| Description | Entitled: 'Refusals, Regrets, etc.' and 'Miss Crossley's Correspondence Sent to Office Feb. '45'.
Includes regrets to invitations [Royal Air Force, Wythall, Officers’ Mess, 9 Oct - 18 Oct 1940; testimonials, 10 Nov 1943; visits, 20 Nov 1943; University Overseas Club, 31 Dec 1943; Cinematograph Exhibitors Association, 26 Nov 1943; 16th Canadian General Hospital 29 Dec 1943; to shoot at Catton Hall, 22 Nov 1943; Salvation Army music festival, 21 Oct 1943; Associated British Cinemas Ltd, 26 Sep ?; Alexandra Theatre, Birmingham, matinee of ‘Blithe Spirit’, 2 Nov 1943; the Navy League, 27 Sep 1943; Royal Air Force Honiley, 23 Oct 1943; Princess Tsahai Memorial Hospital Council, 4 Nov ?; Anglo-Brazilian Society, 21 Apr - 26 Oct 1943; Mayor’s Ball, Bilston, 13 Sep 1943; National Union of Journalists Widows and Orphans’ Fund, 19 Aug - 8 Sep 1943; Rotary Club of Brierley Hill, 5 Oct - 8 Oct 1943; Air Training Corps, 20 Aug 1943; Durham County Orthopaedic Association, 17 Jul 1943; Lichfield Lido Ltd, 14 Jul ?; Sedgley Battalion Home Guard, 1 Jul 1943; Dudley Grammar School Athletic Sports, 5 Jun 1943; Sherbourne Industrial Hostel, 5 Jun 1943; Royal Air Force Benevolent Fund Dance, Selly Oak Institute, 2 Jun 1943; Royal Netherlands Brigade, 19 Dec ?; Dudley Golf Club, 18 Dec 1942; British and Latin American Chamber of Commerce, 10 Jun 1943; Mayor’s Ball, Stourbridge, 29 Apr 1943; Wings for Victory Week, Aldridge, 10 Apr 1943; National Association of Local Government Officers, Willenhall, 30 Mar 1943; Birmingham Funeral Directors Guild, 20 Jun 1941 - 31 Mar 1943; Dudley Youth Committee, Empire Youth Sunday, 21 Jul 1942 - 16 May 1943; Parliamentary and Scientific Committee, 11 Feb 1943; Dudley Special Constabulary, 22 Jan 1943; Institute of Welding, 14 Jul - 20 Nov 1942; Institute of Production Engineers, 23 Oct 1942; marriage of Jean Elizabeth Siddeley and Wing-Commander Frank William Stannard, Kenilworth, 30 Sep ?; Solihull Police Victory Garden Show, 19 Sep 1942; World Trade Alliance, 31 Aug 1942; Association of Friends of the French Volunteers, 18 Jul 1942; National Children’s Home and Orphanage, Highbury Park, London, 17 Jul 1942; Alexandra Musical Society, 21 Nov 1941 - 26 Jul 1942; Mayor of Coventry’s Good Fellowship Club, 28 Apr 1942; Toc H, 2 Apr 1942; Institute of Chemical Engineers, 27 Mar 1942; Staffordshire Federation of Allotment Holders, 15 Jan 1942; Midland Regional Association of A.R.P. Instructors, 1 Dec 1941; Palestine Victory Campaign, 4 Nov - 10 Nov 1941; West Bromwich Albion Football Club, 28 Oct 1941; opening of new police headquarters, Dudley, 22 Oct 1941; Sandon Hall Auxiliary Hospital, 22 Jul 1941; National Savings Movement, 26 Apr 1941; and various other events, dinners, etc.].
Also regrets of meetings [South Staffordshire and Cannock Chase Council of Social Service, with agenda and minutes of last meetings, 20 Aug 1941 - 16 Dec 1943; Guest Hospital, Dudley, 21 Jul 1942 - 15 Oct 1943; Birmingham Chamber of Commerce, 24 Aug 1943; Iron and Steel Institute, with draft agenda, 4 May 1942 - 16 Sep 1943; Dudley Grammar School Governors, with agenda and minutes, 14 Jul 1941 - 19 Oct 1943; Feoffees of Old Swinford Hospital, Stourbridge, with minutes and agendas, 13 Mar 1941 - 18 Sep 1943; Worcester Chamber of Commerce, 16 Oct 1943; Midland Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations, 29 Sep 1943; King Edward’s Hospital Fund for London, 12 Dec 1941 - 26 Oct 1943; Hospital for Consumption and Diseases of the Chest, with agenda, minutes of the last meeting and accounts, 19 Jul - 11 Oct 1943; Dudley and District Boy Scouts Association, 11 Oct 1943; Association of Special Hospitals, 9 Sep 1943; South Staffordshire Associated Collieries, with agendas, 20 May 1941 - 18 Aug 1943; Old Swinford Hospital, 15 Sep 1942; National Association for the Prevention of Tuberculosis, 7 Jul 1943; Birmingham & Midland Eye Hospital, 22 Apr 1943; National Playing Fields Association, 5 Jul 1941 - 15 Jun 1943; Featherstone and District Community Service Council, 18 May 1943; Dudley Inner Wheel Club, 23 Apr 1943; Institute of Civil Defence, 16 Aug - 13 Oct 1942; Engineering Industries Association, 25 Sep 1942; Corps of Commissionaires, with Commanding Officer’s Reports, 1 Jul 1940 - 16 Jul 1942; West Midlands (Region No.9) Council for Refugees, 27 Dec 1941]. Also letters enclosing publications [British Hospitals Association, ‘800 Years of Service’, 15 Oct 1943] and appealing for funds [Bernhard Baron Trustees, 17 Sep 1943]; letter regarding War Damage Insurance and Fire Insurance of Himley Church, with particular regard to the Dudley family memorials [23 May 1941] and letter to the Countess of Dudley regarding Sunday School prize presentation, Bromley, 20 Oct 1943. |