Correspondence between Tom and Katherine 'Kitty' Wintringham and Sir Richard Thomas Dyke Acland, (President of Common Wealth) on the place of Christianity and morality in Common Wealth policy. 1 file. (For more papers on morality and Common Wealth see WINTRINGHAM 3/3/2 and WINTRINGHAM 3/6/4).
Correspondence relating to the refusal of a visa for Tom Wintringham to visit USA, 1946, including letters from Katherine 'Kitty' Wintringham to various friends and officials seeking advice and assistance on procuring Wintringham a temporary visa; press cutting of an article by Tom Driberg on Wintringham's predicament, Reynolds News, 3 Feb 1946; correspondence between Kitty and American magazine Free World on commissioning articles by Kitty on Italy and Spain, 1945; letter from Henry E Stebbins, American Consul to Wintringham informing him his visa had been refused, 28 Jan 1946; copies of telegrams from Culbert Levy Olson, Governor of California inviting Wintringham to instruct the Home Guard in the US, 24 Feb 1942; appeal by Kitty to the District of Colombia, 29 Jan 1946 and draft article by Wintringham 'Tell America'. 1 file
Correspondence between Tom and Katherine 'Kitty' Wintringham and Richard Acland, (President of Common Wealth) including letter on possible names for the Common Wealth Party, 12 Jun 1942; letters on the Common Wealth Party policy, Common Wealth publications and on differences in opinion between Acland and the Wintringhams. 1 file
Correspondence, 1940-1943, relating to the Home Guard, with related papers
Correspondence relating to the Home Guard including between Tom Wintringham and Maj N Armstrong on pillboxes and street fighting, Aug 1940; pamphlets 'Notes regarding works LDV, Enfield Rolling Mills Limited and Allied Companies', 18 Jun 1940 and 'The Enfield 1914 pattern rifle; correspondence with people interested in setting up a Home Guard in their own countries including Holland, America and Kenya; letter from Kenneth Sinclair-Loutit enclosing a report on 'Home Guard casualty at casualty concentration point', 14 Oct 1941. 1 file
Correspondence relating to press articles by Kitty Bowler (later Kitty Wintringham), 1936-1937
Correspondence between Katherine Wise Bowler (later Katherine 'Kitty' Wintringham) and newspaper associates during the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939 relating to Bowler's articles for the Federated Press, the Manchester Guardian and the Daily Worker on topics including concerns about the damage and destruction of Spanish works of art. 1 file
Correspondence of Kitty Wintringham with her family, 1942-1945
Katherine 'Kitty' Wintringham's personal correspondence with her mother, Charlotte Everett Bowler (née Miller); Rhys Caparn; Anne N McGregor and Henry Wise Miller (Uncle Harry), on topics including the death of Miller's wife, the poet Alice Duer Miller, 1942, and the death of Kitty's father, 1943. 1 file
Correspondence of Kitty Bowler (later Kitty Wintringham) with newspaper editors, 1938-1940
Katherine Wise Bowler's (later Katherine 'Kitty' Wintringham) correspondence with newspaper editors relating to her career as a journalist, chiefly with Federated Press editors Alexander 'Alec' Crosby and Marc Stone, correspondence with Crosby also contains personal material. 1 file
Correspondence between Tom Wintringham and his son Oliver Wintringham, [1933]-1949
Correspondence between Tom Wintringham and his son Oliver Joseph 'O.J.' Wintringham including letter from Wintringham describing how he sustained his injury in Aragon, Spain 7 Sep 1937, also letter from his daughter, Leslie 'Lesh' Wintringham, aged about 6. 1 file.
Correspondence between Tom and Katherine 'Kitty' Wintringham while Kitty was in America attempting to procure an American visa for Wintringham. 1 file
Correspondence between Kitty Bowler (later Kitty Wintringham) and poet Ines Munoz, 1939-1940
Personal correspondence between Katherine 'Kitty' Wintringham and Spanish poet Inés Munoz on personal topics and Spain. 1 file
Correspondence between Kitty Bowler and her mother, Charlotte Bowler, 1936-1937
Correspondence between Katherine Wise Bowler (later Katherine 'Kitty' Wintringham) and her mother, Charlotte Everett Bowler ( née Miller), in New York, chiefly on Bowler's experiences during the early stages of the Spanish Civil War. 1 file
Correspondence and related papers, 1915-1918, concerning Tom Wintringham's World War One service
Correspondence and other papers relating to World War One including letters to Tom Wintringham from his brother John chiefly describing his experiences in Egypt with the Lincolnshire Yeomanry; letters from Wintringham's sister Elizabeth ('Jim') to Wintringham during his time with the Royal Flying Corps on the Western Front, chiefly giving news of home; letters from Wintringham to his mother, Eliza Mapson Wintringham, Apr-Jul 1918; letter to Wintringham's father John Fieldes Wintringham, as he convalesced in hospital at Newton Abbott after a motorcycle accident 26 [Nov] 1918; various official papers and French bank notes. 1 file
Correspondence about Tom Wintringham's writings, 1930-1949
Tom Wintringham's professional correspondence, 1930-1936, and 1938-1949, chiefly relating to the publication of articles and books by Wintringham and also on topics such as military tactics, politics, Communism, Spain, warfare and current affairs with various correspondents including Victor Gollancz, the War Office, Wilfred Vernon, John Howard, Penguin Publishers, John Strachey and 'Raji' [Rajani Palme Dutt]. 1 file
Photocopies of letters from Tom Wintringham to his wife Elizabeth (née Arkwright) during his time in prison for sedition. 7 items.
Typescript English and translated German articles from newspapers on the Spanish Civil War and the German intervention in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939 and magazine, Die Wehrmacht, Wir kämpfen in Spanien, 30 May 1939, with typescript translation, commemorating the German Army and the German 'Condor Legion' forces who fought with Spanish Nationalist forces during the Spanish Civil War. 1 file.
Common Wealth Party newsletters, Aug 1943 - Jan 1944
Newsletter, Common Wealth News, mid Aug, late Aug, early Oct and mid Oct 1943 and late Jan 1944. 5 items.
Common Wealth Party information bulletins, Nov 1943 - Oct 1944
Common Wealth Information Bulletin , including 'Education', Nov 1943; 'Representative government', Jan 1944; 'Housing and planning', Apr 1944, 'Poverty and inequality', Oct 1944 and 'Monopoly', Oct 1944. 5 items
Booklets, [1939-1944], on subjects including left wing politics and nationalisation of industry
Booklets collected by Tom and Katherine 'Kitty' Wintringham including Through Chaos to Community by John Macmurray; Hansard, 8 Dec 1944; Jak Valcili Husite (in Czech) by Eduard Wagner, given to Wintringham, Jan 1947; 'Who owns Britain?', by Gordon Schaffer, for the Reynolds News report of the unity conference, 2 Apr 1944; 'History', Chinese Ministry of Information, 1944; 'Private enterprise or public control', by Joan Robinson; 'British tanks', HMSO, 1942; Labour Party publications including statement of policy on 'Labour and Defence', May 1939 and 'Straight Left'. 1 file
Booklets produced by the Common Wealth Party, [1943-1945]
Common Wealth Party booklets including 'Common Wealth five point programme'; Common Wealth manifesto, second edition 1 Aug 1943 and forth edition, Jun 1944; 'Common Wealth policy 1944-1945'; 'Questions and answers from Common Wealth meetings' by Richard Acland (President of Common Wealth); 'Election handbook'; 'What is Common Wealth?', by R Page Arnot; 'The future of industry', by Joan Robinson; 'Statement of aims', 'The future of agriculture', 'Common Wealth and the political parties', 'What is Common Wealth?', 'Sir Richard Acland states our case in parliament', 'We answer your questions' and 'Danger and opportunity'. 13 items
Lectures and booklets for the Home Guard including diagram of how to make an improvised crossbow; diagram of the path of a bomb; some suggestions as to the practise of street fighting, 5 Dec 1939; series of lectures using excerpts from The German Army: a general outline of its present organisation, tactics and training , by Anton Von Bechtolsheim, delivered in the field artillery school, Oklahoma, 1931-1932; booklet, 'The Home Guard can fight: a summary of lectures given at Osterley Park Training School', HMSO, 1941; booklet, 'Tank hunting and destruction', the War Office, 29 Aug 1940; booklet, 'Operations, part one - general principles, fighting troops and their characteristics', the War Office, Sep 1939 and booklet, 'Extracts from army training memorandum no 40' issued for the Home Guard, the War Office, 25 Aug 1941; précis of three lectures: 'German Offensive tactics', 'Modern defensive tactics' and 'Street fighting'; draft paper outlining the home defence course at Osterley and lectures on 'introduction to war', smoke mortar, messages and reporting, firearms, guerrilla warfare, grenades and explosives, camouflage, street fighting, aeroplanes, and anti-tank ambush.