| Summary: | Personal letters from various locations; include travel notes from abroad, many with enclosures of newscuttings etc: e.g. letter to Elena as a child from Colorado describing rail road ride over North American plains, Nov 1887 (4); letter from New York , 5 Mar 1897, enclosing annotated White Star Line souvenir card with route and memorandum of log for Atlantic crossing, decorative menu card for dinner given by Mrs Joel, etc (43); also include notes concerning concerts/recitals including letter enclosing programmes of recitals by Mr Plunket Greene , 9 Mar 1894 (25), and letters concerning performances of Hungarian pianist Suzanne Morvay, including copy of letter to Morvay concerning request by Sir Henry Wood to hear her play; letter, 13 Aug 1896 (39) enclosing programmes for banquet and firework display in honour of Li Chung Tang at Crystal Palace on 10 Aug 1896 ; letter on death of Margaret Massingberd, 11 Sep 1906 (107); letter ,3 Nov 1910, enclosing newscutting concerning will of Florence Nightingale with note of her bequest to William Rathbone (138); letter, 22 Nov 1912, enclosing personal letter to W.G.R. from John S. Sargent (164); notes on the proceedings of the 'six-power group' peace negotiations , Jan 1913-Oct 1913 (167, 169, 171, 174); several loose enclosures amongst the letters include newscuttings, small collection of 'Nepali coins', small group of papers related to Elena's travels in India and Egypt, typescript letter to Elena re difficulties of corruption in Republic Government (191-204) |
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