A collection of government papers, letters, memoranda, cuttings, etc., made by Thomas Jones to illustrate the process of government itself. The hard core is formed by the Instructions of the Cabinet Secretary to the Cabinet Secretariat, with subsidiary documents, which reveal the Secretariat in action. Other material relates to the creation of planning and advisory bodies in central and local government, and there are also some rather slight collections on local government reform, the civil service the Institute of Public Administration. The purpose was to illustrate the actual processes of governmental action. Articles and talks were prepared from the material and a book was proposed. The papers also relate, inevitably, to government policy and its effects. There is, consequently, some overlap with the policy papers in class C and elsewhere in the collection. Cabinet papers and analogous material have not been indexed for individuals (unless the authorship of memos is in question) but a full list of such documents is provided in the volume contents. Arranged into Cabinet: organisation and secretariat, 5 Aug. 1915-10 Jan. 1948 (B 1); Cabinet: secondary studies of the system, 9 Sept. 1929-23 Aug. 1952 (B 2); Committee of Civil Research: papers and correspondence, Feb. 1919-Dec. 1929 (B 3); Economic Advisory Council: papers and correspondence, 25 Nov. 1929-1 Oct. 1935 (B 4); Advisory Bodies: illustrative material, Nov. 1936 (B 5); Civil Service: papers and correspondence, 1929-1942 (B 6); and Institute of Public Administration: papers and correspondence, 5 June 1924-12 Jan. 1945 (B 7).
