Add MS 88953/3

Correspondence of the extended Arnold-Forster family. Contains:

Letters (1871-1886, nd) to H. O. Arnold-Forster from Mary Arnold, his grandmother; Edward P. Arnold, his brother; Sarah Forster, aunt of his foster father, W. E. Forster; W. T. Arnold, editor of the Guardian, his cousin; and Matthew Arnold, poet and critic, his uncle.

Letters (1843-1854) from William Delafield Arnold, H. O. Arnold-Forster's father, to W. D. Arnold's mother, Mary; and to Arthur Stanley, later Dean of Westminster.

Correspondence (1861-1886) of W. E. Forster, politician and foster father of H. O. Arnold-Forster. Contains correspondence with Ralph Waldo Emerson; W. E. Gladstone; Charles Stewart Parnell, John Dillon and James O'Kelly; Mervyn H. N. Story-Maskelyne, H. O. Arnold-Forster's father-in-law; Lord Rosebery; the Earl of Iddesleigh; and Earl Grey. Also contains threatening letters and a death certificate sent to Forster when he was Chief Secretary for Ireland. Forster's letters to H. O. Arnold-Forster can be found at Add MS 88953/1/2.

Letters (1849) to Matthew Arnold from Arthur Stanley; John Duke, later 1st Baron, Coleridge, judge; Arthur Hugh Clough, poet; and Mervyn H. N. Story-Maskelyne.

Letters (1886-1904, nd) from Mary Ward, née Arnold, known as Mary Humphry Ward, writer and philanthropist, H. O. Arnold-Forster's aunt, to Mary Arnold-Forster, H. O. Arnold-Forster's wife.

Letter (1863) from an unidentified writer 'to my dear Mother from Basle'. Imperfect.

Thomas Arnold's journal of a three day boat trip along the Thames from Oxford to Lambeth, with [J.] Tucker, [T. T.] Penrose, and [John] Keble; [betw. 1811-1814].

Text of a poem ['Excuse', by Matthew Arnold, autograph?], annotated 'For Mary Arnold-Forster, to go to her son Mervyn'.

Other letters (bef 1800-1908, nd) with no obvious family connection: Dr Jan Ingen-Housz, physician, to the Marquess of Lansdowne; Henry (later 1st Baron) Brougham to James Cropper, merchant; address wrapper from Brougham to A. M. Story; the Duke of Wellington to J. G. Children, scientist; Samuel Rogers, poet, to Lady Lansdowne; and George Meredith, writer, to Leverton Harris, art collector and politician.