British Politics.- 1932 By-election Conservative candidacy

Scrapalbum featuring letters, photographs and ephemera related to Captain Rex Davis's Conservative candidacy for the 'National Government' coalition in the Wednesbury By-Election, 1932, the album including: Davis's 3-page election flier 'Wednesbury Bye-Election, 1932 | Vote for Capt. Rex Davis, M.C. The National Candidate who stands for Wednesbury and Empire'; several communications to Davis from Conservative Party Vice-Chairman Captain Sir George Bowyer, including a letter saying "I suddenly had a brain-wave that you were probably the only man who could hold Wednesbury for us", 29 June 1932; letters from Davis's agent A. W. Allen (who testifies to his 'regard and admiration'), and his backer James Groves of Heathfield Park; the Earl of Powis; Lord Stonehaven (Conservative Party Chairman); Godfrey Locker Lampson; David Margesson (Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury); A. M. Lyons; W. J. Womersley; E. W. Easom and Reginald Bennett of the Primrose League; Ernest Brown; a few photographs, including one showing Davis him in the centre of a group of men making 'poppies' for the Royal British Legion appeal and another showing him surrounded by female factory workers, labourers and election workers in front of the 'Rex Davis Committee Room'; and other items; some yellowing and handling wear, fraying to album pages, wear to boards, 4to.

***An interesting and evocative collection, casting light on the day-to-day business of British electioneering in the Great Depression.