Press
Found in 460 Collections and/or Records:
(Untitled), 28 Jan 1931
Telegram from 1st Lord Rothermere [owner of the Daily Mail, earlier Sir Harold Harmsworth] (Monte Carlo [Monaco]) to WSC congratulating him on his speech [on India] and promising unlimited support.
(Untitled), 29 Jan 1931
Letter from 1st Lord Rothermere [owner of the Daily Mail, earlier Sir Harold Harmsworth] (Riviera Palace Hotel, Monte Carlo [Monaco]) to WSC urging him to continue with his campaign on India and promising to give him as much publicity as he wants.
(Untitled), 31 Jan 1931
(Untitled), 07 Feb 1931
Telegram from WSC to 1st Lord Rothermere [owner of the Daily Mail, earlier Sir Harold Harmsworth] (Royal Hotel, San Remo, [Italy]) reporting a satisfactory talk with [William] McWhirter [Managing Director, Associated Newspapers Limited] and [Herbert] Wilson. [Typescript copy].
(Untitled), 03 Feb 1931
(Untitled), 03 Feb 1931
(Untitled), 16 Feb 1931
Letter from Sir [John] Mark Hunter, Secretary of the Indian Empire Society (28 Alfred Place, [London]) to WSC on press publicity for the meeting at the Albert Hall [London]; includes draft notice to the Press Association.
(Untitled), 08 Feb [1916]
Letter from CSC to WSC, on meeting with one of his officers, Lt. Jock McDavid, also on the Northcliffe press's opposition to WSC, and the possibility of Lord Fisher returning to office. Typescript transcript at CHAR 1/118B/61-62.
(Untitled), [Jan 1932]
Letter from Louis Alber [President, Affiliated Lecture and Concert Association Incorporated] to Senator William Borah, regretting the newspaper coverage of his attempt to arrange for Borah and WSC to debate the question of recognition of the Soviet Union. [Copy].
(Untitled), 10 Mar [1905]
Letter from Sir Douglas Straight (Pall Mall Gazette, Newton Street, Holborn, [London]) to WSC asking him to agree to be photographed for publication in the Pall Mall Gazette and congratulating him on his speech on his motion in the House of Commons against imperial preference. 1 card.
(Untitled), 19 Feb 1906
Letter from Herbert Vivian (Hotel de Luxembourg, Promenade des Anglais, Nice, [France]) to WSC on: "The Curiosity of Literature", "The River War", and the best way of engaging in published controversy with Colonel [?Ivor] Maxse; Vivian's review of WSC's last book; the activities of "those Labour devils". Suggests WSC meet Horatio Bottomley with a view to getting "our own paper to draw blood properly.".
(Untitled), 26 Feb 1907
Letter from William Parry, chemist (Port Victoria, South Australia) criticising James Kier Hardy and complaining of the Protectionist stance of newspapers in Australia. Urges WSC to continue his fight for Free Trade. Encloses newspaper cuttings [see CHAR 2/29/39].
(Untitled), 25 Apr 1908
Letter from E P Stevenson (15 Old Cavendish Street, [London]) to WSC congratulating him on his campaign [in North-West Manchester] and on his attack on the Harmsworth Press. Denounces the methods of the Daily Mail.
(Untitled), 16 May 1907
Letter from J Moore Bayley (47 Temple Row, Birmingham) to WSC praising his rebuke of the press in the House of Commons on the previous night [occasioned by an inaccurate report on the Colonial Conference in the Daily Mail].
(Untitled), 17 May 1907
Letter from Herbert de Reuter (Reuter's Telegram Company Limited, 24 Old Jewry, London) to WSC explaining why the company did not cable to South Africa the whole of WSC's response in the House of Commons to the Daily Mail's false report of an incident at the Colonial Conference. Signed typescript. Annotated by WSC insisting that the full text of his answer was covered by Parliamentary privilege and should have been cabled.
(Untitled), 21 May 1907
Letter from Cornelia, Lady Wimborne (Canford Manor, Wimborne, [Dorset]) to WSC referring to his recent speech in Edinburgh [Scotland] in which he attacked the Daily Mail and inviting him to come and address a meeting on land reform.
(Untitled), 21 May 1907
Letter from A P Stevenson (12 Brunswick Square, Brighton, [Sussex]) to WSC congratulating him on his attack on the Daily Mail.
(Untitled), 21 May 1907
Letter from ?John Wighes (Holly Bank, Repton, Burton-on- Trent, [Staffordshire]) to WSC endorsing his attack on the Daily Mail.
(Untitled), 23 May 1907
Letter from Herbert Vivian (The Pleasaunce, Woking, [Surrey]) to WSC reporting C Arthur Pearson's explanation of why he was attacking WSC in his newspapers and his pledge to Vivian to desist if WSC made it clear that his (WSC's) attacks on Sir Alfred Harmsworth [later 1st Lord Northcliffe] did not include Pearson. Vivian offers to start a violent campaign against the "reptile press" if WSC does not wish to make concessions to Pearson.
(Untitled), [Sep 1908]
Letter from Lord Northcliffe [earlier Sir Alfred Harmsworth] (Carlton Hotel, Frankfurt-am-Main, [Germany]) to WSC on newspaper reporting of political speeches.
(Untitled), 17 Aug 1903
Letter from Sir Sidney Low to WSC, on Canadian desire for an English Preference Party, also commenting that if free traders wanted good press coverage one of their millionaires should buy or start a newspaper, listing the likely attitudes of the press, most of whom would be hostile to the cause.
(Untitled), 31 Aug 1903
Letter from Lord Hugh Cecil [later Lord Quickswood] to WSC, on his inclination to give up politics, advising him not to trust Sir Alfred Harmsworth [later Lord Northcliffe] and the Daily Mail over free trade, listing possible future events in order of preference (his favoured solution was for Joseph Chamberlain to resign as Colonial Secretary.
(Untitled), 13 Oct 1903
Letter from Alfred Harmsworth, [later Lord Northcliffe] to WSC, denying responsibility for coverage of letter by WSC against protective tariffs in the Daily Mail.
(Untitled), 13 Oct 1903
Letter from Thomas Marlowe, Editor, Daily Mail, to WSC, apologies for coverage of letter by WSC against protective tariffs.
(Untitled), 02 Jun 1903
Letter from J. St Loe Strachey, Editor of The Spectator, to WSC, on his willingness to back "any Imperialist Free Trade League", even if this meant that the Spectator lost half of its readership.