Box 44
Container
Contains 14 Results:
Assorted letters regarding Esme, 1905-1911
File — Box: 44, Folder: 10
Identifier: Subseries 5.1.
Scope and Contents
Letters about EH in life and after her death, many without envelopes.
Dates:
1905-1911
Assorted letters of condolence, 1922
File — Box: 44, Folder: 12
Identifier: Subseries 5.1.
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...
Dates:
1922
Documents addressed to Esme concerning the estate of Robert Bontine Cunninghame-Graham, 1936
File — Box: 44, Folder: 13
Identifier: Subseries 5.1.
Scope and Contents
EH was seemingly a beneficiary of RBCG's estate even though she predeceased him.
Dates:
1936
"Spirit letters", 1904-1905
File — Box: 44, Folder: 14
Identifier: Subseries 5.1.
Scope and Contents
Folder contains 3 spirit letters presumably channeled through Laura (although in a distinctively mediumesque hand), in the style of automatic writing. They take the form of conversations with the departed Esme, and some of these addressed to 'Raphael' - presumably the angel. They give a heartbreaking insight into a mother's grief.
Dates:
1904-1905