| Description | Includes extensive correspondence with journalist Henry Noel Brailsford; and with artist and wood engraver Clare Leighton. Letters mention short courses on politics and history taught by Brailsford at Dartington, Autumn 1928; Brailsford's tour of India and Palestine in 1930; his relationship with Leighton; his meetings with Gandhi; Clare Leighton's Canadian lumber camp engravings; Mark Tobey and his mural at Dartington; Brailsford's interest in the Neue Beginnen German Socialists and opposition to Hitler; the 'New Leader' magazine; Brailsford's support for the International Brigade in Spain, and the course of the Spanish Civil War; Roosevelt's re-election in 1940; the evacuation of children to Dartington (1941); Brailsford's work for The New Republic magazine in 1944. |