Ref NoJOH/COR/7671-7850
AltRefNoCorrespondence - Box 8
CollectionHewlett Johnson Papers
TitleCorrespondence
Date7.1931-1.1964
Extent1 folder
DescriptionThis file consists of letters and other documents from the end of Hewlett's tenure as Dean of Manchester to his post retirement period in the 1960s.; The correspondence includes letters from John Shirley, Headmaster of the King's School, letters about the gift of a crucifix for the Nave altar in the Canterbury Cathedral, and other improvements to the church's furnishings etc., in patricular from Sir Walter Tapper, acrhitect.; There is also material on China, from the floods of the early Thirties to the "Germ Warfare" incident of 1952, many letters referring to the World Peace Movement of the 1950s, and a small amount of material referring to Johnson's 90th birthday and his subsequent retirement, and visit to Cuba in 1964.
SubjectKing's School (Canterbury, England)
Profumo-Christine Keeler affair, 1963
Britain-China Friendship Association
Korean War, 1950-1953--Biological warfare.
Peace movements
Johnson, Hewlett, 1874-1966--Travels--Cuba--1964
Canterbury Cathedral, Friends
Church furniture
China--History--Revolution, 1911-1912
China--History--Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976.
China--History,1928-1937
Canterbury Cathedral, Sebastopol Bell
EventPeople's Congress for Peace, Vienna 5-December 1952
Christmas Bridge, play at the Unity Theatre Society Limited, London 1952
Related OrganisationcorrespondentBritish Broadcasting Corporation
correspondentBritish Esperanto Peace Committee
correspondentManchester and District Peace Committee
correspondentsociety for cultural Relations with the U.S.S.R.
correspondentBrighton and Hove Peace Committee
correspondentInternational Volunteer Service for Peace
correspondent Oxford Social Studies Association
correspondent Faith Craft-Works, Ltd. (under the direction of the arts and crafts committee of the Society of Faith, Wesminster)
ContentOrganisation/16
Associated PersonShirley, Frederick Joseph John, Revd., 1890-1967 (Canon of Canterbury Cathedral, Headmaster of King's School Canterbury)
Pennifold, Richard, Mr. (Honorary Secretary of Brighton and Hove Peace Committee)
Camburn, Kathleen, Miss (The Little Company of Christ, London)
McClemens, Mr.
Pritt, D. N. (Denis Nowell), Mr., 1887-1972 (lawyer and political activist)
Tapper, Michael, Sir (architect, son of Sir Walter Tapper)
Neild, John, Mrs.
Plimmer, J.
Pratt, Joan (Queen Mary College, Communist Society)
Bridges, Ethel T. Miss
Padel, C. F. C. , Mr. (Headmaster of Carlisle Grammar School, 1912-1932)
Kaiser, Thomas, Mr. (Honorary Secretary of Manchester and District Peace Committee)
Paraige, F., Miss (Secretary of the British Esperanto Peace Committee)
Ainley, Ben, Mr. (Manchester and District Peace Committee)
Preston, Jean, Miss (Secretary of the Student Christian Movement, Liverpool)
Preston, Ernest David, Mr.
Presser, Margaret, Mrs.
Pollitt, Harry, Mr. 1890-1960 (British Communist, general secretary, 1929-39, 1941-56, and chairman, 1956-60 of the Communist Party of Great Britain)
Peasgood, T.C., Mr.
Pomeroy, Roland, Mr. (International Volunteer Service for Peace, London)
Pape, May G., Miss
Pendleton, Eric B. de, Revd. (Church of the Epiphany, Norfolk, Virginia)
Parker, John, Mr. (Honorary Secretary of Webb Trustees)
Joliot-Curie, Frédéric, M. 1900-1958 (French physicist)
Laffitte, Jean, Mr. (General Secretary of the World Council of Peace)
Parfitt, A.J.
Popper, A.C., Mr.
Pugh, Caecilia Elisabeth Mary, Mrs. (biochemist)
Shen Ping, Mr. (Office of the Charge d'Affaires of the People's Republic of China in London)
Needham, (Noël) Joseph Terence Montgomery, Dr., 1900-1995 (biochemist and historian)
Babington, Margaret A., Miss, 1878-1958 (Secretary to the Friends of Canterbury Cathedral)
Wainwright, William, Mr., 1908-2000 (Assistant Editor of the Daily Worker, and Assistant General Secretary of the British Communist Party from 1956)
Lowe, Anne, Mrs. (the British Peace Committee)
Rubner, S., Mr. (Secretary of the Stepney Peace Council)
Petch, R.W., Mrs.
Simpson, B. (Polish Embassy, London)
Cunliffe, John M., Mr.
Smith, E.
Masefield, John, Mr. 1878-1967 (British poet and dramatist)
Maynard, Farnham Edward, Revd., 1882-1973 (canon of St. Paul's Cathedral, Melbourne, Australia)
Proud, F.W., Mr.
Meyer, Leo J., Mr.
Parker, Gordon A., Mr.
Marlow, O. L., Mr.
Martin, H. A. J., Mr.
McDonald, J., Mr.
Hogg, A. Spencer, Judge
McLeish, D.M., Mrs.
Melish, W. Howard, Revd., c.1910-1986 (Episcopal priest ousted from his Brooklyn parish during the MCCarthy era because of his political views)
Marsh-Roberts, Cyril F., Mr.
Murray, Thomas, Mr.
Jagger, H. (Honorary Secretary of Saddleworth Festival of the Arts, 1962)
Macnaghten, Caroline (Oxford Social Studies Association)
Merron, E., Mrs. (Wythenshawe Housewives Association)
Philpot, William, Mr. (Honorary Secretary of Wandworth Peace Council)
Morris, Ethel Mary, Ms.
Druce, Mary J., Ms.
Whiting, Gordon, E., Mr. (National Institute of Industrial Psychology, London)
Marshall, K., Mr.
Turner, William S, Revd. (Canon of Trinity Church, New Orleans)
Manning, Michael, Mr. (General Secretary of Unity Theatre Society Limited)
Sheppard, Hugh Richard Lawrie, Revd., 1880-1937 (Dean of Canterbury)
Neild, John, Mrs.
Duncan-Jones, Vincent, Mr. (the British Peace Committee)
Merz, Kurt, Mr. (the Deanery of Canterbury)
Clarke, Colonel
Babington, Margaret A., Miss, 1878-1958 (Secretary to the Friends of Canterbury Cathedral)
Johnson, Hewlett, Revd., 1874-1966
Venner, Sydney G., Mr.
CategoryCorrespondence
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