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
Arrangement
As no original arrangement by can be discerned, the letters have separated into files by family recipient
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 93 of 102 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)