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Correspondence.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Any forms of addressed and written communication sent and received, including letters, postcards, memorandums, notes, telegrams, or cables.

Found in 7214 Collections and/or Records:

Political correspondence of William Elliot of Wells., 1795-1818.

 File
Identifier: MS.12902
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows. (i) Fair copy, with minor corrections in his own hand, of a 'public letter', 14 May 1795, of Edmund Burke to William Elliot of Wells, published posthumously by the first editors of Burke's 'Works' in ‘Two letters on the conduct of our domestick parties (folio 1); (ii) Correspondence of William Elliot of Wells with the Earl Fitzwilliam on various constituency and political matters, 1801, 1816-1818 (folio 15); (iii) Letters of Walter King, Bishop of Rochester, to...
Dates: 1795-1818.

Political papers and correspondence of Andrew Stuart., 1767-1787, undated.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.8258-8259
Scope and Contents

The subjects include: local politics in Lanarkshire, the county which Stuart represented in Parliament from 1774 to 1784; the American War of Independence; affairs in India; Stuart's conduct while in office; and political affairs in general.

Dates: 1767-1787, undated.

Political papers of Sam Ghibaldan.

 Sub-Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13669
Scope and Contents

Papers of Sam Ghibaldan chiefly relating to the Liberal Democrats in Westminster (1995-1997), including the Cook-Maclennan talks which led to the Blair government’s constitutional reform agenda; ‘Make Votes Count’, which was the pro-AV+ campaign in the electoral reform referendum that Blair’s government ultimately failed to hold; and the two Scottish coalitions (1999-2007).

Dates: 1996-2007

Political papers of the 4th Earl of Minto., 1873-1892.

 File
Identifier: MS.12548
Scope and Contents

Contains correspondence and papers on parliamentary business, namely the 4th Earl of Minto's possible candidature for North Lincolnshire, 1873 (folio 1); his candidature for Hexham, 1886 (folio 29); and the Parliamentary Committee on field voles, of which Lord Minto was a member, 1892 (folio 126).

Dates: 1873-1892.

Political papers of William Hannan.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13391
Scope and Contents

The collection comprises photographs and correspondence, c.1945-1974, concerning Hannan’s political career and his time in Clement Attlee’s cabinet, with several letters of two British Prime Ministers: Clement Attlee and Harold Wilson. Furthermore, it includes Hannan’s ministerial despatch box and an illustrated edition of ‘The Dolly Ballads’ by Robert Blatchford, inscribed by Herbert Morrison, MP, to Helen Hannan, William’s daughter.

Dates: c.1945-1974.