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Poem by Walter Duranty entitled 'Solomons cat', possibly given to Katherine Wise Bowler (later Katherine 'Kitty' Wintringham) during the Spanish Civil War. 1 item

Manuscript poem by Tom Wintringham. 1 item

Photographs relating to the Spanish Civil War including Katherine Wise Bowler's (later Katherine 'Kitty' Wintringham) press pass, 1936; photograph of Spanish poet Inés Munoz, taken in Madrid [1937]; photograph of [Rabasta Soltero], [Spanish Civil War, 1937]; photographs of Wintringham in Army uniform, 28 Jul 1937; photographs and negatives of Wintringham in Albacete posing with Spanish school children, [1937]; photographs and negatives of Wintringham at Madrigueras taken in the same location as the frontispiece for English Captain; portrait of Wintringham; Wintringham sitting in a chair by a window; Wintringham in a hospital bed following his injury sustained during the Aragon offensive, Sep 1937; Wintringham on the beach in Benicasim with his arm in a cast following his injury, Sep 1937; captioned photograph of a military review by the Italians in Palma de Majorca; photograph of civilian casualties and damages caused by seven Italian and German air raids on Spanish cities 17-18 Mar 1938; photograph of a Communist and Republican rally in Spain, [1936-1938]; two photographs detailing civilian damages caused by Nationalist air raids on towns and cities in Spain, [1936-1938] and photo-montage depicting Nationalist Spanish leader Gen Francisco Franco Bahamonde as perpetrator of civilian deaths and destruction during the Spanish Civil War, [1936-1938]. 1 file

Photographs of friends and family of Tom and Katherine 'Kitty' Wintringham (née Bowler) including portrait of Kitty's mother Charlotte Everett (née Miller) Bowler [1894]; portrait of Robert Budleton Bowler, 1891; Jane Bowler, 1946; photograph of Kitty's mother, possibly on a cruise ship, [1940] and photograph of Kitty's mother holding Ben as a baby, [1947]; photograph of Wayne Tod, Honolulu, Jun 1938, sent by Kitty's mother; portraits of Wintringham's mother ('Muv'), Eliza Mapson Wintringham, [1930-1939]; portrait of Wintringham's father, John Fildes Wintringham, [1930-1940]; photograph of the Communist Party Lewisham campaign group, 1917; photograph of 'Comrade Turner', a young woman, 1934; photograph of Eden and Cedar Paul, Shere, 14 Jul 1935; photograph of Rhys Caparn (American sculptor and Kitty's close friend) with Rhys' husband, Johannes Steel, Sharp 'a gunman caricaturist' and unknown woman, 1936; photographs of Orde Charles Wingate, [1939-1942]; portrait of Oliver 'O.J.' Wintringham, aged 19, 1948 and photograph of 'O.J.' in a Northumbrian coal mine and photographs of Kitty with Ben and friends [1955]. 1 file

Photographs of Tom Wintringham, including formal portraits; Wintringham pushing a lawnmower, possibly in 'Garden House', Grimsby, [1919-1930]; Wintringham on a motorbike in Warren Avenue, Richmond, Surrey [1936]; group photograph with Wintringham, SSSSA, New Milton, 1934; photograph of Wintringham with his first wife Elizabeth Wintringham (_née_Arkwright) and Harry Pollitt in Amersham, 1924; photographs of Wintringham with unidentified people and photographs of Wintringham punting. 1 file

Photographs of Tom and Katherine 'Kitty' Wintringham as a couple. 4 items.

Photographs of Tom and Katherine 'Kitty' Wintringham with children. 1 file

Photographs of Katherine 'Kitty' Wintringham (née Bowler) including as a baby, with her mother, [1908]; aged about three, at Bideford Port [1911]; in a park aged about 8 [1915]; aged about 10 with her brother and baby step sister, [1917]; portrait photograph, 1932; portrait aged about 24 or 25 [1932-1933]; portrait, 25 May 1938; passport photograph and portraits for her election campaign for the Common Wealth Party in North Midlothian, 1945, including printing plate of her portrait. 1 file

Photographs of children including Oliver 'O.J.' Wintringham as a baby, 1930, aged 4, Apr 1933 and aged about 8 [1937]; Ben Wintringham including playing in the garden at 'Peartrees', Essex [1948], and on holiday in Scotland, Aug 1956; Jon and David Wood, 1951; Felicity and Hilary, undated and Christina Woods' (née Roberts) children, Dec 1931.

Photographs of buildings, including 'Peartrees', Tom and Katherine 'Kitty' Wintringham's home in Essex, 1945-1948; series of photographs taken in 1935, including back yards of a row of terraced houses in Burnley, terraced houses and Nine Mile Point Colliery, Cwmfelinfach and Georgian cresent [in Bath]; photograph of 'The Old House' [USA] with a Christmas message; various unidentified houses and interior shots of a living room. 1 file

Photograph of Tom Wintringham giving a lecture to the Home Guard at Osterley Park Training School. 1 item

Personal letters from Elizabeth Arkwright, (later Wintringham) to Tom Wintringham throughout their courtship and marriage with letters to Wintringham in Spain including letter informing him of the death of his mother Eliza Mapson Wintringham, 13 Sep 1937, and letters following their separation on topics including their son Oliver 'O.J.' Wintringham. 1 file

Personal correspondence between Tom and Katherine 'Kitty' Wintringham and James Hemming of the Common Wealth Party, chiefly on personal matters, with some mention of Common Wealth business including letter to Kitty on the Beveridge Report. 1 file

Personal correspondence of Tom Wintringham including letter from Katherine 'Kitty' Wintringham on her personal problems [1944]; correspondence with Christina Woods (née Roberts); Millie Wintringham; Elizabeth 'Jim' Neale (née Wintringham); Fred Fish; Albert 'Yank' Levy; Leslie 'Lesh' Wintringham; Ferdinand Otto Miksche; Ronald William Gordon Mackay (Kim Mackay); Hugh Williamson; Wintringham's nursemaid 'Nin'; Margaret Wintringham, MP; Frank Ryan, Irish commissar, International Brigade and David Crook. 1 file

Kitty Wintringham's personal correspondence, including with her mother, Charlotte Everett Bowler (née Miller), Henry Wise Miller (Uncle Harry), Rhys Caparn and James Hemming. 1 file

Katherine 'Kitty' Wintringham's personal correspondence, chiefly on the birth of her son, Ben including with her mother, Charlotte Everett Bowler (née Miller), Rhys Caparn, Albert 'Yank' Levy, Anne McGregor and other friends and relatives of Kitty and Tom Wintringham. 1 file

Katherine 'Kitty' Wintringham's personal correspondence, chiefly 1939-1941, including one letter to her cousin Mr Spratts Post, 1921 and correspondence 1939-1941, including with Henry Wise Miller (Uncle Harry) and her mother, Charlotte Everett Bowler (née Miller) enclosing photographs of herself in Hawaii. 1 file

Papers relating to Tom Wintringham's proposed development of the internal combustion engine including letters patent and specification for patent for 'improvements in driving gear for use with internal combustion engines', 29 Aug 1929 with correspondence with a patent agency; manuscript proposal for an experiment on the combustion engine, with accompanying diagrams; press cuttings 'Heavy-oil aircraft engine' and 'Crude oil engines'; typescript paper 'The hydraulic connecting rod and aero-engine design'; typescript paper of suggestions on high-compression engines; letter to the Automobile Engineer 'A new field of research' on methods of applying hydraulic engineering to the internal combustion engine and correspondence with Research Engines Ltd, Oct 1929. 1 file

Papers relating to the setting up of the Home Guard including letter from Tom Wintringham to his brother, John outlining his plans in the case of German invasion, 22 May 1940; letter to T L Horabin outlining a plan of action for setting up a Home Guard, 18 Jun 1940; material for an all party group document on setting up a Home Guard and article for Illustrated London News on the first weeks of the Osterley Park Training School, 12 Aug 1940. 1 file

Papers on formation of the Common Wealth Party including article by Tom Wintringham, 'Notes on British politics', proposing a new political party, 23 May 1941; memorandum for joint conference of 1941 Committee and Forward March, Jul 1942; newsletter outlining Common Wealth's activities following its creation and report on the Common Wealth Party, Jul 1942-Mar 1943. 4 items