PANKHURST, E. Sylvia.

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Typed letter signed, to Ethel Archer, regarding Ethiopian politics. Pankhurst writes to her colleague, the writer and occultist Ethel Archer, about the travels of the Ethiopian minister Workneh Eshete (known as "Dr Martin"), a mislaid social invitation, and fundraising for upcoming by-elections. Archer has annotated the letter in response before forwarding it to Dr Martin. While Pankhurst's message is diplomatic and businesslike, Archer glosses the letter with gossip and scathing asides.Commenting on Pankhurst's explanation of the minister's sudden trip to Geneva, Archer (1885-1962) addresses Martin: "I merely asked if she knew when you would be back in London, I did not ask why you went suddenly because I guessed correctly! [Anthony] Eden is utterly insincere". After his appointment as Foreign Secretary, Eden (1897-1977) was frequently engaged in negotiations at the League of Nations in Geneva and publicly opposed Mussolini's invasion of Ethiopia.In another paragraph, Pankhurst suggests that Archer's lack of invitation to a recent garden party is "one of the many oversights" of an understaffed Legation. Archer thinks otherwise: "To be quite vulgar, for once... I know quite well where to place the 'oversight'", recounting an angry exchange at a party the month prior as evidence. Archer also speculates that her correspondence to the Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie is being intercepted.Accompanying the letter is a handbill welcoming Selassie to Britain, on which Pankhurst is l

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