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(Untitled), 04 Jun 1904

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/17/72-73
Scope and Contents

Letter from William Robinson (154 New Hall Lane, Preston, [Lancashire]) to WSC (House of Commons) describing how he was forced out of his editorial posts at the Preston Herald and the Darwen Gazette by local Tory leaders, who objected to his support of Free Trade, and soliciting WSC's help in securing a post with a liberal paper. Annotated by WSC: "I will dictate a reply".

Dates: 04 Jun 1904
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Chartwell Papers / Public and political: general / Public and Political: General: Correspondence.
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(Untitled), 01 Sep 1903

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/117/7-8
Scope and Contents

Copy of a letter from WSC (Dunrobin Castle, Sutherland [Scotland]) to [Alfred] Harmsworth [later Lord Northcliffe] marked private in which he predicts that the [Conservative] Government will be defeated by a landslide; discusses the treatment of the issue of taxation of manufactured goods [in the Daily Mail]; suggests that he should consider the Free Trade arguments and that a "great central Government neither Protectionist nor Pro-Boer" might be established.

Dates: 01 Sep 1903
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Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Chartwell Papers / Acquired Papers / Acquired Papers. Copies of correspondence between WSC and Alfred Harmsworth, who became Lord Northcliffe in 1905. All items are typescript and unsigned unless otherwise described.

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