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Mark Henry Chambers Hayler Collection
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Correspondence: Mark Hayler

Material mainly from the interwar period including a poem by Allan McLang 'The Dear Little Pint Pot', a folio with note and correspondence with the Peace Pledge and Conscientious Objectors. Includes 2 photographs, one of Wilfred Hayler (son) and Hilda Lockhart on a bench in Limpsfield common and a march in 1958.

Newspaper clippings, tribunals and large newspapers

Material mainly dating form the inter-war and the Second World War period including 2 volumes of the Newspaper Peace News with a collage of newspaper clippings, leaflets against conscription, Fellowship of Reconciliation newssheet, The Tribunal Newsletters, a calling card for the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (2000s) and a publication by Mark H. C. Hayler called 'If Robinson Crusoe came back today'

Works and Drafts

Material includes works created by Mark Hayler or influenced by his experiences and that of other Conscientious Objectors. Also includes notes and dairy entries gathered by Mark Hayler in preparation for writing his autobiography and drafts of it.

Cassette tapes

Contains recording of an address given by Mark H. C. Hayler (07/02/1971), a recording of the Radio 4 programme 'The Loneliest Men' (12/12/1976) and an interview with Wilfred Hayler, son of Mark H. C. Hayler (07/02/1997)

Research Papers

Includes petition publications, song sheets, a poem, extracts of a letter form the trenches, newspaper clippings, photographs of Mark H. C. Hayler and Guy Hayler (father) and notes of obituaries of Mark H. C. Hayler, J.W. Hill and Eric B. W. Chappelow. Includes a booklet made from clippings of an observer articles about Conscientious Objectors titled 'Rebels in Uniform'

Tribunal and Internment

Papers dealing with the personal experiences of Mark Hayler during the First World War from a mixture of sources including the Hayler family and Mark Hayler's own diaries.

Mark Henry Chambers Hayler

Letters home form Aldershot

Letters addressed mainly from Barrosa barracks, Aldershot addressed to father (Guy Hayler) and mother. Includes a photo of Lady Faversham and her son, W. Duncombe. Stored in a envelope addressed to the International Order of Good Templars.

The Voice of the Silence and My Dartmoor notes

Full title: The Voice of the Silence and other chosen fragments from the Book of the Golden Precepts by Helena P. Blavatsky and published by the Theosophical Publishing Society. A translation of a book reportedly found by the author during her travels in the East, has strong connotations of Mayahana Buddhism. Owned by Mark H. C. Hayler during his arrest and internment.
My Dartmoor notes is a diary with leather cover half filled with entries. Back end of diary has notes on books about Dartmoor, and list of names and addresses.

Mark H. C. Hayler Correspondence

Includes correspondence and information on the Young Prohibitionist League, Prohibition Plebiscite, the Spanish Flu, Mark Guy Pearce's case, correspondence with family, including father, mother and sister. Includes an unfilled Hospital diet form and a dinner card.

Tribunal Papers: Case of Mark H. C. Hayler

Includes a Newspaper clipping of tribunal at Newton-le-Willows (23/03/1916) letters to and from Guy Hayler, attempts of employment. Includes notes written on the back of National Temperance leaflets and references to Glen Hayler (brother) and Pearce

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