Scope and Contents

Letters from CASR to FSR, 1905 and undated. Includes a letter from Florence Lascelles to CASR, [1902].

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Fonds: The Spring-Rice papers consist almost entirely of personal correspondence. His correspondents fall into four main groups; his family, English friends, many of whom he had met at Eton or Oxford, fellow members of the Foreign Office and of the Diplomatic Service, and prominent Americans including Theodore Roosevelt, whom he had met during his periods of service in Washington. On the whole the correspondence contains far more information about the social background of a diplomatic life than...

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Fonds:

For the most part, these additional papers consist of correspondence both with prominent contemporary figures and with members of the family, notably Sir Frank Lascelles, Lady Spring-Rice's father and with her cousin Gertrude Bell. Amongst these additional papers are many of Sir Cecil's own poems together with the charming stories he wrote and illustrated to amuse his daughter when she was in hospital as a small child.