Letters to Isabel Clementi from family members, with a little general correspondence

Title

Letters to Isabel Clementi from family members, with a little general correspondence

Shelfmark

MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 600 / 104

Summary

Family correspondence, some letters annoted by Isabel Clementi. Includes letters from:

Carrington, Mary, 1919

Christie, Mary Ethel (née Clementi Smith?), 1930

Clementi, Cecil, with enclosure (a copy of the report he sent to the Colonial Secretary describing his journey through the interior of China), 1902

Clementi, Dennis and Kenneth (joint letter), 1917

Clementi, Dorothy, 25 letters (including a postcard), with enclosures (see below for details), 1908-1930

Clementi, John, 18 letters (including two telegrams and a Christmas card), with enclosures (see below for details), 1907-1921

Clementi, Lockhart, 19 letters, with enclosures (see below for details), 1907-1916

Clementi, Penelope, five letters, 1916-1925

Clementi Smith, Hubert, 1923

Clementi Smith, Lady Teresa Alice, 30 letters (including a letter to Lady Clementi Smith from Emma Lacey-Baker), [1908?-1913?]

Collard, Nora, 1908

Eyres, Cresswell (postcard), 1919

Eyres, Rose, 13 letters, with enclosure (printed card of 'A Soldier's Prayer in the XVIIth Century' by Sir Jacob Astley), [1916?]-1929, n.d.

Finlaison, Isabel (née Hudson), nine letters (including two postcards), 1908-1911, n.d.

Graham, Mary N., seven letters (including a postcard), 1908, 1910, n.d.

Graham, R.B., 1911

Hudson, Isabel Muir, three letters, [1908], [1909]

Hunt, Cecilia Teresa 'Cece' (née Clementi Smith), nine letters, 1908-1920

Jones, Gabrielle Rose (née Johnston), 1915

Lacey-Baker, Emma (née Clementi Smith), four letters, [1911?]-1930, n.d.

Lacey-Baker, Isabel, 1911

Lee-Warner, Dorothy, 1917

Clementi, Augusta 'Cushla', 19 letters (including two telegrams), with enclosure (lock of hair), 1907-1920

Talbot, Edith (née Clementi Smith), with enclosure (newspaper cutting about the death of George Hunt), 1917

General correspondence, with a few letters where the author is unclear. Includes letters from:

Armitage, Francis Paul, 13 letters, 1908-1928

Armitage, Louise, three letters, 1909, 1911

Engelke, Anna, five letters, with enclosure (postcard of a home for women workers in Germany), 1908-1912

Francis, Georgie (postcard showing a photograph of a 'scene at Beaconsfield'), n.d.

Hinxman, Julia D., two letters, 1910, 1911

Hose, Gertrude, 1912

O'Conor, B.E., two letters, 1910, 1911

Oppenheimer, Anthony, 1912

Oppenheimer, Horace, 1910

Owen, Joan, 1908

Palmer, A., four letters, 1911

Preston, Mabel, 1910

Sladen, D. (postcard), 1910

Welles, Roger, 1918

Winks, [-] ('Miss Winks'), seven letters (including three postcards), 1909-1911

Woolf, Bella Sidney (Lady Southorn) and Marie Woolf (telegram), 1929

Enclosures include:

photograph of Joan Clementi, Jun 1919, with Dorothy Clementi at side of photograph, found with Dorothy Clementi's letters

photograph of Dorothy Clementi with two of her children, n.d., found with Dorothy Clementi's letters

photograph of The Residency, Butha Buthe, Basutoland, enclosed with Dorothy Clementi's letter dated 12 May 1930

letter from John Clementi to his mother-in-law, Mary N. Graham, 26 Dec 1907, found with John Clementi's letters (annotation by Isabel Clementi reads 'Mrs. G. often sends one on for me to see')

two photographs relating to the wedding of Lockhart Clementi and Dorothy Hobson (inside St. James' Church, where they were married, and reception room with wedding cake displayed), enclosed with Lockhart Clementi's letter dated 30 Apr 1911

newspaper cutting from The Friend, 24 Apr 1911, enclosed with Lockhart Clementi's letter dated 30 Apr 1911

Date

1902-1930

Language

English

Physical extent

1 box