Folder endorsed 'India General': 2 copies of Attock-on-the-Indus by George Adam Smith, with RAB's first letter to his grandmother, Mary Butler; scale drawing of elevation of mantle clock; programme of Lord and Lady Irwin's visit to Nagpur, 1926; essay on Attock by RAB; 2 silhouette caricatures of Butler family in Central Provinces; printed and typescript reports of 1931 Round Table Conference and Committees; speech notes; various letters and papers on Indian policy including report of meeting with W.S. Morrison, letters from Samuel and Maud Hoare, correspondence with Marquess of Dufferin and Ava, congratulations on House of Commons speech of 29 March 1933 and on leaving India Office, condolences on death of Sir Harcourt Butler in March 1939

One bundle of loose papers; RAB's notes on franchise; note on programme of Indian provincial reforms; 2 pamphlets on the White Paper and reform proposals by Sir John Perronet Thompson; letters from Sir Harcourt Butler giving reasons for refusal to join any committee on India and views on Burma; report of meeting with R.D. Blumenfeld; leaflet explaining Union of Britain and India organisation; correspondence with Sir Claude Hill, Governor of Isle of Man, and others about succession of Sir Montagu Butler to Governorship

Notes and drafts for House of Commons Burma speech of Dec 1934, speeches at Liverpool and Cambridge; India Office internal memos and papers, mainly representations concerning reforms

Arrangements and guest lists for official functions and also 1936 cocktail party at Stanstead Hall

Folder labelled 'India', containing general background material for Round Table Conference. Translation of article from Frankfurter Zeitung entitled 'India! The swaying bridge - England's greatest problem', [1929]. Statement of Policy by the Indian Empire Society [1931]. Booklet entitled 'The Daily Mail Blue Book on the Indian Crisis' 1931. Booklet entitled 'Mahatma Gandhi's movement from both sides' by Equity, 1931. Pamphlet entitled 'India. A restatement of Conservative Policy', by Sir Samuel Hoare, 1931. Speech on India given by Sir John Simon in House of Commons, 1931. 'Appreciation of the Indian Situation' by R[obert] J[emmett] S[topford], private secretary to Chairman of Indian Statutory Commission 1928-1930, 1931. Note by G.H. Baxter on Indian financial position, 1931. Letter to RAB from Eleanor Rathbone, enclosing her article in child marriage in India and memo on questions affecting status and welfare of Indian Women, 1931. Note on 'The present situation' in India by Robert Jemmett Stopford, with covering letter to RAB, 1931. Appeal by the Taluqdars of Oudh, [1931]. Note on 'The Indian situation after the second session of the India Round Table Conference' by D. Madhava Rao, [1931]. 'A forecast of the Indian situation next year: Gandhi's attitude on his arrival in India and other consequent developments' by D. Madhara Rao, [1931].

Second report of the Minorities Committee to the Second Session of the Round Table Conference. Supplementary statement by Dr B.S. Moonje with reference to Appendix VI of the Second report of the Minorities Committee, with covering note of 24 Nov 1931. Supplementary memorandum by Sir Provash Chunder Mitter on the Communal Question, with reference to Appendix XV of the Second report of the Minorities Committee, with covering note of 24 Nov 1931. Criticism by Raja Narendra Nath of the Pact between Muslims, Depressed Classes, Anglo-Indians and Europeans. To form Appendix XX of the Second report of the Minorities Committee

ConferenceComparative statement of the main recommendations of the Simon Commission Report and the Round Table Conference

Notes by Sir Manubhai Mehta on railway jurisdiction in States territories and extradition, circulated to Consultative Committee of Round Table Conference

Printed copies of letters between Mahatma Gandhi and Sir Samuel Hoare and Ramsay MacDonald about representation of the Depressed Classes and Gandhi's proposed fast to death in Yeravda Central Prison over the issue of communal electorates, together with India Office information pamphlet on the Depressed Classes in India; papers relating to allocation of States' seats.

Government of India Reforms Office memo on future of the Political Department in a Federated India, in relation to Indian States; another relating to federal finance; Foreign and Political Department recommendations on Report of the Indian States Committee (Financial) 1932; draft telegram from Secretary of State for India to Government of India Foreign and Political Department on Crown's relations with the States in matters outside the federal sphere; India Office internal letter to RAB on projected nature of Instrument of Instructions in relation to Indianisation of the Army

Copy of letter from Sir Malcolm Hailey to Sir Findlater Stewart giving his views on the scheme for Federal Constitution

Note by Dr Burgin on India Cabinet Committee meeting re commercial discrimination, with two attached memos

India Office internal note on financial reasons for indirect election as given by Simon Report.

Copy speech notes entitled 'Head G and H' for Round Table Conference on problem of the limitations to be imposed on competence of Federal and Provincial Legislatures.

Copy letter to Sir Findlater Stewart about proposed powers of the Nizam in Berar.

Suggested replies to questions on commercial representation arising in Round Table discussion.

Printed Cabinet memo and press cutting about the 'Unity' Conference at Allahabad.

Memo and supplementary note on establishment of Reserve Bank for India; two notes on treatment in India of professional men having qualifications entitling them to practise in the U.K.; two papers on the distribution of powers in India.

Record of a meeting between States representatives and representatives of His Majesty's Government: covers State Courts, disaffection, oath of allegiance, extradition, citizenship and railway jurisdiction.

Memo form the Princes embodying safeguards approved as being essential to their interests in an All-India Federation, with note by Sir Maurice Gwyer on same.

Extracts from various countries' constitutional laws, circulated by Secretary of Round Table Conference Consultative Committee

Report of the Tribunal on certain questions in regard to defence expenditure on dispute between the Government of India, the War Office and the Air Ministry

Explanatory notes on the Third Session of the Round Table Conference, position of the Government on 'essential safeguards' to be embodied in future Indian constitution, debate in House of Commons on Sir Henry Page Croft's Indian Resolution, next stage of India discussions

Material for House of Commons speeches answering Labour criticism of Third Round Table Conference procedure, absence of a transitory period in the White Paper, possible disappearance of anti-Congress nature of Federal Upper House, proposed amendments to Sam Hoare's Motion to appoint a Joint Select Committee on Indian Constitutional Reform; Lord Zetland's criticisms that Governor-General would be overworked and that Viceroy would be drawn into party politics

Printed and typescript working papers of IFC, including Report of the Government of Bombay on the Questionnaire of the IFC, statistics of population and franchise taken from censuses, written statements on the Questionnaire from private bodies and individuals, opinions of the Collectors on the group system of indirect voting, note on procedure of an election to the Bombay Legislative Council, various notes by individual Indians and organisations, report of the Provincial Franchise Committee on the Questionnaire, copy letters between Reforms Officer to Government of Bombay and IFC.

Similar file, including views on Report of the Indian Statutory Commission of 1930.

Including Madras Government pamphlet on the working of the Legislatures and the franchise 1928, circulars to election officials on polling procedures in Madras 1930, Report of the Committee on the method of ballot for Ceylon 1930 and additional note, memo of the grievances of the Ventatagiri Zamindari Ryots in relation to proposed amendment of Madras Estates Land Act of 1908.

Instructions to Presiding and Polling Officers 1930, suggestions by Professor J.B. Raju on the Indian franchise Question 1931, pamphlet by R.N. Gilchrist, Government of Bengal, Commerce Department, on Indian Labour and the Land

Note on the system of franchise in Local Boards 1930. Dinner invitation from Sardar Ujjal Singh, Lahore, forms the base of folder

Royal Commission on Indian Labour: supplementary memo from Government of United Provinces 1930, time table of IFC train from Lucknow to New Delhi, agenda of IFC for 18 March, instructions for Presiding or Polling Officers 1930, annual reports on the working of the Trade Unions Act in the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh 1929-1931

The Sikh Gurdwaras election rules 1925 (printed 1929), memos giving views of Government of Punjab on the recommendation of the Indian Statutory Commission 1930, annual reports on the working of the Indian Factories Act and the Indian Trade Unions Act 1926 in the Punjab, memos prepared for the use of the Indian Statutory Commission including details of franchise and electorate, catalogue of pictures, documents and all other objects of interest in the Punjab Government Record Office, IFC agenda for 4 April.

Note on the representation of Labour in India by N.M. Joshi, general note on military service as a qualification for the vote. Series of memos submitted by national bodies with an Ind. Ref. No., including All India Depressed Classes Association, Anglo-Indian and Domiciled European Association, All-India Cantonments Association, National Liberal Federation of India, the Hindu Mahasabha

'North West Frontier Province' Summary of legislative arrangements in Coorg, Delhi and Ajmere-Merwara, lists of members of NWFP Franchise Committee, electoral rules and papes relating to first Legislative Council elections, precis of meetings of IFC 7-23 March 1932, memo presented to Indian Statutory Commission on the system of administration in the NWFP, Survey of India tables for NWFP giving statistics for population, occupations, religion, education, race, language etc., The Khyber Mail for 11 April 1932

A summary of the more salient facts respecting the status and conditions of Indian women and of some of the proposals for improving and safe-guarding their well-being [incomplete] by the Hon. Mary Pickford, Who's Who of IFC and six of the Provincial Franchise Committees, Indian constitutional reform: memo on policy the Council of the European Association, draft constitution of the Indian Trades Union Federation, summary of proceedings of the Round Table Conference 2-7 1931, Third Report of the Federal Structure Sub-Committee to Round Table Conference No 1931, statement by the Prime Minister, J. Ramsay MacDonald, at the conclusion of the Second Session of the Round Table Conference 1 Dec 1931 (Command Paper 3972), copy letter from Prime Minister to Marquess of Lothian communicating H.M. Government's wishes regarding work of Franchise Committee, notes by J.G. Laithwaite giving population of major Indian provinces and percentage of rural and urban voters to total population of Provincial Legislative Council [two versions], three copies of IFC Questionnaire, two with additional questions on extension of franchise, memo on village panchayats, notes on electoral systems of Egypt, Turkey, Iraq and Palestine, memo on women's franchise submitted to IFC by National Union of Societies for Equal Citizenship, precis of proceedings of IFC meetings 1 Feb 1932-4 March 1932, note by Miss Eleanor Rathbone giving her impressions on women's franchise and political status, copy telegram from Secretary of State for India to the Viceroy soliciting views of Provincial Governments on size of Provincial Legislatures and allied matters, with copy reply from the Punjab

RAB's brief ms. notes on arguments against group voting and for a Second Chamber, note on percentage of voters to population (see also above), printed extracts from official documents with a note on franchise by the secretary to the Provincial Franchise Committee of Bihar and Orissa? Intended for use by Bihar and Orissa Committee, memo to IFC from the Proportional Representation Society, note by Miss Eleanor Rathbone (as above), note on women's franchise by the Hon. Mary Pickford, note by Miss Eleanor Rathbone (another copy above)

Uncorrected proofs of verbatim proceedings of IFC meetings 23-4 Feb, 7-15 March, extracts from precis of IFC meeting of 14 March

Views of Punjab Government on points referred by IFC for further consideration, note on proposals about women, notes by J.A. Dawson of Shillong on method of calculating an electorate of 15 per cent of the population and how elections could be conducted with a 15 per cent electorate, note on percentage of population recommended for enfranchisement by local governments and Provincial Franchise Committees, memo by the Hon. Mary Pickford on women's franchise and representation, uncorrected proof of verbatim proceedings of IFC meeting 23-30 March, stray page of statistics for NWFP, part of N.696 relating to depressed classes in Bengal and Bihar and Orissa. This folder originally contained a number of numbered notes relating to specific provinces which have been transferred to their respective files: details on the folders

The Romanes Lecture 1912: Lord Chatham as an orator by Henry Montagu Butler, official report of House of Commons debates 5 March 1931, including statement on end of Civil Disobedience in India, report of the Proportional Representation Society 1930-1 on Parliament and electoral reform, pamphlet The cause of Indian unrest by Brig. Gen. F.D. Frost, Labour Gazettes published by Government of Bombay Nov 1931, Feb 1932, annual report 1930-1 on the working of the Indian Trade Unions Act (1926) for the Bombay Presidency, official report of Bombay Legislative Council debates 14 March 1932, including resolution on moral franchise, president's address by S. Ujjal Singh at the Sikh Political Conference, Lahore 1932, proofs of written answers to Franchise Committee Questionnaire from Bengal, precis of IFC meetings 30 March 1932-8 April 1932, proofs of oral evidence before IFC Lahore 1 April 1932, 'The R.T.C. Farce' and other articles reprinted from The Indian Daily Telegraph

Folder endorsed Electoral Reform. Copy of the Representation of the People Bill (No.2) Jan 1931, typescript notes on various clauses of the Bill, with RAB's annotations relating to Indian voting methods, various papers from groups favouring retention of University Representation, two House of Commons order papers, stray page from West India Committee Circular giving world's sugar crop estimates

Uncorrected proofs, written answers to Questionnaire, oral evidence 16-18 Feb 1932 Bengal, written answers and evidence 29 Feb 1932-4 March 1932 Madras, written answers Central Provinces, note on Second Chambers by C.Y. Chinatamani, statistical table of literacy of women by race, note on representation of Labour to be inserted into draft chapter on Federal Legislature (annotated by RAB), draft chapter of IFC Report on multi-member and single member constituencies (annotated by RAB)

Typescript and printed notes, some relating to specific provinces, typescript and printed drafts of chapters of IFC Report, with RAB's annotations, agenda papers etc. Some duplication. Includes abstract of all written evidence. Left as found. Not in date order

Typescript and printed notes and drafts as above. Includes abstract of views on composition of future Provincial Legislature, precis of evidence given at Lucknow 19-21 March 1932, RAB's note on reasons for a Second Chamber in the Provinces of British India. Left as found

6 visiting cards, n.d., Hotel room notice requesting guests of lock up valuables, n.d., Indian Posts and Telegraph Department, 8 unused forms A1 for inland telegrams, 3 unused forms A1 for inland telegrams Account by RAB of Punjab Government Cattle Farm, Hissar, List of addresses and telephone numbers of members of the Indian Franchise Committee in Simla, Letter to RAB from A. Rangaswami Iyengar, enclosing a reprint from The Hindu of a lecture given by him on 1932 on 'Indian Federal Finance' 1932, Note, probably by Punjabi officials, about the communal question, Note by the Muslim members of the Franchise Committee (printed in the draft report), L1 I[ndian] F[ranchise] C[ommittee] (WOP): memoranda received in answer to a Franchise Committee Questionnaire. Appear to be related to the Punjab, 1932, Draft of Report of Indian Franchise Committee (Chapter IX and Appendixes I-IV and VI wanted) Various L and Lc code nos, IFC (WOP), Minute of dissent by Messrs S.B. Tambe, C.Y. Chintamani and R.R. Bakhale, Government House, Central Provinces, tennis list for the day. Players include the Governor, Sir Montagu Butler and R.A. Butler

Reform Pamphlets and memoranda. Includes H.S.L. Polak, Mr Gandhi's arrest and the events leading up to it (1932), notes on the Poona Pact (Removed from spring-back file)

Reform Memoranda and notes. Mostly re law and order, policing, Governor's anti-terrorist powers and functions of Secretaries and Head of Departments in a Provincial Government (Removed from spring-back file, label of which is illegible due to silverfish damage)

Notes, papers and memoranda. Mainly re 'relation of the Centre to the Provinces' and financial implications of federal autonomy (Removed from spring-back file)

Government of India Finance Department memorandum on Federal finance for discussion by JSC; JSC memorandum on financial implications of (1) Provincial autonomy and (2) Federation

Notes and memoranda (some duplicated elsewhere) including about scope of discussions of JSC, seats in the Federal Legislature, bicameral legislature, finance, secondary election, Berar, Sind and Orissa, corruption and oppression, and composition of the Central Government of India; notes prepared for RAB's use of JSC; RAB's ms. notes on proceedings; report of proceedings 12 Oct 1933 relating to Burma; Vol. I of Report of JSC (Nov 1933) giving summarised minutes; drafts for and copies of unofficial press releases on publication of Report (21 Nov 1934) giving summaries of the history of the JSC, contents of Report etc.

Official notes and memoranda on terrorism in India, procedure of House of Commons in approving the Instruments of Instructions and financial safeguards

Note on Provincial franchise proposals, particularly women votes, views of Indian Local Governments on White Paper proposals relating to women's franchise, plus JSC and analysis of same, memo by Begum Shah Nawaz on women's franchise, copy telegrams between India Office and Government of India Reforms Department on franchise schedules to Government of India Bill

Notes on Federal franchise and election procedure and representations, including suggestions of Sir Mirza Ismail, restrictions on legislative power and distribution of seats, note on railways accounts, note of dissent by Sir Purshotamdas Thakurdas on Indian Reserve Bank legislation, memoranda by Lord Rankeillour on Relations of the two Houses of the Federal Legislature in regard to supply, note on relations between Provincial and Federal Legislatures

Note by E.P. Donaldson of the Political Department, India Office, on French possessions in India, with covering note to RAB

Notes and memoranda about powers to make constitutional changes, the separation of Burma, commercial discrimination, financial machinery of government. RAB's note at front lists contents as 'Exploitation of Burma, future Ottawa agreement and fiscal autonomy of both'

Estimated balance sheet of Federal Government

Minutes of second - eighth meetings with delegates

Minutes of the day's proceedings before the JSC, relating to Federal finance

Extract from discussions with delegates

Discussions of the JSC [equivalent of Minutes]

RAB's manuscript notebook recording discussions of JSC

Proposals for Indian Constitutional Reform [White Paper] Cmd 4268

Minutes of evidence [session 1932-3], vol. IIB.

[session 1933-4], vol. I (Part I). Report [given to Sydney Butler by RAB]

Booklet by Sir John Perronet Thompson India: the White Paper

Booklet by Sir Adrian Baillie, Victor Cazalet, Marquis of Dufferin and Ava, A.W.H. James and Mark Patrick, India from a Back Bench.

Booklet by Sir Henry Lawrence, The Indian White Paper: an Address ... to the India Parliamentary Committee ... 16 April 1934.

Odd press cuttings, India Office internal memos and correspondence about Sir John Thompson's pamphlet supporting Indian Reforms, plus arrangements for publication of White Paper etc.

India Office papers re Indian views at Birmingham Conservative Party Conference, lists of members/supporters of U.B.I. publicity leaflets, ms. Of article by Mark Patrick, M.P., for Daily Telegraph, scheme for periodical to put Government view on India, list of members of Indian Empire Society June 1933, controversy over House of Commons speech by RAB 1 March 1934. Reports from Owen Tweedy, Secretary of U.B.I., to India office on its activities at local level, especially in East Anglia; papers revealing India Office involvement in U.B.I.; arrangements for dinner including U.B.I. members to celebrate passing of India Bill July 1935

'Opening of new rope works at Leith of British Ropes Ltd. By Parliamentary Secretary ...', press cuttings and 2 internal memos re Parliamentary Labour Committee

'Visit of the Parliamentary Secretary to Lancashire 10th and 11th February', programme of tour, correspondence re travel and meeting arrangements, notes for speeches. Also Ministry of labour news summaries and press cuttings [see RAB E1 for correspondence]

Folder entitled 'Interesting papers 1935-1940'. Letter of thanks from Reginald I.R. Glancy, copy 'letter' to Stalin from Anandi Prasad?, internal Foreign Office minute from RAB re article critical of Neville Chamberlain attributed to Duff Cooper (copy article attached)

Semi-official sub-file labelled 'Sir H[enry] Gidney' re proposed Anglo-Indian colony near Patna

Folder endorsed 'odd Foreign Office papers'. General, including statement on Anglo-Italian agreement and letters from British Ambassador in Rome, League of Nations and India by RAB, RAB's account of meeting with Egyptian Ambassador, copy correspondence with Halifax re P.P.S., 'Prussianism' in Germany, family, last letter to Michael Brabourne, printed Government memos re Soviet Union, Lady Butler, North America, speech by Hitler, account of recent events in Germany (April 1938) by E.W.D. Tennant, few early Board of Education papers

RAB's folder of personal 'records' labelled 'F. O. papers', descriptions by RAB of the Palestine Conference, life at Stanstead Hall and character studies of Lord Halifax and Sir Horace Wilson [also in G11], description of social life of British official in Rome at time of Anglo-Italian agreement April 1938 [author unknown], office memos and notes, personal letters including one from E.W.D. Tennant giving details of his friendship with von Ribbentrop, text of lectures on American characteristics by J.B.

Folder endorsed 'very sundry'. Proof for Armaments and Policy 1919-1939, copy speech by Adolf Hitler 28 April 1939, various articles on British policy, including two appreciations of events by Lord Hankey; notes on 'The end of economic man' by Peter Drucker; 'Why Great Britain cannot cut herself off from the Continent' by Professor A.J. Toynbee

File endorsed 'Miss Godley Pre Education period'. Papers and speeches on wartime issues and national aims, including post-war aims group

Personal correspondence, including M.P.s. Kenneth Clark re future State support of arts, letters to Archie James indicating RAB's interest in a Scottish estate, copy letter to James Stuart re Party Committees, copy Prime Minister's statement on downfall of Mussolini, draft (not sent) to Clement Attlee re Indian situation, RAB's account of latter part of Basil Dufferin's life, account of Dr Weizmann of process of educational reform, memo on Foreign Affairs Committee of Post-War Problems, speech notes for RAB at luncheon in honour of Russian Orthodox Church delegation, odd page of poems

Modern copies of Foreign Office Registry papers, parts of files only. Referred to by volume and document numbers. Very few originally annotated by RAB. Largely concerned with international attitudes, e.g. Anglo-Polish relations, Soviet attitude to Czechoslovakia, Anglo-Jugoslav relations (perhaps obtained by RAB for preparation of a lecture/article)

Detailed programme of visit by H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent, menus and official programmes of functions including opening of Parliament, draft for broadcast by RAB, texts of speeches by others, information on Gold Coast

Papers re Rhodesias and Nyasaland: copy telegrams, Constitution as in 1959, Command Papers etc., advisers' proposals of c. Aug 1962 for constitutional change, press cuttings. Telegrams re honorary degree for Sir James Robertson, Governor-General in Nigeria

Pamphlet - The progress of Africans in Southern Rhodesia, records of seminar on 'The human factor in rural development in the Federation' organised by Rhodesian Institute of Management

File entitled 'Central Africa: Home Secretary's conference with High Commission and Governors March 1962, substantive agreed documents'. Records of proceedings, papers on functions of proposed constitutional mission to Nyasaland, minute to Prime Minister re Nyasaland plan.

Folder of copy telegrams re African affairs, largely incoming from Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia

File entitled Secretary of State: briefs for visit to Central Africa, May 1962. Prepared by C.A.O., index at front. Covers Northern Rhodesia, Nyasaland, General and Federal.

Further briefs for the Secretary of State's visit to Central Africa. Programme for Salisbury visit, letter on loan for African education, brief on economic association in Central Africa

File entitled 'Visit to Nyasaland of the Secretary of State: briefs and programme'. Index at front, briefs mainly biographical, some additional notes

Lists of guests and notes for visit to Zomba, Nyasaland

Folder of briefs for Northen Rhodesia visit. Index at front, briefs on various aspects of elections and political parties, some additional notes

Tour papers, including itineraries, briefs and memos, notes for speeches and press conference, news cuttings

Assessment of political situation on RAB's return from Africa by Paul Channon

'Correspondence and papers Mary-July 1962'. General file re Central Africa, including correspondence, copy telegrams, statements and memos

'Correspondence and papers Aug-Dec 1962'. General files as above, plus report of Nyasaland constitutional conference

Press releases, Rhodesian newspaper cuttings, copy telegrams from January visit and Victoria Falls Conference, draft note on future of Federation

Accounts by RAB of talks with Roy Welensky and of Rhodesian situation in general, 3 personal letters of support, 2 from Paul Channon, article on RAB from Wall Street Journal

'Engagements 1964'. Detailed list of public and some private appointments on a daily basis

Mrs Butler's file of correspondence and information re trip to Washington, Tokyo and Manila, including details of RAB's itinerary

Education Bill, draft clauses and schedules, 1st-16th drafts

Educational reconstruction. 1943. Cmd 6458. Board of Education. Education Bill. Explanatory memorandum. 1943. Cmd 6492. Scottish Education Department. Training of teachers. 1946. Cmd 6723

Abolition of tuition feeds in grant-aided secondary schools, special report of Committee on Public Schools ... 1943. Board of Education. The public schools and the general education system, report of Committee on Public Schools ... 1944

Committee papers, correspondence, memoranda, speech notes, pamphlets and press cuttings re voluntary schools, educational finance and teachers' salaries

Leaflets, copy correspondence, notes and press cuttings re voluntary schools, particularly Roman Catholic, and general election policy

Largely pamphlets, memos and copies of Command Papers, including article by RAB on future of Technical Colleges, RAB's messages to first issue of The Essex Teacher and to The Rayoneer (as Chairman of Courtaulds Central Education Committee). Correspondence and papers re proposed block grant funding of local authorities

Includes ms. Redrafts of certain sections. Utilises Ministry of Education files and RAB's personal archive

Galley proofs of book by Marjorie Cruickshank (neé Travis), to which RAB wrote foreword, correspondence re same

Copies of her memos on the scheme, Board of Inland Revenue's memo no. 10 on Liberal Party scheme and others association with it including Rhys Williams, Conservative Parliamentary Finance Committee brief on financial and economic situation

Arrangements for a reception given by the Chancellor on 11 Dec 1952, largely lists of prospective guests

Copy of communique issued by Conference at Sydney, Australia, copy inward telegrams to Commonwealth Relations Office re Conference and press reaction, printed Commonwealth Relations Office despatches re Conference and RAB's visit to India on way home, letter from RAB to Sir Michael Adeane, Queen's Assistant Private Secretary, re Australia, personal letters received during Conference

Correspondence and notes, including items on Berlin crisis and implications of signing Treaty of Rome for Commonwealth Free Entry. Cabinet Office papers European Economic Association Committee, The Common Market and U.K. food and agriculture E.Q.(61)14; EEC, The implications of signing the Treaty of Rome: food and agriculture E.Q.(61)17; EEAC, Commonwealth Free Entry E.Q.(61)18

File includes papers of the Anti-Slavery and Aborigines Protection Society of which RAB was a committee member, with correspondence of 1948 about material for a biography of Eleanor Rathbone

Meeting papers for Executive Committee (RAB stood down, April 1957), annual reports, copy of Journal of the Parliaments of the Commonwealth, vol. XXXVII, no. 1, Jan 1956, calendar of background papers available from Conservative Commonwealth Council

Papers on procedure, motions and general circulars from clubs etc

papers on procedure, Inter-Party Union, Hansard Society, club circulars etc

Background material on the second Reading, 19 Nov 1964 [Hansard, 5th series, vol. 702, cols 735-40]. Copy of Bill, Conservative Research Department material, ms. Notes

Papers concerned with opposition to siting the third London airport at Stansted, including Report of the Inquiry into local objections, White Paper The third London airport, documents produced by pressure groups including the Stansted Working Party and the North-West Essex and East Herts. Preservation Society, papers re case for Foulness, text of Anglia TV programme, copy of The Stansted affair by Olive Cook, press cuttings. Relates to speech in House of Lords, 11 Dec 1967 [Hansard, 5th series, vol. CCLXXXVII, House of Lords, cols 904-11]

Correspondence of general political nature including letter of congratulations on maiden speech, letters re preservation of Thaxted windmill and future of Bishop's Stortford School, letter from Winston Churchill in reply to one from RAB sympathising with his illness, copy letter to Samuel Hoare re Indian Constitution

Labelled 1929 by Julia Fish. Including menu for dinner to celebrate Election victory, article by RAB on his books

Labelled 1931 by Julia Fish. Including letter (not sent) mentioning politics, constituency correspondence against Sunday Performances Temporary Bill, RAB's account of visit to St Jean de Luz, France

Labelled 1932 by Julia Fish. Largely correspondence and papers about Indian Franchise Committee, including letters from Samuel Hoare. Also personal and constituency letters, menu, Carlton Club Centenary dinner programme

Labelled 1934 by Julia Fish. Made up of personal correspondence, personal/constituency papers, copy correspondence, article for The Sporting Life, India Office papers

Labelled 1935 by Julia Fish. Made up of personal correspondence, copy correspondence, constituency papers, India Office papers

Labelled 1937 by Julia Fish. Made up of constituency correspondence, India Office and Ministry of Labour papers and a few personal papers

Labelled Jan-June 1938 by Julia Fish. Made up of constituency correspondence, Indian papers, Foreign Office papers, copy correspondence including to Michael Brabourne. Includes some named correspondence sub-files

Labelled July-Dec 1938 by Julia Fish. Made up of constituency papers, semi-official correspondence in named sub-files, general Foreign Office papers

Labelled 1939 by Julia Fish. Made up of constituency correspondence, Foreign Office papers including views of Duke of Buccleuch, printed record by Halifax of events of Aug-Sept and notes by RAB on same period, personal papers, description of life at Stanstead Hall, character studies of Halifax and Sir Horace Wilson [also in F80]

Labelled 1940 by Julia Fish. Largely made up of Foreign Office papers and drafts of parliamentary statements on the course of the war, including RAB's views on Narvik as sent to Halifax and Cadogan, statement on Finnish-Soviet Peace Treaty. Also letters of congratulation on reappointment to the Foreign Office, texts of broadcasts on European situation, constituency correspondence and personal papers, copy letter Halifax to Churchill re RAB's conversation with Swedish Ministers

Labelled Jan-April 1941 by Julia Fish. Foreign Office internal memoranda mainly written by RAB re his meetings with ambassadors and several semi-official letters

Labelled May 1941 by Julia Fish. Largely Foreign Office memoranda and Board of Education papers. Some semi-official letters and texts of speeches

Labelled 1942 by Julia Fish. Made up of personal and semi-official correspondence, drafts of pamphlets by RAB A future to work for, speech notes by RAB and Samuel Courtauld, reports of meetings, dinner, press cuttings, typed 'diary'. Includes sub-files Misc. Personal 25 and 74(1)-(10) re Cuthbert

Labelled 1943 by Julia Fish. Made up of semi-official correspondence, speeches of the Prime Minister and RAB and papers about educational reconstruction, including a typed 'diary'. Misc. Personal sub-files 82, 107, 114, 124 and 127

Labelled 1944 by Julia Fish. Made up of Board/Ministry of Education papers, speeches, press cuttings, semi-official correspondence and personal papers, including a typed 'diary' of certain events and letters of sympathy on accident. Misc. Personal sub-files 100, 158-9, 162 and Personal nos. 4 and 5

Labelled 1945 by Julia Fish. Made up largely of general correspondence, including congratulations on appointment as Minister of labour and National Service and letters following General Election. Also speech notes, press cuttings, articles and two Post-War problems Committee pamphlets. Misc. Personal sub-files 99, 166, 191, 195, 203, and Personal no. 6

Labelled 1946 by Julia Fish. Made up of semi-official correspondence, brief parliamentary notes, speech notes, dinner invitations and programmes, accounts for restoration of 3 Smith Square, churchwardens' handbook, pamphlet on Wales

Labelled 1947 by Julia Fish. Made up of semi-official correspondence, texts of articles, constituency broadsheets, account of visit to U.S.A. and Canada, obituaries of and press cuttings re Samuel Courtauld, programmes etc

Labelled 1948 by Julia Fish. Made up of correspondence, review of parliamentary session, paper re-organisation of Conservative Research Department, catalogue of Samuel Courtauld memorial exhibition, programme etc

Labelled 1949 by Julia Fish. Largely correspondence and papers re financial position of Roman Catholic schools under 1944 Education Act. Also general correspondence, text of lecture, constituency fete programme with press cuttings

Labelled 1950 by Julia Fish. Made up of semi-official correspondence, political notes/diary, speech notes, programmes for opening of schools, degree ceremony, Cummings cartoon of RAB

Labelled 1951 by Julia Fish. Made up of Letters Patent appointing RAB Chancellor and Under-Treasurer of His Majesty's Exchequer, paper by Michael Fraser on future of Conservative Research Department, two copies of cover for pamphlet We shall win through, one press cutting, correspondence including to Selwyn Lloyd re Conservative Research Department, about economics

Labelled 1952 by Julia Fish. Made up of personal correspondence on largely financial matters, including some from Arthur Salter and Edward Bridges, unfinished drafts of letters from RAB to Winston Churchill on economic situation, memo by Leopold Stennett Amery 'Towards a balanced economy', paper by Isobel Cripps on the threat of communism, press cuttings, dinner menu

Loose papers of 1952. Ceremonial papers from conferment of Honorary Degrees on RAB - Doctor of Law of Cambridge University, Doctor of Civil Law of Oxford University; [George Bernard] Shaw Memorial Appeal committee papers [RAB as president, appeal failed c. Aug 1952]; papers of Council of Management of St Antony's College, Oxford [RAB a member]; Conservative Research Department 'Report on present activities' by Michael Fraser and paper on 'Co-partnership - 1952' by David Dear; letter from Master of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (Sir Will Spens) offering RAB Honorary Fellowship; letters re activities of Royal Society of Literature; order of service for wedding of Richard Clive Butler and Susan Anne Maud Walker, 50th birthday greetings to RAB from Winston Churchill, appreciation of life of Sir Montagu Butler by S.C. Robert from Pembroke College Review

Labelled 1953 by Julia Fish. Made up of personal letters including Harold Macmillan, Anthony Eden, Edward Bridges; memos from Hubert Ashton on political situation; notes by Leo Amery on trade and production; unfinished accounts by RAB of a lunch with Winston Churchill and of the Prime Minister's dinner for de Gasperi, Italian Prime Minister; memos by RAB to Prime Minister on outstanding policy questions and general political scene

Labelled 1954 by Julia Fish. Made up largely of personal correspondence including re timing of resignation of Winston Churchill and succession of Anthony Eden, Cabinet changes, death of William Wolfson, invitation to become Chancellor of University of Nottingham (declined). Also note of lunch with Prime Minister (11 March), meeting with City editors re economic policy; article 'Our responsibility to the children' by RAB; notes from Michael Fraser on future legislative programme; programmes from conferment of Honorary Freedom of Saffron Walden, Honorary Degree of University of Bristol, various dinners; certificates of appreciation from National Press Club; Annual Conference agenda

Labelled 'Personal records 1955'. Personal correspondence, programmes, notes etc. including lists of Members and Statutes of the Order of the Companions of Honour, tribute to Sydney E. Butler from Marriage Guidance Council's Journal, correspondence with Ralph Harris re biography of RAB later published as Politics without prejudice, papers re Honorary Freedom of Skinners' Company and Honorary Doctor of Laws of Sheffield University, RAB's ms. account of period of Winston Churchill's resignation, 5 April 1955 to c. Sept 1955, Christmas greetings

Labelled 'Home Office'. Made up of News Chronicle articles on RAB by Laurence Thompson, press cuttings about Adam Butler's wedding, various speech notes (some incomplete), statements on Suez c. 8 Nov 1956, ceremonial on State Opening of Parliament and visit of Indian President, Times Supplements, menus etc.

Labelled 'Personal records 1956'. Made up of personal correspondence including thanks for Treasury work and congratulations on Annual Conference speech, Laureation Address on receiving Honorary Doctorate of Laws of St Andrews University, article on RAB from U.S. News and World Report, engagement diary for Jan and Oct-Dec, menus, transcripts of letters of 1756 between one Daniel Butler and his son Daniel, photographs and transcripts of documents of 1495 and 1558 - grants to Count of Lerin and Marquis de Sarria

Labelled 'Top secret and personal 1957'. Accounts by RAB of circumstances of choice of Prime Minister, key political events 1954- Jan 1957, day of departure of Prime Minister to U.S.A., 22 Oct; personal letters received on not becoming Prime Minister and others largely political, minute to Prime Minister on policy, introduction to republication of The Tory tradition by Sir Geoffrey Butler, impressions of Conservative Annual Conference by Pat [?Hornsby-Smith], Prime Minister's memo on current affairs

Labelled Jan-July 1958 by Julia Fish. Made up of personal correspondence, largely political but including re Royal Society of Literature poetry reading attended by Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother; reprint of articles on crime and children from Sunday Times, including one by RAB; speech notes re resignation of Peter Thorneycroft, O.E.E.C.; accounts by RAB of taking charge of the Government on various occasions (June), events of 21 July re Kruschev and timing of General Election; minutes to Prime Minister re events during his absence (Feb and June), penal reform, the Middle East; Time journalist's report of private talk with Anthony Eden (July); press cuttings, programmes

Labelled Aug-Dec 1958. Made up of personal correspondence, including with Alan Lennox-Boyd re Welensky and Rhodesia, congratulations on becoming High Steward of University of Cambridge; RAB's minute to Sir Charles Cunningham on draft penal reform White Paper; speech notes for opening Barrow-in-Furness police H.Q.; printed Government memo on new French Constitution draft on Onward in freedom; paper 'The Secretary of State's Office under Elizabeth [the First]' by A.J. Eagleston; menus and programmes

Labelled 1959 by Julia Fish. Made up of Home Office papers including Prime Minister's personal minutes, personal correspondence, ms. recollection of period of Churchill-Eden transition, papers relating to marriage arrangements and letters of congratulations, programmes for degree ceremonies, dinners, fete etc

Labelled Jan-May 1960 by Julia Fish. Made up of copy telegrams/correspondence between Harold Macmillan and RAB during Prime Minister's absence in Africa, copy telegrams re Southern Rhodesia, RAB's typescript notes on political events, papers relating to change of surname of untitled royalty to Mountbatten-Windsor, text of Eleanor Rathbone Memorial Lecture on penal reform, speech notes for installation as Chancellor of Sheffield University

Labelled June-Dec 1960 by Julia Fish. Made up of correspondence, papers about Government changes including ms. notes revealing RAB's feelings, account of talk with Selwyn Lloyd largely re Eden and Suez, text of article by RAB on Conservative Party for Encyclopaedia Britannica, draft of Chapters 3-5 of People and politics and note on the Forward Programme and the Party, papers about top audience rating of broadcast by RAB

Labelled 1961. Made up of personal letters, papers re African affairs, press cuttings of interview on RAB's working day, accounts by RAB of the 'Spanish incident' speech and of government changes. Also miscellaneous papers on policy and government achievements, Conservative Research Department paper 'At the Treasury, 1951-55' re RAB's Chancellorship, Statistical Account of parish of Kilninian and Kilmore, Isle of Mull, letter (not sent) to Sir Alec Douglas-Home re relinquishing leadership of House of Commons

Made up of ms. 'diary' covering African situation, Cuba, Cabinet changes of 13 July and relations with Prime Minister; speech notes for Dunmow Farmers, first Chuter Ede Lecture and debate on law and order; appreciation of Macmillan for Daily Mail; miscellaneous political papers

Labelled 1962 by Julia Fish. Made up of correspondence, including congratulations on becoming First Secretary of State, 'diary' re Rhodesias, articles on morality and the criminal law and the welfare state, speech notes for Saffron Walden A.G.M. and Quendon Park meeting, copy minutes to Prime Minister, Courtaulds business papers, news cuttings

Labelled 1963 by Julia Fish. Papers re Jan trip to Rhodesia, reflections on Harold Macmillan as Prime Minister for six years, speech notes for Dunmow N.F.U., texts of interviews re life in politics and re religion. Bulk of file is re leadership crisis: RAB's diary/minutes. Letters of 'sympathy', including two from Paul Channon, one from Alec Douglas-Home, newspaper articles, account by Randolph Churchill [see also C33, The Fight for the Tory Leadership, and L114]

Monday Club pamphlet, arrangements for Rhodesia visit, order of proceedings for grant of the office of High Steward of University of Cambridge to RAB, reports of 1922 Committee meetings from Paul Channon, personal letters including from Roy Welensky, Stanstead Hall fete programme

Labelled 1964 by Julia Fish. Largely correspondence and minutes re political matters. Also speech notes for debates on the Address and foreign affairs, papers re selection of Party leader, copy letter to Alec Douglas-Home declining earldom

Labelled 'Guinea Club 1964'. Made up of profile of RAB by Arthur Gavshon of Associated Press, proof of Spectator article on leadership crisis 1963 by Iain Macleod with letter from him, speech notes for British Flower Industry Association, personal correspondence, odd notes

Labelled 1965 by Julia Fish. Made up of correspondence, House of Commons tribute to Sir Winston Churchill which RAB did not give, description by RAB of Conservative Research Department presentation to him with text speech by David Clarke, note on resignation of Sir Alec Douglas-Home, comments re 1965 Conservative Policy Groups interim reports [see also G45], letter from last constituency case dealt with as an M.P., letters about leaving House of Commons, letters from Harold Wilson inviting RAB to be chairman of new National Committee for Commonwealth Immigrants, speech notes re agriculture, annual report of Saffron Walden Constituency Conservative Association, ceremonial for Churchill's funeral

Interim reports of Conservative Party Policy Groups, note by RAB on resignation of Sir Alec Douglas-Home with copy letter to him and other drafts (not sent), personal letters including to Violet Bonham-Carter re Churchill and odd notes including re early chapter of autobiography

Some items have been annotated by Lady Butler.

including Annual Conference agenda 1955, resolutions of Committee. Small number of letters

Largely meeting papers for Central Council, Executive Committee and General Purposes Committee. Also few letters, lists of Conference resolutions etc. (RAB President of National Union 1956-7)

Draft agenda, motions for discussion on first day, text of resolution on liberties of the subject, newspaper cuttings ?used for speech material

meeting papers of Executive Committee and General Purposes Committee, including drafts of Conference agenda and Annual Report to the Conference

Draft agenda and committee papers, invitations and letters of acceptance etc

Working papers including speech notes, invitations with letters of acceptance

Telegrams and letters of support/congratulations, copy outgoing correspondence

Notes for RAB's foreign affairs speech, correspondence, agenda, proposed new rules etc

largely correspondence including re General Election, Annual General Meeting of Central Council. Two annotated copies United for peace and progress, Conservative General Election policy 1955

Mainly correspondence with successive chairmen of the Party, general matters including political honours and publicity. Includes analysis of local government elections 1956, agenda for Central Council Annual General Meeting 1957, press release re election of Anthony Eden as Leader of the Party 1955, copies of Weekend Talking Point

Lists of ministerial speaking engagements, weekly diary of impending announcements produced by Postmaster General's Office

Correspondence re requests from constituencies for RAB to speak

Largely correspondence between RAB and Party officials about engagements etc

Correspondence between Central Office and RAB's private office re meetings, policy and publicity

Largely re RAB's attendance at functions as Party Chairman

Correspondence, much with Miss Yonge, re Party functions and policy. Includes letters of appreciation on RAB's relinquishing Party Chairmanship

Background material for projected book by RAB, People and politics, which was to set out the underlying principles of Conservative faith as applied to modern society, and various notes and drafts for same

Correspondence with Michael Fraser re scope of book

Correspondence with Michael Fraser re scope of book. Book to be series of essays by RAB. Text of the first, 'A national faith'

Papers re reorganisation of Department in 1946 and 1948 (merging of Conservative Research Department, Conservative Parliamentary Secretariat and Library and Information Department), publications policy and General Election policy. RAB was Chairman of Research Department 1946-

Papers re minor Departmental reorganisations, policy and personnel. Includes text of lecture by Michael Fraser on 'The ownership of property'

Correspondence, largely with Michael Fraser, mostly re Conservative financial policy and standard of living. Speech material for Sheffield May 1954, Guild of British Newspaper Editors 3 May 1955, Lord Mayor's dinner to bankers of the City of London 4 Oct 1955, Daily Mail article on financial and industrial policy. List of personnel at Research Department

Copies of second drafts of 31 July and 6 Aug 1953 of Onward in Freedom, proposed pamphlet for the Party Conference which was not published, with letters regarding publication decision

Mainly correspondence and memos between RAB and Michael Fraser. Includes drafts for speeches, television programme and policy statement Our way ahead, report of investigation of the People's League for the Defence of Freedom and the Middle-Class Alliance. Bow Group papers and correspondence with R.A. Allan and Wing Commander Bullus, M.P.s, at back

Largely correspondence with Michael Fraser. Includes analysis of political support (mid 1958), typescript of Labour Party's The future Labour offers you and notes about it, list of Conservative Research Department staff

Correspondence, memos and policy statements

Largely correspondence, also minutes and statement on Guillebaud Report

Largely correspondence, also notes on the Liberal Party and the continuing threat of Socialism

Paper entitled 'The Education Act, 1944', produced by Conservative Research department ref. AGMG/DP and copies of White Paper on educational reconstruction, Education Bill with explanatory memo, and Education Act - all originally given to Sydney Butler by RAB; article by RAB entitled 'Education: the view of a Conservative' and telegram from Winston Churchill on Education Act becoming law, with copy reply

Paper entitled 'Background to the Government of India Act, 1935' produced by Conservative Research Department ref. JOU/EC, photocopies of letters from RAB to parents and Lord Brabourne of 1931-1935 (numbered 1-38, probably used for above paper)

Correspondence and Central Office leaflets

Includes speech notes/material, Gallup poll figures, draft of 'Britain in top gear', reports of Policy Committees on voluntary service overseas, future of social services and industrial change. Folder of papers for 'Britain in the Seventies' attached

Large number of policy notes ad speech material for Saffron Walden meetings, RAB's annotations reveal criticism of some Conservative Research Department material. Includes list of RAB's main pamphlets and addresses 1946-1963 (25 March 1964)

Policy material concerned with a General Election, including re nuclear deterrent, manifesto, possible incomes policy. Text of broadcast by RAB, Prime Minister's speech at London rally, article on 1944 Education Act

Papers re pamphlets published by Conservative Political Centre, including copies or proofs of Change is our ally by 'One Nation' group of M.P.s, The new Conservatism, The expanding Commonwealth

Envelope labelled 'Miscellaneous 1959'. Largely correspondence with Peter Goldman and re his parliamentary candidacy. Also galley proofs of Onward in freedom, information for speeches and 'topic' sheets

Correspondence enclosing copies of Swinton College Journal, reports of discussion meetings and statistics of attendance

Correspondence on Party matters, including speeches, publicity pamphlets, committees. Numbered sub-files, 21 of 50 present. Un-numbered sub-file 'Party lunches'

Correspondence on party matters, as above. Numbered sub-files 51-89 [sic]

Correspondence of 1937, with earlier pamphlets on political education

Includes material re meetings with industrialists, first draft by David Clarke, with criticisms of text, attacks on Charter by Sir Waldron Smithers, M.P., text of speech by David Eccles 'Forward from the Industrial Charter'

1947'Copy of the Industrial Charter with papers and press cuttings about it, papers on Conservative policy for dealing with the economic crisis, correspondence re Courtaulds Ltd and ?preparation of Industrial Charter

RAB's files as Chairman. Meeting papers for meetings 1-10, with attached memoranda covering various aspects of policy, e.g. housing, health, trade unions, old people, Election policy. A committee appointed by, but not answerable to, the National Union and the 1922 Committee. Vol. II wanting

Papers re meeting between RAB and the committee about greater Scottish representation on policy-making committees, as a result of which James Stuart was co-opted on to the Advisory Committee on Policy

Detailed reports of meetings, some of which RAB attended. Notes for speech on broadcasting

Correspondence re RAB's attendance at meetings, report of meeting on Cyprus and East Africa

Reports of meetings, correspondence re RAB's attendance to discuss compensation for British victims of Nazi persecution, Cyprus, the Yemen etc

Questionnaires. Questions of Policy notes prepared by Central Office for General Election campaign, drafts of some sent to RAB for comment

Election memoranda nos 1, 3, 4, 8 and 9. Information on election campaign procedure, questions of policy, broadcasts etc

'Manifesto press conference briefing' for launch of Conservative manifesto (17 Sept 1964) with copies of Labour and Liberal manifestos, later Conservative Research Department briefing material, Central Office Election Memoranda and Questions of Policy (incomplete series), texts of Party Political Broadcasts of the three main Parties with notes for RAB;s broadcast on 10 Oct 1964, press cuttings from period of campaign, standard letter of encouragement from Prime Minister, Property Council notes

Memoranda on Africa and organisation of the conservative Party Conference, papers re Crossbow essay competition including copies of prize-winning essays

Conservative and Unionist Central Office publications: popular edition of The Industrial Charter, both editions of The Agricultural Charter, The Conservative policy for Wales and Monmouthshire, Imperial policy, The right road for Britain, Britain strong and free, Agriculture and politics, United for peace and progress [General Election 1955], Onward in freedom. Organization series, no. 4: Procedure at meetings

Conservative Political Centre publications: Fundamental issues - a statement on the future work of the Conservative education movement by RAB, with attached signed copy of The two party system in English political history by G.M. Trevelyan, The Conservative faith in a modern age with foreword by RAB, Management in industry with opening address by RAB, Conservatism 1945-1950 with introduction and contributions by RAB

Includes Correspondence with Professor A.J. Arberry, Pembroke college, Cambridge, re Middle East Centre in University of Cambridge and Correspondence with Sir Hubert Ashton, M.P. for Chelmsford

Includes as enclosures Constituency Official Year Book 1953 and proofs of winter 1955 issue of constituency magazine The Conservative News

Includes meeting arrangements, constituents' problems, Branch officers' Bulletin, drafts for constituency magazine

letters to electors, invitations, reports on political climate in constituency 1928; election manifesto, tithe question letters, posters, speech notes 1929; programme of visits, press cuttings of campaign 1931; correspondence on campaign policy and congratulations, local and national propaganda 1935

Speech notes, photographs, lists of constituency workers, local press cuttings copy of notes for speakers and workers published by Conservative Central Office

Address and publicity and local Campaign guide

Election Addresses of all three Saffron Walden candidates plus RAB posters and General Election news, texts of broadcasts by Dr Charles Hill and the Rt Hon. Anthony Eden, Saffron Walden Conservative campaign guide, timetables of meetings and list of polling district organisers

National press statement, Labour and Conservative manifestos, letter from Anthony Eden, speech material, texts of broadcasts, printed Campaign guide and All the answers. American pamphlet, Know your ally (1918). Constituency election addresses of all candidates, correspondence from period of campaign and congratulations/thanks, meetings programme, campaign guide, map of constituency boundaries and list of election results in constituency since 1885

General Election papers including constituency organisations, speech notes, correspondence, congratulations and Central Office policy material, typescript and printed

Constituency campaign papers, speech notes (mostly n.d. and incomplete), letters of congratulation on 35 years in House of Commons and on election result (loose, not sorted alphabetically). Central Office propaganda: posters, leaflets, stickers, daily notes, manifesto. Also Press Association list of candidates, Saffron Walden candidates' leaflets

Annual public affairs reviews for Saffron Walden Year Book, reviews of parliamentary sessions and letters and articles for local press and press cuttings, several stray letters, speech notes

Acquisition of Chapel Hall, Sible Hedingham. For use as Conservative Party centre

Letters of congratulation, letters re invitations to fete and rally at Stanstead Hall on 24 July, fete programme, copy of Constituency Year Book 1954-5

Arranged by RAB under following heads: India, Agriculture, Foreign affairs, Constituency, Various functions

Includes text of Constituency newsletters, broadcasts of 'The week in Westminster'. Not classified by subject. Some overlap with K2

Mainly foreign policy. Includes correspondence arranging meetings

Almost all deal with the progress of the war. Include statements in House of Commons and texts of speeches given by others

Extracts from Hansard, with list at front

Extracts from Hansard with list. Also speeches on foreign policy, trade and general political situation

Includes broadcasts and material for Foreign Secretary's speech in House of Commons after German invasion of Russia

Includes constituency newsletters, articles for encyclopaedias, Conservative pamphlets etc., lectures, press cuttings and correspondence arising (in reverse date order)

Includes copy of Return to greatness, Conservative Political Centre pamphlet by RAB. With list

each in a separate folder, previously listed in roughly alphabetical order. Some overlap with K29

including background material in individual folders, listed alphabetically

including background material, individual folders, listed alphabetically

Winston Churchill Memorial Lecture, Zurich; British Council Winston Churchill Memorial Lecture, Paris, 'Modern trends in education', with background material; background material for opening address to Cambridge Anglo-French Colloquy on European technology

'Problems of diplomacy and foreign policy', with background material and drafts; Chairman's introduction to 1870 Education Act Commemorative Lectures

Book reviews by RAB for Hansom Books, The Spectator, the Cambridge Evening News etc., mainly of works of modern political history and biography

'Survival depends on Higher Education', March 1970. Text incomplete. Background material and drafts, including text of RAB's lecture on 'Trends in education since 1944' given to Association of Technical Institutions on 27 Feb 1969 and Report of the Education Commission [in India] 1964-6

Includes Halstead meeting when RAB prospective parliamentary candidate, maiden speech, agricultural matters and Essex meetings, Geoffrey Lloyd as prospective parliamentary candidate

Local and national press cuttings for period of prospective candidature for Saffron Walden to end of parliamentary session July 1931, including political meetings, 1929 General Election, House of Commons speeches re agriculture, letter to The Times suggesting Harold Macmillan should quit politics; typescript scheme for move of Butlers to Church Hall, Broxted, Essex, drafts of constituency letters and original 'gems' from constituents concerning summer time, mistaken gender, verses on RAB, printed letters to supporters and constituents, Pembroke College, Cambridge, Debating Society programme on motion 'That life's pleasures never cloy', political posters, menu etc.; photographs of Butlers and Foot Mitchells at Quendon Park, Essex, 1928, Sydney Butler speaking at local function, declaration of Poll at Saffron Walden 1929, Church Hall, Broxted

From the start of the National Government. August 1931'. Photographs of RAB and Richard Clive Butler (3 docs), press cuttings about farmers and petrol tax, Marketing Bill and rural towns, RAB's review of parliamentary session, General Election, election posters and itinerary, National Government, original letters of congratulation etc. (3 docs), RAB's visit to India, Indian Franchise Committee, Essex drainage and water schemes, RAB's appointment to India Office, Round Table Conference, Joint Select Committee, India White Paper, tithe dispute, Japanese textiles, Assam dinner, World Economic Conference, Anglo-Indians, Wheat Act, Cambridge Union 1924, Milk Reorganisation Scheme, Indian Reform, Essex politics, Christmas card from Sir Samuel and Lady Hoare, obituary of Hon. Mary Pickford, original letter from Lord Bingley, RAB's travel documents for France and Italy, Butlers' move from Broxted to Halstead, Nicobar Islands, Poona Pact, menu for Farmers' Club annual dinner, 1930, Fitzwilliam Museum's Courtauld Galleries 1931, article by RAB in The Dalhousie Review on 'Canadian impressions' and galley proofs of his 'World wheat and the British farmer. A reply' 1930

Press cuttings about money-lending in India, India Bill, Ministers and election prospects, letters to and about RAB (4 docs), Sefardi Jews and the India Bill including letter from the Archbishop of Canterbury, appreciations of India Bill from Asiatic Review, seating plan and menu for Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, Name Day Feast 1935, Quetta earthquake, two letters of congratulation on RAB's talks at Imperial Defence College, Prime Minister's visit to Stanstead Hall including photographs (3 docs), article by RAB: 'After eight years - India Act on statute book', Essex politics, General Election including photographs (3 docs), other parties' election propaganda, article by RAB 'A victory of peace', 'Candidate's suggested meetings for General Election 1935' etc. with annotations by RAB, Naval Conference, award of V.C. to Captain Meynell, death of H.M. |King George V, Locarno Treaty, Cambridge Union debate in support of socialism opposed by RAB, three letters of congratulation on Bridgwater meeting, Indian reform including photographs (2 docs), Declaration of abdication of Edward VIII, birth and christening of Samuel James Butler, coronation of H.M. King George VI, coronation letter from Richard Clive Butler to his grandmother, RAB's accident with letter from RAB to parents, letters re RAB's move to Ministry of Labour, International Labour Conference at Geneva, new Government, 40-hour week, RAB's account of proceedings at Geneva with photograph, instructional centres, Mastership of Pembroke College, Cambridge, article by RAB on 'Great Britain and the 40-hour week', opening of rope-works at Leith with letter from Aunt Isabel Ross

Press cuttings about appointment as Under-Secretary at the Foreign Office, progress of foreign affairs up to Dec 1939, RAB's Privy Councillorship, constituency association meetings, Essex show, reviews of Sessions for local press; several short articles on foreign policy by RAB and copy of hi The future of political education, story of unsolicited soap from The Hague; table plans and menus for official functions; letters of thanks to RAB; photographs of RAB with British delegation to League of Nations at Geneva in 1938, going to Levee at Buckingham Palace, ?shooting party in Essex

Press cuttings about RAB as Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs and general progress of the war, appointment as President of the Board of Education July 1941 and speculation re same Feb 1941, education speeches etc., post-war problems committees; texts of addresses to Annual General Meeting of Association of International Understanding, broadcasts on diplomacy and foreign affairs, meeting of Central Council of National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations, meeting of Free Church Federal Council; personal impressions of Scottish schools; letters of congratulations on broadcast and letter predicting that RAB would be Prime Minister in 1949; photographs of RAB at League of Nations in 1939, visit with Earnest Brown, Minister of Health, to Manchester nursery school, addressing Ling Physical Education Conference; Tatler article containing portrait and other photographs

Press cuttings about educational visits etc., progress of the Education Bill/Act, RAB as Minister of Labour 1945, visit to Channel Islands re constitutional reforms, publication of The Industrial Charter 1947, Conservative Party Conference 1947; articles by RAB including on the future of the Conservative Party, political education, answering criticisms of The Industrial Charter; House of Commons speeches by RAB on Indian Independence Bill, 1944 Education Act, crisis in educational finance, National Insurance; text of RAB's presidential address to Modern Languages Association, 'A modern education', 1946; article on RAB from Tory Challenge; newspaper cartoons on educational reform and The Industrial Charter; odd letters of thanks to RAB; explanatory memo on the Education Bill, Command 6492; two editions of Review of world affairs by Kenneth De Courcy

Press cuttings about RAB's involvement in education matters, his House of Commons opposition to Government policy on the N.H.S., abolition of University M.P.s and the Middle East, Conservative charters on agriculture, imperial policy and The right road for Britain, visit to Italy 1949, twenty years as an M.P. and Honorary Degree of Oxford University, RAB as Chancellor of the Exchequer including budgets and speculation on his succeeding to premiership (Jan 1952); articles by RAB on Unesco, education, 'The challenge of 1948' from Picture Post; texts of broadcasts by RAB including 'What Conservatives stand for'; original letters from Anthony Eden to RAB (March 1948) on political situation, RAB to parents (11 Sept 1949 and 23 April 1951) including from Commonwealth Relations Conference, Sydney to Lady Butler (10 June 1949) describing luncheon with Winston Churchill at Chartwell, Lord Halifax to Lady Butler; newspaper cartoons particularly from January 1952 and 1952 Budget; photograph of RAB at Colston Boys' School, Bristol, prize giving; obituaries of Sir Montagu Butler and text of oration from ?Pembroke College, Cambridge, memorial service; ceremonial papers and cuttings on death and funeral of H.M. King George VI

Press cuttings about RAB as Chancellor of the Exchequer: 1953 and 1954 Budgets, U.S.A. and Canadian talks March 1953, International Monetary Fund and International Bank talks in U.S.A. Oct 1954, U.S.A. interview on 'trade not aid' policy, Mansion House speech 1953, Commonwealth Finance Ministers Conference in Sydney, Australia. Also Glasgow Unionists Association meeting, Conservative Party Annual Conference including 1954 'invest in success' speech, reports of conferment of Honorary Doctorates of Laws from Nottingham and Bristol Universities with letter from Winston Churchill to Sydney Butler about Bristol ceremony, Honorary Freedom of Saffron Walden, Silver Jubilee as an M.P., Companionship of Honour, Essex shows etc.; speech notes for Leeds Chamber of Commerce; menus and table plans; original letter to Lady Butler from ?Lefty, Connecticut; original cartoon of RAB by Aziz of Karachi and many press cartoons; press cuttings on death of Lady Butler with appreciation from magazine of St George's School, Edinburgh, death of Sydney Butler and memorial service, marriage of Susan Portal and James Batten; photographs of Bristol Honorary Degree ceremony

Press cuttings on RAB's promises to National Farmers Union on farm prices, hire purchase curbs, pre-Budget speculations, retirement of Winston Churchill in April 1955 including 'momentoes' from farewell dinner, General Election campaign of 1955 including promise to double the standard of living in 25 years, autumn Budget and Gaitskell's personal attack, Cabinet changes of Jan 1956 with rumours of Butler succeeding Eden, RAB's first major speech as Lord Privy Seal 'Butskellism is dead', President of Central Council of National Union of Conservative and Unionist Association March 1956, visit of Krushchev and Marshall Bulganin, rumours of RAB's elevation to House of Lords July 1956, Suez crisis, Annual Conference, opening of Calder Hall atomic power station, election as Rector of Glasgow University with propaganda material, Honorary Doctorate of Laws of Sheffield University; text of RAB's address to Poets, Essayists and Novelists (PEN) International Congress; series of articles by Laurence Thompson on 'Man in the red' from News Chronicle; reviews of Ralph Harris's and Francis Boyd's biographies of RAB; political cartoons; terms of will of Sydney Butler, marriage of Adam Butler and Felicity Molesworth-St Aubyn, births of grandchildren

Press cuttings on Conservative split over Suez cease-fire, RAB's presiding over the Cabinet while Eden in Jamaica, RAB's review of 1956 Sessions for Essex newspapers, succession of Harold Macmillan as Prime Minister, RAB as Home Secretary including prison reform, Obscene Publications Bill, Shops Bill, telephone tapping, Wolfenden Reports, Franks Report on Administrative Tribunals and Homicide Act, Ghana independence celebrations; Economist article by Norman Macrae; photographs of RAB at 10 Downing Street as newly-appointed Home Secretary, RAb and Harold Macmillan with shooting party on Lord Swinton's estate (4 docs), RAB with the Queen and Prince Philip at a naval event (sent by Lady Elmhirst, 3 docs)

Press cuttings on resignation of Peter Thorneycroft, RAB in the ascendant while in charge of the Government during Prime Minister's Commonwealth tour, installation as Rector of Glasgow University and student disturbances, mental health reforms, visit to Northern Ireland, racial disturbances, increase in crime, Ronald Marwood and Guenther Podola murder cases, 'Onward in freedom' policy document, anti-flogging lobby at Party Conference, Wolfenden Report debate, Select Committee on Obscene publications, Street offences Bill, RAB's holiday in Rhodesia, Cutlers' Feast at Sheffield. Stanstead Hall fete, appearances on television including in H-bomb debate; articles by RAB on children and crime and answering Conservative critics; political cartoons from press; photographs of RAB with Edward Heath during Prime Minister's Commonwealth tour Jan 1958, RAB doffing hat at airport ?leaving for talks, inspecting police and ?opening new police building (5 docs), constituency tour (2 docs), painting of roses by RAB used in Golden Wedding volume for Winston Churchill, Stanstead Hall fete 1959 with John Profumo and his wife (Valerie Hobson) and with fashion models (4 docs), at 75th anniversary luncheon at Saffron Walden College June 1959

Press cuttings on RAB's resignation as Vice-President of the Association for Moral and Social Hygiene over the Street Offences Bill, 1959 General Election campaign, engagement and marriage to Mollie Courtauld, election as Chairman of the Conservative Party, Home Office work including Betting Bill, inquiry into police-public relations, introduction of traffic warden, Licensing Law reform, young offenders and the 'flogging' Lobby, prison building programme, no change in homosexual law, capital punishment with reports of various cases and the Criminal Justice Bill, report of Scottish Unionists Association Conference 1960, breakdown of Paris Summit Talks, RAB's support for more teachers/smaller classes, his installation as Chancellor of Sheffield University, Cabinet changes July 1960, speculation on his succeeding Macmillan, Scarborough Annual Conference; articles on Conservative Research Department and Conservative Political Centre, the 'four Tory chancellors', New York Times on British and American Conservatives; original letter from RAB to Peggy Bridge with comments on politics; press cuttings on marriage of James Butler and Lucilla Borthwick; undated photograph of RAB and Mollie at presentation of bouquet to Morrie

Press cuttings on Home Office work including prop corporal punishment lobby, pressure for abolition of hanging, proposed immigration curbs and Commonwealth Immigrants Bill, victory over the 'floggers' at 1961 Annual Conference and report of Royal Commission on the Police, also House of Lords Reform, eligibility of Wedgwood Benn as an M.P., controversy over RAB's Madrid speech about closer links between Spain and the West, RAB Chairman of Cabinet negotiations Oct 1961-, anti-nuclear rallies by Committee of 100, RAB's appointment to Central African Office and visit to Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland May 1962, Orpington by-election; original letter from Harold Macmillan asking RAB to take charge of the Government for four days in Dec 1961; press cuttings of births of grandchildren, Mollie becoming President of Women's Advisory Council of London Conservative Associations; photographs of RAB taking farewell of Nyasaland Government Ministers at Zomba airfield (7 docs) and taking the salute at Zomba airfield, RAB with Dr H.K. Banda, leader of Malawi Congress Party, and Sir Glyn Jones, Governor of Nyasaland, during break in talks (2 docs), RAB with Sir Roy Welensky, RAB and Mollie during African tour (2 docs), RAb and Mollie with Somerset Maugham at Royal Society of Literature function c. May 1961 (2 docs), RAB and Mollie in evening dress at unidentified function, at Epsom Derby 1962, RAB inspecting police at annual parade at Police Training Centre, Ryton in Dunsmore, Warwickshire, June 1962

Press cuttings on RAB's visit to Police Training Centre (see above), crime and punishment issues, various Central African talks on future of Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland and tour of Feb 1963, RAB'' appointment as First Secretary of State and Deputy Prime Minister, continuing speculation on RAB succeeding Macmillan, Common Market debate at Annual Conference and entry negotiations, the Profumo affair, 1963 leadership crisis (see also L114), RAB as Foreign Secretary including visits to Bonn, Copenhagen, Paris, Japan and Manila, the Cyprus crisis, speculation on rift between RAB and Duncan Sandys, Geneva disarmament talks including printed extracts from RAB's speech, CENTO talks April 1964, NATO talks in The Hague May 1964, foreign affairs speech in the House of Commons 16 June 1964 and proposed Russian visit

Press cuttings on Western European Union talks, RAB's visit to Russia, laos crisis, constituency challenge to RAB over Stansted airport development, Cyprus situation, speculation on RAB's retirement to academic post, 1964 General Election campaign, RAB's Life Peerage and Mastership of Trinity College, Cambridge, including several appreciations of his political career, introduction to the House of Lords, Saffron Walden by-election, presentations to RAB, installation as master of Trinity College, interview on Cabinet Government with Norman Hunt, review of RAB - study of a statesman by Gerald Sparrow; two articles from The Illustrated London News on RAB's work in education and at Home and Foreign Offices, reports of Kenneth Harris's BBC interview of July 1966 and text as reprinted in The Listener, text of joint interview with Roy Jenkins on crime; press cuttings about the Prince of Wales at Trinity College, adoption of Adam Butler as prospective Conservative candidate for Bosworth, Leicestershire, Richard Butler as Vice-President of the National Farmers' Union, educational issues including RAB's House of Lords speeches, installation of RAB as Chancellor of Essex University, reports of RAB's Romanes, P.D. Leake, Azad and Witwatersrand lectures, speech at National Congress on Mental Health, book reviews, article on Stanley Baldwin by RAB; photographs of RAB with K.M. Stainton, Conservative candidate for Sudbury (2 docs), RAB with mayor of Saffron Walden and supporters ?after declaration of Poll (2 docs), receiving Honorary doctorate of Laws of University of Witwatersrand (2 docs)

RAB's official press cutting volume as President of the society, covering his election, ploughing match, Essex show including visit of the Queen Mother's visit, most including RAB and the three of RAB alone (16 items)

Press cuttings on announcement of appointment of Montagu Butler as Ltd-Governor of the Isle of Man, farewell activities of Butlers in Central Provinces, India, return to London, duties in the Isle of Man including Tynwald (see L117 below), Silver Jubilee of George V; family matters including Jock Butler's speeches at Cambridge Union Society debates, George Adam Smith's Honorary Degree of Cambridge University and retirement as Principal of Aberdeen University, marriage to Janet Adam Smith and Michael Roberts, few cuttings about RAB with galley proofs of his article on 'The new House of Commons' [1931] for Essex Farmers Journal; original letter of David Livingstone given to Ann, Lady Butler; photographs of Governor of Isle of Man at new harbour works, RAB with ?constituents

Press cuttings on change of Viceroys in India, general articles on Indian religion and villages, activities of Montagu Butler in Isle of Man including T.T. races, garden party, Tynwald, celebrations on coronation of King George VI, Montague Butler as Mayor of Cambridge, reports of functions etc.; family matters including RAB's speeches on India, Baldwin at Stanstead Hall fete, obituaries of Cyril Kendall Butler and Spencer Harcourt Butler; oddments including programme for rededication of Haileybury College Chapel