File: Circular Letters [I]

Scope and Content

The file includes circular letters sent out by the I.W.S.A. to their affiliated societies and other organisations and correspondence arising from them. The major issues are: the establishment of Headquarters at 7 Adam Street, Adelphi, London; the transfer of publication of Jus Suffragii to the new London Headquarters; the establishment of the I.W.S.A. Information Bureau in London; and the I.W.S.A. response to the outbreak of war.

The file also includes Agenda for the first 9 meetings of the I.W.S.A. London Committee [Headquarters Committee] and a number of Resolutions adopted at the Budapest Congress.

Language: includes 9 pieces in French and 1 piece in German.

Arrangement

The original order appears to have been chronological except in the case of some related material such as the Agenda series (/93-102); in recreating this order the undated letters have been placed in approximate chronology based on internal evidence.

Related Material

See also file IWSA/2/37 .