BIB_ID
103551
Accession number
MA 23288
Creator
Headlam, Stewart D. (Stewart Duckworth), 1847-1924.
Display Date
London, England, 1903 November 21.
Credit line
Purchased, 1956.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 17.2 x 11.5 cm
Notes
Written from "Wavertree, / St. Peter's Road, / St. Margaret's, / Twickenham" on stationery engraved with the address.
Previously accessioned MA 1754, part of a collection of letters to T.J. Cobden-Sanderson, his wife Anne Cobden-Sanderson, and other family members.
Previously accessioned MA 1754, part of a collection of letters to T.J. Cobden-Sanderson, his wife Anne Cobden-Sanderson, and other family members.
Provenance
Purchased at Sotheby sale, 17 June 1956, lot 708.
Summary
Explaining why he is not yet ready to support the I.L.P; saying "I am in search for knowledge about it and the relation between Labour and Liberalism and am asking serious people to enlighten me at a Conference to be held about 3 weeks after Christmas. What is meant by Labour? and of what is it to be independent. But I won't trouble you more - perhaps you will come to the Conference - or answer the questions which a few enquirers are putting : I will have them sent to you;" adding, in a postscript "Who are the 'workers' for whom the world is? Am I a worker is Chamberlain a worker & Balfour - are my friends the Dancers included and all the mothers - & the Teachers and the members of the Stock Exchange (at better times then the present) & the excellent Publicans?"
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