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Letters to Rose Eyres from other family members, with a little general correspondence and papers, 1911-1934, n.d.

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Family correspondence, some letters annotated by Rose Eyres. Comprises letters from:
  1. Bullock, Florence Louisa Elizabeth, three letters, 1914-[1921?]
  2. Carrington, Cathie, 1927
  3. Carrington, John Walsh, three letters, 1918, 1919
  4. Carrington, Mary, 18 letters, [1913]-[1927], n.d. (and two loose pages from a letter in her hand)
  5. Carrington, Susan, 1918
  6. Clementi, Cecil, 26 letters, 1911-1929
  7. Clementi, Dione, 1921 (in French)
  8. Clementi, Isabel, five letters, 1914-[1919]
  9. Clementi, Montagu, two letters, [1914?], [1917]
  10. Clementi Smith, Sir Cecil, two letters (including a postcard), 1915
  11. Cobbold, Augustus Hills, two letters, 1916
  12. Elliott, Vera (née Eyres, formerly Phillimore), 1915
  13. 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
  14. Eyres, Sir Harry Charles Augustus, 1921
  15. Eyres, Mary L. 'Tartie' / 'Poll', ten letters (including two postcards, one of which shows a photograph of Benson village), [1915]-1923, n.d.
  16. [Eyres], (Harry) Maurice, two letters (including a postcard), 1914, 1928
  17. Eyres, Lady Penelope Louisa 'Eplie', six letters, [1913]-[1919]
  18. Eyres, Walter Charles Townsend, two letters, 1915
  19. Eyres, Winifred, two letters (including a postcard), 1915
  20. Hardman, Frances Anne de Rougemont (postcard showing a photograph of Nymet House, Dunsfold), 1914
  21. Johnston, Audrey, two letters, with enclosure (piece of fabric) 1915, 1923
  22. Johnston, Edward Hamilton, two letters, 1917, 1918
  23. Jones, Gabrielle Rose (née Johnston), four letters (including two postcards), 1914, 1915, n.d.
  24. Lee-Warner, Dorothy, 15 letters (including a postcard showing a photograph of Winchester Cathedral), [1913]-1918
  25. Stack, Theodora Rose (née Eyres), [1913]
  26. Tatton Brown, (Alice) Mary (née Cobbold) (postcard), 1914
  27. Townsend, Octavia Isabel Frances, 1929 (incomplete)
  28. Woollam, Mary, eight letters, 1914-1919

Enclosures include:
  1. photograph of Brockham Court, Betchworth, Surrey, enclosed with Dorothy Lee-Warner's letter dated 29 Apr [1913?]
  2. photograph of (Harry) Maurice Eyres, Octavia Isabel Frances Townsend and 'Alice' at lunch, enclosed with Dorothy Lee-Warner's letter dated 29 Apr [1913?]
  3. 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
  4. coloured drawing of the French Legion of Honour, enclosed with Mary Carrington's letter dated [1917]
  5. letter from Casey A. Wood, 3 May, enclosed with Cecil Clementi's letter dated 16 May 1921

General correspondence, includes letters from:
  1. Anderson, John, 1929
  2. Bethell, Hilda, n.d.
  3. Blackwood, James H., 1917
  4. Brandreth, M., [1916]
  5. Cowling, Eleanor, 1916
  6. Curtis, Elizabeth Harriet de Kutzleben, 1918
  7. Darley, Charlotte Sinclair, [1915]
  8. Hagedorn, Elisabeth W. von, 1914
  9. Inglefield, F.S., two letters, with enclosure (newspaper cutting from The Times about Cresswell Eyres), 1915
  10. Johnstone, [Janet Schonswar], 1916
  11. Lugard, Dame (Flora Louise Lugard), two letters, [1914?]
  12. Manifold, K.C.B., two letters, 1916
  13. Molony, Charles Vandeleur, four letters (including a postcard), 1914, 1915
  14. Monroe, Hubert Seeds, 1912
  15. Nicholson, C.H., [1926?]
  16. Nicolls, O.H., 1914
  17. Penrose-Fitzgerald, H.E.L., 1916
  18. Round, H. Lucy, 1918
  19. Stewart, Murray, three letters, 1916, n.d.
  20. Steel, J.M., 1918
  21. Tryon, C.C., three letters, [1914?], [1915?], n.d.
  22. Waring, Flora M., three letters, 1914, 1922, n.d.
  23. Welles, Harriet, n.d.

Papers, includes:
  1. flyer about rationing produced by the City of Rochester, Nov 1917
  2. 'Disabled Sailors and Soldiers. What every man should know', flyer by the Ministry of Pensions, [1917?]
  3. order of service for the marriage of John Walsh Carrington and Mary Eyres, 9 Apr 1918, with two related newspaper cuttings
  4. Prisoners of Prussia. Official report on the treatment of British prisoners by the enemy during 1918, pamphlet by the National War Aims Committee, [1918]
  5. flyer appealing for funds for the Railway Benevolent Fund, with poem by E.A. Thorpe, [1918?]
  6. 'Marriage Defence Papers. No. 10', flyer about divorce produced by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (SPCK), [1918?]
  7. order of service for the funeral of Reginald Eden Johnston, 24 Nov 1922, with two related newspaper cuttings
  8. newspaper cutting about Frederick G. Eyres (25 years service in Blackmoor parish and silver wedding anniversary), n.d. [1923?]
  9. postcard showing a photograph of Winifred Cuming (née Johnston) with her son, Geoffrey? n.d.
  10. postcard showing a photograph of a woman in uniform, labelled on back '[Annie] our former cook', n.d.
  11. postcard showing a photograph of Little Offley, Hertfordshire, inscribed 'with best wishes from Little Offley', n.d.
  12. photograph of Terlings, Harlow?, n.d.

Dates

  • Creation: 1911-1934, n.d.

Extent

1 box

Language of Materials

  • English

Shelfmark

MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 600 / 103

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