Immigrants
Found in 82 Collections and/or Records:
(Untitled), 02 Aug 1907
Letter from WSC to M Myers expressing satisfaction with Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman's recent speech on reform of the naturalisation laws and offering to take up the case of Dr Julius Friend [the subject of an anti-semitic campaign against his election as the Medical Officer to the Leeds Board of Guardians] if a Leeds MP does not do so. Copy in the hand of Annette Anning.
(Untitled), 05 Jan 1911
Letter from Sir Arthur Bigge [later Lord Stamfordham, Permanent Secretary to King George V] (York Cottage, Sandringham, Norfolk) to WSC thanking him on behalf of the King for forwarding newspaper cuttings relating to [Edward] Mylius' criminal libel against the King. He also discusses the recent "outrages by foreigners" [a reference to the "Siege of Sidney Street"] which the King hopes will make WSC re-consider the Aliens Act. Signed manuscript.
(Untitled), 05 Jan 1911
Letter from Sir Edward Henry [Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police] (New Scotland Yard) to WSC concerning the actions of Major Wodehouse [at the "Siege of Sidney Street"] particularly the requisition of guns. Signed manuscript annotated by WSC.
(Untitled), 05 Jan 1911
Letter from Josiah Wedgwood (Moddershall, Staffordshire) to WSC asking him not to be "rushed into exceptional laws against Anarchists" [as a result of the "Siege of Sidney Street"] as "human life does not matter a rap compared with the death of ideas". Signed manuscript.
(Untitled), 07 Jan 1911
(Untitled), 10 Jan 1911
Letter from Lord Northcliffe [earlier Sir Alfred Harmsworth] (the Daily Mail) to WSC explaining the reasons for errors made in an article by Mr Faulkner which quoted numbers of foreigners in London. Signed typescript annotated by John Pedder [Principal Assistant Secretary, Home Office]. See CHAR 28/117/59, CHAR 28/117/60 and CHAR 28/117/61.
(Untitled), 13 Apr 1911
Draft clauses to the Aliens Bill concerning the registration of aliens in fortified places and proposing that the King be given additional powers in respect of aliens in the event of a national emergency. Covering letter at CHAR 12/1/8.