| Description | Family and personal papers, 1902-1963, of the Rt Hon Hugh Todd Naylor Gaitskell, comprising family papers, 1902-1963, including correspondence of Gaitskell's ancestors, correspondence concerning the family tree, replies to invitations and rough guest lists for Gaitskell parties, correspondence, brochures, leaflets and postcards from holidays in the United Kingdom and abroad including Brittany, France, Austria, Italy, and Yugoslavia; papers, 1928-1959, concerning the purchase of properties in Sussex and Hampstead, including correspondence with solicitors and building and decorating firms; combined personal and family finance, and general correspondence, 1937-1962, including papers about income tax and land tax, insurance policies and papers, bills and receipts, combined personal and political papers, and general correspondence, [1915]-1962, including correspondence and papers about political and economic matters, and Treasury staff letters and papers following Labour's defeat Oct-Dec 1951; applications, correspondence and notes, 1953-1956, for, and about, the post of Gaitskell's personal secretary; notifications of being sworn for parliamentary awards, 1947-1950, and papers relating to the conferring of the degree of Doctor of Civil Law, Christ Church, Oxford, 1958; correspondence and papers about organisations of which Gaitskell was a member, 1952-1963, including the XYZ Club; papers concerning deaths and memorial trusts of friends and colleagues, 1948-1962, including Earl Clement Attlee, Viscount Prestwood, Hugh Dalton, Baron of Forest and Frith, and Evan Durbin; publications about, by and involving Gaitskell, [1927]-1962, including typescript of 'Chartism' (Longmans & Co, London, 1929), 'Socialism and wage policy' for the New Fabian Research Bureau, and papers concerning the second volume of 'New Fabian Essays', 1952-1954. |