Scope and Contents Box 41/Folder 6:Letters to LH from assorted close family members including: Margaret J. Gurney (of Keswick)(2 letters), Helen Gurney (1 letter), "M. Hope"(Madge Hope?)(1 letter), Charles & Alice Hope (1 letter), Caroline J. Hope (1 letter), M. Orde (nee Gurney)(1 letter), Evelyn 'E' Orde (1 letter), Rachel Jones (nee Gurney) aka "Aunt Bache" (of Sculthorpe) (2 letters), Eve Creswell (nee Gurney) of Runcton Rectory (4 letters); letters seem to be about Esme's birth and death. Box 43:...

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Folder includes photo of Esme holding a baby, labelled "Ralph & Julyan, King's Lynn" (photographers) as well as a photo postcard of Esme wearing a beret, sent to LH from JHN and dated 9/12/1903. Elsewhere in this box is a 2"x3" Hollinger box with a clear plastic window containing a glass plate negative of Esme and plastic negative and black oval paper frame. User should handle glass plate negative carefully, and hold by the edges, as touching the plate can wear off the emulsion.

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Folder includes a number of cards and color postcards to and from EH. Many are to EH from LH, many depict animals.

Scope and Contents A number of newspaper clippings feat. EH's obituary, a card sent from LH to EH for her first Christmas; a 1905 calendar: "Merry Months" (with envelope), and a number of flowers pressed between folded leaves of paper: "From the wreaths that were about our darling Esm� when she was lying in her last sleep" (LH's handwriting); a separate small Hollinger box also contains a segment of a wreath from EH's grave; elsewhere in box, separately wrapped, are 7 copies of the book The Horizon (London:...

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: This subseries comprises a mini-archive compiled in part by Laura Hope following the death of her beloved younger daughter Esme in February 1905. Included are letters from Esmé to Laura and Adrian, as well as letters about Esmé and letters of condolence to Laura and Jacqueline after Esmé’s death. There are 19 letters. 11 picture cards, 3 photos and 11 artistic items, including juvenile drawings and watercolors, some evidently by Esmé, others possibly executed by Laura and colored in by...

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A number of drawings done by EH as a child, or drawings done by LH and colored in by EH. Includes an envelope which contains a drawing of "Young Lady of Dover" and a letter;

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Folder includes 7 letters to LH from JH as a child and 14 letters from Laura C. Allen

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Letters to LH from her sister Violet Troubridge (14 letters), her brother Ernest Troubridge (1 letter), and her sister Helen Troubridge (1 letter)

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Letters to LH from family members Jessie Hope (3 letters), Anna Cunninghame-Graham (6 letters), Madge Napier (n�e Hope), and M. Lizzie Napier (3 letters)

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4/8/1908 envlope includes letter and a booklet: "In Memoriam: Evelyn Marchioness of Ailsa;" 1/2/1907 envelope from CM includes other booklets titled Beyond and The Vision, presumably the inspriration for The Horizon - that is, booklets printed after the death of a loved one that tell a life story and offer consolation of a religious nature; last envelope in folder includes 3 letters from CM's niece, Lucy O'Rorke.