| Description | c.5000 documents relating to the Armstrong family, 1823-1960. A detailed calendar of this collection is available. The collection includes testamentary and legal papers and family letters, for example:
Estate duty papers of the late Mrs Armstrong, c.1936-c.1937.
Letters to W.J. Armstrong from his mother, his sisters, Mrs Helen Kerr, Mrs Anne Newton, Miss Diana Jane Armstrong, Miss Tew (possibly his sister in law), 1832-1844; 1854-1865.
Letters to W.J. Armstrong from Mildred H., a married woman who writes emotional letters from Florence and Pisa and in one letter encloses a lock of hair, 1839.
Letters to W.J. Armstrong from his wife, Lady McCreagh, with some replies, 1842-1847 and a letter about their separation, 1847.
Letters to W.J. Armstrong from Mrs A.E. Hopkins, 1845-1864.
Letters to W.J. Armstrong from Eliza Williams, 1853-1866.
Letters to W.J. Armstrong from Lady Jane Moore, 1854; 1860-1864.
Letters to W.J. Armstrong from his housekeeper, Mary Manley, and a couple of letters about her, 1855-1866 and 1897.
Letters of W.J. Armstrong's estranged wife, Lady McCreagh, including letters from her elder son, William, with 2 letters to his half brother, Michael, 1870-1871.
Letters to Lady McCreagh from her younger son, Henry, 1869-1894.
Miscellaneous papers of Lady McCreagh, as well as those of her mother, Mrs R.A. Wilson, Kent, 1829; 1834; c.1866-1869.
Letters to Fortescue Armstrong from his mother, Lady McCreagh, 1859-1870.
Letters to Fortescue Armstrong from Lady Molyneux, Castle Dillon, County Armagh, 1869-1871.
Letters to H.B. Armstrong, including letters from his mother, Lady McCreagh and Miss Mauleverer, 1857-1894.
Letters to H.B. Armstrong from Eva McCreagh-Thornhill and her daughter, Flora, 1875-1942.
Letters to H.B. Armstrong from his cousins, Misses Sophia and F. Newton and Mrs Charlotte Riley, c.1871-c.1926.
Letters to H.B. Armstrong from his mother in law, Mrs Dora Leader, 1868-1938.
Letters to H.B. Armstrong from his wife Margaret (nee Leader), 1883-1889.
Letters to H.B. Armstrong from Miss Ada Francis (after 1878 known as Mrs Ada Major) of Nassau, Bahamas, c.1878-c.1940.
Letters to H.B. Armstrong from Ethel M. Richardson, c.1917-c.1938.
Letters to H.B. Armstrong from Margaret Armstrong describing her visit to India and Burma, 1928. |
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