MS 447 05
Reference code
MS 447 05
Title
L. H. Myers papers: Additional papers
Level
Series
Administrative / Biographical history
L. H. Myers, author, married Elsie Palmer in 1908. His grandparents were Susan Harriet Marshall (1811-1896) and Frederic Myers (1811-1851), curate of St. John's Church in Keswick.
Date
1844-1941
Extent & medium
1 box
Content description
Papers belonging to L. H. Myers, including one volume belonging to his grandmother. The papers consist of Myers's will, dated 1941; his address book; his visitor's book, 1910-1923; a diary dated 1908 kept jointly by Myers and his wife Elsie; two sealed envelopes containing locks of Myers's hair, one of them dated 1885. These are accompanied by an autograph diary written by Myers's grandmother Susan Harriet Marshall Myers, recording her observations of the development of her children: F. W. H. Myers, Ernest Myers, and Arthur Myers. The diary begins in 1844, when F. W. H. Myers was one year old, and continues to 1851, the last entry written shortly after the early death of her husband Frederic Myers.
Provenance
Acquired by purchase.
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