Box 22

Scope and Contents The personal collection of British civil servant, author and historian Cecil. Kisch, the majority of which concerns his connection to Trinity College, Oxford, where he himself studied. The collection comprises 5 miscellaneous letters sent to Kisch, various Trinity ephemera including 6 sets of menus and other materials related to various dinners between 1927 and 1957, and collected news-clippings and other ephemera related to Cecil Lubbock and H.A. Prichard, who both had Trinity...

Scope and Contents A collection of correspondence documenting the 1887-8 legal negotiation between Mary Elizabeth Best Allen and noted British builder William Willett regarding her purchase of a house in Sloane Square, an upscale London neighborhood. The bulk of the collection consists of 32 handwritten letters, most which are between Allen’s solicitors, the law firm of Miller, Smith & Bell, and Willett or his solicitor, J.E. Robson. Also included are a number of letters between Allen and Willett...