Box 60

Seven letters in the hand of English artist, author, and cricketer Philip Norman addressed to a Mr. Johnson. The contents refer to various queries on cricketing history, especially as it pertains to Norman’s research for his 1897 book Score and Annals of the West Kent Cricket Club. Each letter is dated: July 28, 1895, March 8, 1896, December 13, 1896, October 11, 1897, October 13, 1897, September 26, 1905, and October 20, 1905.

Three letters in the hand of English theologian Francis Paget. All three are on mourning stationary, one bearing the symbol of Christ Church, Oxford where Paget was Dean. One dated June 19th 1900 is addressed merely “Dear Madam”, while a letter dated 11 February 2901 is to a Mr. Day and another dated May 2nd of the same year to a Mr. Lefroy. Contents are personal.

Three letters sent from English playwright Arthur Wing Pinero to various recipients. Two handwritten, one typed and signed. One letter dated October 8th, 1893 is personal in nature, while the other two relate to various events and engagements at the Theatre Royal, London with one on Theatre Royal letterhead dated January 11th, 1921. Curatorial materials compiled by Scheetz are also included.

8 letters, 6 handwritten and 2 typed, written and signed by English novelist Marie Belloc Lowndes. The contents are wide-ranging, including ordering books from a catalogue, family, responding to invitations, and discussing the death of her husband in 1940. Various recipients (Mrs. Eliot, Mrs Hyman, Mrs Philips, Miss Price, “Dearest Nelly” etc), with dates ranging from 1915 to 1946.

Three pieces of correspondence in the hand of American politician and newspaperman Whitelaw Reid. Two letters on New-York Tribune letterhead addressed to a Charles Smith alternately thanking him for his compliments on the paper’s “action in the Claflin case” (November 6, 1873) and responding to an inquiry on “the sermons of Dr. Taylor” (October 8th, 1875). The third letter, dated April 17th, 1887, sends condolences to a Mrs. Sturms.

A letter from Jersey City lawyer Joseph M. Noonan to fellow attorney Francis E. Maitland, written on personalized letterhead and dated August 12th, 1904. The contents pertain to the versions and terminology of Magna Carta, and Noonan refers to an enclosed copy of the text, which is also included in the collection. The Latin pamphlet, printed at the Clarendon Press, Oxford in 1879, is heavily annotated in pencil.