Description
Object description
Ms and ts papers (85pp) relating to his pacifist beliefs, September 1929 - September 1946, including correspondence concerning his registration as a Conscientious Objector, official Tribunal and release forms, an exercise book containing press cuttings of his political correspondence with various newspapers, ts letters to and from the Peace Pledge Union, the No More War Movement, and various other pacifist organisations, and a collection of ms and ts papers (170pp), March 1939 - April 1946, relating to the origins, purchase and administration of the Kingston Community, a pacifist collective farm which he helped to set up and run 1940 - 1942, plus general commentaries on community living (15pp), ca 1940s - 1977, and a number of miscellaneous ms items concerning the peace movement and other pacifist communities (94pp), 1914 - 1985, including the Bruderhof Community, the Anglican Brotherhood of St Francis of Assisi, and the Little Commonwealth, also with the collection are photocopies (15pp) of selected CO material, a newsletter and other documents relating to the Kingston Community.
Content description
Ms and ts papers (85pp) relating to his pacifist beliefs, September 1929 - September 1946, including correspondence concerning his registration as a Conscientious Objector, official Tribunal and release forms, an exercise book containing press cuttings of his political correspondence with various newspapers, ts letters to and from the Peace Pledge Union, the No More War Movement, and various other pacifist organisations, and a collection of ms and ts papers (170pp), March 1939 - April 1946, relating to the origins, purchase and administration of the Kingston Community, a pacifist collective farm which he helped to set up and run 1940 - 1942, plus general commentaries on community living (15pp), ca 1940s - 1977, and a number of miscellaneous ms items concerning the peace movement and other pacifist communities (94pp), 1914 - 1985, including the Bruderhof Community, the Anglican Brotherhood of St Francis of Assisi, and the Little Commonwealth, also with the collection are photocopies (15pp) of selected CO material, a newsletter and other documents relating to the Kingston Community.
History note
Cataloguer APR
History note
Catalogue date 1996-05-02