Letters from a concertina file (N-Y and miscellaneous)

Title

Letters from a concertina file (N-Y and miscellaneous)

Shelfmark

MS. 23701/15

Summary

Letters originally housed in a cardboard 'Xpania' concertina file with alphabetical sections (the concertina file can be found under shelfmark MS. 23701/16). The letters are addressed to Margaret Newbolt (née Duckworth) unless otherwise stated.

Margaret primarily filed the letters by surname but there are some exceptions. For example, the letters from Verena Holland are under 'V' rather than 'H'.

Comprises letters from:

Emily Newbolt, about her her son's (Henry Newbolt) knighthood, 1915

Lilias Noble, 1915, about the death of her father, Sir Andrew Noble. With a further letter from Henry Newbolt to Lilias on the character of John Meade Faulkner and his own memoir, 1932 (copy in Margaret Newbolt's handwriting?)

B.G. Harrison about obtaining a photograph of Netherhampton House, 1918. He was a descendent of former owners, the Gauntlett/Gauntlet family. With biographical notes about the Gauntlett/Gauntlet family

Edith Olivier (ten letters), on the death of Edina Duckworth (1917) and Tom Tutt (gardener or servant at Netherhampton, 1937), and Henry Newbolt's last book of poems, Later Life and Letters of Henry Newbolt (1943), 1917-1947

Maud M. Olivier about Harry Olivier's death and it being 44 years to the day since he buried Mary 'May' Olivier (née Duckworth) in Bombay [1891]

Rosemary Olivier, about the death of her aunt, Edith Olivier, 1948

Daisy Mills, about the death of Paula Schuster (Lady Jones), a childhood friend of Ella Coltman and Margaret Newbolt, 1956

Marna Pease on spiritualism, 1920

J.H.J. Peile, friend of Henry Newbolt, 1915

Patience Plater (two letters), about the Newbolts leaving Netherhampton and Henry Newbolt's death, 1934, 1939

Amy Margaret 'Margie' Ritchie, wife of John Gerald Ritchie, n.d.

Margaret Waller Robins (née Furse)?, sister of John Henry Monsell Furse, on the death of her daughter, Ursula Robinson, 1951/2

Alice Mary Rothenstein, regarding Henry Newbolt's knighthood, 1915

John Rothenstein, 1938

William Rothenstein (nine letters), 1937-1942, n.d. With a further letter from Anna Coltman to Ella Coltman about visiting the Rothensteins near Stroud, 1916

Robert Russell about his thesis on Mary Coleridge and Theresa Whistler being commissioned to edit her poems, 1952

Grace Sampson (two letters), wife of George Sampson the author of The Concise Cambridge History of English Literature, 1944

Rev. C.R. Shaw-Stewart about 'Mr Furse' (John Henry Monsell Furse), his daughter Una being a friend of Celia Furse (née Newbolt), 1917

Dorothy Smith about her sister, Hester, and the possibility of her return to India, 1944

Hester Smith about her sister, Dorothy, in London, 1944?

Harold Yorke Lidderdale Smith, printed tribute, 1939

J.C. Squire, editor of The Mercury about Henry Newbolt's death, 1938

Vanessa Stephen, thanking Margaret Newbolt for her letter about Leslie Stephen's death, 1904

Pamela Tennant, about her son David and Celia Furse (née Newbolt), n.d. [pre-1915?]

Stephen Tennant (11 letters), 1928-1947, n.d.

George L. Thirkell, an Australian officer? stationed near Netherhampton, 1917

Rupert Thompson, n.d. [1939?] addressed to Ella Coltman. With a further letter probably from Anna Coltman describing his death in 1951

Florence Thompson (née de la Mare) (four letters), including about the death of her husband, Rupert, and father, Walter de la Mare, 1951, [1956?], n.d.

G.M. Trevelyan (three letters), 1940, 1943

A.P. (Alexander Pelham) Trotter (two letters), 1939, 1942

Alys Trotter including comments about Miss Duckworth's Egyptian beads, 1935

Mrs Tutt, possibly a former servant at Netherhampton, 1938

Verena Holland (ten letters), 1934-1952

Mary Altham, written from Aisholt, Bridgwater, 1939, unclear why this letter is filed in 'W' section

Ursula Waterhouse writing about the death of her father, Paul Waterhouse, 1925

Wilton House Pageant (two letters), 1933, comprising letters from Lady Pembroke to Henry Newbolt asking him and Dean W.R. Inge to take part in the pageant which is to be held at at Wilton House in Salisbury. With a further related letter from W.R. Inge

Mary Woollaston (three letters), including a letter about the death of her husband, Sandy, 1924, 1930, 1940

Sandy Woollaston to Henry Newbolt, written from HMS Hyacinth, Zanzibar, 1917

W.B. Yeats (two letters) to Henry Newbolt, requesting permission to use 'Drake's Drum' and Mary Coleridge's 'Our Lady' in a collection of modern verse, 1935

Miscellaneous items in an envelope marked 'Treasured Scraps' (contents does not match the description on the outside of the envelope). Comprises letters from:

C.A. Alington to Ralph Furse, about the latter as a cavalry scout (Alington was Head of Eton during Ralph's time there), n.d.

[Peggy Carr?], a school friend of Celia Newbolt (later Furse), written in code including Greek, 1904

Verena Holland (signed 'VV'), [1922?]

Peter Wood addressed to his parents (copy in Margaret Newbolt's handwriting?), 1942

'B' addressed to Ella Coltman. Written from Switzerland and including comments on the war, 1940

'C' addressed to Ella Coltman. Written from Capri, 1912

'Dorothy', thanking Margaret Newbolt for sending a copy of A Perpetual Memory and comments on Henry Newbolt, 1939

Unidentified letter, n.d.

and ephemera comprising:

'Little Theo', printed tribute believed to be to Theodosia Ritchie (1887-1896), two copies, [1896?]

Three menus cards from dinner parties hosted by Henry and Margaret Newbolt, 1901, 1903, n.d.

Menu and table plan for the Royal Literary Fund's 120th Anniversary dinner, 1910

Poem by Henry Newbolt, 1917 (copy in Margaret Newbolt's handwriting?)

Printed tribute to Christopher Maud by J.P. Maud and E.D. Maud, 1911

Printed leaflet about an exhibition of paintings and pastels by M. Contance Lloyd and Jane Simone Bussy at The Adams Gallery, London, 1917

A Simple Faith and A Forward Leap, printed pamphlets by A. Ruth Fry, 1949

Scrap of a letter showing the address of the sender, 1934

Date

[1896?]-1956

Language

English

Modern Greek (1453-)

Physical extent

1 box (3 folders)