HARDIE, John Keir, the WEBBS and MACDONALD, Ramsay: (Autograph Letter Collection)

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 106 9/19
Held at	: Women's Library   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.lse.ac.uk/Library/Collections/Collection-highlights/The-Womens-Library ›
Full title	: HARDIE, John Keir, the WEBBS and MACDONALD, Ramsay: (Autograph Letter Collection)
Date(s)	: 1908-1947
Level of description	: fonds
Extent	: 1 A box (1 volume)
Name of creator(s)	: Webb | (Martha) Beatrice | nee Potter | 1858-1943 | social reformer and diarist Webb | Sidney James | 1859-1947 | 1st Baron Passfield | social reformer and historian Strachey | Rachel Pearsall Conn (Ray) | nee Costelloe | 1887-1940 | feminist activist and writer
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Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Various

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

The collection contains the following: letters from Beatrice Webb to Miss M Lees (1908) on the treatment of infants in Oldham; Sidney Webb to Lady Strachey (1911) on model standing orders form; Beatrice Webb to Cavendish Bentinck (undated), Sidney Webb to CB (1912) on his role as suffragist, his wife's changing attitudes to the question and the Fabian Society; Sidney Webb to Cavendish Bentinck (1913); Ray Strachey to Sidney Webb (1919) asking permission to include name on advisory council with reply written on setting out position via women as 'blackleg' workers; Beatrice Webb to Miss Moore (undated.) on forms for committee membership sent out; card from Sidney Webb to Ray Strachey (1929) to say the copy of the requested publication is on its way and requesting payment); BW to 'Ruth' [Cavendish Bentinck] can't come to stay as too busy with BBC talk.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

The collection is arranged in chronological order.

Conditions governing access:

This collection is available for research. Readers are advised to contact The Women's Library in advance of their first visit. Available on microfiche only.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Finding aids:

Abstracts of individual letters in the autograph letters collection were written and held alongside the letters. This work was done from the 1960s by volunteers including Nan Taylor. In 2004 Jean Holder completed a 3 year project to list the letters, copy-type the abstracts, and repackage the letters to meet preservation needs. In 2005 Vicky Wylde and Teresa Doherty proof read and imported the entries to the Special Collections Catalogue.

The original card index of all correspondents, including date of letter and volume reference, is available on the microfiche.

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Allied Materials

Related material:

The Women's Library also holds personal papers of Ruth Cavendish-Bentinck (7RCB).

The main body of the papers of Beatrice Webb can be found in the London University: British Library of Political and Economic Science: diaries, correspondence and papers: 1870-1947, working papers on English local government, miscellaneous papers 1885-1925 (Reference : COLL MISC 043, 0238, 0241, 0359, 0849), correspondence with Lord Beveridge c1906-40 (Reference : BEVERIDGE),: correspondence with the ILP 1912-15 (Reference : BLPES/ILP/Section 4 passim), letters 1892-1942 (Reference : Fabian Society), correspondence with Dr Mcleary 1907-43 (Reference : COLL MISC 0979). The main body of the papers of Sidney Webb can also be found in the London University: British Library of Political and Economic Science: correspondence and papers 1870-1947 (Reference : Passfield), further correspondence and papers (Reference : Webb Trade Union), correspondence and papers (Reference : COLL MISC 156, 190, 240-43, 280, 282); his 1924 correspondence with J Ramsay MacDonald is held in the Public Records Office (Reference : PRO30/69/1/210).

Publication note:

Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Finding aid created by export from CALM v7.2.14 Archives Hub EAD2002. Edited for AIM25 by Sarah Drewery.

Rules or conventions:
In compliance with ISAD (G): General International Standard Archival Description - 2nd Edition (1999); UNESCO Thesaurus, December 2001; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions:
25/03/2008