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Twenty-seven items relating her civil service employment and promotion (Juvenile Advisory Committee, Labour Exchanges), with nine printed items (Board of Education, Ministry of Labour, London County Council) and correspondence
All from London, and many printed items published by HMSO. Dating from between 1909 and 1918. An interesting collection, showing the career path of an English woman in the civil service around the time of the Great War. ONE. Printed item: 'Labour Exchanges Act, 1909. [9 Edw. 7. Ch. 7.]' Printed by Eyre and Spottiswoode, Ltd., for Rowland Bailey, Esq., M.V.O., the King's Printer of Acts of Parliament.' 'A.D. 1909.' [1] + 3pp., 8vo. Stitched. Contents: 'Arrangement of Sections. | Section. | 1. Power of Board of Trade to establish labour exchanges and to collect and furnish information. | 2. Regulations and management. | 3. Penalties for making false statements, &c. | 4. Expenses of the Board of Trade. | 5. Interpretation. | 6. Short title.' TWO. Printed item: 'General Regulations made by the Board of Trade in pursuance of Section (2) of the Labour Exchanges Act, 1909.' By H. LLewellyn Smith, Secretary. London: Printed for His Majesty's Stationery Office, By Darling & Son, Ltd., 34-40, Bacon Street, E. 1910. 4pp., foolscap 8vo. Bifolium. Headed 'For Official Use. | Labour Exchanges Act, 1909.' THREE. Printed item: 'Memorandum for the Guidance of Officers serving under the Board of Trade.' By H. Llewellyn Smith, Secretary to the Board of Trade. No printing details. January 1910. 2pp., foolscap 8vo. FOUR. Printed item: 'Labour Exchanges General Memorandum.' No printing details. At foot of title page: 'a (33)2380. Pk. 11. 300. 1/10. [i.e. January 1910] E. & S. [i.e. Eyre and Spottiswoode]. 22pp., foolscap 8vo. Stitched. Title-page headed 'Confidential'. Subtitle: 'I. - The case for Labour Exchanges: - | (a) Authority. | (b) Merits. | (c) Example. | II. - The Labour Exchanges Act and the proposals of the Government. | III. - Objections and Answers.' With 'Appendix': 'A. - Labour Exchanges and Unemployment. | B. - Public Labour Exchanges in Germany. | C. - Financial Statement (attached).' FIVE. Printed item: 'Special Rules with regard to Registration of Juvenile Applicants in England and Wales made in pursuance of Regulation No. IX of the General Regulations for Labour Exchanges managed by the Board of Trade.' By H. Llewellyn Smith, Secretary. London: Printed for His Majesty's Stationery Office, By Darling & Son, Ltd., 34-40, Bacon Street, E. 1910. 3pp., foolscap 8vo. Bifolium. Headed 'For Official Use. | Labour Exchanges Act, 1909.' SIX. Printed item: 'London County Council. Education Committee. Report of the Children's Care (Central) Sub-Committee.' By 'R. Blair, Education Officer'. No printing details. Dated from 'L.C.C. Education Offices, Victoria Embankment, W.C., 23rd March, 1911.' 7pp., foolscap 8vo. Stitched. SEVEN. Printed item: 'London County Council. Extracts from the Minutes of Proceedings of the London County Council on 28th February, 1911. Report to the Education Committee. The Education (Choice of Employment) Act, 1910.' No publishing details (but printed on '22-3-11 [i.e. 22 March 1911]'. Dated at end from 'L.C.C. Education Offices, Victoria Embankment, W.C. 11th March, 1911.' 2pp., foolscap 8vo. EIGHT. Printed item: 'Board of Trade | Labour Exchanges, 1911.' No printing details. At foot of first page: '(20426-4.) Wt. 12256-G 343. 50,000. 7/11 [i.e. July 1911] D & S. [i.e. Darling and Son] 4pp., 12mo. Bifolium. NINE. Printed item: 'Memorandum with regard to Co-operation between Labour Exchanges and Local Education Authorities Exercising their Powers under the Education (Choice of Employment) Act, 1910.' By Sydney Buxton, President of the Board of Trade, and Walter Runciman, President of the Board of Education. With appendix by H. Llewellyn Smith, Secretary. London: Published by His Majesty's Stationery Office. 1911. 6pp., foolscap 8vo. Title-page headed '(For Official Use.) | Board of Trade and Board of Education.' TEN. Duplicated typewritten item: Headed in manuscript 'Scheme adopted by the Camberwell Advisory Committee at their meeting on February 9th 1911.' 2pp., foolscap 8vo. Begins: The Su[b-]Committee appointed on Jan-10th, has met four times, and subject to the consent of the London Juvenile Advisory Committee being obtained, recommends the adoption of the following scheme.' The following text is divided into sixteen numbered points. ELEVEN. Printed item: 'Two Appendices. Ministry of Labour. Employment Department. Staff - Counting of War Bonus for Pension Purposes.' By Malcom G. Ramsay, Treasury; G. Chase, Civil Service Federation; W. B. Cheesman, National Joint Committee of Post Office Associations. 2pp., 12mo. No printing details. Dated at foot '9/19 [i.e. September 1919]' and published by 'D. & S. [i.e. Darling and Son]'. Headed 'Confidential' and 'E.D. Circ. 24/12. | E.D.S. 18139/1919 - E. | To all Divisional Officers and Exchange Managers (excluding Ireland) and Claims and Record Office (Finance and Insurance Branches).' TWELVE to FOURTEEN. Copies of certificates, recording Rothbarth's appointment to various posts. Each of the three giving typed extracts of minutes, and each 1p., foolscap 8vo, on an ornate letterhead. Item Twelve is dated 27 July 1912, 'At the Council Chamber Whitehall', and records her promotion from 'Assistant Manager acting as Secretary to Juvenile Advisory Committee, to be Secretary of Local Juvenile Advisory Committee in London at a salary of #150 per annum, rising by #5 annually to #200 per annum.' Item Thirteen, dated 5 December 1916, again 'At the Council Chamber, Whitehall', records her promotion from 'Secretary to a Local Juvenile Advisory Committee to be an Assistant Organising Officer, at a salary of #150 per annum rising, provided her service is approved, by #7. 10s. annually to #200 per annum.' Item Fourteen is dated 20 September 1917, from the Ministry of Labour, Whitehall, and records her promotion from 'Assistant Organising Officer, to be a Minor Staff Officer at a salary of #200 per annum rising, provided her service is approved, by #10 annually to #300 per annum.' FIFTEEN. Form (2pp., foolscap 8vo) from the Civil Service Commission, London, dated 4 August 1914, directing Rothbarth to 'call upon Dr Mary Scharlieb of 149 Harley Street, W. for examination as to the state of your health'. SIXTEEN to TWENTY-ONE. Six typed letters signed (totalling 6pp., 8vo) to Rothbarth from various government departments, written between 1910 and 1916 regarding her employment, four of the five civil servants being: Walter J. Howell (a long letter, on behalf of the Board of Trade, 9 March 1911, offering her 'an appointment as Assistant Manager in charge of a Juvenile Section of a Labour Exchange', and describing the terms of employment); William Nash (Board of Trade, Westminster); M. E. Marshall (London Juvenile Advisory Committee, Labour Exchanges, Westminster); H. B. Clark (Board of Trade, Central Office for Labour Exchanges and Unemployment Insurance, Westminster). The fifth name is illegible. Three of the letters are accompanied by their envelopes. TWENTY-TWO to TWENTY-FOUR. Three autograph drafts of an account by Rothbarth of her family and career. Each 1p., 4to. Item Twenty-Two headed 'Alice Rothbarth born London 1882'; Item Twenty-Three headed 'Alice Rothbarth - born August 3rd. 1882 London'; Item Twenty-Four headed 'Alice Rothbarth - born London 1882'. TWENTY-FIVE. Autograph account by Alice Rothbarth's brother Captain Herbert Rothbarth, Royal Engineers, of his military career during the First World War. 5pp., 12mo. On letterhead of 30 Quex Road, West Hampstead, NW6 (his home and hers). Incorporated in Items Twenty-Two and Twenty-Four. TWENTY-SIX. Autograph Letter Signed ('F.') from Alice Rothbarth's father Justus Rothbarth. Summerhill House, Tunbridge Wells; 30 July 1918. 2pp., 8vo. Providing her with autobiographical information incorporated in Items Twenty-Two and Twenty-Four. Begins: 'My dear Alice | We are a much governed race! Here is a letter from Dolls to pay for the war, & one from you on the subject of winning the war - vide Lord Beresford & other Albert Hallits. | As far as the latter is concerned you know I have no secrets & if necessary my bones & marrow are ready for inspection.' The rest of the letter, giving biographical information, is divided into seven numbered sections. TWENTY-SEVEN. Autograph Note Signed by 'E. F. R.', dated 4 September 1918, to 'Miss Durham'. 1p., 12mo. Reads: I have extracted all relevant facts from the attached documents, and I have arranged that you will see the statement put up by the Dept. in Miss Rothbarth's case before it goes to the Commee'. Attached to first page of Item Twenty-Three.
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