CARNARVON PAPERS. Vols. CCXXXII, CCXXXIII. Letterbooks of the 3rd Earl of Carnarvon, containing mainly business or estate correspondence, but including some legal and family letters; 60988 contains copies of a few letters to Sir Charles Barry, R.A., concerning building work at Highclere; with indexes; 1840-1849. Some entries are in the hand of John Kent and Lady Carnarvon.
2. Eton, Oxford, Freshwater and the Near East. 60998-61035 CARNARVON PAPERS. Vols. CCXLII-CCLXXIX. Papers relating to the early life of the 4th Lord Carnarvon; 1844-1853. Some schoolbooks were sold at Sotheby's, 4 April 1977 as part of lot 183.
3. Family Correspondence 61036-61076. CARNARVON PAPERS. Vols. CCLXXX-CCCXX. Family corres-pondence; 1853-1922, n.d., with a few earlier letters. For correspondence with friends after 1852 see Add. 60858-60864.
1. Chapters of a history of the Molyneux family CARNARVON PAPERS. Vols. CCCXXI-CCCXXIV. Draft with some miscellaneous source material, apparently the work of Lady Carnarvon, her family and others. The numbering of chapters seems to have been provisional.
Scope & Content:
Elizabeth Catherine Herbert, née Howard; 2nd wife of Henry, 4th Earl of Carnarvon: Molyneux family; of Teversal: History of the Molyneux family by 4th Lady Carnarvon: circa 1900-1926: Draft.