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Typescript copies of personal letters and ephemera from AHP and various other correspondents to Maria Margaret Pollen, covering subjects such as AHP's schooling and university education, his trips abroad, his career, family life, mutual acquaintances and social occasions, and Catholicism in Britain. Compiled by Maud Pollen. With Anthony Pollen's editorial notes and annotations on the letters and his family history.

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Second set of typescript copies of letters and ephemera from AHP, with a selection of letters from various other correspondents. Compiled by Maud Pollen.

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With diary extracts by AHP. Compiled by Maud Pollen.

Scope and Contents From the Series: The Pollen family papers are comprised of original documents and transcriptions of original documents concerning AHP's parents, John Hungerford Pollen (1820-1902) and Maria Margaret Pollen, née La Primaudaye (1838-1919), and AHP's wife, Maud Pollen; other working papers and correspondence accumulated in the course of research into naval and family history by AHP's younger son, Anthony Pollen; and secondary works on AHP and the Pollen papers by Professor Jon Tetsuro Sumida, who was granted...

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Letters from AHP to his mother, Maria Margaret Pollen, one with a detailed account of his travels across the USA and Canada and one with a diary account of the start of his hunting trip from Edmonton, Alberta to the Peace River district in British Columbia, Canada for shooting with his friend Henry Somers Somerset. The file also contains a typescript copy of the earlier letter, with a Pollen family member's annotations.