaitskell.
Paper 2f
LAW 2/1/926 [mid 20th-century x 1965]
Christmas card from Clement and Vi Attlee, Amersham General Hospital, to JJL and Bella Lawson: health of Clement Attlee improving.
Paper 2f
LAW 2/1/927 [mid 20th-century x 1964]
Christmas card, House of Lords stationary, from Allison and Malcolm Shepherd, Greensands, Brassey Road, Limpsfield, Surrey.
Paper 2f
LAW 2/1/928 [mid 20th-century x 1965]
Letter from Elizabeth [nee Lawson] to JJL and Bella Lawson: invitation to come and stay; cold weather since the new year.
Paper 2f
LAW 2/1/929 [mid 20th-century]
Christmas card from “Auntie Alice”.
Paper 2f
