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Loose sheets (various sizes) containing manuscript additions annotated by Hart-Davis with galley numbers. As these additions appear in the galley-proofs in MS Add.7799/4, they were presumably made by Young after he had received the relevant typed chapters from Hart-Davis, but before the corresponding galleys were set up.

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Loose sheets (various sizes) containing manuscript additions to the galley-proofs, each headed by Young with a page number of the dummy volume (MS Add.7799/4). The additions vary in length from a few lines to several paragraphs. Some have typescript carbon copies attached.

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Contents of file marked ‘Baldwin MS.’, comprising preface, and chapters I-V, VIII-XI, XIII-XV, XVII-XVIII, XX, and XXIII-XXVI. Chapters III, IX, XI and XXIII are incomplete. Chapter XXIV is in typescript, and chapter XXV in both manuscript and typescript.

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Galley-proofs of Stanley Baldwin, pasted on blank sheets bound in a dummy case. Deletions and minor additions and corrections have been made by Young on the galleys; while the sign ‘ MS’ indicates that a larger addition sent on one or more separate sheets (see /6 below) should be inserted. Pasted inside the front cover of the dummy ‘book’ is a sheet of explanatory notes by Hart-Davis, 12 December 1969.

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Two manuscript drafts of chapters on rearmament (neither used in this form); typescript of appendix on Lord Robert Cecil’s resignation from the Government, August 1927 (not used); manuscript and typescript of appendix on the Indian crisis of 1929 (not used).

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Personal and family correspondence and papers

Scope and Contents Some years before his death in 1947, Earl Baldwin of Bewdley asked the historian G.M. Young to become his official biographer, a request to which Young acceded with misgivings. Declining health and a lack of sympathy with his subject made his task increasingly burdensome to him, but he was persuaded to continue by his publisher, Rupert Hart-Davis, and the volume appeared in 1952. It received good reviews, and won the James Tait Black Prize; but ‘…it is not a satisfying book; Young’s touch...

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Typescript sheet headed ‘Stanley Baldwin. Final queries from R.H.D.’, with Young’s answers in manuscript.