William Gladstone to Arthur G. Symonds; handwritten note, signed, 1889 November 20

This is a collection of 31 letters in one folder, dated variously between 1882-1913, regarding the troubles in Macedonia, written to A. G. Symonds and others of the National Reform Union; letters are from Noel Buxton, G.O. Trevelyan, J. Biggar, Gladstone, Goldwin Smith, Lord Hugh Cecil, the Bishop of London (“deplorable state of things in Macedonia”); Montagu Butler, Earl Grey (“I fear that separate action of the British Government alone would be useless or worse”), R.B. Haldane (“public opinion is apathetic”), Drummond Wolff (“We are bound by our action in 1878 to secure the well-being and the freedom of the Christian and Non-Muslim populations of Turkey”), Hensley Henson, James Bryce, M. Javid, Turkish Statesman; The Archbishop of Canterbury; Randall Davidson (to the Bishop of Worcester condemning the outrages in the Balkans).