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'.
Sans titreCorrespondence 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
Documents and correspondence relating to WP Crozier's two novels, 'Letters of Pontius Pilate' from 1928 and his posthumously-published novel, 'The Fates are Laughing', 1945:
Cutting of a review of 'Letters of Pilate' from the Guardian, 30 March 1928;
Letter from A Ransome to WP Crozier, 31 March 1928;
Postcard from Dean WR Inge to WP Crozier, 31 March 1928;
Letter from H Cadbury to WP Crozier, 4 April 1928;
Letter from A Monkhouse to WP Crozier, 13 April 1928;
Letter from Neville Cardus to WP Crozier, 24 April 1928;
Letter from Ivor Brown to WP Crozier, 3 May 1928;
Letter from JL Hammond to Mrs Crozier, 21 May 1944;
Letter from JL Hammond to Mrs Crozier, 17 Oct 1944;
Letter from AP Wadsworth to Mrs Crozier, 15 May 1945;
Letter from JR Scott to Mrs Crozier, 15 May 1945;
Letter from JL Hammond to Mrs Crozier, 15 May 1945;
Review from the Guardian of the 'Fates are Laughing', 16 May 1945;
Letter from J Bone to Mrs Crozier, 23 May 1945;
Letter from FS Attenborough to Mrs Crozier, 26 May 194;5
Letter from JE Mossey to Mrs Crozier, 18 July 1945;
Review by George Orwell from the Manchester Evening News of the 'Fates are Laughing', 7 June 1945.
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