Hope, Alexander James Beresford Beresford, 1820-1887 (politician and author)
Dates
- Existence: 1820 - 1887
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Alexander James Beresford Beresford-Hope: Letter to F.W.H. Cavendish, 1886
Artificial collection of single item or small collection accessions. Mainly correspondence but includes other papers.
Cambridge Camden Society: List of Members and Resignations
List of members with notes of the dates and reasons for their resignations, 1845, 92 folios. Additional lists of names occur at fos 76-80. Attached to fo. 1v is a letter from C.C. Babington to John Willis Clark, 22 March 1887.
Correspondence from Alexander Beresford-Hope, 1860-1885
Correspondence from Alexander J.B. Beresford-Hope, 18 Sep. 1869-20 Nov. 1883
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.
Letter to Porter from Alexander Beresford-Hope, Connaught Place, London, 5 Dec. 1884
Most of the letters are replies to appeals by Porter for contributions to a memorial to Henry Fawcett and the cost of portraits of the seventh Duke of Devonshire, J.B. Lightfoot and B.F. Westcott; or replies to his invitations to a dinner in honour of recipients of honorary degrees (1883), and the celebration of the six hundredth anniversary of the foundation of Peterhouse (1884); or concern an address of support from members of Senate to the Liberal Unionist leadership (1887).
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