This extensive collection includes a large number of letters from a variety of correspondents including Philip Snowden, Ramsey Macdonald and Bertrand Russell; letters written by Howard Marten; typescript recollections of Howard Marten; typed transcript of two interviews recorded with Peter Liddle (Feb. 1973, May 1974); miscellaneous typescripts, including of radio talks, along with many other papers in manuscript or typescript; newspaper cuttings; autograph and photograph albums; scrapbooks; miscellaneous publications; and material relating to the Society of Friends. Full details are given in the Liddle Collection catalogue.
Howard Marten collection
This material is held atUniversity of Leeds Special Collections
- Reference
- GB 206 Liddle Collection CO 061
- Dates of Creation
- 1898-1980
- Name of Creator
- Language of Material
- English
- Physical Description
- 6 boxes; manuscript, typescript, press cuttings, photographs, an autograph album, and printed material (including photocopy) Includes two badges of the Friends' War Victims Relief Committee
Scope and Content
Administrative / Biographical History
Howard Cruttenden Marten (b. 1884), a conscientious objector and member of the No-Conscription Fellowship during the First World War, was sentenced to death, commuted to ten years, then imprisoned at Winchester and Wormwood Scrubs, and later employed on the Home Office Work Scheme at Aberdeen (Dyce), Wakefield and Dartmoor (Princetown). He later worked briefly with the Friends' War Victims Relief Committee.
Access Information
Access is unrestricted
Acquisition Information
The papers were placed in the Collection by H. C. Marten circa 1973
Note
In English
Other Finding Aids
CO/FAU catalogue (hard copy) http://www.leeds.ac.uk/library/spcoll/liddle/index.htm
Alternative Form Available
Microfilmed