| Description | General correspondence with members of the public, politicians, trade unions, the Labour Party, Dwight Eisenhower (USA President), Lord Simon of Wythenshawe and organisations regarding various subjects including:
- Labour's public image and the 1959 General Election
- nuclear weapons and disarmament
- European Union
- Foreign policy, including colonial policy in Africa, and African nationalist movements in Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) and Nyasaland (Malawi)
- financial, economic and industrial policy
- trade unions and worker's rights, including miners and mining industry
- Visits overseas
- British Socialism
- Internal politics of the Labour Party
Also includes a small amount of correspondence with Alistair Hetherington, editor of the Guardian, on various political matters including nuclear weapons and American interference in elections
Includes correspondence with Swedish politician Hjalmar Leo Mehr and a photograph of Gaitskell with his wife Lisolette Mehr
Commemorative menu and booklet to mark the 80th birthday of journalise Hannen Swaffer
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