Ref NoJOH/COR/232-345
AltRefNoCorrespondence - Box 1
CollectionHewlett Johnson Papers
TitleCorrespondence
Date1931-1937
Extent1 folder
DescriptionAssorted correspondence about Social Credit, prayers for mourners, the Cathedral Pilgrimage for the Unemployed and the Canterbury Festival. 1934- 5-6; Assorted correspondence about Albert Einstein's visit to Canterbury, Johnson's proposed visit to China, Lady Winifred Fortescue, the Religious Delegation to Spain, a proposed passion play in the Albert Hall, and a plagiarised sermon preached at Westminster Abbey. Assorted dates, mainly 1931-2-3; Arrangements for Gandhi's visit to Canterbury. 1932; Correspondence about the bell of HMS Canterbury and other gifts to the Cathedral. Various dates from 1931-2-3;
NotesEvery morning at eleven o'clock the Bell Ceremony takes place at the Warriors Chapel of St. Michael. The Verger rings the ship's bell from H.M.S. Canterbury, and prayers are said by the Chaplain for all who have died in conflict, and for peace in the world. An old soldier then marches to the Book of Remembrance in the Chapel and turns the page
SubjectSpanish Civil War, 1936-1939
Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939--Basque country
Working class--Housing--Great Britain
Housing--China
Junks--China
Gandhi, Mahatma, 1869-1948--Journeys--England.
China International Famine Relief Commission
Judaism--Relations--Christianity
Anglo-Russian relations
Canterbury Cathedral, H.M.S. Canterbury Bell
EventFestival of Music and Drama
Archibishop Lord Davidson's Memorial in Canterbury Cathedral, 1932
Passion Play at the Albert Hall
Related OrganisationShanghai Office of the Inspectorate General of Customs
Reynolds's Illustrated News, London
Sunday Chronicle, London
Society of Jews and Christians
Norwood Social Credit Club
National Flood Relief Commission
Friends of Canterbury Cathedral
Victor Gollancz, Ltd., London
British Russian Gazette and Trade Outlook
ContentOrganisation/16
Related PlaceDurango Basque Country Spain
Associated PersonEddy, Sherwood, Dr., 1871-1963 (American author and YMCA leader in the Orient, the Near East, and Russia)
Mason, Margaret, M.
Paget, Henry Luke, Revd. , b.1853 (Bishop of Chester, 1919-1932)
Rose, Alfred Careywollaston, Revd. (Bishop of Dover, 1937)
Castle, Leonard, Mr.
Noel, Conrad Le Despenser Roden, Revd.,1869-1942 (Church of England clergyman and Christian socialist)
Johnson, Hewlett, Revd., 1874-1966
Edwards, Trystan, A., Mr. (architect)
Rogers, Guy, T., Canon
Lamb, David C. Commissioner (Salvation Army)
Mansfield, D. Forbes, Mr.
Platt, Wilfrid, Mr.
Dunningham, Brian, Mr. (President of the Theosophical Society of New Zeland, 1954-56)
Grenfell, Wilfred Thomason, Sir, 1865-1940 (English missionary and medical doctor)
Green, Peter, Mr.
Shines, Lois Mary, Ms.
Bell, Chalmers H., Revd.
Donaldson, Frederick Lewis, Archdeacon, 1860-1953 (Church of England clergyman and Christian Socialist)
Thornton, Hugh C., Mr. (Secretary of the Milner Memorial Committee)
Monnington, Winifred M., Mrs.
Pringuer, Mildred S., Mrs.
Floyd, Thomas Hope, Mr.
Thelin, G ? (International Labour Office, Geneva)
Williams, Frank Garfield Hodder, Revd. c.1882-1960
Barrow ?
Andrews, Charles Freer, Revd., 1871-1940
Birley, Norman Pellew, Major, 1891-1980 (Headmaster of the King's School, Canterbury)
Parker, L. I., Miss (Director of the British Russian Gazette and Trade Outlook)
Pape, A. G., Mr. (Secretary of the National Centre Group of the New Political Fellowship)
Frodsham, Bishop (from the Vicarage of Halifax, Yorkshire)
Babington, Margaret A., Miss, 1878-1958 (Secretary to the Friends of Canterbury Cathedral)
Fortescue, Winifred, Lady, 1888-1951 (authoress daughter of Howard Beech, wife of Sir John William Fortescue)
Maze, Frederick William, Mr., 1871-1959 (civil servant and Customs official in China)
Castle, Leonard, Mr.
Webb, Sidney [James], 1st Baron Passfield, 1859-1947 (Writer on sociology and political reform)
Myers, Mr. (headmaster of the Simon Langton School for Boys)
Pringuer, Mildred S., Mrs.
MacKay, Professor
Tapper, Michael, Sir (architect, son of Sir Walter Tapper)
Russell, John Ian Robert, 13th Duke of Bedford, 1917-2002 (known as the Marquess of Tavistock until his father died in 1953)
Dearmer, Percy, Revd., 1867-1936 (liturgist and historian of Christian worship)
Stamford, Lord (of Dunham Massey)
Floyd, Mrs.
Wyndham, Sir
Einstein, Albert, Dr., 1879-1955
Northbourne, Walter Ernest Christopher James, Baron, 1896-1982 (4th Lord Northbourne; agriculturalist, Olympic medalist, and author, claimed to be the "father" of organic agriculture)
Gandhi, Mahatma, Mr., 1869-1948 (Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Indian political leader and religious and social reformer)
Williams, Frank Garfield Hodder, Revd. c.1882-1960
Slade, Madeleine, Miss, 1892-1982 (English follower of Gandhi known as Mirabehn)
Murray, Katharine Marjory Stewart, Duchess of Atholl, 1874-1960 (public servant and politician, born Katharine Marjory Ramsay)
Colville, Admiral
Wilberforce, Canon
Davis, Merle, Mr. (Director of the Social and Industrial Research Department of the I.M.C.)
Unwin, Stanley, Sir (of George Allen and Unwin Ltd, Publishers)
Crowdy, Rachel, Dame
Wilkinson, Ellen, Miss
Orage, Alfred Richard, Mr., 1873-1934 (British intellectual, best known for editing the magazine "The New Age")
Eddy, Sherwood, Dr., 1871-1963 (American author and YMCA leader in the Orient, the Near East, and Russia)
Rathbone, Eleanor Florence, Miss, 1872 -1946 (Independent British Member of Parliament and long-term campaigner for women's rights)
Gandhi, Mahatma, Mr., 1869-1948 (Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Indian political leader and religious and social reformer)
CategoryCorrespondence
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