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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

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 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

Personal correspondence between Katherine 'Kitty' Wintringham and Spanish poet Inés Munoz on personal topics and Spain. 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 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.

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

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 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 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 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 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

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