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Add MS 85312-85320
- Record Id:
- 032-001974903
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001974903
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- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000053.0x000009
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Supplementary Cross Papers
85312-85320. Royal correspondence of Richard Assheton Cross, 1st Viscount Cross, statesman and courtier, (b.1823, d.1914); 1875-1901, n.d. Queen Victoria's letters are autograph unless otherwise indicated. Partly annotated by Cross and including some draft replies and copies. The collection consists chiefly letters and telegrams addressed to Cross by the Queen and members of the royal family, covering political and personal matters, largely during his tenure of office as Home Secretary (1874-1880 and 1885-1886) and as Secretary of State for India (1886-1892), as well as during his period in opposition from 1880-1885. Supplementing Cross's political, general and family correspondence in Add. MSS 51263-51289, and his Indian correspondence in MS Eur E 243 in the India Office Private Papers. Extracts from letters in the present collection are quoted by Cross in A political history (privately printed, 1903), which includes in the appendices an analysis of the Queen's character based on the evidence of the correspondence. Purchased from the Cross family through Quaritch, June 2006.
Paper. Nine volumes. Arranged as follows:
A. Letters from Queen Victoria: 85312-85316.
B. Letters from members of royal families: 85317, 85318.
C. Letter from politicians and courtiers and miscellanea: 85319, 85320.
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Richard Assheton Cross, 1st Viscount Cross: Royal correspondence of Richard Assheton Cross: 1875-1901, n.d.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
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- Add MS 85312-85316 : A. Letters from Queen Victoria 85312-85316. Cross Papers. Letters and telegrams from Queen Victoria to Cross, arranged…
Add MS 85317-85318 : B. Letters from members of royal families 85317, 85318. Cross Papers. Letters and telegrams to Cross from other members of…
Add MS 85319-85320 : C. Letter from politicians and courtiers and miscellanea 85319, 85320. Cross Papers. Letters from politicians, administrators…
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- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 9 items
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- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1875
- End Date:
- 1901
- Date Range:
- 1875-1901
- Era:
- CE
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- Names:
- Cross, Richard Assheton, 1st Viscount Cross, statesman, 1823-1914