MS 968 03

MS 968 03

‘Letters to C.F from H. Belloc’: Letters to Cecilia Fisher from Hilaire Belloc

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Joseph Hilaire Pierre René Belloc (1870-1953). French-English writer, politician and historian, orator, poet, sailor, satirist, writer of letters, soldier, political activist and Catholic advocate. His mother was British and he was naturalised 1902. He was elected President of the Oxford Union. He was one of the first openly Catholic MPs, 1906-1910. He was a close friend of G K Chesterton and George Bernard Shaw. He was a close friend of Cecilia Fisher, whom he met through their mutual friend Maurice Baring. He wrote 150 books, essays, travel writing and poetry, and political non-fiction. He married Elodie Hogan in 1896 and they had five children; two of their sons were killed in the First and Second World Wars. He died in 1952.

1928 - 1941

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Letters and travel advice from Hilaire Belloc to Cecilia Fisher during the years of their close friendship

ECL: MS 429 01 Maurice Baring collection: Autograph letters and typescripts. A number of the letters in this series are to Cecilia Fisher and Hilaire Belloc.

Hilaire Belloc Papers Collection MS-2007-012, Burns Library Archival Collections, Boston