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Personal Correspondence
Correspondence conducted between Frida Elhers, founder member of Common Wealth and National Committee Chairman, and:
Acland, Richard. 34 als, tls; 10.12.45-08.74. Correspondents include; Glyn Faithful, Edward Kennedy, Andrew Keir, Laurens Otter, Hugh Sharman. 44/1
Adlington, John. 8 als, tls; 03.11.73-28.03.76 44/2
Banks, John. 36 als, tls, 1 xerox; 21.05.47-26.02.76 44/2
Bannister, Don. 138 als, tls, xeroxes; 27.09.61-01.09.76 44/3
Bartlett, Vernon. 1 xerox 15.07.71 44/4
Bellway, Jack. 1 pc; 29.1.62 44/4
Bridge, Brian. 10 als, tls; 24.11.68-20.08.71 44/4
Brockway, Fenner. 1 xerox 23.09.65 44/4
Calder, Angus. 24 als, tls;10.02.65-11.05.68 44/4
Carpenter, John. 2 xeroxes 08.09.49-09.09.49 44/5
Cates, Chrystal. 59 als, tls;24.10.63-31.01.80 44/5
Clegg, Frida. 74 als, tls;31.08.73-04.11.76 44/6
Dalton, SR. 26 als, tls; 28.10.62-18.08.74 44/7
Evans, Peter. 2 xeroxes; 2205.71-24.05.71 44/7
Glaister, Dorothy. 12 als, tls; 23.11.73-29.08.74 44/8
Hodgkinson, Mary. 14 als, tls; 18.11.73-24.03.78 44/8
Hunt, Joe. 16 als, tls, encl.; 28.05.62-16.04.69 44/9
Hutton, Roger. 1 als 28.01.62 44/10
Jauralde, Adrian. 4 tls; 09.05.74-13.06.74 44/10
Kingerlee, CT. 1 tls 12.06.62 44/10
Lloyd, John. 21 als, tls; 17.02.63-21.04.72 44/10
Midlen, Nigel. 2 als; 08.06.61?-1.10.61 44/10
Moir, Ron. 16 als, tls, encl. "Diary of political and social service activities" 30.04.62-16.12.71. 44/10
Pilcher, Keith. 3 als 05.03.62-07.05.62 44/10
Priestley, JB. 4 tls, xeroxes; 27.01.48-10.08.61 44/10
Pritt, DN. 2 xeroxes 10.07.69-16.07.69 44/10
Randall, Nancy 36 als, tls; 05.04.66-15.12.73 44/11
Robertson, Adrian. 15 als, tls, telegram; 02.03.65-26.08.74 44/11
Robinson, John, Bishop of Woolwich. 2 xeroxes 07.06.69-16.07.69 44/11
Russell, C. 3 als, tls; 28.01.62-4.02.62. Correspondents include R. Stanier. 44/11
Russell, OE. 11 als, tls; 05.03.73-02.02.78 44/11
Salmon, Phillida .37 als, tls; 07.03.65-16.08.76 44/12
Smith, CA. 59 als, tls, encl. newsletter "Enfield Anglo-Israel Friendship league"; 06.09.45-05.11.79. 44/13
Stockbridge, John. 20 als, tls; 27.06.62-13.06.74 44/14
Stuckey, Douglas. 45 als, tls; 03.06.61-25.10.74 44/14
Watkins, Avis 37 als, tls; 05.06.69-22.02.78 44/15
Watkins, Roger. 1 als undated 44/15
Yee, Wang. 3 xeroxes; 20.10.53-15.02.54 44/15
Unidentified
Olive [?]. 1 als 03.01.65 44/16
Anniversary Lunch, July 1992
5 photographs, annotated with names of attendees 45/1
Annual General Meeting 1993
Accounts, agenda, minutes; 5pp ts, ms February-March 1993 45/2
Branches
Blackburn Branch
Ms reports on annual conferences 1949 and 1950 45/3
Bristol Branch
Correspondence
13 als, tls, pc: 25.02.49-10.8.76, encl. list of conference motions, list of branch members. Correspondents include: Peter Adams, Don Bannister, Frida Elhers, Frederick Justin, Phil Page, Vera Ricks, R.J. Swaine. 45/4
Committees
1957 Committee
Correspondence
85 als, tls, pcs, drafts, 18.07.57-05.04.60 (6 undated). Correspondents: J. Allen Skinner, Ernest Bader, John Banks, R Barnett, Olwen Battersby, Phoebe Berrow, April Carter, Alice Elliott, Christopher Farley, Lorna Lawrence, Annie Maxton, Elionor Murphy, M.J. Sagar, Michael Scott, Gene Sharp, Colin Tutt (general manager - Shaftesbury Hotel). 45/5
Other
38pp drafts, minutes, addresses, press-cuttings, pamphlets, lecture notes; 1950s + 1990 45/6
Five Party Committee
Correspondence
BBC 45/7
32 als, tls: 19.01.56-02.05.89 (1 undated) (some copies) + press-cutting dated 27.05.89. Correspondents: John Banks, Sir Norman Bottomley, Michael Bowen, Jo Garner, Neil Grant, Eric L. Fenner, Ian Jacob, Wilfred Wigham
Electoral Deposits 45/8
87 als, tls, drafts, pcs, carbons, copies, lists of recipients of press releases: 01.05.54-05.02.57 (2 undated) + encl. press-cuttings. Correspondents: John Arlott, John Banks, Anthony Wedgewood Benn, Lord Beveridge, Violet Bonham Carter, V. Brittain, Fenner Brockway, Ritchie Calder, G. Davies (pp Prime Minister), J.E. Jones, A. Hollamby Robinson, Annie Masters, G.W. Pears, Robert Pollard, Reginald Reynolds, J.F.S. Ross, Douglas Savory, R. Sheilton (pp Secretary of State), Donald Soper, Mary Stocks, Douglas Stuckey, Buck Taylor, W.J. Taylor, Wilfred Wigham, George Worsely
Income and Expenditure 45/9
13 als, tls: 10.01.57-18.05.58 (1 undated) + ms enclosure 'Five-Part Committee: Income & Expenditure Account, from May 23rd 1956 (including advance payments for May 23rd Committee meeting)'. Correspondents: A.S. Breece, C. Cates, Eric Fenner, John B. Smart, Wilfred Wigham
Independent Television Authority 45/10
19 als, tls (2 undated) (some copies) + enclosures; 16.06.56-21.05.58 Re discussion group programmes. Correspondents: J. Allen Skinner, Geoffrey Cox, J.D.R. Cuthbert, Eric Fenner, B.C. Scudell, Douglas Stuckey, W.J. Taylor, Wilfred Wigham
Miscellaneous 46/1
14 als, copies: 09.12.55-11.1.57. Includes committee meeting dates, progress of activities, also re case of Robin Warman, in a military prison following going AWOL
Pilkington report 46/2
1 tls Buck Taylor to John [Banks?] re broadcasting; 17.10.60. Also includes 5 memoranda, reports; 1955-1962
Post Master General 46/3
49 als, tls (1 undated), pcs, memos, carbons, drafts: 09.01.56-11.02.59 + encl. Correspondents: John Banks, K.H. Cadbury, G.M. Collins, Eric Fenner, M. Jefferies (Private Secretary Home Secretary and Lord Privy Seal), Ernest Marples, R. Martin, N. Moore, Annie Moreton, John B. Smart, Wilfred Wigham
Publicity 46/4
195 als, tls, pcs, press-cuttings, drafts, memorandums, telegram: 19.07.55-13.08.58 (11 undated)+ encl. copies. Correspondents: John Banks, Don Bannister, Hugh A. Brock, Emrys Roberts, Eric Fenner, Kenneth Harriss (The Observer), V. Hughes, Dave Jacobs, Elizabeth Jones, J.E. Jones, Alan Litherland, D.E. Ludlow, Margaret Macdonald, Ronald S. Mallone, Annie Maxton, Grace Nack, New Scotland Yard, T.D. Nudds, Stephen Pierssené, Morgan Phillips, V.W. Phillips, E. Roberts, R.P. Rowe, John B. Smart, Douglas Stuckey, Buck Taylor, J.A. White (The Times), Wilfred Wigham, Geraint Williams
Trafalgar Square Rally, Easter 1956 46/5
130 als, tls, pcs, carbons, encls, cards, copies (8 undated); 21.7.55-10.08.56: invitations to speak, detailed arrangements, minutes, publicity, invoices, receipts, press-cuttings, photocopies, programmes, insurance policy, telegram. Correspondents: E. Archibald, John Banks, Idris Bell, Violet Bonham Carter, Iain Burgess, Ritchie Calder, A. Cooper, Meredith Edwards, R.R.G. Elhers, David Hughes Evans, Tadhg Feehan, S.M. Fisher, Jim Halliday, E.A. Hartley, Christopher Hollis, A.G. Horsley, L.W. Jeffries, Elizabeth Jones, G.V.C. Keats, Annie Maxton, Freda Nuell, J.F.L. Otter, Reginald Reynolds, Kate Roberts, J.F.S. Ross, E.H. Sales, Donald Soper, John B. Smart, Wilfred Wigham, D.J. Williams, F. Wilson (Scotland Yard)
Other
Five Party Committee on rights of minority parties, especially broadcasting, and on parliamentary election candidates 46/6
Ts agendas and minutes of meetings of 16.12.55, 20.03.56, 23.05.56, 17.04.56, 29.10.56, 17.12.56, 15.01.57, 24.01.57, 29.01.57, 05.03.57, 17.06.57, 18.05.57, 07.02.58
'Vote for them' 46/7
60 pp ts of 'Vote for them', a television play in three acts by David Edgar and Neil Grant, 1988
Committees: miscellaneous
5 items: reports of Executive, National and Sensory Committees; 1940s-1970s 47/1
Demintry (Society for the Democratic Integration of Industry)
Correspondence
9 tls + encl.; 03.09.57-10.03.64. Correspondents: Ernest Bader, John Banks, P.E. Thornton. 47/3
Other
9 items: pamphlets, drafts, notes, leaflets, minutes, reports; 1950s-1960s. 47/3
Libertarian/Common Wealth Journal
Correspondence
7 tls; 09.08.65, 04.09.85, 21.07.93, 16.09.93 (others undated). Includes enclosed article "Throwing bread on the waters", Demos, Winter 1993 re CW mission statement; 16.09.93 and 4p ts enclosure giving production specifications. Correspondents; John Banks, Andrew Carey, Gwynfor Evans, Buck Taylor. 47/2
Other
4 copies of Common Wealth Journal, formerly The Libertarian; nos. 32 (Winter 1990/1), 33 (Summer 1991), 34 (Winter 1991/2), 36 (Summer 1993). 47/2
3pp notes [undated] 47/2
Financial Appeals
Correspondence
24 tls: 12.12.45-01.01.61 + 1 encl. receipt. Corespondents include: John Banks, George Wallace, Hubert Wilson. 47/4
Manifesto
Correspondence
7 tls , 06.11.69-18.02.71 + others undated + encl. CW manifesto. Correspondents: John Banks, Frida Elhers, Laurens Otter, Buck Taylor, Katherine Winterborn. 47/5
Other
44pp ms, ts drafts. notes, manifestos; predominantly undated, 1 annotated 1966. 47/5
Oxford Campaign
Correspondence
41 als, tls(3 undated); 31.08.59-06.11.61. Correspondents: John F. Adamson, Christopher Autton, Dafydd Bates, Brian Bridge, E. Glyn Davies, R.R. Davies, V.A. Demant, A. Durham, John Grove, John Lloyd, M. Lofting, Frida Elhers, Oxford Police Department, W.H. Pritchard, Enid M. Roberts, Ron Moir, Donald Stuckey, Buck Taylor, W.T. Taylor, Wally, Roger Watkins, John J. Williams. 47/6
Other
12 items: meeting invitations, lists of addressees, balance sheets, press-cuttings, questionnaires, memos; [1959-1964] 47/6
Pamphlets
3 pamphlets: "Author index", Summer 1967; 12pp; "An outline of Guild Socialism", by Roger Tite; 6pp [undated]; "War 3", by Andy Anderson and Don Bannister; 10pp [undated]. 47/7
Parties
Plaid Cymru
Correspondence
61 als, tls: 01.01.51-15.05.66 (2 undated). Includes press releases and press-cuttings. Correspondents: John Banks, Gwynfar Evans, Anne Jones, Dafydd Orwig Jones, Elizabeth Jones, J.E. Jones, Tudur Jones, Emrys Roberts, C.K. Smith, Michael Wolfers. 47/8
Other
13 items: press-cuttings, press-releases, pamphlets, leaflets, drafts, etc; 1950s 47/8
Scottish National Party
Correspondence
7 als, tls; 29.03.57-29.04.58. Principal correspondents; John Banks, John B. Smart, Buck Taylor. 47/9
Joint Public meeting: Scottish National Party/Common Wealth/Plaid Cymru: 25th September 1956
8 ts, invoices, receipts, accounts; 12.09.56-25.09.56 47/10
Policy documents from files of Frida Ehlers
10 items: drafts, manifestos, reports, etc; 1950s-1970s 47/11
Press-cuttings, press-releases, articles
8 items: press-cuttings, press-releases, drafts; 1953-1993. Include obituaries of Richard Acland. 47/12
Prisoners
The case of Andreo Geffroy
Correspondence
27 als, tls, pcs, press releases (2 undated); 01.04.53-24.04.54. Correspondents: J. Allen Skinner, R.J.B. Anderson, John Banks, Noelle Davies, P. Howard, Iain MacKinnon, H. Penfold, Henry Wales, Wally. 47/13
Other
8pp ms, ts, notes, drafts, leaflet, press-cuttings re case of Andreo Geffroy. Includes report of Common Wealth visit to Geffroy in prison in Paris, and pamphlet The case of Andreo Geffroy, by Noelle Davies. 47/13
Conditions for civil prisoners in Brixton prison, in particular the imprisonment of Allen Skinner.
20 carbon, ts, ms; 09.01.60-09.03.60 (2 undated). Correspondents: J Allen Skinner, John Banks, Don Bannister, Eileen Brock, Fenner Brockway, Governer of Brixton, JH Walker (Prison Commission), Geoffrey Woolley. 47/14
Publicity
6 items: posters, programmes, etc for public meetings and conferences; 1945-1962. 47/15
Scottish Secretariat
Correspondence
3 tls; 07.08.54-27.11.55. Correspondents: John Banks and R.E. Muirhead. 47/16
Miscellaneous correspondence
19 ms, als, + encl.; 31.05.45-05.09.85. Correspondents: John Banks, D.M. Black, Angus Calder, Frida Elhers, Ernest Green, John Hammond, Hugh Lawson, G.B. Suggett. 47/17
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