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James and Papers

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

© Trustees of the National Library of Scotland Letters, papers, photographs and other ancillary material of or concerning James Keir Hardie (1856-1915), pioneer and first leader of the Labour Party in Parliament, and of his son-in-law Emrys Hughes (1894-1969), M.P. for South , 1946-69, author and journalist, and editor of the , 1931-46.

Deposited 1971, 1973, 1981, by the late Mrs Martha Hughes, , Ayrshire.

The papers have been arranged meantime as follows:

Boxes 1-2. HARDIE AND HUGHES CORESPONDENCE AND PAPERS. Boxes 3-4. PHOTOGRAPHIC MATERIAL. Boxes 6-23. ADDITIONAL EMRYS HUGHES PAPERS (1973). Boxes 24-5. ADDITIONAL KEIR HARDIE PAPERS (1981). Box 26. ADDITIONAL HUGHES PAPERS (1981). Vol. 1-14. VOLUMES, TAPES AND RECORDS (1971-81).

Correspondence and Papers

BOX 1

1. Correspondence of Keir Hardie: (i) Postcards (9) of Keir Hardie to his wife and daughters 1899-1910 (see also Vol.14). (ii) Draft letter, 1889, of Hardie to Lord Randolph Churchill. (iii) Letter to Joseph Edwards, , 1893. (iv) Letter, 1898, and part of a letter [1901] to David Lowe [printed in Lowe’s biography of JKH]. (v) Card, 1900, and letter n.d. to Robert Williams, architect (see also Box 25, F.2). (vi) Two leaves from J.K.H.’s diary Jan – Feb, 1884. (vii) Letters to Keir Hardie from: Adam Birkmyre (1), 1896. (viii) Letters to Keir Hardie (cont.) (1), 1894; with part of a printed letter to Blatchford. A.P. Basdet (1) Katherine and Bruce Glasier (1), 1896 [postcard]. : receipt for a loan of £25 towards starting his Workers’ Republic, 1898. Jack Griffiths, New Zealand (1), 1914, concerning the writing-desk he made for Hardie. David Farrell (2), 1914. Peter le Noir, Jersey, (1), 1913. J Ramsay MacDonald (2), n.d.; one apparantly to Tom Johnston. Alex Monro, Keir Hardie Committee, New Zealand (1), 1908. Mme. Podosky (2), 1897. E.W Stewart (1), 1898; concerning loan to Irish Socialist Republican Party. A.R. Todd (1), 1892; on the derivation of the name ‘Lefnorris’ [or Lochnorris] chosen by Keir Hardie for his house in Cumnock.

2. Legal and financial papers of Keir Hardie, 1892-1914.

3. (i) Note of G.B.S. to Keir Hardie, 1910. (ii) Note to the Rev J R Hughes, 1918; with two enlarged photgraphs of the card. (iii) Note of G.B.S. to Mrs Hardie Hughes, 1927. (iv) Letters, notes and cards and for G.B.S to Emrys Hughes, largely in the letter’s capacity as editor of Forward; with some letters of Emrys Hughes, 1937-49. (v)-(xxiii) Corrected typescripts and page [proofs of articles and letters written by C.B.S. for publication in Forward: (v) Forward interview with C.B.S., May, 1940. (vi) ‘Bernard Shaw on Peace Aims’, 30 Aug, 1940. (vii) ‘Mr de Valera’s Last Word’, 26 Nov, 1940. (viii) ‘The Taioseach and the Irish Ports’, 31 Dec, 1940. (ix) ‘Bernard Shaw’s Advice to Ireland’, 1 Jan, 1941. (x) ‘Stalin and Lindbergh, 27 Jan, 1941. (xi) Letter, ‘Dear Forwards’, 4 June, 1941. (xii) ‘The Lesson of Burns and Lloyd George’, 25 Jan, 1943. (xiii) ‘Bernard Shaw on Parliament (continued)’, May 1944. (xiv) ‘Much Ado About Nothing’, ? Nov, 1944. (xv) ‘Much Ado Continued’, 3 Dec, 1944. (xvi) ‘Shaw’s Rejoiner’ [same subject], 26 Dec, 1944. (xvii) ‘The Crimean Trinity’, ? Feb, 1945. (xviii) ‘Churchill’s Fiasco’, 10 June, 1945. (xix) ‘Bernard Shaw and Lady Glen-Coats’, ? June/July, 1945. (xx) ‘The Fancy Ball on the Seventh’ [corrected in proof to ‘the Fifth’ ie. General Election day, 1945], ? July, 1945. (xxi) ‘Reflections on the Elections’, ? Aug, 1975. (xxii) ‘The Battle of the Vans and Vins’, n.d. (xxiii) ‘The Party System and Some Surprises for Socialists’, n.d. (xxiv) Notes for an appreciation of Shaw by Emrys Hughes , n.d. (xxv) Postcard photographs (8) of G.B.S., Mrs Bernard Shaw, and their house at Ayot St Lawrence, Herts.

4.

(i) Letters and articles of and for Leon Trotsky to Emrys Hughes, as editor of Forward by Trotsky, 1938. (a) ‘The Hue and Cry About Kronstadt’, 15 Jan, 1938. (b) ‘A Forced Declaration’ [on Stalinist-inspired accusations against Trotsky by the Mexican Communist Party], 24 Feb, 1938. (c) Statement on the third Moscow trial, 28 Feb, 1938. (d) ‘To the Attention of Thinking People’ [the Moscow trial], 3 March, 1938. (e) ‘The Billion Dollars’ [accusations against Trotsky at the Moscow trials], 5 March, 1938. (f) ‘Anachronisms’ [at the Moscow trials], 8 March, 1938. (g) ‘The Defendants Zelesky and Ivanov’, 11 March 1938. (h) ‘On the Fate of Rudolf Klement’, 4 Aug, 1938. (k) ‘ Mr Judge’ [statement on the death of Trotsky’s son, Leon Sedoff], 25 Aug., 1938. (l) ‘Leon Sedoff, Son, Friend, Fighter’, 1938. (iii) Typescript note giving details of publication of some of the articles and location of other copies in the Harvard Archives.

5. (i) Letters to Emrys Hughes: (see also Box 26) from: P J D Allan, Daily Herald, (1), 1943. Mrs Florence Amery (1), 1948. H N Brailsford (1), N.d. Henry Brooke, Baron Brooke of Cumnor, (1), 1964. Sean O’ Casey (2), 1938, 1947. Robert Fraser, Daily Herald, (1), 1938. J F C Fuller (1), 1943. Tom Johnston, note of (1), 1936, and letter of E H to, with Johnston’s reply (1), 1937. See also Box 26 F.2. Horace King (1), 1969. (2), n.d. D Lloyd George (1), 1934. ‘Low’, the cartoonist [card] (1), 1934. George Macmillan, NUM, Cumnock (1), 1947. Ernest Marples [to John S Maclay] (1), 1957. Samuel Marshak (1), 1963. Pietro Nenni (1), n.d. D N Pritt (2), 1932, 1937; with a reply of Emrys Hughes, 1937. (1), 1944. H L Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel (1), 1945. John Silkin (1), 1966. Dame Sybil Thorndike (1), n.d. Leonid Tolokonski, Russian diplomat in London (1), 1934. R G Vansittart, 1st Baron Vansittart (1), 1944. Vicky’, the cartoonist (1), 1962.

(ii) Miscellaneous papers of Emrys Hughes: (a) ‘Seventeen Years of Election Figures: How the Polls Have Grown’; local election statistics, reprinted from the Cumnock Chronicle, 13 Sep, 1936. (b) Advertisement for Emrys Hughes, : British Bulldog, His career in War and Peace, for insertion in the American Historical Review, 1955. (c) Photostat of a press cutting from the Retail Bookseller [U.S.A] giving a notice of Winston Churchill, June 1955. (d) Publisher’ broadcast for Emrys Hughes, Rebel in Parliament. (e) Civic Press advert for T Johnston, A History of the Working Class in Scotland.

6. Articles, mainly in Forward: (i) Emrys Hughes: (a) ‘Funeral in Moscow’; an appreciation of Samuel Yakovlevich Marshak, the Russian author and translator of Burns [d. 1964]; with a Russian version of the article. (b) ‘Hotel in Havanna’; manuscript and typescript drafts. (ii) Tom Johnston, corrected typescript of an article in Forward, 22 March, 1924. (iii) Bertrand Russell, manuscript of an article on ‘The Atomic Bomb’, April, 1945; with a covering letter from Lady Russell. (iv) Photostat copies of manuscripts of Samuel Marchak: (a) Autographs from the draft of the first edition of English and Scots verses translated into Russian by Samuel Marshak, ca. June 1942. (b) Page of a letter of Marshak to Lidie Chukovskaya, ca.1961. (c) Letter to the poet Evgueniy Viukurov, 1963.

BOX 2

Miscellaneous papers and press cuttings of Keir Hardie:

1. Indian Tour, travel jottings, 1907. 2. Correspondence and papers of or concerning , largely of or to Mrs Margaret Travers-Symons, secretary to Keir Hardie, 1910-11. 3. Press cuttings concerned with the womens suffrage movement, 1905-12. 4. Hardie family, press cutting book, 1917. 5. Miscellaneous press cuttings, 1888-1910. 6. Painted scroll of welcome to Keir Hardie from Bhavnagar State, India. 7. Illuminated address of welcome to Hardie from the Labour Councils of Perth and Freemantle, W. Australia. 8. (i) Illustrated menu of a dinner given by the Ayrshire Miners’ Union in honour of Nadrew Fisher, Prime Minister of Australia, 18 May 1911. (ii) Programme of an I.L.P. Keir Hardie memorial meeting in the St.Andrew’s Halls, Glasgow, 30 Sep. 1923. 9. Postcards collected by Keir Hardie and Emrys Hughes: (i) British Isles (24). (ii) U.S.S.R. (33). (iii) Other European countries (14). (iv) Cuba, Egypt, Japan [Keir Hardie’s World tour] (11).

Photographs

BOX 3

1. Photographs of Keir Hardie, various dates. 2. Photographs of the Hardie family, various dates. 3. Photographs, probably of the Keir Hardie period: (i) J Ramsay MacDonald and family, 1907. (ii) Tom Johmston, n.d. (iii) Countess of Warwick, 1905.

BOX 4

1. Emrys Hughes photographs, various dates. 2. Photographs of visits of Emrys and Mrs Martha Hughes to the U.S.S.R.

Additional Papers of Emrys Hughes, deposited 1973.

BOX 6 Manuscript and typescript drfats of various books, articles and speeches 1952-65, n.d., as follows: 1. ‘The Road to Peace with Russia’, book, 1952; typescript copies (2). 2. ‘The Arrival of the Labour Party Fifty Years’ Ago’, article, ?1956; manuscript. 3. Draft speech, Feb. 1961, to the Edinburgh Club on the , 1960; manuscript. 4. Speech to the Political Society, Eton College, Feb, 1961; manuscript and typescript copies. 5. ‘Educating Eton’, article based on above visit; manuscript and typescript copies (2), with a press cutting. 6. ‘Mr Wilson, the Irish and the Casement documents’, with a cutting of an article by Gerard Fay in the Guardian 1-3-65 on the same subject; memorandum or article; typescript (1). 7. ‘An Innocent in China’, draft of 16 chapters of a book describing a visit to the mainland China, n.d; typescript (1) with some manuscript drafts. 8. ‘George Lansbury’, draft of a short biography; manuscript and typescript (1). 9. ‘Reminiscences of Bernard Shaw’, n.d; manuscript draft. 10. Articles (4) entitled ‘Some memories of Bernard Shaw’; various manuscripts and typescripts. 11. ‘What You Can’t Say in Parliament: Expressions that are banned’, n.d; typescript (2 & 2 carbons). Autobiography and Biographies

BOX 7 ‘The Journal of a Coward’, manuscripts of a contemporary autobiographical account by Emrys Hughes largely of his political activities and prison experiences as a , 1914-18.

BOX 8 1. ‘Welsh Rebel’ typescript of a short version of his ‘Autobiography’ submitted by Emrys Hughes to Collins [Publishers], with a letter of Mark Bonham Carter, Dec. 1960. 2-4. ‘Pulpits and Prisons’, Volume 1 of the autobiography; manuscript and typescript drafts with notes and other ancillary material, n.d.

BOX 9 ‘Pulpits and Prisons’ Volume 1 of ‘Autobiography’ further manuscript and typescript drafts, n.d.

BOX 10 ‘Rebels and Renegades’, Volume 2 of the ‘Autobiography’ in 27 chapters.

BOX 11 Sydney Silverman: Rebel in Parliament, EH’s biography [published posthumously Lond. 1970]: manuscript and typescript (2) drafts 1968 [1 typescript draft corrected by Mrs Silverman].

BOX 12 Sydney Silverman, ancillary material for the book, 1968.

BOX 13 Emrys Hughes, unpublished biography of Bernard Shaw, MSS, and typescript drafts of chapters 1-16, with a preface and lists of chapters (3); numbering of the draft chapters is based on what appears to be the last draft list of contents; the drafts are filed individually by chapter with a contents list in the box.

BOX 14 Biography of Bernard Shaw, chapters 17-30, with an ‘Epilogue’ and additional chapters, un-numbered or not used for book; arrangement as Box 13.

Additional Autobiographical Material

BOX 15 Drafts for ‘Rebels and Renegades’, autobiographical reminiscences, n.d; typesripts.

BOX 16 Further drafts, n.d. for ‘Rebels and Renegades’; typescripts.

Other Books and Articles

BOX 17 1. ‘The Future of the Landlord’, notes, manuscript and typescript drafts (2), and final printed version of the article, published in Landowning in Scotland no.134, Jan, 1969.

2. Keir Hardie: A Pictorial Biography, manuscript (preface only) and typescript draft of the book, 1956. 3. Pilgrim’s in Russia, Manuscript and galley-poofs of the book, 1959.

4. The Prince, the Grown and the Cash, typescripts (3) [one a heavily corrected draft], with a letter from the publisher, 1969.

5. ‘The Row About the Prince’; manuscript [? 1969}; with ancillary material for The Prince, The Crown and the Cash.

6. Notes, cartoons, and photographs for Sir Alec Douglas-Home, London, 1964.

BOX 18 1. ‘German Rearmament’, 1954; manuscript draft.

2. Photocopies of reviews in the U.S. press of the American edition of Winston Churchill; British Bulldog, 1955.

3. ‘The October Revolution and Peace’ [1957]; manuscript draft.

4. Article on F M Viscount Montgomery of Alamein on NATO and British defence policy, following his retiral as NATO Deputy Supreme Commander [1958].

F.5 ‘London Laughter’ article on Emrys Hughes as ‘The Mark Twain of Parliament’ by W H Waggoner, in The New York Times Magazine, 15 Nov, 1959; press-cuttings.

F.6 ‘Looking back on Forward’ [published in The Guardian 1 April 1960, as ‘Forward and Backward’; typescript and press-cutting.

F.7 Press-cuttings of various articles and letters (i) ‘I Say Khruschev’, Tribune, 1 April, 1960. (ii) ‘Vive M. Khruschev’, Tribune, 1 April, 1960. (iii) ‘Background to the Summit Crisis’, Tribune, 20 May, 1960. (iv) Two letters to the editor on Polaris, Guardian Nov, 1960.

F.8 ‘Winston Churchill’ [?1965]; manuscript and typescript drafts.

F.9 (i) ‘How we Beat ‘Em’ [on the new Robert Burns Stamp]; cutting from the Scottish Daily Express, 25 Jan, 1966. (ii) ‘Report from the Court Martial at the Barracks of Westminster’, xerox copy of tribune, article, 9 Feb, 1968. F.10 ‘Attlee’ [?1967]; manuscript and typescript (3) drafts. F.11 ‘What an odd way to run a party’; photocopies (5) of article in The Sunday Times, 4 Feb, 1968.

F.12 ‘If Wilson Went’, Fed, 1968; article submitted to The Sunday Times but not used; manuscript.

F.13 ‘What About the Whips’, Feb, 1968; article submitted to Guardian but not used; manuscript.

F.14 ‘Let’s first test the water before Scotland takes the plunge’; article on Scottish home rule in the Scottish Daily Express, 5 March 1968; photocopies (3).

F.15 ‘Do We Need This Investiture?’ [of the Prince of ]; manuscript and typescript, with copy of covering letter to New Statesman, July, 1968.

F.16 ‘Stdney Silverman’ [1968]; manuscript draft.

F.17 ‘The Demon in the Coal’ [silicosis]; manuscript and typescript drafts.

F.18 ‘In Prison Today’; typescript.

F.19 ‘The Marseillaise’ in Westminster Hall’; manuscript draft.

F.20 Article on proposed Great Power conference on the Middle East, following British intervention in Jordan [1958]; manuscript draft.

F.21 ‘Britain and the Russian Plan’; manuscript and typescript draft.

F.22 ‘Lord Altrincham and M.P’s: Is he Right?’; manuscript draft.

F.23 ‘The Return of the Statue’ [of Lord Kitchener, from the Sudan]; typescript draft.

F.24 ‘In Soviet Siberia’; manuscript draft.

F.25 ‘On the Question of Ovations’; Russian article in Literatumaia Gazeta; press cutting [with translation by I.D. McGowan, NLS.].

Okinawa Visit

BOX 19 Article on ‘Okinawa: Japan’s Lost Island’, based on a visit to the anti-H. bomb conference held on the island 1968; with other material, largely printed, collected during visit to Japan and Okinawa. Miscellaneous Printed and Other Papers

BOX 20 Political correspondence and papers of Emrys Hughes, as follows: F.1 Correspondence [constituents letters, general politics, journalism and broadcasting], 1950-69, n.d.

F.2 Memorandum on the H-bomb submitted to the Defence and Foreign Affairs Committee of the Parliamentary Labour Party [ca. 1951-5].

F.3 Drafts for a speech on the Suez crises, 1956.

F.4 Election addresses: 1964 (final leaflet); 1966 (manuscript draft and final leaflet).

F.5 Notes on defence policy and the F-111 fighter April ?1966.

F.6 Copies of parliamentary questions to ministers by Emrys Hughes, 1966-9, n.d.

F.7 Emrys Hughes and William Baxter: ‘Labour Rebel M.P’s Message to the Scottish Conference: manuscript, typescript and cyclostyles copies (37).

F.8 Notes on visit to Pentonville Prison; draft for article on Hugh Gaitskill and the Labour Party Conference [1960], etc.

F.9 (i) Political verses [notebook + 2ff]. (ii) Parliamentary motion form for a meeting of the Scottish Grand Committee in Edinburgh. (iii) Printed extracts from Hansard of speeches by Emrys Hughes, 1952, 1968-9.

BOX 21 F.1 Keir Hardie photographs [pre 1915].

F.2 Press photographs taken in Germany, 1946-8, n.d.

F.3 Manuscript draft and copies (15) of a letter of Emrys Hughes 7 Aug, 1966 to John Silkin, Labour Chief Whip.

F.4 Election addresses for South Ayrshire, 1950-66.

F.5 Letter 1960, in Russian, to Emrys Hughes.

F.6 Manuscript of ‘A Sketch of Joe Gibbins J.P., formerly M.P. for W[est} Texteth [Liverpool], n.d.; not by Emrys Hughes. F.7 Copy of Essays in Revolt by Guy A Aldred, 1941, with inscription and an accompanying letter to Emrys Hughes.

BOX 22 F.1 (i) Personal Diary 1961; (ii) Diary of Events 64th Annual Conference of the Labour Party, 1965. (iii) Notebook containing miscellaneous jottings, n.d.

F.2 Draft of parts of a work on Robert Burns by Rita Right [Rite], with adaptations by Emrys Hughes.

F.3 Miscellaneous press cuttings 1945-69.

F.4 Memoir of Samuel Marshak by Emrys Hughes [copy of Russian typescript], 1964.

F.5 Papers on defence policy 1960-1, 1969:

(i) ‘Polaris Submarine Base at Holy Loch’; S.T.U.C. statement against the base, 9 Nov, 1960 [2 copies]. (ii) ‘Joint Labour Party/T.U.C. statement on Foreign Policy and Defence’ 22 Feb, 1961. (iii) Right Hon. D W Healey ‘Prospectives of Soviet Military Policy’, paper delivered in Munich 1 Feb, 1969.

F.6 (i) Copy of discussion paper ‘Britain and the E.E.C.’ by Konni Zilliacus M.P. [?1966.]. (ii) Copy of paper ‘A Socilaist Approach to Europe and the Common Market’ by Eric S Heffer [M.P.], ?1966. (iii) ‘Never Again: A Statement on the Government’s Economic Policy signed by Labour M.P’s, 20 July 1966’. (iv) Scottish Committee of 100: ‘Report on the Conversion of the Faslane Polaris Base into and International Oil Terminal’, n.d.

F.7 (i) Leaflets (2) concerning lack of maintenance payments to [illegitimate] children of U.S servicemen stationed in Britain [1956].

(ii) Tass and Pravda pres statements [in English] concerning the Soviet invasion of Czechoslavakia, 1968.

F.8 Photographs of or belonging to Emrys Hughes, including an original watercolour sketch of George Bernard by J.C Jones.

F.9 Miscellaneous notes and xerox copies of speeches etc., various dates.

BOX 23 F.1 File of issues of Forward Sept 27 1924 – Dec 27 1924: very fragile. F.2 Packet of Forward cuttings and issues: various dates.

Keir Hardie and Emrys Hughes

Additional Papers. Further letters, papers and related material of Emrys Hughes, incorporating papers of James Keir Hardie, 1892-1963, n.d.

Deposited, 1981, by Mrs M Hughes through Mr C D Donald, McGrigor Donald and Co., Glasgow, and Ian McDougall, History Society. The papers are boxed and numbered in continuation with the previous deposits.

James Keir Hardie

BOX 24 F.1 Membership register, 1892, of the Ayrshire Miners’ Union. Some press- cuttings, circulars, etc. have been pasted into the first twelve pages of the volume. The latter items, now removed (see F.1a), relate to the Scottish Labour Party.

F.2 A copy of Samuel Bamford Passages in the Life of a Radical, with a letter of Robert Meats, Nottingham, 12 Dec. 1897, gifting the book to JKH.

F.3 Press-cutting album, probably made up for JKH, 1912, 1914-15.

F.4 Illuminated address of welcome to JKH from the Women’s Political Labour League of New South Wales, Sydney, 16 Dec, 1907.

BOX 25 F.1 Letter, 1902-13, n.d., of JKH to his Secretary, Margaret Travers Symons, largely concerning his day-to-day political work.

F.2 Letters, 1906-7, 1913 (6), of JKH to Robert Williams, architect in Alexandria; with a note (1 card, n.d.) to Mrs Williams

F.3 Correspondence, 1906-15, as under: letters of or concerning Rev R J Campbell of the City Temple, London [application to join the ILP], 1905- 6. Note of , 1908. . Letters (2, 1914), of Illtyd Hopkins, Miners’ Association. Appointment note for JKH with Dr T Horder, Harley Street. Past letter to JKH to an unidentified correspondent [1914 or 1915] attacking Lloyd George. Letter of an unidentified Aberdare party activist, 1915.

F.4 Labour Party and circulars addressed to JKH, 1915.

F.5 Miscellaneous papers relating to JKH: ‘Labour and Politics in Great Britain’, copy of an essay by JKH in ? American Forum Aug. 1900. South Wales Miners’ Federation , a copy of a programme for their ‘Demonstration’ at Pontypridd, 31 Aug. 1903. A copy of JKH’s Election Bulletin, Merthyr, 13 Jan, 1910. Copy of a souvenir programme of ILP Demonstrations for ‘Internationalism and Peace’ involving representatives from European and American socialist parties, Bradford 11 Dec. 1910.

‘My Weekly Budget’, an article by JKH in the Pioneer, Merthyr, 27 Mar 1915. ‘Mr Chamberlain’s Labour Programme’, an off print of an article by JKH in Nineteenth Century.

Proof copy of Francis Johnston, Keir Hardie’s , ILP pamphlet ca. 1921-2. ILP leaflet, ‘A Memory of Keir Hardie, Sep 1922. ‘Labour’s Victory in England’, copy of an article by JKH in the Metropolitan Magazine New York, n.d.

F.6 Typescript copy of parts of a ‘Life of Keir Hardie’ [? ca. 1925], consisting largely of quotations from his writings and speeches. Manuscript drafts of Emrys Hughes, possibly for his Keir Hardie biography.

F.7 Photographs, chiefly of JKH provenance.

F.8 M.P’s desk diary of JKH, 1915, containing some entries for engagements.

F.9 Fragments of drafts by JKH for speeches or articles, with some press cuttings, 1902-8, n.d. Copy of article on ‘James Keir Hardie M.P’ by J M Knight in the Millgate Monthly, Aug, 1906.

Emrys Hughes

BOX 26 F.1 Letters and related papers addressed to EH from: Mrs Lillie Keir Hardie (1), 1923. H N Brailsford (1), 1923. Rev J R Hughes, father of EH, from Keir Hardie (1), 1914. Rev J R Hughes to EH and Mrs Nan Hughes (1), n.d. Murdoch MacKinnon (1), 1968, with a copy of a letter of 1965 to Sidney Silverman M.P, and drafts of EH probably for his Silverman biography. B.B.C (2+2 enclosures), 1964, to EH, concerning publication of Samuel Marshak’s broadcast talk on ‘Shakespeare in Russia’. Dr Oliver, Verlag de Nation, Berlin (1), 1955 on EH’s Winston Churchill in War and Peace. William Whitely M.P (1), 1955, on restoration of the party whip to EH.

F.2 Letters, ca. 1937-46, of Thomas Johnston to EH; with extracts from the Forward editorial of Tom Johnston, 9 Feb, 1924, attacking the Faculty of Advocates for its opposition to the appointment of Rosslyn Mitchell as Lord Advocate, and draft of a Johnston article, n.d., on ‘The Glasgow Landlords and Factors Association’. F.3 Letters and articles received by EH as editor or director of the Glasgow Forward, 1936 – 50 from: Craigie M Aitchison QC (1), 1937. ‘Armadale’ [ie James Brown, Glasgow], letter to editor relating to suppression of the Daily Worker [1940/1]. Duchess of Atholl (1), 1939. Ritchie Calder (1), 1941. W J Chamberlain, Orpington (1), 1939. Ebenezer [‘Ebby’] Edwards M.P (1) n.d. Ghita Ferbman (1), 1938. William Gallacher M.P (1), 1938. Earl of Glasgow (2) n.d. W Martin Haddow (1), 1944. George Lansbury (1), n.d. enclosing article entitled ‘My Visit to Germany’. Arthur Lenardt, cartoonist for Forward, on his contributions to the paper (9 letters), 1950. ‘Low’ the cartoonist (1), 1937. Leon Sedoff, son of Trotsky (1), 1937, Paris, enclosing a copy of his ‘Bulletin…du Comite Pour L’Enquete sur le Proces de Mosccu’. Report of part (3 pages of 5) n.d of an interview of EH with George Bernard Shaw. Clare Sheridan, Brede, Sussex, letter to Forward 1943. Sidney Webb, Baron Passfield (1), 1936. Beatrice Webb (1) 1938. Cecil H Wilson (2), 1944-5. Proof copy, with censor’s inspection stamp, of Forward article by EH, 18 Mar 1941, entitled ‘Blitz in Clydeside. Abolish the Moon’.

F.4 Correspondence and papers 1931-44, n.d. relating to the administration and policy of Forward; items include: a copy of Prospectus for Forward 13 Oct, 1906; correspondence of Thomas Johnston, 1932, on a proposed acquisition for Forward by the Daily Herald and Odhams Press; letter, 1941, of R E Muirhead urging stronger support for Scottish Home Rule; a letter 15 Mar, 1944 from the Scottish Council of the Labour Party complaining of Forward criticisms of Labour Policy, and EH’s reply.

F.5 Copy of EH’s election address and ‘Election News’ as Labour candidate for Bosworth, 1923. Correspondence, papers, press cuttings etc. relating to South Ayrshire elections, local affairs and politics ca. 1935-50.

F.6 Autobiographical drafts: (i) memoir of EH’s father. (ii) Labour politics from 1914 to Ramsay Macdonald’s first ministry, 1924. F.7 Cuttings (2) of articles in Scotsman, Dec, 1952, by EH giving ‘Impressions of Eastern Germany’. Script under the same title, of a BBC Home Service Broadcast by EH, 9 Jan, 1953. ‘In Eastern German Prisons. The Women’s Prison in Britain’, manuscript of article by EH. ‘In East German Prisons. Brandenburg’, manuscript article. Draft of article on the prison system in Cuba [1963]. Cutting of article by EH in The Guardian 17 Sep, 1963 on ‘The Voice of Cuba’ [ie Fidel Castro].

F.8 Photographs and postcards collected during the East German visit, 1952.

F.9 Press-cuttings album kept by EH, 1919.

F.10-12 Three notebooks of EH containing various shorthand and other notes.

F.13 Press-cuttings and miscellanea of EH and Mrs Nan Hughes; various dates.

Volumes and Other Items

A series, separately numbered, of volumes, records and other items:

1. Press-cutting book [quarto], 1915. 2. Press-cutting book [quarto], 1916. 3. Press-cutting book [quarto], 1917. 4. Press-cutting book [quarto], [large folio] 1900-2. 5. Press-cutting book [quarto], [large folio] 1914.

6. Photographs (4) of Keir Hardie and various members of the Parliamentary Labour Party, ca. 1906-14.

7. (i) Illuminated address of welcome presented to KH by the Sydney Labour Council and New South Wales Labour League. (i) A similar address from the Women’s Political Labour League of N.S.W.

8. Wet press letter-book of Keir Hardie, 1879-89, containing his correspondence as Secretary of the and Ayrshire Miners Associations (1879-82), with some later political correspondence, 1887-9, on his parliamentary candidature for Mid-Lanark: recipients of letters include Alexander MacDonald (1880) and R B (1888). 9. Press-cutting book [quarto] 1915.

10. Press-cutting book [quarto], 1916. 11. Press-cutting book [quarto], 1918.

12. An album of photographs presented to KH as a souvenir of his New Zealand visit by the Wellington Citizens’ Reception Committee, Jan, 1908.

13. Gramaphone records (2) of a speech by Leon Trotsky the 10th Congress of the Left Opposition [kept in Music Section].

14. A postcard album containing many cards sent by Keir Hardie to his family during his world tour, 1907-8.