Papers of Lord Butler

Inventory list
Identifier Sort ascending Title Level of description Date Digital object
35 Letter from Sir Findlater Stewart to R. A. Butler Item [Dec. 1936]
4 Telegram from Lord and Lady Dufferin and Ava to R. A. Butler Item 29 Mar. [1933]
146 Letter from Jan Baliński-Jundziłł File 1929
1 Certificates from school to Cambridge M.A., postcards, odd notes, cartoons; embroidered badge, Pembroke College, Cambridge; incomplete engagement calendars for 1921, 1928, 1931; prescriptions and list of exercises; RAB's engagement and wedding notices; typescripts of political sketches by a constituent c.1930 File n.d. and 1918–1931
13 Cambridge University Conservative Association: Minutes of meetings and reports, papers from Imperial Conference of Students at Cambridge, July 1924, organised by RAB File 1923–1924
16 Nine issues of Granta, containing appreciation of RAB File 1924–1925
17 The Pem, with May Week supplement containing Ode to the Pem by RAB File 1924
21 World tour: financial accounts, itineraries, texts of speeches, diary of meetings etc. File 1926-c.1927
23 Reports of Courtaulds Ltd general meetings for 1935 and 1947, letter re George Courtauld's marriage settlement to RAB as trustee File 1935–1947
25 Volume of typescript copies of tributes paid to the Right Hon. Sir Michael Herbert Rudolf Knatchbull, 5th Baron Brabourne (d.23 Feb 1939) and copies of his cable and letter to RAB on being invited to be godfather to Samuel James Butler. Original letter to Doreen, Lady Brabourne to RAB File 1937–1939
30 Ernest Cassel Educational Trust: Agenda and papers for trustees meeting of 18 July 1956, largely applications for grants from the trust fund. Copy of c. Jan 1933 of original trust deed of 11 Feb 1919. File 1933–1956
32 Glasgow University: Rectorial installation and address, Feb 1958, letters re student disturbances, University Union, Glasgow charities appeal File 1957–1959
5 Letter from Stanley Kennedy North to Percy Moore Turner Item 7 Jun. 1932
7 Letter from E. H. Rollinson, solicitor, to C. N. Hardy Item 10 Jun. 1932
10 Letter from Stanley Kennedy North to Samuel Courtauld Item 21 Feb. 1934
7-8 Letter from Helmut Ruhemann to Samuel Courtauld Item 20 Sept. 1937
5 Letter from Percy Moore Turner to Samuel Courtauld Item 2 Jun. 1933
4 Letter from Stanley Kennedy North to Henri Verne, Louvre Item 1 Jun. 1933
1 Letter from Stanley Kennedy North to Samuel Courtauld Item 27 May 1933
6 Letter from Iris Portal to Sir Montagu Butler Item 13 Sept. [1935]
8 Letter from Samuel Courtauld to Sir Montagu Butler Item 28 May 1946
4-5 Copy of letter from Gertrud Bing to Samuel Courtauld Item 15 Jan. 1943
12 Letter from Gertrud Bing to Samuel Courtauld Item 24 Jun. 1943
1-2 Summary of interpretations of Titian’s Sacred and Profane Love by Gertrud Bing Item 12 Jan. 1943
3 General, including 1946 food recovery, Ontario 1949, prospective Labour candidate Saffron Walden 1950, Essex water supply File 1932–1950
4 General, mainly Essex. Also foreign policy and agriculture File 1934–1951 and n.d.
5 Conservative post-war plans for agriculture, interim report File 1943
11 Agriculture File 1945–1946
17 General, including Rome and French visits, article 'The right road' by RAB from Everybody's File 1949
22 Loose cuttings, mainly financial File 1952