Edwin Scrymgeour Collection Box 10

This material is held atDundee Local History Centre

  • Reference
    • GB 615 ES/10
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1903 - 1924
  • Physical Description
    • 1 box

Scope and Content

Papers of Edwin Scrymgeour (E.S.). Box 10 contains mainly newspapers, pamphlets, election addresses and copies of articles.

Papers include:

Defence - quarterly bulletin of Wine and Spirit Trade Defence Fund, No. 3, Jan. 1924 (London) [refers to E.S. in respectful terms although expresses contempt for teetotaller agitators in general]

The Water Wagon World Express and other Prohibition Hymns and Poems: Duane N Griffin [U.S. Prohibition hymns]

The Rape of the Law by John G Wooley - address delivered before Ministerial Association in New York City, 8th May 1911

Election Address of E.S., standing as Prohibitionist and Labour Candidate in parliamentary election, November 1918

Official Souvenir Programme of Royal Visit to Scotland, 6 -13th July, 1914

Letter to E.S. from W.H. Dwight, Ilchester: refers to it being strange that Prohibition Party of U.S.A., which is very wealthy, has not "stretched a hand to aid you", 19th Feb 1924

Programme for Grand Concert in aid of Scrymgeour Defence Fund, Kinnaird Hall, 12th Feb. 1913

Draft of article by E.S. on "The Prohibition Party of Dundee, Scotland" (enclosed in letter from Walter Walsh of Jul. 1903 in which he refers to typing and editing the enclosed) - refers to formation of Scottish Prohibition Party, meeting in Lamb's Hotel, Dundee; relationship with Good Templars and other temperance movements, objectives of Party, etc. c. 1903.

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