ID7286
CollectionHigginson Papers
ReferenceD/3590/
Description

D/3590/H Box of c.300 family and personal letters to Mary, daughter of James Higginson of Rockport, County Antrim (and wife of her cousin Charles Henry Higginson), 1855-1898.

D/3590/J Box of c.200 family and personal letters, together with c.6 volumes or clutches of journals, diaries etc., kept by Mrs Higginson, some of them describing voyages to or from Mauritius, 1855-1898.

D/3590/K-L Two boxes containing c.500 letters to Mrs Higginson of Rockport, County Antrim, and other members of the family, from LouLou, Mary and May Higginson, 1886-1905, and from her sons, Charles Henry Berkeley, Archibald James Macauley, Gordon Shakespeare and William Higginson, all of whom served, and two of whom died, overseas in the army or the police; the letters are from Canada, India and South Africa, and include details of the Punjab frontier campaigns of the late 1890s and of the 2nd Boer War, 1886-1904.

D/3590/M Box containing c.50 letters to Mrs Higginson and other members of the family from her daughter, Agnes Shakespeare, alias Nesta (the pseudonymous poetess 'Moira O'Neill'), and son-in-law Walter Claremont Skrine, mostly describing the Skrines' life as ranchers at High River, Alberta, Canada, 1894-1898.

Higginson family photographs, 1859-c.1905.

AccessBy prior appointment.
Date1855-c.1905
Century19th, 20th
Keywords
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