Edwin Scrymgeour Collection Box 20

This material is held atDundee Local History Centre

  • Reference
    • GB 615 ES/20
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1907 - 1922
  • Physical Description
    • 1 box

Scope and Content

Papers of Edwin Scrymgeour (E.S.) including:

Scottish Prohibition leaflet inviting new members, n.d.

Letters congratulating E.S. on his election victory, 1922 (including letter from Jim Winter, his "old postman" referring to E.S.'s "martyrdom when with Brown and Tawse")

Account of municipal election expenses of Rob. Stewart and E.S. including note of contribution towards expenses, December 1907

Copy of E.S.'s reply to Dundee Branch of No-Conscription Fellowship giving his views on conscription and militarism, 31 December 1915

Correspondence regarding alleged slander of publicans in Anstruther by E.S. at public meeting - accuses publicans, by name, of turning "bright little children into drunkards"; is determined to continue in his campaign "until an apathetic public, encouraged in their listlessness by a pottering Temperance Party and Lifeless Church, has been stirred, so far as in me lies, to return Prohibitionist Members of Parliament pledged that they shall demand nothing less than cancellation of all Licensing Laws and adoption of one enactment dealing Death to the Drink", September 1917

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