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Correspondence |
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CP/IND/MURP/01/04. File of letters between J.T. Murphy & the CPGB including Harry Pollitt regarding his disagreements with the party over trade credits for the Soviet Union and his eventual resignation. March to May 1932. |
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Draft materials relating to J.B. Priestley |
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CP/IND/MURP/01/05. Draft typescript of article/book by J.T. Murphy on John Boynton Priestley, the English novelist, playwright and broadcaster, including comments/corrections by Priestley himself & newspaper cuttings. Undated. |
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Correspondence with Earl Browder |
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CP/IND/MURP/01/06. J.T. Murphy's correspondence & note books with draft letters to Earl Russell Browder, who had been General Secretary of the Communist Party USA from 1934 until his expulsion in 1946. Also includes copy of article on Anna Louise Strong by Phillip Jaffee. 1960-1964. |
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Draft materials on 20th century history |
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CP/IND/MURP/01/07. Outline of book [?] Working with destiny on twentieth century history and the crisis of imperialism by J.T. Murphy. Undated. |
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Draft materials for two monographs |
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CP/IND/MURP/01/08. Draft chapters by J.T. Murphy for Preliminary considerations and The premises of all thought, including revisions. Undated. |
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Miscellaneous materials, 1920s-1960s |
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CP/IND/MURP/01/09. Miscellaneous correspondence & cuttings relating to J.T. Murphy, including: material on his imprisonment in Wandsworth prison as a communist (1925/6); a certificate of employment as official Pravda correspondent in Moscow (1927); material relating to campaigns as Communist candidate in Hackney & Sheffield (1929 & 1930); a letter to Walter Kendall re Murphy's comments on a manuscript on the early history of the CPGB [i.e. The revolutionary movement in Britain, 1900-1921?]. |
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