Letters to James Bone

Letters to James Bone from various individuals, mainly Guardian staff and contributors. Writers include C.P. Scott (1846-1932), J.R. Scott (1879-1949) and Laurence Scott (1909-1983), former London editor John Black Atkins (1871-1954), editors W.P. Crozier (1879-1944) and A.P. Wadsworth (1891-1956), plus fellow newspaper men of other papers. There are occasional letters from leading literary figures, such as Arnold Bennett (1867-1931), writer and artist, Laurence Housman (1865-1959) and novelist and playwright John Galsworthy (1867-1933), plus artists, such as Francis Dodd (1874-1949), and James's own brother, Muirhead Bone (1876-1953). There is a run of letters from fellow journalist and intended successor to the London editorship, Evelyn Montague (1900-1948), written in the two years before the latter’s early death from tuberculosis in 1948, plus correspondence from Madeline Montague (widow of C.E. Montague) regarding publication of her late husband’s work.