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Correspondence received by Robert Saunders F-L, 1937 - 1938

 File — Box: Saunders Papers Box 3
Reference code: 119/A3/79-163

Scope and Contents

Correspondence received by Robert Saunders, during his time as the District Treasurer and then District Officer for the Dorset West District of the British Union of Fascists (BUF), later known as the British Union (BU).

Including letters from:

Farmers Union, Dorset (A3/79-80)

Maurice Fitzgerald (A3/81)

Grampian Reproducers Ltd., Kew Gardens, Surrey (A3/82)

Miss Florence E. Hayes, Woman Commanding Officer, Wessex / Woman District Leader West Hants, BUF (A3/83-109). Includes comments on national news and local meetings of women members in Dorset.

Captain G. C. C. Henderson (A3/110-111). Includes offprint “What are public works?” (“British Lion”, May-June 1935) (110)

J. Hetherington, Secretary and Agent, West Dorset Conservative and Unionist Association (A3/112)

S. G. Huntley (A3/113), concerning a meeting organised by Miss Hayes in Dorchester on 17 July 1937.

Ralph Gladwyn Jebb, Parliamentary candidate for West Dorset, BU (A3/114-158). Includes references to local meetings, propaganda distribution, a ‘riot’ in Weymouth which involved Saunders, speakers programme and objectives of Southern Raiding Teams, draft points for his election address, and copy of a letter to the press on the concepts of ‘Liberty’. Also with copies of The Southern Speaker. [Missing 128].

Joop (van Lissa) (A3/159), regarding Dutch Fascist attitudes to the Jews and to South Africa (November 1938)

W. Loxton (A3/159A-160)

Lyme Regis Finance Department (A3/162-163)

Lyme Regis Town Clerk’s Office (A3/161)

Dates

  • Creation: 1937 - 1938

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

Items are available to view by appointment in our reading room

Extent

1 Folder(s)

Language of Materials

English

Repository Details

Part of the Special Collections and Archives Repository

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