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Description: | Microfilm copy of a very interesting series of 22 ms and 15 ts letters, 20 memoranda and 33 miscellaneous letters and memoranda written to, and by, the owner of the DAILY TELEGRAPH (1903 - 1928) and MP for West St Pancras (1885 - 1892) and East Gloucestershire (1893 - 1895) as a Liberal and Tower Hamlets, Mile End Division (1905 - 1906 and 1910 - 1916) as a Unionist, covering the period 1909 - 1921 but principally concerning 1914 - 1919, in correspondence and conversation with many of the leading political and military figures of the day including HM King George V, King Manuel of Portugal, H Asquith, Lord Esher, Lord Fisher, Sir John French, Grey, Bonar Law, Lloyd George, Locker Lampson, Salisbury, Smuts, Stamfordham and Younger, covering a wide-ranging number of subjects of contemporary importance, including the general political and military state of the war at various times in its duration, reports on the Western Front and the Gallipoli and Mesopotamian campaigns, changes in the electoral system, National Service, matters concerning the Royal Family, the power of the Northcliffe press and the state of the pre-war Navy; together with extensive contacts with DAILY TELEGRAPH correspondents in France, Spain, Roumania and post-war Germany.
Cataloguer Backlog
Catalogue date 1986-11-19 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Burnham, (Viscount) | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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