Fonds GB 0372 LABOUR HISTORY MANUSCRIPTS/43 - WALKER, Patrick Chrestien Gordon (1907-1980)

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Reference code

GB 0372 LABOUR HISTORY MANUSCRIPTS/43

Title

WALKER, Patrick Chrestien Gordon (1907-1980)

Date(s)

  • 1946-1965 (Creation)

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1 Folder

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Archival history

GB 0372 LABOUR HISTORY MANUSCRIPTS/43 1946-1965 Fonds 1 Folder Various

No further information.

Purchased by Bishopsgate Institute, August 2012.

Includes:

  • twenty letters from Gordon Walker to 'My Dearest' (Mrs L M Kent, sister-in-law?) regarding personal matters, general political affairs and travel (1951-1958)

  • programme for memorial service for Robin Thomas Gordon Walker (6 December 1947)

  • thirty-seven letters to Gordon Walker regarding his defeat at the Leyton by-election and general politics in the Labour Party, including letters from George Gardiner, George Thomas, Barbara Castle, Christopher Mayhew, Roy Walensky, Tony Crosland, Fenner Brockway, Dick Crossman, Peter Rawlinson, Hugh Greene, Ian Mikardo, Solly Zuckerman, William Wells, James I Leob and others (January 1965)

  • photograph of Gordon Walker with the Mayor and Mayoress of Smrthwick (c 1946).

No further arrangement.

Open

Photocopying and scanning facilities are available for a charge and will be completed by archival staff if condition and copyright permits. Digital photography (without flash) is permitted for research purposes on completion of the Library's Copyright Declaration form and with respect to current UK copyright law.

English.

ADLIB Online Catalogue.

Entry compiled by Natalie Whistance.
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

5 September 2012 Labour Party

Immediate source of acquisition or transfer

Purchased by Bishopsgate Institute, August 2012.

Content and structure area

Scope and content

Includes:

  • twenty letters from Gordon Walker to 'My Dearest' (Mrs L M Kent, sister-in-law?) regarding personal matters, general political affairs and travel (1951-1958)

  • programme for memorial service for Robin Thomas Gordon Walker (6 December 1947)

  • thirty-seven letters to Gordon Walker regarding his defeat at the Leyton by-election and general politics in the Labour Party, including letters from George Gardiner, George Thomas, Barbara Castle, Christopher Mayhew, Roy Walensky, Tony Crosland, Fenner Brockway, Dick Crossman, Peter Rawlinson, Hugh Greene, Ian Mikardo, Solly Zuckerman, William Wells, James I Leob and others (January 1965)

  • photograph of Gordon Walker with the Mayor and Mayoress of Smrthwick (c 1946).

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling

Accruals

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No further arrangement.

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Conditions governing access

Open

Conditions governing reproduction

Photocopying and scanning facilities are available for a charge and will be completed by archival staff if condition and copyright permits. Digital photography (without flash) is permitted for research purposes on completion of the Library's Copyright Declaration form and with respect to current UK copyright law.

Language of material

  • English

Script of material

  • Latin

Language and script notes

English.

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Finding aids

ADLIB Online Catalogue.

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Bishopsgate Institute

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Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Status

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Dates of creation revision deletion

Language(s)

  • English

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