Letters mainly to A.C. Benson and E.F. Benson, with some family papers
MS. Benson adds. 1/1-4
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
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Title
Letters mainly to A.C. Benson and E.F. Benson, with some family papers
Shelfmark
MS. Benson adds. 1/1-4
Summary
(1/1) Letters mainly to A.C. Benson
2 letters from Henry James, 2 Sept. 1896, n.d., 6 fols and 2 envelopes
Letter from Sir Henry A Wiggin, 3 June 1901, 4 fols
Letter (from Aunt Ernestine?), 18 May , 1 fol
Letter from Margaret Cooper, 2 fols
Letter from Edna Rightmire, 5 June 1933, 2 fols
Letter from M Ponsonby, 1 fol
P.S. to a letter, 1 fol
Letter from Alice, 5 June 1937, 1 fol
Letter to Eustace Miles, 9 Oct. 1916, 3 fols
Letter from W. Ball Wright, 20 May 1905, 2 fols
Letter from Arthur?, 21 Feb. 1903, 2 fols
Letter to E.W. Benson from J. Spielman, 14 Nov. 1892, 1 fol
Certificate from the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1 fol
List of Prizemen of Trinity College, 1851, 1 fol
Photocopies from Burkes Landed Gentry, pp. 744-8
(1/2) Letters to E.F. Benson
4 letters from Mary Benson (with envelopes)
3 letters from A.C. Benson, 14 May 1916, 2 fols; 4 Feb. 1917, 2 fols; 12 Jan. 1916, 6 fols
2 letters from Philip Burne-Jones, 4 fols
7 letters concerning David Blaize (1916) comprising: Isabel M. King Scott, 6 Nov. 1916, 2 fols; G. E. Gathorne Hardy, 8 March 1916, 2 fols; May Drew, 11 April 1916, 2 fols; Madeleine Nightingale, 2 fols; H. M. Ferguson, 2 fols; Edith Henrietta Hamilton, 2 fols; Arthur Eckersley, 2 fols; Postcard featuring John Ellingham Brooks
2 letters from Robert Morley, 6 fols
Letter from Robert Morley, 1 fol + envelope with 2 pages from The New Witness
Letter from the London Coliseum, 1 fol + envelope
Letter from E.W. Wallington, 2 fols
Letter from George Plank, 2 fols
Letter sent from 11 Albion Street, 1 fol
Letter sent from 8 Neville Street, 6 fols
2 letters from Eva K. Anderson, 3 fols + envelope
Letter from Robert A. Ussler, 3 fols
Letter sent from 33 Kensington, 2 fols
Incomplete letter sent from Harnham Cliff, 2 fols
Letter sent from 3 Hanover Terrace, 1 fol + envelope
Letter sent from 11 King's Bench Walk, 4 fols + envelope
Letter (n.d.) starts "My dear Dodo...", 1 fol
Letter from Mlojskole? 18 Jan. 1936, 1 fol
(1/3) Letters to publishers
c. 50 letters to E.F. Benson from publishers (Longman, Heinemann, Peter Davies)
Agent (A. P. Watt)
Clippings
Royalty statement
Concentration, Meditation, Contemplation by Elizabeth Bell
(1/4) Family Papers
Administrators cash act and statement of the estate of Margaret Benson
Genealogy of the Benson family
Thomas Benson's will (plus copy)
Dorothy Benson's will
Susan Carr's will
Letter from Lt. Col. H[enry] Wilberforce Clarke to Archbishop Benson, 8 Jun 1891, attached to papers relating to the translation of the Divan-i-Hafiz, 1891
Copy of letter from Salonica, 9 fols
Printers proof of 'The Book of Kerith', 1 fol
Date
Date not recorded at time of cataloguing
Language
English
Physical extent
1 box
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Collection contents
Additional papers (further works and correspondence)
Letters mainly to A.C. Benson and E.F. Benson, with some family papers
