Letters from a concertina file (A-F), 1908-1959

File

MS. 23701/13

Held in our offsite storage facility

Letters originally housed in a cardboard 'Xpania' concertina file with alphabetical sections (the concertina file can be found under shelfmark MS. 23701/16). The letters are addressed to Margaret Newbolt (née Duckworth) unless otherwise stated.

Margaret primarily filed the letters by surname but there are some exceptions. For example, the letters from Agnes Fry are under 'A' rather than 'F'.

Comprises letters from:

Agnes Fry (20 letters, two incomplete), 1921-1956, n.d. With a further letter from Margaret to Agnes, n.d. [1922?]
Anna Coltman (two letters), 1943, 1944, including comments on Constance (assumed to be Constance Lloyd, interned at Besançon for two months) and a description of Ella Coltman meeting Paula Schuster. With quotes by [Samuel Taylor Coleridge], Henry Crabb Robinson and William Blake in Ella Coltman's handwriting, n.d.
John Betjeman (seven letters), including mention of a broadcast on Henry Newbolt, 1939-1940
Lord Baden-Powell (two letters) who had met Henry and Margaret Newbolt on a boat to Canada, 1933
Lady Elsa Richmond, about the death of her mother, Florence Bell, with a printed copy of the address given at her memorial service, 1933
A.C. (Arthur) Benson, thanking the Newbolts for a visit to Mount Grace, 1911
Cicely Binyon (two letters), one addressed to Ella Coltman, 1943, n.d.
Lawrence Binyon (six letters), 1916/7-1942
[William Riddell] Birdwood, 1940
Leonard Borwick, n.d.
A.C. Bradley, n.d.
Edward Bridges, 1939
Margaret Bridges (two letters), 1913
Monica Bridges (née Waterhouse) (57 letters), 1916-1946. With a further letter from Ellen F. [Pinsent] about Monica Bridges, 1947
Robert Bridges poems but not in his handwriting, possibly Henry Newbolt, n.d. With a letter from Francis Brett Young to Robert Bridges regarding the Newbolts, 1917
Mrs James Browne to Henry Newbolt, 1942
John Buchan, Lord Tweedsmuir, 1939
Susan 'Susie' Buchan, Lady Tweedsmuir (two letters), 1939, 1946. With a further letter from Vincent Massey, 1943
Katharine 'Kittie' Calderon (six letters), including mention of the publication of George Calderon's Tahiti, 1919-1921, [1939?]
Eleanor 'Nellie' Cecil (two letters, one incomplete), including one about Celia Furse's poetry collection The Gift 1919, 1932
F.L. Coleridge, on receiving Celia Furse's The Gift, 1920
Alice Coltman (two letters) to Ella Coltman, 1944. Alice was the wife of Thomas Lister Coltman, Ella's first cousin
Cecil B. Morgan, collector of John Constable pictures and drawings, 1937
May Simmonds (two letters), cook at Netherhampton House, writing soon after the Newbolts left, mid 1930s
Admiral Sir Reginald Custance, 1911
Elinor 'Eily' Darwin (née Monsell), wife of Bernard Darwin, 1930
Francis Darwin, 1908
Patric Dickinson (two letters), 1957
Richard 'Dick' de la Mare (three letters), 1951, 1956
J. Dover Wilson, 1922
Alice Duckworth, 1931
Campbell Duckworth (four letters), 1914-1926
Edina Duckworth, Margaret's mother (three letters) and newspaper obituary, [1912?]-1913, 1917
[Evie 'T'Evie' Duckworth?] (two letters), 1922?, 1925?
George Herbert Duckworth, 1933
'Minna' [Duckworth], Margaret's aunt, n.d.
Ralph Duckworth (three letters), son of Campbell Duckworth, 1935, 1940, 1944 (1944 letter = Closed)
Viola Duckworth (13 letters, one incomplete?), wife of Campbell Duckworth, 1933-1944, n.d., including letters about Helen's death (1933) and memories of her when young (1934), the Newbolts leaving Netherhampton (1934), Jill Furse in the shows 'National 6' (1936) and 'Victoria Regina' (1938?) and Henry Newbolt's death (1938) (1944 letters = Closed)
W. Arthur Duckworth (three letters), Margaret Newbolt's father, 1913-1917
George Engleheart, n.d.
Mary Engleheart, about the death of her husband George, 1937
Katharine Farrer (three letters), wife of Austin Farrer, mid-1940s, 1951
Jane Findlater to Ella Coltman, [1942?]
Mary Findlater (six letters), to Margaret Newbolt, Ella Coltman and Anna Coltman, 1939-1950
Dorothy Longman (née Fletcher), 1919
Jane Fletcher (née Carter) (two letters), including one about her daughter Dorothy's marriage to Robert Guy Longman, 1914, 1915
Mary Fletcher, 1926
George Meredith Frampton (seven letters), 1931-1951
Roger E. Fry, 1908
Katharine Furse (two letters with typed transcripts), widow of Charles W. Furse, 1943
Michael and Frances Furse, circular letter and tributes following the death of their daughter, Jane Diana, 1918