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Subject Source: Local sources

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From Florence, Lady Alwyne Compton, Canterbury, 26 July 1913

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7973/App/75
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Is enjoying Dent's accounts of France; attributions of bons mots

Dates: 26 July 1913
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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From Florence, Lady Alwyne Compton, Canterbury, 4 Sep. 1913

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7973/App/82
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Comments on Dent's letters from southern France, and the enclosed photographs; Birmingham society; a visit to the Birmingham art gallery

Dates: 4 Sep. 1913
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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From Florence, Lady Alwyne Compton, Canterbury, 6 Sep. 1913

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7973/App/83
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Is enjoying the photographs [of France], postcard

Dates: 6 Sep. 1913
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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From Florence, Lady Alwyne Compton, Canterbury, 10 Sep. 1913

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7973/App/84
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Comments on Dent's travels, incomplete

Dates: 10 Sep. 1913
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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From Florence, Lady Alwyne Compton, Canterbury, 18 Sep. 1913

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7973/App/85
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Giuseppi Verdi; Miss Fellowes is to be married, incomplete

Dates: 18 Sep. 1913
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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From Florence, Lady Alwyne Compton, Canterbury, 3 Oct. 1913

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7973/App/86
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Further memories of Italy

Dates: 3 Oct. 1913
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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From Florence, Lady Alwyne Compton, Canterbury, 30 Jan. 1914

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7973/App/87
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Enclosing some papers (?), card

Dates: 30 Jan. 1914
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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From Florence, Lady Alwyne Compton, Canterbury, 13 Feb. 1914

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7973/App/88
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A thank-you note, postcard

Dates: 13 Feb. 1914
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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From Florence, Lady Alwyne Compton, Canterbury, 11 June 1915

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7973/App/90
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Glad Dent would like to keep the letters [?copies of Lord Alwyne Compton's letters from Egypt]; memories of an Italian summer; is now unable to read; 'I cannot write of the present.'

Dates: 11 June 1915
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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From Florence, Lady Alwyne Compton, Canterbury, 30 June 1915

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7973/App/91
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Dent's visit [to Henrietta Synnot]; is 'becoming rapidly quite blind'; wants to send him two books on Italy

Dates: 30 June 1915
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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From Florence, Lady Alwyne Compton, Canterbury, 12 July 1915

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7973/App/92
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Salisbury cathedral; Henrietta Synnot, card

Dates: 12 July 1915
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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From Florence, Lady Alwyne Compton, Canterbury, 8 July 1915

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7973/App/93
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'[T]he books will go tomorrow'; can read nothing, 'but that includes the newspapers, and I am thankful'

Dates: 8 July 1915
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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From Florence, Lady Alwyne Compton, Canterbury, 9 Mar. 1908

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7973/App/39
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Thanks Dent for his hospitality

Dates: 9 Mar. 1908
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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From Florence, Lady Alwyne Compton, Canterbury, 9 Apr. 1908

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7973/App/40
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Memories conjured by Dent's latest account of Italy; he has confirmed her prejudice against Naples; an exorcism carried out on the young Lord Alwyne Compton; Rimington's drawings

Dates: 9 Apr. 1908
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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From Florence, Lady Alwyne Compton, Canterbury, 20 Aug. 1905

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7973/App/19
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A traumatic move to their new house; they are 'tortured by motor-cars'; Dent's letters; the value of local guidebooks, and recollections of German cities; Canterbury cathedral is 'crowded with tourists from the watering places that surround us'; a retired colonel as neighbour; day-trips to Calais; the demolition of their dilapidated coach-house

Dates: 20 Aug. 1905
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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From Florence, Lady Alwyne Compton, Canterbury, 10 Sep. 1905

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7973/App/20
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Dent's postcards from Germany have awakened memories; she has been exploring Canterbury, 'so like an old German town'

Dates: 10 Sep. 1905
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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From Florence, Lady Alwyne Compton, Canterbury, 28 Sep. 1905

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7973/App/21
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Their rate-assessment officer knows Italy well; a polite interior decorator; Dent's letters have consoled them 'for missing Italy this year', incomplete

Dates: 28 Sep. 1905
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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From Florence, Lady Alwyne Compton, Canterbury, 7 Oct. 1905

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7973/App/22
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A visit to Sandwich; travelling arrangements from London to Canterbury - hopes Dent will visit them; 'We are absorbed in Gardening.'

Dates: 7 Oct. 1905
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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From Florence, Lady Alwyne Compton, Canterbury, 27 Jan. 1906

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7973/App/23
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Dent's Italian travels; 'We like Canterbury better and better.'; 'Dr [Edward] Moore gave us four lectures on the Paradiso of Dante.'; news from Venice

Dates: 27 Jan. 1906
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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From Florence, Lady Alwyne Compton, Canterbury, 10 May 1906

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7973/App/24
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Acknowledgement of Dent's condolences on death of her husband

Dates: 10 May 1906
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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From Florence, Lady Alwyne Compton, Canterbury, 11 Oct. 1906

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7973/App/28
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Her further travels with Miss Fellowes

Dates: 11 Oct. 1906
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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From Florence, Lady Alwyne Compton, Canterbury, 20 June 1907

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7973/App/29
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Has spent a fortnight abroad with Miss Fellowes; twelfth-century shrines at Cologne; uncertain whether to go to Italy this year

Dates: 20 June 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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From Florence, Lady Alwyne Compton, Canterbury, 3 July 1907

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7973/App/30
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Dent is now exploring parts of Italy unknown to her; hopes to visit an exhibition in Bruges of 'the treasures of the order of the 'Golden Fleece', which would amuse my mediaeval mind very much'; has decided not to travel to Italy, but to 'grow old gracefully'

Dates: 3 July 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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From Florence, Lady Alwyne Compton, Canterbury, 14 Oct. 1907

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7973/App/35
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Appreciates the list 'of old [German] towns thought worthy of dessert-plates'; encloses a list of some Cistercian churches in Italy (35a); a Disraeli anecdote

Dates: 14 Oct. 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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From Florence, Lady Alwyne Compton, Canterbury, 16 May 1908

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7973/App/42
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Dent's discovery of an opera by ?Gardigiani; recollections of Louis Napoleon

Dates: 16 May 1908
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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