John Burns papers
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- Burns, John Elliott (1858-1943) trade unionist and politician
TitleJohn Burns papers
Reference codeMS1079
Datec1831-c1955
Scope and ContentNotes, correspondence, press-cuttings and ephemera found in the Burns library. Correspondents include Charles Booth (1903). Press-cuttings cover subjects such as unemployment, local government, religion, and trades unions. Also includes a scrapbook of William Cobbett letters (1831-1832) and minutes of Liverpool branch of Association of All Classes of All Nations (1837-1839).
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Extent2 boxes
Finding aidsCatalogued online (click on the "contains" icon below). A pdf version of the hard-copy catalogue is also attached to this description.
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Papers include: British Library Manuscript Collections: correspondence and papers including diaries (64 vols, 1874-1942, Add MSS 46281-46345, 59669), Labour History Archive and Study Centre: correspondence and miscellaneous papers; Oxford University: Bodleian Library: Special Collections and Western Manuscripts: correspondence with Herbert Asquith; London Metropolitan Archives: correspondence with the Central Unemployed Body for London, 1920-1922, diaries, lectures and reports (ACC/2337), records including Trade Union papers and correspondence, 1888-1939, additional correspondence including records relating to administration of the Burns' estate, 1860-1951; London School of Economics Library, Archives Division: correspondence with the Fabian Society, 1893-1907, letters to A G Gardiner, 1906-1925, correspondence with ED Morel, c1903-1921; Parliamentary Archives: letters to Herbert Samuel, 1893-1895 and 1902, correspondence with John St Loe Strachey, 1898-1914; National Library of Scotland: miscellaneous correspondence, 1899-1930; California State University, Northridge: 100 letters (DA/530/A3/C6).
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