Reference NumberDSCAM/1/2/3
TitleMaterial relating to W.C. Camm's interest in politics and current affairs
DescriptionDSCAM/1/2/3/1: Letter from John Bright, One Ash, Rochdale to James Slater, Bescot Hall , Walsall, supporting Mr Plowden as candidate for Walsall in the parliamentary election, 29 June 1885.
DSCAM/1/2/3/2: Letter from John Morley, Flowermead, Wimbledon Park to Camm on how Peel was led to Free Trade.
DSCAM/1/2/3/3: Copy letter from W.C. C[amm] from the Liberal Central Committee Rooms, Wednesbury, 3 Jan. 1906; paper shews the candidate, Clarendon Hyde and is headed William C. Camm. election agent.
DSCAM/1/2/3/4: Letter from Sir Clarendon Hyde, Great Western Royal Hotel, Paddington to Camm thanking him for his assistance, 15 June 1919.
DSCAM/1/2/3/5-6: Letter from [Herbert] Viscount Gladstone, 21 Abingdon Street, London SW1 asking Camm to stand for Dudley and offering £500 from the party for him to do so, 29 Oct. 1922; with copy of Camm's reply of 31 Oct. explaining that the local committee had decided not to field a candidate [in the general election] and that Camm's had been the only name suggested.
DSCAM/1/2/3/7: Letter from T.I Clough, solicitor, 21 Foster Square, Bradford [prospective Liberal parliamentary candidate for Dudley] to Camm discussing financial arrangements with the Dudley constituency before he meets Sir Herbert Samuel; had assumed the constituency would make up any deficit not provided by Headquarters, 30 July 1929.
DSCAM/1/2/3/8: 'Ideals', a valedictory address by Camm, 70th President of the Birmingham and Edgbaston Debating Society, delivered 11 Oct. 1916 and printed.
DSCAM/1/2/3/9-23: Manuscripts and notes of Camm's lectures. 'A page of Eighteenth Century Politics'; ''A page of Eighteenth Century Politics. 1741-2'; 'English Politics 1700-1742'; 'English Politics 1781-1784'; 'Irish Politics 1782-1800'; 'Richard Cobden' (3 June 1904, Dudley); 'Liberalism and Labour Problems' (4 Mar. 1903, Brierley Hill Liberal Club); 'National Education'; 'Mr Lloyd George's War Memoirs'; 'Nineteen thirty two: Towards Order of Chaos?'; 'The Growth of Law in relation to Social Development'; 'Growth of Parliamentary Government'; 'The Gospel of Discontent'; 'The Social Revolution'; notes on blood feuds, ordeal, deodand etc.
Date1885-1929
Physical Descriptionacc. 679, 686, 689 part
FormatManuscript
AccessStatusOpen
Extent23 items
LevelItem
Persons
CodePersonNameDates
NA299Camm; William Charles (1873-1960); partner in Slater and Camm, solicitors, Dudley1873-1960
NA301Gladstone; 1st Viscount Gladstone; Herbert John (1854-1930); politician and proconsul1854-1930
NA302Hyde; Sir; Clarendon Golding (1858-1934); MP for Wednesbury; barrister-at-law and businessman1858-1934
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