Archive of correspondence to Rev. A. H. Sayers, Hon. Secretary of the Monmouth Town Branch of the League of Nations Union. Comprising approximately 300 letters and notes, predominantly 1920s/30s, including many autograph letters signed (some handwritten, some typed and signed). To include Laurence Housman, typed letter signed, 3 November 1936, 'I take the position of an absolute pacifist, and I am not in agreement with a good deal of the League of Nation Union's policy...If I do speak for you, I speak as a full pacifist', plus three other typed notes, signed, relating to the same topic; letter from the Hon. Secretary of the Womens National Anti-Suffrage League, 31 March 1909, 'I write to thank you for your admirable letter in the S.D.T. a day or two ago, re the ridicule the Suffragists cast at their meeting, on the efforts made in Parliament by men to help children & infants...We are trying very hard to enlarge our membership & make this Branch an influential & successful one, & we should be extremely glad if you would become a member'; Margot Asquith, autograph letter signed on The Wharf letterhead, 31 March 1921, 'It is idle to vote for the coalition and call yourself a Liberal...until a Liberal government comes into power we shall be threatened by extreme Right or extreme Left', complete with envelope, together with printed letter on 10 Downing Street letterhead, 'The Prime Minister & Mrs Asquith send their grateful thanks for your kind expression of sympathy in their loss', complete with envelope bearing official paid stamp, 29 September 1916; Stanley Baldwin, holograph [printed] signature, typed Armistice Day Message, 1936; Winston Churchill, holograph [printed] signature on 10 Downing Street letterhead, giving thanks for remembering his birthday, 1944; Clementine Churchill, two holograph [printed] letters; Anthony Eden, typed letter signed on embossed House of Commons letterhead, 6 February 1947, regretfully declining an invitation to address a meeting of United Nations Association; Neville Chamberlain, holograph [printed] signature on 10 Downing Street letterhead, 24 October 1938, giving thanks for kind messages 'during these difficult and anxious times'; Edward, Prince of Wales, holograph [printed] signature on St James's Palace letterhead, 'The causes of war are manifold...assist the League of Nations Union in the greatest Crusade of all - the crusade for world peace.'; Gracie Fields, holograph [printed] signature on Charity Fund letterhead; Isaac Foot, autograph letter signed on embossed House of Commons letterhead, 14 August 1933, politely declining an invitation, together with a typed letter signed, 19 August 1935, again declining invitation; Dame Margaret Lloyd George, holograph [printed] signature on 11 Downing Street letterhead, 7 December 1916, inviting donations; Megan Lloyd George, two typed letters signed, 1 January 1931 and 26 March 1931, politely declining invitation, and others, including Lady Nancy Astor; Norman Angell; Rev Frank Ballard; Philip Baker; Robert Bernays; Sir Reginald Blomfield; Mary Blyton; Florence Bradney; Sir Sidney Berry; Vernon Bartlett; Joseph Bibby; Rev Harold Brierley; KC SRC Bosanquet; Lady Florence Cecil; Lady Violet Bonham-Carter; Sir Henry Coward; Hall Caine; Lord Davies; William Moore Ede; Winifred Graham; Sarah Grand; Sir Philip Gibbs; H PLunket Greene; Brian Goddard; Maxwell Garnett; R Lloyd Griffiths; Sir W Haig; Sir Arthur A Haworth; Manton Smith Hereford; Newman Hall; Thomas Holloway; Arthur Henderson; Duchess Nina Hamilton; H Wilson Harris; W Burton Hooke; W R Inge; Flora Klickmann; Viscount Knutsford; Oliver Lodge; Eric Liddell; Eizabeth Lawson; Edith Lyttleton; Miss Christabel Lowther-Yates; Alice Mildmay; Sir John McClure; Bishop Gilbert Monmouth; Rev F B Meyer; Dr Betty Morgan; Beverley Nichols; Richenda C Payne; Sir John Pratt; Rev W G Percival; Arthur Powritt; Lady Shelley-Rolls; W Riley; Miss M E R Robinson; W Ripper; Viscountess Ethel Snowden; Dr J Frederic Staton; Bertha Dykes Spicer; Lady Kathleen Simon; Shoran S Singha; Sir Owen Seaman; Rev Dr C Ryder Smith; A Stowell; J G Simpson; Edward Shillito; Edith Picton-Turbervill; Winifred Coombe Tennant; Lord Peter Thorneycroft; David Williamson; Agnes Weston; Rev C Ensor Walters; Henry W Webb; John Webb; Bertram Lee Woolf; Sir Arthur K Yapp, and many others, housed in box file
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