| Description | Folder of typed letters from Ethel Mannin to Christopher Walker, written between January and June 1970. Topics covered include Mannin's comments on Algerian proposals for Palestine, her correspondence with Brian Perman over his romanticised views of the Arabs, 'Arabia' and the Bedouins, discussion of the Zionist writings of Rev. James Parkes and how best to counter them, a comparison between Musa Alami's projects and those of Miss Coate on her desert farm near Zerka of whom Mannin wrote in 'The Lovely Land', publications from the PLO Research Centre and the Arab Women's Information Centre in Beirut, communications from Desmond Stewart and Rev. Eric Bishop, references to mutual acquaintances such as Fayez Sayegh, Rizk, Anthony Nutting, Peter Mansfield, and Michael Adams, an enclosed letter from Mannin to a Mr Simon Gibson commending his letter in that day's Times and giving a summary of her connection to Palestine since the 1930s, reference to the royalties she still receives from the work of her late husband Reginald Reynolds, a handwritten letter from Walker (17 March) commenting on two issues of the 'Arab Chronicle', a typed letter (carbon copy) from Walker to Mannin reporting on an excellent CAABU meeting at which Yusif Sayigh and Ania Fancos spoke (18 April), interest in various books including those by Emile Marmorstein, Gerard Chaliand, Jon Kimche and others, Mannin's account of a lunch she and Rita served for some young Palestinians - Said Elissa, Hassan Ahmad and Majid Sirhan - |