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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"ALL THE GHOSTS ... ARE PEACEFUL"
MACDONALD
(J. Ramsay, 1866-1937, Prime Minister)
Fine Typed Letter Signed to Mrs Nodin
thanking her for her letter and saying that he is "indeed head over ears in work, and as every day brings its own lot I do not know when I am going to get through it. I have been at home ever since I returned from Algiers. I wish you could come up and see the house and not only hear about it. It is very quiet, and all the ghosts in it are peaceful ...", 1 side A4, House of Commons headed paper, 9th February
Item Date:
1927
Stock No:
40052
£275
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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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