Brett, Reginald Baliol, 1852-1930 (2nd Viscount Esher, politician)
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1852 - 1930
Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
Item
Correspondence from Reginald Brett, 21 Oct. 1879-26 Apr. 1890
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8952/29-31
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Letters mostly to Clark, with some to his wife Frances Clark (d.1908), Adam Sedgwick (1785-1873) and others, mainly routine in nature, and collected for their autograph value. Another volume, containing letters of scientists, was not acquired. The original numbering in each volume has been retained; in this catalogue the letters are grouped by subject.
Dates:
21 Oct. 1879-26 Apr. 1890
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
File
Letter from Lord Esher to Henry Jackson, Orchard Lea, Windsor Forest, 3 Nov. 1907
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.5944/24/33
Scope and Contents
Enclosure: Latin epigram by William Johnson (afterwards Cory), on a lady stung at the same time by a wasp and a bee
Dates:
3 Nov. 1907
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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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.
File
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.
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
Additional filters:
- ARCHON code (for CUL materials)
- Archives and MSS Dept. (GBR/0012) 2
- Type
- Archival Object 5
- Collection 1
- Subject
- First World War (1914-1918) 4
- Animals 3
- First World War 3
- First aid 3
- France 3
- Military hospitals 3
- Military nursing 3
- Scrapbooks 3
- scrapbook 3
- Field Hospitals 2
- Nursing 2
- Disabled war veterans 1
- Monarchy 1
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