THE PRIME MINISTER LEAVING DOWNING STREET IN 1933
MACDONALD
(J. Ramsay, 1866-1937, Prime Minister)
Fine large photo by ‘Wide World Photos’, boldly signed on the picture,
showing him full length, walking out of Downing Street wearing a top hat and tails, using an umbrella as a walking stick, with two attendants near him, 10” x 8”, no place, no date but
Item Date:
1933
Stock No:
42344
£275
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MACDONALD
(J. Ramsay, 1866-1937, Prime Minister)
Autograph Letter Signed to Sydney A. GIMSON
(Sydney Ansell, 1860-1938, from 1888 President of the Leicester Secular Society) asking him to “excuse the delay in my reply to your kind invitation to say with you... I have been trying today to get enough work through my hands to enable me to say ‘yes’ to you & so until now I could not write to you. I’ll stay with you with pleasure and travel direct to Hull on Wednesday morning...”, 2 sides 8vo., 3 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London, 13th January
Item Date:
1908
Stock No:
42327
£225
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MACDONALD
(J. Ramsay, 1866-1937, Prime Minister)
Fine Typed Letter Signed to Sydney A. GIMSON
(Sydney Ansell, 1860-1938, from 1888 President of the Leicester Secular Society) saying that he hears that he “would like to have a copy of the large panel poster which is in the window of my central committee room. I will send you one with pleasure when I get back to London. I am rather proud of it. It is my own idea, and I think I have been very lucky in the artist...”, 1 side oblong 8vo., Leicester Labour Party, General Election 1910 headed paper, J. Ramsay Macdonald’s Central Committee Room, 44 Belvoir Street, Leicester, 1st December
Item Date:
1910
Stock No:
42328
£175
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MACDONALD
(J. Ramsay, 1866-1937, Prime Minister)
Fine Long Typed Letter Signed with autograph corrections as Prime Minister to T. Ll. Humberstone B. Sc.
regretting “that a Cabinet Meeting will prevent my attending your Conference at Wembley... I have been looking forward to this meeting with great pleasure, as I wished to try and say something to impress upon the public the necessity of treating political questions in a scientific spirit, and not merely in a short-vision, partisan frame of mind. Until we regard administration and legislation in precisely the same manner as a scientific worker approaches his work in a laboratory, we shall never be able to get results of a permanent character, nor shall we secure respect for our public institutions. I was hoping that one of the results of the war would have been to have eliminated from the House of Commons the ‘methods of the dog fight’. Unfortunately, there are far too many signs that that hope is not to be fulfilled. The matter ultimately rests with the public, which ought to scan with scrupulous vigilance proceedings in Parliament, not merely in relation to this topic or that, but to the spirit of national concern which its debates show. If our social organisation is still so very rudimentary that the public are open to the exploitation of any interest that is placed for the moment in a position of economic advantage, it is mainly owing to the fact that scientific methods have hardly yet been applied to Society itself. I hope that as a result of your Conference a beginning will be made in the scientific consideration of the of the problems which confront Parliament, and if that happens the promoters of this Conference will have great cause to congratulate themselves on what they have done...”, 2 sides 4to., 10 Downing Street, blindstamp headed paper, 28th May
Item Date:
1924
Stock No:
41817
£325
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MACDONALD
(J. Ramsay, 1866-1937, Prime Minister)
Cyclostyled Typed Letter Signed after his defeat, signed with a facsimile signature but autograph name 'Blanco White'
commisserating with him on his failure in his "courageous attempt to win a seat for Labour ... the seed will not die. You have also made a valuable contribution to that wonderful total of five million and a half voters who have placed the Party in such an unassailable position as the second in the country. We have come through an Election which has tested the Labour party to its very foundations ... you have been subject to a kind of attack, in common with the Party generally, which can produce nothing but the most unfortunate reaction on the minds of people who have wished to do their duty to their country by Democratic and Parliamentary methods ... From the Opposition benches we must rally the country to sanity of mind and enlightened policy ...", 1 side folio, House of Commons headed paper, 4th November
Item Date:
1924
Stock No:
1908
£50
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