| Summary: | Personal and family news; news of social engagments and acquaintances; include group of letters labelled 'letters from W.G.R. before June 7 1877' [date of Blanche's marriage to William Gair Rathbone] (1-42); letters from several business trips to America for Busk and Jevons (Rathbone Brothers New York agents): May - Jun 1879, Oct 1887-Feb 1888 (229-245), Oct -Dec 1889 (258-273), Nov 1893-Mar 1894 (361-375- this group include letters concerning the settlement of the estate of Blanche's mother, Elena Michaela Luling, with two letters from Theodore W. Luling on the subject - Dec 1893, 370-371), Aug 1894-Apr 1895 (394-405); travel notes from France and Switzerland, Nov 1885-Jan 1886 (171 -216 ) enclosing Christmas dance cards, St Moritz (192 ,199) and printed 'liste des etrangers de St Moritz' for the winter of 1885-1886 (208); notes on family and household, include letters concerning health of his brother Thomas Ashton Rathbone enclosing letter and telegrams from his doctor , Sep 1895 (417-427); notes re William Rathbone VIII's school work including letters from Hubert Brinton and C. Lowry with reports, lists of marks etc , Jul-Aug 1896 (429-439 etc); envelope labelled 'war-time letters 1914-18' (515-523); enclosures include pressed flowers, newscuttings, unused stamps |
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