Mary Bridges-Adams Collection on British Labour Movement and Russian Socialists, 1905-1939

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Series II: Georgii Checherin Materials, 1908-1918, undated, undated

The series comprises correspondence, drafts and copies of speeches and articles, reports, minutes of meetings, accounts for various activities, notes, a few documents related to his deportation, and printed ephemera and newspaper clippings. Most materials are related to the time of Chicherin's emigration and his life in Great Britain. Organized in five subseries.

Subseries II.1: Correspondence, 1912-1917, undated

Contains letters of various people and organizations in Russian, English, and French addressed to, or relating to, Chicherin and his efforts to help fellow Russian exiles in Europe and Siberia and to his fundraising activities for RSDRP and exiles relief. Series subdivided by subject: correspondence with prominent people, general correspondence with individuals, correspondence with organizations, outgoing letters, and subject correspondence. Letters arranged alphabetically within each subject of the subseries.

Correspondence with Prominent People, 1912-1917, undated

Request Box 1

Box 1 Folder 23 Applegarth, Robert, to George Chicherin, Surrey, 1915

(2 autograph letters signed)

Box 1 Folder 24 Bagotskii, Sergei Iustinovich, to Georgii Chicherin, 1915-1916

(8 autograph letters signed, 18 autograph postcards signed, 2 telegrams)

Box 1 Folder 25 Brockway, Fenner, to Bryce Leicester, undated

(1 autograph letter signed)

Box 1 Folder 26 Dan, Fedor, to Georgii Chicherin, Paris, 1912

(1 autograph letter signed by Fedor Dan and Iulii Martov)

Box 1 Folder 27 Kollontai, Aleksandra, to Georgii Chicherin, undated

(autograph letter signed)

Box 1 Folder 28 Lozovskii, A. (pseudonym of Solomon Abramovich Dridzo), to Georgii Chicherin, Paris,, 1916-1917

(2 autograph letters signed, 1 autograph postcard signed)

Martov, Iulii: see Dan, Fedor

Semkovskii, S.

(pseudonym of Bronshtein)

Box 1 Folder 29 To Georgii Chicherin, Clarens, 1915

(1 autograph letter signed)

Box 1 Folder 29 To Ornatskii, Paris, 1917

(1 autograph letter signed)

Box 1 Folder 29 Articles for Nashe slovo

(2 holograph manuscripts)

Box 1 Folder 30 Snowden, Philip, to Georgii Chicherin, various places, 1915, undated, 1915, undated

(4 typed letters signed, 1 autograph note signed)

General correspondence with individuals, 1913-1917, undated

Box 1 Folder 31 Arkell, A.1917

Box 1 Folder 31 Askew, J.B., Golder Green, 1916-1917

Box 1 Folder 31 Astrov, 1915

Box 1 Folder 31 Austin Smith, J., 1916

Box 1 Folder 32 Baldwin, F., 1916

Box 1 Folder 32 Baldwin, W.M., 1916

Box 1 Folder 32 Bird, E., 1916

Box 1 Folder 32 Bennet, L., undated

Box 1 Folder 32 Bobrovnikov, Nikolai and Sonia, 1916-1917

Box 1 Folder 32 Bond, L., London, 1917

Box 1 Folder 32 Bracher, S. V., 1916

Box 1 Folder 32 Brandwood, Harold G., Warrington, 1917

Box 1 Folder 32 Buv'e, E. (Workers' Suffrage Federation), 1917

Box 1 Folder 33 Cohen, Max M., 1916

Box 1 Folder 33 Detprano, Mrs (or Doprano), London, 1917

Box 1 Folder 33 Dmitrievskii, Viacheslav, 1915

Dolivo-Dobrovol'skii, G. (to K.D. Nabokov): see Subject correspondence (Box 2, Folder 14)

Box 1 Folder 33 Dombrovskii, Liverpool, 1916

Box 1 Folder 33 Eyres, E., Essex, 1917

Box 1 Folder 33 Field, Arthur, 1916

Box 1 Folder 33 Fisher, H.M., 1916

Box 1 Folder 33 Galsky, Anton, undated

Box 1 Folder 33 Gompertz, A.E., 1916

Box 1 Folder 33 Hardy, V.M., 1916

Box 1 Folder 33 Howe, 1915

Box 1 Folder 33 Humphrey, A. W., Ashton-under-Lyne, 1916-1917

Box 1 Folder 34 Khain, B., 1917

Box 1 Folder 34 King, James, 1915-1917

Box 1 Folder 34 Kogan, E., Petrograd, 1916

Box 1 Folder 34 Laskin, N., London, 1917

Box 1 Folder 34 Lawrence, J., 1915-1916

Box 1 Folder 34 Lewington, A.W.P., 1916

Box 1 Folder 35 Makushin, V., London, 1916

Box 1 Folder 35 Maynard, F.J., 1916

Box 1 Folder 35 Miles, William, 1917

Box 1 Folder 35 Nalton, Edna, 1916

Box 1 Folder 35 Newbury, F., 1916

Box 1 Folder 35 Ozol', Glasgow, 1916

Box 1 Folder 36 Paul, Cedar, 1916

Box 1 Folder 36 Petrov, Petr, Glasgow, 1915-1916

(see also: Correspondence with Organizations--British Socialist Party, Box 2, Folder 2)

Box 1 Folder 36 Petrova, Irina, 1916

Box 1 Folder 36 Pettifor, T.C., 1916

Box 1 Folder 36 Rees, John, Newport, 1917

Box 1 Folder 36 Rollin, R.undated

Box 1 Folder 37 Satarello, Henri, 1917, undated, 1917, undated

Box 1 Folder 37 Shames, Lev, 1915-1916

Box 1 Folder 37 Soubrie[?], L., 1913

Box 1 Folder 37 Stewart, James, undated

Box 1 Folder 37 Stiri[?], E., 1916

Box 1 Folder 37 Stoddart, Ruby, undated

Box 1 Folder 37 Surov, D., Paris, 1916

Box 1 Folder 37 Vainberg, Iulii Stanislavovich, Stockholm, 1917

Box 1 Folder 37 Weinstein, S., undated

Box 1 Folder 37 Wiltshire, Julia M., 1915

Box 1 Folder 37 Wynn-Cuthbert, Henri, Worthing, 1914-1916

Box 1 Folder 38 Unidentified in Russian, 1915-1917, undated, 1915-1917, undated

(some with Chicherin's reply)

Box 1 Folder 39 Unidentified in English and French, 1917, undated, 1917, undated

Box 1 Folder 40 Envelopes, 1915-1916

Correspondence with organizations, 1915-1917, undated

Request Box 2

Box 2 Folder 1 Amalgamated Society of Engineers, 1916

Box 2 Folder 1 Avstraliiskoe obshchestvo pomoshchi politicheskim katorzhanam i ssyl'noposelentsam v Rossii, Brisben,, undated

Box 2 Folder 2 British Socialist Party, 1916

Box 2 Folder 3 Cambridge "Stop-the-War" Committee, 1917

Box 2 Folder 3 Cardiff Socialist Society, undated

Box 2 Folder 3 Central Labour College, London, 1916

Box 2 Folder 3 Communist Working Men's Club and Institute, Ltd., London, 1915-1917

Box 2 Folder 3 Cooperative Printing Society Ltd, London, 1915-1916

Box 2 Folder 3 Ellis and Co Solicitors, London, 1917

Box 2 Folder 3 First of May Celebration Committee, undated

Box 2 Folder 3 Fond Russkoi Revoliutsii, 1917

Box 2 Folder 3 Foreign Jews Protection Committee, against deportation and compuslion,, 1917

Box 2 Folder 3 Fund for the relief of the Jewish Victims of the War in Russia, 1917

Box 2 Folder 4-7 Independent Labour Party, 1915-1917

(including printed materials, resolutions, ephemera. Arranged in alphabetical order by the branch name)

Box 2 Folder 8 Kenington and Paddington Labour Council, undated

Box 2 Folder 8 Latwijas Social-Demokratija (London Branch), London, 1917

Box 2 Folder 8 Leicester Labour Party, 1917

Box 2 Folder 8 Lithuanian Socialist Federation of Great Britain, London, 1916-1917

Box 2 Folder 8 London Jewish Tin Plate and Sheet Metal Workers Union, London, 1916

Box 2 Folder 8 Luton Committee for Anglo-Russian Cooperation, Luton, 1917

Box 2 Folder 9 National Amalgamated Furnishing Trades' Association, London, 1915-1917

Box 2 Folder 9 National Amalgamated Union of Shop Assistants, Warehousemen and Clerks,, 1915-1916

Box 2 Folder 9 National Labour Press Ltd., London, 1917

Box 2 Folder 9 National Transport Workers' Federation, London, 1917

Box 2 Folder 9 National Union of Clerks, London, 1917

Box 2 Folder 9 National Union of Railwaymen, London, 1917

Box 2 Folder 9 National Women's Labour League, 1915

Box 2 Folder 10 NCF: Ealing Branch, undated

Box 2 Folder 10 Neath Socialist Society, Neath Glam, undated

Box 2 Folder 10 Nelson, Colne and District Chain Beamers' Association, Nelson, 1916

Box 2 Folder 10 No-Conscription Fellowship, Adelphi, undated

Parti Social-Democrate Ouvrier Russe: see Correspondence with Prominent people--Dan, Fedor (Box, Folder)

Russian Political Prisoners and Exiles Relief Committee: see Correspondence with Individuals--Ozol'; Petrov

Box 2 Folder 10 Russkii kruzhok imeni Gertsena, undated

Section Relations Internationals Sovnep: see Subject correspondence (Box 2, Folder 14)

Box 2 Folder 10 Southampton Council for Civil Liberties, Southampton, 1917

Box 2 Folder 10 Sotsialisticheskii klub-stolovaia, London, 1916

Box 2 Folder 10 South West Ham Socialist Sunday School, 1917

Box 2 Folder 11 Trades and Labour Council, 1915-1917(arranged in alphabetical order by the branch name)

Box 2 Folder 12 Twentieth Century Press, Ltd., London, undated

Box 2 Folder 12 Union Democratic Control, 1917

Box 2 Folder 12 War Office, Whitehall, 1916-1917

Box 2 Folder 12 Winberg, formerly Gibraltar Press , undated

Box 2 Folder 12 Workers' Suffrage Federation, 1917

Box 2 Folder 12 Workers' Union, Ebbw Vale, 1917

Box 2 Folder 12 Young Socialist: A Magazine of Justice and Love , 1917

Box 2 Folder 13 Outgoing letters (drafts of letters to various people mostly addressed as "comrade"), 1915-1917 (see also Subject and unidentified correspondence), 1915-1917

Subject correspondence: Correspondence regarding the movie sale, 1917

Box 2 Folder 14 Chicherin to Rozanov (two letters)

Box 2 Folder 14 Chicherin to K.D. Nabokov (note on a back of Chicherin's business card)

Box 2 Folder 14 Dolivo-Dobrovol'skii, G. to K.D. Nabokov

(telegram)

Box 2 Folder 14 Section Relations Internationals Sovnep to Chicherin

Subseries II.2: Writings and Research Materials, 1914-1916, undated

Comprises drafts and copies of speeches and articles, notes, and extracts from articles by others.

Box 2 Folder 15-16 Drafts of articles and speeches, undated, 1915

(8 holograph manuscripts. See also Subseries II.4: Activity in Various Organizations--Russian Political Prisoners and Exiles Relief Committee in London. Box 3, Folders 7-16 and Flat Box #4, Folders 5-6)

Box 2 Folder 17-18 Extracts from various letters and articles by others, 1914-1916

Box 2 Folder 19 Notes, undated

Subseries II.3: Documents and Contacts, 1908-1917, undated

This subseries includes documents related to Chicherin's detention and deportation; his business cards; receipts and notes, address book and business cards of various people.

Box 2 Folder 20 Detention and Deportation, 1917

Box 2 Folder 21 Receipts and notices, France, England, 1908-1917

Box 2 Folder 22 Chicherin's business cards, London, undated

Contacts:

Box 2 Folder 23 Address book, undated

(with enclosures)

Box 2 Folder 24-36 Business cards and notes with a contact information of various people,, undated

(arranged alphabetically)

Subseries II.4: Activity in various organizations, 1914-1917

Contains appeals, circulars, resolutions, financial reports, flyers, leaflets, brochures, minutes of meetings, accounts for various activities, and printed materials from British press related to Chicherin's involvement with various organizations' activity, including Russian socialist groups and Russian Political Prisoners and Exiles Relief Committee in London. Organizations are listed in alphabetical order.

Request Box 3

Box 3 Folder 1 Committee of Delegates of the Russian Socialist Groups in London, 1916-1917, undated, 1916-1917, undated

Box 3 Folder 2 International Socialist Conference, Zimmerwald, 1915

Komitet pomoshchi politkatorzhanam i ssyl'noposelentsam: see Russian Political Prisoners and Exiles Relief Committee

Box 3 Folder 3 Londonskaia gruppa RSDRP, 1915, undated, 1915, undated

Box 3 Folder 4 Russian Delegates Committee, 1917

Box 3 Folder 5 Russian Political Prisoners and Exiles Relief Committees in France, 1914-1916

Box 3 Folder 6 Russian Political Prisoners and Exiles Relief Committee in Krakow, 1914-1917

Box 3 Folder 7-16 Russian Political Prisoners and Exiles Relief Committee in London (oversize materials are stored in Flat Box #4):

Box 3 Folder 7 Bylaws, 1915 (see also oversize materials stored in Flat Box #4, Folder 4), 1915

Box 3 Folder 8 Addresses, appeals, 1915, undated (drafts, flyers, reprints. See also oversize materials stored in Flat Box #4, Folder 4), 1915, undated

Box 3 Folder 9-10 Agendas, minutes, reports, 1915

Box 3 Folder 11-14 Financial reports and statements, receipts, 1915-1916 (handwritten and printed), 1915-1916

Printed materials:

Box 3 Folder 15 Listok Organizatsii pomoshchi politicheskim zakliuchennym, 1916 No.3 (two copies), 1916

Box 3 Folder 15 Fliers, adds, 1916, undated, 1916, undated

Box 3 Folder 16 Clippings including Bridges-Adams's and Chicherin's publications in British press,, 1915-1916

(Cotton Factory Times, Justice, The Leichester Pioneer, The Railway Review, Socialist, The Western Daily Press, Yorkshire Factory Times. See also oversize materials stored in Flat Box #4, Folders 5-6)

Subseries II.5: Printed Materials, 1915-1918, undated

There are addresses, appeals, manifestos, articles by others printed as manuscripts, and two Russian newspapers. More printed materials are part of other series and subseries.

Addresses, appeals, manifestos:

Request Flat Box 4

Flat Box 4 Folder 7 Kerenskii, M.. "Inter-Allied Labour and Socialist Conference", 1918

(galley proofs, oversize, stored in Flat Box #4, Folder 7)

Flat Box 4 Folder 7 "Manifesto to All Trade Unionists of the Rank and File Council against Conscription of the Licensed Vehicle Workers",, undated

(oversize, stored in Flat Box #4, Folder 7)

Request Box 3

Box 3 Folder 17 Russian Anti-Conscription League, undated

Articles-- Printed as Manuscripts, undated

Box 3 Folder 18 L.V. "Na vernom puti"

Box 3 Folder 18 Merkgeim. Article for Nashe Slovo

Box 3 Folder 18 Unidentified

Newspapers and Magazines:

Request Flat Box 4

Flat Box 4 Folder 8 Nashe Slovo: obshchestvennaia i politicheskaia gazeta, Paris, September-October, 1915

(three issues; oversize, stored in Flat Box #4, Folder 8)

Flat Box 4 Folder 8 Sotsialdemokrat: Tsentral'nyi organ Rossiiskoi Sotsialdemokraticheskoi partii,Geneva, December 1915 No.49, December 1915

(oversize, stored in Flat Box #4, Folder 8)

Young Socialist: A Magazine of Justice and Love,Glasgow, 1917 vol. XVII, No.5: see Series: Chicherin Papers--Subseries: Correspondence--Correspondence with Organizations-- Young Socialist (Box 2, Folder 12), 1917

Request Box 3

Box 3 Folder 19 Ephemera--lottery and concert tickets, fliers, resolution, 1917, undated, 1917, undated

Collection Overview

Collection Contents

Mary Bridges-Adams Collection on British Labour Movement and Russian Socialists, 1905-1939

Series II: Georgii Checherin Materials, 1908-1918, undated, undated

Subseries II.1: Correspondence, 1912-1917, undated

Subseries II.2: Writings and Research Materials, 1914-1916, undated

Subseries II.3: Documents and Contacts, 1908-1917, undated

Subseries II.4: Activity in various organizations, 1914-1917

Subseries II.5: Printed Materials, 1915-1918, undated