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Letters -- England -- 20th century

 Subject
Subject Source: Genre Terms: A Thesaurus for Use in Rare Book and Special Collections Cataloguing

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

Barry Humphries collection of Charles Conder correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: MS.2025.012
Abstract

This collection consists of correspondence from British artist Charles Conder to Leonard Smithers, Edith Lockyer Williams (Mrs. Dalhousie Young), Thomas Way, and Pickford Waller, in addition to art gallery announcements of shows featuring Conder's work, and letters about Conder's health from artist Florence Pash Humphrey to Pickford Waller.

Dates: 1895-1910

Glover Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS.2013.004
Abstract

Collection of letters and legal documents pertaining to members of the Glover family, spanning from late 18th c. to mid-20th c. Bulk of materials are letters from John Glover to his daughter, Lucy Freeman (nee Glover) during the early 1800s.

Dates: 1782-1949

More House Archive

 Collection
Identifier: MS.2013.020
Abstract The More House Archive consists of the family archive of the Hope-Nicholson family, who lived at More House at 52 Tite Street in London for a century, beginning in 1892. The house was first purchased by Adrian Hope and Laura Troubridge and the house archive contains materials produced by them, their daughter and son-in-law Jaqueline and Hedley Hope-Nicholson, and grandchildren (particularly Marie-Jaqueline Lancaster and Felix Hope-Nicholson), as well as other members of their extended...
Dates: 1587-1997; Majority of material found within 1870-1945

The English correspondence of Marcel Schwob

 Collection
Identifier: MS.2025.013
Abstract

This collection consists of 5 bound volumes containing the English (and some German) correspondence of Marcel Schwob from a wide variety of correspondents.

Dates: 1892-1905

Collection on Robert Harborough Sherard

 Collection
Identifier: MS.1997.004
Abstract

Correspondence and other materials related to Robert Harborough Sherard, collected by both Glennyth M. Woods and by Francis Watson. Letters and other documents are concerned with the reputation of Oscar Wilde, Sherard's life and career, his views on other literary and social figures of his day, and other topics, such as his views on World War II.

Dates: 1881-1987