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

In 1911 MacDonald became "Chairman of the Parliamentary Labour Party", the leader of the party. He was the chief intellectual leader of the party, paying little attention to class warfare and much more to the emergence of a powerful state as it exemplified the Darwinian evolution of an ever more complex society. He was an Orthodox Edwardian progressive, keen on intellectual discussion, and averse to agitation.

Item Date:  1910

Stock No:  42328      £175

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