Correspondence with Francis, Mary, and Margaret Newboult
Scope & Content:
Partly copies. Also contains letters from Francis Newboult to Prof. Claude Colleer Abbott discussing the correspondence. Abbott edited some of Bottomley's literary works and correspondence in the 1950s. Includes a paper on Bottomley's plays given by Francis Newboult.
Also contains letters from Philip Gosse, Teresa Gosse, and Ellen Gosse. Also contains notes relating to Prof. Claude Colleer Abbott lending the letters to the Brotherton Library for consultation by Dr Paul Mattheisen.
With a letter (1918) to Peach from Frank Pick; a letter (1929) from Joan Fletcher to 'Mrs Peach' [Mabel, née Walton, Peach's second wife - the letter is endorsed by Margaret Hawkes, Peach's daughter, "letter... to my step-mother"], for Bottomley's correspondence with Ben and Joan Fletcher, see Ad...