ID6331
CollectionDufferin and Ava Papers
ReferenceD/1071
DescriptionD/1071/B/D-E Papers about Elizabeth Sheridan nee Linley, and her family, 18th-19th century.

D/1071F/A-C Papers of Helen, Lady Dufferin, including:
D/1071/A1 Letters from Helen, Lady Dufferin to her son Frederick, 1835-1867.

D/1071/A2 Letters from Helen, Lady Dufferin to her husbands, Price, Lord Dufferin and George Hay, Earl of Gifford, 1829-1862.

D/1071F/A3 Letters from Helen, Lady Dufferin to the Sheridans, including her brother Brinsley and sisters, Georgiana and Caroline, 1825-1864.

D1071F/A4 Letters from Helen, Lady Dufferin to personal friends, 1830-1867.

D/1071F/B1 Letters from Frederick, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava to his mother, Helen, Lady Dufferin, 1840-1866.

D/1071F/B3 General correspondence to Helen, Lady Dufferin, 1820-1867.

D/1071F/B4 Memoranda of events, 1807-1867.

D/1071F/B2 Letters from Price, Lord Dufferin, and the Sheridans to Helen, Lady Dufferin, 1831-1863.

D/1071F/C1 Literary works of Helen, Lady Dufferin, 1837-1895.

D/1071F/C2 Notes, etc., relating to Helen's Tower, built in memory of Helen, Lady Dufferin, Clandeboye, County Down, 1861-1890

D/1071F/C3 Musical compositions of Helen, Lady Dufferin, no date, c1850-c1865.

D/1071F/E Papers of Caroline Norton, including:
D/1071F/E1 Letters from Caroline Norton to her family, including her mother, sisters, Helen and Georgiana, and brother, Brinsley, c1830-1869.

D/1071F/E2 General correspondence of Caroline Norton, 1835-1874.

D/1071F/E3 Letters to Caroline Norton, 1851-1866.

D/1071F/E4 Literary and musical works of Caroline Norton, c1850-1872.

D/1071F/E5 Notes, etc., relating to Caroline Norton and the Corn Laws, 1894-1896.

D/1071H/B General correspondence of the 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava, including, for example:
D/1071H/B/C/688/3 A letter to Frederick, Lord Dufferin, from Mabel Sharman Crawford, appealing for his support for Lord Aberdeen's Bill for the amendment of the London Government Act, 1899 [in respect of the eligibility of women as Councillors and Aldermen] '... I hope that should you be in London at this time you will give the women's cause embodied in the Bill, your support on that occasion', 20 June 1901.

D/1071H/B/D Letters from the Countess of Dartrey, a witty society lady to her old friend, Lord Dufferin, in which she ridiculed the second marriage of the famous philanthropist, Lady Burdett-Coutts, 6 and 21 August 1880.

D/1071H/B/N A letter to Frederick, Lord Dufferin from Florence Nightingale, referring to the 'Sanitary Resolution' of July 1888 which highlighted the problems of disease and sanitation in India and appealing for his support in implementing the Resolution to reduce preventable disease, 'I am sure that you do not forsake your colossal child India', February 1889.

D/1071J The papers of Hariot, Lady Dufferin, comprising of personal and family correspondence; journals and photographs of her travels with Lord Dufferin on diplomatic missions to Russia, Turkey, Egypt, Italy and France, and as Governor General of Canada and Viceroy of India, 1854-1938; papers of the Countess of Dufferin's Fund (National Association for Supplying Female Medical Aid to the Women of India), 1885-1935; papers of the Soldiers' and Sailors' Families' Association, Ulster District, 1900-1916. For example:

D/1071J/A Inward correspondence of Hariot, Lady Dufferin, including letters from her father, Archibald Rowan Hamilton, her husband, Frederick, Lord Dufferin, and letters of condolence on the death of Lord Dufferin in 1902, 1859-1935.

D/1071J/B Outward correspondence of Hariot, Lady Dufferin including letters to her mother and her brother, Frederick Rowan Hamilton, 1868-1905.

D/1071J/C1 Journals of Hariot, Lady Dufferin, mostly written while accompanying her husband on foreign missions, including Canada, France, Italy, Russia, Turkey, India, Egypt, 1871-1892.

D/1071J/C2 Diaries of Hariot, Lady Dufferin, 1854-1935.

D/1071J/D Miscellaneous private papers of Hariot, Lady Dufferin, including photographs, speeches, statement of accounts and an order of service for her funeral in 1936, 1754-1936.

D/1071J/E Inventories and initiation to Hariot, Lady Dufferin, 1851-1899.

D/1071J/F Miscellaneous accounts and investments of Hariot, Lady Dufferin, c1885-1937.

D/1071/J/G Papers of the Countess of Dufferin's fund in support of the National Association for Supplying Female Medical Aid to the Women of India, including minutes, accounts, correspondence, annual reports, addresses, scholarships, speeches, memoranda, publications, articles and newspaper cuttings, 1885-1935.

D/1071J/H Papers of the Soldiers' and Sailors' Families' Association, Ulster District, including membership and subscription lists, financial reports, correspondence and reports, 1900-1916.

D/1071K Papers of the Blackwood family and their spouses, including, for example:
D/1071KA/1-9 Letters to the 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava, including letters from his wife, Hariot, his daughters, Lady Helen Blackwood, later Helen Munro-Ferguson, Lady Novar, Lady Hermione Blackwood, Lady Victoria Blackwood, later Baroness Plunket, and daughter in law, Lady Flora Blackwood, nee Davis, 1863-1902.

D/1071KB1-8 Letters to Hariot, Lady Dufferin, including letters from her sons and her daughter, Lady Victoria Blackwood, later Baroness Plunket, 1873-1932.

D/1071KH/11 Miscellaneous papers relating to Lady Hermione Blackwood's nursing career, which comprise of an album of photographs, certificates and newspaper cuttings; correspondence; case histories of civilian patients visited by Lady Hermione in France during 1919 and a certificate of the Medaille de la Reconnaissance Fran‡aise, awarded to Lady Hermione for her work in French and Belgian hospitals during the First World War, 1901-1920.

D/1071KI/1-6 Papers of Lady Victoria Blackwood, later Baroness Plunket, including letters from her father, Lord Dufferin, her mother, Hariot, Lady Dufferin, her brothers and sisters, 1882-1938.

D/1071KJ/1-3 Papers of Lady Brenda Blackwood, nee Woodhouse, wife of Frederick, 3rd Marquess of Dufferin and Ava, including accounts and financial papers and letters from her husband, her children and from her friend, Charles Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 7th Marquess of Londonderry, 1901-1930.

D/1071KK/1-3 Papers of Ronald Munro-Ferguson, later Lord Novar, including letters from his mother in law, Hariot, Lady Dufferin, and his wife, Helen, 1890-1919.
AccessBy prior appointment.
Date1754-1938
Century18th, 19th, 20th
Keywords
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