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A copy of "Labour's Early Struggles in Swansea" by Stan Awbery JP, MP with an introduction by D. R. Grenfell and drawings by Griff Jones. The vol. also includes the Gower Society progamme for July - October 1966, the Gower Society Newsletter for June 1966, some fragments and newspaper cuttings including a story from the South Wales Evening Post dated 26 July 1988 abt a book by Sheila MacDonald, daughter of Ramsay MacDonald.

A collection, relating to the formative years of the Labour Party, including over 20 signed letters and 25 postcards from J. Ramsay MacDonald (1866-1937), who served as Prime Minister from 1929 to 1935; 7 signed letters from Philip Snowden (1864-1937), Chancellor of the Exchequer under Ramsay MacDonald; a signed photograph postcard of Keir Hardy; a copy of James Ramsay MacDonald, Labour's Man of Destiny, first edition, signed by the author; and 6 photographs, some featuring Snowden, Grenfell, and Ramsay MacDonald. Also included are letters from JRM's private secretary, Ethel Snowden, C. Rowden Buxton and Ben Tillett. The recipient of the correspondence was Griff Jones, a Labour Party activist from Swansea, who also drew satirical cartoons under the name 'Gytto'.