Papers relating to Lord and Lady Byron and the Byron papers 1950s-1966
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Contains notes and papers relating to the custody of the Byron Lovelace papers and the posthumous disposition of Baroness Wentworth’s collection of Byron papers; press cuttings relating to Malcolm Elwin’s Lord Byron’s Wife; transcripts of Lady Byron’s 1850 directive regarding the family papers, ...
Letters from Judith, Baroness Wentworth to Christabel Draper
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Letter book, includes an index to subjects covered in the letters and a chronological summary of the contents. Also contains photographs, prints of art works, and printed ephemera relating to Wentworth, Lady Anne Blunt, W. S. Blunt, the Crabbet stud, and thoroughbred horses.
Contains Christabel Draper’s notes and correspondence on Ada Lovelace’s scientific career, achievements, portraits, and contemporaries. Transcriptions of letters by Lovelace, prints of portraits of her, and correspondence with scholars interested in Lovelace are also included. Ada was the daught...
Papers relating to ‘Myself and Others’ by Judith, Baroness Wentworth
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Contains memoranda on reasons why ‘Myself and Others’ could not be edited or published in 1961, text unused in Wentworth’s draft, duplicates of parts of the text, notes and unused text on W. S. Blunt and Mary Elcho, Countess of Wemyss, extract from a letter to Christabel Draper explaining the im...
Papers relating to Sydney Cockerell and W. S. Blunt
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Includes correspondence relating to Cockerell's executors, correspondence of Christabel Draper and Blunt, notes on Cockerell’s letters, notes on Blunt’s draft chapters on Blunt and Cockerell, press cuttings, and Draper’s suggestions of material Blunt may wish to consult for his book on Cockerell.