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Cutting and texts of articles, letters and memoranda by LSA for the British Covenant against Irish Home Rule, with a petition form against the Home Rule Bill and issue of the Covenanter.

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Typescript and manuscript speech notes by LSA against Home Rule for Ireland, with print of an article by LSA for the Lancashire and Cheshire Junior Unionist.

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Includes: extracts from the Quarterly Review on Home Rule; published interview and correspondence between John Seely, Secretary of State for War [later 1st Lord Mottistone], General Sir Arthur Paget [Commander-in-Chief, Ireland] and Brigadier-General Hubert Gough [Commander, 3rd Cavalry Brigade at the Curragh], on resignations of officers in the Irish Command over the imposition of Home Rule; copies of Hansard covering the debate on the Government of Ireland Bill, March-April 1914.

Scope and Contents Written from Hotel Vouillemont and the Travellers' Club in Paris, 94 Piccadilly, the Naval & Military Club, the Royal Automobile Club, 59 Pont Street and the Beefsteak Club in London, Wemyss Castle in Fife, Wrotham Park in Hertfordshire, H.M. Dockyard in Portsmouth, Hopetoun House near Edinburgh and Innischonain in Argyll. Subjects include the attitude of Germany to the Peace, Home Rule in Ireland, the attempt to get to the bottom of the fraudulent pamphlet 'The Jewish Peril',...

Scope and Contents Written from Wemyss Castle in Fife, New Club in Edinburgh, The Corner House in Gullane, the House of Lords, 94 Piccadilly, the Naval & Military Club, 28 Half Moon Street, the Royal Automobile Club and the Beefsteak Club in London, Dorney Wood in Buckinghamshire and the Travellers' Club in Paris. Subjects include the prospect of peace in Ireland, Sir Winston Churchill's comments shortly before the deaths of Arthur Griffith and Michael Collins, Wemyss being advised not to invest any...

Scope and Contents Political and personal correspondence, including letters from most leading political figures of the time, Joseph Chamberlain, the Lord Justice Gerald Fitzgibbon, Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, third Marquis of Salisbury, and Sir Henry Drummond Wolff. The correspondence with Gerald Fitzgibbon sheds much light on Churchill's own career. Comprises letters written to Churchill by political and personal associates, and copies of letters written by him, covering the period 1870 - 1895,...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Lord Charles Beresford; Robert Borden, Prime Minister of Canada on the panic in the Conservative Party over food taxes, on preferential trade within the Empire and the Canadian political situation (3); [?] Charles Boyd; Sir Edward Carson (2); Lord [Edgar] Robert Cecil [later 1st Lord Cecil of Chelwood] on subjects including an enquiry into the Dublin Police, the involvement of Sir Harold Harmsworth [later 1st Lord Rothermere] in the Marconi Affair and Conservative...

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Press cuttings of articles by LSA written for the Morning Post against Home Rule for Ireland, with proofs and a copy of a pamphlet consisting of the collected articles.

Scope and Contents Papers and correspondence on events in Ulster over the imposition of Home Rule in Ireland, March 1914, with correspondents including: Major Philip Howell, 4th Hussars, on events in the crisis, and the involvement of various individuals including Winston Churchill [First Lord of the Admiralty] and General Sir Arthur Paget [Commander-in-Chief, Ireland] (3); [?] Sir Max Aitken [later 1st Lord Beaverbrook]; H A Gwynne [editor of the Morning Post]; "H W" [Lieutenant-Colonel Henry...

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Press cuttings and proofs of articles and letters by LSA for the Times and the Covenanter on Home Rule for Ireland, with annotated texts of speeches on the Home Rule bill, and a photograph of LSA with Sir Edward Carson, [?] 6th Lord Londonderry [earlier Lord Castlereagh], James Craig [later 1st Lord Craigavon and Percy Clive.

Also includes: letter from Sir Ulick Alexander, recalling a meeting with LSA in 1914.