MS 976
Reference code
MS 976
Title
Thackeray, Ritchie and Warre-Cornish family letters
Level
Sub-fonds
Administrative / Biographical history
Isabella Thackeray (1818 - 1894) was the wife of the novelist and illustrator William Makepeace Thackeray (1811 - 1863); Charlotte Ritchie (1820 - 1878) was the daughter of Charlotte Sarah Thackeray and John Ritchie; Charlotte’s nieces, Augusta, Blanche, and Emily Ritchie were the children of William Ritchie and Augusta Trimmer; Blanche Ritchie (1847 - 1922), married Francis Warre-Cornish (1839 - 1916), Master, Vice-Provost and Librarian of Eton College.
Date
1837-1920
Extent & medium
9 letters, 2 notes, 1 card
Content description
A collection of letters of various members of the Thackeray, Ritchie and Warre-Cornish families
Associated material
MS 430 Anne Thackeray Ritchie collection, MS 707 Belinda Norman-Butler archive; and individually catalogued letters of Anne Thackeray Ritchie at MS 973 and MS 974
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Number 90 of 97 at this Level
Beneath this record in the archive hierarchy
- Letter to Charlotte Sarah (Thackeray) Ritchie from Isabella Thackeray, MS 976 01, (13 Aug 1837 - 28 Aug 1837)
- Letters to Augusta, Blanche and Emily Ritchie from their aunt Charlotte Ritchie, MS 976 02, (2 Jun 1871 - 9 Jun 1871)
- Letters to Blanche Warre-Cornish from friends Hilaire Belloc, Hallam Tennyson and Robert Hugh Benson, MS 976 03, (c.1916 - c.1920)
- Letters to Francis Warre-Cornish from William E Gladstone and Thomas Henry Huxley, MS 976 04, (Feb 1864 - Dec 1864)