Item HAMILTON, ISM 20/3/9 - Scrapbook of press cuttings, Jan 1917, on topics including a munitions factory explosion, and peace proposals

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HAMILTON, ISM 20/3/9

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Scrapbook of press cuttings, Jan 1917, on topics including a munitions factory explosion, and peace proposals

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  • 1917 Jan 15 - 31 (Creation)

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1 vol

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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

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