Crime
Found in 135 Collections and/or Records:
(Untitled), 05 Nov 1910
(Untitled), 31 Aug 1942 - 04 Sep 1942
Letter from John Andrews [Prime Minister of Northern Ireland] to WSC informing him of the decision to lift the death sentence from six murderers; with reply.
(Untitled), 28 Mar 1907
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.
(Untitled), 06 May 1909
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.
(Untitled), 15 May 1909
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".
(Untitled), 27 Jul 1922
Letter from Sidney Oliver (Old Hall, Ramsden, [? Essex]) to WSC announcing that WSC will receive a copy of the report of Oliver's committee on the effect on prisoners of penal methods in recognition of his work for prison reform when he was Home Secretary.
(Untitled), 25 Nov 1927
Letter from Edward Morgan (95 Railway Street, Cardiff, [Wales]) to WSC praising him for securing the release of juvenile offenders when he was Home Secretary.
(Untitled), 24 Feb 1910 - 22 Jul 1910
Proofs of correspondence between WSC [Home Secretary] and John Galsworthy on abolishing solitary confinement in prisons, [from H V Marrot's biography of Galsworthy]. Covering letter CHAR 2/237/10. Date of proofs 1935.
(Untitled), 19 Jun 1935
Letter from A Morley Fletcher, Private Secretary to Katharine, Duchess of Atholl to the Private Secretary to WSC, enclosing a press cutting from the National Citizen, "Terrorism and Congress: The Sinn Fein of the East".
(Untitled), 15 Dec 1910
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.