Wolseley, Field-Marshal Lord (1833-1913)

  • Wolseley, Garnet Joseph Wolseley, Viscount, 1833-1913.
Date:
1881-1901
Reference:
MS.7474
  • Archives and manuscripts

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Description

Letters by Garnet Joseph Wolseley (1833-1913), Field Marshal, 1st Viscount Wolseley. Recipients include Mr. Spain or Dixon-Spain, probably the Rev. Thomas Dixon-Spain of Long Sutton, Lincolnshire (nos.2 and 12) (3 letters to unnamed recipients, nos.4-6, which deal with temperance issues such as a conference on "Native Races and the Liquor Traffic" (no.5), may also be to Dixon-Spain), and "Kingscote", probably the agriculturalist Sir Robert Nigel Fitzhardinge Kingscote (1830-1908).

Publication/Creation

1881-1901

Physical description

13 items.

Acquisition note

Purchased from: Sotheby's, London, July 1919 (acc.67326) and April 1932 (acc.65129); Stevens, London, July 1930 (acc.68097), December 1930 (acc.68113) and August 1931 (acc.68233); Glendining, London, February 1932 (acc.67675) and August 1932 (acc.67700). Nos.7-8 transferred from Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, c.1939 (acc.91800), previous provenance unknown.

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Database description transcribed from Richard Aspin and Christopher Hilton's typescript supplement to S.A.J Moorat's Catalogue of Western Manuscripts.

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