Inventory

Acc.12267

Walter and Katharine Papers

Manuscripts Division George IV Bridge Edinburgh EH1 1EW Tel: 0131-466 2812 Fax: 0131-466 2811 E-mail: [email protected]

©National Library of Additional correspondence and papers of the Rt. Hon. Walter Elliot Elliot, PC, CH, MC, FRS, LLD (1888-1958), and of his second wife, Katharine, née Tennant, Baroness Elliot of Harwood, CBE, DBE (1903-94). For the main collection of Elliot papers, presented by Lady Elliot, see Acc.6721. Another section of the correspondence of Lady Blanche Dugdale with Walter Elliot is Acc. 12198.

Presented, 2003, by James, 2nd Baron Crathorne, Yarm, North , through the good offices of Andrew Lubbock, Esq.

In the case of extensive use being made of this archive with a view to publication, the donor(who is also literary executor of the late Lady Elliot of Harwood) should be contacted.

Walter, Helen, & Katharine Elliot

1. Letters, 1912-19, of Walter Elliot (henceforth WE) to his first wife, Helen, née Hamilton, who was killed in a climbing accident in Skye, 1919. Many of the letters are written during WE’s war service as an Army medical officer on the Western Front, 1914-18.

2. Correspondence of Katherine and Walter Elliot, Aug. – Dec. 1944, during her Ministry of Information sponsored visits to the USA (via Newfoundland) and Australia.

3. Letters, 1957, of Walter to Katherine Elliot (KE).

4. Other letters received by WE concerning Katherine Elliot’s overseas tour, 1944.

5. Interviews recorded by KE during her Australian tour with:

(i) John Curtin, Prime Minister of Australia, Canberra, 1 Oct. 1944 (manuscript notes and 2 typescripts: a third copy sent, Oct. 2003, to the Manuscripts Division, National Library of Australia). (ii) Messrs. Monk and Crofts, Secretary and former Secretary of the Australian Confederation of Trades Unions, Melbourne, 4 Nov. 1944: with a comment on Ernest Thornton, Secretary of the Iron Workers Union, whom KE also met.

6. A small group of miscellaneous letters to WE, 1935-9: includes two letters on the Abdication Crisis, 1936.

7. Election addresses for the General Election, Oct. 1951 of WE and his Labour opponent in Glasgow Kelvingrove, J. L. Williams; Lady Violet Bonham Carter (Lib.); Tom Dugdale (Cons.); and David Eccles, (Cons.).

8. A copy of God, King and Empire: a trilogy, [1947] by Dean W.R. Inge, WE, and Quintin Hogg MP.

9. Cutting of an article in the Daily Express, 15 Oct. 1945 by WE on the USSR: ‘How Stalin has re-moulded the Revolution’.

Elliot-Dugdale letters

10-20. Personal and political letters of WE to Lady Blanche (“Baffy”) Dugdale, 1922, 1926-35, 1941-48: for the other section of this correspondence (1922-42), see Acc. 12198.

10. 1922. 11. 1926-9 12. 1930-31. 13. 1932-5. 14. 1941-2. 15. 1943 (Jan.-May). 16. 1943 (June-Dec.). 17. 1944. 18. 1945. 19. 1946. 20. 1947-8, n.d.

21. Letters, 1922-3, of the Gilbert Murray family to Blanche Dugdale, 1922-3 (see also Acc.12198/13).

22. Letters from friends of WE to Blanche Dugdale on the former’s accident and recovery, 1943.

23. Photographs of WE, various dates.

24. Photographs of ‘City of Nottingham Housing, 1919-39’, presented to WE as Minister of Health, on the occasion of his visit to the housing schemes, 28 July, 1939.

Katharine Elliot Papers

25-37. Correspondence and papers of Katharine, Baroness Elliot, 1918-68.

25. Letters of [Sir] Roger Makins (later Ist Baron Sherfield) from the British Embassy, Washington DC, to KE, 1931-33.

26. Letters of thanks received by KE after the Royal Naval Review at Spithead, July 1935 (including letters of Ramsay MacDonald and Sir Robert Menzies).

27. Letters sent or received by KE, 1944-5, mostly concerning her 1944 tour to the USA and Australia: correspondents include Brendan Bracken (Minister of Information), Clementine Churchill, and Anthony Eden.

28. General correspondence, 1927-68, n.d., mostly on political matters: correspondents include Robert Boothby, MP (“Bob”), A. Noel Skelton, MP, Edward Frank Wise (Labour MP, 1929-31), and Robert H. Bernays, MP (“Rob”).

29. Photographs of Katherine Elliot, various dates.

30. Press-cuttings, 1939, 1944 (Australian visit).

31. Essay on “A Problem” ie. the food shortage, by KE, aged 15, 1918.

32-35 A series of notebooks containing KE’s notes for political and other public speeches, 1931-8.

32. 1931-3. 33. 1933. 34. 1934-5. 35. 1937-8.

36. Notes for speech in Montreal, 14 Feb. 1946, on “ in 1946”.

37. Papers relating to the 1944 visit of KE to the USA:

(i) ‘Notes on a visit to the of America’, 24 Dec. 1944; with a subject index. (ii) ‘The return journey across the United States by train in the Overland Express’, 6-9 Dec. 1944. (iii) ‘Report for the Ministry of Information, American Division’, 26 Dec. 1944.

Miscellaneous

38. Home Office permit, 1922, to WE, at the Rowett Research Institute, Aberdeen, to carry out experiments on live animals.