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(Untitled), [Jan] [1906]

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/51/15-16

Scope and Contents

Copy of a letter from Jennie Cornwallis-West [Lady Randolph Churchill] to Alice Balfour in which she disputes the right of the Executive Committee of the Primrose League to expel members or Vice Presidents and argues that membership of the League is open to those who are not members of the Conservative Party. She describes herself as a "Unionist Free Trader and not a Radical", discusses the original intentions of the founders of the league and says that she would not resist the power of the Executive Committee to remove her name from the roll. Typescript. A further copy (without annotations) is at CHAR 28/51/20-21.

Dates

  • Creation: [Jan] [1906]

Conditions Governing Access

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Conditions Governing Use

Copyright: Peregrine Churchill

Extent

2 folio(s)

Language of Materials

English

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Repository Details

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