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Wood, Sir Henry Evelyn to Jones, Henry Arthur
Wood, Sir Henry Evelyn
15 May 1894 - 1 Jun 1901; 5 [n.d.]
Dates assigned: 15 May [1894]; 23 May [1894]; 28 Feb [1894]; 6 Apr [1899].
Sender: Wyseur, Marcel
Recipient: Gosse, Edmund
Letters: 2
Date(s): n.d.
Location: BC Gosse correspondence. In French box 2.
Note: Headed "Samedi soir - 6 heures" and "Ce mercredi". The latter is dated in pencil, in a different hand, "Nov 15th".
Sender: Sharp, David
Recipient: Brown, Maurice J.E.
Letters: 2
Date(s): 6 Aug 1968 - 12 Mar 1969
Location: Schubert
Note: Letters written between 6 Aug 1968 and 15 Oct 1968 are in black
ring binder marked inside "Beethoven's songs and vocal pieces". Sender is of Barrie and Rockcliff publishers.
Sender: Bruce-Mitford, Rupert L S
Recipient: Crossley-Holland, Kevin
Letters: 2
Date(s): 6 June 1966-15 Aug 1968
Location: BC MS 20c Crossley-Holland-3-3-1: Personal
Note: Sender is Keeper of British and Medieval Antiquities at the British Museum. Letter of 6 June relates to the "Sutton Hoo Handbook" which contains extracts from K C-H's "Beowulf". Letter of 15 Aug thanks for complimentary copy of "Beowulf"
Phillpotts, Eden to Moult, Thomas
Phillpotts, Eden
3 Nov 1926 - 22 Dec 1939
Letter of 15 Dec 1927 has newspaper advertisement on Phillpotts' "The Minature". Items of 22 Feb 1928 and 6 Nov 1932 are postcards. Item number 25 is an envelope only. Two letters from Alexander In...
Sender: Nash, Walter
Recipient: Drummond-Wolff, Henry Maxence Cavendish
Letters: 18
Date(s): 16 June 1937 - c.1965-68
Location: SC 709/59-60, 220, 224, 232, 236, 239, 244, 258, 266, 273, 286,
290, 295, 427, 441, 624-5
Note: 1) Request to take documents back to New Zealand 2) Acknowledgment 3) Acknowledgment 4) Acknowledgment 5) HDW's
meeting with Clarence Skinner 6) Acknowledgment 7) Acknowledgment 8) Acknowledgment 9) Acknowledgment; refusal of
invitation 10) Commonwealth influence 11) Acknowledgment 12) Acknowledgment 13) Acknowledgment 14) Acknowledgment 15) Acknowledgment 16) Acknowledgment 17) Christmas card, with
photograph 18) Christmas card, with photograph.
Sender: Lennox-Boyd, Alan Tindal (later Viscount Boyd of Merton)
Recipient: Drummond-Wolff, Henry Maxence Cavendish
Letters: 7
Date(s): 2 Jan 1940 - 19 Apr 1973
Location: SC 709/87, 167, 195, 294, 358, 518, 570
Note: 1) Empire Industries Association. 2) Encloses copy of letter
about HDW's book from Ted Leather (MP), 15 January 1951. 3) Australian attitude to imperial preference. 4) Acknowledgement
with letter commenting on HDW's memorandum from Rt. Hon. Edward
Heath, 9 February 1962. 5) Too many commitments to become joint President. 6) Question of HDW having a public platform for his views. 7) Acknowledgment.
Sender: Collyer, Cedric
Recipient: Beckwith, Frank
Letters: 16
Date(s): 10 Aug 1951 - 30 Mar 1969
Location: SC 622/461, 462, 506, 733, 788, 816, 842, 899, 942, 948, 1038,
1051, 1106, 1150, 1171, 1191
Note: 1) Delay in producing literary references. 2) Same subject. 3) Sends an offprint; Professor Gash and the possibility of a departmental subscription (to the Leeds Library?). 4) Enclosing subscription. 5) Enclosing a cheque; his work on Canning. TS. 6) Subscription to Leeds Library. 7) Personal; his research. 8) Subscription to Leeds Library; personal. 9) Personal; academic historians. Dated "Monday"; date added by FB from postcard. 10) The state of education compared with 18c. 2 ff 11) Acknowledges receipt of two volumes. 12) Subscription to Leeds
Library. 13) Personal; his work. 14) Personal. 15) His work. 16) Miscellaneous.
Sender: Tillett, Edward Henry
Recipient: Beckwith, Frank
Letters: 17
Date(s): 9 Aug 1944 - 6 Apr 1951
Location: SC 622/179, 318, 323, 326, 338, 357, 360, 361, 371, 412, 432,
434, 435, 448, 455, 456, 457
Note: 1) A library key. TS. 2) His chairmanship of the Leeds Library Committee; personal. 3) Personal. 4) FB's paper in Thoresby Miscellany; personal. 5) Personal; his share in Leeds Library. 6) Seeks details of a book; personal. 7) Forwarding a book. 8) Enclosed with an unspecified item. 9) Problem of book selection; Leeds Library and W.H. Smith & Co. 2 ff. 10) FB's account of the Leeds Library. 11) Silas Neville of Norwich; life in Kensington; his activities. 2 ff 12) Willing to act as referee. 13) Gift of a book. 14) Points on Norfolk history; personal. TS. 15) Congratulates FB on his article on Joseph Kinghorn. 16) Personal; a moral story; London and festival of Britain. TS. 17) More about FB's article; personal. 2 ff.
Sender: Legge-Bourke, Sir Harry
Recipient: Neville Wallis, Barnes
Letters: 15
Date(s): 8 Nov 1957 - 20 Oct 1967
Location: SC MS 742/324, 331, 335, 341, 342, 344, 346, 348, 359, 365, 387,
391, 393, 397, 782
Note: 1) Proposed meeting with Duncan Sandys. TS. carbon. 2) Suggests
a meeting with Brundrett. TS. carbon. 3) Lunch with Brundrett.
TS. carbon. 4) Proposed meeting with Lord Weekes. TS. carbon.
5) Thanks Neville Wallis for a copy of his paper delivered at
Eton. TS. 6) Thanks for a second copy of Wallis's Eton College
Lecture. TS. carbon. 7) Thanking him for a letter (item 742/345).
TS. carbon. 8) On a debate on the Air Estimates. TS. carbon. 9) Recent publicity. TS. carbon. 10) Questions and answers in House of Commons on 30 Jul. TS. carbon. 11) In reply to item 742/386. 12) The Skybolt project. 2 ff. TS. carbon. 13) The same; a proposed lunch. TS. carbon. 14) In reply to item 742/396. TS.
carbon. 15) TS. carbon.
Sender: Beck, William
Recipient: Beckwith, Frank
Letters: 15
Date(s): 2 Feb 1949 - 14 Jul 1957
Location: SC 622/341, 344, 347, 351, 353, 367, 372, 386, 428, 433, 436,
451, 460, 465, 629
Note: 1) Pedigree of Hulme family of Manchester and Cheshire. 5 ff. 2) Further to item 341. 3) Questions on the history of Cheshire. 3 ff. 4) His genealogical research. 5) His genealogical research. 6) Posting parcels; acquisitions by local library; his book and research 7) Thanks FB for gift of his work on Thomas Taylor; his own work. 8) Thoresby Society; his genealogical research 9) His genealogical research; a Christmas parcel; world affairs; commission to purchase a book. 10) A copy of "The Australia Genealogist"; trouble with printers; the international situation . 11) Thanks for copies of wills; payment for a book; his research. 12) Thanks for information; more on his genealogical research. 13) Enclosing a copy of "The Australian Genealogist"; personal. 14) A commemorative publication; personal. 15) Publication of his brochure; further genealogical research. TS.
Sender: Thompson, Thomas Perronet
Recipient: Thompson, Nancy (nee Barker)
Letters: 17
Date(s): 13 May 1812 - 23 Mar 1843
Location: SC Thompson Correspondence: MS 277/1.6-11, 1.13-21, 1.25, 1.30
Note: 1) About the assassination of Spencer Perceval, the Prime Minister. 3 pp. 2) On theatre and museum visits. 3 pp. 3) On the actor Grimaldi. 3 pp. 4) News of himself on the way to Portsmouth with his regiment. 3 pp. 5) Personal news, on eve of departure for Spain. 3 pp. 6) Views on the war. 3 pp. 7) Political news. 3 pp. 8) On Macready, the actor. 3pp. 9) On a political meeting at Nottingham, and Daniel O'Connell, the
Irish politician. 4 pp. 10) About his son Charles, in Spain. 3 pp. 11) On Blanco White of the "London Review". 4 pp. 12) Political news. 4 pp. 13) About a politcal dinner. 4 pp. 14) On the report of the dinner, etc. 4 pp. 15) On a debate on the Corn Laws, etc. 3 pp. 16) On his recent political actions, etc. 3 pp. 17) About a comet. 8 pp. Recipient is wife of sender.