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Title

'Royalty'

Shelfmark

MS. 12101/7

Summary

Letters to Clark Kerr from members of the British Royal Family:

Folder 1: Letters by Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon (later Queen Consort and Queen Mother) to Clark Kerr, 1922-1935 and 1945-1946. Also includes letters to Clark Kerr by her mother, Cecilia Bowes-Lyon, 1922-1925.

Folder 2: Letters by Edward, Prince of Wales (later King Edward VIII, then Duke of Windsor), and by Wallis Windsor, nee Simpson, to Clark Kerr, 1935-1946 and 1946-1948; letters by George, Duke of Kent, to Clark Kerr, c.1932-1934.

Folder 3: One letter from Princess Elizabeth (later Queen Elizabeth II) to Clark Kerr, 1948 (= closed). Also includes three autographs, signature only, by Queen Victoria, n.d.