WEBB
(Sidney, Lord Passfield, 1859-1947, Social Reformer, Fabian)
Autograph Letter Signed to Capt Humberstone,
thanking him for his "frank letter. It is perfectly true that I have done nothing to help you in building up the social life of the University. We cannot all do everything and I am not exactly disengaged! I am in fact, not good at the social side, and I belong to (literally) to no clubs whatever, partly from reasons of economy ..." agreeing to dine with him and to "meet any members you may get together ... I shall be glad to discuss Educational matters with you and others. It is not easy to get out definite programmes on such a subject ...", 3 sides 8vo., 41 Grosvenor Road, Westminster Embankment, 20th November
Item Date:
1918
Stock No:
38825
£60
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WEBB
(Sidney, Lord Passfield, 1859-1947, Social Reformer, Fabian)
Autograph Letter Signed to Mr Humberstone,
telling him that his "letter had bad luck. It followed me into a remote corner of Wales, where I was under medical care, which did its best to prevent my attending to any letters ... Thus it got (as I was told) mislaid. I have now got back to affairs and I see that the date for your nomination has past - I don't know that it matters, because I am not an Elector in the Arts or Science Faculties (but only in Laws), so that I could not properly, even if legally, have been one of your nominators ... I am ashamed to know so little about these elections to the Senate ...", 3 sides 8vo., 41 Grosvenor Road, Westminster Embankment, 15th September
Item Date:
1922
Stock No:
38826
£60
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WEBB
(Beatrice, 1858-1943, Sociologist, Economist and Reformer, wife of Sidney)
Typed letter signed to Mr Lloyd Humberstone
saying that her "husband and I are both of us over righty [sic] years of age and more or less invalided, and feel that we are not the right people to support an application for a Civil List Pension. We were asked by a very distinguished author who was invalided and whom we knew intimately, to make such a recommendation, which we promptly did; but the author, on enquiry as to the likelihood of getting extra Civil Service Pensions during the war did not use our remmendation [sic] as he gathered the list was closed ...", 1 side 8vo., Passfield Corner, Liphook, 2nd July
Item Date:
1942
Stock No:
38827
£55
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THE TRADE UNION MOVEMENT IS DEAD AS AN ORGAN OF REVOLT
WEBB
(Beatrice, 1858-1943, Sociologist, Economist and Reformer, wife of Sidney)
Typed letter signed 'Mrs Sidney Webb' to Lord ASKWITH
(George, 1st Baron, 1861-1942, Lawyer, Civil Servant and Industrial Arbitrator), thanking him for his letter about her birthday and saying that "Those days in which we used to discuss the coming of the Trade Boards and other progressive measures then thought to be so revolutionary do seem far away. But we always remember how much we learnt from you in discussing the legal aspect of Trade Unionism, and the judicial decisions which were then upsetting the Trade Union mind. I often wonder what you think will be the future of Trade Unionism. We tell our trade Union friends that the movement is dead as an organ of revolt and it must make up its mind to become a sub-organ of Government with advocacy and research as its main activities. But of course the question of unemployment has now completely submerged the old question of the conditions of employment with you and we were interested in. I agree with you that the young people of today are most promising. But what their convictions are Heaven only knows! ...", 1 side 4to., Passfield Corner, Liphook, 2nd April
Item Date:
1928
Stock No:
39297
£175
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THE GREAT AMERICAN ORATOR
WEBSTER
(Daniel, 1782-1852, American Lawyer and Statesman)
Autograph letter signed to John Ramsay M'Culloch,
(1789-1864, the political economist), thanking him "for the copy of your Essay, which I shall read on the passage home. If I should notice any mistakes or errors, into which you may have been led, in respect to the system of Banking in the U States, I may trouble you with a letter .... No one believes more sincerely than I do, in the truth & importance of all the general principles, which I understand you to maintain. I am, with great regard", 2 sides 8vo., Brunswick Hotel, [London], 19th November
with 1 inch stub of blank conjugate leaf, into which extends a note in an old neat hand below the signature "d. October 24th 1852"
Item Date:
1839
Stock No:
16453
£350
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