Correspondence with John Dugdale (1905-1963), journalist and politician, relating to a request by Dugdale to be considered for employment by the Manchester Guardian, which is refused. Also included are a summary of Dugdale's previous experience, and related internal memoranda.
There are letters of recommendation for Dugdale from Sir Michael Ernest Sadler, educationist, Sir (Henry) Roy Forbes Harrod, economist, and Lionel George Curtis, writer and public servant.
GDN/A/D54/1 is an article entitled 'The Chinese Theatre, Conventions of a Drama', [by Dugdale] in The Times, 1927.
GDN/A/D54/12 is an article entitled 'What The Chinese Think of Us', by Dugdale in The New Statesman, 1928.