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Penal sanctions

 Subject
Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus

Found in 130 Collections and/or Records:

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(Untitled), 28 Mar 1907

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/29/67
Scope and Contents

Letter from Herbert Gladstone [later Lord Gladstone] (Home Office) to WSC on the case of William Taylor, a prisoner serving a sentence for the attempted murder of Judge Parry. Signed typescript.

Dates: 28 Mar 1907
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 06 May 1909

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/39/52
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Letter from John Galsworthy (Wingstone, Manaton, Devon) to WSC asking him to read his open letter to the Home Secretary [?on prison reform] in the Nation and to advocate the plea therein if he agrees with it.

Dates: 06 May 1909
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 15 May 1909

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/39/53
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Letter from John Galsworthy (Wingstone, Manaton, Devon) to WSC thanking him for agreeing to write to the Home Secretary and for his appreciation of Galsworthy's play "Strife".

Dates: 15 May 1909
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 21 Sep 1910-28 Sep 1910

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/46/32
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Note from WSC (Home Office) to John Pedder enclosing a memorandum [not present] from the Socialist Lord Provost of Dundee [Scotland] on the reduction in crime following the imposition of a new whisky duty, 21 Sep 1910 Typescript annotated with Pedder's comments on the memorandum, 23 Sep [1910, and with note that it was sent to the Chancellor of the Exchequer [David Lloyd George], 28 Sep [1910]].

Dates: 21 Sep 1910-28 Sep 1910
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 15 Dec 1910

Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 28/117/57
Scope and Contents

Copy of a letter from [Lord Northcliffe, formerly Alfred Harmsworth] to WSC in which he expresses concern at the inaccuracy in the press of discussions concerning the treatment of convicts and asks whether WSC would give permission for a writer, artist and photographer to visit prisons to research a series of articles for his London magazine.

Dates: 15 Dec 1910
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