[The Peace with Ireland Council (London) and the Black and Tans, 1921.] Printed handbill titled ‘Irish Reprisals / Auxiliary Divisions Record / Indictment by Sir John Simon / To the Editor of The Times’.

The Peace with Ireland Council was founded in November 1920 by Lord Henry Cavendish Bentinck, following a meeting at the House of Commons by a group concerned at the deteriorating situation in Ireland following the introduction of the Black and Tans, and spurred on by the treatment of former MP Annan Bryce and his wife Violet. Among those involved were the historian Basil Williams, who acted as treasurer, and the suffragette Margaret Buckmaster (daughter of Lord Buckmaster) who served as honorary secretary. From the Sylvia and Robert Lynd papers. One of a handful of titles published by the organisation (including two by G. K. Chesterton). Scarce: there is a copy in the NLI, but none in the BL, and the only copy on JISC at Senate House. 2 pp, 12mo. In small print. Single leaf of brittle and browned newspaper stock, with text intact, but loss to margins from chipping and several closed tears. Letter from ‘JOHN SIMON. / 59 Cadogan Gardens, S.W. / April 23, 1921.’, reprinted from The Times, 25 April 2021. A seven-line footnote enlarges on the letter’s reference to ‘a lamentable and fatal affray at Castleconnell’ with a quotation from details of ‘a letter from W. Harrison Cripps, a distinguished surgeon, and brother to Lord Parmoor’, read in both Houses of Parliament.