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 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 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 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, 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 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 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 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, 1943-1945, about the role of Christianity in the Common Wealth Party
Correspondence on the place of Christianity and morality in the Common Wealth Party policy including with Kenneth Ingram, George McLeod, John Graham, Tom Sargant, James Hemming, Agnes Stapledon and John Ferguson. 1 file. (For more papers on morality and Common Wealth see WINTRINGHAM 3/3/2 and WINTRINGHAM 3/6/3).
Tom Wintringham's correspondence on Palestine and the possibility of forming a 'World Guard', a voluntary international armed force to engage in peace keeping both in Palestine and elsewhere, including with Wilfred Roberts (Labour MP), Lt David de Lange of the Jewish Legion, William Stoneman, Johan J Smertenko of the American League for Free Palestine, Lewis Bernstein Namier and James Hemming; one letter to William Stoneman encloses a draft article by Wintringham 'International Armed Force for Palestine', 24 Jan 1948. 1 file. (For draft of book by Wintringham on the subject titled World Guard and other related papers see 5/13).
Correspondence, 1949-1951, relating to the death of Tom Wintringham, chiefly letters of condolence
Correspondence on the death of Tom Wintringham, chiefly condolence letters to his widow Katherine 'Kitty' Wintringham, and Kitty's personal correspondence on her bereavement including with Rhys Caparn, Christina Woods (née Roberts), James Hemming, Kitty's mother, Charlotte Everett Bowler (née Miller) and Oliver James 'O.J.' Wintringham, and Kitty's notebook largely containing names and addresses [1951]. 1 file
Correspondence, Aug 1942 - Dec 1945, relating to the Common Wealth Party
Tom and Katherine 'Kitty' Wintringham's correspondence relating to the Common Wealth Party including with Ronald William Gordon Mackay (Kim Mackay); Rev James William Parkes, (Chairman of the National Committee, 1942-1943); Herbert George Wells, speaking against the Common Wealth Party and Richard Acland (President of Common Wealth), 25 Sep 1942; Bob Best from West Midland branch of Common Wealth, on a questionnaire on vital democracy, Jan 1945; James Hemming on the Beveridge report, 5 May 1943; C A Smith, Nov-Dec 1944; Alan Good, 1942-1943; H D Liem of the Chinese News Agency, 5 Jan 1943; correspondence on the possibility of Kitty running as Common Wealth candidate for North Midlothian, 1944 and various letters on the Common Wealth Party policy towards the Labour Party. 1 file
Correspondence on an invitation for Tom Wintringham to instruct at a Home Guard school in Santa Barbara, USA, (cancelled when two of the leaders of the Santa Barbara Home Guard shot each other), including letters inviting Wintringham to instruct in the USA, letters on obtaining permission for Tom and Katherine 'Kitty' Wintringham to travel to America and letters and press cutting on the shooting incident. 1 file
Diary and related papers concerning a visit to Russia by Tom Wintringham, 1920
Papers relating to Tom Wintringham's visit to Russia with Esmond Higgins, 1920 including manuscript diary of his visit and official papers in Russian. 1 file
Draft and incomplete draft articles by Tom Wintringham, [1932-1949]
Complete and partial draft manuscript articles by Tom Wintringham including 'Opportunism and sectarianism in the Communist Party of Great Britain', [1932]; 'Guided bomb', 1939; 'Wavell's big job', 6 Jan 1942; article on Josip Broz Tito, President of Yugoslavia [1940-1949]; 'The C W'; 'The country'; 'The proletarian fallacy'; 'Patronage, power'; 'Nasty, British and short: A criticism of writers'; 'Look where you're going' by Wintringham and Katherine 'Kitty' Wintringham, on beliefs including scientific socialism, class war, Fascism and the European revolution; 'The patriotism of humanity; 'Faith, force, a forum'; and several untitled extracts from articles. 1 file
Draft and proof text of article by Tom Wintringham, 'The future of the Home Guard', [1941-1942]
Proof and drafts of article by Tom Wintringham, 'The future of the Home Guard', Picture Post. 1 item
Draft and published articles by Tom Wintringham for the Communist Party, 1932-1938
Draft and published articles by Tom Wintringham for the Communist Party including draft article 'To hit the target we must learn to aim' on why the Communist Party of Great Britain is unable to make progress, turned down by the Communist Review, Sep 1932; draft and press cutting of article by Wintringham 'Mutiny' on his charge of mutiny during World War One, Left Review, Aug 1935; Wintringham's notebook containing press cuttings from the Daily Worker, chiefly on, or by Wintringham; draft manuscript articles by Wintringham including letter to the News Chronicle, 30 Mar 1938. 1 file
Draft article by Tom Wintringham about blackouts, [1939-1940]
Untitled article by Tom Wintringham on blackouts. 1 item
Draft article by Tom Wintringham about conscription, 1939, for the Manchester Guardian
Untitled article by Tom Wintringham on conscription for the Manchester Guardian. 1 item
Draft article by Tom Wintringham about Greece, [1939-1940]
Untitled article by Tom Wintringham on Greece. 1 item