Arnold White Papers at the National Maritime Museum

A list of the personal papers of the journalist Arnold White in the possession of the National Maritime Museum, London.

WHI/1

Important Naval Documents: correspondence with Yerbergh, Yexley, Beresford and copies of letters between Fisher and Beresford relating to Navy League, navy rations, Naval Estimates, review of Mediterranean fleet, 1900-2; Copy of Second Report of Committee of Public Accounts, 1901.

WHI/2

Fisher, Beresford and Scott: papers and correspondence relating to the Beresford-Scott incident of 1908.

WHI/3

Gunnery: notes and letters relating to naval gunnery, 1903-5. Confidential papers of results of battle practice of gunlayer's tests, of prize firing and letters to Fremantle on the 'gunnery versus paint' issue. Letters from Percy Scott for these years.

WHI/4

Naval Questions in Parliament: reprint from 'Naval and Military Record' of questions asked in Parliament on naval subjects, 1898-1904. Correspondence, 1903, 1914.

WHI/5

Navy and Gunnery: Naval Estimates, 1902-5, correspondence relating to Navy League, from Percy Scott and Fred T. Jane.

WHI/6

Notes and letters from Percy Scott, 1905, 1912; Copy of 'Bluejacket and Coastguard Gazette', complaints to White and notes on gunnery.

WHI/7

Seventy letters from Nina Beresford, n.d.

WHI/8

Leaflets and enrollment form for British Fascists, article from 'National Review'; invitation to visit Germany with refusal, 1907; Account of journalists visit to Germany, 1914.

WHI/9

Australia; pamphlets, scheme for emigration, 1913.

WHI/10

Australian Navy; printed memorandum by G.F. Pearce, 1913.

WHI/11

Assessment; income tax, 1923.

WHI/12

Army League; pamphlet, 'Social Democracy and the Armed Nation', 1900, papers and letters 1906.

WHI/13

Aliens; anti-aliens pamphlets by Joseph Banister; Copy of Aliens Bill, 1905.

WHI/14

Admiralty Papers; printed papers and pamphlets on German Admiralty policy and related subjects, 1906-7.

WHI/15

Aircraft; notes and printed reports. Navy League Lecture, 9 Mar 1920; Parl. Committee on Administration and Commandof RFC and Report on Royal Aircraft Factory, 1916.

WHI/16

Balfour and the Irish Memorandum; memorandum by White on Ireland and seapower sent to Balfour, related correspondence, 1917.

WHI/17

Beds. Election; (1910) articles and a letter, 1911.

WHI/18

Beresford; letters 1901.

WHI/19

Beresford; letters 1902, including apology from Beresford over a misunderstanding on the question of the condition of the Mediterranean fleet.

WHI/20

Boer Generals appeal; letters 1902.

WHI/21

Thomas Gibson Bowles; pamphlet and letter, 1910.

WHI/22

Boy Training; letter, 1913.

WHI/23

Brest; report and notes on insit, 1905.

WHI/24

Broadcasting; lecture, 1923.

WHI/25

Bullies Police; cutting, letter, 1907.

WHI/26

Capital; two articles on nationalising shipping, n.d.

WHI/27

Cancer Research; correspondence relating to the Imperial Cancer Research Fund, 1922-3.

WHI/28

Censorship; memorandum, 1915.

WHI/29

Channel Tunnel; newspaper cuttings, n.d.

WHI/30

China (Cecil Hensin); memorandum, 1921.

WHI/31

Christian Science; newspaper cuttings, n.d.

WHI/32

Church; Farnham Parish Magazine, extract, n.d.

WHI/33

Civilisation; newspaper cuttings, n.d.

WHI/34

Civil Service Socialist; copies of the Society's journal, n.d.

WHI/35

Conscientious Objectors; articles, 1915.

WHI/36

Declaration of Independence; copy memo on British constitution, 1913.

WHI/37

Cruelty; pamphlets on vivisection, 1910-12.

WHI/38

Crucifix; letters, n.d.

WHI/39

Current Literature; article and letter, 1914.

WHI/40

Darien, Mr Timothy, a sea lawyer; drafts of novel by Arnold White, n.d.

WHI/41

Declaration of London; correspondence in Times, 1911.

WHI/42

Delbrueck Law; notes and Parliamentary Paper on German Nationality Law, 1913.

WHI/43

Deterioration; parliamentary papers, pamphlets and notes on Physical Condition of the Nation,1904-11.

WHI/44

Dockyards; notes and correspondence on dockyard efficiency, 1903-5, correspondence with W H Henderson, Admiral Superintendent, Plymouth. Draft of history of the dockyards, n.d.

WHI/45

Doctors: Lunacy Laws; notes and newspaper cuttings, n.d.

WHI/46

Dog Letters; correspondence concerning his dog, photographs of White at his home, n.d.

WHI/47

Drink; correspondence concerning prohibition, 1915.

WHI/48

Efficiency; letters 1900-2, pamphlets, account of accident on HMS RESOLUTION, notes on naval efficiency, 'Journal of Malta Naval and Military Society', 1901.

WHI/49

Election (South Bucks); Questions on Ireland for candidates, 1911.

WHI/50

Emden and Germany; notes on visit, letters and pamphlets on Anglo-German relations, 1908-9.

WHI/51

Emigration; copies of letters from Lord Rosebery, Cardinal Manning, 1885, confidential Colonial Office Report, 1913, reports on Emigration, 1917, 1918.

WHI/52

England; cuttings, correspondence, 1914-15.

WHI/53

England; English publications list, n.d.

WHI/54

English Race; article on Common Law, letters relating, 1918; copy of article for Lord Rothermere, 'Sea Power and Ireland', 1922.

WHI/55

Eugenics; letters, 1912-14 relating to the Eugenics Education Society.

WHI/56

Final Views of Vanoc; correspondence re autobiography, n.d.

WHI/57

Fodder; cuttings on patriotic themes, n.d.

WHI/58

Fodder for Sunday Pictorial Article; Navy League handbill, article on Australia and Naval Strategy in the Pacific, cuttings, letters, 1922.

WHI/59

Freedom of the Seas; correspondence with National War Aims Committee, 1918.

WHI/60

Aldgate Weekend Club 'Freedom of the Seas'; Navy League pamphlet, letter, 1911.

WHI/61

Freedom of Britain Article; 1909.

WHI/62

German Fleet; notes, n.d.

WHI/63

Golden Ballot; tickets, n.d.

WHI/64

Gunnery 1912; letters from Percy Scott, 1912; also cuttings and 'National Review' article.

WHI/65

Gunnery by Percy Scott (confidential); volume, 1905.

WHI/66

Gunnery: Scott's letters; 1915-16, also some of 1902 and 1922. Copy of Percy Scott's letter to Balfour, 1915.

WHI/67

Haldane; notes of conversation with Haldane, 1906; pamphlet, 1912; correspondence relating to Haldane, 1914-15.

WHI/68

Heligoland; letters 1914, 1919.

WHI/69

Historical Memoranda; notes on Ireland, Balkans, State of England, 1793-1815.

WHI/70

Honours; pamphlets, Parl. Debates, Report on alleged sale of honours, 1917.

WHI/71

Colonel Hope VC; pamphlet 1887, letters 1908-9.

WHI/72

Hospitals; notes on hospital extravagance, letter 1904.

WHI/73

Lord Howard of Effingham; letters on whether Howard was a Catholic, 1913.

WHI/74

Important Letters 1902; Rotheschild, 1902.

WHI/75

Important Letters 1907: Adm Fremantle; including Fisher, Beresford, Fremantle.

WHI/76

Important Letters 1908; twenty four correspondents, including T.E. Crease, Fisher, W.G. Perrin.

WHI/77

Important Letters 1909; twenty seven correspondents, including J.L. Garvin, R.E. Prothero, R.L. Harmsworth, Kenneth Dewar.

WHI/78

Important Letters 1910; two drafts of moral sermons.

WHI/79

Important Letters 1911; five notes in indecipherable hand, n.d.

WHI/80

Important Letters 1912 (i); forty six correspondents, including Duke of Bedford. Also letters of 1904 including Botha, Haldane and Fremantle; letters of 1906-7.

WHI/81

Important Letters 1912 (ii); eleven correspondents, including Yerbergh, Lloyd George (copy), Harmsworth.

WHI/82

Important Letters 1913; eighteen correspondents, including R.E. Prothero and British League for support of Ulster and Union.

WHI/83

Important letters1914; twelve correspondents, including R.E.Prothero, W.H. Lever.

WHI/84

India; pamphlets, one letter 1918.

WHI/85

India 1916; letter, 1916.

WHI/86

Industrial Alcohol; company statement and one letter, 1922.

WHI/87

Notebook: Index Ireland 1886-1922.

WHI/87

Ireland 1886 onwards; pamphlets and notebook.

WHI/89

Ireland 1910; one handbill.

WHI/90

Ireland 1911; Ulster Unionist handbills, two letters.

WHI/91

Ireland 1912; pamphlet, copy of 'Irish Freedom', two letters.

WHI/92

Ireland 1913; copy of Government of Ireland Bill, pamphlets, six letters.

WHI/93

Ireland 1914; pamphlets, notes, 1 letter.

WHI/94

Ireland 1915; notes.

WHI/95

Ireland 1916; notes, cuttings, one letter.

WHI/96

Ireland 1917; three letters, one describing Cork Riots.

WHI/97

Ireland 1918; cuttings, one letter.

WHI/98

Ireland 1919; cuttings.

WHI/99

Ireland 1920; cuttings.

WHI/100

Ireland 1921; cuttings.

WHI/101

Ireland 1922; cuttings.

WHI/102

Ireland 1923; cuttings.

WHI/103

Ireland 1924; cuttings.

WHI/104

Fifty Men for Ireland; cutting re Arnold White's appeal in 'Daily Express' for men to act as body guard, n.d.

WHI/105

Royal Commission on the Rebellion in Ireland 1916; cuttings.

WHI/106

Ireland, Roman Catholics; cuttings, n.d.

WHI/107

Memorandum: Notes on Ireland's relation to British Command of the Sea, n.d.

WHI/108

Irish Trip; Feb 1914; cuttings.

WHI/109

Irish Trip: July 1918; memoranda, 'Naval Intelligence in Ireland Jul-Aug 1918' and 'Psychology of the Celtic Irish'.

WHI/110

Invisible hand; relating to 'The Hidden Hand' written by White in 1917. Eighteen correspondents, including Eyre, A. Crowe and F.E. Tillemont-Thomason.

WHI/111

Insurance Bill; copy of Bill, 1911, copy of 'Justice' 1912, one letter 1912.

WHI/112

Jewish Questions; cuttings, correspondence with Zionist Organisation. Programme of the Harrogate Literary Society, 1916.

WHI/113

Jews 1921; cuttings and correspondence.

WHI/114

John XXIII; notes, n.d.

WHI/115

John Citizen; (new publication) Prospectus and letters, 1922.

WHI/116

Dossier de Jutland; notes of Arthur Dewar, extract from 'Naval Review', letter 1924.

WHI/117

Journalism (Fleet Street and Germany); memoranda 'The Hidden Hand in Fleet Street', five correspondents, 1909-17.

WHI/118

Jutland Day versus Trafalgar Day; cuttings, four correspondents 1916, notice of a motion to be put before The Navy League, 1916.

WHI/119

Kishinoff Massacres; pamphlet, cuttings, six letters, 1903.

WHI/120

Land; notes on Land Enquiry Report, pamphlets and correspondence relating to the Land Valuation Department, 1914.

WHI/121

Lawyers; pamphlet (anti-lawyers), eleven correspondents, 1914-16.

WHI/122

Lecture League; prospectus and letters, 1910.

WHI/123

League of Nations; cuttings, one letter, 1920.

WHI/124

Lever; booklet on Lever Brothers Ltd, drafts of chapters on First Lord Leverhulme, n.d.

WHI/125

Further mss. copies of WHI/124, n.d.

WHI/126

Life of James Lever; correspondence with early business associates of Lever, 1923.

WHI/127

Life of J. Lever: Leverhulme Correspondence; business correspondence relating to book, 1923.

WHI/128

Visit to Lews Castle Sep 1920; cuttings related to Leverhulme.

WHI/129

Lifeboats; cuttings, n.d.

WHI/130

The Malaya Battleship; cuttings and correspondence, 1913, relating to the gift of 2 1/4 million pounds sterling, by the Federation of Malay States to provide a battleship for the navy.

WHI/131

MSS unpublished; manuscripts on navy, Ireland and Europe, n.d.

WHI/132

Marie Celeste; one letter, 1920.

WHI/133

Mercantile Marine; Lloyds Registry returns, three correspondents, 1915-16.

WHI/134

Ministerial; articles, anti-Lloyd George, pamphlet by H.M. Hyndman, article by Rudyard Kipling, nine correspondents, including Lloyd George (copy), Lord Alfred Douglas, 1911-22.

WHI/135

The Monroe Doctrine; cutting and notes, 1913.

WHI/136

The Navy League; speeches, agendas, resolutions, reports of Navy League, 1911-22, thirteen correspondents, 1910-22, including P J Hannon, Rear-Adms Hopwood and benson, Duke of Somerset, Biscoe-Tritton, essays by Arnold White.

WHI/137

Navy: Training, promotion, and retirement of Officers; pamphlets and letters, 1902-6. Also a journal of the Transactions of the French Fleet in Bantry Bay, 1796.

WHI/138

Navy 1915 (List of goods declared to be contraband of war); letter, 1915.

WHI/139

Naval Expenditure; article, letter 1904.

WHI/140

Naval Manoeuvres 1906; arrangements, memoranda, letters from Fisher.

WHI/141

Naval Affairs: Adms Fremantle and Fisher; reports and letters, some from Scott, 1906-7.

WHI/142

Navy league - My History of The Navy League; pamphlets, letter, 1918.

WHI/143

Sep 1919: Letter to Times on Ireland, Empire and Sea Power; article and two letters relating to The Navy league, 1919.

WHI/144

The Navy League Grand Council Meeting 10 Mar 1922; notices, one letter, 1922.

WHI/145

National Service; report and letters relating to the National Service League, 1910.

WHI/146

Nelson; copies of article on Nelson by White, n.d.

WHI/147

Northcliffe; three articles, one letter 1922.

WHI/148

Norway Territorial Line; questions in Commons, four correspondents, including Lord Charles Beresford, 1917-21.

WHI/149

Norway Territorial Waters: 4 mile limit: notes on Ireland, evidence from an officer, five correspondents, including Arnold Foster 1917-21.

WHI/150

Oil; article, lecture, four correspondents, 1912-15.

WHI/151

Anti-Opium; memorandum, n.d. one letter from Rajah Brooke of Sarawak, 1908.

WHI/152

Our Sure Shield 1923; (book for school children) chapter on Jutland. Two correspondents.

WHI/153

Pacifists; cuttings, n.d.

WHI/154

Mrs Parker; letters relating to Women's Associations (eg Imperial Lady Workers), 1916.

WHI/155

Parliament Act; copy 1911.

WHI/156

Parliamentary Questions; various 1916.

WHI/157

Phillips' Letters Battle Practice; (secretary to Fisher), letters, 1906-7, various subjects.

WHI/158

Pretyman; correspondence 1906, relating to an allegation made by White that Pretyman had gained in a sale of land to the Admiralty.

WHI/159

Prisoners of War; correspondence relating 1915-16.

WHI/160

Prohibition; pamphlets and correspondence, 1920-24.

WHI/161

Prothero: Nonconformity; R.E. Prothero wanting information on the Free Church, 1910.

WHI/162

Quakers; cuttings and letter, n.d.

WHI/163

Radium; notes, correspondence, n.d.

WHI/164

Red Tape; one customs document, n.d.

WHI/165

Reminiscences; general notes, n.d.

WHI/166

Rothschild and Alien Emigration; correspondence, 1902.

WHI/167

The Friendship of Russia 1916; lecture notes and cuttings, report from Siberia 1918, secret report 1921.

WHI/168

Salisbury Plain; correspondence, 1906.

WHI/169

Science; lecture, 1916.

WHI/170

Percy Scott and Roma Scott; controversy - paintwork before gunnery, 1908.

WHI/171

Percy Scott. Organisation; confidential memoranda, 1915.

WHI/172

Sir Percy Scott: Submarines v Dreadnought; minutes and other evidence of Beresford/Scott quarrel, paper on submarines, letters 1910-14.

WHI/173

Sea Power 1915; notes and letters on Ireland and Seapower, The Navy League correspondence, 1915.

WHI/174

Sea Power 2 Downing Street Sea Power; letter to Lloyd George on Ireland and Seapower, 1920.

WHI/175

Sea Power and Morning Post; Ireland and Seapower, correspondence with 'Morning Post', 1921.

WHI/176

Sea Training; reports and letters on Sea Training and Navy League, 1911.

WHI/177

Servants; letters, 1920.

WHI/178

George Bernard Shaw; correspondence, 1914-21.

WHI/179

Slough Conservative Club Meeting; notes and correspondence on navy and Scots, 1923-4.

WHI/180

Socialism; early Socialist pamphlets, 1903-11.

WHI/181

Soldiers, Blinded; one letter, 1915.

WHI/182

Soldiers' Pay; correspondence, 1915.

WHI/183

Soldiers' and Sailors' Votes: Queen's Hall; notes and cuttings, 1 Oct 1916.

WHI/184

Speeches; notes on speeches, relating to navy, Russia and elections, 1914-21.

WHI/185

Spies; notes and correspondence, 1912-14.

WHI/186

Spies; correspondence relating to spy hysteria, 1914-15.

WHI/187

Strikes; pamphlets and correspondence, including G.B. Shaw, 1911-12.

WHI/188

Suicides; notes and cuttings, n.d.

WHI/189

Tactics; letter, 1905. Seven engravings of Nelson.

WHI/190

Territorials; reports on efficiency and recruiting, 1907-12, articles, pamphlets and correspondence, 1910.

WHI/191

Ulster 1922; notes and cuttings.

WHI/192

United Service Gazette; extract, criticism of White and White's reply, 1913.

WHI/193

USA; extract, 'Saturday Evening Post', n.d.

WHI/194

Vatican; letter, 1910.

WHI/195

HMS VANOC; correspondence with J.A. Benbow, W.G. Perrin and Balfour's secretary, relating to White's attempt to ascertain whether HMS VANOC was named after his nom de plume, 1922.

WHI/196

Wales Peaceful Penetration Press; notes and cuttings on German influence, 1915.

WHI/197

Washington Treaty; copy, 1922.

WHI/198

Wembley; notes and correspondence, 1924.

WHI/199

Admiral Wilson; notes, n.d.

WHI/200

H. Wilson, Daily Mail; correspondence, re navy, 1906-7.

WHI/201

Women's Suffrage; extracts and cuttings c.1914.

WHI/202

Yexley; correspondence re 'Bluejacket' and lower deck conditions with Lionel Yexley, Yerbergh, 1902-03.

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