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AFA in-letters, 1916-10 - 1938-01

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 6/3/92

Scope and Contents

Correspondents include: Dorothy, Lady Stanley; Sir Vincent Baddeley [First Principal Assistant Secretary, Admiralty] (2); Charles Ffoulkes [Curator of the Tower Armouries] on supplying and cleaning the armour at Admiralty House (3); John Singer Sargent on his portrait of 1st Lord Plumer (4); Lady Edward Cecil [later Violet, Lady Milner]; Margaret, Duchess of Buccleuch; Sir Edward Davson; 1st Lord Northcliffe [earlier Alfred Harmsworth]; Sir Robert Borden; Sir Hamar Greenwood; Olive Lecky Pike; Mary Hughes (2); Ruth, Lady Lee (2); 1st Lord Stamfordham [earlier Arthur Bigge]; Mary, Lady Northcliffe [later Mary, Lady Hudson] on the illness and death of her husband (3); Alice, Lady Wimborne (2); 1st Lord Plumer; Annie, Lady Plumer; Sir Robert Ho Tung; [Frederick] Nugent Hicks; Joan, Lady Grigg, on going out to Kenya; Alice Clifford; Caroline Bridgeman on having to chair a [?] naval conference (2); Ruby, Lady Cromer; Elizabeth, Lady Clifford; Estella, Lady Cave (2); Sir Frank Fox; Edward Arnold; Gian, Lady Mount Stephen (16); Ethel Bruce; [Cicely] Alice, Lady Salisbury (2); Maud Cazalet; Elsie, Lady Chancellor; Gertrude Howard on the death of her husband John Howard, Agent-General for Nova Scotia [Canada] (3); Sir Edward Grigg [Governor of Kenya, later 1st Lord Altrincham] on the gloomy situation in Kenya; Sir George Duckworth; Alfred Bossom; Lucy Baldwin; Maud, Lady Hoare [later Maud, Lady Templewood]; Cosmo Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury.

Also includes: notes on Admiralty House and inventories of fittings and furniture; notes on an exhibition on British Columbian Indians, opened by AFA; ribbon from AFA's wedding bouquet.

Dates

  • Creation: 1916-10 - 1938-01

Conditions Governing Access

From the Fonds:

The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.

Extent

2 file(s)

Language of Materials

English

Former / Other Reference

Box 344

Finding aid date

2004-12-22 11:02:54.467000+00:00

Repository Details

Part of the Churchill Archives Centre Repository

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