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Letter from Adelaide Belloc [Lily] to ‘Ma chère marraine’ [Adelaide de Montgolfier], 1850

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Reference Code: GBR/0271/GCPP Parkes 17a/1/2/13

Scope and Contents

From the sub sub sub group:

This section contains chiefly correspondence between Louise Swanton Belloc and her close friend Adelaide de Montgolfier. Letters between Adelaide and other correspondents, which were presumably acquired by Louise after Adelaide's death, are also included here. The section is arranged broadly chronologically and includes a substantial cache of letters written to Louise by Adelaide from Paris during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71 and the Siege of Paris.

Dates

  • Creation: 1850

Creator

Biographical / Historical

[Known as Lily, daughter of Louise Swanton Belloc, later Millet, later Ballot, goddaughter of Adelaide de Montgolfier.]

Extent

1 item(s) : Paper

Language of Materials

French

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Extracted from a miscellaneous file inscribed ‘French family: some of the letters used by Marie Belloc Lowndes for Arcadia’.

Date information

DateText: No date found [circa 1850?].

Originator(s)

Belloc, Adelaide

Finding aid date

2014-04-29 12:12:33+00:00

Repository Details

Part of the Girton College Archive Repository

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