Item HAMILTON, ISM 20/3/12 - Scrapbook of press cuttings, May-Aug 1917, on topics including Rasputin and an air raid over London

Scrapbook compiled by Jean Miller Hamilton, Lady Hamilton, including newspaper articles by William le Queux on Grigory Yefimovich Rasputin, Russian mystic, in the Illustrated Sunday Herald, Jun-Aug 1917; newspaper cuttings on the report of the Mesopotamia Commission, Jun-Jul 1917; on the abdication of Constantine I, King of Greece, 12 Jun; on a German air raid on London, causing over 500 civilian casualties, 13 Jun. With printed manifesto, 'Suggestions for terms of a peace settlement', 1917, issued by the Executive Committee of the Union of Democratic Control, signatories including Frederick William Jowett and James Ramsay MacDonald, MPs; programme, signed by servicemen and dedicated to Lady Hamilton, for 'Trelawny of the Wells', comedietta by Arthur Wing Pinero, New Theatre, London, 27 Jul. 1 vol