Letters from a concertina file (G-M), 1904-1956

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MS. 23701/14

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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 Ida Darwin are under 'I' rather than 'D'.

Comprises letters from:

Pamela Glenconner, possibly soon after Celia Furse's marriage, c. 1914
Charles L. Graves (signed 'CLG'), assistant editor of The Spectator and Punch, 1938
Maurice Hewlett (13 letters), 1917-1923, n.d.
Violet Hodgkin (née Holdsworth) (six letters), 1919-1951. With further letters to Margaret Newbolt from Ellen 'Nelly' Bosanquet on the anniversary of Violet's death, 1955, and from Helen Sutherland (four letters) about a memoir of Violet, [1955?]-1956
Florence Hodgkin (two letters), with photograph, 1943
Helen Holland (two letters) to 'Merva' (her name for Margaret Newbolt), on the engagement of Ralph Furse and Celia Newbolt, one is signed 'S.L.' (Sister Love), 1913. With further letters to Margaret Newbolt from Ella Coltman on Helen's catholicism and son Alfred, c. 1919, and from Anna Coltman and 'Southgate' (Helen's old maid) about Helen's death, 1933
Verena Holland (two letters), one to Margaret Newbolt about Jill Furse, 1928, and one to Evie Duckworth refusing to give up her convent vows to ask after Helen Holland, n.d. (this is a copy in Margaret's handwriting)
[Jeremy?] Hopkins, 1916
George Horton-Fawkes, 1947
Sylvia Horton-Fawkes (née Duckworth) (five letters, one incomplete), wife of George Horton-Fawkes, 1945-1947
Alice Hylton (30 letters, one incomplete), 1911-1918, 1930-1956, including a letter praising The Later Life & Letters of Sir Henry Newbolt for disguising her letters as 'AH'. With a further two letters from Ella Coltman to Margaret Newbolt about Alice, n.d.
Ida Darwin (four letters), one suggesting Celia Furse stay with them in Cambridge to learn botany, 1908
W.R. Inge (Dean Inge) (two letters), 1933
L.A.S. Jermyn (four letters), 1938
Katharine Furse, wife of Charles W. Furse, 1904?
'Kay', an old friend of Ella Coltman, 1950
Hugh Lister, 1941, with two obituaries of his father, Arthur H. Lister, 1916
M. Constance Lloyd, painter, 1955
Dorothy Longman (née Fletcher) (ten letters, one incomplete), violinist, 1911-[1935?], n.d. With a further three letters from 'Alice' including on Dorothy's death, 1927, 1940
R.G. Longman, 1943, enclosing a copy of his letter to Archbishop William Temple and reply, 1942
Anne Low, wife of Sir Hugh Low, about Ezra and Dorothy Pound and 'a new variety of cubists', 1914
Percy Lubbock (15 letters), 1927-1956?, n.d. With a further two letters addressed to Ella Coltman, 1940, 1947
H.E. Luxmoor (two letters), 1907?, 1913?
Lady Antonia Macnaghton (signed 'AMM') (three letters), 1940, 1951
Sir Malcolm M. Machaghton, 1952
Charlotte Mason, 1922
Vincent Massey, 1951, with envelope, two newspaper cuttings and two Canadian postage stamps
A.E. McLaren, 1952
'Mike' (possibly Michael Furse, Bishop of Pretoria, brother of John Henry Monsell Furse), 1915?
H. Crighton Miller, about John Henry Monsell Furse's state of mind, 1922
A.H. Hallam Murray, about Henry Newbolt's resignation from The Monthly, 1904