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Covering Dates: 1771-1963

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Catalogue Description

Papers of the late Lt. Col. Right Hon. Sir Cuthbert Headlam, Bart., P.C., D.S.O., O.B.E., T.D., D.L., J.P.and of his wife (Georgina) Beatrice, Lady Headlam, C.B.E.deposited on long-term loan, 5 June 1967,7 May 1987 and 4 September 1989

(Acc: 229(D))(Acc: 1737(D))(Acc: 1885(D))

County Record Office,
County Hall,
DURHAM.
DHl 5UL

Cuthbert Morley Headlam (1876-1964) was born at Eccles, Lancashire, third of the five sons of Francis John Headlam, Stipendiary Magistrate of Manchester. He was educated at King's School, Canterbury (which he did not much enjoy) and Magdalen College, Oxford, where he took a degree in history. In 1904 he married (Georgina) Beatrice (d.1968), daughter of the late George Baden Crawley.

Throughout his adult life, Headlam was connected with the political world. From 1897 until 1924, with a wartime break inimical to his career prospects, he served as a clerk in the House of Lords. He was, inter-alia, involved in a committee to reform the membership of the House of Lords. He had considered a future career in politics during the First World War but, lacking large private means, he had some difficulty in finding a seat and was in two minds about making such a leap in middle age.

He sat for Barnard Castle from 1924 to 1929 and from 1931 to 1935. In a straight fight with Labour he won the seat; in a three cornered fight with a Liberal he lost it. From 1926 to 1929 he was Parliamentary and Financial Secretary to the Admiralty, one of the more important junior ministerial appointments. From 1931 to 1932 he was Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Pensions (he read of his appointment in a newspaper bought on Newcastle railway station) and from 1932 to 1934 he held a similar post at the Ministry of Transport. There, due to the failings of the Minister, Pybus, he played an important part in the handling of legislation to establish the London Passenger Transport Board. He resigned in 1934. From 1931 to 1939 he served on Durham County Council and was prominent in the organisation of the Conservative Party in the north of England. In 1941 he was chairman of the National Union of Conservative Associations.

His return to parliament in 1940 for the safe seat of Newcastle North (which he retained until retirement in 1951) resulted from a war-time by-election arranged by Grattan Doyle, the retiring member, with the intention of securing the succession of his own son. Headlam enjoyed stormy relations with his constituency party throughout the next eleven years.

Headlam was created a baronet in 1935 and made a member of the Privy Council in 1945. His other decorations (D.S.O. and O.B.E.) resulted from wartime service in France. Initially, he acted as A.D.C. to his brother-in-law, the Earl of Cavan, when Cavan was in command of the Guards Division. Headlam moved on to general staff work, being promoted from Captain to Lieutenant Colonel and from G.S.O.3 to G.S.O.l, during the ensuing three years. After the war he was founder-editor, with an old friend, Guy Dawnay, of the Army Quarterly. Headlam retained (latterly sole) editorship until 1942. His other works included articles on political and constitutional affairs, plays and Buchanesque "pot-boilers".

To understand these papers it is necessary to have in mind the web of connexions flourishing within a coherent ruling class. Headlam may have been the younger son of a younger son of a family whose money, in the 18th century, had come from building ships, he may have been, by his own standards, perennially short of money, but he was a member of an elite.
His contacts were established at school and university, through amateur dramatics with landed neighbours of his parents in Cheshire, through the House of Lords, the Travellers Club, the Bedfordshire Yeomanry and the First World War, and, to a lesser extent, through his membership of Parliament.

He detested Liberalism and socialism, the League of Nations (and its begetter), the Germans (and most of our allies), many officers of the regular army and many politicians of his own party, the drift of the Church of England, and various of his own and his wife's relations, with varying fervour at various times. Here is a conservative who had distrusted both Chamberlain and Churchill, who was disinclined to trim and antagonised groups of his own supporters.

Catalogue Contents

Political diaries (Ref: D/He 1-46)

Notes on arrangement

The correspondence and photographs etc. forming part of the first deposit (there numbered D/He 47-63) have been amalgamated with similar items in the second deposit, and renumbered. Headlam's political diaries retain their original numeration.

Correspondents who are mentioned as Members of Parliament are to be understood to be Conservative and Unionist unless stated otherwise. Letters are from addresses in London and Middlesex unless otherwise stated.


1890
(1 volume)


1895
(1 volume)


1896
(1 volume)


1897
(1 volume)


1899-1901 (irregularly kept)
(1 volume)


1902
(1 volume)


1903
(1 volume)


1904
(1 volume)


1910
(1 volume)


191l
(1 volume)


1912
(1 volume)


1913
(1 volume)


1914
(1 volume)


1915
(1 volume)


1919
(1 volume)


1920
(1 volume)


1921
(1 volume)


1922
(1 volume)


1923
(1 volume)


1924
(1 volume)


1925
(1 volume)


1926
(1 volume)


1927
(1 volume)


1928
(1 volume)


1929
(1 volume)


1930
(1 volume)


1931
(1 volume)


1932
(1 volume)


1933
(1 volume)


1934
(1 volume)


1935
(1 volume)


1936
(1 volume)


1937
(1 volume)


1938
(1 volume)


1939
(1 volume)


1940
(1 volume)


1941
(1 volume)


1942
(1 volume)


1943
(1 volume)


1944
(1 volume)


1945
(1 volume)


1947
(1 volume)


1948
(1 volume)


1949
(1 volume)


1950
(1 volume)


1951
(1 volume)

Social diaries (Ref: D/He 47-98)

Pocket diaries and engagement books


1904
(1 volume, leather bound)


1905
(1 volume, leather bound)


1906
(1 volume, leather bound)


1907
(1 volume, leather bound)


1908
(1 volume, leather bound)


1909
(1 volume, leather bound)


1910
(1 volume, leather bound)


1912
(1 volume, leather bound)


1913
(1 volume, leather bound)


1914
(1 volume, leather bound)


1915
(1 volume, leather bound)


1916
(1 volume, leather bound)


1917
(1 volume, leather bound)


1918
(1 volume, leather bound)


1919
(1 volume, leather bound)


1920
(1 volume, leather bound)


1921
(1 volume, leather bound)


1922
(1 volume, leather bound)


1923
(1 volume, leather bound)


1924
(1 volume, leather bound)


1925
(1 volume, leather bound)


1926
(1 volume, leather bound)


1927
(1 volume, leather bound)


1928
(1 volume, leather bound)


1929
(1 volume, leather bound)


1930
(1 volume, leather bound)


1931
(1 volume, leather bound)


1932
(1 volume, leather bound)


1933
(1 volume, leather bound)


1934
(1 volume, leather bound)


1935
(1 volume, leather bound)


1936
(1 volume, leather bound)


1937
(1 volume, leather bound)


1938
(1 volume, leather bound)


1939
(1 volume, leather bound)


1940
(1 volume, leather bound)


1941
(1 volume, leather bound)


1942
(1 volume, leather bound)


1943
(1 volume, leather bound)


1944
(1 volume, leather bound)


1946
(1 volume, leather bound)


1947
(1 volume, leather bound)


1948
(1 volume, leather bound)


1949
(1 volume, leather bound)


1950
(1 volume, leather bound)


1951
(1 volume, leather bound)


1952
(1 volume, leather bound)


1953
(1 volume, leather bound)


1954
(1 volume, leather bound)


1956
(1 volume, leather bound)


1957
(1 volume, leather bound)


1958
(1 volume, leather bound)

Diaries of Beatrice Headlam (Ref: D/He 99-100)

1904 (some entries by Cuthbert)
(1 volume, leather bound)


1910
(1 volume, cloth bound)

Newspaper cuttings, articles, speeches etc. (Ref: D/He 101-119)Scrap books of newspaper cuttings etc. (Ref: D/He 101-110)

Newspaper cuttings: Political I, June 1924 - April 1927
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Newspaper cuttings: Political II, June 1927 - November 1930
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Newspaper cuttings: Political III, December 1930 - November 1932
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Newspaper cuttings: Political IV, November 1932 - October 1935
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Newspaper cuttings: Admiralty (extracts from Hansard), February 1927 - August 1928
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Extracts from Hansard, 8 November 1928 - 6 May 1929; miscellaneous cuttings, 11 August 1931 - 26 November 1934
(1 volume, leather quarter-bound)


Newspaper cuttings: Gateshead By-Election, 6 May - 2 August 1931
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Newspaper cuttings, Newcastle and the North Pageant, 15 July 1931 - 22 November 1932
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Miscellaneous newspaper cuttings relating to the political, social and literary concerns of Cuthbert Headlam, and to the employment schemes of Beatrice Headlam, obituaries of various members of the Headlam and Crawley families, difficulties in the North Newcastle Conservative Association, n.d. (chiefly 1935-38), and 17 February 1905 - 5 November 1956
(3 files)


Newspaper cuttings, programmes for amateur theatricals, book reviews etc., 15 April 1893 - 22 March 1904 (1 volume, cloth bound)

Political articles by Cuthbert Headlam alias "B.B." (Ref: D/He 111)

"The League and its Objects", an address concerning The League of Fellow Citizens delivered by Headlam, February 1913


"England on the Morrow of Waterloo", from the Army Quarterly, April 1921


"The Prime Minister and His Critics in the Conservative Party", from The English Review, November 1925


"Conservatives and the House of Lords", from The English Review, May 1926


"The Trade Union (Political Fund) Bill", n.d. [1927]


"House of Lords or Senate?", from The National Review, December 1928


"The Political Situation", from The English Review, May 1930


"Insurance or the Dole", from The Quarterly Review, October 1930


"The Influence of the Treasury on National Expenditure", from The Ashridge Journal, April 1932


"Labour and the Constitution", from The Quarterly Review, April 1934


"The Problem of the House of Lords", from The Quarterly Review, October 1934
(1 booklet, 10 files printed)

Election addresses etc. (Ref: D/He 112-119)

Election literature and adddresses of Headlam, 1934 - 1937
(7 papers, printed)


Election literature and adddresses of Headlam's opponents, 1931 - 1950
(7 papers, printed)


Text of a speech delivered to Durham County Council by Headlam in reply to the "Memorandum proposed by the County Accountant on the Financial Provisions of the Local Government Act, 1929, and Expenditure of the Council", 6 May 1931
(1 booklet, printed)


"Socialist Administration in the County of Durham, Lt. Col. Cuthbert Headlam's Criticism and Councillor Peter Lee's Defence", 30 January - 24 February 1932
(1 booklet, printed)


"Should Trade Unions be Political?", a debate between Jack Lawson and Headlam, from The Listener, 20 June 1934
(1 file, printed)


Extract from The Electric Railway, Bus and Tram Journal, 13 July 1934
(1 file, printed)


The Burnhope Colliery Labour Party News Sheet, n.d. [1930s] and June 1933
(4 papers, typescript)


Record of Headlam's votes in principal divisions in the House of Commons (1931-35), 1935
(1 booklet, printed)

Correspondence received (Ref: D/He 120-136)

This may be divided into correspondence relating to Headlam's work in the House of Lords; to his election successes and failures; general correspondence from the 1890s to the 1960s; correspondence with his wife and other members of his family. As far as possible, the arrangement of the papers reflects Headlam's own.

Correspondence from peers (Ref: D/He 120)

Correspondence received by Headlam in his official capacity as a Clerk in the House of Lords and by his colleagues and superiors relating to legislative matters. From peers:


Lord Allerton, Allerton Hall, Leeds, 24 June 1905 [William Lawies Jackson, P.C., F.R.S., lst Baron. Father of F.S. Jackson]


Lord Alverstone, Royal Courts of Justice, Strand; Alverstone House, Isle of Wight and Pitt Street, Kensington, 15 May 1908 - 13 March 1910 [Richard Everard Webster, P.C., G.C.M.G., lst Baron, Lord Chief Justice]


Lord Atkinson, 39 Hyde Park Gate, 29 August 1909 [John Atkinson, P.C., Lord of Appeal in Ordinary]


Lord Avebury, High Elms, Farnborough R.S.O., Kent, 20 July and 1 August 1906 [John Lubbock, Bart., P.C., 1st Baron]


Lord Balfour of Burleigh, Dover House, Whitehall; 47 Cadogan Square; Der Kaiserhof, Bad Gastein, 17 June 1902, 10 July 1906 and 30 May n.y. [Alexander Hugh Bruce, P.C., Kt., 6th Baron, Secretary for Scotland]


Earl Beauchamp, Lower Park, Putney Hill, London, 24 July 1906 [William Lygon, P.C., 7th Earl, Captain Hon. Corps of Gentlemen at Arms]


Lord Belper, Kingston, Derby, 30 July 1907 [Henry Strutt, 2nd Baron]


Lord Brassey, 24 Park Lane, 28 June 1906 [Thomas Brassey, K.C.B., 1st Baron]


Earl Cadogan, Culford, Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, 15 October 1909 [George Henry Cadogan, K.G., P.C., 5th Earl]


Earl of Carlisle, l Palace Green, Kensington, 24 July 1907 [George James Howard, 9th Earl]


Earl Cawdor, 7 Prince's Gardens, and Cawdor Castle, Nairn, N.B., 11 November 1906 and 30 September 1908 [Frederick Archibald Vaughan Campbell, P.C., 3rd Earl]


Lord Coleridge, Devonshire Club, St. James's, 6 December 1902 [Bernard John Seymour Coleridge, Q.C., 2nd Baron]


Lord Collins of Kensington; Privy Council Office Westleigh; Malvern and Ipoden Wallingford, Berks., 29 May - 26 September 1908 [Richard Henry Collins, P.C., Lord of Appeal in Ordinary]


Earl of Crewe, 23 Hill Street; Crewe Hall, Crewe; Jockey Club, Newmarket, 23 May - 19 August 1900 [Robert Offley Ashburton Crewe-Milnes, P.C., 1st Earl]


Lord Curzon of Kedleston; Hackwood, Basingstoke; 1 Carlton House Terrace, 13 May - 16 June 1908 [George Nathaniel Curzon, P.C., G.C.S.I., G.C.I.E., 1st Baron]


Lord Davey, Privy Council Office and House of Lords, 24 May 1900 and 21 July 1904 [Horace Davey, P.C., Lord of Appeal in Ordinary]


Earl Derby, Derby House, 51 James's Square, 31 October 1909 [Edward George Villiers Stanley, P.C., G.C.V.O., 17th Earl. Father of Oliver Stanley]


Earl of Durham, 39 Grosvenor Square; Harraton House, Exning, Newmarket, 13 March and 2 April 1902 [John George Lambton, 3rd Earl]


Lord Gorell, Stratford Hills, Stratford St. Mary, Suffolk, 19 February 1909 [John Gorell Barnes, P.C., President of the Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division of the High Court]


Viscount Halifax, 79 Eaton Square, 6 December 1902 [Charles Lindley Wood, Bart., 2nd Viscount]


Earl of Halsbury, 4 Ennismore Gardens, 28 May 1908 - 30 October 1911 and n.d. [Hardinge Stanley Gifford, P.C., 1st Earl]


Lord James of Hereford, 41 Cadogan Square, June n.y. and 12 July 1901 [Henry James, P.C., lst Baron]


Marquess of Landsdowne, Bowood, Calne, Wilts.; Curraghmore, Portlaw, Ireland; Landsdowne House, Berkeley Square, 26 October 1906, 24 December 1908 and n.d. [Henry Charles Keith Petty-Fitzmaurice, K.G., P.C., 5th Marquess]


Lord Lindley, 19 Craven Hill Gardens, Hyde Park, 20 July 1904 [Nathaniel Lindley, P.C., Lord of Appeal in Ordinary]


Viscount Llandaff, 6 Carlton Gardens, 17 July 1908 [Henry Matthews, P.C., 1st Viscount]


Earl of Lytton, n.d. [Victor Alexander George Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Bart., 2nd Earl]


Viscount Midleton, 34 Portland Place etc., 24 January 1908 - 18 October 1909 [(William) St. John (Fremantle) Broderick, P.C., 9th Viscount]


Viscount Milner, Sturry Court, Sturry, Kent; 47 Duke Street, London, 28 August and 16 September 1909 [Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount]


Lord Monkswell, 7 Chelsea Embankment; Woodtown, Horrabridge, Devon, 2 and 12 June 1906 [Robert Collier, 2nd Baron]


Duke of Norfolk, Everingham Park, York, 10 January 1908 [Henry Fitzalan Howard, K.G., P.C., G.C.V.O., 15th Duke]


Earl Onslow, Clandon Park, Guildford, Surrey, n.d. and 20 March [1911] [William Hillier Onslow, Bart., P.C., G.C.M.G., 4th Earl, Chairman of Committees, House of Lords]


Viscount Peel, The Lodge, Sandy, Beds., 22 July 1908 [Arthur Wellesley Peel, P.C., 1st Viscount. Father of Sidney Peel]


Earl of Rosebery, Dalmeny House, Edinburgh; 38 Berkeley Square; Villa Rosebery, Posilipo, Naples; Durdans, Epsom; Mentmore, Leighton Buzzard; Vichy; Rosebery, Gorebridge, Midlothian etc., 4 August 1907 - 7 December 1908 [Archibald Philip Primrose, K.G., K.T., P.C., D.C.L., F.R.S., F.S.A., 5th Earl]


Lord Russell of K[illowen], 2 Cromwell Houses, London, n.d. [1897-1900] [Charles Russell, P.C., G.C.M.G., Lord Chief Justice]


Viscount St. Aldwyn, 81 Eaton Place, London; Coln St. Adlwyn, Fairford, Glos., 9 January - 12 June 1908 [Michael Edward Hicks Beach, Bart., P.C., 1st Viscount]


Viscount Selby, 3 Buckingham Gate, London, 12 January - 5 July 1908 William Court Gully, P.C., lst Viscount]


Earl Spencer, Spencer House, St. James's Place, 25 March [1903] - 8 March [1905] [John Poyntz Spencer, K.G., P.C., 5th Earl, Liberal leader in the House of Lords]


Lord Stanmore, The Red House, Ascot, Berks., 22 February 1907 [Arthur Charles Hamilton-Gordon, G.C.M.G., lst Baron]


Lord Thring, 5 Queens Gate Gardens, South Kensington, 14 June 1900 [Henry Thring, K.C.B., former parliamentary counsel] (112 papers)

Correspondence from prelates (Ref: D/He 121)

Correspondence received by Headlam in his official capacity as a Clerk in the House of Lords and by his colleagues and superiors relating to legislative matters. From prelates:


The Archbishop of Canterbury, 2 April 1908 [Randall Thomas Davidson]


The Bishop of Exeter, 22 November 1906 [Archibald Robertson]


The Bishop of Hereford, 9 March 1902 - 7 November 1906 [John Percival]


The Bishop of Southwark, 10 September 1909 [Edward Stuart Talbot]


Bishop Barry, Mentone, April 1907 [Alfred Barry, sometime Primate of Australia] (8 papers)

Correspondence from architects, artists etc. (Ref: D/He 122)

Correspondence received by Headlam in his official capacity as a Clerk in the House of Lords and by his colleagues and superiors relating to legislative matters. From architects, artists etc., relative to the Select Committee upon the [Sir Francis] Chantrey Bequest and other committee business:


Edwin A[ustin] Abbey, Chelsea Lodge, 42 Tite Street, 22 November 1906


Sir Wyke Bayliss, 7 North Road, Clapham Park, 2 August 1904


G[eorge] F[rederick] Bodley, 7 Grays Inn Square, 5 March 1907


Thomas Brock, Regents Park, 6 August 1900


A.H. Church, Shelsley, Kew Gardens, 29 November 1906


H.W.B. Davis, Glaslyn, Rhayader, Radnorshire, 13 and 19 July 1904


Herbert Draper, 15 Abbey Road, St. John's Wood, 22 November 1906 and n.d.


George [James] Frampton, 32 Queens Road, St. John's Wood, 9 July 1904 - 5 December 1906


Sir James Guthrie, P.R.S.A., 41 Moray Place, Edinburgh etc., 19 July - 5 August 1904


W[illiam] Holman Hunt, 18 Melbury Road, Kensington, 28 November 1906


T[homas] G[raham] Jackson, 14 Buckingham Street, Strand, 22 and 27 November 1906


G.D. Leslie, Riverside, Wallingford, 13 July 1904


Seymour Lucas, New Place, Woodchurch Road, West Hampstead, 30 November and 7 December 1906


Sir Edward J[ohn] Poynter, Bart., P.R.A., 89 Knightsbridge; 70 Addison Road, Kensington, 4 August 1904 - 24 November 1906


Val[entine] C[ameron] Prinsep, l Holland Park Road, Kensington, n.d. [1904]


Sir W[illiam] B[lake] Richmond, K.C.B., Beavor Lodge, Hammersmith, 22 and 24 November 1906


Briton Riviere Flaxley, 82 Finchley Road, 22 and 26 July 1904


John S[inger] Sargent, 31 Tite Street, Chelsea, 16 - 17 July n.y., 5 December n.y. [1904-1906]


G[iles] Gilbert Scott, 7 Grays Inn Square, 14 March 1907


R[ichard] Norman Shaw, 6 Ellerdale Road, Hampstead, 6 December 1906 - 15 March 1907


Solomon [Joseph] Solomon, 60 Finchley Road, 4 December 1906


M[arion] H[arry] Spielmann, 21 Cadogan Gardens, 21 July 1904


Marcus Stone, 8 Melbury Road, Kensington Road, 8 July 1904


Sir L[awrence] Alma Tadema, 34 Grove End Road, St. John's Wood, 29 November 1906
(47 papers)

Correspondence from Rt. Hon. Herbert Samuel, M.P. (Ref: D/He 123)

Correspondence received by Headlam in his official capacity as a Clerk in the House of Lords and by his colleagues and superiors relating to legislative matters. From Rt. Hon. Herbert Samuel, M.P., House of Commons etc., Chairman of the Joint Committee on Stage Plays (Censorship), 16 September - 17 October 1909 (5 papers)

Correspondence from literary figures (Ref: D/He 124)

Correspondence received by Headlam in his official capacity as a Clerk in the House of Lords and by his colleagues and superiors relating to legislative matters. From literary figures and concerning the Committee of Enquiry on Dramatic Censorship:


J[ames] M[atthew] Barrie, Leinster Corner, Lancaster Gate, l and 3 August 1909


[Thomas Henry] Hall Caine, Greeba Castle, Isle of Man, 15 August - 17 September 1909


R.J. Campbell, Hill Lodge, Enfield, 7 July 1909


G[ilbert] K[eith] Chesterton, The White Cottage, Harrow Lane, Maidenhead; 48 Overstrand Mansions, Battersea Park, n.d. [1909]


S.L. Clemens, [Mark Twain], 30 Wellington Court, Knightsbridge, 6 April [1909]


J.A. Cramb, 55 Edith Road, West Kensington, 26 July 1909


C[harles] H[arding] Firth, F.B.A., 2 Northmoor Road, Oxford, 16 June 1907 - 29 March 1908 and 11 April n.y.


John Galsworthy, 14 Addison Road, 30 August 1909


Sir W[illiam] S[chwenk] Gilbert, Grim's Dyke, Harrow Weald, 9 and 16 August 1909


Laurence Housman, l Pembroke Cottages, Edwards Square, Kensington, 30 July and 7 July 1909


A[lfred] E[dward] W[oodley] Mason, Kite Hill House, Isle of Wight; 17 Stratton Street, etc., n.d. and 19 September 1909


[George] Gilbert [Aime] Murray, Castle Howard, York, 7 August 1909


[Sir] Arthur [Wing] Pinero, l15A Harley Street, 7 August and 1 October 1909


J[ohn] H[orace] Round, Carlton Club, Pall Mall, 22 August 1909


G[eorge] Bernard Shaw, 10 Adelphi Terrace, 5 July - 13 August 1909


Bram [Abraham] Stoker, 4 Durham Place, Chelsea, 30 July - 29 October 1909


Alfred Sutro, Redlands, Witley, Surrey; 31 Chester Terrace, Regent's Park, 28 July and 10 August 1909 and n.d.


Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree, His Majesty's Theatre, 23 September 1909


A[rthur] B[ingham] Walkley, Worth Cottage, Crawley, Sussex, 9 and 16 August 1909


Israel Zangwill, Far End, East Preston, Worthing, 21 August - 30 September 1909


Evidence of Miss Lena Ashwell, 36 Grosvenor Street, n.d. [1909]


Summary of G.K. Chesterton's evidence, n.d. [1909]


Precis of evidence intended to be given by W.S. Gilbert, 16 August 1909


Note of evidence to be submitted by Laurence Housman, n.d. [1909] (53 papers, 3 files)

Letters of congratulation on election to parliament, 1924 (Ref: D/He 125)

Letters of congratulation received by Headlam on his election to parliament in 1924


The Earl of Cavan, 22 Great Cumberland Place, 31 October n.y. [1924] [Frederick Rudolph Lambert, K.P., G.C.M.G., G.C.V.O., K.C.B.; General; C.I.G.S. 1922-26; 10th Earl; brother-in-law of Beatrice Headlam]


Stewart and McDonnell, contractors, Cowley Street, Westminster, 4 November 1924 [Maj. General Guy D. Payan Dawnay, C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., soldier and financier]


Hugh Ellis, Ravelin House, Portsmouth, 3 November 1924


Henry J.L. Graham, 4 Cadogan Gardens, 3 November 1924 [Sir Henry John Lowndes Graham, K.C.B., Clerk of the Parliaments, 1885-1917]


B.H. Liddell Hart, Stratford Lodge, Stroud, Glos., 31 October 1924 [Capt. Basil Henry Liddell Hart, military strategist, writer and historian]


Cecil Headlam, Broadmead, Westwell Leacon, Charing, Kent, 8 November 1924 [Cousin, F.R. Hist.S.]


M., 21 Oxford Square, 31 October 1924 [Maurice Francis Headlam, C.B., brother, Assistant Secretary to the Treasury]


Arthur Steel-Maitland, 72 Cadogan Square, 4 November 1924 [Rt. Hon. Sir Arthur Herbert Drummond Ramsay Steel-Maitland, Bart., P.C., M.P., Minister of Labour]


W.P. Pulteney, Bradbury's Private Hotel, North Berwick, 2 November 1924 "Work to get all boys under 21 receiving the dole out of the cities, on to the land, pay the farmers to keep them for the winter". [Lt. Gen. Sir William Pulteney Pulteney, K.C.B., K.C.M.G., K.C.V.O., D.S.O., Gentleman Usher of Black Rod]


Arthur T. Thring, Charlton House, Charlton Mackrell, Somerset, 5 November 1924 "personally I regret the loss of the personnel of the Liberal Party as I think there was more sound political thought among them than among other politicians. I don't either like the idea of these double barrelled blokes like Joynson Hicks, Worthington Evans etc. having high office". [Sir Arthur Theodore Thring, K.C.B., Clerk of the Parliaments]


P.F. Warner, The Cricketer, 3 Lancaster Place, Wellington Street, Strand, 12 November 1924 [Pelham Francis Warner, Barrister, sometime captain, M.C.C.]


Herbert Warren, Magdalen College, Oxford, 1 November 1924 [Sir Herbert Warren, President of Magdalen]


Maleissye-[Melun], Brumetz, [France], 1 November 1924 [a French army officer, known to Headlam since 1917] (15 papers)

Letters of congratulation on appointment to the Admiralty, 1926 (Ref: D/He 126)

Letters of congratulation received by Headlam on his appointment to the Admiralty in 1926


Edith Havelock-Allan, Blackwell Grange, Darlington, 19 December 1926 [Edith, O.B.E., J.P., daughter of Thomas C.J. Sowerby of Snow Hall, Gainford, wife of Henry Havelock-Allan]


Henry Havelock-Allan, Blackwell Grange, Darlington, 16 December 1926 [Sir Henry Spencer Moreton Havelock-Allan, Bart., former Liberal M.P. for Bishop Auckland]


W.E.D. Allen, 29 Wilton Place, concerning recent visit to Russia, 10 January 1927 [William Edward David Allen, future Unionist M.P.]


Cecil L. Anstruther, 3 Warwick Square, 21 December 1926


Alfred Appleby, Stotes Hall, Newcastle, 20 December 1926 [Sir Alfred Appleby, solicitor, Chairman of Conservative Party for Northumberland]


Hugh Baillie, Lochloy, Nairn, N.B., 17 December 1926 [Col. Hugh Frederick Baillie, D.S.O., general staff officer in First World War, Headlam's sometime commanding officer]


F.G. Bankes, Croft Cottage, Uphill, Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, 17 December 1926


Godfrey Baring, Life-Boat House, 22 Charing Cross Road, 20 December 1926 [Sir Godfrey Baring, Bart., former Liberal M.P.]


Granville-Barker, 17 December 1926, telegram [Harley Granville Granville-Barker, playwright]


Lord Barnard, Uppington, Wellington, Shropshire, 19 December 1926 [Christopher William Vane, M.C., 10th Baron]


Maud G. Barrett, l Walpole Street, 15 December [1926]


A.J. Bennett, Brooks's [Club], St. James's Street, 17 December 1926 [Albert James Bennett, Conservative, late Liberal, M.P.]


Harry Betterton, Fedsden, Roydon, Ware, Herts, 1 January 1927 [Henry Bucknall Betterton, C.B.E., Conservative M.P., Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Labour]


Harold W. Bettle, Conservative and Unionist Club, Blaydon, 20 December 1926 [Secretary and Agent, The Blaydon Divisional Unionist Association]


Trevor Bigham, 3 Durham Place, Chelsea, 19 December 1926 [Hon. Trevor Bigham, C.B., Assistant Commissioner, Metropolitan Police, contemporary of Headlam at Magdalen College]


W.D. Bird, Glenturf, Camberley, Surrey, 17 December 1926 [Maj. General Sir Wilkinson Dent Bird, K.B.E., etc.]


R.D. Blumenfeld, The Daily Express, 8 Shore Lane, London, 16 December 1926 [Ralph D. Blumenfeld, Editor, Daily Express]


Douglas Boot, Eaglesfield, Wylam, Northumberland, 20 December [1926]


Bob Boothby, Beachwood, Murrayfield, Midlothian, 20 December 1926 [Robert John Graham Boothby, M.P., P.P.S. to Winston Churchill]


D. Boyle, Travellers' Club, Pall Mall, 17 December 1926


J.T.C. Moore-Brabazon, 15 Gerald Road, Chester Square, 20 December 1926 [Lt. Col. John Theodore Cuthbert Moore-Brabazon, M.C., M.P. for Chatham, Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Transport]


T.A. Bradford, Aden Cottage, Durham, 16 December 1926 [Capt. Thomas Andrews Bradford, D.S.O., Conservative parliamentary candidate]


Caroline Bridgeman, Admiralty House, Whitehall, 16 December 1926 [Caroline Beatrice, D.B.E., wife of Rt. Hon. William Clive Bridgeman, First Lord of the Admiralty]


E.C. Britton, West View, Gainford, 24 December 1926


D. Clifton Brown, Cavalry Club, 127 Piccadilly, 16 December 1926 [Col. Douglas Clifton Brown, M.P. for Hexham]


John Buchan, Elsfield Manor, Oxford, 16 December 1926


Hugh Butler, Boulogne-sur -Seine, near Paris, France, 17 December 1926


Thomas D. Butler, House of Lords, 15 December 1926 [Capt. Sir Thomas Dacres Butler, K.C.V.O., Deputy Black Rod]


Eddie Cadogan, ll Ilchester Place, Holland Park, 17 December [1926] [Hon. Edward Cecil George Cadogan, C.B., M.P. for Finchley]


E. Campbell, Elmhurst, Bickley, Kent, 15 December 1926 [Edward Taswell Campbell, M.P. for N.W. Camberwell]


G. Boyd Carpenter, St. Stephen's Club, Westminster, 21 December 1926


Charles Bonham Carter, Hamswell House, Bath, 3 February [1927] [Maj. General Charles Bonham Carter, C.M.G., D.S.O., superior officer to Headlam in 1918]


Felix Cassel, Putteridge Bury, Luton, Beds., 20 December 1926 [Sir Felix Cassell, Bart., K.C., former Conservative M.P., Judge Advocate General. A family connexion]


The Earl of Cavan, 22 Great Cumberland Place, 16 December [1926]


Victor Cazalet, 66 Grosvenor Street, 17 December 1926 [Capt. Victor Alexander Cazalet, M.C., M.P. for Chippenham]


J.R. Chancellor, Government House, Bulawayo, S. Rhodesia, 17 January 1927 [Lt. Col. Sir John Robert Chancellor, G.C.M.G., etc., Governor and Commander-in- Chief of Southern Rhodesia]


Brenda Church, Hotel Bradford, Paris, 17 December 1926


W.H. Clark, Department of Overseas Trade, 35 Old Queen Street, 17 December 1926 [Sir William Henry Clark, K.C.S.I., Comptroller-General of Department of Overseas Trade]


Charles Clay, House of Lords, 17 December 1926 [Charles Travis Clay, F.S.A., Librarian, House of Lords]


H. Spender-Clay, 2 Hyde Park Street, 16 December [1926] [Lt. Col. Herbert Henry Spender-Clay, C.M.G., M.C., M.P. for Tunbridge]


M.F. Court, House of Lords, 16 December 1926


Cicely Cranbrook, 9 Wilbraham Place, 16 December 1926 [Cicely Marguerite Wilhelmina, Countess Dowager of Cranbrook. A family connexion]


A. Stafford Crawley, Chaplain's House, Bishopthorpe, York, 17 December 1926 [Revd. Arthur Stafford Crawley, M.C., chaplain to Cosmo Gordon Lang. Headlam's brother-in-law]


Cosmo, 414 St. Ermin's, Westminster, 18 December 1926 [Cosmo Crawley, nephew]


Cecily Crawley, Quarry Hill, Brancepeth, 18 December 1926 [wife of (John) Kenneth Crawley]


J.H. Crawley, Union Club, Carlton House Terrace, 17 December 1926


Kenneth, Estate Office, Burwarton, Shropshire, 17 December 1926 [(John) Kenneth Crawley, brother-in-law, Viscount Boyne's agent at Brancepeth]


Violet, 43 Lennox Gardens, n.d. [Violet Caroline, wife of (Henry) Ernest Crawley, Beatrice's brother]


C.W. Crookshank, 47 Cadogan Place, 30 December 1926 [Col. Chichester de Windt Crookshank, M.P. for Berwick and Haddington]


Viscount Curzon, Carlton Club, Pall Mall, 17 December 1926 [Francis Richard Henry Penn Curzon, C.B.E., M.P. for South Battersea]


Colin Davidson, 27 December 1926 [John Colin Campbell Davidson, C.H., M.P., retiring Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty, new Chairman of the Conservative Party]


Henry Ferguson Davie, Bittiscombe Manor, Wivelscombe, Somerset, 6 January 1926 "I am sure you will be a great success and will end up a cabinet minister if only you stick to the 'loathsome' (in my opinion) field of politics". [Henry Augustus Ferguson-Davie, C.B., Principal Clerk, Public Bill Office, House of Commons]


J. Davison, North Bridge, Wolsingham, 17 December 1926


Guy D., 8 Waterloo Place, 11 January 1927 "In fact, if you do not do too much harm, and the other folk go on being as idiotic as they are at present, I look for a long period of Tory rule with only very short-lived and evanescent appearances of the other side". [Maj. General Guy Payan Dawney, C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., M.V.O., co-editor of the Army Quarterly, businessman and financier, provider of directorships to Headlam, principal of Dawnay, Day and Co.]


Ralph Deakin, The Times, Printing House Square, 21 December 1926 [Foreign News Editor of The Times]


J. Longstaff Dennison, Hon. Secretary, National Conference on Old Age Pensions, Central Station, Newcastle, 17 December 1926


E. Dewhurst, Hon. Secretary, Eggleston Lodge, National Conservative League, Eggleston, 17 February 1927


Charles Dodd, Kinnaird House, Pall Mall East, 16 December 1926 [Charles Haffenden Dodd, director of Whitehead Morris Ltd.?]


N. Grattan Doyle, Piccadilly Hotel, 20 December 1926 [Sir Nicholas Grattan Doyle, M.P. for Newcastle North]


[R.J.] Drake, 33 Gracechurch Street, 16 December 1926


T.L. Duncan, Whitehead Morris Ltd., 38-39 Parliament Street, 16 December 1926 [Thomas Langford Duncan]


Geoffrey Eastwood, House of Lords, 17 December 1926


J.E. Edmonds, Historical Section, Committee of Imperial Defence, Audit House, 16 December 1926 [Brig. General James Edwards Edmonds, C.B., C.M.G.]


Henry Eeles, Bells Yew Green, Frant, Sussex, 17 December 1926


Robert Eeles, Greencroft Park, Lanchester, 19 December 1926


Edward Eliot, of Kennedy, Ponsonby, Ryde and Co., 31 Basinghall Street, 30 December 1926 [Hon. Edward Granville Eliot, Headlam's solicitor]


Hugh Elles, 18 Regents Park Terrace, 20 December 1926 [Brigadier Sir Hugh Jamieson Elles, K.C.M.G., C.B., D.S.O.]


Geoffrey Ellis, Grand Hotel, Castello A Mare, Taormina, Italy, 4 January 1927 [Robert Geoffrey Ellis, M.P. for Wakefield, banker and company director]


M. Elliott, 38 Belper Street, Garston, Liverpool, 23 December 1926


C.R.L.F., United University Club, Pall Mall East, 20 December 1926


Bryan H. Fell, 43 Kensington Square, 16 December 1926 [Bryan Hugh Fell, Public Bill Office, House of Commons]


W[illiam] H[all] Fenwick, The Poplars, Stanhope, 17 December 1926


Arthur Fletcher, Secretary, Junior Imperial League, Lanchester Branch, 17 December 1926


F.E. Fremantle, Bedwell Park, Hatfield, Herts., 23 December 1926 [Lt. Col. Francis Edward Fremantle, M.P. for St. Albans]


Philip Game, Air Ministry, Adastral House, Kingsway, 23 December 1926 "I hope you will keep a sympathetic eye on the R.A.F. and regard it as a cheap form of insurance" [Air Vice Marshal Sir Philip Woolcott Game, K.C.B., D.S.O., member of the Air Council]


James Gammell, Cranbrook House, Stanhope Lines, Aldershot, 9 February 1927 [Major James Andrew Harcourt Gammell, D.S.O., M.C.]


W.K. Gibbons, Harefield, Sandridge, St. Alban's, Herts., 18 December 1926


Evelyn Gibbs, Estcourt Grange, Tetbury, Glos., 18 December [1926] [Col. John Evelyn Gibbs, M.C., brother-in-law of A. Stafford Crawley]


George A. Gibbs, 22 Belgrave Square, 17 December [1926] [Rt. Hon. George Abraham Gibbs, M.P. for Bristol West, Conservative Whip, brother-in-law of A. Stafford Crawley]


Leila Gibson, Bywell Castle, Stocksfield, Northumberland, 18 December 1926


Ralph Glyn, Hackness Hall, Scarborough, 29 December 1926 "The P.M. likes you and you have got a good chit from the whips and also from your late chief in the Lords. The P.M. is bound now to see that you get a safer seat... The Cabinet is far too big and most of the people in it have looked after No.l from the word 'go' - all except your chief at the Admiralty and Baldwin" [Major Ralph George Campbell Glyn, M.C., M.P. for Abingdon]


Hugh Godley, 53 Porchester Terrace, 19 December 1926 Hon. Hugh John Godley, K.C., Counsel to the Chairman of Committees, House of Lords]


Victor Goodman, Travellers' Club, Pall Mall, 20 December 1926 [Victor Martin Reeves Goodman, M.C., a clerk in Parliament, future Clerk of the Parliaments]


John Gore, 47 Westbourne Terrace, 16 December 1926 [John Francis Gore, journalist and author, barrister, Bedfordshire Yeomanry]


Henry J.L. Graham, Cadogan Gardens [Sir Henry John Lowndes Graham, K.C.B., sometime Clerk of the Parliaments]


A. Gray, Catherine Lodge, Trafalgar Square, Chelsea, 16 December 1926


Stella, Wootton Manor, Polegate, Sussex, 19 [December 1926] [Hon. Stella, daughter of lst Viscount Ridley; widow (1924) of Rupert Gwynne, sometime M.P. for Eastbourne; mother of Elizabeth David]


Douglas H. Hacking, Home Office, Whitehall, 16 December 1926 [Douglas Hewitt Hacking, O.B.E., M.P., Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Home Office]


Cecil Hanbury, Queen Anne's Mansions, 16 December 1926 [M.P. for North Dorset]


Allan Hand, Secretary, Durham County Unionist Association, 6 Old Elvet, Durham, 16 December 1926


Gerald Harrison, 16 Cowley Street, 16 December 1926 [Gerald Joseph Cuthbert Harrison, M.P., P.P.S. to the First Lord of the Admiralty]


Sydney E. Harrison, Curator, Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, 17 December 1926


B.H. Liddell Hart, Army and Navy Club, Pall Mall, 9 February 1927 [Capt. Basil Liddell Hart]


Eddy Hartington, Churchdale Hall, Bakewell, Derbyshire, 31 December 1926 [Edward William Spencer Cavendish, M.B.E., Marquess of Hartington, M.P. for Western Derbyshire]


Harold Hartley, Balliol College, Oxford, 15 December 1926 [Brig.-General Harold Brewer Hartley, C.B.E., F.R.S.]


-, Eton College, Windsor, 17 December 1926 [Geoffrey Wycliffe Headlam, brother]


T.A.H., Laurel Hill, Evershot, Dorset, 16 December 1926 [Lt. Col. Thomas Alexander Headlam, brother]


Winifred [Headlam], Laurel Hill, Evershot, Dorset, 21 December 1926


Hugo, Secunderabad, 5 January [1927] [Brigadier Hugh Roger Headlam, C.M.G., D.S.O., brother]


Vera, 21 Oxford Square, 16 December 1926 [Lady Vera (Grimston) Headlam, wife of Maurice Francis Headlam, C.B., Headlam's eldest brother]


A.C. Gloucestr: The Palace, Gloucester, 16 December 1926 [Rt. Rev. Arthur Cayley Headlam, C.H., Bishop of Gloucester, cousin]


Horace Headlam, 10 North Court, Wood Street, n.d. [Horace Edward Headlam, cousin]


John Headlam, Cruck Meole House, Hanwood, Shrewsbury, 17 December 1926 [Maj.-General Sir John Emerson Wharton Headlam, K.B.E., C.B., D.S.O., D.L., J.P., cousin]


Lewis Headlam, The Vicarage, Horsham, Sussex, 17 December 1926 [Revd. Morley Lewis Caulfield Headlam, Vicar of Horsham, cousin]


Rose Headlam, The Palace, Gloucester, 11 November 1926 [cousin]


Rose Headlam as Secretary of the Whorlton Women's Unionist Association, Whorlton, Barnard Castle, 26 December 1926


J. Headlam Morley, Foreign Office, 16 December 1926 [James Wycliffe Headlam-Morley, C.B.E., Historical Adviser to the Foreign Office, cousin]


Agnes Headlam-Morley, 29 St. Mary's Road, Wimbledon, n.d. [Academic, daughter of J. Headlam Morley]


Kenneth Headlam-Morley, Dorman, Long and Co. Ltd., Middlesbrough, 16 December 1926 [Kenneth Arthur Sonntag Headlam-Morley, son of J. Headlam Morley]


Claud W. Heneage, 51 Harrington Gardens, South Kensington, 17 December 1926


C.P. Heywood, Command Headquarters, Aldershot, 17 December 1926 [Col. Cecil Percival Heywood, C.M.G., D.S.O.]


Gilbert Hicks, 18 The Crescent, Phippsville, Northampton, 17 December 1926


Pat Hodgson, Thorpe Hall, Thorpe-le-Soken, Essex, 27 December 1926 [Patrick Kirkman Hodgson, C.M.G., O.B.E., sometime clerk in the House of Lords, Private Secretary to the Duke of York]


Eric R. Hanby Holmes, Barnard Castle, 21 December 1926 [Eric Richard Hanby Holmes, solicitor and antiquarian]


[Mary Hope?], Cooden, Bexhill, Sussex, 19 December 1926


Alan Hotham, 67 Eccleston Square, n.d. [Rear Admiral Alan Geoffrey Hotham, C.B., C.M.G., Director of Naval Intelligence]


Gladys Hotham, Manfield House, Darlington, 22 December 1926 [daughter of J.G. Wilson of Cliffe Hall, widow of J.B.H. alias Johnnie Hotham, a clerk in the House of Lords]


F.J. Hudleston, War Office, 21 December 1926


Rob Hudson, Henden Manor, Ide Hill, Sevenoaks, Kent, 27 December [1926] [Robert Spear Hudson, M.P. for Whitehaven]


F.W. Hulse, Hon. Secretary, Cotherstone Conservative and Unionist Association, Fiddler House, Cotherstone, 21 December 1926


Percy Hunting, Royal Air Force Club, Piccadilly, 16 December 1926


Gerald B. Hurst, 56 Ladbroke Grove, 19 December 1926 [Gerald Berkeley Hurst, K.C., M.P. for Manchester Moss Side]


F. Stanley Jackson, Palace Chambers, Westminister, 30 December 1926 [Rt. Hon. Francis Stanley Jackson, M.P. for Howdenshire, retiring Chairman of the Unionist Party, Governor elect of Bengal, cricketer, son of lst Lord Allerton]


Anthony Jeffreys, 13 Cheyne Gardens, Chelsea, 16 December 1926


Jonah, 15 Cleveland Gardens, 14 December [1926] [Lawrence Evelyn Jones, M.C., T.D., merchant banker, barrister, Bedfordshire Yeomanry, Travellers' Club]


James Kidd, Muiredge, Bo'ness, Scotland, 20 December 1926 [M.P. for Linlithgowshire]


Guy M. Kindersley, 88 Elm Park Gardens, 22 December 1926 "It is a satisfaction to some of us to feel that a man of such sound and sane Conservative views has joined the ranks of the Ministry. We had our fears that the appointment might go to one of the members of a group whose hearts are at present, rather bigger than their heads". [Major Guy Molesworth Kindersley, O.B.E., M.P. for Hitchin, stockbroker]


Alfred Knox, 13 South Street, 16 December 1926 "I like you and think you are honest and it is a relief to me that one of the Y.M.C.A. was not appointed" [Maj. General Sir Alfred William Fortescue Knox, K.C.B., C.M.G., M.P. for Wycombe]


F.A. Konig, 12 Tokenhouse Yard, 20 December 1926 [Frederick Adolphus Konig, partner in Frederick Huth & Co.]


Godfrey Locker-Lampson, Rowfant, Crawley, Sussex, 17 December 1976 [Godfrey Lampson Tennyson Locker-Lampson, M.P., Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs]


Cosmo Ebor: Bishopthorpe, York, 7 January 1927 "I think everyone anticipated that you would be among the very first of the new members to be thus noted" [Most Revd. William Cosmo Gordon Lang, Archbishop of York]


Francis Lascelles, House of Lords, 16 December 1926 [Francis William Lascelles, M.C., Clerk, House of Lords]


Mrs. Laverick, 18 Pavilion Terrace, Burnhope on behalf of the Women's Unionist Association, 26 January 1927


George E. Lavin, Queens Road, Linthorpe, Middlesbrough, 16 December 1926


J. de V. Loder, Jacques Hill, Bradfield, Essex, 17 December 1926 [Capt. John de Vere Loder, M.P. for East Leicester]


Lord Londonderry, Wynyard Park, Stockton-on-Tees, 22 December 1926 [Charles Stewart Henry Vane-Tempest-Stewart, K.G., P.C., 7th Marquess of Londonderry]


F.S.A. Lowndes, The Times, Printing House Square, 17 December [1926] [Frederic Sawrey Archibald Lowndes, journalist and playwright]


Franklin Lushington, 3A Sheffield Terrace, 19 December 1926


Guy H. Maclane, 14 Chester Terrace, Eaton Square, 16 December 1926


Peter D. Macdonald, ll St. James's Court, 18 December 1926 [Capt. Peter Drummond Macdonald, M.P. for Isle of Wight]


Leigh Maclachlan, Palace Chambers, Westminister, 8 January [ 1927] [Sir T.J. Leigh Maclachlan, chief organiser Conservative Party 1921-26]


Harold Macmillan, 14 Chester Square, 16 December 1926 [Capt. (Maurice) Harold Macmillan, M.P. for Stockton, later Prime Minister]


Dougal O. Malcolm, 20 Sussex Square, 24 December 1926 [Dougal Orme Malcolm, Director, British South Africa Company; Travellers' Club]


Neill Malcolm, 33 Cranley Gardens, 19 December 1926 [Maj. General Sir Neill Malcolm, K.C.G., D.S.O., President British North Borneo Company, Travellers' Club]


J.E. Mallin, Glyndon, Borstal Road, Rochester, 31 November 1926


David, 3 Hill Street, Berkeley Square, 25 December 1926 [Capt. Henry David Reginald Margesson, M.C., M.P., a Government whip]


C.J. Martin, Durham County Sanatorium, Holywood Hall, Wolsingham, 30 December [1926] [Charles James Martin, O.B.E., M.B., B.Ch.]


[Canon] Arnold Mayhew, 6 Abbey Mill Lane, St. Albans, 16 December 1926


F.B. Merriman, Farrar's Building, Temple, 17 December 1926 [Frank Boyd Merriman, K.C., M.P. for Manchester Rusholme]


Frank Meyer, Cannes, France, 2 January [1927] [Sir Frank Cecil Meyer, Bart., M.P. for Great Yarmouth]


F.H. Mitchell, Buckingham Palace, [17 December 1926] [Frank Herbert Mitchell, C.B.E., Press Secretary at Buckingham Palace]


Hubert Montgomery, Foreign Office, 4 January 1927 [Sir Charles Hubert Montgomery, K.C.M.G., C.B., C.V.O., Assistant Under-Secretary of State]


K.P. Vaughan Morgan, l Hans Place, Chelsea, 17 December 1926 [Lt. Col. Kenyon Pascoe Vaughan Morgan, O.B.E., M.P. for Fulham East]


George Morley, Harelaw, Durham, 17 December 1926 [George Morley, C.B.E., Chief Constable of Durham]


Jack Murray, 50A Albermarle Street, 16 December 1926 [Lt. Col. John Murray, D.S.O., publisher]


Joseph Nall, St. Stephen's Club, Westminister, 18 December 1926 [Col. Sir Joseph Nall, D.S.O., M.P. for Manchester Holme, Director of transport and electricity companies]


Lord Newton, 75 Eaton Square, 16 December 1926 [Rt. Hon. Thomas Wodehouse Legh, P.C., 2nd Baron, proprietor of Lyme Park, Cheshire, former M.P. and junior minister]


[H.P.] Norris, Guilsborough, York Road, Woking, 16 December 1926


Tim Nugent, Regimental Headquarters, Irish Guards, Birdcage Walk, n.d. [Major T.E.G. Nugent, M.C.]


R.M.S. Pearsall, Wentworth House, Chelsea, n.d.


Reginald Pease, Sledwich, Barnard Castle, 17 December 1926


Delia Peel, 52 Grosvenor Street, 17 December 1926 [Lady Delia (Spencer) Peel, wife of Sidney Peel]


Sidney Peel, 6-7 King William Street, 18 December 1926 [Col. Hon. Sidney Cornwallis Peel, D.S.O., former M.P. for Uxbridge, Bedfordshire Yeomanry]


W. Pentland, Ireshopeburn, 17 December 1926


W. Turner Perkins, Editor of Official Reports, House of Commons, 16 December 1926


Geoffrey Peto, 15 Great College Street, Westminster, 16 December 1926 [Geoffrey Kelsall Peto, C.B.E., M.P. for Frome]


Charles Pilkington, 4 Tokenhouse Buildings, Lothbury, 6 January 1927


E. Pilkington, Wroxton House, Banbury, 16 December 1926


Mr. and Mrs. G.W. Pinkney, 185 Conyer Street, Georgetown, Invercargill, New Zealand, 7 February 1927


Jos. S. Potts, agent, Northern Counties Area, The National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations, 24 Grainger Street West, Newcastle, 20 December 1926


E de P. Rabey, 157 Queen's Road, Finsbury Park, 21 December 1926


Mrs. Nina Rae, Organising Secretary, Durham Parliamentary Division Women's Conservative and Unionist Association, lA Queen Street, Durham, 16 December 1926


Gladys [Raikes], Vinnicks, Highclere, Newbury, 18 December 1926


Julian [Raikes], Vinnicks, Highclere, Newbury, 19 December 1926


Leonard [Raikes], Sparken House, Worksop, 21 December [1926]


E. Ramsden, The Wheatleys, Gomersal, Leeds, 23 December 1926 [Eugene Joseph Squire Hargreaves Ramsden, O.B.E., M.P. for Bradford North]


Kaye Ramsden, 14 Victoria Terrace, Barnard Castle, n.d.


E. Remnant, 4 Dean's Yard, Westminster, 16 December 1926 [Ernest Remnant, Editor of the


Godfrey Rice, Henry III Tower, Windsor Castle, 18 December 1926


Walter Riddell, Hertford College, Oxford, 17 December 1926 [Sir Walter Robert Buchanan-Riddell, Bart., Principal of the College]


Jasper Ridley, 440 Strand, 16 December 1926 [Hon. Jasper Nicholas Ridley, 2nd son of lst Viscount, Director of Coutts and Company, Headlam's bankers]


J.R. Ritson, Sniperley Hall, 18 December 1926 [Col. John Ridley Ritson, D.L., J.P.]


Eda Robinson, Ray Lodge, Kirkwhelpington, Northumberland, 17 December 1926


Raphael Roche, 6 Harley Gardens, South Kensington, 16 December 1926 "May I hope that your position will enable you to retaliate financially on noisy milk companies?"


Alexander W. Russell, Carlton Club, Pall Mall, 17 December 1926 [M.P. for Tynemouth]


Conrad [Russell], 17 December 1926 [Bedfordshire yeomanry, friend]


Victor and Annora Russell, [December 1926] [Hon. Victor Alexander Frederick Villiers Russell, Barrister]


Revd. Edward Rust, Hamsteels Vicarage, Durham, 24 December 1926


Nairne S. Sandeman, 61 Tufton Street, 16 December [1926] [Nairne Stewart Sandeman, M.P. for Middleton and Prestwich, Director of Dawnay, Day & Co. Ltd.]


R.A. Sanders, Constitutional Club, 19 December 1926 [Rt. Hon. Sir Robert Arthur Sanders, Bart., P.C., M.P. for Wells, former Minister]


Philip Sassoon, Air Ministry, Gwydyr House, Whitehall, 17 [December 1926] [Sir Philip Albert Gustave David Sassoon, Bart., G.B.E., C.M.G., M.P., Under- Secretary for Air]


Claud Schuster, House of Lords, 17 December 1926 [Sir Claud Schuster, K.C.B., C.V.O., Clerk of the Crown in Chancery, etc.]


'James', J. & A. Scrimgeour, 6 Austin Friars, stockbrokers, 17 December 1926


Andrew Shane, 2nd Battalion Grenadier Guards, Windsor, 7 December 1926


Revd. C.J. Shebbeare, Stanhope Rectory, 18 December [1926]


Dick Sheppard, 6 St. Martins Place, Trafalgar Square, 16 December 1926 [Revd. Hugh Richard Lawie Sheppard, Vicar of St. Martin-in-the-Fields]


Gladys Shuttleworth, Hon. Secretary, Junior Imperial League, Wolsingham Branch, Victoria House, Wolsingham, 20 December 1926


Noel Skelton, 21 Northumberland Street, Edinburgh, 18 December [1926] [Archibald Noel Skelton, M.P. for Perth, leading Scottish tory]


Rowland Spedding, British Legation, Berne, 18 December 1926 [kinsman]


Stanley, Lowesby Hall, Leicester, 19 December 1926 [Edward Montague Cavendish Stanley, Lord Stanley, M.P. and whip]


Maureen Stanley, Grange-over-Sands, Lancs., 18 December 1926 [Lady Maureen Stanley, daughter of Lord Londonderry, wife of Oliver]


Oliver Stanley, l-2 Great Winchester Street, 17 December [1926] [Hon. Oliver Frederick George Stanley, M.P. for Westmorland, brother of Edward Stanley]


J.A. Stirling, Ormeley Lodge, Ham Common, Surrey, 17 December 1926 [Lt. Col. John Alexander Stirling, D.S.O., M.C.]


G.H. Stobart, Harperley Park, 8 January 1927 [Col. George Herbert Stobart, C.B.E., D.S.O., D.L., J.P.]


M. Tarbet, Agent, Barnard Castle Division Unionist Association, Market Place, Wolsingham, 17 December 1926 and 10 January 1927


William L. Taylor, Hon. Secretary, Robert Eeles Lodge, National Conservative League, Riverdale House, Lanchester, n.d.


Edward Thesiger, 16 December 1926 [Hon. Sir Edward Peirson Thesiger, K.C.B., former Clerk Assistant of the Parliaments]


F.C. Thomson, 4 Rothesay Terrace, Edinburgh, 23 December 1926 [Frederick Charles Thomson, M.P. for South Aberdeen, a government whip]


Henry Thornton, Lodge Secretary, Burnhope Lodge, National Conservative League, l Office Row, Burnhope, 27 December 1926


Arthur T. Thring, House of Lords, 16 December 1926 "May this be only the beginning of the sort of political career which is so much wanted nowadays - that of a talented and honest man" [Sir Arthur Theodore Thring, K.C.B., Clerk of the Parliaments]


George J.E. Trotter, The Deanery, Staindrop, 12 January 1927 [George James Elliot Trotter, J.P., distant family connexion]


Christopher Turner, The Lodge, Postwick, Norwich, 17 December 1926


Edward Vigors, 18 Buckingham Palace Mansions, 17 December 1926 [Edward Cliffe Vigors, Principal Clerk of Committees, House of Lords]


Betty Walton, Secretary, Barnard Castle Junior Imperial League, Barnard Castle, 18 December 1926


Herbert Warren, Magdalen College, Oxford, 19 December 1926 [Sir Thomas Herbert Warren, K.C.V.O., President of Magdalen]


H.C. Watson, Barnard Castle, 16 December 1926 [Harry Crawford Watson, solicitor]


Clement C.J. Webb, Walnut Tree House, Marston, Oxford, 22 December 1926 [Professor Clement Charles Julian Webb]


T.L. Webster, House of Commons, 16 December 1926 [Sir Thomas Lonsdale Webster, K.C.B., Clerk of the House of Commons]


Revd. Godfrey Wells, Sayers Common Vicarage, Hassocks, Sussex, 16 December 1926 [cousin]


Robert White, Pembroke Lodge, Richmond Park, Surrey, 16 December 1926


Godfrey Dalrymple-White, 95 Eaton Square, 17 December [1926] [Lt. Col. Sir Godfrey Dalrymple-White, Bart., M.P. for Southport]


Cicely, Mardocks House, Ware, Herts., n.d. [Cicely, wife of Sir Timothy Wilkinson, K.C.M.G. and sister-in-law of Sir John Headlam]


Herbert G. Williams, 125 Howard's Lane, Putney, n.d. [Herbert Geraint Williams, M.P. for Reading, electrical engineer]


Beatrice Wilson, The Country Club, Johannesburg, Union of South Africa, 15 January [1927]


Geraldine Wilson, Manfield House, 19 December [1926] [Angelina Rosa Geraldine, widow of John Gerald Wilson, mother of M.J. Wilson and Gladys Hotham, kinswoman]


M.J. Wilson, Cliffe Hall, Darlington, 17 December 1926 [Murrough John Wilson, M.P. for Richmond]


Dorothy F. Winckworth, Sussex Lodge, Taunton, Somerset, 16 December 1926


Frederick Wise, House of Commons Library, 17 December 1926 [Sir Frederick Wise, M.P. for Ilford]


Viscount Wolmer, 17 December 1926 [Roundell Cecil Palmer, M.P., Assistant Post-Master General]


Kingsley Wood, Ministry of Health, Whitehall, 17 December 1926 [Sir Kingsley Wood, M.P., Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Health]


Walter Wood, 26 Bristol Gardens, Brighton, 28 December [1926]


F. Williams-Wynn, Chilworth Cottage, Guildford, 18 December 1926 [Frederick R. Williams-Wynn, a Principal Clerk, House of Commons]


W. Allen Young, Woodlands, Maldon, Essex, 18 December 1926


Aunt Affie [Crawley?], 7 Cornwall Gardens, 16 December [1926]


Donald, Hotel St. Francis, San Francisco, California, U.S.A., 15 January 1927


Harry, Holywell, Durham, 16 December 1926 [Henry Parkin Bell?, Headlam's assistant]


Jane, 9 Wilbraham Place, 16 [December 1926]


Mike, Inglismaldie Castle, Laurencekirk, Kincardine, 28 December 1926


Douglas [Smith?], 9 West Eaton Place, 17 December 1926


Edgar G...., Westwood Manor, Bradford on Avon, Wilts., 17 December 1926


W. Haldane [Norton?], Aliens Branch, Home Office, 16 December 1926


Unidentified correspondent, Havelock North, Hawkes Bay, New Zealand, 26 March 1927


Unidentified correspondent, The Firs, Bell Bar, Hatfield, 16 December 1926


Angus, House of Commons, 21 December 1926


Unidentified family correspondent, Pythingdean Farm, Pulborough, 19 December 1926 "The Headlams are coming... Cuthbert controlling His Majesty's ships, Maurice His Majesty's National Debt; it only remains for Tuppy to become President of the Board of Education... and we shall once more have the reins of government safely in the hands of one family, as in the grand days of the Pitts, the Grenvilles, or the Cecils" (256 papers)

Letters of commiseration following general election defeat, 1929 (Ref: D/He 127)

Letters of commiseration received by Headlam following his defeat at the general election of 1929


Joseph Backhouse, The Grammar School, Wolsingham, 2 June 1929


A.J. Bennett, Kirklington Hall, Newark, Notts., 1 June 1929 [Albert James Bennett, M.P. for Nottingham Central, company director, leading figure in the Timber Trust in which Headlam was involved]


D[ouglas] Clifton Brown, Ruffside Hall, Shotley Bridge, 1 June [1929] "to have been beaten by only 875 with such a big Liberal poll... is really a personal triumph for you..."


N. Chamberlain, Westbourne, Edgbaston, Birmingham; 37 Eaton Square, l and 4 June 1929 "...such a wonderful fight against the tremendous odds... very much hope you will soon find a more appreciative constituency... a blow to Mrs. Headlam after her magnificent work for the miners..." [Rt. Hon. Arthur Neville Chamberlain, P.C., Minister of Health]


J. Curley, 50 Durham Road, Esh Winning, 4 June 1929


Geoffrey Ellis, 10 Kings Bench Walk, Temple, 2 June 1929 "I have always regretted they would not help us a tiny bit in real unemployment problems and kept so strictly to the Treasury orthodox path of inflation funk. Now we have to pick up the pieces but few of us will do it if all the safe seats are to go to the Forty Thieves and the ancient duds..."


T. Fenwick, Foresters' Lodge, Wolsingham, 3 June 1929


S. Maude Foott, 49 Bede Road, Barnard Castle, 31 May 1929 "that the people would put a gaol bird in before an... upright gentleman..."


Annie Gauden, West View, Cornsay Colliery, 3 June 1929


Reverend E[dwin] E[vans] Gleaves, Whorlton Vicarage, 3 June 1929 "Such things make me lose all trust in human nature..."


George Gore, Smiths Gore and Co., 81 Bondgate, Darlington, 3 June 1929 "...all this damned Liberal vote..."


E.C. Grenfell, 23 Great Winchester Street, 5 June 1929 [Edward Charles Grenfell, M.P. for the City, Director of the Bank etc.]


Douglas H. Hacking, House of Commons, 4 June 1929 [Rt. Hon. Douglas Hewitt Hacking, junior minister, M.P. for Chorley]


Vivian L. Henderson, 17 Kidderpore Gardens, Hampstead, 5 June 1929 [Lt. Col. Sir Vivian Leonard Henderson, M.C., junior minister, defeated M.P. for Bootle]


Robert [Spear] Hudson, Marlborough Club, Pall Mall, 8 June 1929


Godfrey Locker-Lampson, Rowfant, Crawley, Sussex, 6 June 1929 [Rt. Hon. Godfrey Lampton Tennyson Locker-Lampson, P.C., M.P. for Wood Green, junior minister]


Cosmo Cantuar: Lambeth Palace, 3 and 7 June 1929 [Most Revd. William Cosmo Gordon Lang, archbishop of Canterbury]


Mrs. E. Leigh, The School House, Lanchester, 1 June 1929


John Loder, Jacques Hall, Bradfield, Manningtree, Essex, 2 June 1929 [Capt. John de Vere Loder, defeated M.P. for East Leicester]


Mrs. Maria Macklam, 3 Woodside Terrace, Langley Park, 6 June 1929


Arthur Steel Maitland, Ministry of Labour, Montagu House, Whitehall, June 1929 [Rt. Hon. Sir Arthur Herbert Drummond Ramsay Steel-Maitland, Bart., P.C., Minister of Labour, defeated M.P. for Erdington]


Harry Marsden, Congregational Manse, Ivy Dene, Barnard Castle, 31 May 1929 "the electors... have hoisted an ignoramus on the flagstaff... We lose a sagacious, experienced and honoured friend. Blatant ignorance is forced upon us... The Liberals in their swollen pride have given your good work over to the wind and I hope they feel the whirlwind..."


Roderick Meiklejohn, Brooks's [Club], St. James's Street, 1 June 1929 [Roderick Sinclair Meiklejohn, C.B., Treasury official]


K. Vaughan Morgan, l Hans Place, 2 June 1929 [Sir Kenyon Pascoe Vaughan Morgan, O.B.E., M.P. for Fulham, director of companies]


W. Morley, Eastgate, 1 June 1929


Lord Newton, 75 Eaton Square, 3 June 1929


Reverend A[rthur] W. Officer, Rookhope Vicarage, 1 June 1929


Viscount Peel, Leydene, East Meon, Petersfield, 31 May 1929 [Rt. Hon. Sir William Robert Wellesley Peel, P.C., G.B.E., 2nd Viscount, Secretary of State for India, brother of Sidney Peel]


Reverend H[ubert] C[ecil] Perrott, The Rectory, Middleton in Teesdale, 1 June 1929


A. Kaye-Ramsden, 39 Bede Road, Barnard Castle, n.d.


Minnie Reeth, Front Street, Frosterley, 3 June 1929


Philip W. Richardson, Aldenholme, Weybridge, Surrey, 1 June 1929 [Lt. Col. Sir Philip Wigham Richardson, O.B.E., M.P. for Chestsey, shipbuilder]


Elliot Sadler, Woodlands Hall, Consett, n.d.


A. Sadler, Craigmore, Lanchester, n.d.


Reverend C[harles] J[ohn] Shebbeare, Stanhope Rectory, 5 June 1929


[Mrs.] Evelyne Shebbeare, Stanhope Rectory, 4 June 1929


M. Shipley, Victoria Street, Lanchester, 1 June 1929


John Piercey Taylor Smith, Colepike Hall, Lanchester, 3 June 1929


Mabel Soakell, Angate Street, Wolsingham, 1 June 1929


Earl Stanhope, Chevening, Kent, 2 June 1929 [Rt. Hon. James Richard Stanhope, P.C., D.S.O., M.C., 7th Earl, Civil Lord of the Admiralty, 1924-29]


Oliver, [Frederick George Stanley, M.P.], Witherslack Hall, Witherslack, Westmorland, n.d. [June 1929] "So much for 'Safety first'!"


Anthony Steele, Braeside, Harmire, Barnard Castle, 2 June 1929


John W. Stokoe, Eggleston C.E. School, 3 June 1929


James Stuart, Darnaway Castle, Forres, 1 June 1929 [Hon. James Gray Stuart M.V.O., M.C., M.P. for Moray and Nairn]


W. Mitchell-Thomson, House of Commons, 1 June 1929 [Rt. Hon. Sir William Mitchell-Thomson, Bart., P.C., K.B.E., M.P., Postmaster General]


C. Williams, Greenways, Churston Ferrers, S. Devon, 1 June 1929 [Charles Williams, M.P. for Torquay]


Geraldine Wilson, Manfield House, Darlington, 2 June [1929]


Kit and Mary, M.V. Alcantare, at Sea, 1 June 1929 (55 papers)

Correspondence relating to Gateshead bye-election (Ref: D/He 128)

Correspondence and papers received by Headlam relative to the Gateshead bye-election and the possibility of his fighting other seats (1931). From:


Edmund A. Bagshawe, Chairman of Bath Conservative Association, with Headlam's reply, declining to stand for Bath for financial considerations, 15 June 1931


Stanley Baldwin, 10 Upper Brook Street, supporting his candidacy in Gateshead, 2 June 1931 "The Socialists may glory in the cry of 'Cheap foreign goods'. Let our cry be 'Cheap British goods' made in British factories with British labour under the protection of a tariff which, by bringing more work to our factories, will lower costs of production and enable us to compete on fair terms in the markets of the world" [Rt. Hon. Stanley Baldwin, P.C., M.P. for Bewdley, Conservative leader]


Joseph Ball, Conservative Research Department, 24 Old Queen Street, Westminster, 9 June 1931


Lord Beaverbrook, Stornoway House, Cleveland Row, St. James's, 11 June 1931 [Rt. Hon. Sir William Maxwell Aitken, Bart., P.C., lst Baron, newspaper proprietor etc.,]


George Bowyer, Conservative and Unionist Central Office, Palace Chambers, Westminster, 9 June 1931 [Capt. Sir George Edward Wentworth Bowyer, M.C., M.P., Vice-Chairman of the Conservative Party]


J.T.C. Moore-Brabazon, 38 Eaton Square, Chairman, Conservative Candidates Association, 24 June 1931


Viscount Bridgeman, Leigh Manor, Minsterley, Salop; 48 Eaton Place, 7 June and 12 June 1931 [Rt. Hon. William Clive Bridgeman, P.C., lst Viscount, late First Lord of the Admiralty]


Viscount Byng of Vimy, New Scotland Yard, London, 11 June 1931 [Julian Hedworth George Byng, G.C.B., G.C.M.G., M.V.O., general, former Governor General of Canada, Commissioner of Metrpolitan Police, lst Viscount]


N. Chamberlain, 37 Eaton Square, 22 June 1931 "It certainly produced a very depressing and disheartening effect upon Labour Members in the House, and I do not think any by-election has made such an impression" [Rt. Hon. Arthur Neville Chamberlain, P.C., Chairman of the Conservative Party, M.P. for Edgbaston]


W.E. Cockburn, Joint Hon. Secretary, National Conservative League, Sunderland Lodge, 19 June 1931


Arthur M. Fletcher, Hon. Secretary, Junior Imperial League, Lanchester and District Branch, 33 Durham Road, Lanchester, 13 June 1931


George Gordon, Magdalen College, Oxford, 12 June 1931 [George Stuart Gordon, President of Magdalen College, Oxford]


Viscount Hailsham, 57 Portland Place, 10 June [1931] [Rt. Hon. Sir Douglas McGarel Hogg, P.C., K.C., lst Viscount, sometime Lord Chancellor]


A.C. Gloucestr: The Palace, Gloucester, 9 June 1931 [Arthur Cayley Headlam, C.H., Bishop of Gloucester]


James F. Hope, Herons Ghyll, Uckfield, Sussex, 13 June 1931 [Rt. Hon. James Fitzalan Hope, P.C., former minister]


Miss M. Johnson, Agent, The National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations, North Western Area (Women's Branch), Old Colony House, South King Street, Manchester, 11 June 1931


Cosmo Cantuar: Lambeth Palace, 16 June 1931 "It was a splendid tribute both to you and to Beatrice for all that you have done for these people in the North" [Most Revd. William Cosmo Gordon Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury]


Miss M. Maxse, Deputy Principal Agent, Conservative and Unionist Central Office, Palace Chambers, Westminster, 12 June 1931 [Sarah Algeria Marjorie Maxse]


E. Morris, 10 Church Street, Etherley Dene, Bishop Auckland, 8 June 1931


Newcastle (Central) Junior Imperial League, Northern Conservative and Unionist Club, Newcastle, 10 June 1931


H.G. Pascoe, 3 Fairfield Road, Fulwood, Preston, concerning the character of Headlam's opponent, 7 January 1931


John Simon, 71 Addison Road, 2 - 4 June 1931 "You will understand that I must in any case make discreet enquiries from or about Dickie" [Rt. Hon. Sir John Allsebrook Simon, P.C., G.C.S.I., K.C.V.O., M.P. for Spen Valley (Liberal)]


Stanley, House of Lords 12 June 1931 [Edward Montagu Cavendish Stanley, M.C.]


Lord Stonehaven, Palace Chambers, Westminster, 9 June 1931 [Rt. Hon. Sir John Lawrence Baird, Bart., P.C., G.C.M.G., D.S.O., lst Baron, Chairman of the Conservative Party]


Geraldine Wilson, Manfield House, Darlington, 10 June [1931]


Earl Winterton, 61 Eccleston Square, 11 June 1931 [Rt. Hon. Edward Turnour, P.C., M.P. for Horsham]


Telegram of congratulations from Stanley Baldwin, 9 June 1931


Telegram of congratulations from J.T.C. Moore-Brabazon, 9 June 1931


Telegram of congratulations from Granville Barton, Ritz Hotel, 9 June 1931


Telegram of congratulations from Henry Page Croft, 9 June 1931 [Brig. General Sir Henry Page Croft, Bart., C.M.G., M.P. for Bournemouth]


H. Gillies Wicks, Chairman of Gateshead Conservative and Unionist Association, 3 Catherine Terrace, Gateshead inviting Headlam to become their prospective candidate after his performance at the bye- election, September 1931


From Headlam to H. Gillies Wicks, declining to stand in Gateshead due to the prior claim of Barnard Castle, 18 September 1931


Text of address by Headlam to the Conservative Candidates Association, 8 July 1931


Programme of election meetings held by Headlam, 26 May - 6 June 1931


Text of Mr. Baldwin's messuage as D/He 127/3


Election literature of Headlam and of Herbert Evans, the Labour candidate, June 1931 (49 papers)

Letters of congratulation on election to parliament, 1931 (Ref: D/He 129)

Letters of congratulation received by Headlam on his election to parliament in 1931


Mr. and Mrs. Adcock, 2 The Fold, Quebec, 28 October 1931


Irving Albery, The Manor House, Farningham, Kent, 1 November 1931 [Irving James Albery, M.C., M.P. for Gravesend, stockbroker]


J. Angus, Christ Church, Oxford, 29 October 1931


[Sir] Alfred Appleby, Royal George Hotel, Rugby, 31 October 1931


K.M. Atholl, Eastwood, Dunkeld, Perthshire 30 October 1931 [Katharine Marjory, D.B.E., Duchess of Atholl, M.P. for Kinross and West Perth]


Jack H.B., House of Lords, 30 October 1931 [Henry John Fanshaw Badeley, C.B.E., F.S.A., Clerk Assistant of the Parliaments]


Cuthbert Bainbridge, solicitor, Central Exchange Buildings, 50 Grainger Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, 9 November 1931


Harold W. Bettle, Secretary and Agent, The Conservative Associations of Durham, Bishop Auckland, etc., 6 Old Elvet, Durham, 28 October 1931


John Black, 8 Addison Street, Crook, 28 October 1931


R.S. Booker, 7 Elm Street, Langley Park, 29 October 1931


Carl Odmark, Martin Olsson & Sons Ltd., Imrie House, 33-36 King William Street, 2 November 1931


E.C. Butting and William West, House of Lords, 28 October 1931


David Boyle, 15 Moorgate, 30 October 1931 [member of Dawnay, Day and Company]


J.T.C. Moore-Brabazon, 38 Eaton Square, 31 October 1931


Tommie Bradford, Army and Navy Club, Pall Mall, 28 October 1931 "The other wins in Durham County are largely due to the ginger you put into us all" [Capt. Thomas Andrews Bradford, D.S.O.]


The Carrs and Ethel Bradley, Cowshill, 28 October 1931 "Come this world against us England will be England still"


[Douglas] Clifton Brown, Ruffside Hall, Shotley Bridge, n.d.


Charles Bonham Carter, Abbey House, Colchester, 17 October 1931


K., 32 Princes Gardens, 28 October 1931 "It is really comforting to find that the country is not going Bolshie yet" [Frederick Rudolph Lambert, K.P., G.C.B., G.C.M.G., G.C.V.O., G.B.E., 10th Earl of Cavan and Viscount Kilcoursie, General, brother-in-law of Beatrice Headlam]


Arthur R. Chapman, Chapman and Sons, bakers, confectioners and caterers, 2 Plumstead High Street, 6 November 1931


C. Waley-Cohen, 51 Campden Hill Road, 28 October 1931 [Lt. Col. Charles Waley-Cohen, C.M.G.]


Lilian S. Cole, Highfield Park, Heckfield, Basingstoke, 29 October [1931] [wife of "The Molar", the landlord at Combe during the First World War]


J.T.A. Couves, Carliol House, Newcastle upon Tyne, 28 October 1931 [Director of the Newcastle Electric Supply Co., etc.]


[Canon] A[rthur] Stafford Crawley, Tyntesfield, Bristol, 31 October [1931]


Mary, George Hotel, Portsmouth, 3 November [1931] [Mary Alice, wife of George Abington Cranley, brother-in-law]


[John] Kenneth [Crawley], The College, Durham, 30 October 1931


Sybil, Vienna, Austria, 2 November [1931] [Sybil Crawley, daughter of J.K. Crawley, niece, opera singer]


[Revd.] W. FitzGerald Cullen, Frosterley Vicarage, 28 October 1931 "We are overwhelmed with gratitude to you for... shattering the most blatant pretentions of those would be Bolshiers"


A. Charlton Curry, 8 Ellison Place, Newcastle, 31 October 1931 [Aaron Charlton Curry, accountant, Liberal M.P. for Bishop Auckland]


Alan Dawnay, War Office, 29 October [1931] [Col. Alan Geoffrey Charles Dawnay, C.B.E., D.S.O., brother of Guy]


Guy D., 15 Moorgate, 30 October 1931 [Maj. General Guy Payan Dawnay, C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., M.V.O., a Managing Director of Dawnay, Day and Co. Ltd., Chairman of Armstrong Whitworths, etc.]


J.J. & C. Dent, Eastgate House, Eastgate, 28 October 1931


John Jos. Dodds, Secretary of the Quebec and District Branch of the British Legion, 51 Liddell Street, Cornsay Colliery, 29 October 1931


Anne B. Downie, Mayfield, Wolsingham, 1 November 1931


J.C. Edmonds, 66 Evelyn Gardens, 29 October 1931 "Put me on a Committee to reduce the civil staff in the War Office" [Brig. General Sir James Edward Edmonds, C.B., C.M.G., officer in charge of the Military Branch, Historical Section, Committee of Imperial Defence]


R.H. Edward, Secretary, Northern Conservative and Unionist Club, Newcastle, 30 October 1931


J.W. Fogg Elliot, Bedburn, Witton-le-Wear, 10 November 1931 [John Walton Fogg Elliot, J.P., landowner] "It looks as though a lot of Liberals had followed the advice of the man who - 'Put his Churt on an also ran'"


F. Fenwick, Forester's Lodge, Wolsingham, 28 October 1931 [Featherstone Fenwick J.P.]


W.H. Fenwick, The Poplars, Stanhope, 28 October 1931 [William Hall Fenwick, J.P.]


H. L. Fife, Gainford House, Gainford, 9 November 1931 [Herbert Legard Fife, J.P.]


Harry Foster, Carlton Club, Pall Mall, 3 November 1931 [Sir Harry Seymour Foster, M.P. for Portsmouth Central]


[Revd.] J.R. Gardiner, Barley Rectory, Royston, Herts., 28 October 1931


[Revd.] E.E. Gleaves, Whorlton Vicarage, Barnard Castle, 31 October 1931


George Gordon, Magdalen College, Oxford, 7 November 1931


George Gore, Smiths Gore and Co., 81 Bondgate, Darlington, 28 October 1931 "Any how it shows that the working man isn't such a B.F. as a lot of people thought he was"


John Gore, Pitfold House, Haslemere, Surrey, 28 October 1931


T. Malcolm Gray, Poole House, Durham, 28 October 1931


William Gray, The Dockyard, West Hartlepool, 30 October 1931 [Sir William Gray, Bart., shipbuilder]


W.G. Howard Gritten, Carlton Club, Pall Mall, 8 November 1931 [William George Howard Gritten, Barrister, M.P. for The Hartlepools]


George Guy, Secretary, National Conservative League, Dawdon and Seaham Lodge, 6 Edith Street, Seaham Harbour, 31 October 1931


Stella [Gwynne], Wootton, Sussex, 3 [November 1931] "The Conservatives will certainly need a lot of leading in the straight and narrow path"


Hampton and Sons Ltd., estate agents, 20 St. James's Square, 31 October 1931


Thomas Handy, organiser, Northern Counties Area of The Junior Imperial League, 24 Grainger Street West, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1 November 1931


M., 21 Oxford Square, 28 October 1931 [Maurice Francis Headlam, C.B., C.M.G., Comptroller-General, National Debt Office, brother]


H., Baghdad, Iraq, 29 October [1931] [Brig.-General Hugh Roger Headlam, C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., Inspector, Staff School, Iraq Army, brother]


A.C. Gloucestr: The Palace, Gloucester, 29 October 1931


Edward Headlam, Harraby, 14 Spa Road, Bournemouth, 18 October 1931 [Capt. Sir Edward James Headlam, C.S.I., C.M.G., D.S.O., late Director Royal Indian Marine, cousin]


Horace Headlam, 10 North Court, Wood Street, London, 30 October 1931 [Horace Edward Headlam, cousin]


John Headlam, Cruck Meole House, Hanwood, Shropshire, 3 November 1931 [Maj. General Sir John Emerson Wharton Headlam, K.B.E., C.B., D.S.O., D.L., J.P., cousin]


Lewis Headlam, The Vicarage, Horsham, Sussex, 28 October 1931 [Canon Morley Lewis Caulfield Headlam, Prebendary of Chichester, cousin]


Reginald F. Henderson, Holden House, Southborough Common, Kent, 28 October 1931


Edward Henderson, Scotswood Road, Newcastle upon Tyne, 29 October 1931 [native of Whorlton] "No small share of the tremendous success in this north country is due to yourself going forth to do battle with the enemy some years ago"


Isabella C. Hensley Henson, Auckland Castle, Bishop Auckland, 6 October 1931 [Isabella Caroline, wife of the Bishop of Durham]


A. Heslop, Kensington, Cockton Hill, Bishop Auckland, 28 October 1931


Marjorie Bailey-Hicks, 39 Bates Avenue, Darlington, 28 [October] 1931


John A. Hildyard, Horsley Hall, Eastgate, 29 October 1931 [John Arundell Hildyard, D.L., J.P.]


Eric R. Hanby Holmes, Eldersfield, Barnard Castle, 28 October 1931


Mary Hope, Somers Cottage, Cooden, Sussex, 3 November 1931


Wilf Hume, Hydesville, Bentinck Crescent, Elswick Road, Newcastle, 31 October 1931


Grace Hunter, Limber, Victoria Road, Barnard Castle, 19 October 1931


Percy Hunting, The Glebe House, Edmundbyers, 29 October 1931


Mr. and Mrs. Huntridge, Elmhurst Residential Club, Newton Road, Leeds, 28 October 1931


John Hutchinson, 15 Langley Street, Langley Park, 10 November 1931


Jack Jauncey, New Mains, Kirkliston, N.B.. 28 October [1931]


Wilfred Jelf, Headquarters, Depot, Royal Artillery, Woolwich, 30 October 1931 [Col. Wilfred Wykeham Jelf, C.M.G., D.S.O., Commander, Royal Artillery]


Roland Jennings, A.C.A., 55 John Street, Sunderland, 29 October 1931 [Roland Jennings, M.P. for Sedgefield]


Leonard Johnson, Sentinel House, Southampton Row, London, 28 October 1931


Kathleen L. Kayser, Eaton Hall, Retford, Nottinghamshire, 31 October [1931] [Kathleen Langley, wife of Charles William Kayser, industrialist]


Joan Krishaber, l13 Mount Street, 25 October 1931 [daughter of one of Headlam's associates in the city]


F.H.H. Ladell, Eggleston, 30 October 1931


Cosmo Cantuar: Lambeth Palace, 29 October 1931 [Most Reverend William Cosmo, Archbishop of Canterbury]


G.E. Lavin, The Country Club, Johannesburg, Union of South Africa, 4 November 1931


Ian G. Lewis, 25 Cheyne Row, Chelsea, 28 October [1931]


J. Archibald Lucas, architect, Guildhall Chambers, High Street, Exeter, 2 November 1931


Franklin Lushington, Pigeon Hoo, Tenterden, Kent, 4 November 1931


[Revd.] Lloyd R[obert] McDermid, The Vicarage, Satley, 29 October 1931


William McKeag, Molineux, McKeag and Cooper, solicitors, 2 Eldon Square, Newcastle, 29 October 1931 [William McKeag, Liberal M.P. for Durham]


G.M. Tiernan McLaren, East Parks, Brancepeth, 28 October 1931


Harold [Macmillan], 14 Chester Square, 30 October 1931


Dougal O. Malcolm, 20 Sussex Square, 31 October 1931


J.E. Mallin, Glyndon, Rochester, Kent, 28 October 1931


Isabel Margesson, 147 Victoria Street, 29 October 1931 [Lady Isabel Augusta, nee Hobart-Hampden, mother of David Margesson, Chief Whip]


Miss Maxse, Chief Organisation Officer, Conservative and Unionist Central Office, Palace Chambers, Westminster, 29 October 1931


[Revd.] Arnold Mayhew, 27 Abbey Mill Lane, St. Albans, 30 October 1931


Anthony Miller, Littleburn Colliery Inn, Langley Moor, 29 October 1931


E. Morris, 10 Church Street, Etherley Dene, 25 October 1931


W.R. Mowll, Shepherdswell, Dover, Kent, solicitor, 29 October 1931


John Mumford, 17 Hill Street, Saffron Walden, Essex, 20 October 1931


Lord Newton, 75 Eaton Square, 29 October /129931


H.P. Norris, Guilsborough, York Road, Woking, 29 October 1931


Tim Nugent, Headquarters, Brigade of Guards, Horse Guards, Whitehall, 29 October 1931 "What about S of S for War? You might then prevent the CIGS extending his time indefinitely"


Rosemary Page, 160B Earls Court Road, n.d.


Lancelot T[ulip] Penman, Broadwood Park, Lanchester, 28 October 1931


[Revd.] James E. Perry, The Vicarage, Westgate, 26 October 1931


Lord Queenborough, St. Stephen's Club, Westminster, 6 November 1931 [Sir Almeric Hugh Paget, G.B.E., lst Baron, financier and company director, former President of the National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations]


Julian Raikes, University Pitt Club, Cambridge, 28 October 1931


A. Kaye-Ramsden, 39 Bede Road, Barnard Castle, 29 October 1931


Victor Russell, 28 Hornton Street, 2 November 1931 [Hon. Victor Alexander Frederick Villiers Russell, O.B.E.]


J.G. Rutherford, 74 Queens Road, East Sheen, 29 October 1931 "There is simply no doubt that we as a nation have been pursuing wrong tactics for quite a number of years"


A.M. Sadler, Craigmore, Lanchester, 28 October [1931]


T. Gilbert Scott, Laing and Cruickshank, stockbrokers, 6 Austin Friars, 29 October 1931 [Thomas Gilbert Scott, senior partner, and director of companies]


Helena D. Shafto, 9 South Bailey, Durham, 3 November [1931] [Mrs. Charles Duncombe Shafto, O.B.E., J.P.]


F[rancis] R. Archie Shiel, Leazes Hall, Burnopfield, 29 October 1931


William and Ada Shorten, Ogden, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, 29 October 1931


Vera Spedding, Storms, Keswick, Cumberland, 9 November 1931 [kinswoman, wife of John Anthony Spedding]


Blanche Spedding, Mirehouse, Keswick, Cumberland, 29 October 1931 [Blanche Frances, daughter of Henry Anthony Spedding, kinswoman]


Emanuel Spence, St. Martin's, Cornfield Road, Middlesbrough, 29 October 1931 [Liberal candidate at Barnard Castle in the 1929 election]


Samuel Storey, Hetton House, Chatton, Northumberland, 30 October [1931] [Samuel Storey, M.P. for Sunderland]


James, Darnaway Castle, Forres, Morayshire, n.d. [Hon. James Gray Stuart, M.V.O., M.C., M.P. for Moray and Nairn]


F. von Taysen, Althorpe, Hendon, 31 October 1931 [One of Headlam's associates in the City]


May Walker, The Contrast, Longstomps Avenue, Chelmsford, 28 October 1931


Irene Ward, Central Committee Rooms, 88 High Street West, Wallsend, 29 October 1931 [Miss Irene Ward, C.B.E., M.P. for Wallsend]


Charles Watney, Watney and Powell, Courtfield House, Courtfield Road, London, [writing on behalf of General C.R. Ingham Brooke (sometime M.P for Pontefract)], 2 November 1931


[Revd.] Arthur Watts, Holy Trinity Vicarage, Gateshead, 28 October 1931


E.W. Webb, Seafield Park, Fareham, Hants., 31 October 1931


--- Charles White, Wynnstay, Stocksfield, Northumberland, 29 October 1931


Henry Wilson, Lanchester, 28 October 1931


Dorothy F. Winckworth, Sussex Lodge, Taunton, 29 October 1931


W. Allen Young, Woodlands, Maldon, Essex, 31 October 1931 "It remains to be seen whether it is possible for Parliament to take any constructive decisions without tackling the control of the Bank of England"


Arthur, County Hotel, Lanchester, n.d.


Beatrice [Wilson?], 12 Empire House, Thurloe Place, n.d.


Brenda, 44 Cheyne Court, 4 November 1931


Doris, 33 Rutland Gate, n.d.


Unidentified correspondent, l13 Eaton Square, 29 October 1931


Unidentified correspondent, The Firs, Bell Bar, Hatfield, 31 October 1931


Unidentified correspondent, Hotel Beau-Site, Paris, 29 October 1931


Unidentified correspondent, Ellerbeck House, Darlington, 30 October [1931]


Telegrams of congratulation upon Headlam's re-election to Parliament, 27 - 29 October 1931 (221 papers)

Letters of congratulation on appointment at the Ministry of Pensions, 1931 (Ref: D/He 130)

Letters of congratulation on Headlam's appointment as Parliamentary Under-Secretary at the Ministry of Pensions, 1931


F.J. Addison, Agent and Secretary of the Houghton-le-Spring Conservative and Unionist Association, 50 Frederick Street, Sunderland, 19 November 1931


Ebbie, Travellers' Club, Pall Mall, 11 November 1931 [Sir Edward Hall Alderson, K.B.E., C.B., Clerk of the Parliaments]


Henry Havelock-Allan, Blackwell Grange, 11 November 1931


Alfred Appleby, Walbottle, Northumberland, n.d.


H.V. Armstrong, Hon. Secretary, Northern Counties Provincial Area, The National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations, 24 Grainger Street West, Newcastle upon Tyne, 11 November 1931


Jack B., 2 Morpeth Terrace, 11 November 1931 [Henry John Fanshaw Badeley, C.B.E., Clerk Assistant of the Parliaments]


Hugh Baillie, Church Street, Inverness, 13 November 1931 [Col. Hugh Frederick Baillie, D.S.O.]


Harold W. Bettle, Secretary and Agent to The Conservative Associations of Durham, Bishop Auckland etc., 6 Old Elvet, Durham, 11 and 23 November 1931


Isabella Blewitt, l Royal Crescent Circus, Bath, 11 November 1931


R.D. Blumenfeld, The Daily Express, 8 Shoe Lane, 11 November 1931 [Ralph D. Blumenfeld, chairman and editor-in- chief of the Daily Express, Founder of The Anti-Socialist Union]


George Bowyer, Conservative and Unionist Central Office, Palace Chambers, Westminster, 11 November 1931 [Capt. Sir George Edward Wentworth Bowyer, M.C., M.P., Vice Chairman of the Party]


Joseph Ball, Conservative Research Department, 24 Old Queen Street, Westminster, 11 November 1931


[Bertha] Clarke, 12 Egerton Place, 17 November 1931


Charles Clay, House of Lords, 12 November 1931


Jack Collins, Ablington House, Figheldean, Salisbury, 15 November 1931


H.A. Couves, Carliol House, Newcastle, 12 and 16 November 1931 "We, however, shall take you at your word and look upon you so long as you remain a member of the House, as our agent in parliament"


[Canon] A[rthur] Stafford Crawley, Prae Wood, St. Albans, Herts., 15 November [1931]


Mary, 11 Royal Crescent, Ramsgate, 11 November [1931] [Mary Alice, wife of George Abraham Crawley, brother-in-law]


Lord Cromer, Lord Chamberlain's Office, St. James's Palace, 11 November 1931 [Rowland Thomas Baring, P.C., G.C.I.E., G.C.V.O., 2nd Earl, Lord Chamberlain, Government Director of Suez Canal Co.]


C. Cullery, Duke's Ryde, Lesbury, Northumberland, 12 November 1931


Alan Dawnay, War Office, 12 November [1931] [Col. Alan Geoffrey Charles Dawnay, C.B.E., D.S.O., brother of Guy]


Guy D., 3 Queen Street, Mayfair, 12 November [1931] [Maj. General Guy Payan Dawnay]


John Jos. Dodds, Secretary of the Quebec and District Branch of the British Legion, 51 Liddell Street, Cornsay Colliery, 19 November 1931


[Sir] N[icholas] Grattan Doyle, House of Commons, 11 November 1931


R.J. Drake, 33 Gracechurch Street, Lombard Court, 24 November 1931


John Duncan, Organising Secretary, North of England Mineworkers' Protective Association, 20 Crown Street, Newcastle, 12 November 1931


Kathleen M. Eeles, Bells Yew Green, Frant, Sussex, 12 November 1931


W. Elliott, 13 Durham Road, Bowburn Colliery, 12 November 1931


Arthur Fletcher, Hon. Secretary, Lanchester and District Branch, Junior Imperial League, 33 Durham Road, Lanchester, 15 November 1931


Lancelot R. Foster, Secretary, Sunderland Conservative Association, 48 John Street Street, Sunderland, 16 November 1931


G.R. Lane-Fox, Bramham Park, Boston Spa, Yorks., 12 November 1931 [Rt. Hon. George Richard Lane-Fox, former M.P.]


W.T. Furse, Imperial Institute, 18 November 1931 [Lt. General Sir William T. Furse, K.C.B., D.S.O., Director of the Imperial Institute]


J. Grimond, Eton College, 11 November 1931, with covering letter from [Geoffrey Wycliffe Headlam, brother], 16 November 1931 [Joseph Grimond, future Liberal politician]


George Guy, Secretary of the Dawdon and Seaham Lodge of the National Conservative League, 6 Edith Street, Seaham Harbour, 11 November 1931


Douglas H. Hacking, 5 Cadogan Place, 11 November 1931


W. and E. Hall, May House, Langley Park, 11 November 1931


L. and J. Wilson Hall, 10 Ivy Terrace, Langley Park, 12 November 1931


F. Carswell, 17 Park Lane, Poynton, Stockport, 12 November 1931


Thomas Handy, Hon. Secretary, Northern Counties Federation of the Junior Imperial League, 24 Grainger Street West, Newcastle, 16 November 1931


Gerald [Joseph Cuthbert] Harrison, 15 Holland Villas Road, 11 November 1931


A.C. Gloucestr: The Palace, Gloucester, 11 November 1931 [Arthur Cayley Headlam, Bishop of Gloucester]


Cecil Headlam, Broadmead, Charing, Kent, 21 November 1931 [Cecil Headlam, F.R. Hist. S., editor of state papers, colonial series, etc., cousin]


John Headlam, Cruck Meole House, Hanwood, Shropshire, 11 November 1931


M., National Debt Office, 11 November 1931 [Maurice Francis Headlam, C.B., C.M.G., Comptroller-General of the National Debt Office, brother]


Tuppy, Eton College, Windsor, 11 November 1931 [Geoffrey Wycliffe Headlam, brother]


Mary Hope, Somers Cottage, Cooder, Sussex, 11 November 1931


Eric G. Jones, 5 Western Hill, Durham, on behalf of the Durham County Committee of the British Legion, 14 November 1931


Charley, Londonderry House, Park Lane, 11 November 1931 [Most Hon. Charles Stewart Henry Vane-Tempest-Stewart, K.G., P.C., M.V.O, 7th Marquess, Secretary of State for Air]


F. George Lundi, Hon. Secretary, Northumberland and Durham Property Owners' and Ratepayers' Association, 12 November 1931


Mrs. E. McEwan, Organising Secretary, Sunderland Women's Conservative and Unionist Association, 48 John Street, Sunderland, 17 November 1931


Harold Macmillan, Board Room, Paddington Station, 11 November 1931


J.E. Mallin, Glyndon, Borstal Road, Rochester, 11 November 1931


F. Marshall, General Secretary, National Farmers' Union, Durham County Branch, 11 November 1931 "Their only disappointment is that you have not been appointed, at present, to a place in the Cabinet where your undoubted ability would have been of great service to the nation"


T.B. Martin, Northern Conservative and Unionist Club, Newcastle, 13 November 1931 "... sympathise with you that your powers... have not been more amply recognised. I think Major Tryon is lucky to have you" "By the way, you may be interested to hear that your election opponent has been appointed caretaker of the new secondary schools in the district, so will be frequently free to go round the county platforms preaching socialism"


Maleissye-Melun, Brumetz, Aisne, 5 December 1931/32 [M. le Commandant Maleissye-Melun, D.S.O., M.C., French army officer known to Headlam since 1917]


K.V.M., l Hans Place, 11 November 1931 [Sir Kenyon Pascoe Vaughan Morgan, O.B.E., M.P. for Fulham East]


Jack Murray, 50 Albermarle Street, 11 November 1931 [Lt. Col. John Murray, D.S.O., publisher]


Alfred E. Pease, Pinchinthorpe House, Guisbrough, Yorks., 30 November 1931 [Sir Alfred Edward Pease, Bart., former Liberal M.P.]


Geoffrey Peto, House of Commons, 11 November 1931 [Geoffrey Kelsall Peto, C.B.E., M.P. for Bilston]


Gladys Raikes, Ducklake, Ashwell, Baldock, 11 November 1931


Charles Reid, 167 Church Road, Upper Norwood, 12 November 1931


T. Richardson, 7 Office Street, Hamsteels, 13 November [1931]


Mary Richmond, c/o Mrs. Thorburn, Rue St. Joseph, Zamalell, Cairo, 24 November 1931


J.K. Rippon, Rogerley Hall, Frosterley, 12 November 1931 [Julia Kate, Mrs. Valentine Arthur Rippon]


Mildred Spedding, Mirehouse, Keswick, 12 November 1931 [kinswoman, sister of Blanche, daughter of Henry Anthony Spedding]


Wilfred Spedding, Windebrowe, Keswick, 18 November 1931 [Brig. General Edward Wilfred Spedding, C.M.G., O.B.E., kinsman] "You and Beatrice have earned the thanks and admiration of all the north of England for what you have done for us and we are grateful"


John W. Stokoe, Eggleston C.E. School, 11 November 1931


E.C. Surtees, Raby Estate Office, Middleton in Teesdale, 17 November 1931


[?] C. Surtees, County Club, Durham, 11 November 1931 [probably Brigadier-General Herbert Conyers Surtees, C.B., etc., former M.P. for Gateshead]


F. von Taysen, Althorpe, Hendon, 11 November 1913 [one of Headlam's contacts in the City]


Col C.E. Vickery, Headquarters, Royal Artillery, 129 Victoria Road, Darlington, 13 November 1931 [Col. Charles Edwin Vickery, C.M.G., D.S.O.]


Robert Walker, 34 South Terrace, Esh Winning, 11 November 1931


--- Charles White, Wynnstay, Stocksfield, Northumberland, 11 November 1931


Amelia W. Winpenny, Drumsard House, Norton on Tees, 16 November 1931


Kingsley Wood, House of Commons, 12 November 1931 [Rt. Hon. Sir Kingsley Wood, P.C., M.P., Postmaster General]


Vera, Sopwell, St. Albans, n.d. "I suppose its better than a poke in the eye" [Vera Spedding]
(80 papers)

Correspondence relating to Headlam's re-election at Newcastle North, 1950 (Ref: D/He 131-132)

Telegrams of congratulation on Headlam's re-election at Newcastle North, 21 - 24 February 1950
(43 papers)


Letters of congratulation received by Headlam on his re-election at Newcastle North from constituents, members of the Headlam family, Circe [Edith, Marchioness Dowager of Londonderry D.B.E.], Robin [Edward Charles Stewart Robert Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 8th Marquess of Londonderry] and Pop [Rt. Hon. Roundell Cecil Palmer, P.C., C.H., 3rd Earl of Selborne, formerly Viscount Wolmer], February 1950


Message to the electors, 23 February 1950


Election address, February 1950


List of Headlam's public meetings, 7 - 23 February 1950


Receipt for Headlam's deposit on nomination for Newcastle North, 13 February 1950 (55 papers)

Correspondence relating to Newcastle upon Tyne North Conservative Association (Ref: D/He 133)

Correspondence relating to the management of the Newcastle upon Tyne North Conservative Association and factional disputes between various of its members relative to the candidacies for the 1950 and 1951 general elections, as follows:


Financial affairs and delinquencies of the Association, 8 December 1949 - 3 April 1950


Financial affairs, the holding of the A.G.M., correspondence between Headlam, Michael Bazin, Alderman Temple and S.H. Pierssene, General Director of the Conservative and Unionist Central Office, 20 April - 18 July 1950


Copies of correspondence between the Chairman of the Association (Alderman William Temple) and Viscount Ridley and R.H. Houston on their resignations from the offices of President and Honorary Treasurer respectively, 17 February - 21 March 1951


Letter from Michael Bazin, 35 Mitchell Avenue, Newcastle to Sir Cuthbert concerning the Annual General Meeting, 4 April 1951


Notification of A.G.M. with report of Alderman Temple and statement of accounts for 1950, 5 April 1951


Accounts, one by Sir Cuthbert, of the development of dissension within the Newcastle North Association, 28 June 1951 and n.d.


Letter from Geoffrey Summers, [Geoffrey Summers, C.B.E., steel manufacturer] Craig-y-Castell, Dyserth, Flint to Headlam confirming that Lord Ridley's break-away association is to receive the official support of Central Office and forwarding a copy of a letter from Joan, Viscountess Davidson, concerning Headlam's difficulties, 23 - 24 July 1951


Circular letter issued for the members of the Association in explanation of Lord Ridley's resignation and related matters n.d. [1951]


Newcastle Journal with correspondence concerning the dispute, 16, 18 and 19 June 1951 (20 papers, 3 files, 3 newspapers)

General correspondence received by Headlam or his wife, 1896 - 1923 (Ref: D/He 134)

Copy letter from Cuthbert Headlam, 2 Westbourne Gardens, Folkestone, Kent to Henry J.L. Graham, accepting the offer of a clerkship in the House of Lords, 1 July 1897, with copy of Graham's letter offering the clerkship, 29 June 1897 [Henry John Lowndes Graham, C.B., Clerk of the Parliaments]


Winckworth Allen, 52 Cromwell Avenue, Highgate, concerning design for bookplate, 3 February 1909


H[ilaire] Belloc, Kings Land, Shipley, Horsham, concerning meeting and the correction of proofs, 22 April and 12 August 1920


P.V. Benicke, Home Bursary, Magdalen College, Oxford, concerning Headlam's taking his M.A. degree, 17 August 1903


John Bigham, 22 Grosvenor Place, to Headlam, asking him to come on circuit, 10 November 1906 [Mr. Justice Bigham]


Oswald Birley, Colchester, concerning dinner engagement, n.d. [Captain Oswald Hornby Joseph Birley, M.C., painter]


Oswald Birley, Ellary, Ardrishaige, Argyll, concerning personal and social affairs, 17 August 1922


Arthur Bourchier, Globe Theatre, London and elsewhere concerning production of plays written by Headlam [All The Fault of the Duchess etc.], 20 May - 14 October 1910 [actor manager, a founder of O.U.D.S.]


G.L. Brockhurst, Holbein Studio, Radcliffe Road, and Fawcett House, Fawcett Street, concerning etchings, 21 December 1920 and 8 March 1923


John Buchan, Broughton Green, Peebleshire, 76 Portland Place, and Gala Lodge, Brighton, concerning social and private matters, 9 September 190l, 30 December 1913 and 23 July 1919 [John Buchan, lawyer, author, man of letters]


Earl of Cavan, 22 Great Cumberland Place, concerning articles on military topics, 7 November n.y. [early 1920s] [Frederick Rudolph Lambert, K.P., G.C.M.G., G.C.V.O., K.C.B., General, 10th Earl, brother-in-law]


Lord Chelmsford, 18 Queens Gate Place, accepting invitations, 6 March and 15 May 1914 [Frederic John Napier Thesiger, G.C.M.G., 3rd Baron, late Governor of New South Wales]


Lord Curzon, l Carlton House Terrace and Hackwood, Basingstoke, concerning House of Lord, reforms and political matters, 21 November 1921 - 8 June 1922 [Most Hon. George Nathaniel Curzon, K.G., P.C., G.C.S.I., G.C.I.E., Foreign Secretary, lst Marquess Curzon of Kedleston]


Randall Cantuar: Lambeth Palace, 1 May 1920 [Most Rev. Randall Thomas Davidson, Archbishop of Canterbury]


Earl of Dunraven, 22 Norfolk Street, Park Lane, 19 December n.y. [Rt. Hon. Wyndham Thomas Wyndham-Quinn, K.P., P.C. etc., 4th Earl of Dunraven and Mount Earl]


G. Feilding, 33 Seymour Street, concerning The History of the Guards Division in the Great War, by Headlam, 14 October [1922] [Major General Sir Geoffrey Percy Thynne Feilding, K.C.B., K.C.V.O., C.M.G., D.S.O.]


Edmund Gosse, House of Lords, concerning family matters, research, books etc., 3 December 1906 - 5 May 1921 [Edmund William Gosse, C.B., poet and man of letters]


Henry J.L. Graham, House of Lords, concerning administrative matters and appointment of [Claude Schuster], successor to 'K' [Muir Mackenzie as Secretary to the Lord Chancellor], 5 August 1909 and 9 May 1915. [Sir Henry John Lowndes Graham, K.C.B., Clerk of the Parliaments]


R.S. Horne, 49A Pall Mall, concerning engagement with Chatham Club, 15 July 1919 [Rt. Hon. Sir Robert Stevenson Horne, P.C., K.B.E., M.P. for Hillhead, Minister of Labour, etc., future Chairman of the Great Western Railway]


Rufus Isaacs, Fox Hill, Earley, Reading, on social matters, 17 August 1916 [Rt. Hon. Rufus Daniel Isaacs, P.C., G.C.B., K.C.V.O., lst Viscount Reading, Lord Chief Justice, future Viceroy]


C.G. Stepney, 2 Amen Court, St. Pauls; Balmacarn, Ross-shire, concerning private matters, 28 February 1904 and 17 August 1905 [Rt. Revd. William Cosmo Gordon Lang, Bishop of Stepney]


Cosmo Ebor: Lambeth Palace, thanking him for tickets, 16 June 191l [Most Revd. William Cosmo Gordon Lang, Archbishop of York]


T.E. Lawrence, All Souls College, Oxford, correcting proofs and discussing styles and titles, 15 August 1920 [Lt. Col. Thomas Edward Lawrence (of Arabia)]


Walter H. Long, 65 Eaton Square, concerning invitation to the [Chatham] Dining Club, 3 and 6 March 1914 [Rt. Hon. Walter Hume Long, P.C., M.P. for the Strand Division, Conservative Cabinet Minister]


E.V. Lucas, 176 Victoria Street, declining invitation, 22 [----] 1919 [Edward Verrell Lucas, journalist, essayist and critic]


H. Macdonald, 9 Turner Street, East Malvern, Victoria, Australia, discussing A Strange Delilah at length, 5 March 1922


Kenneth Muir Mackenzie, 27 Cumberland Terrace, Regents Park, concerning his resignation and the appointment of a successor, n.d. [1915]. [Kenneth Augustus Muir Mackenzie, G.C.B., Baron Muir Mackenzie, Clerk to the Crown in Chancery and Secretary to the Lord Chancellor]


J.A.R. Marriott, University of Oxford, University Extension Delegacy, concerning Headlam's request to be appointed a lecturer, 9 November 1903 [John Arthur Ransome Marriott, Secretary to the Extension Delegacy, future Conservative M.P. and railway director]


Maud Maude, Mapperley Hall, Nottingham, thanking Headlam for financial assistance, 4 September [1896]


Lord Meston, Cookham Dene, Berkshire and 9 Whitehall Court, concerning invitation to speak to the Chatham Club on Indian affairs, 14 March and 22 March 1921 [James Scorgie Meston, K.C.S.I., lst Baron Meston of Agra]


John Murray, 50A Albermarle Street, concerning publication and sales of A Strange Delilah, with terms of acceptance and royalty statement to 31 December 1922, 7 April 1921 - 23 May 1922 [John Murray, and his son, John Murray, publishers]


Lord Newton, Lyme Park, Disley, Cheshire, 5 October 1912 [Thomas Wodehouse Legh, 2nd Baron Newton]


Reginald Page, l17 Beaufort Mansions, Chelsea, discussing Headlam's plays and those of others, 23 March 1910


Gilbert Parker, House of Commons; 20 Carlton House Terrace, concerning invitation to speak to the Chatham Dining Club, l - 4 April 1913 [Sir Gilbert Parker, M.P. for Gravesend, traveller and author]


Caroline R. Rees, Greenwich, Connecticut, concerning possible visit by Headlam to the United States, 18 January [1924]


Edward Ridley, 48 Lennox Gardens, [barrister?], concerning legal matters, 1 November n.y. [1900s]


Earl of Rosebery, 38 Berkeley Square; Rosebery, Gorebridge, Midlothian, concerning joint publishing venture, 17 July 1913 - 15 November 1914 [Rt. Hon. Archibald Philip Primrose, K.G., K.T., P.C., D.C.L., F.R.S., F.S.A., 6th Earl and lst Earl of Midlothian]


Clement Shorter, The Nineteen Hundred Publishing Syndicate, Ltd., Great New Street, Felter Lane, turning down drawings and cartoons by Headlam on behalf of The Tatler, 19 and 22 June 1903 [Clement King-Shorter, founder-editor of The Sphere and The Tatler]


Philip Snowden, House of Commons; Elberton, Woodstock Road, Golders Green, discussing invitation to address the [Chatham] dining club, 26 and 28 March n.d. [c.1910] [Philip Snowden, Labour M.P.]


H. Maxwell Spooner, Precincts, Canterbury, concerning Headlam's intention to lecture for Oxford University extension classes, 3 February 1902


W. Temple, 20 Deans Yard, Westminster, accepting invitation, 27 October n.y. [c.1920] [William Temple, Canon of Westminster, future Archbishop]


B.H. Thomson, Scotland House, concerning manuscript, 26 March 1920 [Sir Basil Home Thomson, K.C.B., Director of Intelligence]


Edward Slow Thompson, J.P., Pelham House, West Folkestone, giving a character for Cuthbert Headlam, 27 February 1902


Leon Underwood, Brook Green, discussing etching of Mrs. Headlam, 9 November 1921 and 23 January 1922


Earl of Verulam, House of Lords, concerning extension lecturing, 6 March 1902 [James Walter Grimston, 3rd Earl]


Herbert Warren, Magdalen College, Oxford, concerning possible [fellowship] of All Souls for Headlam, 24 September 1900 [Thomas Herbert Warren, President of Magdalen]


Herbert Warren, Magdalen College, Oxford, concerning possible candidates for appointment to [clerkships] in the House of Lords, 12 March 1920


Sidney Webb, 41 Grosvenor Road, Westminster Embankment, to Mr. J.O. Atkins and forwarded to Healdam, declining invitation to address the Chatham Dining Club, 26 February 1920 [Sidney James Webb, Professor of Public Administration, London University, writer, politician, polemicist]


M.J.W., Cliffe Hall, Darlington, concerning hunting, 18 January 1912 [Murrough John Wilson, landowner, railway director, kinsman]


Dodo, Minehead, Somerset, n.d. [1902] [Henbury ? an elderly female friend of the Headlams]


G.G.R., Johannesburg, Transvaal, congratulations on wedding and other private matters, 21 August 1904


C.R.L.F., Norham End, Oxford, wartime small talk, 1 January n.y. [1915-1918] (90 papers)

General correspondence received by Headlam or his wife, 1924-1950 (Ref: D/He 135)

C. Alington, The Deanery, Durham, 11 October and 11 January n.y. "... The parish today was St. Cuthbert's Hebburn and you may like to know that the Sub Dean read it St. Cuthbert Headlam. No answer ___ (I don't mean to the prayer!)..." [Very Reverend Cyril Argentine Alington, D.D., Dean of Durham]


Leo Amery, l12 Eaton Square, discussing meeting, 29 January 1950 [Rt. Hon. Leopold Charles Maurice Stennett Amery, P.C., C.H.]


H.V. Armstrong, Hon. Secretary, Durham County Committee, The National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations, 24 Grainger Street West, Newcastle, with copy correspondence with Lord Barnard relative to the Londonderry Fund and a counterblast to allegations made against Headlam relative to his voting record, 27 July - 31 October 1931


James Atkinson, Langley Park, thanking Headlam for his address [to the local National Conservative League], 13 October 1925


Stanley Baldwin, 10 Upper Brook Street, concerning future political engagements and Headlam's "gallant work" in Durham, 14 April 1931 [Rt. Hon. Stanley Baldwin, P.C., M.P.]


Stanley Baldwin, 11 Downing Street, making a financial contribution, 3 December 1932 [Rt. Hon. Stanley Baldwin, P.C., M.P., Lord President of the Council]


S[tanley] B[aldwin], 11 Downing Street, arranging appointment, 19 January 1934


Stanley Baldwin, House of Commons, arranging texts of Headlam's letter of resignation and Baldwin's reply, 4 July 1934


Draft letter from Headlam to Baldwin on the leak of news of his resignation, importance of filling his former post to quiet "the Socialists up here who have always asserted that a job was made for me", hopes for help in finding Headlam employment in the City etc., 6 July 1934


S[tanley] B[aldwin], 11 Downing Street, hoping Headlam will continue on sub-committee of the Committee of Imperial Defence, 15 July 1934


Earl Beatty, Admiralty, on naval business, 6 May 1927 [Rt. Hon. David Beatty, P.C., G.C.B., O.M. G.C.V.O., lst Earl, First Sea Lord, Admiral of the Fleet]


Lord Beaverbrook, 29 Bury Street, St. James's, concerning meeting and visit to Durham, 27 November 1929 [Rt. Hon. Sir William Maxwell Aitken, Bart., P.C., lst Baron, newspaper proprietor]


Lord Beaverbrook, Stornoway House, Cleveland Row, St. James's, on political matters and article in the Daily Express attacking Macdonald, 31 January 1934


Leslie Hore-Belisha, Ministry of Transport, 6 Whitehall Gardens, offering Headlam good wishes for the future following his resignation, 9 July 1934 [Leslie Hore-Belisha, Minister of Transport, National Liberal M.P. for Devonport]


H.P. Bell, Secretary and Agent, Barnard Castle Division Unionist Association, with thanks for Headlam's services to the constituency and draft of the latter's reply, 16 December 1935 and 3 February 1936


Harry Betterton, Riccall Hall, Yorkshire, expressing Headlam finds a safe seat, discussing Headlam's article and the age question, 21 September [1930] [Sir Henry Bucknall Betterton, Bart., C.B.E., M.P. for Rockcliffe, sometime Parliamentary Secretary of the Ministry of Labour]


Harry Betterton, (Chairman) Unemployment Assistance Board, Millbank, concerning Chatham Club, prospects for 1935, etc., 11 January 1935


Oswald Birley, The Corner House, 62 Wellington Road, on private matters, 31 October 1927


Nigel Bond, Springfield House, Hatfield Peverel, Chelmsford, congratulating him on speech, 2 May 1934


M. Bradley, Upper Bauldbyes, Whitby, Yorks., concerning John Headlam's performance at school, 25 September 1928 - 18 August 1931 [Includes a number of letters to Beatrice Headlam],


Hubert Brand, H.M.S. Nelson, concerning visit to Tyneside, 17 September 1928 [Vice Admiral Hon. Sir Hubert George Brand, K.C.B., K.C.M.G., K.C.V.O., C. in C. Atlantic Fleet]


W.C. Bridgeman, Admiralty, Whitehall, concerning arrangements to visit Headlam's constituency, 30 September 1925 [Rt. Hon. William Clive Bridgeman, P.C., M.P., lst Lord of the Admiralty]


W.C.B., Geneva, concerning naval parity with the United States and progress of disarmament negotiations, 5 July 1927


W.C.B., Langcliffe Hall, Settle, [home of Geoffrey Dawson, editor of The Times], concerning Committee of Enquiry, treasury pressure and other admiralty business, 18 August 1927


W.C.B., Admiralty, Whitehall, concerning admiralty business and demands of Headlam's constituency, 11 October 1928


W.C.B., Admiralty House, Whitehall, commiserating with Headlam on his defeat at Barnard Castle, 5 June 1929


John Brown, Ruskin College, Oxford, asking Headlam to contribute to a symposium on the ending of the world depression with G.D.H. Cole, Quintin Hogg and others, 26 July 1933


D. Clifton Brown, Ruffside Hall, Shotley Bridge, discussing archaeological visit by Gerald Simpson, 26 December 1948 [Col. Rt. Hon. Douglas Clifton Brown, P.C., M.P., Speaker of the House of Commons]


John Buchan, Elsfield Manor, Oxford, accepting congratulations [on decoration] from his old friend Headlam, 13 January 1932 [John Buchan, C.H., M.P. for Scottish Universities]


H.A. Bulley, Rook Place, Brighton, praising Headlam's writings on the Political Levy Bill and the need to keep the Conservative leadership on the straight and narrow, 9 April 1925


Viscount Byng of Vimy, Thorpe Hall, Thorpe le Soken, Essex, thanking Headlam for letter of congratulation on promotion, 17 October 1932 [John Hedworth George Byng, G.C.B., G.C.M.G., M.V.O., lst Viscount, Field Marshal, late Commissioner of Metropolitan Police]


Ronald Campbell, The Orchard, Fawley, Southampton, thanking Headlam for his congratulations on his having been appointed Ambassador to France, 2 August [1939] [Sir Ronald Hugh Campbell, K.C.M.G., Minister at Belgrade]


Earl of Cavan, War Office, concerning Headlam's History of the Guards Division and current army estimates, 26 February 1925 [Frederick Rudolph Lambert, K.P., G.C.M.G., G.C.V.O., K.C.B., 10th Earl, General, Chief of the Imperial Guard Staff, brother-in-law]


Earl of Cavan, 22 Great Cumberland Place, concerning Trenchard's policy of air control in the Middle East, 8 April n.y. [1930]


Evelyn Cecil, 2 Cadogan Square, accepting congratulations on elevation to the peerage [as Baron Rockley], 5 January 1934 [Rt. Hon. Sir Evelyn Cecil, P.C., G.B.E., former M.P., company director]


N. Chamberlain, 11 Downing Street, thanking him for condolences on the death of his brother, Rt. Hon. Sir (Joseph) Austen Chamberlain, K.G. [sometime Foreign Secretary], 24 March 1937 "The fact that homage is every where paid to his qualities shows that even in these days the world still appreciates disinterestedness, loyalty and truth, and that is good" [Rt. Hon. Arthur Neville Chamberlain, P.C., M.P., Chancellor of the Exchequer]


N. Chamberlain, 10 Downing Street, thanking Headlam for congratulations on becoming Prime Minister, encouraged "when one is setting out on a big adventure to feel that one has the confidence of one's friends...", 8 June 1937


N. Chamberlain, 10 Downing Street, thanking him for memorandum about his visit to Nurnberg which he will forward to the Foreign Office, 24 September 1937


N. Chamberlain, 10 Downing Street, concerning the committee on party finance, 18 January 1908 and n.d.


N. Chamberlain, 10 Downing Street, 25 February 1938 "I agree that "Musso" is very unpopular in the country and that it is extremely easy for opponents to represent our action as a humiliating surrender to dictators. Nevertheless, at heart they are determined not to go to war if they can help it... As for the L.N.U. [Leage of Nations Union], the real difficulty is that that is the sort of body that always appeals much more to academic Liberals and Socialists than to red-blooded Conservatives"


N. Chamberlain, 10 Downing Street, concerning possible directorship of the Consett Iron Company for Headlam, 16 December 1938 and 2 February 1939


N. Chamberlain, 10 Downing Street, concerning Chamberlain's bitter disappointment that war has come: "we can all feel that we are going into this horrible business with a clear conscience", 5 September 1939


George Chrystal, Ministry of Pensions, expressing regret that Headlam had resigned from office, 6 July 1934 [Sir George William Chrystal, K.C.B., Secretary to the Ministry of Pensions]


Winston S. Churchill, Treasury Chambers, Whitehall, concerning tax assessments on Wolsingham Tennis and Cricket Clubs, 4 January 1927 [Rt. Hon. Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, P.C., C.H., M.P. for Epping, Chancellor of the Exchequer]


G.W. Clive, British Embassy, Paris, forwarding thanks of General Gouraud [Military Governor of Paris], to Messrs. William Clowes and Sons, 7 - 8 October 1925 [Maj. General George Sidney Clive, C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., Military Attache]


F.C. Cook, Ministry of Transport, 6 Whitehall Gardens, expressing thanks for Headlam's conduct of business at the Ministry, 9 July 1934 [Frederick Charles Cook, D.S.O., Chief Engineer, Roads Department]


Duff Cooper, Grand Hotel, Geneva, concerning travel arrangements, 23 September 1928 [Alfred Duff Cooper, D.S.O., M.P., Financial Secretary to the War Office]


Duff, Treasury Chambers, Whitehall, 5 July 1934 "I am very sorry. I think you have not been well treated... Old Birrell once wrote to me 'Never ask for enything - never refuse anything - never resign'" [Alfred Duff Cooper, D.S.O., M.P., Financial Secretary to the Treasury]


Duff, Stanway, Cheltenham, 17 November 1935 "The dirty Liberal just did you in. But you must get back soon. There is no defeated Conservative who has such strong claims as you have on the first vacancy. Pray for a green winter and a full churchyard" [Rt. Hon. Alfred Duff Cooper, D.S.O., M.P., Secretary of State for War]


I. Corbett, Private Secretary to the Marquess of Crewe, Crewe House, Curzon Street, Mayfair, returning the [Rosebery] letters, 22 October 1931


[Canon] A[rthur] Stafford Crawley, Prae Wood House, St. Albans, concerning family matters, 19 December [1929]


George S. Crawley, 21 Chelsea Park Gardens, family and social matters, 10 December 1925


R. Stafford Cripps, Treasury Chambers, Great George Street, acknowledging petition, 23 November 1948 [Rt. Hon. Sir Richard Stafford Cripps, K.C., M.P., Chancellor of the Exchequer]


Earl of Cromer, Lord Chamberlain, concerning arrangements for Beatrice's being summoned to a court, 5 January 1927 [Rt. Hon. Rowland Thomas Baring, P.C., G.C.I.E., G.C.V.O., banker, Director of Suez Canal, 2nd Earl]


Charles B.C., War Office, Whitehall, concerning non-promotion and retirement of Hugo [Brigadier General Hugh Roger Headlam], Cuthbert's brother, 18 December 1930 "Things are not very easy here with our present masters. I wish you would turn them out"


Guy D., 6/7 Cowley Street, Westminster, concerning A[rmy] Q[uarterly] and expressing enthusiasm for Headlam's History of The Guards Division, 13 January 1925 [Maj. General Guy Payan Dawney]


Guy D., 3 Queen Street, Mayfair and King's Buildings, Westminster, congratulating Headlam on various speeches etc., 16 June n.y. and 7 July 1927


Jack Dill, Headquarters, British Forces, Palestine and Transjordan, Jerusalem, 25 September 1936 "You may be quite sure that I have no desire to stay a moment longer in this country than I need" [Lt. General John Greer Dill, C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., Commanding British Forces, Palestine]


Jack Dill, Headquarters, British Forces, Palestine and Transjordan, Jerusalem, 24 April 1937 "I am glad that you are considering a return to the H of C... the problems of today are terribly interesting not to say exciting. This Berlin-Rome axis is going to cause us a lot of trouble before it breaks. At least the two European gangsters do know what they want on their road to perdition and have the will and the power to make it very uncomfortable for opulent un-armed wafflers who obtrude themselves..."


Jack Dill, Government House, Aldershot, 13 September 1939 "There are many people who have earned lamp posts including most of the Government - and L[iddell]-H[art] is certainly one of them... Can the Germans face a long war?..." [Lt. General Sir John Greer Dill, K.C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., G.-O.-C. in C., Aldershot]


Jack Dill, Headquarters, lst Corps., B.E.F., 27 January 1940 "I wish more people had the same grasp of the situation... I am in no better position to appreciate the military situation than you are... There is, as far as I know, no reason to suppose that the staying power of Germany is not great... It is almost impossible to gauge the staying power of France and Britain... The passing of H[ore]-B[elisha] is good but the manner of his going struck me as clumsy. It will take the army a long time to recover from the evil that he wrought..."


Earl of Durham, Lambton Castle, Fence Houses, arranging meeting, 11 January 1927 [John George Lambton, K.G., P.C., G.C.V.O., 3rd Earl]


Anthony Eden, Foreign Office, concerning letters from Headlam's brother, 23 - 25 August 1933 [Robert Anthony Eden, M.C., M.P., Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Foreign Office]


Edward P., St. James's Palace, concerning Headlam's brother's failure to be promoted major-general, 23 July 1930 [H.R.H. The Prince of Wales]


Walter Elliot, House of Commons, concerning article by Headlam and response to it in Parliament, 10 December 1930 [Walter Elliot Elliot, M.C., M.P. for Kelvingrove]


Margaret Falmouth, Vice Chairman, Conservative and Unionist Central Office, Palace Chambers, Westminster, congratulating Headlam on his services to the party, 5 February, 1932 [Mary Margaret Desiree, wife of 8th Viscount Falmouth]


F.L. Field, Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean Station, accepting Headlam's congratulations on promotion [to be First Sea Lord], 18 March 1930 [Admiral Sir Frederick Laurence Field, K.C.B., K.C.M.G.]


Arthur M. Fletcher, Hon. Secretary, Lanchester and District Branch of the Junior Imperial League, 33 Durham Road, Lanchester, commiserating with Headlam on his defeat, 7 June 1929


Alice Wilson Fox, 28 Argyll Road, accepting corrections to her biography of the late Earl of Halsbury, Lord Chancellor, 16 December 1929


G.R. Lane Fox, Bramham Park, Boston Spa, Yorks., congratulating Headlam on his speech, 28 March 192[5] [George Richard Lane Fox, M.P., Secretary for Mines]


Lord Gainford, 18 Mansfield Street, claiming ignorance of the Liberal candidate in Barnard Castle, but declining to urge Liberals there to vote for Headlam, 6 November 1935 [Rt. Hon. Joseph Albert Pease, P.C., lst Baron, coal owner, company director]


Ralph Glyn, 10 Downing Street, congratulating Headlam on his letter to The Times, 6 October [1931] Major Ralph George Campbell Glyn, M.C., [M.P., P.P.S. to the Prime Minister]


E.I.D. Gordon, Drumearn, Elgin, Cape Province, Union of South Africa, a retired Lieutenant Colonel, Royal Scots Fusiliers, congratuling him on a letter to The Times highly crictical of Liddell Hart, 28 April 1938


George Gordon, Milford Corner, Milford on Sea; Magdalen College, Oxford, concerning Headlam's possible candidacy at the next election of a Member of Parliament (burgess) for Oxford University, 5 April and 9 July 1934 [George Stuart Gordon, President of Magdalen]


J[ohn Francis] Gore, Travellers' Club, Pall Mall, discussing Headlam's writing, etc., 16 January [1925] [John Francis Gore, journalist and author]


W. Ormsby-Gore, Colonial Office, Downing Street, asking Headlam to go to British Guiana as a member of a Parliamentary Commission to investigate the constitution and local conditions, 10 September 1926 [Hon. William George Arthur Ormsby-Gore, M.P., Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies]


Henry J.L. Graham, 4 Cadogan Gardens, expressing great satisfaction with Headlam's career in Parliament, 6 January 1929 [Sir Henry John Lowndes Graham, K.C.B., sometime Clerk of the Parliaments]


Mabel Grey, Howick, Alnwick, Northumberland, to Beatrice concerning her taking over chairmanship from Beatrice, 8 January 1932 [Mabel Laura Georgina, C.B.E., 5th Countess Grey]


Ned, Minister Resident in the Middle East, Cairo, 26 December 1944 "The atmosphere here is very friendly, and the proverbial fleshpots have lost none of their savour by the war" [Rt. Hon. Sir Edward William Macleay Grigg, P.C., K.C.M.G., K.C.V.O., D.S.O., M.C., M.P., late Governor of Kenya, Minister Resident]


W.G. Howard Gritten, Carlton Club, thanking Headlam for coming to speak on his behalf, 1 September 1932


Wilfred Greene, All Souls College, Oxford, accepting congratulations of "the brutal and licentious soldiery", 22 May 1937 [Rt. Hon. Sir Wilfred Arthur Greene, P.C., O.B.E., M.C., Master of the Rolls]


Irwin, Viceregal Lodge, Delhi, discussing domestic politics, death and reputation of Asquith, Indian politics and the Simon Commission, 16 February 1928 [Rt. Hon. Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, P.C., G.C.S.I., G.C.I.E., lst Baron, Viceroy of India]


Edward, 88 Eaton Square, concerning personal and political matters, 27 April 1939 [Rt. Hon. Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, K.G., P.C., G.C.S.I., G.C.I.E., 3rd Viscount Halifax, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs]


Lord Halsbury, 2 Harcourt Buildings, Temple, regretting that Headlam had been pained by certain references in a biography of the lst Earl of Halsbury, a former Lord Chancellor, 9 December 1929 [Hardinge Goulborn Gifford, K.C., 2nd Earl of Halsbury]


M.P.A. Hankey, Committee of Imperial Defence, 2 Whitehall Gardens, regarding Headlam's work on the Sub-Committee on the Distribution of Imports in Time of War, 23 March 1937 [Col. Sir Maurice Paschal Alers Hankey, G.C.B., G.C.M.G., G.C.V.O., Cabinet Secretary and Secretary of the Committee of Imperial Defence]


A.C. Gloucestr: The Palace, Gloucester, concerning the prayer book, Anglo-Catholics etc., 15 June 1928 [Rt. Reverend Arthur Cayley Headlam, C.H. Bishop of Gloucester, cousin]


Herbert Dunelm, Auckland Castle, Bishop Auckland, concerning arrangements with Lord Durham for getting in touch with local employers, 7 - 26 January 1927 Rt. Reverend Herbert Hensley Henson, Bishop of Durham]


Herbert Dunelm, Auckland Castle, Bishop Auckland, concerning difficulties in raising money to restore Durham Castle, unhelpful attitudes of the Newcastle division of the University, and industrial depression, 15 September 1928


Herbert Dunelm, Auckland Castle, Bishop Auckland, congratulating Beatrice on her appearance in the Honours List, 1 March 1929


Herbert Dunelm, Auckland Castle, Bishop Auckland, condolences on the death of Mrs. (Kenneth) Crawley, attacks on Henson by the County Council and various Labour M.P.s, 8 August 1932


Herbert Dunelm, Auckland Castle, Bishop Auckland, accepting felicitations on retirement, 12 November 1938


H. Hensley Henson, Hyntle Place, Hintlesham, Ipswich, explaining his decision to accept a canonry in Westminster Abbey despite his failing health, 24 August 1940


J[ohn] D[ixon] Hinks, 18 Southert Avenue, Darlington, to T. Magnay, M.P., concerning Graham who is standing as a Liberal in the Barnard Castle constituency against Headlam: "This candidature is purely retaliatory and Graham has no more chance of being elected than the proverbial snowball in ---", 23 October 1935


Cyril Hurcomb, Ministry of Transport, 6 Whitehall Gardens, regretting Headlam's resignation: "you have always done your best to help the office through", 11 July 1934 [Sir Cyril William Hurcomb, K.C.B., K.B.E., Permanent Secretary at Ministry of Transport]


T.W.H. Inskip, 2 Whitehall Gardens, thanking Headlam for his service to the Committee of Imperial Defence, 29 April 1937 [Rt. Hon. Sir Thomas Walker Hubert Inskip, P.C., C.B.E., Minister for the Co-ordination of Defence]


T.W.H. Inskip, 2 Whitehall Gardens, concerning possibility of Headlam's becoming a government director of the Suez Canal, 3 May 1938 "I wish I could think of a job of work at my disposal... To all intents and purposes I have been fitted into the organisation of the Committee of Imperial Defence, so that that organisation is really my staff"


Tom, House of Lords, concerning the vacancy for a Member of Parliament at Fareham, following Inskip's elevation to the peerage, and accepting Headlam's congratulations on appointment as Lord Chancellor, 8 September 1939 [Rt. Hon. Sir Thomas Walker Hobart Inskip, lst Viscount Caldecote, Lord Chancellor 1939-40]


F. Stanley Jackson, Palace Chambers, Westminster, sending funds to help the finances of the Barnard Castle Division: "It is in the interests of the Party that this key-seat in Durham should be well organised", 11 October 1926 [Rt. Hon. Francis Stanley Jackson, M.P., Chairman of the Conservative Party, cricketer]


P.D. Jane, Rose Croft, Langholm Road, East Boldon, congratulating him on speaking out fearlessly with the courage of his convictions, 4 February 1932 "The first question put to me by the Head Teacher, who was being promoted, was: - 'What are your politics? If you are not in the labour movement, its no use trying to get here!'"


Harold Jevons, Clerk of the Peace, Shire Hall, Durham, concerning arrangements for the sitting of magistrates, 31 October 1931


Leonard Johnson, Lodone, Aughton, Lancashire, concerning war-time memories, travel etc., 31 December 1926


A. Kerry, The Manor House, Eton College, concerning John's progress at school, 20 November 1933 and 13 February 1934


Lord Kilbracken, 36 Lower Belgrave Street, concerning Headlam's seeking work for the son of one of his constituents with P. & O., 8 May 1928 [Sir Arthur Godley, G.C.B., lst Baron, late Under Secretary of State for India]


F. Knowles, Secretary and Agent, Berwick upon Tweed Conservative and Unionist Association, 28 Bondgate, Alnwick, concerning Headlam's activities as prospective parliamentary candidate, 31 May and 18 June 1940


Cosmo Ebor: alias Cosmo Cantuar: House of Lords, Bishopthorpe, York; The Moorings, Aldwick Avenue, Bognor, concerning his translation, congratulating Beatrice on her C.B.E., fearing Cuthbert will be defeated etc., 14 June n.y. - 6 March 1929 [Most Revd. William Cosmo Gordon Lang, Archbishop York, 1909-28, and of Canterbury, 1928-1942]


H.A. Lawrence, 67 Lombard Street, expressing pleasure that Nevile Foster & Co. have picked up Headlam's services, 29 April 1926 [General Hon. Sir Herbert Alexander Laurence, G.C.B.]


R.J.W. Ledingham, Central Office Agent, The National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations, Northern Counties Area, 26 Picton Place, Newcastle, concerning complaint of Chetwynd Talbot (the unsuccessful candidate at Middlesbrough) that his seat was sacrificed in an attempt to save Headlam's, 22 - 26 November 1935


P[eter] Lee, Durham Miners' Association, Red Hills, Durham, thanking him for good wishes on recovery from illness, 31 March 1932 "... I am glad to know that despite the fact of our belonging to what may be regarded as opposite camps it has still been possible for us to treat each other with every courtesy and consideration"


Mildred H. Lodge, Dunelm School, South Street, Durham, expressing pleasure at John Headlam's going to Eton and related matters, 5 July [1932]


P.L.F. Lofthouse, lst Bishopthorpe Troop of Scouts, York, congratulating Headlam upon A Strange Delilah "such a topping tale", 11 Decmeber 1927


Lord Londonderry, Mount Stewart, Newtownards, Co. Down, concerning threat of colliery nationalisation, the fight against socialism, lack of financial support, 21 October 1925 [Most Hon. Sir Charles Stewart Henry Vane-Tempest-Stewart, Minister of Education (N.I.), 7th Marquess of Londonderry]


L. [Lord Londonderry], Londonderry House, Park Lane, concerning visit by Mr. Baldwin to the north, 2 July 1931


E. Londonderry, Wynyard Park, Stockton on Tees, expressing wishes for the new year, 3 January n.y. [c.1930] [Edith, Marchioness of Londonderry]


Leslie C. Lonie, Agent and Secretary, Sedgefield Conservative and Unionist Association, Stockton on Tees, thanking Headlam for his speech at Trimdon on the European situation, and enclosing newspaper cuttings, 28 September 1938


F.S.A. Lowndes, The Times, Printing House Square, concerning obituaries written by Headlam, 7 September n.y. [1928]


E.V. Lucas, 36 Essex Street, Strand, concerning Cuthbert's election to membership of the Literary Society, 2 February 1932


J. Lucas, 5 Logan Street, Langley Park, to Mr. Bell, thanking 'the Colonel' [Headlam] for assistance with emigration to Australia, 6 September 1928


J. Ramsay Macdonald, 10 Downing Street, Whitehall, concerning unfortunate and unflattering remarks about him made by Headlam in a recent speech, 17 and 21 November 1930 [Rt. Hon. James Ramsey Macdonald, P.C., M.P., Prime Minister]


J. Ramsey Macdonald, 10 Downing Street, Whitehall, concerning his intention to fight Seaham rather than Gateshead, 7 October 1931


J. Ramsey Macdonald, The Hillocks, Lossiemouth, N.B., concerning Headlam's resignation, 7 July 1934 "I regret that there was no niche for the moment other than that which you filled so well which would have kept you with us... hope that nothing will disturb you there [House of Commons] for many years to come"


Malcolm MacDonald, Dominions Office, Downing Street, private matters, n.d. [1930s] [Malcolm John MacDonald, M.P., Parliamentary Under Secretary, and later Secretary of State, for Dominion Affairs]


Ronald McNeill, Glenmona, Cushendun, Co. Antrim, concerning condolences on the death of his brother-in-law, 13 October 1926 [Rt. Hon. Ronald John McNeill, P.C., M.P., Financial Secretary to the Treasury]


Charles E. Madden, Admiralty, concerning Weir and Colwyn reports, economies and naval organisation, 22 July n.y. [1927-1928] [Admiral of the Fleet Sir Charles Edward Madden, Bart., G.C.B., G.C.V.O., K.C.M.G., First Sea Lord]


George Magnay, 81 Nuns Moor Road, Newcastle, thanking him for help with appeal to the Ministry of Pensions, 2 June 1950


Arthur Steel-Maitland, Ministry of Labour, Montagu House, Whitehall, discussing speeches of Lloyd George and Greenwood, 24 May 1925 /135/149 Arthur Steel-Maitland, Ministry of Labour, Montagu House, Whitehall, concerning letter to Beatrice, 29 January 1929


[Sarah Algeria] Marjorie Maxse, Chief Organisation Officer, Conservative and Unionist Central Office, Palace Chambers, Westminister, with list of meetings addressed by Headlam, 9 July 1934


F.B. Merriman, 3 Pembroke Road, Kensington, accepting congratulations, arranging to address meetings etc., 29 March - 23 October 1928 [Sir Frank Boyd Merriman, O.B.E., Solicitor General 1928-1929, M.P. for Rusholme]


F.B. Merriman, 3 Pembroke Road, Kensington, concerning speaking arrangements, 2 February 1930


F.B. Merriman, President's Room, Royal Courts of Justice, accepting congratulations, 9 October 1933 [Rt. Hon. Sir Frank Boyd Merriman, P.C., O.B.E., newly-appointed President of the Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division of the High Court]


Wyndham M.M. Milligan, Eton College, Windsor etc., concerning John Headlam's progress at school, 9 July 1933 - 20 December 1934


W.S. Morrison, Treasury Chambers, Whitehall, commiserating with Headlam on his defeat, 26 November 1935 [William Shepherd Morrison, K.C., Financial Secretary to the Treasury]


W.S. Morrison, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, 10 Whitehall Place, accepting congratulations on appointment, 9 November 1936 [Rt. Hon. William Shepherd Morrison, P.C., Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries]


A. Mountain, 16 Grosvenor Place, concerning Headlam's appointment as Chairman of The Grosvenor Transport Company, 12 March 1943


Jack Murray, 50A Albermarle Street, congratulating Headlam on chairmanship of meeting, 5 July 1927 [John Murray, Headlam's publisher]


J.M., 50 Albermarle Street, concerning design for dust jacket, 2 February 1933 [Sir John Murray, K.C.V.O.]


Margot Oxford, 21 February 1933 [Emma Alice Margaret, Countess of Oxford and Asquith]


Sidney Peel, 6 and 7 King William Street, promising to keep eyes open for business opportunities for Headlam, 1 April 1931 [Col. Hon. Sidney Cornwallis Peel, C.B., D.S.O., T.D., banker]


Eustace Percy, The Old Rectory, Albury, Guildford, discussing party and parliamentary business, local government politics etc., 14 and 22 December 1929 [Rt. Hon. Lord Eustace Percy, P.C., M.P., late President of the Board of Education]


Ernest Pilkington, Travellers' Club, Pall Mall, congratulating Headlam on speech at Magdalen College dinner, 5 July 1927


Viscount Plumer, 22 Ennismore Gardens, London arranging meeting, 15 December 1929 [Sir Herbert Charles Onslow Plumer, G.C.B., G.C.M.G., G.C.V.O., C.B.E., lst Viscount, Field Marshal, etc.]


John Ponsonby, York Cottage, Sandringham, Norfolk, discussing First World War reminiscences for use in Headlam's history of the Guards Division, 26 January 1924 [Maj. General John Ponsonby, C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., late Coldstream Guards]


John Ponsonby, Great Langley Manor, Guildford, congratulating Headlam upon his history of the Guards Division, 15 January 1925


Alice Ridley, Capesthorne, Chelford, Cheshire, accepting his condolences, 5 November 1928 [Alice, daughter of William Bromley Davenport, widow of Rt. Hon. Sir Edward Ridley, P.C., Q.C., former Judge and M.P.]


J.K. Rippon, Rogerley Hall, Frosterley, congratulating him on his performance in the constituency, 26 October 1928


C. Ward Ritson, chairman of Conservative and Unionist Election Committee, Central Committee Rooms, 88 High Street West, Wallsend on Tyne, thanking Headlam for speaking in the bye election campaign, 6 July 1926 [Col. Cuthbert Ward Ritson, O.B.E.]


Letters from, or forwarded by, Lt. Col. T.M. Scanlan, M.C., Agent and Secretary of the North Newcastle Conservative and Unionist Association relating to lobbying on behalf of constituents, 17-20 January 1950


Owen Seaman, 2 Whitehall Court, concerning possible review of Headlam's book in Punch, 25 October 1934 [Sir Owen Seaman, Bart, Barrister, Editor of Punch 1906-32, poet, satirist and parodist]


T. Shaw, War Office, Whitehall, thanking him for letter, 22 April 1930 [Rt. Hon. Tom Shaw, P.C., C.B.E., Secretary of State]


M.A. Smith, The Grove, Barnard Castle, Hon. Secretary, Barnard Castle Women's Unionist Association, commiserating with Headlam on his defeat, 12 June 1929


George Snow, Burnham Thorpe, Eton, Windsor concerning John Headlam, 10 August 1933


George A. Spencer, 1 Clumber Street, East Kirkby, Nottingham, concerning foundation of non-political unions, 3 January 1927 [George Alfred Spencer, M.P. (Lab) 1918-29, late President, Nottinghamshire Miners Association].


Lord Stanhope, Staff College, Camberley, concerning Territorial Army training and accepting congratulations, 10 January 1934 [Rt. Hon. James Richard Stanhope, K.G., P.C., D.S.O., M.C., Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for War etc., late junior minister in the Admiralty, 7th Earl]


Oliver Stanley, House of Commons; Ministry of Transport, etc. accepting Headlam's congratulations on accession to office, thanking him for help at the Ministry of Transport, offering sympathy at Headlam's resignation, 19 September [1931], 22 January 1940 and n.d. [Rt. Hon. Oliver Frederick George Stanley, P.C. (1934), M.P. for Westmorland, Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Home Office (1931), Minister of Transport (1933-34), Secretary of State for War (1940)]


James S., White's Club, London, thanking him for kind letter on retirement as Conservative Chief Whip, 9 July 1947 [Rt. Hon. James Gray Stuart, P.C., M.V.O., M.P.]


Lord Sydenham, The Priory, Lamberhurst, Kent, congratulating him on letter to The Times, fighting socialism, 6 October 1931 "If the election does not give a strong anti-socialist majority we are done for as a great people... The Bosheviks have given us an object-lesson of the meaning of Socialism and this deadly lesson can be driven home if Conservatives follow the lead you have given" [George Sydenham Clarke Cowbe, G.C.S.I., G.C.M.G., G.C.I.E., G.B.E., F.R.S., colonial governor, 1st Baron Sydenham]


William Ebor:, Bishopthorpe, York, appealing on behalf of Durham High School, 25 August n.y. [Most Revd. William Temple, Archbishop of York, 1929 - 1942]


Luke Thompson, Thornhill, Beresford Park, Sunderland, sympathising with Headlam on his defeat in the general election, 16 November 1935 [Sir Luke Thompson, retiring M.P. for Sunderland]


Bulgy, Headquarters, Scottish Command, Edinburgh, concerning John's army career and prospects, 17 January and 25 June 1944 [General Sir Augustus Francis Andrew Nicol Thorne, K.B.C., C.M.G., G.O.C., C.- in - C. Scottish Command]


Cicely, Ranksborough, Langham, Oakham, Rutland to Beatrice, 1 January n.y. [Cicely Wilkinson, wife of Maj.- General Sir Percival Spearman Wilkinson, K.C.M.G., C.B. (of Mount Oswald) sister-in-law of Sir J.E.W. Headlam]


Spencer Wilkinson, Seven Trees, Futcham, Leatherhead discussing military matters, 16 August 1927 [Henry Spencer Wilkinson, late Chichele Professor of Military History, Fellow of All Souls]


H.J. Wilson, Treasury Chambers, Whitehall, acknowledging offer of service, 22 February 1940 [Sir Horace John Wilson, G.C.B., G.C.M.G., C.B.E., Permanent Secretary to the Treasury]


Lord Winterton, Shillinglee Park, Chiddingfold, congratulating Headlam on uncompromising speech, 25 January 1932 [Rt. Hon. Edward Turnour, P.C., M.P. for Horsham, sometime junior minister, 6th Earl]


Kingsley Wood, Ministry of Health, Whitehall, accepting congratulations on appointment to Privy Council, 5 January 1928 [Rt. Hon. Sir Kingsley Wood, P.C., M.P., solicitor, Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health etc.]


Kingsley Wood, H.M. Post-Master General, accepting congratulations, 27 December 1933


Konradine, Hadspen House, Castle Cary, Somerset, to Beatrice n.d. [c 1931] [Konradine Hobhouse, daughter of Rt. Hon. F.H. Jackson, wife of Arthur Lawrence Hobhouse]


Marjorie [Maxse], 31 Sumner Place, Onslow Square, London to Beatrice, n.d.


May, Thornhaugh near Peterborough, 18 August 1927 [Mary Alice, wife of George Abraham Crawley ?]


Unidentified [Sir Alfred Appleby], Newcastle upon Tyne Conservative and Unionist Association, 37 Grainger Street, Newcastle, looking for candidate for Newcastle Central, 30 December 1925


Oliver, 3 Abchurch Yard, London, concerning Headlam's history of the Guards Division, 30 January [1925] [Possibly Oliver Lyttelton]


General A. Cadornay, Firenze, Italy to another General, concerning Colonel Headlam, 23 January 1924 (247 papers, 6 files)

General correspondence received by, or forwarded to, Headlam, 1952-1962 (Ref: D/He 136)

D.K. Bernard, Castle Hacket, Galway reminiscing about Headlam's brother, November 1955 "my Ancestral home in this ridiculous country you know. I was burnt out in 1922." [Lt.-General Sir Denis John Charles Kerwin Bernard, K.C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., former Governor of Bermuda]


Oliver, 33 Grosvenor Place, London, SW1, reminiscing, 1 November [1962] [Rt. Hon. Oliver Lyttelton, P.C., D.S.O., M.C., 1st Viscount Chandos, former cabinet minister and businessman, fellow staff officer with Cuthbert in 1915]


Stanley, Ashurst Park, Tunbridge Wells, reminiscing, 12 January 1962 "3/4 of the globe is now governed by thugs, crooks and murderers" [Sir Wykeham Stanley Cornwallis, K.B.E., M.C., 2nd Baron Cornwallis, director of companies, landowner]


Duff, Chateau de St. Firmin, Vineuil, Oise, France replying to congratulations on his elevation to the peerage and suggesting Headlam would be well qualified to join him, 20 August 1952 "You ask why Norwich, I could think of nothing else, owning no land. My father was born there..." [Rt. Hon. Alfred Duff Cooper, P.C., G.C.M.G., & D.S.O., 1st Viscount Norwich, politician and diplomat]


The Earl of Cromer, British Embassy, Washington, DC, accepting congratulations on appointment as Governor of the Bank of England, 12 December 1960 [George Rowland Stanley Baring, M.B.E., 3rd Earl of Cromer]


Anthony, 10 Downing Street, Whitehall, accepting congratulations on appointment as Prime Minister, 29 April 1955 [Rt. Hon. Sir Robert Anthony Eden, K.G., P.C., M.C.]


Edward Fellowes, Paddocks, Scole, Diss, Norfolk, reminiscing about parliament and commending Headlam for his political career, 10 January 1962 [Sir Edward Abdy Fellowes, K.C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., Clerk of the House of Commons, 1954-61]


Alec, Foreign Office, London, accepting congratulations on appointment as Secretary of State, 8 August 1960 [Rt. Hon. Alexander Frederick Douglas Home, P.C., D.L., 16th Earl of Home, etc.]


Shakes, Speaker's House, London, accepting Headlam's good wishes on his retirement as speaker and reminiscing about Beatrice's good works, 25 September 1959 [Rt. Hon. William Shepherd Morrison, P.C., Q.C., M.P., Speaker of the House of Commons, 1951-59]


Shakes, Government House, Canberra, Australia, giving first impressions of Australia, etc., 9 February 1960 [Rt. Hon. Sir William Shepherd Morrison, P.C., G.M.C.G., etc., 1st Viscount Dunrossi, Governor-General and Commander-in-Chief of Australia]


Michael Dunelm: The Castle, Durham, accepting congratulations on his appointment as Bishop of Durham, 22 October 1952 [Rt. Revd. Arthur Michael Ramsey, D.D., former Professor of Divinity in the University of Durham]


Michael Ebor: Bishopthorpe, York, concerning visit of the Headlams to Bishopthorpe and accepting congratulations on his translation to Canterbury, 12 October 1960 - 25 January 1961 [Most Revd. and Rt. Hon. Arthur Michael Ramsey, P.C., D.D.]


Henry Jackson, West House, Piddletrenthide, Dorchester to Maurice Headlam [brother of Cuthbert] concerning Sir Claud Schuster, 13 November 1955 "Why Schuster Claud has been made a Lord Is somewhat of a riddle Said he I'll take for Dorset's Sake The title of 'Lord Piddle'", [General Sir Henry Cholmondeley Jackson, K.C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., G.C.B., C.C.O., 1st Baron Schuster Clerk of the Crown in Chancery, 1915-44 etc.]
(22 papers)

Letters from Headlam to his wife, Beatrice 1914-1919 (Ref: D/He 137-182)

Letters from Headlam during his service in the army on personal and domestic matters, description of his life and activities, conduct of the war, occasional pencil sketches, forwarding letters to or from third parties etc.

[See Appendix for extracts from selected letters from the Western Front, ref. D/He 139-182]


At Huntingdon, Swindon and Winslow, Berks with the Bedfordshire Yeomanry, 5-17 August 1914
(23 papers)


From embarkation at Southampton, on board ship, and with the 9th Cavalry Brigade, B.E.F., France, 9-30 June 1915
(49 papers)


From Headquarters, 50th Division, B.E.F., France, serving as A.D.C. to his brother-in-law, Major General, the Earl of Cavan, 1-31 July 1915
(79 papers)


From Headquarters, Guards Division, B.E.F. France, 1-31 August 1915; letter from Sir Henry Graham to Headlam, 3 August 1915
(59 papers)


From Headquarters, Guards Division, B.E.F., France, 1-30 September 1915
(48 papers)


From Headquarters, Guards Division, B.E.F., France, 1-29 October 1915; correspondence with brokers and Inland Revenue, 15-30 September 1915
(47 papers)


From Headquarters, Guards Division, B.E.F., France and letters received from Stafford and Kenneth Crawley, 11-30 November 1915
(41 papers)


From Headquarters, Guards Division, B.E.F., France and from Hotel Ritz, Place Vendome, Paris, 1-31 December 1915
(49 papers)


From Headquarters, 2nd Army, B.E.F., France and letters received from Cavan, Hon. Piers Legh, Sidney Peel, members of the Headlam family and officers of the House of Lords, 1-25 January 1916
(47 papers)


From Headquarters, 2nd Army, B.E.F., France, 8-29 February 1916; letters received from the President of Magdalen College, Oxford, 5 February 1916
(47 papers)


From Headquarters, 2nd Army, B.E.F., France, 1-31 March 1916; correspondence received concerning the Magdalen College Mission and from friends and relatives, 16-28 March 1916
(57 papers)


From Headquarters, 2nd Army, B.E.F., France and miscellaneous letters received from Cavan and others, 1 - 30 April 1916
(50 papers)


From Headquarters, 2nd Army, B.E.F., France, 12-31 May 1916; letters received from friends and relatives, 28 April - 28 May 1916
(33 papers)


From Headquarters, 2nd Army, B.E.F., France, 1-30 June 1916; letters received from friends and relations, bankers etc., 24 May - 25 June 1916
(42 papers)


From Headquarters, 2nd Army, B.E.F., France, with occasional letters received, 1-31 July 1916
(42 papers)


From Headquarters, 2nd Army, B.E.F., France, 1-11 August and 22-31 August 1916
(25 papers)


From Headquarters, 2nd Army, B.E.F., France, 1-30 September 1916; letters received from friends, including Conrad Russell, and relations, 10-24 September 1916
(41 papers)


From Headquarters, 2nd Army, B.E.F., France, 1-31 October 1916; letters received from relations and friends including J.B. H[olkam] concerning possible promotions in the office of the Clerk of the Parliaments, 10 September - 27 October 1916
(45 papers)


From Headquarters, 2nd Army, B.E.F., France, 1-19 November 1916; letters received from Cavan, Tuppie, Conrad Russell and the Prince of Wales, 2-15 November 1916
(25 papers)


From Headquarters, 8 Corps., B.E.F., France, 4-31 December 1916; letters received from colleagues, friends and relations, 14-23 December 1916
(37 papers)


From Headquarters, 8 Corps., B.E.F., France, 1-31 January 1917; letters received from colleagues, friends and relations, 30 December 1916 - 25 January 1917
(58 papers)


From Headquarters, 8 Corps., B.E.F., France, 1-22 February 1917; letters received from friends, 29 January - February 1917
(30 papers)


From Headquarters, 8 Corps., B.E.F., France, 11-31 March 1917; letters received from family and friends, 8-24 March 1917
(35 papers)


From Headquarters, 8 Corps., B.E.F., France, 1-30 April 1917; letters received from family and friends, 27 March - 24 April 1917
(48 papers)


From Headquarters, 8 Corps.,B.E.F., France, 1-31 May 1917; letters received from colleagues, friends and relations, 2-28 May 1917
(55 papers)


From Headquarters, 8 Corps., B.E.F., France, 1-12 June 1917; letters received from friends and colleagues, 30 May - 10 June 1917
(24 papers)


From Headquarters, 8 Corps., B.E.F., France, 4-31 July 1917; letters received from family and friends, 13-23 July 1917
(96 papers)


From Headquarters, 8 Corps., B.E.F., France, 1-31 August 1917; letters received from colleagues, friends and relations, 30 July - 27 August 1917
(51 papers)


From Headquarters, 8 Corps., B.E.F., France, 1-30 September 1917; letters received from colleagues, friends (Conrad Russell, Geoffrey Dawson, etc.) and relations, 2-27 September 1917
(59 papers)


From Headquarters, 8 Corps., B.E.F., France, 1-13 October 1917; letter received from his mother, n.d.
(16 papers)


From Headquarters, 8 Corps., B.E.F., France, 19-30 November 1917; letters received from colleagues, 16-19 November 1917
(15 papers)


From Headquarters, 8 Corps., B.E.F., France, 1-31 December 1917; letters received from colleagues, friends and relations, 1-26 December 1917
(45 papers)


From Headquarters, 8 Corps., B.E.F., France, 1-31 January 1918; copy letter to (brother) Maurice Headlam regarding their continuing coolness, 27 January 1918
(34 papers)


Letters received by Headlam from friends and military colleagues and relations congratulating him upon his being awarded the D.S.O.; accepting congratulations from Headlam respecting honours received by them, other business and personal correspondence, 28 January 1917 - 25 January 1918
(53 papers)


From Headquarters 8th Army Corps., B.E.F. France, 1-16 February 1918; letters received 26 January - 8 February 1918
(23 papers)


From Headquarters 8th Army Corps., B.E.F. France, 12-31 March 1918; letters received from colleagues (Basil Walcot), friends (Conrad Russell) and relations, 6-28 March 1918
(31 papers)


From Headquarters 8th Army Corps., and O.B., G.H.Q,, B.E.F., France, 1-30 April 1918; letters received from colleagues, friends and relations, 30 March - 26 April 1918
(46 papers)


From O.B., G.H.Q., B.E.F., France, 1-31 May 1918; letters received from civil and military colleagues, friends and relations, 27 April - 7 May 1918
(50 papers)


From O.B., G.H.Q., B.E.F., France, 1-27 June 1918; letters received from civil and military colleagues, friends and relations, 8 May - 23 June 1918
(43 papers)


From O.B., G.H.Q., B.E.F., France, 3-31 July 1918; letters received from colleagues, friends and relations, 6-26 July 1918
(47 papers)


From O.B., G.H.Q., B.E.F., France, 1 August - 2 September 1918; letters received from colleagues, friends and relations, 27 July - 26 August 1918
(57 papers)


From O.B., G.H.Q., B.E.F., France, 20-30 September 1918; letters received from colleagues, friends and relations, 15-25 September 1918
(17 papers)


From O.B., G.H.Q., B.E.F., France, 1-22 October 1918
(26 papers)


From O.B., G.H.Q., B.E.F., France, 30 October - 27 November 1918; letters received from family and friends and from colleagues, in the, House of Lords regarding Sir Arthur Thring's proposed reorganisation, 6-17 November 1918
(47 papers)


From O.B., G.H.Q., B.E.F., France, and elsewhere, 4-29 December 1918
(30 papers)


From G.H.Q., H.Q. 8 Corps., Spa, Cologne, Lille, etc., 3-17 January 1919, letters received, 26 December 1918 - 8 January 1919
(26 papers)

Family correspondence (Ref: D/He 183-187)Letters received from Beatrice at Holywell, London and elswhere (Ref: D/He 183)

Personal matters, 3 August 1920 - n.d. [1922]


Congratulating him on his appointment in the Admiralty, 16-17 December 1926


Gateshead election, 11-20 June 1931


Personal matters, electoral success and defeat, award of baronetey etc., 21 July 1931 - 25 April 1944 and n.d. (26 papers)

Letters received from John Headlam (Ref: D/He 184)

In childhood, at home and at school (Abbey School, Whitby and Eton College), 4 December 1924 - 12 May 1935 and n.d.


Military exploits in Scotland: "The army appears to have burnt the top floor and roofs off Gordonstoun", 2 May 1944


Family matters, 1 March 1963 (54 papers)


Letter from John Headlam, Cruck Meole House, Hanwood near Shrewsbury to Geoffrey Wyckiffe "Tuppy" Headlam with John's impressions on his visit to Russia in March and April 1917, 25 September 1919 The letter contains detailed descriptions of Headlam's visit to Petrograd and Russian parliament-Duma, visits to countryside including Kamieniec Podolski, once a Polish fort that, according to Headlam, looks very much like Durham. Detailed accounts of traditional costumes and customs. Headlam also reports on political situation in Russia, hunger in towns, Rasputin's scandal and weakness of the Tsar, dissolution of Duma and 1917 Revolution in Russia.
(1 file)

Correspondence received from Cuthbert's parents (Ref: D/He 185)

From F.J.H. [his father Francis John Headlam], Whorlton Hall, and 2 Westbourne Gardens, Folkstone concerning financial matters and Cuthbert's engagement, n.d. [c. 1897] and 22 September [1903]


From his mother, [Matilda nee Pincofts], 5 Cheyne Gardens, Chelsea, on receiving news of Cuthbert's engagement to Beatrice, 17 September 1903


From his mother, Grand Hotel [in France], and La Loggia, Bordighera, Italy, on travel and personal matters, 15 November 1907 - 14 March 1908


From mother, 24 Lennox Gardens, London, 23 March, n.y.


From mother, Carfax, Windsor, 26 April [1921]


From mother-in-law [Eliza Inez Crawley] congratulating him on his success in examinations and arrangements for Beatrice, 13 January n.y. [1904]

Letters from Geoffrey Headlam (Ref: D/He 186)

Letters from G.H. [Geoffrey 'Tuppy' Headlam], Eton College, Windsor, personal matters, 6 July 1924, 14 July 1948, 2 August 1948
(3 papers)

Christmas cards (Ref: D/He 187)

From Edward, Prince of Wales, 1917


From Cuthbert Headlam: House of Commons, 1926


Admiralty christmas card, 1927


Admiralty christmas card, 1928


From Colonel and Mrs. Headlam, Holywell, 'Headlam United Service', 1932


From Robin [8th Marquis of Londonderry], December 1953
(6 cards)

Letters to Beatrice (Ref: D/He 300/)

Letter from Cuthbert Headlam, H. Q., Second Army to Beatrice Headlam, the Manor House, Combe, Hungerford, in which he writes that he is not taking part in a battle and he doesn't really care what happens. He mentions that the Bulgars have declared war on the Romanians and how difficult it will be to divide these 'beastly little countries in the Balkans' after the war. He hopes that the Greeks wouldn't join the war by being on the English' side as it would make it difficult to satisfy other countries with parts of Greek territory after the war. 'What a wretched degenerate lot the modern Greeks are!', 2 September 1916
(1 paper, 1 envelope)


Letter from Cuthbert Headlam, H.Q., Second Army to Beatrice, the Manor, Combe, Hungerford, in which he expresses his disappointment for not being promoted to a squadron leader and he thinks about leaving the regiment. He learned about zeppelin's attack on London and Dover. He complains that Ireland produced only 99,000 recruits of which 30,000 are from Ulster. He thinks that only compulsion can make the Irish do their duty, 24 September 1916 Cuthbert enclosed letter from Sidney Peel of 21 September 1916, in which he writes about the rain and the regiment standing in mud most of the time
(2 papers, 1 envelope)


Letter from Cuthbert Headlam, H.Q., Second Army to Beatrice, the Manor House, Combe, Hungerford, in which he expresses frustration due to lack of progress in the war and that he is close to his breaking point. He is tired of the Army. He comments on Mitchell a Canadian, who is to take over the command of the regiment and has no military experience whatsoever for being a surveyor in civilian life. Headlam expect things to be amusing due to this fact and he thinks it is unfair how things are organised in the Army. He mentions meeting Raymond Asquith, who was profoundly bored by working in the Intelligence Office and wanted to be in trenches with soldiers. He was killed in action and Headlam thinks that by dying he has done more for his family then otherwise, 25 September 1916
(2 papers, 1 envelope)

Programmes, plays, lectures etc. (Ref: D/He 188-191)

Theatrical Pursuits and Public Events (see also correspondence and newspaper cuttings)

Theatre programmes (Ref: D/He 188)

Theatre Royal, Manchester: Hamlet and Trilby, September 1895


Chelford Schoolroom: The Chimney Corner featuring the brothers Headlam, 17-18 January 1896


Royalty Theatre, London: Oh! Susannah, October 1897


Lyme Park, Disley, Cheshire: The Silver Penny, private theatrical featuring Cuthbert Headlam, members of the Legh family, etc., January 1903


59 Cadogan Gardens, Chelsea: Un Crane Sous Une Tempete, featuring Cuthbert Headlam, March 1903


Lyme Park: Carrottina and The Ladies' Battle, private theatricals featuring Cuthbert Headlam and members of the Legh family, January 1904


Photograph from the Stockport Advertiser of theatricals at Lyme Park, 15 January 1904


Royal Albert Hall Theatre: My Friend Jarlet and A Marriage of Convenience, amateur performances, featuring Cuthbert Headlam, in aid of St. Mildred's Settlement, Isle of Dogs, etc., 2-3 February 1904


Chelsea Town Hall: A Pantomime Rehearsal and The Ghost of Jerry Bundler, featuring Cuthbert Headlam, Lady Cavan, Mrs. Crawley, Mrs. Gibbets, amateur performance in aid of the Boys' and Girls' Club of St. Luke's Parish Church, Chelsea, 15-16 February 1905


Public Hall, Alderley Edge: Grannie's Picture and The Ladies' Battle, amateur performances featuring Cuthbert Headlam and the Leghs, in aid of the N.S.P.C.C., 2-3 May 1905


Theatre Royal, Macclesfield: Grannie's Picture and The Ladies' Battle, amateur performances featuring Cuthbert Headlam and the Leghs, in aid of the N.S.P.C.C., 5-6 May 1905


Paget Hill, Brandon: Box and Cox and Crazed featuring Cuthbert Headlam, Ernest and Kenneth Crawley and the Countess of Cavan, 21 April, 1909


The Historical Pageant of Newcastle and the North (Chairman of the Executive Committee: Mrs. Cuthbert Headlam), 20-25 July 1931


Empire Theatre, Newcastle: Conservative Matinee featuring Sybil Crawley, Cuthbert Headlam, Lady Maureen Stanley etc., 4 December 1931


Empire Theatre, Newcastle: Grand Charity Matinee of the Personal Service league (North Eastern Area), 4 December 1935


Havant Town Hall: The Importance of Being Earnest, featuring Cuthbert Headlam, Miss Crawley and others, 5 December n.y. [1900s]


The Constitutional Hall, Montacute and The Market Hall, Wadhurst: The Babes in the Wood, a pantomime by Clare and Edward Eliot, featuring Cuthbert Headlam, 12-17 April n.y. [1900s] (16 papers, 3 booklets printed)

Texts of plays, short stories, etc. by Cuthbert Headlam (Ref: D/He 189)

Mrs. Calypso, November 1921


Mrs. Baskervyle's Invitation, November 1921


All the Fault of the Duchess, a domestic episode in one Act, n.d.


A Lapse from Virtue, n.d.


Clara. A Conversation in an Hotel, n.d.


The Poor Wife. A Conversation in a Railway Carriage, n.d.


Who Should be Leader? A political conversation, n.d.


The Professor's Visitor, n.d.


Untitled short story, n.d.


Advertisement for Knight Reluctant by Cuthbert Headlam [one of his pot boilers] n.d., c 1935 (12 files, 1 card, printed)

Lectures, etc., delivered by Cuthbert Headlam (Ref: D/He 190)

Syllabus of a course of lectures on mediaeval Europe, including Cuthbert Headlam on Louis Xl, Oxford University Extension Delegacy, 1903


Timetable of lectures for the summer meeting of the University of Oxford Delegacy for the Further Extension of Teaching, August 1903


Syllabus of a course of lectures on Tennyson and Browning by Cuthbert Headlam at 19 Elm Park Gardens, November - December 1905


Ticket of admission to Headlam's lectures, November - December 1905


Syllabus for lectures upon Six Great English Statesmen (Headlam's on Lanfranc) under the auspices of the Students' Association for North London (President, the Bishop of Stepney), Michaelmas 1906


Traditions of the British Army, text of a lecture delivered by Headlam in Lisbon, n.d. [late 1930s] (2 booklets, 2 papers, 1 card, printed)

Miscellaneous publications, etc., of Cuthbert Headlam (Ref: D/He 191)

Notice advertising the first issue of The Army Quarterly edited by Guy Dawnay and Cuthbert Headlam with articles by Cavan, Sidney Peel, T.E. Lawrence, Hilaire Belloc etc., 10 October 1920


Announcement of the publication of The Army Quarterly, 1 October 1920


Review of the History of the Guards' Division, n.d. [1925]


Quotations used by, and bons mots of, Cuthbert Headlam, n.d.
(2 papers, 2 files)

Travel, photographs, sketches, etc. (Ref: D/He 192-223)Diary and photographs (Ref: D/He 192-214)

Travel diary written at Cologne, Bonn, Frankfurt (am Main), Heidelberg, Freiburg and Strasbourg describing Brussels, loss of baggage at German frontier the "gaudy beastliness" of the large hotels, Coblenz, scathing comments on the National Memorial 'Germani' at Rudesheim, Wiesbaden, architecture, art, social observation, etc., 4-15 April 1898
(8 papers)


Map of the Dolomites and South Tyrol with motorbus timetables, Summer 1912
(1 paper, printed)


Crawley family photograph album: Harrow, Digswell, Findhorn, Northern Scotland, France, 1891-1893 and n.d.
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Photograph album (Cuthbert Headlam): family views of Chelford, Alderley, Capesthorne, Gawsworth and environs, amateur theatricals, Magdalen College, Oxford, etc., 1894 and n.d.
(1 volume, leather half-bound)


Photograph Album (Cuthbert Headlam): Zurich, St. Moritz, Basel, Swiss mountains and lakes, 1896
(1 volume, leather half-bound)


Photograph album and sketch book [A. George Baden Crawley ?] and J. Evelyn Gibbs: Stockholm, Copenhagen, Lubeck, 1901
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Photograph album: Fontainbleau, Innsbruck, Cortina, 1912 Photographs taken by Terese Goldsmid [later Mrs. Hugh Headlam]
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Photographs and postcards of Amsterdam, San Sebastian and other continental destinations, 1911-1913 and n.d.
(16 photographs)


Photographs of Cuthbert Headlam arranged in approximate chronological order, n.d., c 1900-1950s
(12 photographs)


Photographs of Cuthbert Headlam at work, n.d. [1930s]
(10 photographs)


Photographs of Cuthbert Headlam in Bedfordshire Yeomanry and on military service, 1911-14 and n.d. [1910-1920]
(12 photographs)


Photographs of Cuthbert Headlam fulfilling official engagements, 1 march 1933 and n.d. [1930s]
(3 photographs)


Photographs of Cuthbert and Beatrice Headlam fulfilling official engagements, 1929-1938 and n.d. [1930s]
(6 photographs)


Portrait sketch and photographs of Beatrice Headlam, June 1914 and n.d. [1920s -30s]
(3 photographs)


Informal photographs of Beatrice Headlam, n.d., [c 1915-30s]
(5 photographs)


Photographs of John Headlam as an infant and a as a child, with and without his parents, 1921-1931 D/He 207/17 is a photograph of Beatrice sitting on a wall with her arms around John Headlam. The little boy next to her (near Sir Cuthbert in the doorway) is Albert (Bertie) Powell. The photograph was taken at Shingle Street, Suffolk, September 1923
(29 photographs)


Photographs of John Headlam as an infant and as a child and in adolescence, n.d., [c 1932-35] and October 1937
(9 photographs)


Photographs of John Headlam during his service in the army, 1940-1941 and n.d.
(5 photographs)


Miscellaneous photographs of Cuthbert Headlam, Beatrice Headlam, friends and relations at rest and at play, 1910 -1941 and n.d.
(26 photographs)


Album of photographs of the launching ceremony of the ship, Hilda Maerstz, performed by Beatrice Headlam, n.d. [c 1950]
(1 volume, plastic bound)


[Engagement] photograph of Cuthbert and Beatrice Headlam, 1903
(1 photograph)


Photograph of the Londonderrys' Christmas party at Wynyard including the Headlams, and H.H. the Maharajah of Alwar and suite, 1930: autograph of Jay Singh of Alwar, n.d. [1930]
(1 photograph, 1 paper)


Wedding photograph [of John Headlam ?] n.d. 1950s
(1 photograph)

Postcards and sketches (Ref: D/He 215-223)

Series of postcards by Em Dupuis depicting "Nos Alliés" in the First World War, 1914-1915
(12 postcards)


Series (incomplete) of postcards by Em. Dupuis depicting "Nos Poilus" in the First World War, 1914-1915
(10 postcards)


Series (incomplete) of postcards by Em. Dupuis depicting "Leurs Caboches" in the First World War, 1914-1916
(11 postcards)


Series of humorous postcards produced in Austria depicting its army, [1914-18]
(6 postcards)


Postcard by Frank O Salisbury: Remembrance, Thanksgiving, Resolve, n.d.
(1 postcard)


Character drawings [by Headlam ?] n.d.
(13 cards)


Pencil sketch of the Polish Minister of Agriculture, by Cuthbert Headlam, Warsaw, June 1929
(1 paper)


Photograph of portrait of Field Marshal [Sir Henry Hughes Wilson, bart, M.P.] presented to Cuthbert Headlam by the artist, Oswald Birley, 1922
(1 photograph)


Pencil sketches of horse and dog drawn by the Home Secretary [Rt. Hon. Sir John Gilmour, bart] during a morning in Committee on the Road Traffic Bill, 1934
(1 paper)

Clubs and Society lists (Ref: D/He 224)

List of members of the Chatham Dining Club, October 1910 [includes Cuthbert and Maurice Headlam, Edward Wood (Halifax), Maurice Hankey, Horace Brandt, Rupert Gwynne, Guy Dawnay, Stafford Crawley and John Buchan]


List of members of the Chatham Dining Club, 1911


List of members of the Chatham Dining Club, 1912 includes also Viscount Baddeley, Hugh Dawnay, Philip Game, Ralph Glyn, Geoffrey Robinson (Dawson), Clive Wigram, Count Gleichen)


Rules of the Chatham Dining Club, 1910


List of members of the Literary Society, 1953 (includes Headlam, Altrincham, Halifax, Alan Lascelles, Brandt etc.)
(5 papers, printed)

Invitations, tickets, etc. (Ref: D/He 225)

Forecourt and stands, Buckingham Palace, [Diamond Jubilee], 22 June 1897


Ticket of admission to the library of the Inner Temple, n.d. [c 1900]


Westminster Abbey, Coronation of King Edward Vll and Queen Alexandra, 1902


Order of service for the wedding of Cuthbert Headlam and Beatrice Crawley, 22 March 1904


Invitation to an afternoon party at Windsor Castle, 22 June 1907


Memorial service for [Aunt] Inez Pringle, [witness at Cuthbert's wedding], 1 August 1913


Invitation to the wedding of Miss Maria Teresa Goldsmid and Capt. Hugh Roper Headlam, 16 April 1914


Order of service for the wedding of Miss Goldsmid and Captain H.R. Headlam, 16 April 1914


Memorial service for the Rt. Hon. Joseph Chamberlain, M.P., 6 July 1914


Dinner for eve of the opening of Parliament, at 10 Downing Street, 7 February 1927


Annual Dinner, Institution of Naval Architects, 6 April 1927


Budget Dinner, House of Commons, 17 April 1934


Memorial service for Edward William Spencer Cavendish, 10th Duke of Devonshire, K.G., 7 December 1950


Memorial service for the Rt. Hon. Oliver Frederick George Stanley, M.C., M.P., 15 December 1950


In Memoriam for the Rt. Hon. Sir George Russell Clerk, G.C.M.G., 17 July 1951


Memorial service for Major General Guy Payan Dawnay, C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., M.V.O., 31 January 1952


Golden Wedding of Sir Cuthbert and Lady Headlam, 27 April 1954
(8 cards, 7 papers, 2 booklets, printed)

Miscellaneous (Ref: D/He 226-282)Cuthbert Headlam (Ref: D/He 226-242)

Receipt for fees paid for admission to the Hon. Society of the Inner Temple, 12 October 1900
(1 paper, printed form)


Marriage certificate, 22 March 1904
(1 paper, printed form)


Minute of the Select Committee on the House of Lords' Officers, relating to Headlam's emoluments, 16 March 1910
(1 paper, printed)


Receipt of the Librarian of Congress for a copy of The Letters of Lady Harriet Elliot, 1766-86 edited by Headlam, 7 April 1915
(1 paper, printed)


Copy letter from Walter Campbell giving an account of the evacuation of allied forces from the Dardanelles, 18-20 December 1915
(1 paper)


Application for one month's leave, 29 September 1917
(1 paper)


Warrant of appointment of Captain C.M. Headlam, Bedfordshire Yeomanry to the Distinguished Service Order, 1 January 1918
(1 paper, printed form, embossed seal)


Statutes of the Distinguished Service Order, as modified to 23 August 1916
(1 booklet, printed)


Grant to Captain (Temporary Lieutenant-Colonel) C.M. Headlam of the dignity of an officer of the Military Division of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, 3 June 1919
(1 paper, printed form, embossed seal)


Letter from Brigadier-General Douglas Dawson, Registrar and Secretary, Central Chancery of the Orders of Knighthood, St. James's Palace, transmitting insignia to Headlam, 25 November 1920
(1 paper, typescript)


Extract from Eastern Command Orders containing notification of Headlam's resignation of his commission, 4 November 1926
(1 paper, printed)


Report of proceedings of the annual meeting of the Newcastle upon Tyne Electric Supply Co. Ltd., of which Headlam was sometime a director, 30 March 1932
(booklet, printed)


Appointment of Headlam as a Deputy Lieutenant for the County of Durham, 2 November 1932
(parchment, 1 membrane, applied seal)


Notice of nomination of Headlam as a candidate for the county council elections for the Barnard Castle Division, 6 March 1934
(1 paper, printed form)


Note forwarding coronation medal to Headlam, 12 May 1937
(1 paper, printed form)


Description of the constitution and function of the upper chamber of the legislature in France, Italy, Austria and Hungary, n.d., c. 1907
(1 volume, leather bound)


Rehearsal of arguments for the abolition of the House of Lords, 1907
(1 file)

Beatrice Headlam (Ref: D/He 243-247)

Grant of the dignity of a Commander of the Civil Division of the Most Excellent Order of the British Emperor to Georgina Beatrice, Mrs. Headlam, 1 March 1929
(1 paper, printed form, embossed seal)


Circular on behalf of Mrs. Headlam's United Service explaining scheme for finding situations in other parts of England for boys and girls from Durham and Northumberland, n.d. [c.1930]
(2 papers, printed)


Circular on behalf of Mrs. Headlam's United Service [to assist young people in distressed areas to obtain work], n.d. [c. 1930]
(1 paper, printed)


Notice of a Bridge and Backgammon Tournament at Londonderry House in aid of Mrs. Headlam's United Service, 6 May [1931]
(1 paper, printed)


Seal Matrix 'B.H.' by Hether of London, n.d.

Headlam family (Ref: D/He 248-262)

Letters from James Spedding, Mirehouse [Keswick, Cumberland], to Francis [John Headlam] transmitting wedding present, 16 October 1872
(1 paper)


Letters from T[homas Alexander Headlam], Poona Hotel, Poona to his mother, Mrs. F.J. Headlam, Chelford, discussing news of the Headlams in Tasmania, military matters and family news, 24 and 29 April 1898
(2 papers)


Order of memorial service for Francis John Headlam at St. Mary's Church, Whorlton, 20 March 1908
(1 paper, printed)


Daily Mirror with wedding photograph of Lt. Col. T.S. Headlam, 9 November 1917
(1 newspaper)


Photograph of confirmatory grant of arms to Sir John Emerson Wharton Headlam for himself and the descendants of Archdeacon Headlam, 2 March 1920
(1 photograph)


School report of John Headlam of Camden House School, 13 York Place, Portman Square, London for the term ending, 29 July 1925
(1 paper, printed form)


Short romance written by John Headlam at Ardoch, 10 August 1930
(1 file)


Address given at the Memorial Service for the Right Reverend Arthur Cayley Headlam in Gloucester Cathedral, 24 January 1947
(1 booklet, printed)


Portrait of a Bishop, by Canon J.B. Goodliffe, n.d. [1947]
(1 file, typescript)


Order of memorial service for Geoffrey Wycliffe Headlam, 1948
(1 paper printed)


Eton College Chronicle containing the obituary of G.W. Headlam, 7 October 1948
(1 paper, printed)


Ode [Latin] to G.W.H. by A.B. Ramsey, with translation, n.d. [1948]
(2 papers)


Order of memorial service for Thomas Alexander Headlam, St. John's Church, West Bay, Bridport, 27 January 1953
(1 paper, printed)


Address given by the Reverend C.F. Porteous at the funeral of Miss Rose Gladys Headlam at Whorlton, 14 April 1954
(1 file, typescript)


In Stevenson's Footsteps, with a motor in The Auvergne and The Cevennes, by Kenneth Headlam - Morley, n.d. (1 file, typescript)

Crawley family (Ref: D/He 263-267)

Letter from mother, Broke Hall, Norton, Ipswich to her 'dearest children' making various suggestions for the support of poor relations after her death, 29 July 1909
(2 papers)


Transcript of letters from Eustie [Eustace Crawley] on the Western Front to his sister Beatrice describing his military exploits in the opening phases of the war, 7 September - 31 October 1914; partial transcript of letter received by Beatrice concerning death of Eustace, etc., 16 December [1914]
(22 papers, typescript)


Postcard autographed by Nellie Melba and addressed to the Countess of Cavan [Inez Crawley], 12 October 1909
(1 postcard)


Order of memorial service for Canon Arthur Stafford Crawley, M.C., at St. George's Chapel, Windsor, 12 October 1948
(1 booklet, printed)


Verse dedicated to E.I.P. [Inez Pringle], Fyling Hall, August 1913
(1 paper)

Antiquarian compilations by Cuthbert Headlam (Ref: D/He 268-282)

Autograph album: family friends and famous names : occasional letters, including one from Florence Nightingale at Scutari, (1858) and one address to Pincofts (maternal kinsman of Cuthbert Headlam)
(1 volume, leather bound)


Letters from the Earl of Chatham, at Hayes and Burton Pynsent, to Col. Barré concerning political developments in Spain; parliamentary business at home; ill health; advising Barré on actions he should take, 22 January, 17 March 1771, 24 January 1773 [Rt. Hon. William Pitt, P.C., 1st Earl of Chatham, former Prime Minister, to Isaac Barré, M.P. for Chipping Wycombe and sometime office holder]


Letter from the Earl of Chatham, Burton Pynsent, to his son, William, concerning health, family and domestic matters, 30 October 1773
(7 papers)


Letters from William Wilberforce, Elmdon House, near Birmingham to Miss Eliot at the Countess of Chatham's, Burton Pynsent, Somerset and forwarded to her at Port Eliot, St. Germans, Cornwall, making religious and philosophical observations 20 September 1798 [William Wilberforce, M.P., philanthropist, to Hester Harriet Pitt Eliot, daughter of Edward James Eliot by Lady Harriet Pitt, daughter of the 1st Earl of Chatham]


Letters from W. Pitt, Pech Place, to his mother, the Countess of Chatham, Burton Pynsent, Somerton, Somerset, informing her of the conclusion of peace with France, 2 October 1801 [Rt. Hon. William Pitt, P.C., M.P, Prime Minister]
(5 papers)


Letters from Henry Addington, Downing Street, to [William Pitt the younger] discussing personal and political matters, arranging to meet for political discussions. , 17 February 1802 - 21 April 1803 'I have a firm reliance on your justice and friendship' [Rt. Hon. Henry Addington, P.C., M.P., Prime Minister]


Letters from Henry Addington, Richmond Park to [William Pitt the younger, Prime Minister] discussing proposals for [a pension?], political matters; patronage; advising Pitt to write to the Duke of Portland [future Prime Minister], 25-30 December 1804


Letters from Viscount Sidmouth, Windsor, to [William Pitt the younger, Prime Minister] tendering resignation in disagreement over the appointment of Sir Charles Middleton, 25 April 1805 [Rt. Hon. Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth, Lord President of the Council]
(13 papers, 1 file)


Correspondence between W.E. Gladstone, Fasque, N.B., etc. and J. Lefevre, and correspondence received by each of them relating to departmental business, including notes on legislation and memorial from the hand-loom weavers of Carlisle to Gladstone, 17 January 1842 - 12 August 1844 and n.d. [Rt. Hon. William Ewart Gladstone, President (late Vice-President) of the Board of Trade and John George Shaw Lefevre, F.R.S., Joint Assistant Secretary to the Board]


Letters from H.B., Brougham to J.L. concerning various legal business of the House of Lords, n.d. and 1850 [Rt. Hon. Henry Peter Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux, former Lord Chancellor and J.G. Shaw Lefevre, now Deputy Clerk of the Parliaments]


Letters received by J.G. Shaw Lefevre from Cornewall Lewis, Treasury Chambers; the Earl of Clarendon, The Grove, Watford; the Bishop of London, Fulham [Palace]; W.E. Gladstone, concerning parliamentary business, 23 January 1851 - 6 September 1854 [Sir George Cornewall Lewis, Bart., Financial Secretary to the Treasury; Rt. Hon. George William Frederick Villiers 4th Earl; Right Reverend Charles James Blumfield; Rt. Hon. W.E. Gladstone, Chancellor of the Exchequer]


Letters received by J.G. Shaw Lefevre from the Earl of Shaftesbury; the Earl Stanhope, Chevening, Kent, and C. Kingsley, Cambridge, seeking patronage on behalf of friends, clients and relations, 9 September - 30 October 1861 [Sir John George Lefevre, K.B., Clerk of the Parliaments; Anthony Ashley Cooper, K.G., 7th Earl, philanthropist; Philip Henry Stanhope, 5th Earl; Reverend Charles Kingsley, author]


Letter from the Bishop of Oxford, Aylesbury, to Lefevre concerning educational matters to be raised in the House of Lords, 13 March 1862 [Rt. Reverend Samuel Wilberforce]


Letter from Lord Westbury to Lefevre concerning legal business in the House, 31 July 1864 [Rt. Hon. Sir Richard Bothell, Lord Chancellor, 1st. Baron]
(30 papers)


French Revolutionary 'Assignat' for five pounds 10 Brumaire, Year 2 [31 October 1793]
(1 paper, printed)


Gazette des Ardennes, 11 January 1918


Gazette des Ardennes, 21 January 1918


Gazette des Ardennes, 28 January 1918
(3 newspapers, French)


Cartoon and verse: Staff Officers not attached to G.H.Q., n.d. [1915-18]
(1 paper, printed)


A Canterbury Tale of Fifty Years Ago, being the story of the extraordinary career of Sir William Courtenay alias John Nichols Thom, n.d. [c.1883] [acquired by Headlam when at school in Canterbury]
(1 booklet, printed)


Letter from Ed. Stow Thompson, Pelham House, Folkestone, concerning Cuthbert's education and his progress at Thompson's school, 21 January 1889
(1 paper)


Photographs of flowers at unidentified graveside, n.d.
(2 photographs)


Medical prescription by Dr. Antoine of Paris, 27 January 1933
(1 paper, French)


Seaham Harbour Labour News, March 1936
(1 paper, printed)


Report from the Select Committee on House of Commons(Rebuilding), 25 October 1944
(1 booklet, printed)


Valuation of antique furniture and effects at 19 Camden Crescent, Bath, and related papers, 6 August 1962 - 3 January 1963
(1 file, typescript)

Third Deposit (Acc: 1885(D)) (Ref: D/He 283-298)Letters from Cuthbert Headlam to his wife (Ref: D/He 283-292)

Letters from Cuthbert Headlam, Holywell, Durham; at the House of Commons; Ministry of Transport; the Travellers' Club and other addresses, to his wife on holiday in Monte Carlo and Italy and at 21 Cliveden Place, concerning domestic social and political matters, addressing meetings and clubs etc., 15-23 March, 15 June - 25 July and 30 October - 28 November 1933
(20 papers)


Letters from Cuthbert Headam at The Castle, Castle Eden; the Traveller's Club, 3 Sloane Court; 7 Westbourne Terrace, London; The Hall, Much Hadham, Herts; Stotfield Hotel, Lossiemouth to his wife on board ship to South Africa and care of Colonel the Hon. M. Ruthven, C.M.G., D.S.O., Government House, Pretoria, lamenting his political failure and that of Conservatism in Durham; opportunites for employment and directorships; personal domestic and social matters; speculating upon the political fates of the MacDonalds, Londonderry, Halifax; Samuel Hoare's resignation; Headlam's difficulties in co-operating with Liberals in the moderate group on Durham County Council; John's schooling; breakfast with [Kurt] Hahn; feelings concerning Baldwin, 17 November - 22 December 1935
(25 papers)


Letters from Cuthbert Headlam, Travellers' Club, Pall Mall; House of Commons, to his wife at Holywell, concerning domestic matters; John Headlam; Harold Macmillan; ego; progress of the war; meeting with Dr. Weizman; political matters, 10 March - 17 July 1940
(10 papers)


Letters from Cuthbert Headlam at the Travellers' Club; the House of Commons and elsewhere to his wife at Holywell and at the Chesterfield Nursing Home, Clifton, Bristol, concerning domestic and family matters; the difficulties of wartime travel, 14 October 1941 - 5 November 1945
(14 papers)


Letters from Cuthbert Headlam, Holywell; Travellers' Club; the House of Commons, and elsewhere to his wife at Holywell; La Seigneurie, Sark, Channel Islands; the Chesterfield Nursing Home and elsewhere, concerning domestic matters; politics; social affairs; a future career for John Headlam, 1 January - 26 November 1946
(40 papers)


Letters from Cuthbert Headlam, Holywell and at the House of Commons, etc., to his wife at Holywell, at the Chesterfield Nursing Home, Bristol and at the Seigneurie, Sark, concerning pig-keeping; domestic and social affairs; difficulties with his consitutency association; political matters, 28 January - 2 November 1947
(32 papers)


Letters from Cuthbert Headlam at the House of Commons, and the Travellers' Club to his wife at Holywell and L'Ecluse, Sark concerning domestic matters, politics and constituency politics, with newspaper cuttings on the last mentioned topic, 3 February - 27 May 1948, 15 July - 26 october 1949
(11 papers)


Letters from Cuthbert Headlam at the House of Commons and the Travellers' Club to his wife at Holywell and elsewhere concerning domestic and social matters and minor political affairs, 14 April 1950 - 2 October 1951
(21 papers)


Letters from Cuthbert Headlam, Old Bowlish House, Shepton Mallet, at the Travellers' Club, London and elsewhere to his wife at Bowlish, Shepton Mallet, the Chesterfield Nursing Home, Bristol and in Madrid concerning removal to Somerset; domestic and health concerns, 4 February 1956 - 17 December 1958
(12 papers)


Letters from Cuthbert Headlam, Travellers' Club, 19 Camden Crescent, Bath and 51 Vincent's Rocks Hotel, Clifton, Bristol to his wife at Ayrshire House, Droitwich and elsewhere concerning domestic and health matters, 8 March 1961, 16-30 January 1962, 3 August 1963 (7 papers)

Letters received by Cuthbert and Beatrice Headlam (Ref: D/He 293)

Letters received by Cuthbert Headlam and Beatrice Headlam at Holywell, Brancepeth and forwarded by one to the other and other miscellaneous correspondence


Rebe [Bradford], Aden Cottage, Durham to Mrs. Cuthbert Headlam, C.B.E., Villa Lorenzo, Rue Bel Respiro, Monte Carlo, concerning gossip and good works, 14 March 1933


G.W. [Tuppie] Headlam, Eton College, Windsor, to Cuthbert Headlam concerning loss of money in a swindle, 14 March 1933


Lila Watson, Spring Lodge, Barnard Castle to Mrs. Cuthbert Headlam, C.B.E., Villa Lorenzo, Monte Carlo on personal matters, 20 March 1933 [Mrs. Harry Crawford Watson]


Marjorie Maxse, 31 Sumner Place, Onslow Square, SW7 to Headlam commiserating with him upon his election defeat, 17 October 1935 [Sarah Marjorie Algeria Maxse, Chief Organisation Officer, Conservative Central Office]


Circe, Londonderry House, Park Lane to Cuthbert Headlam, commiserating with him, 16 November 1935 [Edith, Marchioness of Londonderry, D.B.E.]


Vera, Nannau, Dolgelley to Headlam execrating 'that d-d liberal', 17 November 1935 [Lady Vera Headlam, sister-in-law or Vera Grenfell?]


Victoria, Gainford to Lady Headlam with expressions of regret at Headlam's defeat, n.d. [November 1935]


Diana C., Stanway, Cheltenham to Cuthbert Headlam sympathising with him on his defeat, n.d. [November 1935] [Lady Diana Cooper]


John Headlam, Stotfield Hotel, Lossiemouth, to 'Darling Mummy' describing his stay at Lossiemouth and meeting Mr. Hahn [of Gordonstoun], 23 November 1935


Marjorie Maxse, 31 Sumner Place to Headlam hoping that Lady Headlam's voyage to S.Africa will do her good, 22 November 1935


Circe, Londonderry House, Park Lane to Headlam arranging meeting and discussing sale of work for disabled men, 23 November 1935


Dodo [Hanbury] 41 Smith Square, Westminster to Headlam 'Damn that B--- liberal', 23 November 1935


Unidentified correspondent, Camer, Meopham, Kent, to Beatrice Headlam concerning ungrateful electorate, 24 November 1935


Willy Clark, High Commissioner's Office, Pretoria, South Africa, to Headlam welcoming the news of Beatrice's coming, 25 November 1935 [Sir William Henry Clark, K.C.S.I., K.C.M.G., High Commissioner in South Africa for H.M. Government in the United Kingdom]


G. Bloxam, 259 Wingrove Road, Newcastle to Lady Headlam describing the success of the charity matinee, 5 December 1935


John [Headlam], Barton Friars, Chigwell, Essex, to his father regarding military life and prospects in general; recent disagreements; financial concerns, 5 March 1942


Cuthbert Headlam, Travellers' Club, Pall Mall to John Headlam [draft] worried by John's recent failure to have confidence in him, 9 March 1942


John Headlam, 5th Battalion, Grenadier Guards, to his parents describing recent exploits, 14 October 1942


H.P., York to B.H. [Beatrice] accepting Lord Barnards's invitation to shoot and discussing social engagements, 17 November 1942 [Henry Parkin Bell, Headlam's assistant]


Honor, Carlesgill Lodge, Langholm, Dumfriesshire to Lady Headlam concerning death of Lady Bradford, domestic and personal concerns, 28 November [1943]


John Headlam, 5th Battalion, Grenadier Guards, to his parents discussing V.J. celebrations and social activities, 15 August 1945


Elizabeth, Penbedw, Nannerich, Flintshire to 'Uncle Cuthbert' discussing domestic matters, 1 November 1945


John A. Grey, John Grey & Partners Ltd., Piccadilly House, Piccadilly Circus, London to Headlam concerning the success of the business [a chemical or drugs company] of which Headlam is a director, 27 January 1947


Charley, Mount Stewart, Newtownards, Co. Down to Headlam criticising the government and congratulating him on his speech, 14 March 1947 [Rt. Hon. Charles Henry Vane-Tempest Stewart, K.G., P.C., M.V.O., 7th Marquess of Londonderry]


Farquhar [Atkin?] Damage Control School, R.N. Camp, Stamshaw, Portsmouth, to Headlam thanking him on his return from visiting Holywell, 29 July 1947


Libbis, Coastguard Cottages, Camber, Rye, Sussex to 'Aunt Bee' concerning family matters, travel arrangements, etc., 6 October 1947


Lt. Col. T.M. Scanlan , Agent and Secretary, North Newcastle Conservative and Unionist Association to Headlam, discussing arrangements for the Association's annual ball, 30 January 1948


[Alderman] William Temple, Denwick House, Alnwick, Northumberland, to Headlam arranging meetings of the constituency association, 31 January 1948


Unidentified correspondent, 12 Pier Terrace, West Bay, Bridport to Headlam wishing him a happy birthday and discussing petrol pricing and rationing, 25 April 1948


M., Pré Mill House, St. Albans, to Headlam with birthday greetings, family gossip and discussing ill health, 26 April 1948 [Maurice Francis Headlam, C.B., C.M.G., brother]


A.S.C., Oxford and Cambridge University Club, Pall Mall, to Headlam expressing pleasure at Headlam's intended visit, 23 May 1948 [Canon Arthur Stafford Crawley, brother-in-law]


H.R.H., Cobbles [Shillingstone, Dorset] to Headlam, 'Dear C', concerning financial and family matters, health and ill health, 13 July 1949 [Brig General Hugh Roper Headlam, C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., brother]


John [Headlam], Guards' Club, 16 Charles Street, Berkeley Square, London to his mother discussing family matters and decision not to visit Maurice Headlam, 29 January 1951


Lucy [Luxmoore], The Herd's House, Croxdale, to Lady Headlam, Old Bowlish House, Shepton Mallet, Somerset, with local social gossip and wishing her well, 6 May 1956


John [Headlam], 7 College Street, St. Peter Port, Guernsey, to his parents arranging to visit them [in Somerset], n.d. [July 1956]


Elizabeth, West Stoke Huose, Chichester, to her aunt, Lady Headlam, Old Bowlish House, discussing gall bladders and politics, 27 November 1956


John [Headlam], Holywell, to his parents discussing his future employment plans and deaths of various neighbours, 23 January 1957


Unidentified correspondent, Parsonage Oasts, Yalding, Kent, to Lady Headlam with domestic gossip, 10 February 1957


Diana, Beirut, Lebanon, to Cuthbert agreeing that 'there's nothing good about age', 16 September 1958 [Lady Diana Cooper, Viscountess Norwich]


Kenneth [Headlam-Morley], Whorlton Hall, Barnard Castle, to Headlam regarding the serious illness of Agnes [Headlam-Morley], 7 March 1961


Helen G-B, 19 Place des Etats-Unis [Paris], to Headlam discussing international affairs, The Last Days of Hitler, etc., n.d. [1947-48]
(64 papers)

Miscellaneous (Ref: D/He 294-298)

Invitation from Mr. & Mrs. Robert Hathaway, La Seigneurie, Sark, to the Headlams to attend the marriage of Jehanne Hathaway to Mr. H.P. Bell, 10 June 1947
(1 paper, printed)


Dance card, Kulm Hotel, n.d. [c.1900]
(1 card)


Recipe for a gargle, from Miss J. Hector, n.d. [1920s]
(1 card)


List of speaking engagements, n.d. [1920s-30s]
(1 paper)


Book plate of Kenneth Irwin Crossley, n.d. [Magdalen College contemporary of Cuthbert Headlam]
(1 paper)

Appendix: extracts from letters from the Western Front (D/He 139-182) (Ref: D/He Appendix)

Cuthbert Headlam wrote at least one letter a day to his wife during his period of service on the Western Front. There are general opinions on the conduct of the war, the calibre of generals and fellow-officers. Basil Walcot who died from stomach cancer was one of Headlam's few immediate superiors in intelligence and staff work to impress him.

Other themes include the disputes surrounding the conduct of the Magdalen College mission in East London. Religious affairs including the excellent service given by Stafford Crawley, Beatrice's brother, as an army chaplain and the character and deficiencies of Cosmo Gordon Lang, a family acquaintance are also treated.

Domestic difficulties are of the financial variety - Beatrice seems to have been somewhat disorganised and her renting a house at Combè, Wiltshire, from The Molar [Alfred Cole] does not seem to have been beneficial nor was the financial advice of her brother Ernest. Headlam's relationship with his eldest brother Maurice, a high civil servant in Dublin, falls into disrepair, in part due to the problems of looking after Headlam's mother and paying for her to be looked after.

References to friends and colleagues killed or wounded, to the military exploits of Conrad Russell and to the activities of the Bedfordshire Yeomanry run through the correspondence, some of which has no doubt been composed for effect. Nevertheless, Headlam provides something of an intelligent amateur's view of the army and a well-connected civilian's view of the political developments of the time.

Although angered by the use of influence and connexions by others to promote themselves and their interests, Headlam tried to help the un-military Conrad Russell [15 April 1919] and found himself moved to the job in which he became G.S.O. 1 and lieutenant-colonel through the influence of Guy Daunay, an old friend.


I am glad that Asquith shut up the wretched fools in the H of C - I only hope that the Government will be equally firm with the Welsh miners. I am sure that nothing but an iron determination will suppress the beastly fellows, 6 July 1915 I ought to consider myself very lucky to be ... associated ... with Cavan, who, everyone agrees, is the great success of this war ..., 12 July 1915 I notice, however, that the main peculiarity of staff officers is to keep their knowledge - or what passes for knowledge - locked away in their own bosoms. Each man is dreadfully alarmed that someone will get possession of his bit of his information .... It is the same in all professions, I think ..., 4 July 1915 I suppose that if I go on with Cavan I shall soon come to know all the army big-wigs .... I doubt whether I shall be more impressed with them by knowing them ... with 'statesmen' the contrary is the effect. I wish that I had been born with a more pronounced bump of veneration ... I really have the greatest respect for ability ... but my standard is a very high one. The great charm and attraction of England's Government is its absolute want of steady purpose or definite aim - if we were not always drifting we should cease to be English ..., 22 July 1915 ... the more I see of these Company Officers in the Territorials ... no doubt they are a brave as lions - but the simplest details of everyday routine and common sense seem to be unknown to them ..., 29 July 1915 Belgium may be 'little and gallant' but the majority of her men would seem to be neither ..., 30 July 1915


Asquith dining with French at Head quarters said 'how odd it is that this war should have produced no great general' and was assured 'nor statesman either' ... At home we are turning to Lloyd George but the latter has many sins to atone for. I am simply furious to see that that miserable bounder, F.E. Smith has been made a Lt Colonel .... outrageous that the acting Solicitor General should also pretend to be a soldier .... outrageous cad and fraud typical of all that is worst in our system where a politician of the baser sort with unlimited assurance and push can get anything he wants and long suffering, deserving and gallant men have to wait, 26 August 1915


The Prince of Wales and Claud Hamilton arrived last night ... and had the good sense to bring some grouse and salmon ..., 2 September 1915 I am rather sorry that the Germans have given way to the USA ... the Americans can pretend that President Wilson's diplomacy ... has been successful ..., 3 September 1915 Zeppelins do appear to have done damage in London this time but it was our own guns which did the most harm, 10 September 1915 Surely even the bloated wind bags who grew fat by breeding trouble between employees and employed must see that our defeat - by Germany would mean their own undoing ... the Englishman at home is out for making money ... perfectly inmaterial to him whether all of us out here are killed or not, 12 September 1915 It does not look very promising for national service at the moment. I blame The Times, 20 September 1915


You are right ... we are amateurs ... up against professionals who know their job only too well ... I am impressed with our inability to play a scientific war game ..., 7 October 1915 One would feel happier ... If one felt that our affairs were conducted by men of far-seeing wisdom ... for the last ten or twenty years we have lived in an atmosphere of unreality ... our diplomacy, our military preparedness even our national existence have been hopelessly sacrificed to petty domestic questions ... one knows that we shall win in the end, 8 October 1915. If these blackguard Germans ... surely God never made such a race before and it is difficult to see why he thought it necessary, 15 October 1915 You cannot expect victories without keeping an army - and that is just what Gray and his friends have never let us keep, 15 October 1915 Cavan - is certainly a born leader - the Prince is so entirely colourless and undeveloped ... I rather doubt whether he will be anything else, 17 October 1915 It astounds me how brave and cheerful all these fellows are ... war with all its horrors and apparent useless waste of life has in it something almost divine of human courage and forgetfulness of self ... It is the penalty ... for years of idle neglect ... the best and bravest are taken, 17 October 1915 As you know I never had any opinion of Asquith or Grey, or Winston or Lloyd George - I always distrusted them and looked upon them as a public danger - the first because he is an opportunist pure and simple - a man entirely destitute of principles - the second because he is essentially second rate intellectually and far too much of a gentleman to be a diplomatist ... the third and fourth because they are simply adventurers 'on the make', politicians aping at being statesmen, men who would have made tolerable journalists but ought never to have been entrusted with the Government of England. The Unionist leaders have always been supposed to be dull fellows - but honest as the day ... I always distrusted and disliked the Balkan races and laughed at silly Radicals who raved about them ... a victory for the Kaiser would mean the extinction of Balkan independence, not a bad thing either perhaps ... As for the Italians I don't believe their assistance would be worth much ..., 18 October 1915 We are cursed with an extremely powerful, ill controlled press. .... A strong Cabinet would long ago have made it clear to the people of England that they must pocket their prejudice against 'Conscription', 20 October 1915 I have no doubt that like most things which come from that horrible country [USA] they are bad without being cheap, 23 October 1915 [Trefusis] was killed by a sniper .... one ought never to pop ones head over a trench in certain parts of the line ..., 25 October 1915


I wonder how long [Winston] will remain as a major in the yeomanry. Very cute of him to leave the Government now - and no doubt the public will be impressed ..., 15 Novembr 1915 [Winston] swore that he was blameless and that Fisher and Kitchener were the culprits ... perhaps I am prejudiced ... Provided a man has unlimited cheek, a certain kind of flash cleverness ... everything is forgiven him .... It is no use worrying about the press. Like [the] poor it is always with us ..., 17 November 1915 ... if they really imagine that all these beastly [Balkan] people are going to kiss and be friends under the domination of the Kaiser they are much mistaken .... I am mad with anger against Asquith and his rotten cabinet ,20 November 1915 ... to make men like Seely and Churchill Brigadiers is not only an insult to regular soldiers but ... to many able and hard working Territorial officers who have done their duty ..., 23 November 1915 Winston ... repels me. He is a type of everything which I dislike most .... It remains to be seen what harm he is destined to do us on land - it is still impossible to gauge the bad effects of his sea policy ..., 25 November 1915 ... those in authority in the regular army [will] take pretty good care that none of the plums ... drops into the mouths of outsiders ..., 30 November 1915


It beats me ... how the Germans can get men to put to sea in the beastly things [submarines], 1 December 1915 If the rotten gang of inefficients [the Cabinet] only showed a little modesty, a little sense of shame at their own futilities - but instead of this they swagger about, blaming all the world except themselves, and appear to live in a kind of paradise of self complacency, 3 December 1915 The only way of ending this war is by killing Germans - this becomes clearer every day - so we have decided to turn our attention to killing Turks and Bulgars ... for we are exceedingly dull and stupid people - the longer I live, the more I realize the truth of this German estimate of our national character, 8 December 1915 ... Would to God that a strong man could arise and sweep out the present clique and inaugurate a stronger, purer Government and reform our social life ... cast off the labour load and [break]down the Trade Unions' political power ... We are suffering from too much liberty, 9 December 1915 We ought to be experts in retreating before the war comes to an end. ... if only we [had] some man who knew his own mind or who would listen to sound advice from a man like Robertson ..., 10 December 1915 He says that the Russians are determined to fight to a finish even if the war is to last for 10 years, 13 December 1915 The German lines which Cavan, very truly, maintains are all crust and no pie, 16 December 1915 [Churchill is] a public danger in whatever capacity he happens to be ... It was rather pathetic to hear Desborough, 17 December 1915 One Archie Sinclair ... has deserted to join in with Winston [Cavan] compares so favourably with most of the other generals, 23 December 1915 We are a comic opera concern and that is why everything we do ultimately ends happily after a series of hopeless muddles and apparently inextricable confusions ... these filthy little Balkan races , 24 December 1915 Received orders to go to the 2nd Army as G.S.O. 3, 31 December 1915


Our Army system does not ... take into account a man's merits or qualifications when it is a question of giving him a command ..., 2 January 1916 I really have got to like the little fellow [the Prince of wales], 3 January 1916 For a clever man [John Simon] has always seemed to me the most futile .... If we were all like [him] there would be nothing left but to make peace and put up our shutters for ever, 5 January 1916 Ypres and its surroundings are the most convincing picture of human squalor and despair that I have ever seen - such a picture of utter devastation, 7 January 1916 We have the money and the command of the sea - so victory must be ours, 7 January 1916 We all know that the so-called Labour representatives represent no one at the moment - A general election would, I think, drive all the cranks and faddists out of public life ..., 3 January 1916 The innate selfishness of the the neutral countries which hope to see the Germans beaten but won't lift a finger to help, 9 January 1916 How the courage and military skill and devotion to duty of a few officers like Generals Birdwood and Davies, and the unparalleled valour of the regimental officers and rank and file can redeem the folly and ineptitude of our politicians and higher command, 10 January 1916 I myself don't believe that we shall succeed in starving out Germany ... because we don't use our naval supremacy, 15 January 1916 But all bishops are fools - at least I have never met one who was a sensible man, 16 January 1916 It is a curious thing why some people are successful in their careers and others - much more capable - unsuccessful, 18 January 1916 How sad that the car has collapsed - you don't say what has happened but I surmise the worst as you say that the machinery has gone wrong for want of oil. I feared that it would be a source of great expenditure to have a car - you don't understand anything about them - and I don't - and we cannot afford to keep anyone who does, 20 January 1916 The object of the United States [is] to keep the war on just as long as possible ... they will have raked in all the gold there is in the world - that blighter Wilson ... is not such a fool as one is sometimes apt to suppose. Some day I hope that we shall be alive to see the Japs ... and ourselves taking it out of the Yanks [The Major General] is too keen upon trifles to run his show properly, 23/24 January 1916


I wonder what new devilry the German announcement about their future naval policy means. One thing I have almost made up my mind to do if I survive longer than the old scoundrel ... is to write a scathing article or monograph on H.H. Asquith, 12 February 1916 What odious brutes [the Germans] are and how one loathes and execrates them ... and yet they are preferable to President Wilson, 13 February 1916 The more I see of the army ... the almost invariable practice of placing round pegs in square holes, 18 February 1916 [Cavan] is a Triton amongst minnows simply because he is a reasonable man with a large amount of common sense. A pretty state of things when one takes a positive delight in the destruction of one's fellow-men - but then one hardly looks upon the Germans as men in these days, 24 February 1916


A wonderfully obtuse race of men these Teutons ... I suppose one ought to admire such trained obedience and unquestioning faith - but somehow I don't, 7 March 1916 How furious it makes one that there should be so many [conscientious objectors], 10 March 1916 [The French] seem quite convinced that the Germans won't take Verdun. Apparently they have huge confidence in their General ... one Petain, 11 March 1916 No human flesh and blood can stand more than a certain amount of a modern artillery bombardment. It is a horrible business isn't it. The whole war makes one doubtful whether the affairs of this world are particularly well arranged .... No doubt some religious crank will tell you that all this is laid upon us for good etc. ... I suppose that we ought to congratulate ourselves that we are alive in such a soul-stirring epoch - perhaps I should if I were 20 years younger ... We English are the oddest people in the world. We are politico-maniacs ... within 6 months after the restoration of peace things will be travelling along exactly the same lines as they were before the war ... If we can keep on the same men to run the war whose wilful blindness or crass stupidity we found ourselves plunged into this war totally unprepared, we are capable of any madness, 9 March 1916 I wish that I had the same confidence in all our generals as the French seem to have in theirs ... I don't think that even our long suffering Navy would stand the return of a Winston - Fisher combination to the Admiralty ..., 11 March 1916 The usual wireless lies from both combatants, 12 March 1916 Obviously thousands of gentlemen prefer making shells to facing them - something radically wrong with one's fellow countrymen - whether they are worthy of the effort ..., 13 March 1916 Goodness only knows what the next war will be like ... I hope profoundly that you and I will have passed into a better world before it comes ... no desire to see an even more highly developed form of man-slaying produced, 14 March 1916 The Government might be bad but ... [one] led by Winston would be infinitely worse ... the man [is] a public danger, 15 March 1916 I have now got the hang of [the work] .. so I am moved, 22 March 1916 The more I see of Staff College graduates the more I am surprised at their self-satisfaction and the less confidence I have in them, 26 March 1916 What a pity we had no Channel Tunnel - I suppose that it will be built, 27 March 1916 Would that all the lives lost had been American ... possibly they realize that Mexico is as much as they can hope to chew, 28 March 1916 You know I don't really believe that you or anyone else can reclaim a girl when she has once gone wrong - a single slip perhaps, but not a young lady who has inhabited a home of ill fame, 31 March 1916


The only lesson we can get out of it is never to trust a friend let alone a relation - where money is concerned, 1 April 1916 Our aeroplanes (to say the least of it) are no better than German ones ... all the ... lies given utterance to by Winston and Seely before the war with regard to our preparedness in the air ... Politicians ... oblivious to reason ... wrapped up in their own conceits, 3 April 1916 Unless the German is absolutely crushed he will be at our throats again in 20 or 30 years and there will be no escape for us then, 21 April 1916 God forbid that we should prove weak now - or it will be all over with the British Empire before 50 years are gone A nasty dirty lot ... I wonder when we shall cease to make futile court to the USA, 5 April 1916 The Asquith gang is largely responsible ... for the miserable state of unrest and discord in England which so largely encouraged the Germans to begin hostilities, 10 April 1916 I am convinced that Hardinge and the Indian government (no doubt aided and abetted by our own brilliant rulers are responsible for [Kut], 12 April 1916 After us the deluge ... will come unless there is a vast quickening up of our English mentality; a return to less 'democratic' form of government, 14 April 1916 I expect that we are as well informed about German movements as the enemy are about ours. However, we are more stupid, 18 April 1916 Evidently Sir John Nixon is to be made the scapegoat. Nothing will make us believe that Hardinge is not the real culprit ... The matter to be decided is the supply of men - the object to be attained is the speedy defeat of the enemy - and yet the one question which seems to matter is how 23 politicians, the majority of whom are men of no account and the remainder too old and incompetent for their work are to be kept together, 19 April 1916 At home we continue upon the even tenor of our political way when all the time the German Army is bellowing at the gates of Verdun ... it is a form of humour which requires a deal of explanation to the intelligent foreigner, 20 April 1916 Probably in the days of Mr. Pitt .... there was much of the muddle and bungling of today, 22 April 1916 I realize quite well that I am dreadfully imperfect but I don't fancy that listening continually to indifferent parsons reading out morning service will bring me nearer to God, 25 April 1916 The news from Ireland is most amusing. The cat is out of the bag with a vengeance now - but I don't suppose the Government will take any strong measures to put down sedition ... I suppose that to change one's ideas implies that one has made a mistake about something and no Englishman cares to admit that he has ever been wrong ... Squith and his gang won't admit that they were wrong about Germany - their argument is always that no one could have foreseen what the Germans were up to. Why thousands upon thousands of people foresaw it - and it is the same story with Ireland. The prospect of Home Rule was supposed to be going to conciliate the Irish malcontents. .... but the Radicals ... made themselves believe that Mr. Redmond and his absurd Parliamentary party represented Ireland. They represented Ireland about as well as I represent the opposition to Yuan in China. There are no representatives of Ireland because no one in Ireland has any ideas to represent ... the man who talks loudest, makes the biggest promises and bullies most gets a hearing and runs the show. The silly, rotten, half baked scheme ... pleases no one and drives to desperation the only section of the Community in Ireland which is really loyal ..., 26 April 1916 I should like to hang Hardinge on he same gallows as Asquith and Birrell, 30 April 1916


I wonder ... which of the many generals engaged will obtain niches in the Temple of Fame consecrated to the great commanders of history ... desperately few, 15 May 1916 And here are the English who have never taken the trouble to prepare for war ... committed every possible mistake ... half hearted and amateurish. Yet ... they will win, 16 May 1916 Radical journalists are already trying to make a hero of Roger Casement ... These miserable cranks who are allowed to issue their silly opinions in the newspapers are the curse of our time ... sometimes an honest faddist - a visionary sentimentalist utterly unfitted to cope with realities - but much more often he is a mischievous fellow who has the soul of an agitator or an adventurer and is playing his own game or the game of some questionable patron. He is generally ignorant and always prejudiced ... [should be] made to go to live in the country ... and perhaps get some glimmering of the difficulties of which they make so little ... to understand that men who drivel about Ireland for the Irish, refuse to enlist ... murder British soldiers ... and are ready to fight for the Germans are scarcely suitable people to whom to entrust the government of Ireland ... a futile business ... to suppose that [Redmond] is capable of bringing peace to his beastly little country, 17 May 1916 ... newspapers which are controlled by sensible people and produce sound views ... have no influence over the vast majority - who read the papers ... for sensationalism and personalities ..., 19 May 1916 ..... crass obstinacy of the people in the background who try to run the show. One would not mind if they ever came near the Army area, or attempted to read one's letters, or to appreciate the situation ... They merely write ungrammatical letters displaying a truly marvellous ignorance and a weak kind of determination to resent any change they have not themselves proposed ... I suppose in the Army, as in political life, as in the Church, men of mediocre abilities with pleasant manners and influential friends get on - They find themselves in positions for which their mental powers do not fit them - and they dread to make changes ... because they are incapable of grasping the reasons for a change This is bad enough in peace time, but in war time ... Birrell and Nathan cut a sorry pair of figures in their evidence. What a wretched pair of men to entrust with the Government of Ireland. They both ought to be tried for murder, for if any men are responsible for the Irish rebellion they are ... the adroit Squiff has come out on top again ... futile old man ... The political machines are too powerful even whn the two great parties are at variance, 21 May 1916 I suppose that some good will come out of it all but at present the only advantage one can see is a reduction of the population of an over-crowded world - and even that advantage is a doubtful one when one remembers that it is the best of the manhood of the world which is being destroyed - the worms continuing to exist ..., 23 May 1916 If there had been such a revolution, the person to blame for it would have been Squiff, who ... has never said a word to contradict the abominable lies broadcast through the land with regard to the upper classes and whose whole policy has been directed to promote class prejudice and spread unrest and discontent amongst the industrial population. ... A statesman whose whole policy has been a failure is forgiven if he pulls up the weeds which have sprung up from the evil seeds which he has himself scattered over the land ..., 28 May 1916 ... this base ingratitude of the Greeks to France and England - the 2 countries which practically made them what they are pleased to call a nation ... Is it possible that such absolute tosh and vapour should be produced by any man at a moment like this - let alone a man in the position of President of the USA ... the Yankees are just as mean a set of humbugs and scoundrels as the Greeks, but they cover their enormities with all this rubbish about preserving peace in the future ... But money, money, money is all the brutes think of in this world ..., 30 May 1916


I don't like the Government; but I dislike Winston far more. Why it should be supposed that Lloyd George should be capable of settling a question [Ireland] in a few days that has baffled the wit of better men for several centuries mystifies me entirely ..., 1 June 1916 Conferences are the thing ... they are held every hour of the day and upon every conceivable subject Surely nowhere in the world is so much hard but ineffective work put in as on the Staff of the British Army ... too much system ... you cannot get things done quickly, however urgently ..., 2 June 1916 This naval battle doesn't sound a very satisfactory business ..., 3 June 1916 But it takes a devil of a time for English people to change any system of government or promotion. They have an almost ineradicable belief in their own infallibility ... the more one sees of democracy the more convinced one becomes that it does not tend to efficiency ... the bad points of conservatism are maintained and all its old strength and backbone have been taken away ..., 4 June 1916 Kitchener's death is a tragic business ... a great man gone but I fancy a great man who had done his job ... believed that he might have done more in the early days of the war ... Having predicted a 3 years' war ... he was not big enough to understand what he could do or to grasp the full meaning of his own prediction ... I wonder who will be put in his place ... some ... mean little man associated with the political powers, 7 June 1916 A more contemptible race [Greeks] never lived and I only hope that when the resettlement of Europe is made Greece, as a nation, is wiped out altogether. It is ridiculous to continue what is obviously a farce - however, I have no doubt that all the sentimental fools in England would be up in arms ... would confuse the Athenians ... of the past with the miserable mixed scum ..., 9 June 1916 ... the Conference took place in French ... and I found myself the only bilinguist present ..., 12 June 1916 I have been mentioned in Dispatches which pleases me, 17 June 1916 The Arab revolt against the Turks is interesting ... The Young Turk Pary must do as the Germans tell them or go under ... public opinion in Constantinople is worth very little, 23 June 1916 I hope that the Mexicans will eat up a lot of Yankees and make that fool President Wilson sit up 26 June 1916 Whatever happens the Unionist leaders are certain to make a mess of things and play into Squiff's hands. At bottom [Cavan] is not a big man, 29 June 1916 I am very glad that they have sentenced Casement to be hanged ... I have no use for the 'Irish people' and, therefore, I am quite indifferent as to whom they select for their national heroes, 30 June 1916


I don't think that it must matter who is Secretary of State now, if only Robertson is left to run the men, 7 July 1911 I admire your patriotism in not inviting Brunner (not Bruno) Mond. If we all decided to invest no more money in firms run by such people it would be an excellent thing, 2 July 1916 At last it seems as if men who for any reason are not up to the job are going to be 'outed' ... at home they will probably be promoted. The 'truth settlement' ... foolish nonsense ... the whole press - with the single exception of The Morning Post (all honour to it) appears to be backing the Government ..., 10 July 1916 Some Generals treat Intelligence as a joke - these are the really stupid ones. Others dissociate Intelligence from operations - those are the dangerously stupid ones - and the remainder evince a mild interest ... . Prevented from doing anything by a pack of third rate idiots who have no ideas in their heads .... Such oceans of our best blood are being spilt and the bravest and finest of our race are being mown down in thousands ..., 13 July 1916 I am always surprised when I find myself liked by anyone ... they look upon me as a curious old buffer with a 'cynical' manner, 17 July 1916 My dearest, it is very sweet of you to say that I am to go into Parliament and still sweeter if you think that it would be a good thing for the country if I were there - But for the life of me, I don't see how it is ever to be managed, unless we make up our minds to live on your money - to take a devil of a plunge in other words ... I don't think that I am young enough to have a career in the House of Commons, nor am I the kind of man who would cope with party politics and do the things which a man must do if he wishes to keep in with constituents ... The Army system ... is the old Civil Service system, a thousand times worse, because the disciplinary ideas are more marked and a junior man can never tell his superior what he thinks ..., 19 July 1916 We may not be a well drilled race ... but there is ... a pluck and virility and quality of self-forgetfulness in the Englishman which makes up for the lack of discipline and turns him into a good soldier very quickly ... prouder than ever of being English. In despite of our politics and our individualism we are the finest race in the world... These domestic fidgets and internal feuds keep us all alive; they mean freedom of speech and of thought and without such freedom England would not be the England which we know and love ... We shall see all the feeble, childish cranks and democratic vapours flourishing ... we shall see all the institutions and causes which we hold dear in the melting pot; we shall despair and become more wretched and more bitter each day we live - But we shall be wrong. We must try and realize that all that we see and dislike is healthy development and that individuals are mere atoms ... whilst the nation goes on for ever ..., 20 July 1916 ... there is the same anxious care and worry over supplying an additional clerk in the office as there is in sacking an incompetent General ..., 23 July 1916 [Conrad Russell] is the absolute opposite to MaClure who is all energy and bustle, and probably insists upon doing all the work himself ..., 24 July 1916 ... Put K.P. immediately after his name before C.B., M.V.O. These litte niceties show that you have been well brought up in the things which really matter in society - viz orders and honours ... which all sensible men covet ..., 25 July 1916 If ever I go into Parliament, it will not be as a 'politician' but as a lonely and disinterested figure who is there only to try and do what he believes to be best for the country ... I don't wish to be the slave of any Party Caucus ... little chance of my being an acceptable candidate anywhere, for I see no end to party politics, I wish I did ... You must ... let it be known to all and sundry that you have up your sleeve a candidate in a thousand - a man of intelligence and integrity who is prepared, at great personal inconvenience, to represent any constituency which does not expect to be bribed by big subscriptions ... who knows? there may be such a constituency and I may be the man it is looking for - But won't electioneering be a bore! ..., 26 July 1916 Our ineffable Haldane and others of the same type are always busy telling us what a marvellous thing Education is in Germany. Pray God that we may never have a system of education in England which deadens the critical faculty of the people so entirely ... The English people may be stupid, may be unreasoning, may be easily led away, but at any rate it is independent individually and can say what it thinks ..., 28 July 1916 ... common sense is not a characteristic of military minds, 30 July 1916


We English are a race of children - simple confiding people who always believe that everything is for the best in this best of all possible worlds. ... I suppose that one of these days the race will grow up, but not in our time ... we may become like Yankees, which Heaven forbid, or the Germans, which would be even worse, or our own Colonials - indeed we might be much worse than we are ..., 2 August 1916 Our soldiers are very conservative and refuse to learn either by experience or from other people who know much better ..., 4 August 1916 Two experts ... decided that it would not be over until April 1918 at the earliest ... personally I cannot believe that the Germans will be able to keep going so long ... A great death, you know, when all is said and done ...A melancholy business for all concerned either directly or indirectly - and due entirely to our mid-Victorian folly in allowing these cursed Prussians to eat up first the Danes, then the Austrians, then the French, thereby becoming swollen headed and anxious to eat up the rest of the world. ... the mid-Victorians were a fat commercial race. They cared only for money-making and plenty of eating and drinking. The generation which worshipped Mr. Gladstone when he ranted about futilities ... interested in nothing but the parish pump ..., 6 August 1916 The Italians' effort has come to us all as a complete surprise. The idea of their capturing 8000 Austrians seems mighty strange ...The more one sees of the citizens of 'gallant little Belgium', the more one feels that they are entirely unpleasing and doubts their gallantry. A much tried country, no doubt, but how much better it might have tried ..., 9 August 1916 I don't think that even a radical historian ... will ever dare to paint the old rascal as the man who saved England ... utterly failed to foresee or to prepare ... deluded the country with empty assurances that all was well ... futile conduct of the Irish affair would have damned any other man ... responsible as no other man is for the loss of hundreds and thousands of lives ... millions of money ... untold misery ... they gloss over their pre-war record ... caught napping ... at home a state of dangerous social discontent ... Ireland on the verge of Civil War ... smug self conceit of the radical politicians and journalists ..., 11 August 1916 I certainly have more success with soldiers than I could have believed possible. My simple, straight- forward mode of expressing my views upon men and things appears to appeal to them! but I am surprised when some of my jokes (which are not always very easy to understand) are appreciated ..., 24 August 1916 The Swedes appear to have annoyed the ingenuous and peace-loving Viscount Grey. It would serve the Dutch and the Swedes quite right if we handed them over to the Germans after the war ... Dirty little people who have not the courage to do what they know to be right ... our management of neutrals has been enough to make the Angels weep ..., 26 August 1916 ... the entry of the Roumania into the war ought to make a great difference ... She has sat so long on the fence and is credited with so much political sagacity, 27 August 1916 ... one can never be too thankful really when one reflects upon the way in which one has succeeded ... in campaigning in 'the greatest war in history'. The first 10 months with you and the rest of the time in complete comfort ..., 29 August 1916 It is only because this absurd fellow Charteris has some one else whom he wants to make a G.S.O. 2 that he sticks at making me one. It all comes of placing people like him in positions which are too big for them ..., 31 August 1916


Surely no country has played a more despicable role than Greece has - except possibly the USA ..., 3 September 1916 There is something almost holy in the way in which the French are carrying on the war ... and the elan and devoted courage with which their soldiers are fighting, 5 September 1916 I suppose that [Tuppie] feels that someday his children will say 'Daddy what did you do in the Great War?' Of course the obvious answer would be to hit the little beasts as a reward for their curiosity. One hears of such wonderful deeds of gallantry - one had no idea that mere humans were capable of such heroism, 8 September 1916 [Conscription] Had Kitchener stood firm and been more articulate, had Squiff led and not lied ..., 9 September 1916 A large minority of our generals ... simply love the war, 10 September 1916 Red tape regulations and jobbery, 12 September 1916 I shall make no attempt to try and forgive ... we are fighting for existence The Lord only knows why he loves [England] - for this war has shown that he does, 14 September 1916 Soldiers are never tired of abusing politicans but as I have often remarked - I see but little real difference between the methods of the two classes of individuals. The former are ruled by Caucuses, the latter by cliques. The aim of the individual is ... to get on ... In politics more money may be passed but the individual must be tolerably intelligent to get forward ..., 16 September 1916 When one hears of all ones' friends being killed and wounded - one feels that one ought to go and do likewise. It was the same at Loos, I remember. It then struck me that I was having far too easy a time ..., 17 September 1916 The Greeks would ... take anything lying down - the miserable curs. ... I don't suppose that the Greek Army would be of the slightest use to us. It is almost an impossible task to describe in a newspaper article a modern battle - first because the journalist can neither see it nor understand it, and secondly because the censorship prevents a connected or intelligent story being given even if there were any newspapermen capable of writing it ... [they] would be far better at home making munitions, 19 September 1916 Perhaps our conception of public duty and responsibility had grown somewhat vague and shadowy - perhaps all the blood will not have been shed in vain .. this great surgical operation ... leaves the diseased parts alone and ready to grow and flourish unchecked ... I am very sorry for old Squiff - the reality of war has at last been brought fearfully close to him ...Some at any rate of its absurd devotees will be mad enough to maintain that it was 'owing to our free institutions' that we triumphed ... instead of going down on their knees in the bitterest contrition and humiliation to thank God that he has saved us in spite of our futile preperations and impossible form of government .. It is one of the principal signs of the hopeless incapacity of [Charteris?] that he will never admit that anyone else can have a good idea but himself. A most pitiful fellow ... but in the British Army the paramount importance of Intelligence is not properly recognised ... if you have a joke at the head of it no one seems to mind ..., 20 September 1916 The Conference was more futile and ridiculous than usual. The inevitable windy, flatulent monologue from the Mountebank - the same obsequious acceptance of his platitudes by the little band of sycophants ... He advised me to be made a Brigade-Major because that would bring me nearer the reality of things! (This from a great fat easy-going brute who has never been near a trench and has about as much idea of ... 'the reality of things' as a hen canary) ... 'my career' depending on such a futile piece of absurdity. Verily the man is a frog inflating himself ..., 28 September 1916 [Stafford] must have had a fearful time and I know that he must have done his job - one of the most wearing and distressing - splendidly. I only hope that he gets something in the way of a Military Cross as a reward. The parsons and doctors ... deserve almost any honour they can be given. Their work is so heartrending and it is almost always under fire ..., 30 September 1916


[The German Chancellor] always gave one the impression of a feeble person in a big place - always struggling to appear as fierce and bloodthirsty as his soldier friends, but in reality a mild mannered rather sensible man ... In peace time he can have little real initiative or individual authority - during a war he probably has none at all ..., 1 October 1916 Really the rubbish [the Germans] write in their papers can only be accounted for by taking it for granted that they are all out of their minds ... these miserable savages have not even the saving grace of humour, 3 October 1916 One knows how many worms there are in England ... ranting to us about brotherly love etc. ... if we don't down the Germans now - once for all - there will be another war before so very long ..., 5 October 1916 Silly little men like the Bp of London go ranting about the country talking the same old rubbish and apparently think that the country will be regenerated by people having family prayers before breakfast ... stammering out some twaddling sermon ... most of us date our dislike for morning service to having been dragged to it so regularly when we were young ... The tone of society is to a certain extent set by individuals but much more by a gradual realization that certain things in life are bad form ... The Temperance reformers are mad ... a revulsion ... we should all become drunkards ... example of courage, of devotion to duty, of Christian fortitude and strength of faith which some of the clergy are giving out here which counts ... 6 October 1916 The Roumanians ... are evidently rather inexperienced soldiers ..., 8 October 1916 The submarine business in the Atlantic is annoying ... Anything which brings this war apparently near to the Yankees delights me ... I wonder whether we shall ever as a nation get out of the habit of cringing to the Yankees and regarding tham as our cousins. Personally, I dislike most of my cousins ..., 12 October 1916 The submarine warfare as waged by the Germans is the wickedest thing they have done... a beastlier form of being killed than any other .. rowing about for hours ... probably in one's pyjamas - does not sound much better. A government which allows an army corps and its strongest forts to be collared by one belligerent and its navy by the other ... a strict neutrality with a vengeance but it ought not to make for the advancement of Greece as a nation after the war, 13 October 1916 Impossible to make the man in the street see that Lipton would not be a first class Quartermaster General of the British Army, 18 October 1916 One cannot help admiring the [Germans] for fighting quality, brutes and beasts though they are ..., 19 October 1916 The Church of England always contrives to make whatever it thinks ridiculous...... [Cavan] won't lift a finger for me and I would not owe him anything now for all the money in ... he could not have done less for any fellow, 20 October 1916 I learn the the Russians will be ready in 1920 ..., 30 October 1916 ... the great matter is now settled and I am to go as G.S.O. 2 to J. Ruthven's Corps ... Apparently I have been more 'recognised' than I have sometimes imagined, 31 October 1916


It would be an evil thing for humanity if men could devise some non-descript form of inter-nationalism which would deprive us all of that indefinite but most holy form of pride which is bound up in our love of country. I don't think that there is the vaguest chance of a universal brotherhood of man ... I don't fancy that the Liberal gang will have much power after the war is over ... egregious crew of knaves and humbugs .. but ... men are ... so easily led away by charlatans ... the only thing for me to do is find some trade or profession after the war which will enable me to express my political views ... I am no journalist ... what we want is money quickly and our own efforts will never do the trick ..., 1 November 1916 Why should striving to make the lives of less fortunate people better and brighter make one dismal and boring oneself? ... perhaps it is only men and women who are naturally dull ... who take to social work in real earnest ... accounts a little for the singular want of success, 2 November 1916 I 'm only a G.S.O. 2 because I'm the Prince of Wales and it makes me sick; I don't know the rudiments of staff work ..., 2 November 1916 [Prince of Wales to Headlam] I wonder whether the people of the American Continent will ever grow up - I fancy not ... Their ideas of development are purely material and they will never, I think, realize that money-making is only a means to an end and not an end in itself ... The war is paying the USA far too well to make Yankee business men wish to stop it or join in it ..., 6 November 1916 It makes one shudder to think of the squalor and misery there must be in the battle area ... mud-mud miles of it - no billets - no shelter ... human beings are capable of enduring much more than one used to imagine possible ... I am told that my Corps Commander is the biggest snob unhung ... the Army is full of such men, 7 November 1916 Fancy any people - calling themselves a nation - deciding to re-elect such a fellow to rule them for another 4 years - Hughes cannot have been a very inspiring fellow, but he was unknown and that should have insured his election against Wilson ...", 12 November 1916 When the war began we had possibly 2 or 3 Generals who had some vague idea of what was required of a Corps Commander ... vast majority of our present Corps Commanders never expected to command anything larger than a Brigade .. few ... know much about their present job, 16 November 1916 It will be an uphill business trying to make old Jerry Ruthven realize that Intelligence is a terribly important branch of staff work. He seems to think that our work is largely eyewash and almost superfluous ... By degrees, I hope to make this a working concern ... One of the Intelligence officers does not know German - a perfectly ridiculous thing as the only object in having such officers is that they should know languages ... He is always inventing the most absurd contrivances to kill and capture Germans which Ruthven considers wonderfully clever ... time and money wasted ..., 18 November 1916 One must be prepared for it to go on another 2 or 3 years - but I shall be very much surprised if it does ..., 19 November 1916


Unless this war is to end in a stalemate, we must adopt a very different policy in the near future ... no local push, however big it may be, will break their line ... turn the enemy's flank - that can only be done by an invasion of Holland and I don't suppose that we shall have the moral courage to do that - nowhere do I see a man strong enough to drive things through ..., 5 December 1916 If we go on playing at the game of blockade much longer we shall lose our best weapon. Of course it may be argued that if we adopted such a strong marine policy we should run the risk of the neutrals coming in against us ... The Yankees would no doubt squeal and Dr. Wilson might write notes, but we would treat them with the contempt they deserved ... we could always arrange for the Japenese fleet to appear ... I suppose the Government of the Duke of Newcastle at the beginning of the Seven Years War was just as bad - and then we got Chatham ..., 6 December 1916 [LG] has stood in politics for everything I hate most ... may be playing his own game - but any game would be better than the game which 'Squiff' and Edmund Grey have played ..., 8 December 1916 I cannot ... believe that LG will develop into another William Pitt ... Ebbie reigns in [Thesiger's stead] pretend that we really believe that he is the right man for the job R. Findlay ... is about the biggest jobber of the lot and has dozens of hungry relations to whom to give billets .... It is not very apparent that the Roumanians ... possessed a General of any kind ..., 9 December 1916 Mr. Kenan Runciman and Harcourt - to say nothing of Samuel and Montagu ... are all clever men ... born intriguers and ... henchmen of Squiff Greenmantle exceeds the limits of credulity from cover to cover, 10 December 1916 George Curzon ... is an offensive fellow who always succeeds in rubbing people the wrong way ... The Government will have to increase the taxes on 'the rich' ... It has got to ingratiate itself with the Labour Party at all costs, 12 December 1916 If Russia gave way, things would begin to look rather bad, 14 December 1916 ... Totally unscrupulous political adventurers, backed by a powerful press, appealing to an ignorant public and plentifully supplied with money - out - I am sure - and at any cost - to upset Lloyd George and his Government ... with the guns sounding in one's ears and the realities of the situation so near one - it is hard to believe that responsible Englishmen at home should be squabbling and caballing ..., 15 December 1916 Busybody neutrals, Popes of Rome etc. would also see that it was no good poking their noses into other peoples' businesses and the cosmopolitan peace cranks would get the snub they so richly deserve ..., 16 December 1916 I should not have imagined that [Bonar Law] could influence a pea pod ...After all, a war is the only chance a soldier gets - and if he is worth anything, I cannot see why he should be anxious for peace ..., 17 December 1916 ... there is a party in England which openly and avowedly wishes to make peace ... upon any terms they are good enough to offer ... What would peace mean now? Merely an armed truce. No country could afford to disarm - no wise country at any rate - probably there would be a party in England which would advocate disbanding the army - but nowhere else would such a party be tolerated - an armed truce to be followed in another 20 or 30 years by another war in which Germany would make no miscalculations - in which in all human probability the British Empire would finally go under ... The argument presumably being that we might have avoided war had our foreign policy been properly managed. So we might ... had we been curs and cowards but we should have suffered for it in the end, 19 December 1916 I should not be surprised if they were to publish their terms before the spring - probably very liberal to France and Belgium and on the surface to us ... to maintain their hold over the Balkans and Turkey so as to control the Baghdad railway ..., 21 December 1916 It is pretty certain that the Germans will continue their policy of 'frightfulness' [submarines] ... they seem to be absolutely without any sense of what a white man can or cannot do ... I see that all the Sinn Feiners are to be let out of prison 'to conciliate Ireland' ... Nothing will ever 'conciliate' a certain type of Irishman ... It is no use treating the Irish question as if Irishmen had a grievance. They have no grievance, except a faked up political one ..., 22 December 1916 It is a little insulting to us for a man like Dr. Wilson to set down in writing that our war aims and German war aims are the same ..., 23 December 1916 ... It beats me entirely the way in which quite sensible people refuse to face the fact that the only difficulty in the way of giving Home Rule is that Irishmen are not united in their wish to have it ..., 24 December 1916 It is strange isn't it the way in which tradition demands that when men wish to show they are enjoying themselves, they begin to break things ...., 25 December 1916 I fancy that the new Emperor is terribly anxious for peace and apparently the Empress is very pro-French ... but I fear, poor things, Austria is too much entangled with Germany to be able to get out of the mess on her own ..., 28 December 1916 It would seem impossible for a man who has once held a commission to return to pawn broking or designing chemises ... The rate of wages is going to be the trouble after the war ..., 30 December 1916


The Honours List is a comic affair. The usual lot go steadily on ... Here the only deserving man-Abbott - appears to have got nothing ..., 2 January 1917 It is a pity God gave me an active mind and a somewhat restless spirit. Everything that one saw and hears out here is so absolutely at variance with which one sees and thought before ... inwardly I know that there has been a change in me ..., 3 January 1917 What would have happened to the French if we had not come in ..., 4 January 1917.... Harrington did recommend me for the M.C. and is perfectly furious that I did not get it, 6 January 1917 How I should like to tell [mother] straight what a misery she makes life for other people, 8 January 1917 Three quarters of an hour after he got up from the luncheon table ... his head was blown off by a shell, 10 January 1917 It is a comic denouement after all that odious little Schuster said ... influence and jobbery ... to please that old wirepuller [Mr. Mackenzie] - I feel that I must leave the H of L ... I wonder why it is ... that nothing ever comes my way? I have lots of friends - I am admitted to be very able ... I am getting a bit tired of it ... though I am blessed if I will write and congratulate that scheming little ... worm on getting to the Table of the House. He knows about as much about precedence as I know about mechanics ... clever trick to make the appointment whilst the House was not sitting ... Trust Claud Schuster and these dirty lawyers for doing their 'job' cleverly ..., 12 January 1917 Odd how many men have bad teeth. Too many cheap sweets in childhood, 19 January 1917 I saw two German prisoners today and I cannot say that their morale was low! Not nearly as low as mine! 22 January 1917 Henry Graham is going to retire ... I want Claud Schuster's blood and should like to knife that old rat Sir K.M.M. ... [lawyers] are all in a clique together. [Wilson] league of nations ... no conception of the situation, ... futile platitudes, 24 January 1917 So long as Germany remains a united nation with Prussia at her head, she will be an aggressive power ... I am very bitter about the H of L affair ... hope that something will turn up to enable me to leave ... hoped to get to the top ... had things gone fairly ... I had been assured ... I believe that a political career would interest me - though no doubt it would have many disillusionments, 30 January 1917


[Others] may believe all the rubbish about blood being thicker than water, 1 February 1917 I admit that [Wilson's] strong attitude rather surprises me, 5 February 1917 [The French] have method in what they do - their staff work ... is co-ordinated and logical - we are groping in the dark, 7 February 1917 Cosmo Ebor ... is insufferably pleased with himself ... If Christianity could ever die, the Churchmen would have killed it long ago, 8 February 1917 Oliver Lyttelton ... no doubt he is one of our future statesmen - born to the task of muddling along like the rest of his family, 12 February 1917 Military methods are more exasperatingly futile than anything one could imagine ... I have ceased [to take them seriously] long ago, 14 February 1917 It is probably just as well that we should finish this war without [American] 'help', 20 February 1917 To me it is one of the mysteries of the war the way in which the Navy has succeeded in concealing all it does - the real leakage is in London and not with men out here, 21 February 1917 If [the Germans] were really wise men they need never have fought [the war] - such, I think will be the verdict of history, 22 February 1917


It is astonishing how keen and clever these fellows are and how quickly they have grasped the intricasies of their work ... all of us expected to bow down and worship before the remnants of the Regular Army ... what man of the Regular Army ever anticipated this modern warfare ... I recognize my own limitations which is something ..., 13 March 1917 A fine mess in Russia ... I always hate Revolutions and have a supreme mistrust for most of the gentlemen who carry them out. They are generally either visionaries or knaves ... the world's history is like a shilling shocker ..., 17 March 1917 If [the Tsar] stays in Russia, I fancy that he is certain to be murdered, 18 March 1917 The danger of all revolutionary outbreaks is that they generally go a deal farther than the men who engineer them intend, 19 March 1917 I don't anticipate a revolution in Germany - certainly not whilst the war is going on. After it is over anything may happen there - or anywhere else, and personally I am glad that I do not belong to the Hohenzollen family and that I am not a Prussian Junker ..., 22 March 1917 It looks to me as if the extreme faction must be getting the upper hand [in Russia] ...In spite of all their cleverness, the Germans never seem to understand other people, 23 march 1917 I cannot believe that they can smash us up so completely that we shall have to make peace - nor do I believe that the submarine campaign can knock us out economically, 25 March 1917 If the Germans leave the Russians to themselves they may quite conceivably fight amongst themselves ... only the Germans enjoy this war ... it gives them a spurious importance, 27 March 1917 The Germans set out with the idea of making for themselves an Eastern empire. The Irish Parliamentary Party has long ceased to represent anyone but itself ... we have always taken Ireland and Irishmen too seriously and that is the main reason for all the recent trouble ..., 30 March 1917


Popularity with men is generally necessary for success in any walk of life, and accounts, I think, for the number of amiable, second rate men who attain to high positions is every profession in England ... I have not any wish to make up to people ... indeed I cannot do it ... I always have the secret feeling that I ought to do something big and am discontented with my lot, 1 April 1917 ... as you know, I am not in favour of any increase in the franchise and I see no earthly reason to suppose that any advantage will be gained by giving votes to women. The foolish idea that every kind of evil can be cured by legislation will gather strength ... I cannot believe that we are nearing the millenium and so I hesitate to enfranchise vast multitudes of new voters to share in muddling the future of the Empire ..., 1 april 1917 ... They have been brought up to believe that they can get anything and everything they want by striking - and they don't realize quite what it means to lay down tools in the middle of the ... war ... You would have thought that it was fairly easy to spirit [agitators] away nowa'days ... ought to be shot ... The press and unbridled political corruption have between them landed us in a bog of idleness, discontent and ill discipline, 2 April 1917 ... I suppose that it is the usual quarrel - beween the capitalist and the workman and the want of discipline and chronic laziness of the latter - The only hope for labour peace in the future is some scheme which will enable the workmen to understand the working of the business ..., 4 April 1917 I hold no brief for Lloyd George ... a disgusting little cad, 10 April 1917 The USA at the Peace Conference ... [may] present what is so necessary - the making clear to the Germans that as a Great Empire Germany no longer must exist ..., 11 April 1917 Most unlikely that the present Russian Government would make peace. The damage I suppose is that this Government will be 'outed' by some foolish clique of decadents who might decide to have done with the war. Cazalet is convinced that neither the Czar nor the Czarina will ever appear again, 19 April 1917


A newspaper Editor is a business man primarily - and immensly vain - he likes to pull strings and explain how tremendously influential his particular paper is, 1 May 1917 So long as [Hunter Blair] remains C.C. it is perfectly obvious that the time of my staff will be wasted on all the absurd facts and fancies which emanate from his swollen headed and much over-rated brain, 5 may 1917 It is the criminal waste of men, money and material which shocks me ... the national ideal is the one astounding and vital reality in a world like ours, 9 May 1917 There has not been nearly enough bloodshed yet [in Russia], 10 May 1917 About 99% of the men who are generals ... become megalomaniacs or gaga, 16 May 1917 .... Nothing will make me believe - that this detestable 'U' boat campaign is going to do the trick for them. One would despair of the justice of the Gods if such a low-down, brutal, underhand form of warfare should lead to a triumph ..., 17 May 1917 I have not had time to read Lloyd George's letter to Mr Redmond - but if the plan he appears to propose is really intended to solve the Irish problem the Government must be madder than I ever supposed ... Irish affair, to reform the franchise and to purchase the liquor trade ...... Such d-d fools as to stir up so many hornet's nests and muddle with domestic questions which they cannot possibly hope to settle without apposition in the middle of a great war ..., 19 May 1917 Why have we not got a man strong enough to run the war and capable of saying 'go to hell' to all the Irish agitators, radical opposition and French politicans ..., 19 May 1917 ... The fall of Tisza ..., the Austrians, Turks and Bulgars are quite helpless - even if they wished to make a separate peace, they are too much frightened of the Boche to do so ..., 25 May 1917 I am too old to be a captain and in a subordinate position. ... Ellington is a typical soldier and a typical staff officer - very sound and quick witted - but one of those men who will insist upon seeing everything and doing everything himself ... one's own schemes and arrangements entirely spoiled ... issued an order or made an arrangement without letting one know a word about it , about things which he ought to leave to one to do, and the result as often as not leads to confusion and reduplication of work ... not one staff officer ... has the vaguest idea of how an office ought to be run or the remotest conception of what is meant by delegation of authority or division of labour ..., 26 May 1917


To [the regular officer] it is out of the question that a man who has not been to Sandhurst, lived for years in a battalion and been to the Staff College - can ever grasp the intricacies of soldiering ... 2 years' experience out here is enough for any man of average intelligence ... it is rank heresy to the military man ..., 1 June 1917 ... I fancy that some of us would be not altogether sorry to see a few generals hanged ... Apparently the Russian sailors have been chopping their admirals into quite small pieces and handing round the bits as souvenirs ... things out there are utterly chaotic, 2 June 1917 I have been wonderfully lucky so far ... I ought to pull through ... [The Germans] have an easier job - and are not handicapped by their allies as we are, 4 June 1917 See how these miserable socialists are openly advocating that we ... should copy these fools in Russia ... The past history of the world proves the utter futility of what the Russian revolutionaries are doing, 5 June 1917 There is no doubt that I myself have been badly treated - but so have scores and hundreds of others. The clique which runs these things is all out for itself - soldiers are as avid to possess ribbons as women are to possess jewels.... [Conrad Russell] is about as fit to be a cavalry officer as I am to steer a tank, 7 June 1917 I am so glad that old Plumer has had such a success. He is one of the few really 'white' generals I have met. Absolutely straight and honest - no side, no vulgarity - and no playing his own game ..., 9 June 1917 I don't blame [Cavan] for not having got me on his staff. The man he has got is utterly second rate but he does not realize that ... G[athorne] H[ardy] did not want me at any price. He is a bully and likes to have dirt under his feet. He knows that he could not bully me ... I am feeling very restless and dissatisfied about ... my civilian self. I feel that I ought to do something more in the world but I don't seem to be urgently needed by anyone ... I am sure that there is a job waiting for me - if only I could find it ..., 11 June 1917


I am glad that you had Conrad's views about [generals] as well as mine ... Conrad is a mild mannered man and he goes even further in his criticism ..., 7 July 1917 [The Corps Commander] should retire to the H of C ... but the lucky man must have the hide of an elephant and the vanity of a peacock ..., 10 July 1917 This political crisis in Germany ... may lead to some changes in the personnel of the government and possibly to some paper concessions calculated to influence foreign opinion being made in the system of Government, 11 July 1917 It is amazing how a certain type of politician is willing to believe anything which he is told provided that [it] corresponds with what he himself thinks and wishes ... these Macdonalds, Snowdens, Trevelyans etc. must wilfully shut their eyes to the whole teaching of history and human nature, 12 July 1917 The Nationalist Party has entirely lost its influence in Ireland - but most sensible people had realized that some time ago. It suited the ... government to pretend to believe that Mr. Redmond and his friends represented Irish public opinion ... probably will end in another rebellion ... demonstrate to the Yankees and other foreigners that the Irish problem is so difficult because Irish men are so much divided ... letting out the Sinn Fein murderers ... to impress foreigners ..., 13 July 1917 Bethmann's resignation was a triumph for the war party ... evidently the Crown Prince, Hindenburg and Ludendorff have been running the show, 16 July 1917 I wonder whether the British will ever become a hard working race? I doubt it. The tendency is all the other way ..., 17 July 1917 No man can be considered as unfortunate or to be pitied who dies in such a gallant fashion battling against fearful odds. Men do not get so much leave as officers ... on the whole fair. Officers have far more responsibility ... the neccesity for their having leave to go to England for business and other purposes is much greater, 18 July 1917 I am so angry at Winston's being given another billet ... [he is] largely if not entirely responsible for two of the biggest military blunders in the war - Antwerp and Gallipoli ... arrogant and hot headed ... Montagu's appointment seems to me nearly as bad ..., 19 July 1917 Cosmo Ebor ... admitted that the Church of England had failed to satisfy people and he urged rather cleverly that the fault was not so much that of the Church as of the laity ... one would have liked to believe him ... It is an awkward predicament. The leaders of the Church have not got to legislate for the thinking and educated portion of the community, but for the vast mass... who cling to the superstition of religion ... If Christ is not God, he ceases to be anything and the sheet anchor of their faith is taken from them ... Religion is necessary for man - the vast majority of men are simple, unthinking and ignorant - therefore religion must be in the hands of a priesthood whose duty [is] to teach ... must be based on the doctrines of Christ because they are the doctrines most suited in the spread of civilization. Unless these doctrines are taught literally, they cannot be taught at all, because they are based on faith and religion itself will fall to the ground. The further [the German] walks into Russia the better it seems to me that it is for us. The Russians are less likely to make peace and the Boche has to employ more troops away from the Western front ... one feels that there is little to fear from [the Russians] in the future, 25 July 1917 [The Corps Commander] imagines that everyone here must be at his beck and call ... as if the Head Man at Harrods rushed into the Ladies' Hosiery Department and carried off one of the young ladies ... to mend his socks ..., 30 July 1917 It seems incredible that in England there should be people who really talk of this Russian Revolution as if it were a kind of God-sent movement of progress and reform ..., 31 July 1917


I suppose the mere fact of being in charge of men and having to give them a lead and look after them carries one through - a man can have no time to think of himself if he has others about him who are abolutely dependent upon him, 3 August 1917 The problem to be solved is how a bridge can be found to enable the German Government to back down without losing too much prestige ... Politically, however, peace is a necessity for the powers-that- be in Germany ... I think that the Turks will have to be sacrificed and I fear that the Austrians will come out of it all badly ... even if the Boch won the war those wretched dupes would suffer ... We have to consider the future of England, and we cannot afford to carry on the war a day longer than is necessary ..., 5 August 1917 All these speeches by our people and the German and Austrian ministers look to me to be in the nature of feelers for peace - though they sound so tremendously determined and blood-thirsty, 7 August 1917 ... Pearls are rather thrown away in the army - almost anyone can do the job - that is to say - the smaller jobs and I have not yet found the man who can do the big things of the war ... I have had great luck in rising to my present position considering that I am 'only a yeoman' ... these absurd regular soldiers still talk in this strain ..., 8 August 1917 I foresee an immense reaction after the war. The idea ... that the influence of their training will continue after they have ceased to belong to an organized body is to my mind absurd. They will probably run to the contrary extreme, 9 August 1917 Our recent governments ... have always been afraid of public opinion ... for ever looking for a policy which would not cost them votes or which might be calculated to divide the opposition ... People talk glibly of the danger of revolution and of the unrest which is seething amongst the working classes. I think that they exaggerate ... firm and just handling ... the most amenable and law-abiding race in the world, 14 August 1917 It is a pity that the Boch has not fought this war as a gentleman. If he had, one would have been more ready to come to terms ... Someday there may be a revolution in Germany, but I fancy that the Government will be clever enough to prevent a national upheaval if they succeed in getting out of the war without too much discredit ..., 15 August 1917 I can see no earthly reason why the allies should not now definitely formulate their peace terms. I wonder whether their terms are agreed upon amongst themselves? That is the whole problem, 17 August 1917 One had hoped that this war - however much it might cost us in pain and misery - would at any rate heal domestic strife and do away with the insensate class hatred and social discontent. But there is no use ever hoping to get rid of the Ramsay Macdonald type. I suppose some of these tiresome fellows are honest ... one feels totally impotent to prevent our silly people from being misled and decieved by men who make a living out of them, 23 August 1917 There is no one capable of guiding the nation along the difficult tracts along which it has to go ... the agitator and the crook have survived ..., 28 August 1917 This mania to 'democratise' ... a people which has shown no visible sign of wishing to get rid of the kind of government under which it has grown and prospered so amazingly is really comic ... It is no business of ours if the German Government is autocratic and unrepresentative of what we choose to believe is the will of the nation, 31 August 1917


Our race is all right - and that our Educational system is not wrong, whatever the cranks and faddists who believe in other systems may say to the contrary. It is the public shcool tradition which has made our officers ... [and] the tradition of a thousand unknown grammar schools and middle class colleges in many despised suburbs whose sons have suddenly found themselves called upon to display an example of courage and determination ... of course there is still a certain type of regular solider who prefers to despise the non-officer and sneers at him ... What will become of these men after the war? ... It seems to me impossible that they can retire to office stools and sink into the miserable obscurity ... That there should be a party in the Houses of Parliament above party and only influenced by really national ideals is admirable ... but that half a dozen of the most violent exponents of Tory doctrines in each house should express their intention of forming such a party to the height of abusurdity ..., 1 September 1917 She was undoubtedly right ... if she said that my future has yet to come, 5 September 1917 One feels that autocratic rulers are out of date and dangerous luxuries - and then one turns round and reflects upon the criminal stupidity and marvellous follies of the democrats, 6 September 1917 The Russian mess gets more and more confused. If Korndoff is a straight man I cannot help hoping that he will succeed in bringing off a coup d'etat and getting rid of Kerensky who ... must be rather a wind bag and incapable of riding the storm ... probably the strong man has not yet appeared. R. Glyn ... prophesies that neither Kerensky nor Korndoff will come out top ... it is highly unlikely that many Grand Dukes will be left alive if counter revolutions have become the order of the day ..., 12 September 1917 What is wanted is a new force which is above politics - and which will gradually impress itself upon the imagination of the people. ... I have never been an advocate of big changes. There are hundreds of things which I know ought to be different - there is squalor and poverty and corruption all round us, but I have never believed that we can remedy it all with a stroke of the pen ... The industrial competition after the war will be tremendous ... our people will have to work as they have never worked before. If they are going to waste their time with political and social disputes we are utterly undone ... I have always been too violent a hater of shams and sycophants to be a party politician ... I would rather not enter Parliament than be there not as my own master ... The thing to do would be to establish my reputation before I walk into the House of Commons but time is going on and I am getting old ..., 15 September 1917 We ... have only ourselves to thank for this terrible war ... The war was forced upon us by German ambition ... but had we been properly prepared ... canting selfishness, absurd opportunism and crass want of foresight ... I see no hope of our democracy ever learning wisdom, 14 September 1917 There is no likelihood of my ever getting promoted to G.S.O 1 ... so few vacancies ... not being of one of the Mountebank's clique ... not being a professional..... I remember old Halsbury telling me ... that no judge should call the attention of a Jury to the prisoner's not wishing to go into the box - because the thing was entirely optional, the whole object of enabling a man to give evidence on his own behalf was to help him ..., 17 September 1917 I have done a lot of work, but I don't consider that I have done anything to deserve a D.S.O. though many men have got it who have done less. I am better as a Territorial - the Territorials have been abominably treated ... I regret that we should not be perpetuated because I think that we are the most interesting branch of our family and that something rather out of the common might come from us, 21 September 1917 If my merits are not recognised by our old friend the Mountebank I know that they are fully recognised by men such as Tim Harrington Walcot and others whose opinions I value, 23 September 1917 Kerensky is obviously only sticking in power by allying himself or allowing himself to be run by the Soviet, 27 September 1917 It will be much more distinguished to have no decoration after this war, 30 September 1917


Everyone appears to be unfavourably impressed with our new masters ... I know that my man (old Mitch's successor) is a rotter ... utterly incapable and extremely unpleasant, 20 November 1917 I gather that the ice-cream men are quite incapable of holding up the Boch attack much longer, 21 November 1917 The value of the Germans in Society has always been over rated - and their contributions to scientific progress, historical research etc. have not been nearly so great as is supposed ..., 24 November 1917 The Recollections of Lord Morley ... permeated throughout with the vanity and self satisfaction of their author ... typical of the smug, complacent Radicalism of Victorian days, 24 November 1917 How few people seem capable of saying what they have to say and going away - nearly everyone uses 50 words where 5 would suffice ..., 25 November 1917 Each formation is entirely self centred ... can I get them to look upon the good of the whole ... this individualism is typically English ... bred in the bone ..., 24 November 1917 Victorian Radicals lived in a world of their own ... eyes closed to the real forces which were at work and they led us on blindly to the social unrest and political follies which brought this war upon us, 29 November 1917 It really does look as if these dirty Russian blackguards were going to try and make peace ... I don't anticipate that it will be a very easy business, 30 November 1917


It is a thousand pities to say, write or do anything which is sure to put heart into your enemy and equally certain to depress your allies - so much for Lord Lansdowne's letter, 1 December 1917 We English are a weird race and how in the world we ever managed to survive our endless blunders and muddling ... God must love us - or at any rate must be amused by us! - if not we should surely have long ago disappeared as a first-class power, 2 December 1917 It is a ticklish business for the German Government to hob-nob with revolutionary Russia ... filled with the wildest and most anarchical ideas, the spread of which amongst the German soldiers might lead to curious results ... the Revolution ... will end either in some form of despotism or in the complete split up of the races which form the Russian state - I should put my money on the former, 4 December 1917 I doubt whether I could stomach the House of Commons - I should always be in a seething state of rage at the ignorance, futility and vulgarity of a large part of the other members, 5 December 1917 Men like H. B. who... lay down the law about everything never can get the best out of their underlings simply because the ordinary underling is not going to risk being snubbed. My plan with H.B. is to let him have his say, and then, if what he says is too ridiculous, simply not carry it out, 8 December 1917 If we only stick to it we must win ... If we make a bad peace we shall have to keep a huge army and navy, 9 December 1917 The league of nations nonsense which sounds so attractive and which meets with the cordial approbation of President Wilson, Lord Lansdowne ... the Pope ... is based on sentiment and can never be anything but a utopian ideal ... Some nations will never learn the lesson and will never be ready (e.g. England), 10 December 1917 Repudiating foreign loans, doing away with law courts and instituting 'Free Love' are signs of the times ... I have no faith in the wisdom of the many. I firmly believe in the necessity of improving the social condition of the people ... never achieve anything if we allow our maniac social reformers a free hand ... must come from the top ... The larger the franchise the more this will become apparent. Democracy and mediocrity always go together, 11 December 1917 A pity Squiff is Squiff because he is the only real brain in politics today ... Ireland of today is the result of his political rule, 13 December 1917 The Russians ... have really got to work killing each other ... hope that the right side (whichever it may be) will do the most.... If [newspapers] were run by honest men who ... had no axes to grind, it might not matter, 15 December 1917 The rumour about the Mountebank is true and one [Sir Herbert] Lawrence reigns in his stead - we are all much cheered. ... [Lloyd George] is such an absurd man to lead a nation in arms - one always feels British honour is not safe in the keeping of such a man, 19 December 1917 English people are so ridiculously easy going ... anyone who, like myself, feels keenly about anything ... and has no fear of stating his opinions is always sure to be looked upon askance. I don't believe that my want of success in life is due so much to my irritability ... I am naturally shy ... as regards pushing myself, 20 December 1917 [Kerensky] was hopelessly incompetent and vile both politically and morally ... revolution in such a country ... must lead to Terror ... Democracy ... is absolutely impossible in a backward [country], 21 December 1917 [H.B.] is stark staring mad ... sent an officer home 'on duty' to fetch his Christmas turkeys ... then we prate about economy and homilies are read to the men about waste, 26 December 1917 Jellicoe's resignation ... No doubt he has quarrelled with the egregious Geddes in whom I have no confidence ... because he began life as a railway porter and rose to be manager ... is no reason why he should be fitted to be First Lord of the Admiralty... The Kaiser has been talking very big. How German diplomatists must hate the man. Just when they are all out to finish the war and gain everything for Germany by pretending to want nothing, 28 December 1917 On two different occasions Maurice has thought fit to write to me in a way that I will tolerate from no man, 31 December 1917


[Mother] always seems happier when she has decided ... to sack someone, 1 January 1918 I don't believe in a League of Nations ... when the moment for action came the whole concern would come tumbling down ... on the whole ... separate nations with occasional wars are preferable to any form of internationalism, 2 January 1918 I hate to have been given a D.S.O. myself when my chief support ... here has been given damn all ..., 4 January 1918 The [peace] terms are ... not attractive enough to catch the Austrian or Turkish Governments, 8 January 1918 Perhaps the Church will last longer simply because it is so dull and lifeless ... [Cosmo] seems to have failed as an Archbishop ... north country men see through men more quickly ... inability to bring himself down to the common level - an innate snobbishness due to his not being quite a whole man ..., 10 January 1918 [Some Bolshevicks] may be perfectly genuine political maniacs ... only amiable enthusiasts about democracy like Dr. Wilson can really ... believe in the regeneration of Russia by means of the methods they preach, 13 January 1918 Even if Lithuania, Courland, Esthonia and Poland were technically allowed to be independent ...they would be entirely at the mercy of the Boch, 14 January 1918 The poacher makes the best gamekeeper and so [Henson] will probably develop into a most orthodox and respectable bishop, 16 January 1918 LG seems to have talked good sense to the labour people ... wholly selfish ... if our new masters can be led wisely England may still remain a happy land ..., 20 January 1918 The Daily Mail apparently is all out to get rid of Robertson ... abominable the way in which ... such miserable schemers as Northcliffe are given a free hand to intrigue, 22 January 1918 No English statesman in these days has the courage of his opinion or realizes that almost anything will be forgiven him if he has the strength of character to do a thing instead of shilly shallying and doing nothing in order to conciliate people who won't or can't be conciliated. It is sheer madness to suppose that any English policy in Ireland will please the Irish irreconcilables either in Ireland or America ..., 15 January 1918 Presumably these maniacs in Russia are quite firmly established in power and depend upon their success in patching up peace to remain in power - so obviously they will take whatever terms the Germans offer ... there are still fools in England who ... advocate the control of diplomacy by 'the people' ... what rubbish is talked about 'the people' ... But I am a conservative and out of date, at any rate for the time being Carson has resigned. I suppose that this means that the Government have decided to do something silly about home rule ... please no one except possibly the ignorant people in the USA ... our unfortunate army will have to be employed to restore order to Ireland, 23 January 1918 No attempt was made early in the war to select and train suitable men who were not regular soldiers for staff duties whereas the most unsuitable regular soldiers were pitchforked into staff jobs, 31 January 1918


For three years and more the best blood in the UK has been poured out over here ... and now the issue may have to be left for the skunks and shirkers who have been drawing big wages at home ... why are the miserable creatures like Henderson allowed to threaten the Government. Why are the pacifist newspapers allowed to print their seditious articles, 2 Feburary 1918 How absurd it is that because there is a war on, women should be given the vote and the whole constitution of the country put in the melting pot ... a fearfully dangerous game to play. 3 years of war ... have left all the old methods of doing business exactly the same as they were in the prehistoric days when the W.O. and its methods were the laughing stock of the whole country, 9 February 1918 Why a certain breed of earnest persons clamour for ... 'Disestablishment' etc is merely that they may succeed in giving the Church their particular Hallmark, 11 February 1918 The fate of England to have these military and political cliques each pulling a different way - one cannot expect Generals to do well if the whole of their time has to be spent scheming and wire pulling to retain their commands, 12 Feburary 1918 If we believe in the justice of our cause and in our power for doing right in the world ... We must make up our minds to suffer anything and everything, provided that England is left to herself and carries on this war unflinchingly to the end ..., 14 Feburary 1918 That wretched little Herbert Samuel's speech ... I think that I prefer [LG] to Squiff ... I wish to goodness that they would shut down the House of Commons for the duration ... in these days it is a public danger ... I could never truckle to all the nonsense ... I doubt whether I could keep my temper - Parliamentary success is largely a matter of keeping one's temper provided that you can speak and show a little cleverness of the petty attorney kind, 15 February 1918


LG is a little worthless scoundrel ... he cannot afford not to win the war ... [or] he will go out politically and he has no intention of doing that ... Exit LG means enter Squiff, to have compulsion in Ireland means Civil War - I don't believe either statement, 15 March 1918 I have written to [Cavan] to congratulate him on the new command but I have said nothing about going to him or his applying for me, 18 March 1918 I don't think that our people is half sufficently aware of the comparatively light burden England has had to bear.... the greatest disappointment ... the class prejudice and social discontent ... seems now to be as rampant at home as it was five years ago, 20 March 1918 It is difficult to follow what is happening on the battle front - we have obviously been obliged to give ground ... all those who are supposed to know what is going on seem quite cheerful ... On our side there are so many allies, so many commanders ... we shall pull through ... our experience so severely gained will not teach us wisdom ... perhaps our charm lies in this singular incapacity to profit by experience ..., 23 March 1918 They are so plodding, persevering and hard working - a marvellous contrast to ourselves - but I like our type best and I cannot believe that the Gods really mean this bullet headed crowd to rule the world. If they do ... [they] are lacking in taste ..., 25 March 1918 It is a terrific coup this of the Boch - wonderful staff work and a real big, well-planned push ..., 26 March 1918 A tremendous ordeal for our army, but when once it has passed successfully through the furnace it will have the most unshaken confidence in itself ... Men - men - men - they must be provided and I imagine that even the Government have been made to realize this now, 29 March 1918


We cannot be defeated by the Boch ... this great push ... a gambler's last throw, 1 April 1918 We don't seem to learn the art of war as quickly as one would like, however, we ... have ... a power of refusing to know when we have had a blow which all other people would consider somewhat in the nature of a knock out ..., 3 april 1918 Political life ... likely to be more despicable because a lower class of men will soon hold the reins of government, 6 April 1918 If they conscripted all the available men in Ireland tomorrow they would not be able to train them in time, 9 April 1918 My successor seems a pleasant fellow ... quite unaquainted with I[ntelligence] work ... has the advantage of being an amateur An alliance of democracies inspired by such facile notions as self-determination ... ruled by political mountebanks ... is the worst possible form of military mechanism ... no assurance that when the next war comes we shall not find ourselves equally unprepared, 10 April 1918 What a cursed race [the Irish]... all the work of the Pope of Rome and his priests. They have kept the people ignorant ... preserving the old hatred of England, 11 April 1918 A feeling of utter impotence. One sits here and theorises ... elsewhere all one's relations and friends are in the midst of this great struggle, 16 April 1918 It would be a great day for the allies if [Caillaux] were shot, 17 April 1918 The impudent people ... do far too much of the actual work themselves - and yet they have large and presumably efficient staff who might do much more... Soldiers ... do like their decorations and it is monstrous that they should be so largely handed round to non-fighting soldiers who have sat in this place indefinitely, 18 April 1918 Fancy letting Trenchard go ... [to] put the show under Lord Rothermere and Sykes is perfectly amazing. I suppose Sykes is a friend of Henry Wilson's, 19 April 1918 We have found only two or three really strong men during the course of the war ... sacked - and the men who took their places were a military adventurer, a man who had been proved a failure, a newspaper proprietor and a sailor who was popular socially ... of course LG is the fons et origo mali, 26 April 1918 Your bills are pretty terrible, my darling ... We must try and get straight. I am in no hurry to die - but what I think the war has taught one is that it is not so hard or terrifying a thing as one used to imagine ... The hereafter ... now that it is already peopled with one's contemporaries and friends, its whole aspect is changed. I never told you that I had two very narrow squeaks in the Passchendaele Salient, 28 April 1918 I am amazed ... at the extraordinary ignorance of the English language which seems common among British officers of quite high standing ... I feel like a school master correcting the illiterate essays of a lower boys' class ... hundreds of pounds spent on their education ... the results so pitifully meagre, 30 April 1918


Here everyone is mad on education. The idea is to try and educate the soldiers for 'after the war', 1 May 1918 There is a report today that General Maurice has written a long letter to the newspapers saying that LG and Bonar Law have been telling a tissue of falsehoods ... certain to create a mighty row ... monstrous of the responsible ministers trying to shield their own mistakes ..., 7 May 1918 ... it is hardly for Bonar Law who condoned the action of General Gough in the Irish crisis of 1914 to take such a high and mightily priggish line today. He is a rotten little man worthy to be associated with L.G. ... ... it does not much matter who is Premier when the available material is so utterly poor ..., 9 May 1918 ... No hope for a right and honourable Government ... until we have got rid of the existing collection of charlatans ... to try and make ... the Labour Party ... a clean and useful weapon of reform ... up to the present [it] has been a narrow and selfish party ... if it can be made to see that no Government can be stable or successful which does not represent the whole of society ... You have always wanted me to be a Labour leader! A comic volte face - for an old-fashioned Tory - but if I could make the Labour party sound and sensible I should have fulfilled my mission in life and re-established the true Conservatism in England ..., 11 May 1918 ... Amazing the change that has come over the world, so far as women are concerned, since we were young ... some day, I suppose, we shall have boys and girls educated together at our great public schools ... I see that your friend Mr. William Temple ... has joined the Labour Party ... I shall have to reconsider my position! ... 13 May 1918 It is amazing how seriously these journalists take each other ... ought all to be shut up in lunatic asylums ..., 14 May 1918 [Cavan] entirely fails to understand why the average educated man is not perfectly happy in any job in the army ... the vast majority of pre-war soldiers are still just as convinced of their own superiority to the rest of us as the Pope is of his superiority to the poor old Archbishop of Canterbury ..., 23 May 1918 Those d-d Russians have a lot for which to answer but I should never have believed that their exodus from the war would have made so much difference, 28 May 1918 We shall have another big attack, I expect, before we are very much older. Ludendorff has the initiative nowadays ... and unfortunately he seems to know how to use it ..., 29 May 1918 ... it is apalling to think of how many Germans of military age there must be in the world - and rather disheartening to think of all the Englishmen of a military age who are not here ... we have just got to take all these nasty knocks and wait for better days ..., 31 May 1918


These insurance gentlemen are thieves and scoundrels, they grow fat on the unfortunate poor who have no alternative but to save their money by making other people rich. It is a bad world for those who have no money - and I doubt very much whether the new world which is promised to us after the war will be any different. ... much as they were before - except that the wealth will have changed hands and the poor people will imagine that they are running the show. There will [be] less private charity and more state interference. We shall be taxed and super-taxed, 5 June 1918 Yanks ... whatever else may be said against British officers they do as a rule dress decently, 8 June 1918 The hopelesness of making humanity anything but the evil, selfish thing it is, 17 June 1918 Efficiency is not exactly a bar to getting on in the army ... the Civil Service or the Government...The Boch is delaying his next coup on this front - but it must inevitably come before long, 20 June 1918 The dropping of Home Rule and Conscription in Ireland is really too farcical ... I would never consent to Irish Home Rule or give a single penny piece to Ireland ... Squiff, L.G., and Co are wholly to blame ... found a contented and orderly country ... in 1906 and they have reduced it to a state bordering on insurrection, 22 June 1918


The Teuton must go down from his pedestal of blood and iron and resume his simple habits of beer drinking and agricultural thrift, 6 July 1918 How absurd we all are to listen to [Geoffrey Dawson] - one could replace him ... with a wiser, less pretentious and more able man ..., 8 July 1918 You have only got to consider our relations with the French after four years' close association and comradeship to realise how little we understand each other and how little we have in common ..., 10 July 1918 I fancy that the military party in Germany is still in the ascendant - otherwise Kohlman would not have resigned ... but it is possible that there is more political unrest in Bochland than we know of, 12 July 1918 I suppose that if you and I were Germans we should be tightening our belts and stiffening our upper lips and expressing our determination to die in the last ditch. So perhaps one ought not to be too severe, 16 July 1918 It is sad that that wretched little Czar has apparently ended his career in such a miserable way ... might have lived and died respected and loved by everyone had fortune made him a simple country gentleman, 21 July 1918 ... my rise [to G.S.O. 1] is largely luck ... I might have been a deal more able than I am and not got it had I not known the man who mattered ... It is appalling to think of the brains and ability which must be available out here if only their possessors were known ..., 23 July 1918 ... I was ambitious at one time, but I don't think that I am any longer. I have lived long enough to realise that ability does not neccessarily make for success ... to be unsuccessful is not invariably a sign of inefficiency - indeed it may often mean that a man is too efficient - that he cannot cope with the hash of making his way through the ocean of mediocrities ... without whose assistance he cannot rise in the world ..., 26 July 1918 It sickens me when I think of that unfortunate Czarina and her children in the hands of those miscreants. However, the fact that the Bolschevists have begun murdering their prisoners ... they are tottering to their fall - Every phase of the Terror in the French Revolution marked the decline and fall ... of the successive parties ... It is amazing to me that so many educated people should still believe in these violent and futile efforts at reform ..., 27 July 1918 Another of our gallant generals ... has just been elected to the House of Commons .... How can a man run the army ... and represent his constituents, 31 July 1918


The war is not over yet - nor probably is the Boch offensive - however things are a deal better than they were three months ago, 5 August 1918 Guy ... is a confirmed Home Ruler ... I am the stupid old-fashioned Tory ... our solution was the same - remove bag and baggage from Ireland ... and allow the absurd tribes ... to work out their own salvation ... at their own expense, 7 August 1918 Man is too commonplace to understand what is best ... The brotherhood of man, the league of nations, Home Rule for the Irish, the Indians, etc, etc, are all ideals - but if they become accomplished facts too soon they will lead to chaos, 8 August 1918 The men always are splendid. The difficulty in all improvised armies is not the men but the officers, 9 August 1918 It is useless to allow people to think that it is the knock-out blow or even the beginning of the end, 10 August 1918 I suppose that the trash [journalists] write helps to make royalty popular and, if so, one must forgive them ... the more one sees and reads of other forms of government the more convinced one becomes that our form is the best ... Everything as I once told the Prince of Wales depends upon the sovereign, 15 August 1918 I should say that the Boch was at last really beginning to feel the strain. His man-power question must be getting very serious, 16 August 1918 I can see no possible way of settling satisfactorily all these racial and social problems ... in the Eastern parts of Europe... To go on telling the Germans that peace is to be dictated to them in Berlin is both silly and unpractical .... the militarists may well raise the cry in Germany that the fatherland is in danger ... calculated to assist the Kaiser more effectively than anything else, 20 August 1918 The Boch is fighting a fine rearguard action, 26 August 1918


I am glad that I never allowed myself to be cast down utterly by the misadventures of the spring ... the Boch ... used up too many of his best troops by employing picked men to do his attacks, 22 September 1918 It really does look as if things were beginning to go our way and so the moment has arrived for all these beastly people in Wales and on the Clyde to strike - successive Governments ... give way to the agitators, 24 September 1918 Difficult for a lone, unknown, middle aged man to cut any figure in politics unless he sticks out as a party man. I am not ... and never shall be, 25 September 1918 The working classes are discontented and unsettled not because they are underpaid and underfed but because work has become uncongenial to them ... determined to do less ... English trade will suffer ... cannot see beyond the ends of their own noses, 26 September 1918 Successes in Palestine and Bulgaria have developed so rapidly. King Ferdinand ... may have to do a bolt or run the risk of being hanged from a lamp post - always supposing that there are lamp posts in Sofia, 28 September 1918 Here it is not probable that we shall get a final decision this year ... [Central Powers] cannot afford to lose the through connexion to Constantinople, 29 September 1918 I am inclined to think that [the German] will decide to scrap his present government in order to curry favour with the allies, 30 September 1918


Unless a Boch political crack occurs ... there will be a lot more stiff fighting, 1 October 1918 It seems inconceivable that the Turks will go on fighting ... they will not be let off so gently as the Bulgars, 2 October 1918 I believe the [Boch] will never risk allowing the Allies to enter Germany as a pursuing army I can see L.G. going as our representative to a peace conference and returning with 'Peace with Honour' like Dizzy and then going to the country and sweeping the electors of their feet ... how the wicked man flourishes, 6 October 1918 I cannot say that I see anything for me - and yet it seems impossible that I should be intended to retire to the obscure position whence I emerged, 7 October 1918 Self-determination is going to lead to a lot of trouble ... how any such absurd body as a League of Nations is going to prevent Bulgars, Greeks, Serbs etc. from cutting each others' throats, 10 October 1918 I am one of the very few soldiers who has risen to my present rank in the Holy of Holies, the G.S., 12 October 1918 Germany far from dying in the last ditch ... is only too anxious to have peace ... If an armistice really is fixed up on terms such as I imagine the Allies will insist upon it means the end of the war, 13 October 1918 Chaos and confusion are too near ... for wise men to run any risks, 14 October 1918 All this retirement must mean peace ... The Austrians appear to be making a death bed repentence if it is true that the Emperor is carving up his estates into eligible freeholds ... too late in the day to satisfy the aspirations of all these strange and fearsome races which seem to have emerged from the bowels of the earth during the course of the war, 18 October 1918 Not one of these other nations is in the same street as the British ... old Dr. Wilson is nothing more than a pedantic, old egotist - but it serves the Austrians and Germans right. They chose to appeal to this pinchbeck Caesar ... I being of the old school in diplomacy, should have tried in my reply to make it easy for the Austrian Emperor ... But Dr. Wilson ... is committed to a policy which means the end of the Austrian Empire ... I don't fancy that these mysterious C-S, J-S etc. will be able to govern themselves ... These wretched business people are not likely to jump at me - they are so fearfully conservative in their ideas ... anxious to throw any pearls before swine and the swine will have none of this ..., 21 October 1918


I am sorry for the unfortunate Austrian Emperor ... impossible job, 1 November 1918 Thousands of our best and bravest were killed and maimed - in order that all the scally wags and riff raff of the world may be given a free hand to murder and rob ... The excesses of [the Russian Revolution] are still but dimly realized by the people of England, 2 November 1918 There will be a terrible sickness in Italy if the Italians are not given as much of the spoils as they claim ... [Except] the Yankees and the Boch the other races are either barbaric and helpless or effete and played out ... I don't mind betting that old [Clemenceau hoodwinks] the lot of them, 4 November 1918 Sooner or later the German part of Austria will join ... Germany ... make Germany stronger than she was before the war ... The Germans nearly did the trick this spring. Suppose Lloyd George and the side show strategists had had their way ... 5 November 1918 The end has come pretty suddenly ... 300,000 or 400,000 prisoners since this offensive ... they have been beaten in the field ... In spite of our statesmen and diplomatists ... we have won, 8 November 1918 [There is] nothing new in the 20th century revolutions - except that the miscreants who follow ... are more vile and mercenary than their predecessors in past revolutions ... I don't feel that I could squirm and compromise and logroll ... Baal in the human shape of Lord Northcliffe, 9 November 1918 It is too soon to say what the verdict of history will be upon Dr. Wilson to whose ill-considered utterances and pedagogic conceptions I largely attribute the mess in which Europe now finds herself. It is so easy to ... deliver platitudes ... it is a less easy business to try and put such theories into practice - however, this is fairly obvious except apparently to Dr. Wilson and his numerous admirers, 10 November 1918 It is a wretched end. It was bad enough that anarchy should break out in Russia ... but that it should break out in Germany depresses me. I may not have performed any very glorious deeds of valour, but then I have not been called upon to do so ..., 11 November 1918 I shall never understand how the leaders in Germany were such fools as to tamper with Bolshevism or had not the common sense to break off the war early in the year ... I don't think that I shall be able to live under the same roof with such an egotistic, dull, soulless little man [Thring], 12 November 1918 Human beings are a pernicious and degraded species. All these beastly German Socialists were quite ready to share the swag with these potentates ... but immediately the potentates are in trouble, they are turned out neck and crop ... all Governments have allowed far too much freedom to the Bolshevick bacillus ... Why should one have had the luck to be born English ..., 14 November 1918 This mania which some men have for making reforms is really irritating for the unfortunate individuals whom it affects, 18 November 1918 The new German Government ...ultra democratic cloak thrown over the old bureaucracy ... I don't fancy that the French will be taken in, 20 November 1918 The crime in my opinion is having this General Election at this particular moment, because obviously until that is over the Government won't even make an attempt to settle all the difficult and provocative matters which call for their urgent attention ... universal and impenetrable chaos into which too many officials inevitably lead us ..., 24 November 1918 It tires me to read all the rubbish which is being written in the newspapers about the punishment which is to be meted out to the Kaiser - and all the drivel which cranks in the USA talk about the Freedom of the Seas ... one never knows what silliness we may not commit, and Dr. Wilson is a very dangerous man with tiresome and essentially American ideas ... all his proposals are eminently suited to assist the USA and place them in a favourable position, 25 November 1918


We have saved Europe and there is no reason why we should not reap some benefits, 8 December 1918 If the Government is to employ labour it is taken for granted that the Government will be a good employer and that it will work for the general benefit even if it does not work at a profit ... soon be in the Bankruptcy Court ... Instead of there being progress and development ... there will be stagnation ... Government will have no incentives to try experiments, 11 December 1918 How true all my predictions are coming. Ramsay Macdonald, Snowden & Co. far from losing ground politically by their mean lies and despicable behaviour ..., 15 December 1918 I am curious to see what they give to Haig - I am sure that LG will give him as little as he can ..., 19 December 1918 We are ... doing our best to strengthen the Yankees' legend that 'America' won the war ... humiliating exhibition of sucking up, 26 December 1918 Our French Liaison Officers ... replied that the sooner the amiable doctor returned whence he came the better pleased the French authorities would be, 28 December 1918 Joy to see that nemesis has overtaken those pert and smug sycophants McKenna, Runciman and Samuel ... enchanted that no female has penetrated the House of Commons ... It remains to be seen whether [LG] is a statesman or only the political adventurer and demagogue one believes, 29 December 1918


I feel that I shall be bored stiff at the House of Lords ... Thring, Schuster and Young Mackenzie ... [Ebbie] is neither useful nor ornamental and his stupidity is abysmal, 4 January 1919 People are naturally stupid and they believe all the twaddle of Lord Northcliffe - aided and abetted by that little scamp Geoffrey Dawson. Power without responsiblity, 5 January 1919 Ralph Glyn has been elected to the House of Commons ... he appears to be entirely undecided as to what his political convictions are, 6 January 1919 Here is our great country with the ball at its feet - the world is ours and the peoples that dwell in it - and it is good for the world that we should rule it - and yet our whole position may be ruined because we have fools - and unsure men - at the helm ... I honestly believe that half the social troubles of the day are due simply to the fact that the owners and managers are out of touch with their workmen - and I am sure that any troubles which arise in the army are due to the same causes ..., 11 - 12 January 1919 One cannot help wondering what the future has in store and whether we have heard the last of the Boch. It seems almost impossible that the result of this war should be final. I am glad that I am not a Frenchman ..., 12 January 1919 We are all furious because ... F.E. Smith is Lord Chancellor and Winston Secretary of State for War ... what can be the result if incompetence, vulgarity, self-advertisement, sheer unabashed cheek, impudence and bluff are to carry second rate men, destitute of moral sense, to the highest positions in the state. Chaos, confusion, disaster ... We must 'out' these people ..., 13 January 1919 The British Officer of today is not always ... one who does much credit to the social reputation of his country ... so one must alter one's old prejudices ... 14 January 1919 It is obviously impossible that such an amazingly hard working and civil race should be left out in the cold. If only we were anything approaching them in industry, we should ... have the world entirely for our own. But Englishmen are not naturally industrious or civil ... after the war they will be less eager to work than ever ... plodding Boches will just take their chances ... recovery of their old status ... making ready for the next coup ... 15 January 1919 I really blushed to see my report ... 'A most able officer. He has great quickness of decision and power of organisation.' You and I have the satisfaction of knowing that all my bosses have been satisfied with me - S. Peel and Jim Walker, Williams and Harington and poor old Walcot; Hunter Bunter, Ellington and Aspinall; and Bonham Carter and Baillie ... 16 January 1919 Abbreviations: HB - Hunter Bunter (Lieutenant-General Sir Aylmer Hunter Blair) H of C - House of Commons K - Earl of Cavan Maurice - Brother The Mountebank - Brigadier-General John Charteris Tuppy - Brother, Geoffrey Wycliffe P of W - Prince of Wales