Key Information
Reference code
HAMILTON, ISM 20/3/9
Title
Scrapbook of press cuttings, Jan 1917, on topics including a munitions factory explosion, and peace proposals
Date(s)
- 1917 Jan 15 - 31 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent
1 vol
Scope and content
Scrapbook compiled by Jean Miller Hamilton, Lady Hamilton, including newspaper cuttings on the explosion at Silvertown munitions factory, east London, 19 Jan; on the reaction to the speech of Woodrow Wilson, US President, to the US Senate, proposing belligerent nations settle for 'peace without victory', 22 Jan; on the sixteenth annual Labour Party conference, Manchester, 23 Jan. With typed extracts from The Chevalier de Boufflers: a romance of the French Revolution (John Murray, London, 1916) by Nesta Helen Webster; letter to Lady Hamilton, from [Arthur] Mackenzie, editor of the Chronicles of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, with thanks for her praise of the magazine, 22 Jan. 1 vol