Letters to Charles from various correspondents

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Includes discussion of politics, reference to education matters, reference to to Priory Gate School in Suffolk, reference to his daughter Katharine [Kitty]'s acceptance to Girton College Cambridge, teachers' salaries, reference to the Prayer Book debates, notice of Arthur Ponsonby's resignation from the Union of Democratic Control's executive committee, an account of a visit to Czechosovlakia, a letter from the Forestry Commission describing terms under which they would take on Harwood Farm and reference to Chopwell Colliery.
Correspondents include Lawrence Hausman, Shapurji Saklatvala, H M Swanwick, M Philips Price, R B Graham, Louise Creighton, Maurice Dobb, P Gwyn Hughes, Edgar P Young, John Bell, Kenneth B Macaulay and Ranjitsinhji.
Also includes manuscript notes for Charles' speech at the 1928 Trevelyan man hunt and a letter to Austen Chamberlain regarding a visit from Wang Ch'ung-hui to discuss trade with China.

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