| Title |
Papers relating to Virginia Crawford |
| Reference |
REND 12 |
| Covering Dates |
1870–1980 |
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| Churchill/REND 12 contains: |
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1
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Letters to Mrs Eustace Smith. Correspondents include: Robert Browning (envelope); F W Buxtom re Alfred Gilbert, the sculptor; Joseph Chamberlain MP; Leonard Courtney MP; George Meredith re Diana of the Crossways; Dante Gabriel Rosetti including a sonnet for his picture of Pandora "What of the end, Pandora? Was it thine?" (envelope); Herbert Spencer; G O Trevelyan re his Life of Macaulay; and G F Watts re his picture "The Wife of Pygmalion", for which he had an offer from Gladstone. |
1870–1884 |
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2
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Transcript copies of letters to Oliver Eustace Smith from Maye, and Helen re Maye's engagement to Ashton Dilke, and from Ashton Dilke.
19 pages. |
1876–1882 |
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3
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Letters to Virginia Mary Crawford. Father Delchaye, SJ, Societé des Bollandistes re VMC's translation of Légendes Hagiographiques; Henry Forster: his marriage a failure, he asks for permission to call; attempts to obtain a meeting; Joseph Hone re his "Life of George Moore"; Canon H P Liddon re religious subjects and VMC's conversion to Catholicism; George Moore re "Ave atque Vale, A Communication to my Friends and Madeleine de Lisk"; C D Medley, Field Roscoe & Co re George Moore's death and Hone's Life of George Moore; Maurice Moore: first letter is by MM to Mrs Weare inviting VMC to Ireland as a representative of the English Roman Catholic Committee; the remainder concern the death of George Moore; A Pottier, Professor at the Seminaries of Spa and Liège re VMC's literary work, Christian democracy in Belgium; Father Charles Platen re Catholic teaching and the Guild; W T Stead: VMC to interpret between the Pope and WTS; Arthur Verhaegen; Pierre Verhaegen (son of above) re social conditions in Belgium and England; Marya Chéliga (a Franco-Russian feminist and playwright) re VMC's decision to enter a convent; Russell-Cooke & Co (solicitors) re VMC's financial affairs; decision to leave convent; PDC (Editor of Studies, Dublin?) re current politics; FAD: a love letter from a woman; Sister Mary Magdalene of Jesus, OP; unknown re VMC's article on Belgium in The Catholic Times; Dispensation granted to VMC; 2 pages signatures (The Platen Club?); Circular from the Abbott of Prinknash; Obituary of VMC in The Catholic Citizen; and copy of tombstone inscription of VMC. |
1888–1906 |
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4
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Correspondence with the Catholic Social Guild and manuscripts of articles on religious and social topics, including Fascism and the Spanish Civil War by VMC. |
1897–1938 |
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5
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Manuscript notebook and notes by VMC on Germany and Russia; nursing in Soho; France and Belgium. |
1886–1897 |
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6
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Notes by VMC and another on Belgium and Rome; the Catholic Mission to the Hopfields. |
1897–1905 |
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7
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Notes on interviews with General Boulanger, Mademoiselle Marie van Zand, an American singer, Cardinal Manning, Louise Michel the petroleuse, Peter Lavrov Russian emigré, Monsignor Breland; visits to the Catholic District School Mill Hill, Liverpool and Rome. |
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8
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Notes on visit to Dublin. |
1920 |
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9
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Letters on VMC's death by Launce Eustace Smith, Sir Shane Leslie, Miss Stafford, et al. |
1948–1949 |
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10
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Photographs of VMC, Maye, Helen and Linda Eustace Smith; Ashton Dilke; Robert Priestley; Sir Charles Dilke (dated 1883 in VMC's hand); Mademoiselle Friedel; W T Stead (postcard); George Moore (?); a watercolour of VMC as a child. |
1880–1949 |
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11/1
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Prints. Books and articles by VMC on religious, social and cultural subjects. |
1890–1940 |
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11/2
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Prints. Books and articles by VMC on religious, social and cultural subjects. |
1890–1940 |
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11/3
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Prints. Books and articles by VMC on religious, social and cultural subjects. |
1890–1940 |
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11/4
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Prints. Books and articles by VMC on religious, social and cultural subjects. |
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12
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Italy Today. An antifascist journal published by the 'Friends of Italian Freedom', edited by VMC. |
1921–1931 |
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13/1
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Books and articles, property of VMC. |
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13/2
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Books and articles, property of VMC. |
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14
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Press cuttings and articles by VMC; review of Moore's Hail and Farewell by Humbert Wolfe; account of GM's funeral. |
1897–1933 |
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15
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"The Sin of Ananias". By W T Stead. The Welsh Review; A complete history of the Crawford divorce case (illustrated) published by G Purkes, 286 Strand, London WC. |
1886–1892 |
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16
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Biography (in Italian) of Marion Rawson (née Enthoven) by Vittorio Gabrielli extracted from La Callzera 1980. |
1980 |
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