Letters from a concertina file (A-F)

Title

Letters from a concertina file (A-F)

Shelfmark

MS. 23701/13

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 Agnes Fry are under 'A' rather than 'F'.

Comprises letters from:

Agnes Fry (20 letters, two incomplete), 1921-1956, n.d. With a further letter from Margaret to Agnes, n.d. [1922?]

Anna Coltman (two letters), 1943, 1944, including comments on Constance (assumed to be Constance Lloyd, interned at Besançon for two months) and a description of Ella Coltman meeting Paula Schuster. With quotes by [Samuel Taylor Coleridge], Henry Crabb Robinson and William Blake in Ella Coltman's handwriting, n.d.

John Betjeman (seven letters), including mention of a broadcast on Henry Newbolt, 1939-1940

Lord Baden-Powell (two letters) who had met Henry and Margaret Newbolt on a boat to Canada, 1933

Lady Elsa Richmond, about the death of her mother, Florence Bell, with a printed copy of the address given at her memorial service, 1933

A.C. (Arthur) Benson, thanking the Newbolts for a visit to Mount Grace, 1911

Cicely Binyon (two letters), one addressed to Ella Coltman, 1943, n.d.

Lawrence Binyon (six letters), 1916/7-1942

[William Riddell] Birdwood, 1940

Leonard Borwick, n.d.

A.C. Bradley, n.d.

Edward Bridges, 1939

Margaret Bridges (two letters), 1913

Monica Bridges (née Waterhouse) (57 letters), 1916-1946. With a further letter from Ellen F. [Pinsent] about Monica Bridges, 1947

Robert Bridges poems but not in his handwriting, possibly Henry Newbolt, n.d. With a letter from Francis Brett Young to Robert Bridges regarding the Newbolts, 1917

Mrs James Browne to Henry Newbolt, 1942

John Buchan, Lord Tweedsmuir, 1939

Susan 'Susie' Buchan, Lady Tweedsmuir (two letters), 1939, 1946. With a further letter from Vincent Massey, 1943

Katharine 'Kittie' Calderon (six letters), including mention of the publication of George Calderon's Tahiti, 1919-1921, [1939?]

Eleanor 'Nellie' Cecil (two letters, one incomplete), including one about Celia Furse's poetry collection The Gift 1919, 1932

F.L. Coleridge, on receiving Celia Furse's The Gift, 1920

Alice Coltman (two letters) to Ella Coltman, 1944. Alice was the wife of Thomas Lister Coltman, Ella's first cousin

Cecil B. Morgan, collector of John Constable pictures and drawings, 1937

May Simmonds (two letters), cook at Netherhampton House, writing soon after the Newbolts left, mid 1930s

Admiral Sir Reginald Custance, 1911

Elinor 'Eily' Darwin (née Monsell), wife of Bernard Darwin, 1930

Francis Darwin, 1908

Patric Dickinson (two letters), 1957

Richard 'Dick' de la Mare (three letters), 1951, 1956

J. Dover Wilson, 1922

Alice Duckworth, 1931

Campbell Duckworth (four letters), 1914-1926

Edina Duckworth, Margaret's mother (three letters) and newspaper obituary, [1912?]-1913, 1917

[Evie 'T'Evie' Duckworth?] (two letters), 1922?, 1925?

George Herbert Duckworth, 1933

'Minna' [Duckworth], Margaret's aunt, n.d.

Ralph Duckworth (three letters), son of Campbell Duckworth, 1935, 1940, 1944 (1944 letter = Closed)

Viola Duckworth (13 letters, one incomplete?), wife of Campbell Duckworth, 1933-1944, n.d., including letters about Helen's death (1933) and memories of her when young (1934), the Newbolts leaving Netherhampton (1934), Jill Furse in the shows 'National 6' (1936) and 'Victoria Regina' (1938?) and Henry Newbolt's death (1938) (1944 letters = Closed)

W. Arthur Duckworth (three letters), Margaret Newbolt's father, 1913-1917

George Engleheart, n.d.

Mary Engleheart, about the death of her husband George, 1937

Katharine Farrer (three letters), wife of Austin Farrer, mid-1940s, 1951

Jane Findlater to Ella Coltman, [1942?]

Mary Findlater (six letters), to Margaret Newbolt, Ella Coltman and Anna Coltman, 1939-1950

Dorothy Longman (née Fletcher), 1919

Jane Fletcher (née Carter) (two letters), including one about her daughter Dorothy's marriage to Robert Guy Longman, 1914, 1915

Mary Fletcher, 1926

George Meredith Frampton (seven letters), 1931-1951

Roger E. Fry, 1908

Katharine Furse (two letters with typed transcripts), widow of Charles W. Furse, 1943

Michael and Frances Furse, circular letter and tributes following the death of their daughter, Jane Diana, 1918

Date

1908-1959

Language

English

Physical extent

1 box (5 folders)