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Longmeadow, Street, Somerset.—Discusses the arrangements for Pethick-Lawrence’s visit to Street to open the bazaar of the Local Labour Party.

Encourages him to promote Miss Metcalfe’s book (Woman’s Action). Is hopeful that six million women will be enfranchised, though it means a compromise.

‘As from’ Fourways, Gomshall, Surrey.—Discusses arrangements for his visit to Street.

Sends birthday greetings. Would like to visit Housman when he visits his friends (the Wilkinsons) at Nether Stowey.

The Cottage, Cold Ash, Berks.—Suggests she should only be paid for only half her holiday, as she will not be returning as assistant-editor (of Votes for Women). Is sorry to end her connection with the paper, and is grateful for what she has learnt.

The Sanitarium, Caterham.—Thanks him and his wife for two ‘readable’ books. His wife and daughter are with him, and benefiting from the visit even more than he is.

[Dublin.]—Relates briefly the circumstances of her husband’s death.

46 Queen’s Gate Gardens, S.W.—Thanks him for his congratulations (on his appointment as attorney-general), and refers to their connection at Eton.

‘Hospital.’—Looks forward to seeing the Pethick-Lawrences when he leaves hospital. Signs of spring have made him more hopeful about world affairs.

The Master’s Lodge, Trinity College, Cambridge.—Is glad Pethick-Lawrence is coming (to the Annual Gathering at Trinity) on 21 June, and asks him to reply for the Toast of the Guests.

Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon.—Is glad he liked their recent production of Othello. At the last governors’ meeting the resignation of Tony Quayle’s (as Director) was announced.

Admiralty.—Thanks him for writing (to congratulate him on his appointment as First Lord of the Admiralty).

House of Commons.—Mrs Cooper is now in Stratford Hospital. Derek Walker-Smith is making inquiries about the treatment she is said to have received at Alcester.

Memorial Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon.—Apologises for not replying earlier to his letter, which she received as she was going on vacation. The vacation followed ‘a gruelling 9 performances in 6 days’.

Parkhotel Kaiserhof, Frankfurt.—Encloses poems (6/292), in return for one from Pethick-Lawrence (his ‘Cosmic Hymn’?). Is delighted to have met him.

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Biography of Mrs. Pethick Lawrence.

Mrs. Pethick-Lawrence is well known all over the world as a feminist who played a leading part in the world wide Woman Suffrage Campaign before the war She is also known as an internationalist who during the four years of the great war brought all the influence she possesses as a public speaker upon the people of her own country and upon the people in America to work for a Peace by negotiation and reconciliation, rather than a Peace dictated by the victorious armies.

In the Autumn of 1914, a cable summoned her to New York to address a vast suffrage meeting at the Carnegie Hall. On that occasion she helped to inaugurate the campaign which two years later led to the political enfranchisement of the women of that State. As a result of her campaign the American section of the Women’s International League was formed at Washington in January 1915, with Jane Addams as its President, and the two women sailed with fifty American women delegates to take part in an International Conference of Women held at the Hague in April 1915.

At the Conference of the Women’s International League in Zurich in May 1919, she registered her vigorous protest against the terms of the Versailles Treaty which had been published a few hours before the meeting was held.

In June 1920, Mrs. Pethick-Lawrence represented her country in an International Peace meeting in the German Reichstag in Berlin. She also spoke in the Mozarteum Great Hall in Salzburg, in the Town Hall, Vienna and in other towns on the “Women’s International League and Constructive Peace”.

She has since visited America twice and has been once to South Africa where she took part in the celebrations that welcomed the granting of woman suffrage in South Africa, the last dominion in the British Commonwealth to enfranchise its women. Mrs. Pethick-Lawrence is President of the Women’s Freedom League and vice-President of the Women’s International League, British Section,

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‘Revised March 1933’ has been written at the top of the first sheet, together with the file number ‘2069’.

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(Place of writing not indicated.)—Commends his suggested solution to the abdication crisis.

(Carbon copy. The performance referred to took place on 8 Apr. 1938.)

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(A revised version of 7/38. This cutting, which is from a different edition to 7/39, includes a photo of the writer.)

Mansfield House, Canning Town, London.—‘You may.’

(The date is that of the postmark.)

Trafalgar House, Littlehampton.—Invites him to supper.

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Trafalgar House | Littlehampton. {1}
3. 7. 00.

Dear Mr Laurence.

Will you come and see me on Sunday evening {2} about 7 o’clock (if you can) and have supper with me in my kitchen! Do not be surprised if you find me an old woman by that time! I am obliged to return home on Friday.

Yours sincerely
Emmeline Pethick

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{1} The address embossed on the paper—20 Endsleigh Terrace, Duke’s Road, W.C. (the home of George Cope Cope and John Herbert Greenhalgh)—has been struck through.

{2} 8th.

20 Somerset Terrace, Duke’s Road, W.C.—Discusses his forthcoming meeting with men from South Africa, and dismisses the suggestion that his career is ruined.

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20 Somerset Terrace | Dukes Rd W.C.
11. 7. 00

Dear Mr Lawrence,

I will think of you on Saturday {1} & before Saturday with the one wish that you have expressed.

I fully realize the nature of the ordeal that is before you. I only want to say one thing. Remember that these men from S. Africa will be special pleaders of their own cause. To be in a judicial position you ought to hear the other side—not from Mr Cope who is himself in a correct judicial position but the special pleaders on the other side. If you have read Fitzpatrick’s book {2} which is the apologia for himself and his confederates—you ought to read Reitz’s “A Century of Wrong” {3}. You get thus the two extreme points of view & a fair representation of the two colliding interests.

So in hearing these men you have to remember that to a man trained to weigh evidence {4}— no statement of theirs would be accepted as it stands—you understand what I mean[.] I will not say any more. I hope that I have not said too much.

Another point. As to the “ruin of your career” {5}. Excuse me, but this is nonsense! You will have to stand in St Pancras, which is a Liberal constituency crying out for a Liberal candidate {6}! And we will draw the many various threads together that 8 years living in one district have put into our hands, and we will work for you—to the bone!! I say “we” confidently. There is not one of us who would not stand by you after this. If I did not most confidently believe that this decision will clear your way of endless obstructions & confusions, and take your feet out of a net—I should feel an anxiety which I do not now feel. No: let the present only be right—the future—God’s future— you then make way for. I have proved it. I’ll tell you some day.

Yours sincerely
Emmeline Pethick

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The punctuation has been revised slightly.

{1} 14th. The reference is to Lawrence’s forthcoming interview with Lionel Phillips and another supporter of the war in South Africa. See PETH 7/56–7.

{2} J. P. Fitzpatrick, The Transvaal from Within: A Private Record of Public Affairs (1899).

{3} F. W. Reitz, A Century of Wrong (1900), originally published in Dutch as Een Eeuw van Onrecht. The book was a collaboration between several writers, including J. C. Smuts, but the English edition bore only the name of Reitz, State Secretary of the South African Republic, by whose order the second Dutch edition had appeared. The English edition included a preface by W. T. Stead.

{4} Probably a pointed allusion to Lawrence himself, who had been called to the Bar the previous year.

{5} The suggestion was probably made by Lawrence’s uncle, Sir Edwin Durning-Lawrence, who visited him about this date, Lawrence having decided that it was impossible for him ‘to remain a candidate supporting the Government’. See PETH 7/56 and Fate Has Been Kind, p. 52.

{6} The reference appears to be to the parliamentary constituency of St Pancras (South). See PETH 7/64. St Pancras was divided into four parliamentary constituencies, North, East, South, and West, which also served as a divisions for County Council elections. Each constituency was represented by a single MP, each division by two councillors.

Euston Station.—‘Shall be free seven thirty.’