Correspondence and papers relating to Macpherson's Chief Secretaryship for Ireland, 1918-1920
File
MS. Eng. hist. c. 490
Held at the Weston Library
Comprises:
- (fol. 1) correspondence and papers connected with the proposed government purchase of the 1919 Irish flax crop, including cabinet papers and copies of letters of Edward Shortt, previous Chief Secretary, 1918-1919
- (fol. 34) memoranda, correspondence and copies of telegrams about the demobilization and resettlement of soldiers in Ireland, 1918-1919
- (fol. 61) memorandum of Thomas Patrick Gill on the establishment of a department of transport, industry and commerce in Ireland, Jan 1919
- (fol. 65) a card and eight letters of congratulations on Macpherson's appointment as Chief Secretary for Ireland, Jan 1919
- (fol. 80) copies of telegrams concerning the reduction in the number of troops in Ireland, Jan 1919
- (fols. 85, 103, 131, 139, 149, 154, 171, 184) ten letters and a copy of a telegram of John Denton Pinkstone French, 1st earl French of Ypres, 1919-1920
- (fol. 87) letter of sir Henry Augustus Robinson, Jan 1919
- (fol. 89) letter of Alexander Martin Sullivan, Feb 1919
- (fol. 91) newscutting on Irish education, Mar 1919
- (fol. 92) minute on escape of twenty Sinn Féin prisoners, Mar [1919]
- (fol. 94) draft of a letter of Macpherson to David Lloyd George, [May 1919]
- (fol. 97) two letters of Andrew Bonar Law, May 1919
- (fol. 100) letter, and incomplete copy of letter, of Walter Hume Long, 1st Viscount Long of Wraxall, May 1919
- (fol. 105) memoranda and minutes on the reduction in the strength of the army in Ireland, 1919
- (fol. 130) letter of sir William Hacket Pain, Oct 1919
- (fol. 136) a letter of James Henry Mussen Campbell, 1st Baron Glenavy, and a copy of a reply of Macpherson, Nov 1919
- (fol. 142) copy of a number of the newspaper Old Ireland, Nov 1919
- (fol. 146) a letter, with enclosure, of sir John Edward Spencer Brind, Nov 1919
- (fol. 151) memorandum circulated by the Home Secretary on the imprisonment of Sinn Féin prisoners in England, Nov 1919
- (fol. 160) memorandum submitted to the cabinet by Walter Hume Long, 1st Viscount Long of Wraxall, and copies of associated telegrams, Dec 1919
- (fol. 176) a secret memorandum of Sir Basil Home Thomson on intelligence matters, Dec 1919
- (fol. 180) a handwritten account by Macpherson of interviews with David Lloyd George, Dec 1919
- (fol. 190) four miscellaneous undated items, including a photograph.
Dates
- Creation: 1918-1920
Extent
195 Leaves
Language of Materials
- English
Shelfmark
MS. Eng. hist. c. 490
Repository Details
Part of the Bodleian Libraries Repository
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Weston Library
Broad Street
Oxford OX1 3BG United Kingdom
specialcollections.enquiries@bodleian.ox.ac.uk