Brett (née Van de Weyer), Eleanor Frances Weston, Viscountess Esher (1862-1940)
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1862 - 1940
Gender
- female
Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:
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Correspondence between Reginald and Eleanor Baliol Brett, 1878-02-20 - 1918-09-24
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/ESHR 7/3
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The collection includes: Lord Esher's journals; general, political, royal, personal and literary correspondence; political papers, particularly on army reform and India; literary papers; press cuttings.
Dates:
1878-02-20 - 1918-09-24
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
File
Diary, 1914-06-14 - 1919-07-19
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/ESHR 3/1
Scope and Contents
Eleanor Brett, Viscountess Esher kept a typescript entry for most days during the First World War, ranging in length from a single line to a paragraph, sometimes reproducing extracts from letters, telegrams, and newspaper articles. She appears to have written her diary retrospectively. Throughout her diary, she interspersed short anecdotes from soldiers about their military experiences and character profiles of politicians, diplomats, journalists, nurses, artists, and other individuals she...
Dates:
1914-06-14 - 1919-07-19
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Series
Eleanor Brett, Viscountess Esher, 1914 - 1920
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0014/ESHR 3
Scope and Contents
A diary and eight scrapbooks by Eleanor, Viscountess Esher covering her experiences during the First World War.
Dates:
1914 - 1920
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Scrapbook, 1914-06-28 - 1914-12-31
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/ESHR 3/2
Scope and Contents
This scrapbook documents how Eleanor spent the first year of the First World War. It begins as Eleanor recounts hearing about the death of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, from Prince Louis of Battenberg who sat at the next table to her and her family at the Savoy on 28 June 1914. During 1914, Eleanor re-commenced the running of First Aid classes for women, which she ran from the Duke of York’s Headquarters in Chelsea, London, with St John’s Ambulance. In September 1914, her scrapbook...
Dates:
1914-06-28 - 1914-12-31
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Scrapbook, 1915-01-01 - 1915-12-31
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/ESHR 3/3
Scope and Contents
The scrapbook opens with a description of Eleanor visiting the French Front, dining in Compiegne and being given a tour of a hospital. Eleanor and Reginald travelled back to London where Eleanor continued her work running First Aid classes at the Duke of York’s Headquarters in between seeing Sylvia [daughter], Zena [daughter-in-law], and their families and swallowing a chicken bone where she ‘thought my last moment had come’. Eleanor returned to Paris, where she comments on the heightened...
Dates:
1915-01-01 - 1915-12-31
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
File
Scrapbook, 1916-01-01 - 1916-09-14
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/ESHR 3/4
Scope and Contents
The scrapbook opens with a poster ‘Taisez-Vous! Méfiez-Vous! Les Oreilles Enemies Vous Écoutent’ (translated as Shut up! Beware! Enemy Ears Are Listening To You) which Eleanor captions: ‘This notice was put up in all rail way carriages, trams, public buildings of all kinds in France’, as well as a list of battles which began in 1916. Like other scrapbooks in the series, Eleanor combines reflections on her own experiences of the war with military battles which she notes on small pieces of...
Dates:
1916-01-01 - 1916-09-14
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Scrapbook, 1919-01 - 1920-09
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/ESHR 3/9
Scope and Contents
This is the final scrapbook made by Eleanor Brett, Viscountess Esher, and is the most sparsely populated out of all the volumes. She notes at the beginning of the volume how she did not keep a detailed diary after 1918, so the dates included ‘are only a few dates of interest’. The book largely revolves around recording her social and travel arrangements from 1919-1920. Contents include: a letter addressed to Miss Hackett [Norah Desmond Hackett] on 29 January 1919, co-founder of the...
Dates:
1919-01 - 1920-09
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Fonds
The Papers of Lord and Lady Esher
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0014/ESHR
Scope and Contents
The collection includes: Lord Esher's journals; general, political, royal, personal and literary correspondence; political papers, particularly on army reform and India; literary papers; press cuttings.
Dates:
1848 - 1997
Conditions Governing Access:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
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