| Description | Notes by Gaitskell on the dollar situation: MS (4ff) and typescript 2 annotated copies Jun 1949
Letter from Douglas Jay enclosing typed notes 'The Dollar Situation' Jul 1949
Gaitskell MS diary of the devaluation (29ff) 3 Aug 1949
2 annotated typed notes on the 'Objectives of the talks in Washington' [1949]
Annotated draft of a letter, on the timing of devaluation, sent by Attlee to Cripps in Switzerland Aug 1949
Gaitskell letters to Harold Wilson:
MS letter concerning the date for devaluation (probably not sent) 5 Aug 1949
Draft MS and typescript letter (duplicates, 2 annotated) to accompany a document for Wilson to pass to Stafford Cripps in Switzerland Aug 1949
Draft papers by Gaitskell, 'Political Strategy', on the timing of the General Election, and 'British Economic Policy' with names to whom copies should be sent (duplicates of each) 18 Aug 1949
Correspondence concerning the papers: letters from Clement Attlee and Hugh Dalton, exchanges with Sir Edwin Plowden and John Strachey, and Gaitskell letters to Aneurin Bevan, Douglas Jay and MS letter to Herbert Morrison (10) Aug-Sep 1949. |