Identity area
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1887–1961 (Creation)
Level of description
Class
Extent and medium
1 box
Context area
Name of creator
Repository
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
The contents fall into the following main groups:
A letter from ‘E. B.’ to ‘Bully’, 1887 (1)
Letters from F. W. Lawrence to family members, 1897–1901 (2–21)
Letters from F. W. Pethick-Lawrence to Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence, and related papers, 1901–14 (21a–121)
Circular letters by F. W. and Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence, written during a visit to India, 1926–7 (122–35)
Letters from F. W. (later Lord) Pethick-Lawrence to Emmeline (later Lady) Pethick-Lawrence, 1930–50 (136–200)
Letters from F. W. (later Lord) Pethick-Lawrence to Esther E. Knowles, 1927–56 (200a–224)
Correspondence between Esther E. Knowles and Lord and Lady Pethick-Lawrence, 1946–59 (225–9)
Correspondence of Lord and Lady Pethick-Lawrence, 1914–61 (230–95)
The recipients of the letters in the second group are Lady Durning-Lawrence (2–10), Sir Edwin Durning-Lawrence (11–12), Theodora Lawrence (13), Mary Elizabeth Lawrence (14–15), Ellen Lawrence (16–20), and Annie Lawrence (21).
The papers in the last group, which derive from the Pethick-Lawrences’ numbered correspondence files, relate to the following people and subjects: Ramsay MacDonald (230); Hertha Ayrton (231); E. W. Barnes (232); Laurence Housman (232a–58); Evelyn Sharp (259); Keir Hardie (260–2); Hanna Sheehy Skeffington (262a–265); S. C. Cronwright-Schreiner (266); Douglas M. Hogg (267); Lord Darling (268); Sir Austen Chamberlain (269); Clement Attlee (270); Virginia Woolf (271); George Lansbury (272–3); Lord Allen of Hurtwood (274–5); Maude Royden (276); Sir Alan Lascelles (277); Kingsley Martin (278); G. M. Trevelyan (279–80); Sir Harold Spencer Jones (281); Lord Samuel (282); Lord Layton (283); Glen Byam Shaw (284–5); Viscount Hailsham (286); Dame Sybil Thorndike (287); F. H. Grisewood (288); John Profumo (289); Dame Edith Evans (290); Monk Gibbon (291–2); Princess Marthe Bibesco (293–4); and Paramasivan Subbarayan (295). These sub-groups are arranged in chronological order, according to the date of the first item in each.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
This class, like the others, represents the contents of one of the archival boxes into which the papers were put on their arrival in the Library.