| Description | Annotated typescript of Gaitskell's 'The Role of The Opposition in Modern Democracy', delivered at Wharton School of Finance and Commerce, Philadelphia 14 January 1957, with a stenotypist's transcription (marked up with Gaitskell's corrections), and 3 unmarked, possibly final, copies.
Also included are MS notes (43ff), 'Notes on the Opposition' by David Ginsburg (with covering letter), and comments on Gaitskell's draft by Patrick Gordon-Walker, and list of quotations. A letter signed 'PNB' (probably Philip Noel Baker), is marked III, and the page numbering appears in fact to refer to the third Godkin lecture
In addition, there is post-lecture correspondence with Professor Richard de R Kip University of Pennsylvania (7) and Arthur and a signed printed copy of Gaitskell's Foundation Oration at Birkbeck College, 'In Defence of Politics' delivered in 1954. |