"Mrs. Fitzherbert" - Related Correspondence., 01/01/1933-12/31/1942

File — Box: 44, Folder: 9

Identifier: 50707

Collection-level Scope and Content Note

From the Collection:

This collection essentially comprises the life and letters of Sir Shane Leslie whose boundless energy and wide-ranging interests took him all over Britain, the United States and Canada, bringing him in touch with people in many fields including the arts, economics, education, literature, politics and religion. Sir Shane's personal papers also reflect his deep concern and interest in Irish culture and politics, particularly the question of Irish independence through Home Rule.

The correspondence series of the collection reads like a who's who particularly from 1900 through 1971. Famous names include Angela Antrim, Margot Asquith, Nancy Astor, William Maxwell Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook, Hilaire Belloc, Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, J.E.C. Bodley, Brendan Bracken, G.K. Chesterton, Winston Churchill (cousin), Sydney Cockerell, Bourke Cockran, George Curzon, Charles Dilke, Alfred Douglas, Mrs. Fitzherbert, Francois Aidan Gasquet, Rupert Hart-Davis, Vyvyan Holland, John Maynard Keynes, William Somerset Maugham, Alice, Francis and Viola Meynell, Horace Plunkett, George Bernard Shaw, Clare Sheridan (wife of Wilfrid Sheridan, great-great grandson of Richard Brinsley Sheridan), Cecil Arthur Spring-Rice, Mark Sykes, Evelyn Waugh, William Butler Yeats.

The collection includes a signed black and white photograph inscribed by Leo Tolstoy to Shane Leslie, during the latter's visit to the great Russian author in Moscow in 1907. Sir Shane's manuscripts are also included in great abundance in the collection, including those for his autobiography, “Long Shadows.” The typescripts and drafts of a biography planned by Iris Leslie are also included in this series. Other notable series include Sir Shane's journals and appointment books; scrapbooks, particularly those concerning his visit to the U.S. 1957-1958; and editions of Sir Shane's own works that include tipped-in items such as correspondence relating to the work, notes by Sir Shane, and press cuttings.

Dates

01/01/1933-12/31/1942

Collection-level Access Restrictions

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Extent

From the Collection: 40.25 Linear Feet (80 boxes and 1 oversized folder )

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Additional Description

Container Summary

Contains correspondence to Shane Leslie re the publication of his biography, "Mrs. Fitzherbert." Includes - @ Reginald Butcher ALS 6/19/1939 @ Beatrice Chichester-Plowden ALS 1/11/? @ Edward Coughlan ALS 10/2/1933 @ Doris Davy ALS 3/7/1940 @ Duke of Devonshire, Victor Christian William Cavendish (?), TLS 7/28/1938 @ H.E.D. Disbrowe-Wise TL 2/17/1942 with attached transcription of a letter from Queen Charlotte Sophia, wife of George III (England) and Princess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. @ Sir Seymour Fortescue, 2 ALS 1935, 1938 @ Earl of Harewood (6th), Henry George Charles Lascelles, ALS, 2 TLS 1938-39 @ Baron Hylton (3rd), Hylton George Hylton Joliffe, 3 ALS 1938-9 @ Charles L. Jones TLS 11/24/1939 @ Gertrude Langdale ALS, n.d. @ Helen Languishe ALS 12/31/1939 @ Sir Algernon Law 2 ALS 1937 @ Blanche Lennox 2 ALS 1939 @ R.S. Medlicott ALS 1/27/1940 @ Wilfrid Parsons, S.J., archivist, Riggs Memorial Library, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., TLS 1/8/1940. @ Lord Stafford, Francis Edward Fitzherbert-Stafford (12th baron), 2 ALS. @ Joanna Richardson TLS 8/7/1959. @ Francis Thompson, TLS 3/8/1939 + TL fragment 10/24/1938 @ Mary Waldegrave ALS 3/4/?

Subjects and Associated Physical Materials

FITZHERBERT, MRS. - CORRES. ABOUT 1933-59: Autographed Letter

LESLIE, SHANE - "MRS. FITZHERBERT" - CORRES. ABOUT (1933-59): Autographed Letter

BUTCHER, REGINALD - CORRES. TO SHANE LESLIE RE MRS. FITZHERBERT 1939: Autographed Letter

CHICHESTER-PLOWDEN, BEATRICE - CORRES. TO SHANE LESLIE RE MRS. FITZHER: Autographed Letter

COUGHLAN, EDWARD - CORRES. TO SHANE LESLIE RE MRS. FITZHERBERT 1933: Autographed Letter

DAVY, DORIS - CORRES. TO SHANE LESLIE RE MRS. FITZHERBERT 1940: Autographed Letter

DEVONSHIRE, DUKE OF (VICTOR C.W. CAVENDISH) - CORRES. TO SHANE LESLIE: Typed Letter Signed

DISBROWE-WISE, H.E.D. - CORRES. TO SHANE LESLIE RE MRS. FITZHERBERT: Typed Letter Signed

CHARLOTTE SOPHIA (PRINCESS OF MECKLENBURG-STRELITZ) - CORRES. (TRANSC): Transcript

FORTESCUE, SEYMOUR - CORRES. TO SHANE LESLIE RE MRS. FITZHERBERT 1938: Autographed Letter

HAREWOOD, EARL OF (HENRY G.C. LASCELLES) - CORRES. TO SHANE LESLIE: Autographed Letter

HYLTON, BARON (HYLTON GEORGE H. JOLIFFE) - CORRES. TO SHANE LESLIE: Autographed Letter

JONES, CHARLES L. - CORRES. TO SHANE LESLIE RE MRS. FITZHERBERT 1939: Typed Letter Signed

LANGDALE, GERTRUDE - CORRES. TO SHANE LESLIE RE MRS. FITZHERBERT: Autographed Letter

LANGUISHE, HELEN - CORRES. TO SHANE LESLIE RE MRS. FITZHERBERT 1939: Autographed Letter

LAW, ALGERNON - CORRES. TO SHANE LESLIE RE MRS. FITZHERBERT 1937: Autographed Letter

LENNOX, BLANCHE - CORRES. TO SHANE LESLIE RE MRS. FITZHERBERT 1939: Autographed Letter

MEDLICOTT, R.S. - CORRES. TO SHANE LESLIE RE MRS. FITZHERBERT 1940: Autographed Letter

PARSONS, WILFRID SJ - CORRES. TO SHANE LESLIE RE MRS. FITZHERBERT 1940: Typed Letter Signed

STAFFORD (FRANCIS E. FITZHERBERT-STAFFORD) - CORRES. TO SHANE LESLIE: Autographed Letter

RICHARDSON, JOANNA - CORRES. TO SHANE LESLIE RE MRS. FITZHERBERT 1959: Typed Letter Signed

THOMPSON, FRANCIS - CORRES. TO SHANE LESLIE RE MRS. FITZHERBERT 1938-9: Typed Letter Signed

WALDEGRAVE, MARY - CORRES. TO SHANE LESLIE RE MRS. FITZHERBERT: Autographed Letter