Copies of letters dispatched 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).

Including copies of letters sent to:

“Dorset County Chronicle” (A5/125-126)

Circulation Department, BUF (A5/127-128, 133, 135, 137-138)

Blackshirt Ltd (A5/129-131)

BUF Publications Ltd (A5/132, 134)

O/C National Canvass (A5/136)

C. R. Charlton (A5/139), concerning William Joyce meeting at Dorchester on 25 January 1935.

City Bookstore, London (A5/140)

Miss P. Clarke (A5/141)

Clearing House, BUF (A5/143-149)

[Conservative Party] (A5/142). Manuscript list of Committee members of an organisation in West Dorset. Appears to relate to the Wessex Agricultural Defence Association [Also see 189 and 202].

Captain O’Cree (A5/150)

Dorset County Council Clerk (A5/151)

Dorchester Town Clerk (A5/152-153, 156-159)

Dorchester Hall Keeper (A5/154)

Mayor and Mayoress of Dorchester (A5/155)

John A. Drew (A5/160)

“Dorset Daily Echo” (A5/161-163). Includes references to the BUF anti-war campaign (September 1935) (162)

Mrs Hawley-Edwards (A5/164)

C. F. Fisher (A5/165)

Mrs Mildred Fitzgerald (A5/166)

Maurice Fitzgerald, District Officer of Dorchester District, BUF (A5/167-184, 186-188, 191-197). Includes references to Mrs Brock-Griggs meeting on 13 June 1936 (167); resignation of Woodward as Deputy District Officer (April 1936) (169); Mosley meeting at Southampton on 3 May 1936 (170), and Bournemouth on 31 March 36 (174); Colonel Crocker meeting in Dorchester on 4 March 1936 (174-175); HQ in Weymouth and Bruning meeting at Yeovil on 28 February 1936 (176); T. L. Butler leaves BUF and joins Captain Pitt-Rivers (January 1936) (177); Beckett meeting at Weymouth on 15 January 1936 (178); William Joyce meeting at Bournemouth on 21 June 1935 (184); proposed amalgamation of Weymouth and Dorset Districts (June 1935) (188) and resignation of Fitzgerald as Organiser (March 1935) (192)

Eric C. Peake, District Treasurer, Dorset West / District Officer, Weymouth (A5/185). Includes references to the amalgamation of Weymouth and Dorchester Districts (July 1935)

J. Gilliam, Political Organiser, Dorset, BUF (A5/189). Includes a copy of letter arguing against cooperation with Wessex Agricultural Defence Association and Captain Pitt-Rivers [Also see 202]

T. L. Butler, D/D.P.O. (Rural) (A5/190). Letter received from, outlining agreement between Mosley and Captain Pitt-Rivers in May 1935 (190)

E. Foster (A5/198-199)

Messrs W. Frost, Bridport (A5/200)

J. Gilliam, Political Organiser, Dorset, BUF (A5/201-207), concerning Wessex Agricultural Defence Association and Captain Pitt-Rivers. Includes a covering letter and another copy of a letter sent to J. Gilliam [Also see 189] (201, 202) and four copies of “A Scheme for the Co-operation of the Dorset Branches” by Robert Saunders (203-206)

V. Stuart Gwynne (A5/208)