| Description | Lesley Harris was founder and chairman of L.G. Harris & Co. Ltd., paintbrush manufacturer, (now known as Harris Brushes) based in Stoke Prior, Worcestershire. This correspondence is mostly to and from members of the Religious Society of Friends and shows the active interest Lesley Harris took in the life of the Society.
Topics include: history of Harris Paintbrushes; correspondence regarding the LG Harris Trust, a private charitable trust he established and his role as Life Governor of Birmingham University; correspondence relating to donations for various causes; modern Quakerism, dilemmas of a Quaker industrialist; the establishment of a Quaker Council for European Affairs; nuclear weapons; the establishment of Selly Wood House, a Quaker residential care home for the elderly in Bournville; Sudan; the poll tax; a federal Europe; a proposal for a Friends parliamentary liaison secretary; correspondence, list of secretaries 1852 - 1988 and final minutes relating to the Friends Essay Society (see SF/2/1/1/14), of which Lesley Harris and his wife were members. |