Letter from John Boraston to Richard Dawson Bates, 15 February 1919 Letters 1916-1923 John Boraston

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 Public Record Office of Northern Ireland Ulster Unionist Council https://letters1916.ie/item/4880 English John Boraston 1919-02-15 Unionist Central Office, 1 Sanctuary Buildings, Great Smith Street, S.W.1., London, UK Richard Dawson Bates Male Politics

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 Telegrams: Telephone: 'Contitute, Phone, London' Victoria 9740 (11 lines) The National Unionist Association Of Conservative and Liberal Unionist Organizations Joint Principal Agents Sir John Boraston } Honorary Secretaries William Jenkins Thomas Cox, Secretary Private Unionist Central Office,1.Sanctuary Buildings,Great Smith Street, S.W.1 February 15th, 1919. Dear Mr. Dawson Bates, The Press Department of this Office has beencommunicating with you with reference to obtaining informa-tion on newspapers in Ireland, and you were good enough inyour letter of February 10th to send a list of the IrishUnionist Agents. Captain Malcolm Fraser has not, however,been demobilised yet, and pending his return, I wonderwhether, if I explained matters, you would be kind enoughto assist. We are obtaining from the Agents in the English andScottish Constituencies detailed information as to the LocalPress. Forms similar to the enclosed have been sent to eachAgent and when all the forms have been returned, they will beclassified and we shall then have a complete survey of thepolitics, etc., of the Press of the country. We took similaraction in 1912 and on the result we were able to base a seriesof Press services which we sent out weekly to the various local and other papers, and by this means we were able to supply,chiefly the smaller Press, with Leaders, Articles and Houseof Commons Sketches, each of which did not overlap the neigh-bouring paper's territory. In this way we were enabled toobtain excellent and widespread propaganda of the right kind.In order efficiently to do this, you will, I know, realisehow necessary it is to have the detailed information forwhich the form asks from each constituency. Can you adviseme how this can beat be done so far as Ireland is concerned?Would it perhaps be wiser to supply you with the blank formsand encroach on your courtesy by asking you to forward themto the Agents to obtain the necessary details and then returnthem out to us here? I am sorry to trouble you in this manner but I thinkthat the importance and urgency of the matter will provesufficent excuse. Yours sincerely, John Boraston. Richard Dawson Bates Letter from Sir Dawson Bates to Edward Carson, 2 December 1915Letter from Richard Dawson Bates to Willis, 17 June 1916Letter from Hugh de Fellenberg Montgomery to Sir Richard Dawson Bates, 23 June 1916Letter from John Boraston to Richard Dawson Bates, 15 February 1919Letter from J. Mackay Wilson to Richard Dawson Bates, 19 April 1919Letter from Edward Carson to Richard Dawson Bates, 21 April 1919Letter from Richard Dawson Bates to John E Walsh, 11 February 1919 John Boraston Letter from John Boraston to Richard Dawson Bates, 15 February 1919 Unionist Central Office, 1 Sanctuary Buildings, Great Smith Street, S.W.1., London, UK Letter from John Boraston to Richard Dawson Bates, 15 February 1919