Letters of Stanley Baldwin to John Parke Boyle and Oliver Ridsdale Baldwin (Viscount Corvedale)
Scope and Contents
The letters listed below from Stanley Baldwin to his elder son Oliver are additional to those acquired by the University Library at auction in 1989 (MS Add.8795). John Boyle (1893-1969) was Oliver Baldwin's companion for thirty-five years from 1923. He had Conservative sympathies and great charm, and was liked by both Oliver's parents.
Dates
- Creation: 25 Aug. 1923-23 June 1946 (Circa)
Creator
Conditions Governing Access
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Extent
1 collection
Language of Materials
English
Immediate Source of Acquisition
These letters were purchased in 2000 from Mr C. J. Walker, and have been used in his biography Oliver Baldwin: a life of dissent (Arcadia Books, 2003). Other papers of Oliver Baldwin and John Boyle were acquired from Mr Walker in 2006, and are the subject of catalogue for MS Add.9735.
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
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