Letters to Charles relating to the establishment of the Union of Democratic Control (UDC)

Includes discussion of the manifesto, recommendations to keep the group private, letters accompanying contributions, reference to the publishing of The Morrow of the War pamphlet including refusals to print, Holland and Belgium's attitude to war, reprimands from Charles' constituents on his resignation and stance towards to the war, responses to UDC pamphlets, reference to conscription, printed proposals for the formation of a branch of the UDC at Bradford, a query as to whether the Union supports women's suffrage, the progression of the war and a draft letter in French with corrections by Mary.
Also includes a first draft of the organisation's objectives, newspaper cuttings and picture postcards of Stockholm, Oslo and St Petersburg.
Correspondents include James Viscount Bryce, Francis W Hirst, Reverend T Field, Arnold Stephenson Rowntree, Graham Wallas, V Paget [Violet?], Philip Morrell, Robin Price, Reverend V D Davis, C P Scott, J Ramsay MacDonald, Elizabeth Trevelyan, Philip J Baker, Lawrence Kay-Shuttleworth, Robert Calverley Trevelyan, Wilfred Lawson, Harry Barnes, Harold Stead, Viscount Knustford [Sydney George Holland], Thomas Edmund Harvey, Anna M Philips, P Barraclough, P Wilson Raffan, Edward N Whitley, Arthur Dewar, William Leach, Victor Horsley, Mary K Trevelyan, Arthur Ponsonby, M Philip Price, Romain Rolland, C K Cumming, Lord Loreburn, Norman Angell and Bertrand Russell.
Some letters are in French.
Copies of some of the publications referenced in this file are available in this collection at CPT/1/5/7.

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