Frederick Yates Papers
Period
(1906-) 1919-1991
Total size
1.24 m.
Consultation
Not restricted
Biography
Born in Great Britain 1908; died in Great Britain in 1991 or 1992; teacher and author; raised in a working class family in New Mills; became a member of the Labour Party; turned to communism in the 1930s and worked for the Daily Worker; after the Second World War he completed a course at a training college in Exmouth and became a teacher; in the 1950s he was active in the London Federation of Parent-Teacher Associations; turned to anarchism after his break with communism; engaged in literary writing.
Content
Correspondence with his wife Catherine Caroll 1941, 1944, 1947-1948 and n.d., his brother Eric 1935, 1942-1948 and other family members; correspondence with Gwen Bingham 1934-1936, Eric Boyle 1941-1945, Alec Jarwood 1941-1945 and others; personal documents including documents relating to his training as a teacher and some earlier jobs 1917-1957; documents relating to the Daily Worker and the Workmen's Pools 1935-1938, 1940, 1943 and to the London Federation of Parent-Teacher Associations 1946-1959; manuscripts of `The Womb of Time' (written under his pseudonym Theo Yeats) [1983] and `Angels of Doom' n.d.; manuscripts of some articles and poems; notes; some manuscripts by his wife Catherine Yates including `Say not the Struggle' and by Sidney Yates n.d.; pamphlets, clippings and other documentation on the Communist Party of Great Britain and other subjects 1919-1991.
List
- 10
-
Correspondence
with
Mary
.
1930-1931, [1943],
n.d.
Correspondence with Alec and Flo . 1976-1979, [1980]. 1 folder.
- 31
-
Certificates of
merit.
Membership certificate of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows .
Examinar's reports of the London College of Music . 1920-1922.
Grade certificates of the London College of Music . 1921-1922. 1 folder.
- 33
-
Award of a free
place by the
Derbyshire Education Committee
.
1920.
Reports of the Secondary School of New Mills . 1922-1926. 1 folder.
- 36
- Documents on his Articled Clerk education at the Institute of Chartered Accountants . 1927-1931. 1 folder.
- 40
-
Divorce of his
parents
Albert Matthews
and
Catherine
Matthews-Carroll
.
1941, 1943.
1 folder.
NB. Contains letters by John and Jack.
- 41
- Birth certificate, medical papers, biography of Catherine Yates . 1916, 1943, 1944, n.d. 1 folder.
- 43
- Documents from Exmouth Training College and the Ministry of Education . 1945-1947, [1949]. 1 folder.
- 44
-
Notebooks on
Psychology and History of Education.
An essay called 'Dialogue on Creative Composition between three teachers of different outlooks' . 1946. 1 folder.
- 49
-
Correspondence
with the
Daily Worker
.
1937-1938, 1940,
1943.
Lists of subscribers and newsagents of the Daily Worker . 1 folder.
- 58
-
Documents
relating to the
South Molton Division Labour Party
and
1945 membership card.
1945.
1 folder.
Contains 2 blank 1946 memberschip cards for man and woman.
- 59
- Leaflets relating to the municipal elections in Great Torrington and parliamentary elections. 1945. 1 folder.
- 61
- Incoming letters from Collett's on his application for training as a bookseller in a political bookshop. 1938. 1 folder.
- 62
- Schooling materials of a correspondence course from the National Council of Labour Colleges (N.C.L.C.) . n.d. 1 folder.
- 64
- Documents relating to the London Federation of Parent-Teacher Association with documents from the London District Committee of the Communist Party . 1947-1957, 1959. 1 folder.
- 66
-
Manuscript of
'Classic Soil'
[1947]
Typescript of the play 'Angels of Doom', with a letter by Tony Cliff of the BBC . 1972. 1 folder.
- 67
-
Typescripts of
articles.
1981, n.d.
Correspondence with Freedom -editors. 1979, 1982-1983. 1 folder.
- 68
-
Typescript of
'The Family of Man'.
1985.
1 folder.
Unpublished contribution to Sanity, voice of Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) .
- 84
-
Documents
relating to
Edward Carpenter
.
1979.
Photocopy of 'The Great Depression' by Marion Yass . n.d. 1 folder.