1. Harmsworth Family.- Harmsworth (Alfred Harmsworth, Viscount Northcliffe, 1865-1922), Harold Harmsworth, first Viscount Rothermere, 1868-1940, newspaper proprietors; Cecil Bisshopp Harmsworth, Liberal politician, 1869-1948; St. John Harmsworth, owner of Perrier, 1876-1932 & other members of the family. Archive of correspondence and papers relating to the Harmsworth family, and others, including: c. 35 letters from Northcliffe to Cecil Harmsworth, giving general advice: on Anglo-American relations, release of prisoners of war in Russia, pressing him to apply for the position of Assistant Secretary of State rather than Under-Secretary, his health etc., payment for fees relating to Letters Patent for Northcliffe’s baronetcy, 1904; copy of The Henley House School Magazine, edited by Northcliffe as Alfred C. Harmsworth, 1881; typescript copies of Northcliffe’s My Journey Round the World (incomplete); Cecil Harmsworth. Lord N. and Other Harmsworth Memorials , typescript copy, n.d. ; copy of Lord Northcliffe’s Will; correspondence on a life of Northcliffe; Harmsworth; Funeral Service for Northcliffe at Westminster Abbey, and printed pieces on his life; pen and ink design of Northcliffe’s bookplate by Alf. Downey; correspondence with University College, London on the Northcliffe Lectures; T.Ls.s. from Lord Rothermere to Cecil Harmsworth, some at the outbreak of the Second World War (gloomy predictions about the war), the loss of two sons in the First World War; failing health etc.; correspondence, pamphlet and newspaper cuttings on Lord Rothermere’s restoration of the clock to St. Dunstans-in-the-West, Fleet Street; Autograph manuscript by Cecil Harmsworth of part of memoir of St. John Harmsworth; The Prayer of Dr. Fleming at the Memorial service to my friend Sir Thomas Lipton, signed by St. John Harmsworth; T.L.s from Lord Lytton on the death of St. John, “I remember so well the day when he met with the terrible accident on the road near our own home”; members of the family including: letters from his mother Geraldine and papers relating to her estate; congratulations on winning Luton Bye-Election 1908; speech in the House of Commons, 17 July 1908, “My dearest Cecil, I had already read your speech and liked it greatly”; Peter Harmsworth, Esmond Harmsworth, second Viscount Rothermere; newspaper cuttings; Sir Robert Leicester Harmsworth; Associated Newspapers Limited. Balance Sheet and Directors’ Report, 1928; 2 T.Ls.s. from Ralph Lane of The Daily Mail; menus etc., propaganda in Ireland, typescripts ; letters including: Walter Price, Major Astor, Lady Kennet (wife of Sir Robert Scott, Antarctic explorer) on modelling Northcliffe’s memorial; Cecil King, Sir Harold Harmsworth, Vere Harmsworth, L.R. Cooper of the Anglo-Newfoundland Development Co., Ltd., L.R. Hooper regarding The Times; Alfred Harmsworth ( father of the Harmsworth brothers, barrister 1837-89) typed transcripts of diaries for 1867, 1870 & 1874; typescripts relating to the Bethlehem Hospital, Arthur Murray, Wilfrid Grenfell, R.M. McKenna, Stephen McKenna, T.E. Page, Alec Murray, Master of Elibank, Geoffrey Dawson, letters, manuscripts and typescripts, v.s., v.d., [nineteenth century] - 1968 (qty)
est. £4000 – £6000
Northcliffe on Lloyd George. “When you see Lloyd-George, do urge upon him the fatuousness of avoiding the question of Tariff. If he will take a careful holiday sometime in Germany or Canada, he will quite realise that without a Tariff his career is done and d----d. He is too good a man to be wasted on this ridiculous old National way of doing business. I might just as well go on printing Newspapers by hand machinery as he try to run the Country without a Tariff. He need not advocate a Tariff, but I think it would be very unwise of him to talk about Free Trade at all.” Northcliffe to Cecil Harmsworth. 22nd January 1910.
Lord Northcliffe. “My dear Cecil, I am in the midst of the returning soldiers at the British Leave Club through which thousands pass every week. If you have watched my recent course of action - the great meeting of my employees, the space given to Labour in my papers and the line I took in the Election - you will understand how anxious I am that these returning soldiers should get justice. They have been through horrors unspeakable, unwritable, unthinkable, unbelievable, and they must not be fobbed off with mere promises and speeches. I will see to it that they are not so treated. I hope you get in with a good majority and that you will not lick the Party’s boots. Take the line of sane and intellectual Labour, as befits the times.” Lord Northcliffe to Cecil Harmsworth, 18th December 1918.
Tribute to Lord Northcliffe. Lynch (Arthur, Colonel, Irish Nationalist, charged and imprisoned for Treason in siding with the Boers in the South Africa, 1861-1934) Autograph Letter signed to Cecil Harmsworth, 8vo, Haverstock Hill, 17th August 1922, “I saw you at the Abbey & the deep sympathy I felt for you all makes me write this letter. Mrs Lynch was with me, & on the way home reminded me of many acts of kindness of your brother at the time of my trial & imprisonment.”
Newspaper publishing in the Second World War. “The Western Morning News Co Ltd. As a matter of fact I understand that this is now the worst blitzed of any town [Plymouth]. In the office we have had a really miraculous escape. There is no other buiilding in the street, and all around are just acres of rubble. Beyond a certain amount of damaged paper and the loss of a few motor cars, we have suffered very little indeed. Of course a number of the staff are without their homes, and two have been killed, as well as other casualties... . We have arrangements for printing the papers in Tavistock and Exeter, and a further one is being erected in Powderham Castle, just outside Exeter, in a closed-in tennis court, very kindly lent to us by the Earl of Devon... .” - Harold Harmsworth, 6 May 1941.
Answers Magazine. “Dear Cecil, Am starting a paper!!! Halfpenny illustrated!!! Appears next Thursday!! In London starting it. Predict a huge sale. Will be rich if it succeed. Hildebrand.” - Hildebrand Harmsworth, editor of The New Liberal Review, 1901-04, sometime propreitor of The Globe.
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