Box MS Add.9560/1-8: Box 1
Contains 8 Results:
General correspondence, 1931-1942
Includes letters to AGC from politicians, scientists, educational administrators and civil servants. Most correspondents are represented by only one or two letters.
Organising Secretary of the British Science Guild, 1931-1933
Includes letters to AGC from Sir R. A. Gregory, Sir S. J. G. Hoare and other members of the Guild's council; correspondence relating to AGC's disagreements with the Honorary Secretary, C. W. Hume; correspondence with and memoranda from several scientists and industrial research associations concerning a proposed report by the Guild, on Science and the Nation; a draft preface and schema (by AGC) for the report; and copies of minutes of several meetings of council.
Secretary of the Parliamentary Currency Group, 1931
Letters between Marion Phillips and AGC and a number of bankers and economists (including J. M. Keynes, M. C. Norman and Sir Henry Strakosch) arranging meetings with the Group; a copy of Strakosch's speech notes; minutes by AGC of two meetings with Norman; and memorandum by E. E. Canney on monetary reconstruction.
Letters to AGC from Sir Frank Baines, 1931-1933
Includes copy of a long letter from Baines to Lord Melchett; correspondence of AGC with W. G. A. Ormsby-Gore concerning removal of monuments in Westminster Abbey; two letters to AGC from John Elbo; and statement by AGC of his dealings with Elbo.
Secretary of Westminster Stadium Ltd, 1933
Includes prospectus of the company and illustrated brochure for the proposed stadium; letters to AGC from well-wishers and from applicants for clerical and accounting posts in the company; and copies of letters to Baines from J. D. Dickson and L. L. Grunwald.
Parliamentary candidate for London University, 1931
Includes his election address; two letters of support from J. R. MacDonald; condolences on his defeat from friends and supporters; papers concerning his dispute with the successful candidate, Sir E. G. Graham-Little; and letters mainly from F. G. Donnan concerning establishment of a fund to help pay his election expenses.
Parliamentary candidate for East Bristol, 1935
Election address and other printed leaflets. [For cuttings from Bristol newspapers formerly in this file, see 17/180-220.]
Parliamentary candidate for Derby, 1936-1937
Includes letters of support for AGC in the 1936 by-election from leaders of the National Government; correspondence with National Labour officers in London, and organisers and supporters in Derby during his subsequent nursing of the constituency and reselection as candidate in 1937; and correspondence with Sir J. A. Aiton, chairman of Derby Conservative Association.