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...
Contains manuscript and typewritten verse by Wentworth, some with explanatory annotations by Wentworth and some with annotations by Christabel Draper. Some verse is grouped together under headings of ‘light verse’, ‘serious verse’, and ‘sporting verse’, with an index. For an additional (card) in...
Contains typewritten, annotated copies of ‘The Way of the Garden of Desolation’ and ‘Lady Wentworth’s Prayer’, extracts from Wentworth’s diary covering 1897-1900, extracts from a typescript, presumably intended for use in a book, published articles on Arabian horses, and a transcript of ‘The Aut...
Research papers for Judith, Baroness Wentworth’s books on horses
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Contains notes and papers collected for Wentworth’s Horses of Britain (a contribution to the Britain in Pictures series), a map of Arabia, an unfinished article on horse hunting for the National Review, lists of material consulted for Wentworth’s Thoroughbred Racing Stock and its Ancestors and T...