| Description | The Londonderry papers comprise of c.400 files and c.10,000 documents. A detailed list of the Londonderry papers is available. The collection includes, for example:
Personal and political papers of Edith, Lady Londonderry who formed the Women's Legion during the First World War:
Letters to Edith, Lady Londonderry from and concerning her father, Henry Chaplin, 1886-1962.
1,080 letters to Edith, Lady Londonderry from miscellaneous correspondents, including diplomats such as Marquis Mayeda and Maharaja of Atwar, the Honourable Alexander McDonnell, Lady Desborough, Mary Pickford and Mrs Wallis Simpson, 1894-1958.
Notebooks in Edith, Lady Londonderry's handwriting describing a family journey to Italy and other travels, with photographs attached, 1898-1899; 1906.
Letters to Edith, Lady Londonderry from Lord Hugh Cecil, mainly of a social and personal nature with much discussion on the Church of England and the sanctity of marriage, 1908-1947.
Letters to Edith, Lady Londonderry from various royals, mostly from English royalty, but also from Princess Marthe Bibesco of Romania, King Alfonso and Queen Victoria Eugenie of Spain, 1913-1959.
Letters to Edith, Lady Londonderry from various political correspondents, including Stanley Baldwin, Anne and Neville Chamberlain, Edward Carson and Harold Macmillan, 1919-1957.
Letters to Edith, Lady Londonderry from well known writers and literary figures, including Sean O'Casey, George Bernard Shaw, Helen Waddell, John Buchan, Edmund Gosse, J.M. Barrie, Lady Gregory, Senator Oliver St John Gogarty, 1919-1959.
Letters to Edith, Lady Londonderry from key political figures in Germany, including Adolf Hitler who acknowledges her work for improved Anglo-German relations in a letter, 8 February 1937. Other correspondents include Goering and his wife, Ribbentrop, von Papen and Goebbels, 1939-1939.
Articles and speeches of Edith, Lady Londonderry, relating to women's suffrage, 1909-1913.
Articles and speeches of Edith, Lady Londonderry on miscellaneous topics, including her publications, 1919-1947.
Correspondence relating to the Women's Legion, the association established by Edith, Lady Londonderry during the First World War, which was revived during the second world war, 1914-1948.
Letters between Edith, Lady Londonderry and Ramsay MacDonald, 1924-1937 [these letters are closed for 100 years from their terminal date].
Letters between Edith, Lady Londonderry and her husband, Charles, Lord Londonderry, 1899-1947 [these letters are closed until 2048]. |
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