B. PAPERS OF PRINCESS LIEVEN Correspondence and papers of Dorothea Christoforovna Lieven (b. 1785, d. 1857), wife of Prince Christoph Heinrich Lieven. Full details of her life will be found in various publications, notably H. Montgomery Hyde, Princess Lieven, 1938, and E. Daudet, Une vie d'ambassadrice au siècle dernier: la Princesse de Lieven, 1903, who had access to her papers. See Add. MSS. 47341, f. 2; 47406, f. 96, and notes on Add. MS. 47395, ff. 24, 30, which may be in Daudet's hand....
Scope & Content:
Princess Dorothea Christophorovna Lieven,; wife of Prince Lieven: Correspondence and papers: 1799-1857. Accompts: Lieven family; private and estate accompts: 1793-1895, n.d.: Engl., Fr., Germ., Ital., Russ., Polish and Lettish.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, and Russian
LIEVEN PAPERS. Vols. CXXVIII-CXXXI. Letters from Frederica Sophia Charlotte Alexandrine, wife of Ernest Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, King of Hanover 1837; 1815-1840, n.d. English, French and German. Four volumes.
LIEVEN PAPERS. Vols. CXXXVIII-CXLV. Correspondence with Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey, Prime Minister; 1823-1842. English and French. 47361-47365 consist of copies made for Princess Lieven, presumably when she gave her correspondence with Lord Grey to the Duke of Sutherland: see the preface to G. Le Strange, Correspondence of Princess Lieven and Earl Grey, 1890, vols. i, pp. vii-xvi, iii, pp. v-vi. The printed work includes a large proportion of the letters which appear in 47361-47365 and a fe...
LIEVEN PAPERS. Vols. CXXXII, CXXXIII, CXXXIV (ff. 188, 203, 205). Correspondence with Count Charles Robert Nesselrode, Russian Chancellor; Vol. CXXXII, 1819-Sept. 1831; Vol. CXXXIII, Oct. 1831-Oct. 1832; Vol. CXXXIV, Nov. 1832-[? 1838]. French. The correspondence includes numerous enclosures, mostly originals, consisting of letters from Lord Palmerston, Lord Grey, the Duke of Wellington, Leopold I of the Belgians, and others.
LIEVEN PAPERS. Vol. CLX (ff. 33). Notebook containing historical notes by Princess Lieven; watermark 1811. French. Viz:- (1) Unfinished notes on the history of England from Richard I to George I. ff. 1-9b;-(2) Notes on European history. ff. 11-33. Diaries and Memoranda: Princess Lieven: 1827-18...