Letters to Rose Eyres from other family members, with a little general correspondence and papers

Title

Letters to Rose Eyres from other family members, with a little general correspondence and papers

Shelfmark

MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 600 / 103

Summary

Family correspondence, some letters annotated by Rose Eyres. Comprises letters from:

Bullock, Florence Louisa Elizabeth, three letters, 1914-[1921?]

Carrington, Cathie, 1927

Carrington, John Walsh, three letters, 1918, 1919

Carrington, Mary, 18 letters, [1913]-[1927], n.d. (and two loose pages from a letter in her hand)

Carrington, Susan, 1918

Clementi, Cecil, 26 letters, 1911-1929

Clementi, Dione, 1921 (in French)

Clementi, Isabel, five letters, 1914-[1919]

Clementi, Montagu, two letters, [1914?], [1917]

Clementi Smith, Sir Cecil, two letters (including a postcard), 1915

Cobbold, Augustus Hills, two letters, 1916

Elliott, Vera (née Eyres, formerly Phillimore), 1915

Eyres, Cresswell, 12 letters (including three telegrams and a postcard), 1914-[1930], n.d., with seven copy letters from Eyres to Rose Eyres in Mary Eyres' hand, 1914-1917

Eyres, Sir Harry Charles Augustus, 1921

Eyres, Mary L. 'Tartie' / 'Poll', ten letters (including two postcards, one of which shows a photograph of Benson village), [1915]-1923, n.d.

[Eyres], (Harry) Maurice, two letters (including a postcard), 1914, 1928

Eyres, Lady Penelope Louisa 'Eplie', six letters, [1913]-[1919]

Eyres, Walter Charles Townsend, two letters, 1915

Eyres, Winifred, two letters (including a postcard), 1915

Hardman, Frances Anne de Rougemont (postcard showing a photograph of Nymet House, Dunsfold), 1914

Johnston, Audrey, two letters, with enclosure (piece of fabric) 1915, 1923

Johnston, Edward Hamilton, two letters, 1917, 1918

Jones, Gabrielle Rose (née Johnston), four letters (including two postcards), 1914, 1915, n.d.

Lee-Warner, Dorothy, 15 letters (including a postcard showing a photograph of Winchester Cathedral), [1913]-1918

Stack, Theodora Rose (née Eyres), [1913]

Tatton Brown, (Alice) Mary (née Cobbold) (postcard), 1914

Townsend, Octavia Isabel Frances, 1929 (incomplete)

Woollam, Mary, eight letters, 1914-1919

Enclosures include:

photograph of Brockham Court, Betchworth, Surrey, enclosed with Dorothy Lee-Warner's letter dated 29 Apr [1913?]

photograph of (Harry) Maurice Eyres, Octavia Isabel Frances Townsend and 'Alice' at lunch, enclosed with Dorothy Lee-Warner's letter dated 29 Apr [1913?]

postcard showing a photograph of the Caius College, Cambridge, rowing team at Henley, 1913, including Charles Townsend Cobbold, enclosed with Augustus Hills Cobbold's letter dated 8 Oct 1916

coloured drawing of the French Legion of Honour, enclosed with Mary Carrington's letter dated [1917]

letter from Casey A. Wood, 3 May, enclosed with Cecil Clementi's letter dated 16 May 1921

General correspondence, includes letters from:

Anderson, John, 1929

Bethell, Hilda, n.d.

Blackwood, James H., 1917

Brandreth, M., [1916]

Cowling, Eleanor, 1916

Curtis, Elizabeth Harriet de Kutzleben, 1918

Darley, Charlotte Sinclair, [1915]

Hagedorn, Elisabeth W. von, 1914

Inglefield, F.S., two letters, with enclosure (newspaper cutting from The Times about Cresswell Eyres), 1915

Johnstone, [Janet Schonswar], 1916

Lugard, Dame (Flora Louise Lugard), two letters, [1914?]

Manifold, K.C.B., two letters, 1916

Molony, Charles Vandeleur, four letters (including a postcard), 1914, 1915

Monroe, Hubert Seeds, 1912

Nicholson, C.H., [1926?]

Nicolls, O.H., 1914

Penrose-Fitzgerald, H.E.L., 1916

Round, H. Lucy, 1918

Stewart, Murray, three letters, 1916, n.d.

Steel, J.M., 1918

Tryon, C.C., three letters, [1914?], [1915?], n.d.

Waring, Flora M., three letters, 1914, 1922, n.d.

Welles, Harriet, n.d.

Papers, includes:

flyer about rationing produced by the City of Rochester, Nov 1917

'Disabled Sailors and Soldiers. What every man should know', flyer by the Ministry of Pensions, [1917?]

order of service for the marriage of John Walsh Carrington and Mary Eyres, 9 Apr 1918, with two related newspaper cuttings

Prisoners of Prussia. Official report on the treatment of British prisoners by the enemy during 1918, pamphlet by the National War Aims Committee, [1918]

flyer appealing for funds for the Railway Benevolent Fund, with poem by E.A. Thorpe, [1918?]

'Marriage Defence Papers. No. 10', flyer about divorce produced by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (SPCK), [1918?]

order of service for the funeral of Reginald Eden Johnston, 24 Nov 1922, with two related newspaper cuttings

newspaper cutting about Frederick G. Eyres (25 years service in Blackmoor parish and silver wedding anniversary), n.d. [1923?]

postcard showing a photograph of Winifred Cuming (née Johnston) with her son, Geoffrey? n.d.

postcard showing a photograph of a woman in uniform, labelled on back '[Annie] our former cook', n.d.

postcard showing a photograph of Little Offley, Hertfordshire, inscribed 'with best wishes from Little Offley', n.d.

photograph of Terlings, Harlow?, n.d.

Date

1911-1934, n.d.

Language

English

Physical extent

1 box