Lot 229: PANKHURST (SYLVIA)

Series of twenty-four typed letters signed, written as editor of New Times and Albanian News, to Dervish Durma, an Albanian diplomat, broadcaster and community activist, demonstrating her support for both the liberation of Albania and that of Ethiopia and sharing in Durma's ambition to bring these issues before the British public ("...I think it is the right moment to take up Albania's case... one has to work early otherwise one finds that an opinion has been formed and hardened which one cannot break down in a short time..."), discussing, inter alia, Durma's contributions to her newspaper, its distribution among Albanians and MPs, questions of layout, etc.; in one long letter explaining how Ethiopian affairs have eclipsed her other concerns; some letters annotated by Pankhurst or Durma, plus related material including Durva's side of the correspondence and a further letter by Pankhurst to Sir Edward Boyle, some 35 pages, filing-holes and some marks from paper-clips, 4to and 8vo, office of the New Times and Albanian News, Woodford Green, 1941 to 1945