Letters about Conscientious Objectors including:

a) responses to women who may be exempt from being conscripted due to being Conscientious Objectors, or for other reasons (May-Jul 1941); one particular case response (24/03/1943)

b) Mrs [Kathleen] Lonsdale's conflict about fire watching:

- newspaper clipping about going to gaol for a month in response for failing to register for fire watching and complaining about the conditions (6/09/1943)

- newspaper clipping about Lonsdale's response to why she wouldn't pay a fine (16/03/1943)

- a letter of protest to the secretary (8/03/1943)

- a second letter of protest and explanation for her reasons to continue protesting (1943)

c) issues regarding the lack of civil liberties within prisons (29/12/1942), a statement advising fellow Conscientious Objectors how to cope in prison (20/10/1942), a letter detailing the treatment of Conscientious Objectors in prison and the response to Mr Couldry from the Legal Department (3/11/1941-10/11/1941), letters about the ill-treatment of Conscientious Objectors in prison from the Secretary, the Chairman and Mr. Couldry (6/11/1940, 25/04/1941)

d) letter to Ronald Kidd requesting help because of a legal case of a Jehovah's Witness being a Conscientious Objector and facing tribunal (27/10/1939)

e) newspaper clipping of some of the legal cases against Conscientious Objectors (17/01/1940); letter overviewing a singular case (1939-1941)

f) Leeds Branch of the No Conscription League:

- letter asking to join the Leeds group of the No Conscription League with the Secretary's Council as they have connections and free legal service (21/11/1939)

- concern as to the treatment of Conscientious Objectors from the Leeds Tribunal (5/11/1939)

g) The Tribunal:

- explaining registration, the imprisonment of Conscientious Objectors increasing, an article condemning conscription, part of a diary of an imprisoned Conscientious Objector (6/10/1941)

- article talking about the differences in opinions about the war between the public and the government, excerpts from a statement by a Conscientious Objector making his second appearance before a Local Tribunal (Dec 1940)

- article telling Conscientious Objectors to widen their scope, frank remarks to Conscientious Objectors (Jan 1941)

- news of Conscientious Objectors and the Movement (7/05/1941)

- 'An Open Letter to Mr Churchill' (11/03/1941)

h) notes on the proceedings of the Appellate Tribunal for England & Wales, under the National Service (Armed Forces) Act, 1939 [covering May 21st - August 30th, 1940]

i) newspaper clipping about Conscientious Objectors getting more sympathy (7/11/1939), 'In Defence of the C.O.s' in Peace News (3/11/1939)

j) transcript of seven cases of the first session of the first tribunal to be held in Leeds (23/10/1939).