MS 430 01
Reference code
MS 430 01
Title
Anne Thackeray Ritchie collection: autograph letters, photograph albums and scrapbooks
Level
Series
Date
1847-1919
Extent & medium
40 boxes
Content description
The files contain correspondence written to and from Anne Thackeray Ritchie and her immediate circle. It consists of over a thousand items this is one of the largest collections of autograph letters held by Eton College Library.
Growing up among her father’s circle of friends, the collection includes letters from Tennyson, Browning, Ruskin and Edward Fitzgerald.
The later correspondence features letters from a variety of notable individuals including Margaret Oliphant, J.M. Barrie, Rudyard Kipling, the artists G.F. Watts and John Everett Millais, reformers such as Octavia Hill and Sir John Simon, and the actresses Fanny Kemble and Helena Faucit Martin.
Growing up among her father’s circle of friends, the collection includes letters from Tennyson, Browning, Ruskin and Edward Fitzgerald.
The later correspondence features letters from a variety of notable individuals including Margaret Oliphant, J.M. Barrie, Rudyard Kipling, the artists G.F. Watts and John Everett Millais, reformers such as Octavia Hill and Sir John Simon, and the actresses Fanny Kemble and Helena Faucit Martin.
Provenance
This collection of letters was previously on loan to University of London Library ref: MS 907
Arrangement
In the absence of any other original order, the initial cataloguing order has been maintained. The nature of the material can be broadly divided into the following material:
Letters and papers belonging to Anne Thackeray Ritchie
Autograph letters from Anne Thackeray Richie
Autograph letters from Richmond Ritchie
Autograph letters from Minnie and Leslie Stephen
Letters and papers belonging to Anne Thackeray Ritchie
Autograph letters from Anne Thackeray Richie
Autograph letters from Richmond Ritchie
Autograph letters from Minnie and Leslie Stephen
Finding aids
Eton College Library holds a fully catalogued list of the autograph letters via the internal autograph letters catalogue.
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- Anne Thackeray Ritchie collection: letters and papers belonging to Anne Thackeray Ritchie, MS 430 01 01, (1847-1919)
- Anne Thackeray Ritchie collection: autograph letters from Anne Thackeray Richie, MS 430 01 02, (1847-1919)
- Anne Thackeray Ritchie collection: autograph letters from Richmond Ritchie, MS 430 01 03, (1847-1919)
- Anne Thackeray Ritchie collection: autograph letters from Minnie and Leslie Stephen, MS 430 01 04, (1847-1919)
- Anne Thackeray Ritchie collection: photograph albums and scrapbooks, MS 430 01 05, ([19th century-20th century])