‘Lady Wentworth As I Knew Her’ by Christabel Draper
Scope & Content:
Contains corrected typescripts of Draper’s memoir of Baroness Wentworth, with photographs of Wentworth, a transcript of a letter from Doris Langley Moore on the memoir, and a letter from Elizabeth Longford to Sir Robert [Armstrong, Draper’s nephew] thanking him for retaining the MS.
Flame of Life by Lady Wentworth (London: John Murray, 1930)
Scope & Content:
Annotated by Wentworth and with a dedication to Christabel Draper. Inserted in an envelope pasted inside the front cover are: a review from the Cambridge Review; a list by Wentworth of which poems are ‘poems of imagination’ and which are ‘poems of experience’; a note from Wentworth to Draper exp...
‘Lady Wentworth As I Knew Her’ by Christabel Draper
Scope & Content:
Contains material gathered by Draper for her proposed (but unpublished) memoir of Baroness Wentworth. Includes extracts from Wentworth’s diaries for 1888 and 1939-1946 and from her letters to Draper (for originals of Wentworth’s letters to Draper, see Add MS 89021/1/1-4), press cuttings relating...
Papers relating to the Bodleian Library’s collection of Byroniana
Scope & Content:
Includes papers relating to the acquisition of Lady Noel-Byron and the Leighs, and papers relating to Christabel Draper’s copy of Remarks Occasioned by Mr Moore’s Notices of Lord Byron’s Life (1830), with an edition included.