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An issue of the Guardian Weekly published on 6th May 1921 the day after the centenary of the establishment of the Guardian. As well as providing general news and reviews from that week the issue contains a 'Centenary Section' including: an article by Charles Prestwich Scott entitled 'A Hundred Years'; an article by William Haslam Mills entitled 'The Paper and its Readers: A Century of History'; messages from the King and world statesmen including Lloyd George; Winston Churchill; General Jan Christian Smuts; Giovanni Giolitti; Count Sforza and Raymond Poincare; American and Canadian press tributes and messages; an article by AN Monkhouse entitled 'The Appeal to Posterity'; an article by James Bone entitled 'The Manchester Guardian in the capital'; an article by Granville Bantock entitled 'Musical Manchester'; a section entitled 'The Book and the Play' by AN Monkhouse and Charles Edward Montague; reprints from the Manchester Guardian of advertisements from 1821-22; and reports of the speeches from the centenary dinner.

Correspondence between WP Crozier and other members of Guardian staff concerning staff management and editorial duties including:
Letter from WJ Haley to WP Crozier, concerning the relationship between the Guardian and the Manchester Evening News, 22 Dec 1933;
Memo, 8 pages typewritten, from WP Crozier to JR Scott, 23 Feb 1936;
Letter from LB Namier to WP Crozier, about Syria and the Lebanon, 29 June 1936;
Letter from the Guardian canteen manageress, Muriel Turner, to WP Crozier, about diet, 6 January 1937;
Memo, 4 pages, typewritten, from WP Crozier to F Attenborough, 25 Jan 1937;
Wire from J Bone to WP Crozier, about Palestine and a new commission on Arab and Jew partition, 6 January 1938;
Letter from JL Hammond to WP Crozier, 27 Oct 1938;
Letter from 30 editorial staff to WP Crozier, 30 Dec 1938;
Memo from WP Crozier to TS Banks and Mr Foden, 12 Feb 1939;
Letter from WP Crozier to JR Scott, 13 Feb 1939;
Letter from TS Banks to WP Crozier, 6 Jan 1941;
Printed internal memo, "English in the Paper" marked 'Confidential', March 1941;
Letter from WJ Haley to WP Crozier, about a leader concerning WJ Haley's move to the BBC, 2 September 1943;
Letter from WP Crozier to LB Namier, 6 January 1944.
Creator: Crozier, William Percival (1879-1944); newspaper editor

Drawing of James Bone

Letters sent to James Bone expressing sympathy on the death of WP Crozier:
Letter from Evelyn Sharp Nevinson to J Bone, 16 April 1944;
Letter from JG Crowther, editor of the Economist, to J Bone, 16 April 1944;
Letter from Hugh MacGregor to J Bone, 17 April 1944;
Letter from LH Belisha to J Bone, 18 April 1944;
Letter from RWG Mackay to J Bone, 18 April 1944;
Cablegram from John Owens and Hamilton Owens, of the Baltimore Sun, to J Bone, 18 April, 1944;
Letter from G Pettigrew-Smith to J Bone, 18 April 1944;
Part of letter from RD Peck, of the BBC, to J Bone, 18 April 1944;
Letter from Stanley Burch, of Reuters, to J Bone, conveying a message from [Cecil] Sprigge in Italy, 19 April 1944.
Creator: Crozier, William Percival (1879-1944); newspaper editor

A large body of correspondence sent to Mrs Crozier expressing sympathy on the death of WP Crozier:
Tribute, 2 pages typewritten, by B Bracken on the death of WP Crozier;
Letter from JR Scott to Mrs Crozier attached to the above, 15 May 1944;
Letter, 2 pages, from JE Mossey to Mrs Crozier, "15" [16] April 1944;
Letter from AP Wadsworth to Mrs Crozier, 16 April 1944;
Letter, 2 pages, from CH Hobbs to Mrs Crozier, 16 April 1944;
Letter from RT Clark to Mrs Crozier, 16 April 1944;
Letter from Dorothy Monkhouse, "Sunday Night", to Mrs Crozier, undated but presumed to be from 16 April 1944;
Letter from J Bone to Mrs Crozier, 16 April 1944;
Letter from Gordon Phillips to Mrs Crozier, 16 April 1944;
Letter from JL Hammond to Mrs Crozier, 17 April 1944;
Letter from M Linford to Mrs Crozier, 17 April 1944;
Letter from Lord Stamford to Mrs Crozier, 17 April 1944;
Letter from D Davies to Mrs Crozier, 17 April 1944;
Letter from Gertrude Coulam to Mrs Crozier, 17 April 1944;
Letter from W Eames to Mrs Crozier, 17 April 1944;
Letter from H Wyrill to Mrs Crozier, 17 April 1944;
Letter from John Coatman to Mrs Crozier, 17 April 1944;
Letter from C Balderson to Mrs Crozier, 17 April 1944;
Letter from Charles Powell to Mrs Crozier, 17 April 1944;
Letter from WH Armitt to Mrs Crozier, 17 April 1944;
Letter from H Sacher to Mrs Crozier, 17 April 1944;
Letter from F Sidebotham to Mrs Crozier, 17 April 1944;
Telegram from N Cardus to Mrs Crozier, 17 April 1944;
Letter from FA Voigt to Mrs Crozier, 17 April 1944;
Letter from S Battersby to Mrs Crozier, 17 April 1944;
Letter from Sir Robert Vansittart to Mrs Crozier, 17 April 1944;
Letter from L Hore-Belisha to Mrs Crozier, 17 April 1944;
Letter from A Sinclair to Mrs Crozier, 17 April 1944;
Letter from EJ Philips to Mrs Crozier, 17 April 1944;
Letter from EW Dickes to Mrs Crozier, 17 April 1944;
Letter from Canon Peter Green to Mrs Crozier, 17 April 1944;
Telegram from Juan Negrin, former Prime Minister of Spain, to Mrs Crozier, 17 April 1944;
Letter from Philip I Wigoder to Mrs Crozier, 17 April 1944;
Letter from T Thompson to Mrs Crozier, 17 April 1944;
Letter from CG Boddington, from the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, to Mrs Crozier, 17 April 1944;
Letter from CW Tonge, Guardian Advertisement Manager, to Mrs Crozier, 17 April 1944;
Letter from B Fry to Mrs Crozier, 17 April 1944;
Letter from H Boardman to Mrs Crozier, 18 April 1944;
Letter from Mabel Scott to Mrs Crozier, 18 April 1944;
Letter from Lord Beaverbrook to Mrs Crozier, 18 April 1944;
Telegram from Lloyd George to Mrs Crozier, 18 April 1944;
Letter from W Redfern to Mrs Crozier, 18 April 1944;
Letter from W Worthington to Mrs Crozier, 18 April 1944;
Letter from C Thorne Jones to Mrs Crozier, 18 April 1944;
Letter from Muirhead Bone to Mrs Crozier, 18 April 1944;
Telegram from C Weizmann to Mrs Crozier, 18 April 1944;
Letter from Eleanor Rathbone to J L Hammond, 18 April 1944;
Letter from S Brodetsky to Mrs Crozier, 18 April 1944;
Letter from N Slutzkin to Mrs Crozier, 18 April 1944;
Letter from R Garner to Mrs Crozier, 18 April 1944;
Letter from Douglas Miller, High Master of Manchester Grammar School, to Mrs Crozier, 18 April 1944;
Letter from RW Smith, Guardian Counting House staff, to Mrs Crozier, 18 April 1944;
Letter from Rhys J Davis, MP, to Mrs Crozier, 18 April 1944;
Letter from DR Prosser, Editor of the Western Mail and Echo, Cardiff, to Mrs Crozier, 18 April 1944;
Letter from Richard A Taylor, from the Manchester Teachers' Association, to Mrs Crozier, 18 April 1944;
Letter from CH Reilly to Mrs Crozier, 18 April 1944;
Letter from Cecil Wolfson to Mrs Crozier, 19 April 1944;
Letter from J Unsworth to Mrs Crozier, 19 April 1944;
Letter from WR Davies to Mrs Crozier, 19 April 1944;
Letter from Sir Percy Harris, MP, to Mrs Crozier, 19 April 1944;
Letter from LB Hammond, wife of JL Hammond, to Mrs Crozier, 19 April 1944;
Letter from WH Brindley, Society of Chemical Industry, to Mrs Crozier, 19 April 1944;
Letter from GO MacKenzie, Chairman of the Reform Club, Manchester, to Mrs Crozier, 19 April 1944;
Letter from FS Airey to Mrs Crozier, 19 April 1944;
Letter from Norman M Jacob, from the Zionist Central Council to Mrs Crozier, 19 April 1944;
Letter from David Ayerst to Mrs Crozier, 20 April 1944;
Letter from E Sharp Nevinson to Mrs Crozier, 20 April 1944;
Letter from H Laski to Mrs Crozier, 20 April 1944;
Letter from the Manchester Jewish Forum to Mrs Crozier, 20 April 1944;
Letter from John Midgley to Mrs Crozier, 20 April 1944;
Letter from Joyce Lustgarten to Mrs Crozier, 20 April 1944;
Letter from A Cobham, from the Yorkshire Evening Press, and expressions of esteem and sympathy from Yorkshire morning and evening newspaper editors to Mrs Crozier, 20 April 1944;
Letter from David Freeman, of the Trades Advisory Council to Mrs Crozier, 20 April 1944;
Letter from N Dixon to Mrs Crozier, 21 April 1944
Letter from Arthur Middleton, of The Humane Education Society, to Mrs Crozier, 21 April 1944;
Letter from G Phillips to Mrs Crozier, 23 April 1944;
Letter from Canon Peter Green to Mrs Crozier, written after Canon Peter Green had taken the funeral on 20 April 1944, 23 April 1944;
Telegram (3 sheets) from A Werth to Mrs Crozier, 24 April 1944;
Letter from A Moss, JP, of the Council of Manchester and Salford Jews, to Mrs Crozier, 25 April 1944;
Two letters from CH Reilly to Mrs Crozier, about a proposal to give WP Crozier an honourary degree from Oxford, 25 and 27 April 1944;
Letter from H Massingham to Mrs Crozier, 26 April 1944;
Letter from T Crimes to Mrs Crozier, 26 April 1944;
Letter from Thora Cronce, of the Ministry of Fuel and Power, April 1944;
Letter from Maurice Ashley to Mrs Crozier, April 1944;
Letter from Bernard Chinn, of the Manchester Country Club, to Mrs Crozier, 1 May 1944;
Letter from AP Wadsworth to Mrs Crozier, 1 May 1944;
Letter from KE Innes, of the Women's International League, to Mrs Crozier, 10 May 1944;
Letter from TD Mosconas, Librarian to His Beatitude, Patriarch of Alexandria and all Africa, to Mrs Crozier, 5 June 1944;
Letter from Reginald Smith, of The British Weekly, to Mrs Crozier thanking her for a portrait of WP Crozier, 28 March 1947.
Creator: Crozier, William Percival (1879-1944); newspaper editor

Folder containing different accounting records produced by MGEN, 1924-1960 and also circulation and [editorial/advertising] contents, 1830-1844.

The first part of the folder contains MGEN annual reports and accounts with balance sheet, profit and loss account and auditors report, March 1924 - March 1960, signed by the MGEN directors and secretary (except 1934 where there are no signatures and 1935 where only the secretary has signed) and also by the auditors (except 1934 and 1935). The accounts are six-monthly, September 1923 - March 1929, and for the earlier years only the March accounts are signed. Only a balance sheet exists for September 1923. The report and accounts are in typescript format until 1930 when they are printed. The signatories are CP Scott, EA Montague, James Bone, WP Crozier, WJ Haley, JR Scott, AP Wadsworth, Robert Ebbage, TE Henry and Laurence Scott.

The second part of the folder contains typescript profit and loss account and balance sheets for the six months preceeding September 1929 and March 1930.

The third and fourth parts of the folder contains six-monthly profit and loss accounts for the Guardian Weekly and then the Guardian Commercial, March 1924 - March 1930. These are predominately typescript with some manuscript records. Three pages of manuscript calculations comparing the profit and loss of the Guardian Weekly and the Guardian Commercial, 1924-1928, are loose following the Guardian Weekly profit and loss account pages.

After the Guardian Commercial accounts are manuscript figures 1830-1845 used for accounting purposes. The contemporary records have been glued to the reverse of typescript receipt and expenditure accounts (crossed through) for the Guardian, Guardian Commercial, Guardian Weekly and Evening News comparing figures for May/June 1940 and 1941. The exact purpose of the figures is unknown as few titles exist but they generally relate to sales/circulation, editorial columns or advertising content. Page 1 contains quarterly total and average circulation figures for the Guardian, 1830-1844, with some indication of Wednesday and Saturday variations from 1836. Page 2 contains quarterly total and average figures, possibly for editorial lines or advertising content, 1830-1844. Page 3 indicates the number of stamps from Parliamentary returns, for the Guardian, Advertiser, Chronicle, Courier (from 1836) and Times newspapers, 1835-1841. Pages 4 and 5 contain weekly figures, 1830-1840 possibly for editorial lines and/or advertising content. Page 6 has a manuscript note on the increase in editorial columns, 1821-1945 and an untitled and undated chart of Wednesday and Saturday figures. Page 7 has a chart of Wednesday and Saturday figures, 1843-1844. Page 8 identifies the quantity of advertisements carried in the Guardian. Advertiser, Courier, Times, Chronicle, Herald, Aris' Gazette, Leeds Mercury, Gores' Advertiser, Myers' Advertiser and Liverpool Mercury, 1832-1835.
Creator: Manchester Guardian and Evening News Limited

Accounting procedure summaries for the MGEN from October 1953. Summarises various internal procedures such as overdue accounts, dealing with debts, dealing with cash as well as dealing with Guardian and Evening News financial accounts separately. Also includes staff names associated with each procedure within their department.
Creator: Manchester Guardian and Evening News Limited

A special issue created to mark the centenary of the Manchester Guardian's establishment. The issue includes: an article by Charles Prestwich Scott entitled 'A Hundred Years', an article by William Haslam Mills entitled 'The Paper and its Readers: A Century of History'; a copy of the prospectus announcing the first number of the Manchester Guardian in 1821; contributions from statesmen to the centenary number including General Jan Christian Smuts; Giovanni Giolitti; Count Sforza and Raymond Poincare; an article by John Masefield entitled 'Raynard the Fox'; an article by Granville Bantock entitled 'Some Musical Recollections'; an article by Sir Frank Benson entitled 'Memories of the Manchester Stage'; an article by JL Hammond entitled 'A Century of Liberalism'; some reprints from the Manchester Guardian including advertisements from 1821-22 and a quotation from each year from 1821-1921; a survey of the machines and technology used to produce the newspaper; an article by James Bone entitled 'The London End'; an article by AP Wadsworth entitled 'The Growth of Municipal Manchester'; an article by AN Monkhouse entitled 'Reviews and Reviewing'; and an article by James Drysdale entitled 'The Gallery, 100 Years of Parliamentary Reporting'.

Photograph of ET Scott, CE Montague, JJ O'Neill, WP Crozier, J Bone, JR Scott, Mr CP Scott and LT Hobhouse.
Creator: Manchester Guardian; Picture Desk; Manchester Picture Library

Documents relating to the death of WP Crozier including press cuttings which report his funeral and tributes to him, and two series of correspondence offering condolences, the first, to Mrs Crozier, and the second, to James Bone.
Creator: Crozier, William Percival (1879-1944); newspaper editor