WALKER, Patrick Chrestien Gordon (1907-1980)

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0372 LABOUR HISTORY MANUSCRIPTS/43
Held at	: Bishopsgate Institute   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.bishopsgate.org.uk/library ›
Full title	: WALKER, Patrick Chrestien Gordon (1907-1980)
Date(s)	: 1946-1965
Level of description	: Fonds
Extent	: 1 Folder
Name of creator(s)	: Various

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

No further information.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Includes:
- twenty letters from Gordon Walker to 'My Dearest' (Mrs L M Kent, sister-in-law?) regarding personal matters, general political affairs and travel (1951-1958)
- programme for memorial service for Robin Thomas Gordon Walker (6 December 1947)
- thirty-seven letters to Gordon Walker regarding his defeat at the Leyton by-election and general politics in the Labour Party, including letters from George Gardiner, George Thomas, Barbara Castle, Christopher Mayhew, Roy Walensky, Tony Crosland, Fenner Brockway, Dick Crossman, Peter Rawlinson, Hugh Greene, Ian Mikardo, Solly Zuckerman, William Wells, James I Leob and others (January 1965)
- photograph of Gordon Walker with the Mayor and Mayoress of Smrthwick (c 1946).

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English.

System of arrangement:

No further arrangement.

Conditions governing access:

Open

Conditions governing reproduction:

Photocopying and scanning facilities are available for a charge and will be completed by archival staff if condition and copyright permits. Digital photography (without flash) is permitted for research purposes on completion of the Library's Copyright Declaration form and with respect to current UK copyright law.

Finding aids:

ADLIB Online Catalogue.

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Purchased by Bishopsgate Institute, August 2012.

Allied Materials

Related material:

Publication note:

Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Entry compiled by Natalie Whistance.

Rules or conventions:
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions:
5 September 2012