Papers of Lord Butler

Inventory list
Identifier Sort ascending Title Level of description Date Digital object
13 'Religious education speeches'. Also copy of 1944 Education Act, odd notes and correspondence about education File 1944–1949
16 'Copies of speeches ... as Minister of Labour and National Service', with list (some speeches wanting) File 1945
17 'Speeches and articles ... 1946', defence estimates, political education, with list File 1946
20 'Speeches and articles ... 1949', mainly general political, with partial list File 1949 and n.d.
21 'Speeches and articles ... 1950', with list File 1950 and n.d.
22 'Speeches and articles ... 1951', with list File 1951 and n.d.
27 'Speeches and articles ... 1955', with partial list File 1955 and n.d.
28 Notes for speech at Brentwood Grammar School speech day, July 1955, with notes used previously at similar functions File 1945–1955
30 'Speeches 1956'. File 1955–1956
31 'Crime and punishment speeches', includes White papers File 1956–1960
33 'Speeches 1957', no list File n.d. and 1957
34 'Speeches 1958' File 1958
37 'Speeches 1959', including background material, individual folders, lists alphabetically File 1959
39 Note on liquor licensing and betting and gaming laws, for possible inclusion in a Morning Advertiser article File 1959
41 'Speeches 1960', no list File 1960
43 Speeches, general political and some duplicates, and one Conservative Party pamphlet, no list File 1960–1965
46 Geneva Disarmament Conference speech (printed extracts) File 1964
52 Text of Romanes Lecture, Oxford, 'The difficult art of autobiography' File 1967
7 Congratulations on birth of Adam Courtauld Butler File 1931
1 Letter from Nina Ames to R. A. Butler Item 24 Jan. 1929
2 Letter from Hubert Collar to R. A. Butler and Sydney Item 17 Jan. 1929
7 Letter from George Lewis to R. A. Butler Item 17 Jan. 1929
1 Papers re personal decorations, invitations and programmes including State occasions, official parliamentary reports on death of King George V, Bill for abdication of Edward VIII, ceremonial for coronation of George VI File 1934–1939
6 Congratulations on being elected M.P. for Saffron Walden File May-Jul. 1929
11 Correspondence with Mary Butler (neé Kendall) File 1925–1926
129 Telegram from Gerald [? Sparrow] to R. A. Butler Item 31 May. 1929
142 Letter from Charles Watney (St Stephen's Intelligence Bureau) to R. A. Butler Item 31 May 1929
9 Congratulations on speeches in House of Commons on India File 1932–1933
128 Letter from William Ritchie Sorley to R. A. Butler Item 31 May. 1929
13 Indian Round Table Conference File 1932–1933