[Hugh Dalton, Clement Attlee’s Chancellor of the Exchequer: ‘This is a proud honour’.] Two Typed Letters Signed to educationalist T. Lloyd Humberstone, noting that he is the first University of London Chancellor, criticizing ‘Harrovian Chancellors’.

See entry in Oxford DNB on Edward Hugh John Neale Dalton, Baron Dalton (1887-1962). Thomas Lloyd Humberstone (1876-1957) was a prominent member of the Convocation of the University of London. Both signed ‘Hugh Dalton’. Both in good condition and lightly aged. ONE (21 September 1945): 1p, 4to. Folded twice. He has found Humberstone’s letter ‘most interesting’, and sends delayed thanks for his congratulations (on Dalton’s appointment as Chancellor). He will also be ‘requiring a cheque in due course’, and notes the ‘suggestion of a tax rebate’. With reference to the University of London he continues: ‘I did not realise that I was the first London graduate to hold this Office. This is a proud honour. I also find that I am the first Etonian Chancellor since Michael Hicks-Beach in the first years of this century (in the interval several Harrovian Chancellors have made a sad mess of our public finances!). I mention this particularly because you sent me your pamphlet on the Public Schools.’ He ends by giving his ‘personal view’ of the ‘great social and educational advantages’ of boarding schools over day schools. The subject is a ‘large’ one, ‘on which, no doubt, opinion will gradually clarify itself.’ TWO (11 March 1946): 1p, 12mo. Folded once. He thinks it best that does not ‘intervene in the Senate Election’. He has ‘a good many problems, of one sort and another’, on his agenda, and he doesn’t want ‘needlessly to add to them’.