This archive was originally compiled by the Hope-Nicholson family of More House, Chelsea. Some materials did not originate
at More House and were collected by Marie-Jaqueline Lancaster in the 1990s from other family members and added to the collection.
After the sale of More House, the art and museum objects from the family's collection were largely sold and parts of the archive
dispersed amongst the surviving family.
The collection was purchased in 2013 by the Clark Library.
This collection is open for research.
Copyright has not been assigned to the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, UCLA. All requests for permission to publish
or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Librarian. Permission for publication is given on behalf of
the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission
of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.
The More House Archive consists of the family archive of the Hope-Nicholson family, who lived at More House at 52 Tite Street
in London for a century beginning in 1892. The house was purchased by Adrian Hope and Laura Troubridge and the house archive
contains materials produced by them, their daughter and son-in-law Jaqueline and Hedley Hope-Nicholson, and grandchildren
(particularly Marie-Jaqueline Lancaster and Felix Hope-Nicholson), as well as other members of their extended Troubridge,
Hope, Gurney, Nicholson and Cleghorn families. Materials comprise correspondence, diaries, photographs, literary manuscripts,
original art and business papers, dating from the early 17th century to late 1990, though the bulk of material dates from
the 1870s to the 1940s. The Troubridge, Hope, Gurney and Hope-Nicholson families were very well-connected across a variety
of disparate social circles and fields. As such, materials relate to a large number of topics including Pre-Raphaelite and
aesthetic arts, diplomacy and the military (particularly the Crimean War), royalty, politics, the gay and lesbian avant garde,
religious figures, journalism, country life, amateur and professional theater, interior decoration and education.
Family members well-represented here include Laura Troubridge Hope, Jacqueline Hope-Nicholson, Hedley Hope-Nicholson, Marie-Jaqueline
Lancaster, Felix Hope-Nicholson, Una Taylor Troubridge, Alfred John Nicholson, Mary Cleghorn Nicholson, Amy Troubridge, Helen
Troubridge Bate, Robert Bontine Cunninghame-Graham and Thomas W. Allen. Correspondents and friends of the family circle represented
in the collection include Oscar Wilde, Cyril and Vyvyan Holland, John Betjeman, George Kolkhorst, Queen Victoria and the Royal
Family, Radclyffe Hall, Trelawny Dayrell Reed, C.K. Scott-Moncrieff, Lord Alfred Douglas, Edward Burne-Jones and family, the
de Bunsen family, John Millais and family, Edward Scott-Snell, Harold Nicolson and Ada Leverson, to name only a few.
Many of the original housings and containers in which this archive was stored have been retained in the More House Archive
at the Clark. Normally, most original boxes and containers would be discarded during processing, but in the case of this
archive, the Clark staff decided that the way the archive was collected, curated and stored was an important part of its overall
story. The collecting habits of the Troubridge-Hope-Nicholson's are a very significant part of the provenance of the archive,
and it was deemed important to keep some record and evidence of how they curated the archive when it was in their posession.
Laura Troubridge Hope and Adrian Hope Series 1
1868-1933
Biographical Note
Laura Troubridge was born in 1858 in London, the second (surviving) child of war hero Sir Thomas St. Vincent Troubridge and
Louisa Gurney. After the early deaths of their parents in 1867, Laura and her 5 siblings went to live with their widowed
grandfather Daniel Gurney in Runcton, Norfolk. Laura showed an early aptitude and passion for drawing and painting and became
a well-regarded portrait painter (especially known for portraits of children) and illustrator. In 1884, she became engaged
to Adrian Hope, the eldest son of Lt-Colonel William Hope and his wife Margaret Jane Cunninghame Graham.
Adrian Hope was born in 1858 and had a somewhat difficult and unhappy childhood. After a brief career in the Diplomatic Service,
his father moved the family back to England to work on a series of unsuccessful agricultural experiments. He also tried to
invent a new kind of gun. Adrian and his 5 younger siblings did not receive any formal education after they completed their
basic schooling, and Adrian had some difficulty finding adequate employment as an adult because of this. After suffering
ill-heath he worked in Ceylon for 3 years as Private Secretary to the Governor and returned to London in 1884. He finally
was appointed as Secretary to the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, where he had some success as a fund-raiser.
The young couple was not able to marry until 1888 because of Adrian's difficulties in finding a job that would support them
both, but their marriage was a happy one until Adrian's untimely death in 1904, the result of an operation for appendicitis.
Their younger daughter, Esme, died of diptheria in 1905 at the age of 7 and Laura and their older daughter Jaqueline (1889-1972)
were left in much reduced circumstances. During this period, they had to let More House to others and lived in rented lodgings,
but were able to move back into the house in 1915. In 1916, Jaqueline married Hedley Nicholson and, along with their children
Lauretta, Marie-Jaqueline and Felix, the Hope-Nicholson family lived with Laura in More House until her death in 1929. In
addition to her work as a painter, Laura (like her sisters and daughter) was much involved in amateur theatricals and also
wrote articles and stories for publication.
Arrangement
This series is arranged in 6 subseries:
- Subseries 1.1.
- Adrian Hope-Laura Troubridge correspondence, 1884-1904
- Subseries 1.2.
- Laura Troubridge Hope correspondence, 1868-1929
- Subseries 1.3.
- Diaries, photograph albums and writing by Laura Troubridge Hope, 1870-1925
- Subseries 1.4.
- Original artwork by Laura Troubridge Hopem about 1883-1925
- Subseries 1.5.
- Adrian Hope correspondence and other materials, 1881-1918
- Subseries 1.6.
- Laura Troubridge Hope housekeeping and general files, 1888-1933
Adrian Hope-Laura Troubridge correspondence Subseries 1.1.
1884-1904
Scope and Contents
This subseries contains correspondence between Laura Troubridge Hope and Adrian Hope, dating from 1884 until Adrian's death
in 1904. The majority of the letters date from their long engagement; selections from these 1884-1888 letters have been published
as
Letters of Engagement.
box 3, Folder 14-20
Adrian Hope-Laura Troubridge letters
1884 July 23-1884 December 31
box 1, Folder 1-19, box 2, Folder 13
Adrian Hope-Laura Troubridge letters
1885 January 1-1886 January 31
Scope and Contents
Box 1/Folder 8: Note after 4/1 letter reads, "See LT journal, April 2-12, 1885." Box 1/Folder 15 includes a handwritten note
on notepad paper that may not be a part of the AH-LT correspondence. Box 2/Folder 13 mostly empty envelopes and wax seals
torn from envelopes; Envelope date-stamped 12/2/1885 contained 2 letters to LT, one from Edith Chapman and one from AH; Also
contains New Year's card
box 2, Folder 1-12, 14
Adrian Hope-Laura Troubridge letters
1886 February 1-1886 December 31
Scope and Contents
Box 2/Folder 1: Includes a program/menu from St. Pancras Dinner to the Borough Members (AH sang at this dinner); Box 2/Folder
2 AH's 3/11/1886 letter to LH includes a drawing of a lock, presumably done by AH; Box 2/Folder 6 6/4/1886 letter has a pencil-corrected
date marking it 6/3 (presumably not a correction made by the letter-writer); Box 2/Folder 9 AH's 10/18/1886 letter still in
envelope; Box 2/Folder 11 AH's 11/30/1886 letter to LT has a pencil drawing of scenery on back of letter; Box 2/Folder 12
box 2, Folder 15-20, box 3, Folder 1-13
Adrian Hope-Laura Troubridge letters - "Letters of engagement"
1887 January-December
Scope and Contents
Box 2/Folder 16 1/28/1887 seems to show that the dates and notes in red pen were made by LT at a later date; Box 2/Folder
19 LT's later notes in red pen could be from 1904 or 1922, according to 4/17/1887 letter. Box 3/Folder 11 12/1/1887 letter
has red pen-corrected date of "10/1/1887"
box 4, Folder 1-13
Adrian Hope-Laura Troubridge letters
1888 January 1-1888 December 28
Scope and Contents
Box 4/Folder 11 Letters originally came still in envelopes & tied in bundles with twine. Envelopes have been placed in front
of their letters. Adrian Hope and Laura Troubridge were married on 8/2/1888
box 4, Folder 14-17
Adrian Hope-Laura Troubridge letters
1889 January 2-1889 October 29
box 4, Folder 18
Adrian Hope-Laura Troubridge letters
1890 May 28-1890 September 27
box 4, Folder 19-20, box 5, Folder 1
Adrian Hope-Laura Troubridge letters
1891 January 3-1891 December 28
Scope and Contents
Box 4/Folder 20, 8/15/1891 letter to LT has a 4-leaf clover enclosed. Box 5/Folder 1 9/15/1891 letter from AH to LT is torn
and held together with a pin; it is unreconstructed and folded as it came in the letter
box 5, Folder 2-5
Adrian Hope-Laura Troubridge letters
1892 January 2-1892 October 9
Scope and Contents
Box 5/Folder 2 Last item in folder is 1/11/1892 telegram to LH; Box 5/Folder 4 1/27/1892 AH letter to LH also contains a Memorandum
from the Hyde Park Gallery Fine Art Co. and a pencil sketch of a house and floor plan
box 5, Folder 6
Adrian Hope-Laura Troubridge letters
1893 January 27-1893 November 23
Scope and Contents
10/7/1893 letter contains a small grey homemade envelope with a "letter" on the same paper comprised of scribbles
box 5, Folder 7-8
Adrian Hope-Laura Troubridge letters
1894 January 22-1894 December 18
box 5, Folder 9-10
Adrian Hope-Laura Troubridge letters
1895 January 18-1895 December 10
Scope and Contents
Box 5/Folder 9 1/23/1895 from AH to LH includes a Programme from the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children's "Nurses
Entertainment" from 1/22/1895; 3/14/1895 letter from LH to AH includes a child's drawing and letter.
box 5, Folder 11-13
Adrian Hope-Laura Troubridge letters
1896 April 14-1897 October 28
Scope and Contents
Box 5/Folder 12 3/5/1897 letter to AH includes a pink child's card made by Helen Hope (HH) for AH and LH
box 5, Folder 14-16
Adrian Hope-Laura Troubridge letters
1897 December 1-1899 December 14
Scope and Contents
Box 5/Folder 14 4/14/1898 letter from AH to LH includes a program from a 4/12/1898 performance of "The Belle of New York"
at the Shaftsbury Theatre, London; Box 5Folder 16 9/13/1899-9/19/1899 letters between LH and AH discuss the birth of Cyril
Wilde (Holland), eldest son of Oscar Wilde and Constance Lloyd, as noted on Post-It notes, presumably by M-J Lancaster, previous
archivist.
box 5, Folder 17-18
Adrian Hope-Laura Troubridge letters
1900 March 13-1900 December 12
box 5, Folder 19-20
Adrian Hope-Laura Troubridge letters
1901 March 14-1902 November 23
Scope and Contents
Box 5/Folder 20 includes a postcard of Versailles.
box 6, Folder 1-4
Adrian Hope-Laura Troubridge letters
1903 May 4-1904 April 4
Scope and Contents
Box 6/Folder 1 5/8/1903 letter from AH to LH refers to Robert Cunningham-Graham of the Sunday Bloody Sunday Massacre, as does
the 5/12/1903 letter to AH; 5/12/1903 letter may also refer to Cyril Wilde (Holland); Box 6/Folder 2 5/12/1903 letter to AH
includes letters from both children and a small pressed flower;
Laura Troubridge correspondence Subseries 1.2.
1868-1929
Scope and Contents
This subseries contains correspondence between Laura Troubridge Hope, her friends and family. Correspondents comprise a wide
range of family members and friends, including her daughter Jaqueline Hope-Nicholson, siblings (particularly Amy Troubridge,
Ernest Troubridge and Helen Troubridge Bate), various cousins and in-laws from the Gurney, Allen, Orde, Cunninghame Graham
and Hope families, Oscar Wilde's son Vyvyan Holland, and historian Trelawney Dayrell Reed. There are also a large number
of letters grouped by topic ("Letters of congratulation," "Drawings," "Important Letters") by Laura or by a previous family
archivist.
Laura Troubridge Correspondence with Siblings Subgroup 1.2.1.
1871-1929
Scope and Contents
Letters came in small crimson handmade parcels bundled by Laura and labelled "Letters from my sisters (year)" and include
letters from Amy, Violet, and Helen Troubridge. Some of the pencil dates on the the envelopes (from previous archivist?) conflict
with date stamps on envelopes and the letters are filed according to the date stamps.
box 6, Folder 5-14
Laura Hope: "Letters from my sisters"
1888 August-1890 December
Scope and Contents
Box 6/Folder 5: 10/1/1894 letter to LH is crosswritten, as are many of LH's letters to AH; pencil date on outside of envelope
of 11/4/1888 letter corrects date to "1889." Box 6/Folder 6 4/7/1889 letter includes a receipt from "Bo. Of Jewell Brothers
(?) - Linen Drapers, Silk Mercers"; Box 6/Folder 7 Many of the letters begin "My dear Larbling," presumably a pet name for
LH; Box 6/Folder 9 Many envelopes contain 2 letters. Box 6/Folder 13 10/27/1890 letter addressed to LT, HT ("Nell"-?), VT
("Vi"-?) and AT ("Maman"), presumably from AT's daughter. Letter is in French and signed "Le Dodo d'Ely"
box 7, Folder 1-10
Laura Hope: "Letters from my sisters"
1891 January-1893 December
Scope and Contents
Box 7/Folder 2 Letter date-stamped "7/13/1891" appears to contain at least 3 letters with various dates, the earliest being
"6/12/1891"; 7/23/1891 letter contains a postcard; Box 7/Folder 3 8/30/1891 letter to LH couldn't be reopened, so the letter
is still sealed inside the envelope. Box 7/Folder 6 8/27/1892 letter includes a telegram sent from Violet Troubridge ("Vi,""VT"
henceforth) to LH; Box 7/Folder 7 10/14/1892 letter includes a handwritten excerpt from Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Compensation";
Box 7/Folder 8 Beginning with 1/?/1893 letters are no longer in envelopes with date stamps; thus, dates are much harder to
determine; in some cases, the previous archivist has penciled in approximate dates in the margins of the letter; some letters
are dated, most aren't.
box 7, Folder 11-14, box 8, Folder 1-12
Laura Hope: "Letters from my sisters"
1894 January 2-1897 December
box 8, Folder 13-15, box 10, Folder 4-5
Laura Hope: "Letters from my sisters"
1898 January-1901 December
Scope and Contents
Letters dated 1900 to 1911 bundled and labelled by Laura in handsewn packages and previously stored in a late 19th c./early
20th c. leather suitcase with a broken leather handled labelled "Hope."
box 10, Folder 6-13
Laura Hope: "Letters from my sisters"
1902 January-1905 December
box 11, Folder 1-13, box 12, Folder 1-2
Laura Hope: "Letters from my sisters"
1906 January-1911 August
box 9, Folder 1-11
Laura Hope: "Letters from my sisters"
1912 January-1915 December
box 10, Folder 1-3, box 12, Folder 3-10
Laura Hope: "Letters from my sisters"
1916 January-1919 December
box 12, Folder 11-12, box 13, Folder 1-4
Laura Hope: "Letters from my sisters"
1920 January-1921 December
box 13, Folder 5-7
Letters from Amy Troubridge
1919 June 7-1926 August 24
Scope and Contents
Letters are often signed "Ames" (a pet name for Amy)
box 13, Folder 8-10, box 14, Folder 11-13, box 15, Folder 1-12, box 16, Folder 1
Letters from Violet Troubridge Gurney
1874-1929
box 13, Folder 11
Letters from Laura "Queenie" Gurney Troubridge
1924 June 7-1937 October 23
Scope and Contents
Laura (Queenie) Gurney is the wife of LH's brother Tom Troubridge, aka LH's sister-in-law. This folder also includes a letter
sent to Jacqueline Hope-Nicholson from an unknown sender, possibly Tom Troubridge
box 14, Folder 1-2, 9-10
Letters from Helen Troubridge Bate
1875-1928
box 85, Folder 29-30
Letters to Ernest Troubridge from Laura
1874-1886
Scope and Contents
May also include letters from others
box 16, Folder 2-9
Letters from Ernest Troubridge
1871-1890
box 14, Folder 3
Letters from Ernest Troubridge
1883 January 29-1906 July 11
box 16, Folder 10-12, box 17, Folder 1-6
Letters from Ernest Troubridge
1891-1908
box 17, Folder 7-10, box 14, Folder 4-6
Letters from Ernest Troubridge
1909-1928
box 17, Folder 11
Letters from Ernest Troubridge
1894(?)-1911, 1926 June 21-1925 July 15
Scope and Contents
Letters in this folder were sent to LH from ET, but are largely undated and without envelopes; they may begin as early as
1894, but this is uncertain.
box 14, Folder 7-8
Letters from Thomas H.C. Troubridge
1872-1928
Scope and Contents
Letters are from LH's brother Sir Thomas (Tom) H. Cochrane Troubridge, not to be confused with Thomas Hay Troubridge, LH's
brother who died as a baby; many of TT's letters to LH from around 1872-73 are without envelopes and undated.
box 54
Original letter packets for Hope sisters' correspondence
1888-1921
Scope and Contents
Numerous cloth and coated wax paper letter packets of various colors, hand-sewn, presumably by Laura Hope, and tied with string
or cord. Labelled "Letters from my sisters" and dated, also by Laura Hope.
box 55
Original wooden box with Chinoiserie design
1890s?
Scope and Contents
Box is stored with top and handle facing up. Box is missing its bottom, and was originally stored open-end up, containing
approximately 400 letters from LH's friends. Box has a painted Chinoiserie design on the side and should be handled with care.
box 209
Suitcase with "Hope" stenciled on top, originally held Laura Troubridge Hope's letters from her sisters 1900-1911
box 56
Original envelopes, fasteners, and tags
1845-1967
Scope and Contents
A sampling of representative original packaging for letters. Includes envelopes from various eras, as well as original fasteners
and name tags for AH-LH letters. Some of the handwriting on the envelopes is original, some is the work of previous archivist.
Laura Troubridge Hope-Jaqueline Hope-Nicholson correspondence Subgroup 1.2.2.
1892-1928
box 23, Folder 4
Letters from Laura Hope to Jacqueline Hope
1892 September 1-1903 April 9
Scope and Contents
Letters from LH to her daughter, Jacqueline Hope; Includes 2 postcards - 1 B&W of Koln Cathedral, Germany and another German
postcard; also 2 postcards (1 color) in a child's handwriting - possibly from Esme Hope to JH?
box 23, Folder 5-8
JHN-LTH letters
1895-1904
Scope and Contents
8/14/1895 letter from JH to LH includes a pressed flower.
box 23, Folder 9-14
JHN-LTH letters
1906-1912
box 24, Folder 1
Letters from Jacqueline Hope to Laura Hope
1912 October 30-1928 July 27
box 24, Folder 2-13, box 25, Folder 1-4
JHN-LTH letters
1913-1918
Scope and Contents
Letters are grouped with their response, as opposed to previous folders which were by a single author; this is in accordance
with how letters were packaged were packaged and labelled by JH; Box 24/Folder 4 Includes 2 color postcards of "York: Monk
Bar" (10/13/1913) and another: "Just a line from Yarmouth: Yarmouth Bloaters, Quite Fresh" (10/15/1913), both from JH to LH.
box 25, Folder 5-13
JHN-LTH letters
1918-1923
box 26, Folder 1-9
JHN-LTH letters
1924-1928
Laura Troubridge Hope letters from other correspondents Subgroup 1.2.3.
1868-1929
box 20, Folder 3
Letters from the Allen family
1904 October 21-1915 June 27
Scope and Contents
Letters to LH from her brother-in-law T.W. Allen (8 letters) and her niece Charlotte Allen (8 letters)
box 28, Folder 14
Letters about Charlotte Allen
1919 November 10-1921 January 3
box 19, Folder 13-14, box 28, Folder 1
Letters from sister-in-law Laura Hope Allen
1887-1927
Scope and Contents
Letters to LH from her sister-in-law Laura Allen (nee Hope); Box 19/Folder 14 Last several letters in folder are undated;
According to bookseller's summary, LA's 3/15/1912 letter contains "an account of Sarah Bernhardt as Ahansuenus."
box 27, Folder 15
Letters to Laura and Adrian Hope from Philip and Georgiana Burne-Jones
1893 March 16-1898 May 10
box 20, Folder 8
Letters from the Cochrane family
1884 December 27-1919 September 28
Scope and Contents
Letters to LH from her great aunts (?) Florence (Flo) Cochrane (3 letters) and Rosetta Cochrane (1 letter), her brother-in-law
(?) Wallace Cochrane-Baillie, 2nd Lord of Lamington (1 letter); the rest of the letters in the folder are from "Loo Cochrane"
(identity unknow, but perhaps a nickname for Lady Louisa Cochrane?)
box 19, Folder 3
Letters from the Creswell family
1882 September 22-1915 March 13
Scope and Contents
1 letter each from LH's Creswell cousins (children of Rev. William Gurney of Runction Rectory and Anna Boileau), including
Geoffrey ("Gee"), Kathleen ("K"), and Richenda ("Chen")
box 19, Folder 1-2
Letters from cousin Eva Creswell (Beaver)
1871 October 21-1919 August 16
Scope and Contents
Box 19/Folder 2 Last 3 letters in folder are undated.
box 28, Folder 6
Letters from cousins Eva Creswell, Loo Cochrane, and Helen Forbes
1920 December 27-1927 December 28
box 20, Folder 10
Letters from the Cunninghame Graham family
1895 March 11-1921 December 25
Scope and Contents
Letters to LH from her aunts and uncles (relatives of AH) the Cunninghame Grahams, including AE Bontine (Anne Elphinstone
Bontine nee Fleming)(3 letters), Charlotte Cunninghame Graham (2 letters) and William C. Cunninghame Graham Bontine (1 letter)
box 20, Folder 15-17
Letters from her aunt Annie Cunninghame Graham (Aunt Annie)
1890 May 18-1917 December 26
Scope and Contents
Box 20/Folder 17 The majority of letters in this folder are undated and without envelopes, but are presumed to come after
last dated letter on 12/26/1917
box 22, Folder 3
Letters from Mina Davy
1878 March 31-1919 December 23
Scope and Contents
Letterst to LH from Mina Davy (?) and Louie Davy (Mina's daughter)(3 letters)
box 21, Folder 6
Letters from Douglas Grant
1882 November 7-1883 April 4
Scope and Contents
Folder includes 1 letter from Miss Welby (?)
box 18, Folder 9, 12, box 19, Folder 4
Letters from the Gurney family
1874-1924
Scope and Contents
Box 18/Folder 12:Letters to LH from Gurney family members, including Katherine Hamond (Aunt Kitty)(2 letters), wife of SG,
and some of WG's siblings, including Audrey Gurney (3 letters), Rose K. Birbeck (nee Gurney) (4 letters), and Lily (Lil)(1
letter); Box 19/Folder 4 to LH from her cousins (children of Francis Hay Gurney of Keswick and Margaret Ffolkes), including
Reginald ("Puny") Gurney (2 letters), Beatrice ("Bea")(6 letters), and Milicent Gurney (identity unknown)(1 letter); Box 18/Folder
9 Includes letters from the Gurneys, LH's sister Violet's family, including 4 letters from VT's husband Walter ("Wal"), 6
from Danny (LH's nephew) and 4 from Phillipa (LH's niece)
box 18, Folder 6
Letters from grandfather Daniel Gurney
1868 May 19-1877 May 11
box 18, Folder 10
Letters from niece Diana Gurney
1913 December 21-1928 April 10
box 18, Folder 13-14
Letters from cousin Helen Gurney (Ape)
1874 July 6-1923 November 9
box 18, Folder 7-8
Letters from aunt Rachel Gurney (Aunt Bache)
1875 November 18-1894 September 29
box 18, Folder 11
Letters from Somerville Gurney (Uncle Tum)
1881 October 18-1917 March 23
Scope and Contents
Includes an invitation to Mr. & Mrs. Somerville Gurney's "Golden Wedding" from 4/15/1907.
box 21, Folder 10-12
Letters from and about Sarah Ann Hendry (Nana)
1890-1907
Scope and Contents
Box 21/Folders 11-12: contains letters about S.A. Hendry's illness and death.
box 27, Folder 13
Letters from Cyril and Vyvyan Holland
1904 August 27-1915 January 22
Scope and Contents
Letters to LH from Cyril and Vyvyan Holland, the two sons of Oscar Wilde and Constane Lloyd. AH and LH became their guardians
after OW's imprisonment for "gross indecency" in 1895; Folder includes 2 B&W postcards from CH to LH: "A general view of Leh"
(7/15/1913) and one of a street scene in Hongkong (date unknown); folder also includes a letter to LH from Aunt Annie about
CH and a letter (7/23/1904) from CH to Esme Hope (LH's daughter who died as a child); CH was Esme's godfather.
box 19, Folder 10, box 20, Folder 4
Letters from the Hope family
1893-1926
Scope and Contents
Box 19/Folder 10: Letters to LH from her father-in-law Colonel William Hope VC and Elsie Hope (identity unknown)(1 letter).
Box 20/Folder 4"Letters to LH from her nephews (children of Charles Hope and Alice Hope nee Wilmot), including Jim (10 letters),
Adrian (7 letters), and Charles ("Kit")(1 letter)
box 19, Folder 15
Letters from sister-in-law Alice Wilmot Hope
1896 November 30-1910 March 27
box 20, Folder 9
Letters from brother-in-law Charles Hope and her cousin (?) Freda Noel
1896 December 12-1917 March 12
box 28, Folder 3
Letters from Charles and Alice Wilmot Hope
1918 January 20-1927 May 3
box 19, Folder 11-12
Letters from mother-in-law Margaret Cunningham-Graham Hope
1894 November 28-1900 January 27
box 20, Folder 1-2, box 28, Folder 4-5
Letters from sister-in-law Jessie Hope
1894-1920
Scope and Contents
Box 28/Folder 5 contains letters to LH from a variety of senders about Jessie Hope's death; 4/26/1920 envelope contains many
letters.
box 22, Folder 4
Letters from Jo Joliffe and Audrey Risdale
1882 September 7-1919 November 4
box 20, Folder 5-6
Letters from the Napier family
1894-1923
Scope and Contents
Box 20/Folder 5:Letters to LH from her sister-in-law Madge Napier (nee Hope)(5 letters) and references "Madge's indiscretion"(?),
brother-in-law Sir Francis Napier (7 letters) and Lileas Bonas/Bonar (identity unknown)(1 letter). Box 20/Folder 6:Letters
to LH from her nieces and nephews (probably the children of Madge Hope and Sir Francis Napier, though this is unconfirmed)
Archie Napier (1 letter), Emily Napier (1 letter), M Lizzie Napier (3 letters), Willie Napier (1 letter) and Laurie Napier
(1 letter).
box 18, Folder 4-5, box 28, Folder 2
Letters from cousin Charles Orde (Tardy)
1880-1927
Scope and Contents
Letters to LH from her cousin Charles "Tardy" Orde, son of Margaret and James Orde
box 17, Folder 13, box 18, Folder 1-2
Letters from aunt Margaret Orde (Aunt Maggie)
1873-1900
Scope and Contents
Letters to LH from her aunt Margaret Orde aka Mrs. James Orde (nee Margaret Gurney), also known as "Aunt Maggie"
box 18, Folder 3
Letters from Orde cousins
1877 February 12-1922 December 30
Scope and Contents
Letters from LH's cousins, the Ordes (children of Margaret and James Orde), including 2 letters from Daisy, 2 from Julian,
9 from "E" (Evelyn), 1 from "Lancer" (Lancelot) and 6 from "Tardy" (Charles); letters are arranged in unlabelled chronological
bundles according to sender.
box 23, Folder 3
Letters from A.C. Probyn-Williams. Esq.
1898 August 8-1903 December 23
Scope and Contents
Letters to LH from Arthur Charles Probyn-Williams, a solicitor with Hasties, Lincoln Fields; letters are typewritten.
box 27, Folder 14
Letters from Trelawney Dayrell Reed
1913-1921
Scope and Contents
Letters to LH from Trelawney Dayrell Reed, author and historian.
box 21, Folder 7-9
Letters from the St. Aubyns
1876-1919
Scope and Contents
Including letters from "Lill," Elizabeth, Blanche, and Emma St. Aubyn. Box 21/Folder 8 Last letter is undated. Box 21/Folder
9:First 6 letters in this folder are from Elizabeth St. Aubyn (4 letters) and Audrey St. Aubyn (2 letters).
box 95, Folder 2-3
Letters to and from Laura Troubridge Hope and others
about 1860-1925
Scope and Contents
Includes letters and telegrams announcing births of Laura, Jaqueline and Adrian and other important family events; list of
wildflowers found by Laura
box 27, Folder 16
Letters from Minna and Violet Taylor
1907-1909
box 17, Folder 12
Letters from aunt Charlotte Troubridge (Aunt Chatty)
1881 February 1-1900 January 11
Scope and Contents
Letters to LH from her great-aunt Charlotte Troubridge, aka "Aunt Chatty"; last 3 letters in folder are undated and without
envelopes.
box 19, Folder 8
Letters from sister-in-law Edith Duffus Troubridge
1894 March 26-1898 December 10
Scope and Contents
Letters to LH from her brother Ernest's first wife, Edith Troubridge (nee Duffus)
box 19, Folder 6-7
Letters from god-daughter Mary Troubridge (Maria)
1900 September 17-1918 November 29
box 19, Folder 5, 9, box 20, Folder 7
Letters from Troubridge family
1874-1917
Scope and Contents
Box 19/Folder 5: Letters to LH from her niece and nephew (children of Ernest Troubridge and Edith Duffus, ET's first wife)
including Charlotte ("Chatty" or "Pussy")(13 letters) and Tom (13 letters). Box 19/Folder 9: Letters to LH from her sister-in-law
Laura (Queenie) Troubridge, wife of TT (7 letters), Louise Troubridge (identity unknown)(7 letters), and Rosemary Troubridge
(identity unknown)(1 letter). Box 20/Folder 7: Letters to LH from her grandmother Anna Maria Troubridge (nee Cochrane)(1
letter) and distant cousins Gilbert and Phyllis Legh (1 letter each); folder's date range is for misc. envelopes - all letters
are undated, but where probably written in late 1860s/early 1870s (AMT d. 1873)
box 22, Folder 1
Letters from Clemence Vleminck (Clem)
1873 June 1-1919 November 16
box 28, Folder 7-13
Letters from friends, cousins, and servants
1911 June 7-1927 December 30
Scope and Contents
Letters from people described as "friends, cousins, and servants" by previous archivst; mostly unsorted and some without envelopes;
Box 28/Folder 13 contains bundle of letters stuffed inside an envelope labelled "Letters about Charlotte Allen & her sad illness
& death, Winter 1919-20" in LH's handwriting.
box 21, Folder 2-4
"Unsorted letters (mostly family)"
1893 January 29-1927 December 27
Scope and Contents
Letters in these 3 folders are mostly unsorted and out of chronological order.
box 20, Folder 11
"Interesting letters"
1881 February 8-1912 March 16
Scope and Contents
An folder of letters deemed "interesting" by previous archivist, including letters about Walter Crane, Buffalo Bill, AH's
encounter with some "midgets," a ride on the switchback railway, a reference to Pen Browning (Robert Browning's son), and
the Byrons (Eva & brother); According to bookseller's summary, LA's 3/15/1912 letter contains "an account of Sarah Bernhardt
as Ahansuenus;" last couple of letters in folder are undated.
box 20, Folder 12
"Drawings"
1880 June 10-1912 November 29
Scope and Contents
Letters to LH from misc. senders that all include a drawing.
box 20, Folder 13-14
"Royalty"
1884 November 17-1925 March 14
Scope and Contents
From the booksellers description: "Approximately 25 letters to do with royalty, 13�are from Minnie Cochrane (lady-in-waiting
to Princess Beatrice) and the rest are either from other members of the royal household or are letters from family members
recounting encounters with royal personages." the 25 letters are divided into 2 folders.
box 21, Folder 1
Letters concerning deaths in the family and "unsorted letters (mostly family)"
1885 May 7-1928 April 7
Scope and Contents
First 7 letters in folder are concerning deaths in the family; remaining letters are from a bundle labelled "unsorted letters
(mostly family)" by previous archivist.
box 21, Folder 5
Christmas cards
1892 December 25-1927 December 25
Scope and Contents
A number of Christmas cards sent to LH, most are undated; includes photos of "Laura, Peggy andHugh, Christmas 1927," a photo
postcard of the Strand, Portstewart, and a photo of someone's home (signature unidentified) - all B&W
box 21, Folder 13-14
Letters from servants and their relatives
1907 May 13-1923 December 23
Scope and Contents
Includes letters from E. Dickinson (S.A. Hendry's sister)(4 letters), William Dickenson (1 letter), Lawrence (?)(3 letters),
Ann Drew (1 letter), Emma Mausbridge(?)(4 letters), Susy Neden (5 letters), Mrs. Potterton (1 letter), and Ellen Whitely (2
letters), a wedding invitation for Beatrice Phoebe Cavell (LH's lady's maid) and George Charles Graver wedding on 10/2/1907,
envelope and a pressed flower; also included is a photo of the couple on their wedding day; letters are from Beatrice (Beate)
Cavell (6 letters), G.C. Graver (1 letter), Laurence (?)(1 letter) as well as the Scott family (caretakers at Hopton) - E.
Scott (1 letter), Kate Scott (1 letter), Elizabeth Stamp (parlour maid)(3 letters) and Dorcas Thomas (parlour maid) (2 letters)
as well as Stanbrook (Tanner)(11 letters) *descriptions of servants and their roles have been transcribed from notes written
by previous archivist*
box 30, Folder 12-17, box 40, Folder 1-2
Letters of congratulation from family and friends on Laura and Adrian's engagement
1883-1888
Scope and Contents
Box 30/Folders 12-13:Letters from various family members congratulating LT and AH on their engagement - box contains 102 letters
to LT, 31 letters to AH.
box 40, Folder 3-4
Letters of congratulation on Laura and Adrian's wedding
1888
box 40, Folder 5-6
Letters of congratulation to Laura Hope on the births of her daughters
1889, 1896
box 40, Folder 7-11
Letters of congratulation to Laura Hope on her daughter Jacqueline's marriage and the births of her granddaughters
1915-1922
box 40, Folder 12, box 41, Folder 3, box 42
Letters of condolence to Laura Hope after the death of Adrian Hope
1904 May-1904 November
Scope and Contents
Includes a number of pamphlets, newspaper clippings, etc., often annotated by LH. First item is an envelope (annotated by
Laura) containing letters of condolence from royalty, including the Queen and the Prince of Wales. Box 42:Letters are without
envelopes and are organized alphabetically in a dilapidated binder with letter dividers -- handle item with care. Correspondents
include Agnes Egerton-Castle, Robert Bontine Cunninghame-Graham, G.P. Jacomb-Hood, Mary Millais, Richard Pryce and Basil Wilberforce.
box 40, Folder 15, box 41, Folder 1-2
Letters of condolence to Laura Hope after the death of her brother, Ernest
1926-1927
Scope and Contents
ET died on 1/28/1926; ET's condolence letters are not in strict chronological order. Includes an envelope addressed to LH
from Feb. 1926 containing newspaper clippings of ET's obituary, a program from St. Paul's cathedral's annual service (4/23/1926),
and a photograph of a graveyard.
box 41, Folder 4
Laura Hope obituaries and letters of condolence written to her daughter Jaqueline
1928-1929
Scope and Contents
obituaries and letters of condolence sent to JHN on the occasion of her mother's illness; folder includes numerous obituaries
clipped from various newspapers
box 41, Folder 9
Misc. memorial keepsakes and obituaries for various family members
1913-1926
box 22, Folder 2, 5-11, box 23, Folder 2
Letters from friends
1874-1923
Scope and Contents
Box 22/Folder 2:Includes an undated Christmas card from E. Wolfe; includes letters from Mrs. Wichsted (Cuckoo)(3 letters),
E.Wolfe, nurse (10 letters), George Tredcroft (2 letters), Trelawney (6 letters) and 'Uncle' William Warren Vernon (2 letters)
Box 22/Folders 5-6:Letters to LH from friends Philip Harbord (?)(4 letters), Mary Buxton ("nee Harbord, Philip's sister")(5
letters), Louisa Hanwell ("writing re: drawing club and Mary Buxton")(1 letter) and Francis Goring (?), (4 letters and 1 color
postcard depicting "Los Sposalizio-Raffaelo, Pinacoteca di Brera-Milano"), Cate Marsh (?) (7 letters), Louisa O'Neill (?)(2
letters), Mr. Orton (?)(2 letters), Laura Maul (?)(3 letters), and Lady Mount Temple (nee Tollemache)(?)(1 letter).
Box 22/Folders 7-8:Letters to LH from friends Constance A. Baird (nee Harford)(?)(7 letters), Lawrence J. Jones (?)(2 letters),
Mary F. Jones (?)(3 letters), Pierre P. Debbandt (?)(2 letters), Louisa H. Dundonald (?)(2 letters), Elixabeth De Bunsen (?)(5
letters), Hilda De Bunsen (?)(4 letters), Marie De Bunsen (?)(1 letter), Lady Helen Forbes (nee Craven)(?)(5 letters), Andre
de Fouquieres (?)(2 letters), and Mabel Grant (?)(2 letters).
Box 22/Folder 9-10:Letters to LH from friends the Birkbecks (?) - SM Birkbeck (1 letter), Minna Birkbeck (1 letter), Alice
Birkbeck (1 letter), Geoffrey Birkbeck (1 letter), and Harry Birkbeck (1 letter); other letters from Lady Caroline Howarden
(?)(3 letters), JM Herbert (?)(1 letter), Pauline Heugeroth (?)(1 letter), Lady Horne Speirs (?)(1 letter), Violet Barry (?)(1
letter), Effie Bereem (?)(2 letters), Mrs. Emilie Hughes (?)(6 letters), Jim St. Leger (?)(6 letters), Harriet Thirkel (?)(2
letters), Mrs. M.A. Thomson (?)(1 letter), Dan Tommayo (?)(1 letter), Basil Tollemache (?)(2 letters).
Box 22/Folder 11:Letters to LH from Charles Scott Moncrieff (4 letters), Lady Cecilia Iddesleigh (?)(3 letters), Raynham (?)(5
letters), Lady Lindsey (?)(1 letter), Mrs. Le Strange (?)(1 letter), Madame de Saint Exupery (?)(1 letter), and R.W. Sparks
(?)(2 letters).
Box 23/Folder 2:First 3 letters in folder are from J.B. Jereem, thought to be a lover of LH's before her marriage to AH; remaining
letters in folder are from Jane Wallscourt (labelled "midget" by previous archivist)(5 letters) and Fanny Stanhope ("midget's
sister")(1 letter)
box 22, Folder 13-15
"Various friends and family"
1874 July 20-1927 August 1
Scope and Contents
A bundle of letters, mostly unsorted and out of chronological order, labelled "various friends and family" by previous archivist;
includes a color postcard of "Cairo, Pyramids" (date not legible), a color postcard of a nativity scene which reads "Joyeux
Noel," a B&W postcard of "Firenze-Loggia dei Lanzi" (dated 3/30/1922) and a color postcard of a mountain and cows that reads
"8753 Dent de Jaman (1878 m) et paturage alpestre" (dated 8/1/1927)
box 26, Folder 10
"Important letters"
1886 May 31-1921 July 23
Scope and Contents
According to the bookseller's description, folder contains "letters from people of import; letters from well-known artists,
writers, actors, and political radicals of the day," including single letters from E. Maria Albanesi ("British novelist better
known by her pen name of Effie Adelaide Rowlands"), Maud Beerbohm Tree (actress and wife of well-known actor Herbert Beerbohm
Tree), Robert Brough (Scottish painter, d. 1905), Henry Redvers Buller ("Army officer who was awarded the Victoria Cross"),
Anges Egerton Castle (the wife of swordsman and author Egerton Castle, with whom she co-authored several books), Anstey Guthrie
("humorous writer")(2 letters), G.P. Jacomb-Hood ("artist and inhabitant of Tite Street"), Constance S. Maud ("probably the
suffragette"and author of No Surrender); Mary Millais (wife of Everett Millais, son of Pre-Raphaelite painter John Edward
Millais and Effie Millais)(3 letters), [Mary] Louisa Molesworth ("author, known predominantly for her children's stories"),
Richard Pryce ("playwright and author"), Anne Ritchie (daughter of William Makepeace Thackeray and Isabella Gethin Shawe)(2
letters), and Henry Scott Tuke (English artist)
box 212
Small metal trunk, originally housed Laura Troubridge Hope "Important Letters"
box 23, Folder 1
"Hay letters" and "Charity"
1897 January 4-1928 May 1
Scope and Contents
2 bundles of letters labelled "Hay letters" and "Charity" by previous archivist. Folder includes a color Christmas/New Year's
card which reads "Best wishes"
box 213
Box from John Orton, Furrier, originally housed Laura Troubridge Hope "Later Letters"
box 27, Folder 18
"Autographs" and Misc. "Important letters"
1894 February 27-1929 July 11
Scope and Contents
Last letter in folder is an envelope labelled "autographs" by previous archivist, which includes signatures of well-known
people. Other letters in folder are from unknown senders (signatures could not be identified), but are presumed to also be
from people of import.
Diaries, photograph albums and writing by Laura Troubridge Hope, including Troubridge family juvenilia Subseries 1.3.
1870-1925
Scope and Contents
This subseries comprises diaries, writings, and photograph albums by Laura Troubridge Hope, as well as juvenilia created by
Laura and her siblings. Excerpts from Laura's diaries have been published as
Life Amongst the Troubridges. The Troubridge children (particularly the sisters), often collaborated on handwritten and illustrated books during their
childhood years. Laura's photograph albums are extensively annotated by her with identifying names, dates and places.
box 151
Laura Troubridge Hope photograph album
about 1870-1880
Scope and Contents
Photographs of Troubridge and Gurney family and friends
box 35, box 36, box 37, box 38
Laura Troubridge notebooks and diaries
1872-1929
Scope and Contents
Box 35: notebook containing 4/1874-8/1874 features a little drawing of a child on p. 48. These journals form the basis for
the majority of the material in Life Among the Troubridges: Journals of a Young Victorian Woman 1873-1884 by Laura Troubridge.
Box 36: 22 diaries of various shapes and sizes from 1879-1899; 1882 diary is missing back cover; 1887 journal has a color
postcard of two owls in a snowstorm: "May your New Year be happy."
box 92
Laura Troubridge notebook including Runcton poem
box 30, Folder 6
Poems by Laura Troubridge
1904-1912
box 91, Folder 19, 23-24
Letters to Laura Troubridge Hope regarding plays
about 1915-1920
box 30, Folder 5
Plays and playbills by LTH (?) and others
1901-1903
Scope and Contents
Loose handwritten papers featuring verse and related to plays possibly performed by LT's children.
box 91, Folder 20, 29-35, 38
Play manuscripts and typescripts by LTH, JHN and others
Scope and Contents
Includes Aunt Matilda, The Knight of the Primrose, Pierrots Penny, Cupid in Arcady,That Odious Cousin, Love in a Mist, The
Teraph, Polypodum Lodge, The Little Mermaid, The Orange Tree (Rosina's Book), An Heirloom from the Rhine, Two's Company, Princess
and Poet, Best Keep Single, The Cunning of Pah, Love Me Love My Dog, Ride Ride Ride on a Wednesday, Mary Ann, pageant by Amy
Troubridge, Uncle or The Jericho Mouse, From Over the Hills, The Enchanted Wood
box 91, Folder 21
Laura Troubridge Hope material regarding Spectator and other clippings
box 91, Folder 22
Laura Troubridge Hope folder of writings
box 91, Folder 14
Laura Troubridge Hope blank verse poem on Runcton
box 29
Notebooks and creative writing by Troubridge sisters
1868-1897
Scope and Contents
"Troubridge sisters" includes Amy, Laura, and Helen Troubridge; 9 bound notebooks and diaries, including "Thornton Grange"
by AT, a typed notebook of the play "The Teraph" by AT, February 1897, "Faithful and Faithless" by HT (aged 9), a notebook
of poetry including "The Cherry Stones" by LH, a notebook of copied poetry (missing front and back cover), 2 notebooks with
marbled covers feat. misc. creative writing; 1 diary with metal clasp of housekeeping at Hunstanton; a green vellum-bound
commonplace book (18th c?) repurposed for misc. creative writing and with a number of pages cut out.
box 30, Folder 3
"Manuscript Music," a book of verse by the Troubridge sisters
about 1860-1870?
Scope and Contents
A book intended for music notation labelled "Manuscript Music" featuring verse written by Amy, Helen, Violet and Laura Troubridge.
box 30, Folder 4
Illustrated book of verse by the Troubridge sisters
about 1860-1870?
Scope and Contents
Small volume of fairy tale verse illustrated in pencil and watercolor.
box 30, Folder 7
Anagrams by the Troubridge sisters
about 1860-1870?
box 30, Folder 8
Assorted creative writing by Troubridge sisters
about 1870-1880?
Scope and Contents
includes loose creative writings, steps for dances, recipes, and a plan of the doll's house at Runcton; includes a playbill
for "Amateur Theatrical Performance in aid of the funds of the Hopton School" (1883) featuring Laura and Amy.
box 30, Folder 9-11
Various poems collected by the Troubridge sisters
about 1900-1939?
box 69, Folder 4-6
Pages from Laura Troubridge photograph albums
about 1890s
Scope and Contents
Pages appear to have been removed so that they could be reproduced for inclusion in books by Marie-Jacqueline Lancaster.
box 68, Folder 2
Photographs of Adrian Hope, Laura Troubridge, Jaqueline Hope-Nicholson and Esme Hope
about 1880-1915
box 131
Laura Troubridge notebook on lacquering and empty leather file
box 149
Album of photographs of famous figures
about 1860-1870
Scope and Contents
Mostly photographs of notable people from around the world, but also some images of famous artworks and a few photographs
of Gurneys and Troubridges.
box 150
Album of family photographs
about 1890-1925
Scope and Contents
Album with captions by both Laura and Jaqueline. Includes photographs of Ernest Troubridge, Runcton, photographic portraits
of Troubridge, Gurney home in Runcton, people in fancy dress including Charles Scott Moncrieff, Jaqueline, Hedley and Robert
Bontine Cunninghame-Graham, Lauretta Hope-Nicholson, Prince Obolensky as a baby, and many other family members and friends.
box 170
'The Book of L. H.'s Nephews and Nieces' (annotated photograph album)
box 171
Laura Troubridge Hope photograph album
about 1880-1925
Scope and Contents
Photographs of places, family and friends, including images from honeymoon in Pangbourn and Hope children
box 130
Violet and Laura sketchbook
about 1872
Scope and Contents
Stamped pattern onto the blue cloth covered boards and the word
'Scraps' embossed in gold. Pencil or pen and ink drawings of figures highlighted with watercolor. Style is that of a children's
storybook, figures in a variety of costume, some fairy subjects.
box 194
Sketchbook by Amy, Laura and Violet Troubridge
about 1870
Scope and Contents
Mostly pen and ink drawings, a few watercolors. The main subject is children at play, depicted individually, in small groups
and in large, almost epic groups in a naïve manner that is obviously influenced by the contemporary style of children's storybook
illustrations.
box 199
Scrapbook of drawings by Troubridge sisters and Audrey Gurney
about 1870s
Laura Troubridge Hope artwork Subseries 1.4.
about 1883-1925
box 204, Folder 2
LTH pageant costume designs
about 1900-1918
box 90, Folder 5
Watercolor by LTH for Uncle, or, The Jericho Mouse
box 95, Folder 1
Art supply catalog with pasted decoupage scrap
box 95, Folder 5-12
Letters to Laura Troubridge Hope regarding work and commissions
box 95, Folder 13-22, box 96
Reproductions of artwork by Laura Troubridge Hope
Scope and Contents
Also includes articles that mention Laura
box 90, Folder 6, box 95, Folder 23-25, box 97, Folder 1-6
Laura Troubridge Hope publicity clippings
Scope and Contents
Also includes some correspondence.
box 95, Folder 26
Letters and other materials related to The Child Elves by LTH
box 95, Folder 27
Letters to LTH from W.A. Mansell, publishers
box 95, Folder 28
Letters to LTH regarding work
box 95, Folder 29
Catalogs from exhibitions including work by LTH
box 102
LTH album with periodicals
Scope and Contents
Includes journals containing illustrations by LTH
box 103, box 196, box 198
box 120
LTH portrait of Jaqueline in a red coat
Scope and Contents
Caption: Jaqueline Hope in the hunting coat that belonged to her Troubridge grandfather. Photo of a portrait painted at More
House 1894"
box 119, Folder 21
LTH Constantinople sketches (unbound)
1901
box 119, Folder 22
LTH watercolor sketches
Scope and Contents
Includes self portrait and picture of pigs at Beaulieu
box 121
Lewis Carroll's copy of Little Thumb (1883) illustrated by LTH
1883
box 129, Folder 1-15
LTH original illustrations for The Little Mermaid
1891
Scope and Contents
Little Mermaid print in Box 129/Folder 16
box 129, Folder 16
LTH original illustrations for Queen of Hearts
1887
box 91, Folder 13
Photocopies of images of King's Views of Runcton and Laura talking to the Peacock
box 204, Folder 3
Lady Mount Temple portrait reproduction
box 138
LTH notebooks with lists of portraits/works painted
box 131
Pearson's Magazine and Ladies' Realm Magazine
box 143
Book of Beauty (Late Victorian Era), (London: Hutchinson & Co., 1896)
box 144
Laura Troubridge Hope self portrait (framed)
Adrian Hope correspondence and other materials Subseries 1.5.
about 1881-1918
Scope and Contents
This subseries contains correspondence and other materials related to Adrian Hope, including material about his time in Ceylon
as Private Secretary to the Governor, his work at the Great Ormond Steet Hospital, and his 1901 trip to Constantinople and
Belgrade. Correspondents include various family members and some friends.
Arrangement
Correspondence is listed alphabetically by correspondent; business and travel materials are filed following correspondence.
box 99, Folder 2
AH letters from Tom Allen
box 99, Folder 5
AH letters from Henry and Charles Cook (cousins)
box 98, box 99, Folder 3, box 98, Folder 2-9
AH letters from Annie Cunninghame Graham, Laura Hope Allen and others
1883-1918
box 99, Folder 8
AH letters from Gurney family and others
Scope and Contents
Includes Rachel Gurney Jones, Somerville Gurney, Hudson Gurney, Adela Cochrane, Minnie Cochrane, Loo Cochrane
box 99, Folder 7
AH letters from Charles Hope and JHN
box 98, Folder 11-12
AH letters from M. (Madge?) Hope
box 99, Folder 1
AH Letters from Col. W. Hope
box 98, Folder 13-14
AH letters from various friends including Hopetouns
box 99, Folder 15
AH letters from the Duke of Fife and Spencer Joliffe "Jo"
box 99, Folder 9
AH letters from Lord and Lady Napier, Francis Napier
box 99, Folder 10
AH letters from Ernest Troubridge and Amy Troubridge
box 99, Folder 4
AH letters from grandmother and aunts
box 98, Folder 15
AH souvenirs, receipts, invitations and various
box 98, Folder 23-25
AH business and other materials
box 99, Folder 11-14
Materials from trip to Constantinople and Belgrade
1901
box 99, Folder 16
AH bookplates, ephemera, and miscellaneous items
box 99, Folder 17-24
AH Great Ormond Hospital materials
box 40, Folder 14
"Our Hospitals and Charities Illustrated" magazine, Adrian Hope's obituary on page 25
1904
box 40, Folder 13
Adrian Hope obituaries
1904 May-1904 June
box 131
'Dunny Bag' given to Adrian Hope to facilitate his return journey from Constantinople
1901
Scope and Contents
unopened and with original wax seals
Laura Troubridge Hope housekeeping and general files Subseries 1.6.
1888-1933
box 91, Folder 42
Wedding related documents from LTH and AH
Scope and Contents
Includes lists of wedding gifts, money given for trousseau, dried rose from wedding bouquet
box 92
Small ivory notebook containing list of wedding gifts to Laura and Adrian Hope
box 93
More House inventories by Laura Troubridge Hope
1925
box 91, Folder 17
Notecards of More House contents
box 91, Folder 18
Receipts for furniture from More House
1896
box 87, Folder 37-38
More House contents
1892-1989
box 93
Notes about Cottage at Beaulieu
1914
box 91, Folder 25
Cards and ephemera (LTH)
1904
box 91, Folder 26-28, box 95, Folder 4
Laura and Adrian programs, invitations, receipts
box 91, Folder 36
Ephemera and typescripts related to theater
box 91, Folder 37, 39-41
Miscellaneous ephemera from LTH and AH
Scope and Contents
Includes invitations, theater programs, Royal Naval Lunch material (1884), Come Live with Me booklet from Adrian to Laura,
art exhibition catalog with Adrian annotations, 1888 Marriage Supplement to The Court Journal
box 122
LTH 1903 Address Book with textile covers
box 122
LTH and AH account books/diaries
Scope and Contents
Includes book from housekeeping on honeymoon houseboat
box 122
LTH account books and engagement books
box 94
The Book of Cottage Hopton book by Laura Troubridge Hope
1904
box 87, Folder 31
Hopton Cottage, photograph with Laura Troubridge Hope, JHN, Esme Hope and Amy Troubridge
1904
Scope and Contents
real photo postcard
box 87, Folder 23-24
Records of callers at Tower House and Tuesday Books
1905-1908, 1910-1913
box 87, Folder 21
Tower House flat
1906
Scope and Contents
Photograph clipped from magazine
box 85, Folder 26-28
Locks of hair
1890-1933
Scope and Contents
Locks of hair from multiple generations of Troubridge, Nicholson and Hope children
Jaqueline Hope-Nicholson Series 2.
1899-1968
Scope and Contents
This series comprises correspondence, notebooks, diaries, photographs and research and business papers of Jaqueline Hope-Nicholson.
Correspondents include a large number of relatives, friends prominent in academic and artistic circles, servants and former
lodgers. Materials related to her interests in heraldry, history and genealogy are also included here.
Biographical / Historical
Jaqueline Hope-Nicholson was the eldest daughter of Laura Troubridge Hope and Adrian Hope. Born in 1889, she married Hedley
Nicholson in 1916 and they joined their last names by deed-poll. Jaqueline was passionate about history, theater (both professional
and amateur), heraldry and genealogy; she was also an inveterate list-maker and chronicler, compiling lists of wildflowers,
fancy dress outfits and dolls, to name a few. She was well-known for organizing and staging historical pageants and making
costumes for them; she formed the company Esperanza to faciliate this.
- Subseries 2.1.
- Jaqueline Hope-Nicholson Correspondence, 1899-1968
- Subseries 2.2.
- Jaqueline Hope-Nicholson notebooks, photographs, and lists, 1915-1954
- Subseries 2.3.
- Jaqueline Hope-Nicholson history, historical pageants and genealogy materials, 1750-1954
- Subseries 2.4.
- Old Place files and photographs, about 1920-1938
Jaqueline Hope-Nicholson Correspondence Subseries 2.1.
1899-1968
Scope and Contents
This subseries comprises correspondence between Jaqueline Hope-Nicholson, her family and friends. Correspondents include
Hedley Hope-Nicholson, Marie-Jaqueline Hope-Nicholson, Felix Hope-Nicholson, the Thomas W. Allen family, Helen Troubridge
Bate, Amy Troubridge, Gurney family, Hope family, Mary and A.J. Nicholson, Orde family, Mrs. Greville Nugent, Trelawney Dayrell
Reed, C.K. Scott-Moncrieff, Lord Alfred Douglas and many others.
Correspondence with Hedley Hope-Nicholson Subgroup 2.1.1.
1915-1948
box 81, Folder 26-29, box 82, Folder 1
Letters to Jaqueline Hope-Nicholson from Hedley Hope-Nicholson
1915-1916
box 82, Folder 29-35
Letters to Hedley Hope-Nicholson from Jaqueline Hope-Nicholson
1915-1916
box 82, Folder 2, 5, 11
Letters to Jaqueline Hope-Nicholson from Hedley Hope-Nicholson
1917-1919
box 82, Folder 14, 28, box 83, Folder 2-3
Letters to Hedley Hope-Nicholson from Jaqueline Hope-Nicholson
1917-1919
box 81, Folder 31, box 82, Folder 3-4, 6, 10
Letters to Jaqueline Hope-Nicholson from Hedley Hope-Nicholson
1919-1921
box 82, Folder 18-24
Letters to Hedley Hope-Nicholson from Jaqueline Hope-Nicholson
1920-1922
box 82, Folder 7-9, 12, box 81, Folder 32
Letters to Jaqueline Hope-Nicholson from Hedley Hope-Nicholson
1922-1925
box 83, Folder 6-10
Letters to Hedley Hope-Nicholson from Jaqueline Hope-Nicholson
1922-1930
box 82, Folder 15, 25-27
Letters to Hedley Hope-Nicholson from Jaqueline Hope-Nicholson
1923-1925
box 81, Folder 30
Letters to Jaqueline Hope-Nicholson from Hedley Hope-Nicholson
1925-1936
box 82, Folder 16, 38, box 83, Folder 4-5
Letters to Jaqueline Hope-Nicholson from Hedley Hope-Nicholson
1925-1928
box 82, Folder 13, 36
Letters to Hedley Hope-Nicholson from Jaqueline Hope-Nicholson
1932, 1935-1937
box 82, Folder 17
Letters to Jaqueline Hope-Nicholson from Hedley Hope-Nicholson
1942, 1945
box 83, Folder 1
Letters to Hedley Hope-Nicholson from Jaqueline Hope-Nicholson
1941-1948
box 43
Letters of congratulation on her marriage to Hedley Nicholson
1916
Scope and Contents
Filed alphabetically in "The Popular File" binder.
Letters from Felix, Lauretta and Marie-Jaqueline Subgroup 2.1.2.
1919-1945
box 57, Folder 13
Letters to Jacqueline Hope-Nicholson about her children
9/16/1927-5/30/1937
box 57, Folder 14
Letters to Jacqueline Hope-Nicholson from her children
5/11/1926-1/29/1943
Scope and Contents
Letters to JHN from Felix, Lauretta, and Marie-Jacqueline. Last item in folder is a letter to MJHN from JHN.
box 60, Folder 2-13
Letters to Jaqueline Hope-Nicholson from Felix
1935-1938
box 61, Folder 6
Postcards to Jaqueline Hope-Nicholson from Felix
1932-1937
Scope and Contents
14 sepia-tone photo postcards sent from FHN to Jaqueline Hope-Nicholson from Summer Field School, Oxford, and Eton
box 61, Folder 1-4, 8-11
Letters to Jaqueline Hope-Nicholson from Felix
1938-1943
box 61, Folder 7
Letters to Jaqueline, Hedley, and Lauretta from Felix
1930-1936
Scope and Contents
Early letters sent to Jaqueline Hope-Nicholson, HHN, and LHN from FHN. Includes a newspaper clipping announcing a prize won
by Felix. 1/28/1936 letter to Jaqueline Hope-Nicholson from FHN details the funeral procession of King George V in great detail.
box 58, Folder 12-18, box 60, Folder 1
Letters to Jaqueline Hope-Nicholson from Felix
1931-1934
Scope and Contents
Letters sent to Jaqueline Hope-Nicholson from FHN when he was a student at Summerfield School and then Eton.
box 58, Folder 9-11
Letters from Hedley Hope-Nicholson, Marie-Jaqueline Hope-Nicholson and Lauretta Hope-Nicholson
1935-1945
Scope and Contents
Also includes letters to Hedley Hope-Nicholson from daughters
box 59
Letters of congratulation to Jaqueline Hope-Nicholson on the birth of her three children
1919-1922
Scope and Contents
"Bank of England" alphabetized concertina file containing letters written to Jaqueline Hope-Nicholson congratulating her on
the birth of her three children - Lauretta in 1919, Felix in 1921, and Marie-Jaqueline in 1922. Correspondents of note include
Rita Jacomb-Hood and Una Troubridge.
box 58, Folder 8
Letters to Jaqueline Hope-Nicholson about Felix's christening
1921
box 57, Folder 10
Letters to Jacqueline Hope-Nicholson about Lauretta's birth and early years
2/13/1919-10/8/1921
Scope and Contents
Letters of congratulation to JHN on LHN's birth (1919), christening, and first birthday, as well as miscellaneous items related
to Lauretta, including a B&W photo of "Thorpe Village" and HHN's first letters to LHN.
box 57, Folder 11
Letters to Jacqueline Hope-Nicholson about the births of Felix and Marie-Jacqueline
7/21/1921-8/9/1922
Scope and Contents
Letters of congratulation to JHN on the births of FHN and MJHN, as well as newspaper birth announcments and clippings.
Letters from other correspondents Subgroup 2.1.3.
1899-1968
box 79, Folder 19
Letters to Jaqueline Hope-Nicholson from Laura Hope Allen
1903-1932
box 79, Folder 20
Letters to Jaqueline Hope-Nicholson from Tom Allen
1908-1945
box 80, Folder 13-15
Letters to Jaqueline Hope-Nicholson from Charlotte Allen
1904-1919
box 63, Folder 10
Letters from Mary F. Arrowsmith, Hilda Barrow, and Hardy
1936-1945
box 62, Folder 1-3, box 80, Folder 18-21
Letters to Jaqueline Hope-Nicholson from Helen Troubridge Bate
1912-1949
box 63, Folder 15
Letters from Geoffrey Birkbeck
1941-1945
box 80, Folder 6
Letters to Jaqueline Hope-Nicholson from "great-aunt" A.E. Bontine
1914-1915
box 81, Folder 9-11
Letters to Jaqueline Hope-Nicholson from Martin Brotherton
1923-1945
box 79, Folder 25
Letters to Jaqueline Hope-Nicholson from Annie Cunninghame-Graham
1901-1915
box 79, Folder 7-8
Letters to Jaqueline Hope-Nicholson from Eve Gurney Cresswell (her godmother)
box 80, Folder 16-17
Letters from admirers, especially H. Dale
1912-1914
box 77, Folder 23
Letters from Lord Alfred Douglas
1943
box 80, Folder 4-5
Letters to Jaqueline Hope-Nicholson from Rachel Cresswell Firth
1938-1945
box 81, Folder 8
Letters to Jaqueline Hope-Nicholson from John Gibb
box 77, Folder 29
Letters to Jaqueline Hope-Nicholson from Dan Gurney
box 62, Folder 4-14
Letters to Jaqueline Hope-Nicholson from cousin Diana Gurney
1908-1961
box 61, Folder 15
Letters to Jaqueline Hope-Nicholson from Violet Troubridge Gurney
1899-1929
box 87, Folder 25
Letters from Edwin Harris
1926
box 80, Folder 12
Letters to Jaqueline Hope-Nicholson from Charles Hope and family
1915-1938
box 80, Folder 22-23
Letters from Sara Hendry (Nana)
box 41, Folder 6
Letters about the death of aunt Jessie Hope
1920
Scope and Contents
Includes a typewritten valuation of JH's jewelry.
box 79, Folder 22-24
Letters to Jaqueline Hope-Nicholson from Jessie Hope
1901-1920
box 77, Folder 24
Letters from Laura and Adrian Hope
box 43
Letters of condolence to Jaqueline Hope-Nicholson after the death of her mother, Laura Hope
1929
Scope and Contents
Housed in a box labeled "The 'Peerless' Index File - Letters," a box containing misc. letters of condolence, and an alphabetical
file of letters.
box 79, Folder 28-30
Letters to Jaqueline Hope-Nicholson from Cynthia Hurrell
1916-1951
box 81, Folder 24-25
Letters to Jaqueline Hope-Nicholson from Mellor ?
1915-1920
box 81, Folder 1
Letters to Jaqueline Hope-Nicholson from Margaret T. Monro
1945-1964
box 80, Folder 8-11
Letters to Jaqueline Hope-Nicholson from Arthur Napier
1909-1913
Scope and Contents
includes 1 letter from wife Phyllis Fleming
box 79, Folder 21
Letters to Jaqueline Hope-Nicholson from Madge Hope Napier
1934-1945
box 81, Folder 14-17
Letters to Jaqueline Hope-Nicholson from Mary Nicholson
1915-1922
box 81, Folder 18-23
Letters to Jaqueline Hope-Nicholson from A.J. Nicholson
1915-1928
box 80, Folder 7
Letters to Jaqueline Hope-Nicholson from Constance Noel
box 79, Folder 1-6
Letters to Jaqueline Hope-Nicholson from Mrs. Greville Nugent ("Marraine")
1938-1942
box 79, Folder 16
Letters to Jaqueline Hope-Nicholson from Evelyn Orde
1940-1942
box 79, Folder 18
Letters to Jaqueline Hope-Nicholson from Charles Orde
1920-1936
box 63, Folder 1-8
Letters to Jaqueline Hope-Nicholson from A.C. Probyn-Williams and other lawyers
1912-1945
Scope and Contents
JHN and HHN separated in 1938 and many of these documents deal with their separation and divorce. Box 63/Folder 8: Papers
related to the terms of Jaqueline Hope-Nicholson and HHN's 1938 separation, regarding each party's income, etc.
box 80, Folder 26-31
Letters from Trelawney Dayrell Reed
1908-1942
box 81, Folder 7
Letters to Jaqueline Hope-Nicholson from Virginia Riddell
1909-1912
box 81, Folder 3
Letters to Jaqueline Hope-Nicholson from Philip Sainsbury?
1918-1933
box 63, Folder 9
Letters to Jacquline Hope-Nicholson from Veronica Scott-Gotty and Martin Gillett
1937-1945
box 80, Folder 1-3
Letters to Jaqueline Hope-Nicholson from Charles K. Scott-Moncrieff
1912-1926
box 87, Folder 33
Letters from Edward Scott-Snell
1932-1933
box 61, Folder 12-14
Letters to Jaqueline Hope-Nicholson from Amy Troubridge
1896-1932
Scope and Contents
includes a playbill for "A Moss-Rose Rent" from January of 1908 starring Helen Troubridge.
box 77, Folder 27
Letters to Jaqueline Hope-Nicholson from Amy Troubridge
1915-1919
box 41, Folder 7
Letters of condolence to Jacqueline Hope-Nicholson about the death of Amy Troubridge
1932
Scope and Contents
11/11/1932 envelope contains 2 letters, including an earlier one from AT about the birth of Marie-Jaqueline.
box 79, Folder 26-27
Letters to Jaqueline Hope-Nicholson from Bill Troubridge
1910-1916
box 79, Folder 9
Letters to Jaqueline Hope-Nicholson from Charlotte Troubridge
box 79, Folder 14
Letters to Jaqueline Hope-Nicholson from Laura Gurney Troubridge "Queenie"
1938-1945
box 79, Folder 15
Letters to Jaqueline Hope-Nicholson from Louise Troubridge
1905-1945
box 79, Folder 10
Letters to Jaqueline Hope-Nicholson from Maria Troubridge "Mary"
about 1911-1945
box 79, Folder 17
Letters to Jaqueline Hope-Nicholson from St. Vincent Troubridge
box 87, Folder 4
Letter from Una Troubridge
box 77, Folder 28
Letters from cousin Ella Walrond
box 77, Folder 26
Letters from Roger Wodehouse, Alex Lawson and Roger Kynaston
box 79, Folder 13
Letters to Jaqueline Hope-Nicholson from "Adrian"
1942
box 63, Folder 11-14, box 64, Folder 11, box 77, Folder 30, box 81, Folder 12-13
Letters to Jaqueline Hope-Nicholson from friends and family
1894-1945
Scope and Contents
Box 63/Folder 11:Includes letters from Dundonald (1), Fichlim (?)(3), Francis Goring (3), Mrs. Thomson (2), Gladys Townshed
(3), Charles Walrond (3), and Way-Hope (3). Details about friends identities is unknown.
Box 63/Folder 12:Letters from friends William Armstrong (2), John Hay Beith (2), Ivan Campbell (2), Martin Costa Ricci (6),
as well as family members Sam Gurney (1), Geraldine Hope (4), M. Hope (1), and W. Hope (1).
Box 63/Folder 13:Includes letters from friends Raynham (2), St. Clair Harnett (2), Sylvia Stewart (2), Madame Inoug� (?)(3),
Charles Le Strange (1), Linlithga (1) and family members Basil Napier (1). Beatrice Napier (1), Laure Napier (1), Lizzie Napier
(1), and Nest Lloyd (3).
Box 63/Folder 14:Includes letters from Christina Cave (3), Louey Davy (2), Winifred Elwes (2), Callum 'Caw' Warner (5), Gery
Cullur (2), Pierre Debbonnett (1), Maurice de Bunsen (1), Hilda Deichmann (1), Willie Dickenson (3).
Box 77/Folder 25: Letters from Ernest Troubridge, Tom Troubridge, Violet Troubridge, Walter Gurney, Philippa Gurney
box 79, Folder 12
Letters to Jaqueline Hope-Nicholson from godchildren
box 63, Folder 16
Letters to Jaqueline Hope-Nicholson - "Interesting Letters"
1905-1925
Scope and Contents
Includes 2 letters from Henry Justice Ford, an artist and illustrator active from 1886-late 1920s, as well as 1 letter from
Philip Bainbrigge, "a homosexual friend of Wilfred Owen and Charles Scott-Moncrieff who died in WWI and was known for his
sonnet "If I Should Die" (B.D.).
box 64, Folder 1-10
Letters to Jaqueline Hope-Nicholson from her "paying guests"
1920-1968
Scope and Contents
After her separation from HHN, it was necessary for Jaqueline Hope-Nicholson to take in "paying guests" to bolster her income
and allow her to retain More House. Letters are not in strict chronological order; All of the folders labelled "paying guests"
are somewhat out of chronological order and may also contain other letters labeled "random" by Marie-Jaqueline Lancaster.
box 64, Folder 12-13
Letters, legal documents and receipts sent to Jaqueline Hope-Nicholson
1905-1955
box 79, Folder 11
Jaqueline Hope-Nicholson childhood letters
1902-1909
box 79, Folder 31-32
Letters to Jaqueline Hope-Nicholson from Leon
1936-1942
box 80, Folder 24-25
Letters to Jaqueline Hope-Nicholson from servants and children's nurses
1919-1936
box 81, Folder 2
Letters to Jaqueline Hope-Nicholson from Robin de la C--?
box 81, Folder 4-6
Letters to Jaqueline Hope-Nicholson from Penelope
1918-1945
box 97, Folder 23-24
Jaqueline Hope-Nicholson letters and documents related to schooling and coming of age
box 97, Folder 25
Jaqueline Hope-Nicholson - letters from visitors to Old Place
box 203, Folder 1
Correspondence regarding historical pageants
1928
Jaqueline Hope-Nicholson notebooks, photographs and lists Subseries 2.2
1915-1954
Scope and Contents
This subseries comprises notebooks, lists, diaries, photographs and other materials by Jaqueline Hope-Nicholson. These items
include inventories of things such as children's parties and jewelry, wildflower competition lists, lists of fancy dress outfits,
photographs from balls and social occasions, juvenile writings, address books and other miscellaneous materials. Also included
is a small collection of documents related to her 1916 marriage to Hedley Hope-Nicholson. This subseries does NOT include
items specifically related to heraldry, genealogy or historical pageants.
box 203, Folder 8
Historical Magazine correspondence
about 1903-1905
box 70, Folder 3-10
Group photographs from weddings and balls, including Jaqueline and Hedley
about 1915-1925
Scope and Contents
Includes Carlton Ball, Loni? or Toni? Ball, and Christ Church Ball.
box 119, Folder 14
JHN Life Amongst the Troubridges contract
box 59
Notebooks kept by Jaqueline Hope-Nicholson about her children
1919-1935
Scope and Contents
4 medium-sized notebooks: 1 green notebook: "List of The Children's Plate and also of Felix's Jewelry;" one blue: "Marie-Jaqueline;"
one red, plastic-covered "Exercise book", and one hardcover, cloth-bound orange fabric notebook containing "An account of
Birthday Parties and the like." Notebooks containing information about gifts given to the children and christenings and birthday
parties.
2 small notebooks, one covered in green floral fabric (with pencil) from 1923 and another green, gold-embossed notebook from
1931, both recording "Fancy dresses worn by Lauretta, Felix, and Marie-Jaqueline."
one blue, plastic-covered notebook: "Easter Term, Jan. 22nd, 1935: Literature" containing mostly addresses, and one tan, hardcover,
marbled cover: "Vol. 2 of The Party Book, Begun December 1925 up to January 1931, now really more a Journal of our Doings."
box 59
Jaqueline Hope-Nicholson cosmetic bag
1940s?
Scope and Contents
A blue embroidered cosmetic bag (with mirror) that contained letters sent to Jaqueline Hope-Nicholson from her son Felix during
the early 1940s.
box 97, Folder 26
Jaqueline Hope-Nicholson notes, correspondence, clipping related to lectures and social functions
box 98, Folder 1
Jaqueline Hope-Nicholson Field Botanist's Diary
box 103
Jaqueline Hope-Nicholson Wildflower competition
1924
box 122
Jaqueline Hope-Nicholson calling card wallet
box 130
Jaqueline Hope-Nicholson childhood notebooks
box 130
Jaqueline Hope-Nicholson baby book written by LTH
box 122
Jaqueline Hope-Nicholson childhood and gardening notebooks
box 122
Jaqueline Hope-Nicholson passports, wildflower notebook and list of cards sent
box 122
Jaqueline Hope-Nicholson childhood diary, play notebooks
box 91, Folder 16
Inventory of More House contents by Jaqueline Hope-Nicholson
box 91, Folder 7
Slide and photoreproduction of a house painting
box 91, Folder 10
The Old Church at Hopton supplement
box 97, Folder 7
Jaqueline Hope-Nicholson bookplates
box 87, Folder 30
Craighall, Fife photograph
Scope and Contents
with envelope from photo processor
box 97, Folder 17
Jaqueline Hope-Nicholson - Women's Voluntary Services material
Scope and Contents
May include other items
box 97, Folder 18
Jaqueline Hope-Nicholson address book
box 97, Folder 19
Jaqueline Hope-Nicholson - Miscellaneous juvenile items
Scope and Contents
Includes arithmetical tables from Jaqueline Hope-Nicholson and Esme Hope, correspondence and other items
box 97, Folder 20
Jaqueline Hope-Nicholson-HHN wedding archive
box 97, Folder 21
Verses, by Diana Gurney
Scope and Contents
printed book
box 131
Jaqueline Hope-Nicholson notebooks of plays/pageant costumes and poetry/correspondence
box 97, Folder 22
Jaqueline Hope-Nicholson locks of hair
box 138
Jaqueline Hope-Nicholson notebooks of fancy dress outfits, theater roles and adolescent diary
box 146
Childhood notebook, filled with reproductions of Laura Troubridge Hope artworks, postcards and photographs of friends and
family
Scope and Contents
Includes at least one original painting by LTH, as well as photographs of the de Bunsen family and of their home, Abbey Lodge.
Binding very damaged - use caution.
box 148
Jaqueline Hope-Nicholson photograph album
about 1860-1930
Scope and Contents
Inscribed by Jaqueline Hope-Nicholson on the front pastedown "This book of which I know not the history – is a queer mixture
– I found it with 21 photographs of Italy stuck therein & decided to finish it as a family book – made 1936-8 – but of very
varying dates." Contains photographs of Laura Troubridge Hope, Adrian Hope, Amy Troubridge, Ernest Troubridge, Andrea Troubridge,
Hope-Nicholson children, amateur pageants and plays, postcards of houses, and various relatives and friends - all labeled
and captioned.
box 149
Photograph album of Old Place, family and friends
about 1937-1954
Scope and Contents
Includes photographs of Old Place in Pulborough, Felix Hope-Nicholson, Jaqueline Hope-Nicholson, Lauretta Hope-Nicholson,
Holy Week 1950, and other various family and friends.
box 150
Album of famous figures and of sights in Europe
Scope and Contents
Not clear who the creator of this album is. Contains some pages with colorful embellishments and labels.
box 157, box 158, box 159, box 160, box 161, box 162, box 163, box 164, box 165, box 166, box 177, box 178, box 179, box 180, box 181
"Plays I have seen" and "Plays I have acted in" notebooks
box 151
Hope family photograph album
1904
Scope and Contents
Snapshots of Jaqueline, Esme, Laura, Tom Allen family and others
box 207
Photographic negatives in metal canister
Physical Description: loose in box with other rolled and odd-sized materials
Jaqueline Hope-Nicholson, history, historical pageant and genealogy materials Subseries 2.3.
1750-1954
Scope and Contents
This subseries contains Jaqueline Hope-Nicholson's papers, notebooks, drawings and photographs related to her deep interests
in heraldry, genealogy and historical pageants. Materials include her working notes and research materials, charts and coats
of arms, photographs of pageants, papers and records related to Esperanza (her company formed to facilitate renting pageant
costumes), clippings and various historical documents related to Hope and Troubridge ancestry as well as to Charles I and
British royalty more generally.
box 205
Brunelleschi, Dulac and Shepperson scrapbooks
box 203, Folder 9-18, 21-23
Pageant materials
1934
Scope and Contents
Includes "A Chelsea Gathering of Long Ago" (1934), Runnymede Pageant (1934), "Midsummer Fete 1658" (1915), "Chelsea masques
1638" (1923?, 1928), Hyde Park Masque (1928), "Pen's Tudor Masque" (1934), Masque (1927-28), Midsummer Masque (1923), Midsummer
Masque (1927), GFS Pageant of famous women (192?), Midsummer Masque (1932)
box 203, Folder 19-20
Programs and books from pageants and benefits
1906-1908
Scope and Contents
Materials from events not directed by JHN. Includes Book of Words from 1908 Chelsea Historical Pageant and program from 1906
Home of Rest benefit
box 204, Folder 5-6
Napoleon scrapbooks (JHN)
box 204, Folder 4
Programs and magazine items about pageants
box 203, Folder 4-5, box 204, Folder 1
box 69, Folder 2, box 99, Folder 26-36
Photographs of religious and historical pageants and JHN masques
Scope and Contents
Includes photograph of Hedley in St. Alban's pageant
box 97, Folder 8-10, 13-16
Jaqueline Hope-Nicholson - Esperanza items
Scope and Contents
Includes programs, clippings, correspondence and photographs related to theater
box 97, Folder 11-12
Jaqueline Hope-Nicholson - invitations from various "Period Parties"
box 130
Notebook of Jaqueline Hope-Nicholson's play Cythera; Jaqueline Hope-Nicholson Esperanza Hiring Book 1954
box 92
Jaqueline Hope-Nicholson membership certificate Association of Descendants of the Knights of the Garter
box 90, Folder 3-4
Hand-drawn and printed arms, and royal badges by Jaqueline Hope-Nicholson
box 87, Folder 11-14, 16, 19, box 88
Heraldry manuscripts, notebooks, clippings and correspondence
box 85, Folder 11-18, box 86, Folder 4-13, 18, 20-23, box 87, Folder 15, box 90, Folder 2
Various family pedigrees and family history files
Scope and Contents
Includes files on Otway, pedigree by Hardman Arthur Earle, La Lacheur, Deane, Breton, Stuart dossier by Ian Whitaker, Ogilvy,
Earlham, Hope, Hope-Nicholson, Napier, Nelson, Troubridge, Orde and Hopton.
box 86, Folder 19
Jaqueline Hope-Nicholson interests and newspaper clippings
box 86, Folder 26
Russian official document
1902
box 85, Folder 31
Newspaper clippings
1850s-1990s
box 69, Folder 1
Photographs of home interiors (More House?)
box 87, Folder 17-18
Royal events
Scope and Contents
Programs, tickets and other ephemera relted to royal events, including death of Queen Victoria, coronations of Edward VII
and George V, 1919 Festival of Peace, King George V Jubilee
box 87, Folder 20
Ursula Hoff, Charles I: Patron of artists (book)
Scope and Contents
inscribed to Jaqueline Hope-Nicholson
box 85, Folder 21-23
Miscellaneous letters and clippings
about 1750-1950?
Scope and Contents
Letters and enclosed clippings mostly written to Jaqueline Hope-Nicholson and Felix Hope-Nicholson, some related to genealogy
and history, but other topics and recipients may also be included
box 122
Jaqueline Hope-Nicholson? Historical notebook
box 152, box 153, box 154, box 155, box 156
Art and history scrapbooks
box 182-186, box 187
The Historical Magazine
Scope and Contents
Box 182 - The Historical Magazine Editor's Notebook. Red notebook in a poor state (missing areas to the front and back covers;
Cover has separated from the pages). Includes the postal list for the circulation of The Historical Magazine and a list of
rules that contributors and subscribers must adhere to. Also Vol. 1, No. 2 and 4 (1903)
Box 183 - Vol. 2 No. 2 September 1904. Hand bound, boards covered
with a salmon fabric embroidered with title, date and rose designs. Nine drawings including one by Laura Hope and two by Una
Taylor of the
head of Napoleon and a full length portrait of the same subject, as 'Le Grand Homme.'
Box 184 - Vol. 1 No. 8. March 1904. Hand bound with string. Soft leather wrappers. Contains three drawings including a pencil
and watercolour copy of a man being drawn by horses.
Box 185 - Vol. 1 No. 10. May 1904. Hand bound and with boards bound in green velvet and a gold embroidered ribbon border.
1 loose leaf. Contains five drawings including one by Laura Hope and a fine sketch of 'Costumes of the date of Queen Elizabeth'
by Blanche Buxton.
Box 186 - -Vol. 1 No. VI. January 1904. Hand bound with string from various sized notepaper. Front cover has all but disintegrated.
Contains three drawings including a pen and ink composition of Queen Guinevere and a pen and ink and watercolour drawing of
a scene from Richard II.
Box 187 -Vol.1 No.12 July 1904. Hand bound and sewn. Green velvet covered boards, embellished with silver sequined lace which
is partly detached and disintegrating. Contains nine illustrations including drawings by Una Taylor of Henry V and Richard
III 'Richard Crookback Duke of Gloucester.'
Old Place files and photographs Subseries 2.4.
about 1920-1938
Scope and Contents
This subseries contains photographs, inventories and other materials regarding Old Place in Pulborough, West Sussex, a historic
manor home owned by Hedley and Jaqueline Hope-Nicholson. Some photographs from Old Place also include snapshots of the Hope-Nicholson
family and friends.
box 92
Old Place and Old Mill inventory notebooks
about 1920s-1930s?
box 91, Folder 8
Old Place print by D. Fry
box 91, Folder 1
Old Place garden journal
1926-1934
box 91, Folder 2
Pulborough pictures, clippings and other ephemera
box 65, Folder 2, 24-26, box 87, Folder 27, 35-36
Photographs of Pulborough and Old Place
Scope and Contents
Includes both professionally photographed postcards and casual family snapshots
box 87, Folder 29
Old Place engravings by Edwin Harris on cards
box 87, Folder 26
Old Place notebook (Jaqueline Hope-Nicholson)
Hedley Hope-Nicholson Series 3.
1897-1969
Biographical note
Hedley Hope-Nicholson (1888-1969) was a barrister and eccentric – the only child of Alfred John Nicholson and Mary Cleghorn
Nicholson. He married Jacqueline Hope in June 1916, when the two joined their names by deed poll to become the Hope-Nicholsons.
They shared deep interst in heraldry, historical pageantry and genealogy, but their relationship dissolved and they were legally
separated in 1938. They had three children – Lauretta, Felix, and Marie-Jacqueline. After their divorce, Felix stayed at
More House with Jaqueline, while Lauretta and Marie-Jaqueline largely lived abroad with Hedley. Hedley attended Oxford University
as a young man, and later returned there after his separation from his wife. His circle of friends at Oxford was heavily
male-dominated, and included well-known characters such as 'Colonel' George Kolkhorst and writer John Betjeman. He was fascinated
with heraldry, genealogy, and religious spectacle, and collected religious artifacts and relics. In addition to a long-standing
fascination with King Charles I, he was also a great fan of the Russian ballet.
Scope and Contents
Materials in this series comprise correspondence to a wide variety of family and friends, diaries and notebooks, photographs,
legal documents and financial materials. Correspondents include his parents A.J. Nicholson and Mary Cleghorn Nicholson, his
children and grandchildren, George Alfred Kolkhorst, Leonard Smith, Alex Lawson, James Ramsay, Roger Kynaston, Noel Stevens
and other various relatives and friends.
For the correspondence between Jaqueline and Hedley Hope-Nicholson, please see Subseries 2.1.1. above.
- Subseries 3.1.
- Hedley Hope-Nicholson correspondence, 1900-1968
- Subseries 3.2.
- Hedley Hope-Nicholson diaries, notebooks, and photographs, 1897-1967
- Subseries 3.3.
- Hedley Hope-Nicholson financial and legal materials, about 1900-1969
Hedley Hope-Nicholson correspondence Subseries 3.1.
1900-1968
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include his parents A.J. Nicholson and Mary Cleghorn Nicholson, his children and grandchildren, George Alfred
Kolkhorst, Leonard Smith, Alex Lawson, James Ramsay, Roger Kynaston, Noel Stevens and other various relatives and friends.
Topics are largely personal and social in nature, though there may be some research or business-related correspondence as
well.
For the correspondence between Jaqueline and Hedley Hope-Nicholson, please see Subseries 2.1.1. above.
Correspondence with Alfred John Nicholson and Mary Cleghorn Nicholson Subgroup 3.1.1.
1900-1928
box 115, Folder 16
Marie-Jaqueline Lancaster's notes on HHN/AJN/MCN correspondence
box 115, Folder 33
Letters about HHN from parents and schools
about 1900-1908
box 113, Folder 15
AJN and MCN to HHN
1906, 1908-1909
box 115, Folder 32
AJN and MCN to HHN
about 1908-1925
box 114, Folder 28
HHN to MCN and AJN
1911
Scope and Contents
Also includes some 1914
box 115, Folder 1-2
HHN to MCN and AJN
1911-1912
box 114, Folder 8-10
AJN and MCN to HHN
1912-1913
box 113, Folder 17
AJN and MCN to HHN
1913-1914
box 114, Folder 25-27
HHN to MCN
1915-1917
Scope and Contents
Includes some letters from JHN
box 114, Folder 3-4
AJN and MCN to HHN
1917-1918
box 114, Folder 18, box 115, Folder 21
box 114, Folder 30-31
HHN to MCN and AJN
1920
Scope and Contents
May also include letters from 1919-1922
box 114, Folder 14-15
AJN and MCN to HHN
1920-1921
box 115, Folder 6
JHN to AJN
1922-1928
Scope and Contents
Letters "with sayings of the children"
box 115, Folder 22
AJN/MCN/HHN empty envelopes
Correspondence with other family members Subgroup 3.1.2.
1904-1967
box 48, Folder 8, 13, box 49, Folder 7, box 51, Folder 11-12
Letters from daughter Marie-Jacqueline
1938-1963
box 46, Folder 3, 8, 11, 13, box 48, Folder 14, box 49, Folder 89
Letters from daughter Lauretta
1942-1961
box 113, Folder 14
Letters from Lauretta, Felix and Marie-Jaqueline
box 46, Folder 14, box 47, Folder 1, box 48, Folder 5, 12
Letters from Lauretta and Marie-Jacqueline
1929-1967
box 47, Folder 12
Letters from Marie-Jacqueline and grandchildren
1956-1967
box 47, Folder 7
Letters to Hedley Hope-Nicholson from his grandchildren
1960-1966
box 46, Folder 1
Letters to Hedley Hope-Nicholson from his children and others
1940-1957
Scope and Contents
All but a couple of the letters in this folder are from 1940 and the majority of them are from Hedley Hope-Nicholson's children,
Lauretta, Felix, and Marie-Jacqueline Hope-Nicholson; last letter in folder is from 1957.
box 51, Folder 5
Letters of condolence to Hedley Hope-Nicholson after the death of his father
1928-1929
box 51, Folder 6
Hedley Hope-Nicholson - "Letters to do with father's affairs"
1904-1928
box 51, Folder 10
Letters from Heathfield School
1938-1939
Scope and Contents
Correspondence with Marie Jacqueline's school in 1939, the school trying to deal with contradictory instructions from each
parent, and try to get money out of Hedley
box 100, Folder 19
Hedley Hope-Nicholson letters from Hugo grandchildren
box 114, Folder 16
Letters from aunts
1906-1926
Scope and Contents
Includes Aunt Sarah Cleghorn, Aunt H. Blake and Aunt Nancy?
box 115, Folder 19-20
Letters from Alice French-Blake and Annie Cleghorn French-Blake
1914-1925
box 47, Folder 16-17, box 48, Folder 1-3
Letters to Hedley Hope-Nicholson from Ermengarda Greville-Nugent
1906-1931
Scope and Contents
Letters to Hedley Hope-Nicholson from Ermengarda Greville-Nugent, daughter and heiress of Augustus Ogilvy of Cove; wife of
Hon. Patrick Emilius J. Greville-Nugent - descendants of Colonel Fulke Southwell Greville-Nugent, 1st Baron Greville, an Irish
liberal politician. First item in folder is a green bound tri-fold photograph booklet stamped "Clonyn Castle, Delvin" of B&W
photos of Irish scenery and castles; another B&W photo of a castle is interleaved; these letters are the first in a box labelled
"Letters from people of import."
Correspondence with friends Subgroup 3.1.3.
1906-1968
box 47, Folder 13
Letters to Hedley Hope-Nicholson from Anthony ?
1965-1966
box 47, Folder 15
Letters to Hedley Hope-Nicholson from Arthur ?
1966-1968
box 52, Folder 6-9
Letters to Hedley Hope-Nicholson from Florizel (?)
1913-1920
Scope and Contents
Letters to Hedley Hope-Nicholson from someone known as "Florizel" (presumably after the character from Shakespeare's "Winter's
Tale"), Christ Church, Oxford.
box 47, Folder 14
Letters to Hedley Hope-Nicholson from Michael ?
1963-1966
box 47, Folder 11
Letters to Hedley Hope-Nicholson from Malcolm ?
1965-1966
box 47, Folder 10
Letters to Hedley Hope-Nicholson from Vivienne ?
1963-1967
Scope and Contents
First item in folder is a color photograph of Vivienne at home. V's identity is unknown, but she seems to have been Hedley
Hope-Nicholson's Canadian pen-pal.
box 49, Folder 10-11
Letters to Hedley Hope-Nicholson from George Alfred Kolkhorst
1939-1956
Scope and Contents
From B.D.:"George Alfred Kolkhorst, known affectionately by his students and friends as 'G'ug' and later 'the Colonel' because
he was so little like one, was a Reader of Spanish at Oxford University from 1931 until a few months before his death in 1958.
In his obituary of Kolkhorst John Betjeman describes him as 'one of the most beloved Oxford figures."
box 46, Folder 17
Letters to Hedley Hope-Nicholson from John Cressy (?)
1959
Scope and Contents
Letters came in envelope labelled "John Cressy?" by previous archivist. The identity of this person is unknown.
box 50, Folder 10
Letters to Hedley Hope-Nicholson from Roger Kynaston
8/30/1911-12/8/1936
box 52, Folder 5
Letters to Hedley Hope-Nicholson from Julian Lambart
1937-1938
box 61, Folder 5
Letters to Hedley Hope-Nicholson from Julian Lambart
1934-1939
Scope and Contents
Letters to HHN about the performance of his son Felix while a student at Eton from Julian Lambart, a master at Eton.
box 50, Folder 1-9
Letters to Hedley Hope-Nicholson from Alex Lawson
1921-1942
Scope and Contents
Alex Lawson (who signs most of his letters "Alexis," after St. Alexis, who "became a holy beggar after having run from home
rather than marry") was a close friend of Hedley Hope-Nicholson. From B.D.:"Lawson, who died in 1966, was in 1926 a curate
at St. Paul's in Oxford, a notably high Anglican church, famous for its processions." Lawson may have had a homosexual relationship
with the vicar at St. Paul's - Roger Wodehouse, cousin of P.G. Wodehouse; AL shared Hedley Hope-Nicholson's interest in religion,
churches, and shrines.
box 47, Folder 5
Letters to Hedley Hope-Nicholson from Eoin Mahony
1963-1965
Scope and Contents
Letters to Hedley Hope-Nicholson from Eoin Mahony (?), identity unknown. Letters came in envelope labelled "Ireland" & are
presumably related to Hedley Hope-Nicholson's trip to Ireland.
box 52, Folder 10
Letters to Hedley Hope-Nicholson from Jeanne Georges Meyer
1916-1936
Scope and Contents
Letters to Hedley Hope-Nicholson from Jeanne Georges Meyer, identity unknown.
box 52, Folder 12
Letters to Hedley Hope-Nicholson from Wilfrid Moor
1919-1920
Scope and Contents
Letters to Hedley Hope-Nicholson from Wilfrid Moor, "the curate of the oratory of All Saints, Margaret Street" (B.D.).
box 52, Folder 2-3
Letters to Hedley Hope-Nicholson from Ralph Nattrass (?)
1925-1954
Scope and Contents
Letters to Hedley Hope-Nicholson from longtime correspondent and friend, Ralph Nattrass (?, signature may have been incorrectly
identified).
box 46, Folder 6
Letters to Hedley Hope-Nicholson from Ralph (?)
1944-1959
Scope and Contents
2/18/1946 is a B&W photo postcard of an outdoor bath house, labelled "Loncing College." The identity of the senders of letters
in this folder - Ralph - is unknown, though he seems to be a friend of Hedley Hope-Nicholson.
box 49, Folder 2
Letters to Hedley Hope-Nicholson from James Ramsay
1944
Scope and Contents
Includes a B&W photo postcard: "A Brood of Young Peregrine Falcons."
box 49, Folder 3-4
Letters to Hedley Hope-Nicholson concerning James Ramsay's death
1944-1957
Scope and Contents
Includes 7 small B&W photos of Ramsay with others, outside and on a rooftop; a brown paper envelope inside another envelope
labelled "snapshots of James" with negative; an envelope labelled "scraps connected with James" by previous archivist includes
newspaper clippings and obituaries, among other things.
box 53, Folder 1-2
Letters to Hedley Hope-Nicholson from Philip Sainsbury
1915-1937
box 49, Folder 12-17
Hedley Hope-Nicholson - Leonard Smith letters
1906-1916
Scope and Contents
Letters between Hedley Hope-Nicholson and LS. It is supposed that the two men might have had a homosexual relationship, about
which there are many allusions in these letters.
box 52, Folder 13
Letters to Hedley Hope-Nicholson from Edward Scott-Snell
1932-1950
Scope and Contents
Letters to Hedley Hope-Nicholson from Edward Scott-Snell, later known as Edward Godwin, an artist, author and illustrator.
box 48, Folder 6
Letters to Hedley Hope-Nicholson from Noel Stevens and Ralph N?
1938
box 51, Folder 17
Letters to Hedley Hope-Nicholson from Professor Weber
1912-1913
Scope and Contents
Letters to Hedley Hope-Nicholson from a Professor Weber of Aachen, Germany - identity unknown.
box 48, Folder 7
Letters to Hedley Hope-Nicholson from friends
1937-1938
Scope and Contents
Letters to Hedley Hope-Nicholson from misc. friends, possibly also "people of import?"
box 50, Folder 11
Letters to Hedley Hope-Nicholson from Roger Wodehouse and Reginald Hastings
7/17/1911-10/29/1917
Scope and Contents
Letters to Hedley Hope-Nicholson from Wodehouse, companion to his friend Alex Lawson and Reginald Hastings, identity unknown.
box 48, Folder 9-11
Letters to Hedley Hope-Nicholson from friends
1939-1941
box 51, Folder 14
Letters to Hedley Hope-Nicholson about the war
1916-1918
Scope and Contents
Letters to Hedley Hope-Nicholson regarding World War I.
box 101, Folder 10-13
Hedley Hope-Nicholson correspondence and invoices
Scope and Contents
Includes poems and materials for memoirs
box 111, Folder 4
HHN Miscellaneous correspondence
box 51, Folder 16
Hedley Hope-Nicholson - misc. letters
1907-1934
Scope and Contents
Includes a B&W postcard: "Trouville - La Reine des Plages. - Sortie des barques � l'heure de la mar�e" and a typewritten document
(presumably by Hedley Hope-Nicholson) about witnessing the coronation of King George V and Queen Mary (in June of 1911).
box 52, Folder 4
Hedley Hope-Nicholson - misc. letters
1922-1939
box 48, Folder 15
Letters to Hedley Hope-Nicholson - "Interesting letters"
1911-1956
Scope and Contents
Letters from people of import, including: Ronald Knox, an English priest, theologian and author of detective stories; G.P.
Jacomb-Hood; John Gielgud, an English actor and theater director; Ada Leverson, a British writer and friend of OW; Edward
Sackville West, British music critic and novelist; Maurice Child, "a prominent Anglo-Saxon clergyman" (B.D.); Vyvyan Holland,
son of Oscar Wilde; John Betjeman, an English poet, writer and broadcaster; and Sacheverell Sitwell, 6th Baronet CH, an English
writer, best known as an art critic, music critic, and writer on architecture, particularly the baroque.
box 50, Folder 12-13
Letters to Hedley Hope-Nicholson from friends
1911-1914
box 50, Folder 14-15
Letters to Hedley Hope-Nicholson from friends
1915-1923
Scope and Contents
These letters, like most of Hedley Hope-Nicholson's, are not always in chronological order.
box 51, Folder 1-2
Letters to Hedley Hope-Nicholson from friends
1924-1929
box 51, Folder 3-4
Letters to Hedley Hope-Nicholson from friends
1930-1936
box 51, Folder 7-8
Hedley Hope-Nicholson - "Party answers"
1925-1927, 1938-1939
Scope and Contents
Replies to Hedley Hope-Nicholson's party invitiations from various friends, as well as lists of attendees and non-attendees.
box 51, Folder 9
Hedley Hope-Nicholson - "Party answers - misc. dates"
1919-1927
Scope and Contents
Also includes an envelope labelled "Party addresses (?)"
box 51, Folder 18
Letters to Hedley Hope-Nicholson from friends
1939
box 52, Folder 11
Letters to Hedley Hope-Nicholson from Alan Harris and Gordon Russell
1921-1924
box 46, Folder 2
Letters to Hedley Hope-Nicholson from friends
1942
box 46, Folder 4-5
Letters to Hedley Hope-Nicholson from friends
1939-1945
Scope and Contents
Last several letters in Box 46/Folder 4 are signed "Jean" and are assumed to be from Hedley Hope-Nicholson's son-in-law Jean
Hugo, husband to Lauretta Hope-Nicholson; Most of the letters in Box 46/Folder 5 are from 1944-1945, but there are 3 envelopes
stamped "1939."
box 46, Folder 7
Letters to Hedley Hope-Nicholson from friends
1941-1948
Scope and Contents
The bulk of letters in this folder are from 1946-1948, though the first letter in folder is dated 1/1/1941; they are in very
rough chronological order.
box 46, Folder 9
Letters to Hedley Hope-Nicholson from friends
1947-1951
box 46, Folder 10
Letters to Hedley Hope-Nicholson from friends
1955-1957
Scope and Contents
Letters in folder, like most of the letters in this box, are in very loose chronological order by year.
box 46, Folder 12
Letters to Hedley Hope-Nicholson from friends
1957-1960
box 46, Folder 15
Letters to Hedley Hope-Nicholson from friends
1928-1950
box 46, Folder 16
Letters to Hedley Hope-Nicholson from friends
1959-1960
box 47, Folder 6
Letters to Hedley Hope-Nicholson from friends
1960-1965
box 47, Folder 8-9
Letters to Hedley Hope-Nicholson from friends
1949-1967
box 47, Folder 2
Misc. letters to Hedley Hope-Nicholson
1924-1966
Scope and Contents
Includes 2 color postcards - "Greetings from Saudi Arabia" and "The Entrance of Alkhobar (Dhahran area)" from Michael H (identity
unknown).
box 47, Folder 3-4
Letters to Hedley Hope-Nicholson and related ephemera from a trip to Ireland
1963-1967
Scope and Contents
Includes a number of pamphlets from the Irish Georgian Society, the Theosophical Society of Ireland, and a pamphlet from a
tour James Joyce-related locations - "A Joycean Jaunt." Also a number of color postcards of Ireland, and a B&W photo of 3
unidentified people in a dining room; folder also includes many pen and ink drawings, often humorous, possibly done by Hedley
Hope-Nicholson?
box 48, Folder 4
Letters to Hedley Hope-Nicholson from people of import
1913-1947
Scope and Contents
Includes letters relating to Evan Morgan, "son and heir of Lord Tredegar," a Welsh poet and author as well as a "noted homosexual
and eccentric who became 4th Baron, 2nd Viscount Tredegar in 1934" (B.D.), Tony Downing (identity unknown), and Countess Elisabeth
Wurmbrand (n�e Princess Elisabeth Sch�nburg) (3 letters)
box 51, Folder 15
Hedley Hope-Nicholson - "Special letters"
1915-1925
Scope and Contents
Letters, for some reason, deemed "special." Includes letters from a Russian princess and letters from Professor Weber.
Hedley Hope-Nicholson diaries, notebooks and photographs Subseries 3.2.
1897-1967
Scope and Contents
This subseries contains diaries, notebooks, photographs, juvenilia, address books and other related material created by Hedley
Hope-Nicholson. This includes 76 notebooks and diaries written between 1897 and 1967. Many photographs are unidentified but
include a large number of images of friends. Research and reference material related to genealogy and travel locations are
also included here.
box 100, Folder 13-18
Hedley Hope-Nicholson notebooks
Scope and Contents
Notebooks, address book, Nicholson & Cleghorne genealogy, copies of periodicals, notes from grandchildren
box 100, Folder 24-25
Hedley Hope-Nicholson juvenilia, photographs and ephemera
box 32, box 49, Folder 6, box 31
Hedley Hope-Nicholson notebooks and diaries
1897-1967
Scope and Contents
76 books total. 2 of which are financial records instead of diaries; Years not represented: 1898-1905, 1954, 1956-62; a 1944
notebook has been badly damaged by a rodent; tiny leather-bound 1918 diary is unused, as is a small faux marble journal, probably
from the 1950s or 60s. Box 32:15 small notebooks from 1963-1967; 2 are undated and contain handwritten recipes, one of which
includes the date 7/31/1914.
Box 49/Folder 6:A small flowered notebook, pages blank, containing numerous postcards, Christmas cards and random keepsakes
belonging to Hedley Hope-Nicholson; many of the images and postcards are from his days at Oxford.
box 65, Folder 15
Photographs from Noel Stevens, sent to Hedley with letter
1937
box 65, Folder 16, 22
Photographs of family, friends and others (most unidentified)
Scope and Contents
Includes portrait of James Ramsay
box 82, Folder 37
Notes on St. Michael's Church, Oxford by Hedley Hope-Nicholson
box 65, Folder 21
Photo postcards of English towns
Scope and Contents
with envelope
box 100, Folder 23
"The children's ancestors" (Hedley Hope-Nicholson)
box 49, Folder 1
James Ramsay's visitors book
1942
Scope and Contents
A notebook belonging to James Ramsay, close friend of Hedley Hope-Nicholson, for visitors to sign. A clipped newspaper obituary
describes him as "James Surtees Maule Ramsay, Lieutenant, Scots Guards, killed in Hoolland, Oct. 26, 1944, aged 21."
box 49, Folder 5
Hedley Hope-Nicholson's "Drawing Book" memorializing James Ramsay
1944
Scope and Contents
A notebook containing scraps of paper and a long letter to a "Lady Ramsay" (presumably's JR's mother) by Hedley Hope-Nicholson
memorializing JR.
box 52, Folder 1
Hedley Hope-Nicholson - Photographs and official documents
1906-1942
Scope and Contents
5 B&W (sepia-tone?) photographs of Aunt Ann, Sir Douglas Straight, Harold Dudley, one staged scene of ladies labelled "Reconciliation,"
and a B&W portrait of an unknown young man reading; folder also includes an envelopes of official documents related to the
purchasing of a gravestone and grave site for Aunt Sarah (?), and an orange envelope from the Army containing Hedley Hope-Nicholson's
discharge from civil service in 1916 and a leather (?) dog tag stamped with his name.
box 101, Folder 15
Hedley Hope-Nicholson miscellaneous clippings and materials
box 101, Folder 18
Hedley Hope-Nicholson school related correspondence and ephemera
box 116, Folder 31
Hedley Hope-Nicholson notes on Charles II
box 68, Folder 6
Photographs of Roger Kynaston, CM Blagdon and religious sites
box 68, Folder 9
Photographs of Leonard Smith
1913
Hedley Hope-Nicholson financial and legal materials Subseries 3.3.
about 1900-1969
Scope and Contents
This subseries contains financial, legal and official business related to Hedley Hope-Nicholson, including account notebooks,
estate documents, correspondence with solicitors at Hastie's, and other official documentation, such as school certificates
and marriage announcements.
box 90, Folder 7
HHN school and military certificates
box 100, Folder 20-22
Hedley Hope-Nicholson Hasties and Radcliffe notes
1938-1940
box 115, Folder 31
HHN Hastie's files - "Trustee squabbles"
box 112, Folder 8
HHN-JHN marriage announcement
box 51, Folder 13
Hedley Hope-Nicholson - "Money affairs in Athens"
1935-1937
box 101, Folder 1-3
Hedley Hope-Nicholson Hasties and financial
1936-1940
box 101, Folder 4-5
Hedley Hope-Nicholson legal agreements, will, other certificates
box 101, Folder 6-7
Hedley Hope-Nicholson account notebooks
about 1922-1926
box 101, Folder 8-9
Hedley Hope-Nicholson Pain and Cosens materials
1936-1937
box 91, Folder 3
Inventory of 4 Lincoln Street
box 91, Folder 4
Hedley Hope-Nicholson estate inventory
1969
Troubridge and Gurney families Series 4
1814-1958
Scope and Contents
This series contains material related to or produced by members of the Troubridge and Gurney families, particularly the siblings
and parents of Laura Troubridge Hope. The majority of material in this series consists of correspondence, diaries and ephemera
produced by Laura's sisters Amy Troubridge and Helen Troubridge Bate, and their parents Louisa Gurney Troubridge and Thomas
St. Vincent Troubridge. There is also correspondence, clippings, photographs and other documentation related to Una Taylor
Troubridge, Daniel Gurney, Lady Anna Maria Cochrane Troubridge and various other members of the family. This may include
genealogical research material compiled by Jaqueline Hope-Nicholson, Felix Hope-Nicholson and others.
- Subseries 4.1.
- Amy Troubridge, 1869-1931
- Subseries 4.2.
- Helen Troubridge Bate, 1876-1956
- Subseries 4.3.
- Louisa Gurney Troubridge and St. Vincent Troubridge, 1845-1908
- Subseries 4.4.
- Una Taylor Troubridge, 1902-1946
- Subseries 4.5.
- Other Gurney and Troubridge family, 1817-1958
Amy Troubridge Subseries 4.1.
Biographical Note
Amy Troubridge, the oldest child of Louisa Gurney and Thomas St. Vincent Troubridge, was born in London in 1856. She was a
talented pianist and composer who wrote much of the music for her sisters' amateur theatrical productions. Amy was never
married and died in 1932.
Scope and Contents
This subseries contains notebooks and diaries dating 1869-1931, incoming correspondence, manuscripts and printed copies of
original stories and compositions, and other miscellaneous material collected or created by Amy Troubridge. Correspondents
include siblings and extended family members as well as friends.
box 30, Folder 2
"Prince Topaz and Princess Pearl," illustrated story by Amy Troubridge
about 1860s?
Scope and Contents
A lithographed copy a fairy story written and illustrated by AT as a child. Front cover detached, back cover missing
box 32, box 33, box 34, box 35
Amy Troubridge notebooks and diaries
1869-1931
Scope and Contents
Box 32:1869, a 12 mo notebook about travels through Europe, particularly Switzerland,Unsigned by Amy but probably hers. 14
notebooks dated 1874-1878, "mostly notebooks with marbled boards and endpapers; Journals commencing in December 1874 and October
1875 (2 books) are stuck together, as are February to September 1876 (3 books); December 1874 notebook is missing back cover
and has pen and ink drawings on the first 2 pages; also has 3 sepia-tone family photos interleaved; March 1875 has drawings
of a baby and two figures lounging on front endpapers; May 1878 includes passages copied from Louisa Gurney's journals, age
11 (b. 1785)
Box 33:Approximately 15 (?) diaries; small black pocketbook-style diary has printed date of 1890 but a handwritten date of
1889 and has been boxed according to its printed date.
Box 34:25 diaries, all of the same make ("The Boudoir Diary for (year)"), except for one small diary from 1913; 1910 diary
has a color postcard inside front cover - "The Blue Bird for Happiness, Haymarket"; 1912 diary has two small B&W photos of
an unidentified woman interleaved; 1914 diary has a card from a funeral inside front cover: "In Memory of Augusta Charlotte
Herbert, who departed this life November 3, 1912," as well as a pressed flower.
Box 35:13 diaries ("The Boudoir Diary," or "The Bureau Diary" by Harrods); 1920 diary has a pressed flower in its last pages;
1921 diary has 3 B&W photos of an undentified young girl (age 3?) interleaved; 1922 diary has a number of newspaper clippings
interleaved; 1923 diary includes a B&W photo of a woman holding a baby; 1927 diary has 2 B&W photos interleaved - one of a
field and one of a lake; 1929 diary has pressed ferns and flowers in its last pages; 1930 journal has a peculiar B&W photo
of a white woman and two black men in front of a house; 1931 diary has pressed flowers in back pages - bookseller's description
says that some of these flowers may be from Laura and Violet's graves.
box 71, Folder 1
Letters to Amy Troubridge from Ernest Troubridge and Helen Troubridge Bate
Scope and Contents
labeled "Interesting letters"; includes letters from Ernest describing audience with Franz Josef I, Port Arthur and outbreak
of Russo-Japanese War, and meeting the Prince of Wales; letters from Helen ("Limpet") regarding seeing An Ideal Husband with
Constance Wilde and meeting Henry James.
box 71, Folder 11-22
Letters to Amy Troubridge from Helen Troubridge
1869-1931
box 71, Folder 2-10, 23-25
Letters to Amy Troubridge from Ernest Troubridge
1869-1901
box 71, Folder 26-31, box 72, Folder 1-3
Letters to Amy Troubridge from Ernest Troubridge
1901-1925
box 72, Folder 4
Letters to Amy Troubridge from Ernest Troubridge
undated
box 85, Folder 19-20
Letters to Ernest Troubridge from Amy Troubridge (and others?)
1876-1883
Scope and Contents
Also contains letters written to other individuals, clippings and miscellaneous other materials
box 72, Folder 6-11
Letters to Amy Troubridge from Laura Troubridge
1871-1879
box 72, Folder 5, box 73, Folder 18-28
Letters to Amy Troubridge from Laura Troubridge
1880-1888
box 72, Folder 12-15, box 74, Folder 1-13
Letters to Amy Troubridge from Laura Troubridge
1890-1899
box 72, Folder 17-21, 24-28
Letters to Amy Troubridge from Laura Troubridge
1900-1909
box 72, Folder 22-23, 29-34, box 73, Folder 1-8
Letters to Amy Troubridge from Laura Troubridge
1910-1919
box 73, Folder 9-17
Letters to Amy Troubridge from Laura Troubridge
1920-1928
box 202
Floral print boxes, originally housed letters from Laura Troubridge Hope to Amy
box 74, Folder 14
Loose envelopes addressed to Amy Troubridge
box 74, Folder 15-17
Letters to Amy Troubridge from Jaqueline Hope-Nicholson
about 1905-1932
Scope and Contents
includes 1 letter from Felix
box 74, Folder 18-19
Letters from Amy Troubridge from Daniel Gurney
1872-1878
box 74, Folder 20-21
Letters to Amy Troubridge from Mary Troubridge and Tom Troubridge
1904-1925
box 74, Folder 22
Newspaper clippings and notes regarding Ernest Troubridge's death
1925
box 74, Folder 23
Letters to Amy Troubridge from Somerville Gurney, Beatrice Gurney and Hudson Gurney?
box 74, Folder 24
Letter to Amy Troubridge from Thomas C.E. Troubridge
1876
box 74, Folder 25
Letters to Amy Troubridge from Violet Troubridge
box 74, Folder 26
Letter to Amy Troubridge from Rachel Gurney Jones
box 74, Folder 27
Letter to Amy Troubridge from Sidney Greville on behalf on the Queen
box 74, Folder 28
Letters to Amy Troubridge regarding Ernest Troubridge
Scope and Contents
from Catherine Bunton, M.F. Nicholson, Eva/Eve, Gertrude Cochrane, Jane Straight
box 74, Folder 29
Miscellaneous letters to Amy Troubridge
box 74, Folder 30-34
Letters to Amy Troubridge from close relatives including Laura Troubridge and Jaqueline Hope-Nicholson
about 1870-1920s
Scope and Contents
Letters originally housed together in alphabetical concertina file. Also includes letters from Amy Troubridge to relatives
box 75
Leather wallet of Amy Troubridge
Scope and Contents
wallet "made expressly" for Sach and Co., 155 Victoria Street, SW. Originally contained letters from "Harry" to Amy, now contained
in Box 76/Folder 1
box 76, Folder 1
Letters to Amy Troubridge from Harry
Scope and Contents
Originally in leather wallet now located in Box 75
box 101, Folder 16
Amy Troubridge manuscripts and other materials
Scope and Contents
Includes typescripts of The Dance of the Poisons, funeral program, ephemera, 1874 passport
box 101, Folder 17
Amy Troubridge linen banner
box 90, Folder 1
Amy Troubridge floral watercolor
box 85, Folder 24-25
Correspondence between Marie de Bunsen, Amy Troubridge and Laura Troubridge Hope
1875-1890?
box 138
Amy Troubridge notebooks and hymn books
box 146
Children's Portraits by Richard N. Speight (1902)
box 168
Amy Troubridge photograph album
about 1875-1890
Scope and Contents
Includes people and places including Sandringham, Penshurst Place, St. Michaels Mount, Knocklofty house, Hunstanton, Moor
Park Farnham, Runcton, Hardwick house, Troubridge & Gurney relatives
box 169
Amy Troubridge photograph album
about 1875-1890
Scope and Contents
Contains photos of Runcton,Hunstanton, Ernest Troubridge at Bermuda, HMS Volage, HRH Duke of Cambridge in a group photo next
to an orangery, Sandringham in the snow, HRH the Duke of York with Ernest and two ladies with tennis racquets, Cresswell Augustus
Cresswell, and active pursuits such as tug of war and a ladies game of cricket.
box 210
Wooden box, originally housed Amy Troubridge's letters from Helen and Ernest, items now in boxes 71-72
Helen Troubridge Bate Subseries 4.2.
Biographical Note
Helen Troubridge Bate was born in 1866 and was the youngest child of Louisa Gurney Troubridge and Thomas St. Vincent Troubridge.
Often called "Limpet" by her siblings, Helen was talented in watercolors but lacked the drive to dedicate herself to an artistic
life. lived with her sister Amy in London until she married John Bate in 1917. After his death in 1937, Helen lived at More
House until her death in 1958.
Scope and Contents
This subseries contains correspondence, diaries, juvenile writings, newspaper clippings and other miscellaneous materials
collected by or created by Helen Troubridge Bate. Correspondents are largely relatives, particularly her brothers Thomas
and Ernest and their families as well as assorted Gurney cousins. This subseries also includes some legal and estate documents.
box 30, Folder 1
"Faithfull and Faithless," a novel by Helen Troubridge
about 1877
Scope and Contents
Original handwritten copy of story by Helen Troubridge, aged 9; includes a number of loose sheets of paper tied with ribbon.
box 32
Helen Troubridge diaries and notebooks
1885-1920
Scope and Contents
Includes 9 diaries (1885-1920, various years): 1885, 1893, 1896, 1897, 1899, 1900, 1901, 1906, 1920, as well as a notebook
of creative writing "Helen Troubridge, 1896" featuring "penned plays and other notes such as historical facts and addresses
of friends"
box 76, Folder 2
Letters to Helen Troubridge from family members
Scope and Contents
Letters concerning weddings, births, deaths, parents, etc. from various family members
box 76, Folder 7-10
Letters to Helen Troubridge from John Bate
1904-1922
box 76, Folder 12
Letters to Helen Troubridge from Daniel and Diana Gurney
1918-1955
box 87, Folder 34
Miscellaneous letters to Helen Bate and Laura Troubridge Hope
box 76, Folder 3
Letters to Helen Troubridge from Amy Troubridge
1896, 1921
box 76, Folder 16
Letters to Helen Troubridge from Andrea Troubridge and Nic
box 76, Folder 6
Letters to Helen Troubridge from Ernest Troubridge and others
1897-1947
Scope and Contents
letters from Ernest Troubridge and others that include photos
box 76, Folder 20-28
Letters to Helen Troubridge from Ernest Troubridge
1876-1926
box 76, Folder 13
Letters to Helen Troubridge from Ernest Troubridge family
Scope and Contents
Letters from Edith Duffus Troubridge, Mary Troubridge, Charlotte Troubridge
box 76, Folder 29
Items related to Ernest Troubridge from collection of Helen Troubridge
box 76, Folder 15
Letters to Helen Troubridge from Laura Troubridge, Jaqueline Hope-Nicholson and Felix Hope-Nicholson
box 76, Folder 14
Letters to Helen Troubridge regarding Thomas Troubridge advancement
1943-1947
box 76, Folder 17-19
Letters to Helen Troubridge from Tom Troubridge
1901-1943
box 76, Folder 4
Letters to Helen Troubridge from Tom Troubridge family
1873, 1933-1941
Scope and Contents
letters from Tom, Laura Gurney (Queenie), Louise (Louey), Vincent
box 76, Folder 31
Letters to Helen Troubridge regarding death of Tom Troubridge
1949
box 76, Folder 11
Letters to Helen Troubridge from Violet Troubridge
1896-1941
box 76, Folder 5
Letters to Helen Troubridge regarding Port Arthur and royalty
about 1904-1930
Scope and Contents
letters from Tom Troubridge and Ernest Troubridge re: Port Arthur, letters from Violet Troubridge re: royalty
box 76, Folder 30
Letters to Helen Troubridge regarding siblings' deaths
1924-1932
Scope and Contents
regarding deaths of Tanner, Ernest, Laura and Amy
box 76, Folder 32
Letters to Helen Troubridge from various correspondents
box 76, Folder 33-36
Helen Troubridge clippings, certificates, legal documents and business records
box 93
John and Helen Bate's visitors' book
1919-1956
box 91, Folder 15
Valuation of Bate estate from Harrods
1930
box 89
Newspaper clipping book by J.B. Bate and Helen Bate
about 1929-1937
box 189
Sketchbook
Scope and Contents
Watercolor of two girls playing with balls by 'A T' affixed to the
front cover. Signed 'Helen C M Troubridge N Runcton Hall Lynn' on the front end paper but the book is likely a collaborative
effort by the Troubridge sisters. The majority of the affixed works are watercolors and are either of landscapes or are of
story-book themes such as children playing. 9 loose watercolors.
box 193
Sketchbook album
about 1892
Scope and Contents
Folio half black roan, the roan edged with gilding. Brown cloth covered boards. Blue and white endpapers with a foliage and
bird pattern. Spine coming away, points very damaged. Drawings in pen and ink and pencil; most highlighted with watercolor.
A variety of subjects; everyday people and landscapes/places (some depicting Cairo and Egypt as well as more familiar home
sights), fairy subjects and also things copied from books. Inscribed 'Helen C M Troubridge. A Book of Scraps begun in 1892.'
The majority are fixed but there are 19 unattached drawings and 5 loose pages
box 208
Wooden box, originally contained Helen Troubridge Bate items now in box 76
Louisa Gurney Troubridge and St. Vincent Troubridge Subseries 4.3.
Biographical Note
Colonel Sir Thomas St. Vincent Troubridge (1815-1867) and his wife Louisa Gurney Troubridge (1830-1867) were married in 1855
and had a very happy life together with their 5 children until their untimely deaths 5 weeks apart in 1867. St. Vincent Troubridge
was a Crimean War hero who lost a leg and a foot at the Battle of Inkerman in 1854. After that, he served as Aide-de-Camp
to Queen Victoria and as head of the Army Clothing Department. Louisa Gurney was the daughter of Daniel Gurney and Lady Harriet
Hay of Runcton, Norfolk.
Scope and Contents
This subseries consists of correspondence between St. Vincent and Louisa Troubridge and their families, correspondence and
tributes related to their deaths, and Louisa's diaries from 1848-1854.
box 41, Folder 5
Letters of condolence regarding the death of Louisa Gurney Troubridge
1855-1867
Scope and Contents
Includes a small journal containing letters sent to various recipients re: LT's death and an envelope full of letters on the
same subject.
box 38, box 39
Louisa Gurney Troubridge diaries
1845-1908
Scope and Contents
Box 38: Includes 3 volumes which are copies of Louisa's journals (written around 1848), copied by Helen Troubridge Bate around
1908; an account book from 1859-1866; includes a memorial and reaction to Louisa's premature death from 1867 titled "A detailed
account of Louisa Troubridge's life and death by her sister Mrs. Herbert Jones" (aka Aunt Bache), which includes photographs,
newspaper cuttings, letters (both from Louisa and about her), transcribed letters, a watercolor drawing of Louisa as a frontispiece;
another notebook memorializing Louisa from 1873(?), including poems and clippings; and her diary from 1848-1850, a heavy bound
volume with a gold clasp.
Box 39:diaries from 1851-1854 (with metal clasps); includes 2 small books wrapped together: "Pawsey's Pocket Diary and Almanac
for 1850" and a book of lists & addresses from 1860-1864; also a handmade 32 mo. Book, "covered with red velvet and with thin
gold cord inexpertly stitched onto the reverse in a repeated looping pattern. The pastedown is made of blue satin (slightly
foxed and creased) which is embroidered at the edge to the red velvet covering the board. There is a filigree ball and loop
of cord for a closing mechanism." Book's inscription reads: "Made by my girly, and given to me on my birthday Feby 26th, 1854-Runcton."
Journal contains extracts of poetry; assorted other diaries of various makes and sizes; a notebook of copied poems and drawings
(in back of book), 1858; a notebook of tribute to LG by her sister (?), Margaret Orde ("Aunt Maggie"), 1969.
box 116, Folder 1, 18
Various letters to St. Vincent Troubridge
box 116, Folder 3-4
Letters from Louisa Gurney and C. Rachel Gurley "Girlie"
box 116, Folder 5
Letters from Tom, Laura and Amy Troubridge to St. Vincent Troubridge
Scope and Contents
written during Louisa Gurney Troubridge's illness
box 116, Folder 6
Letters from Troubridge children to Louisa Gurney Troubridge
box 116, Folder 8-9
Letters regarding the death of Thomas Hay Troubridge
1857
box 116, Folder 12
Letters from "Patty" to Louisa Gurney Troubridge
box 116, Folder 14
Letters from Louisa Gurney Troubridge to St. Vincent Troubridge
box 116, Folder 15
Letters from St. Vincent Troubridge to Louisa Gurney Troubridge
box 116, Folder 16
Various letters to Louisa Gurney Troubridge
box 116, Folder 19
Letters from Somerville Gurney to Louisa Gurney Troubridge
box 116, Folder 20
Letters between Laura Troubridge Hope and her parents
Una Taylor Troubridge Subseries 4.4
Biographical note
Una Vincenzo Troubridge (née Taylor) (1887-1963) was a sculptor who studied at the Royal College of Art and also worked as
a translator. Although she achieved moderate success in these fields, she was best known for being the long-term partner
of Marguerite 'John' Radclyffe-Hall, author of lesbian-themed novels such as The Well of Loneliness (1928). She married Ernest
Troubridge in 1908, and the couple had a daughter, Andrea (aka "Cubby") two years later. In 1917, Una left her husband to
live with Hall, and they lived together as a couple in London until Hall's death in 1943. Though Una was relatively close
to the Troubridge sisters during her marriage to Ernest, their relationship was somewhat less friendly (understandably) after
she left him. She did, however, still carry on a friendly relationship with Jaqueline Hope-Nicholson who was only a few years
her junior.
Scope and Contents
There are 20 letters from Una to Laura Hope, 28 letters from Una to Jacqueline Hope-Nicholson, and 1 letter from Una to Hedley
Hope-Nicholson. Also included in this series are letters from other correspondents who write about Una. the situation regarding
Radclyffe Hall, or Una and Ernest's daughter Andrea (aka "Cubby").
box 26, Folder 11-12
Letters to Laura Hope from Una Troubridge
1907 February 30-1919 August 3
Scope and Contents
Box 26/Folder 12 Several of the letters in this folder refer to Andrea (aka "Cub" or "Cubbie"), UT's daughter with ET; last
couple of letters in folder are undated and without envelopes.
box 27, Folder 17
Letters from Laura Hope to Una Troubridge
1919 April 11-1919 April 25
box 26, Folder 13-14
Letters to Jacqueline Hope-Nicholson from Una Troubridge
1906 July 17-1946 July 24
Scope and Contents
JHN was only 2 years younger than UT and the two were close friends. 10/13/1943 letter contains many details about the death
of Radclyffe Hall (RH), Una's partner.
box 27, Folder 1
Letters to Una Troubridge from Helen Troubridge
1912-1915
box 27, Folder 2
Letters about Una Troubridge from the Hope family
1902 October 16-1912 November 28
Scope and Contents
Letters about (or that mention in passing) UT from JHN to LH (4 letters), to LH from Jessie Hope (1 letter), and to LH from
Aunt Annie (1 letter)
box 27, Folder 3
Letters about Una Troubridge from Ernest Troubridge's children
1908 October 18-1919 September 9
Scope and Contents
Letters about UT from ET's children from first marriage to Edith Duffus - Maria (11 letters), Charlotte (6 letters), and Tom.
box 27, Folder 4
Letters about Una Troubridge from Ernest Troubridge to Amy Troubridge
1909 June 13-1920 March 11
Scope and Contents
Letters from ET to AT about UT; 6/1/1918 letter is about RH; includes a sepia-toned photo postcard depicting a man with a
guitar from 9/28/1909/
box 27, Folder 5
Letters to Laura Hope from Andrea Troubridge
1918 March 15-1919 August 22
Scope and Contents
Letters to LH from Andrea Troubridge ("Cub" or "Cubbie"), ET's daughter with UT and LH's niece.
box 27, Folder 6
Letters about Una Troubridge
1919 February 6-1920 January 1
Other Gurney and Troubridge family Subseries 4.5
Scope and Contents
This subseries contains material related to or created by other members of the Troubridge and Gurney families, particularly
Daniel Gurney, Anna Maria Cochrane Troubridge and Charlotte Troubridge (Aunt Chatty). Items include photographs, correspondence,
calling cards, clippings, locks of hair and genealogy research materials.
box 175
Notebooks, Letters concerning and by Lady Harriet Gurney' and 'Account of Lady Harriet Gurney and notes by Louisa Gurney'
box 151
Troubridge and Gurney family photograph album
about 1860-1880
Scope and Contents
Photographs of Troubridge and Gurney relatives and friends
box 151
Troubridge family photograph album
about 1860-1870
Scope and Contents
Photographs of St. Vincent Troubridge, Louisa Gurney Troubridge, Troubridge and Gurney children
box 151
Troubridge family photograph album
about 1860-1870
Scope and Contents
Includes photographs of de Bunsen, Gurney, Troubridge, Buxton and other relatives and friends.
box 151
Captain Edward Norwich Troubridge. 'Signal Book' for "HMS Amazon"', bound with an
instruction manual for accidents and emergencies
box 107
Newspaper cuttings (Gurney/Troubridge family)
Scope and Contents
Mostly contains newspaper cuttings of family and friends� events and achievements. Also contains items relating to wider concerns
such as the British Royal Family and the army. Some invitations and programmes such as �The Orange Tree� provide a theatrical
element.
box 65, Folder 19, box 68, Folder 8
Photographs of Troubridge family
Scope and Contents
Box 65/Folder 19:Includes portraits of Lady Troubridge, Ernest T. Troubridge, and Helen Troubridge Bate.
Box 68/Folder 8:Photographs from Louise Troubridge Shennan: 1 small photo portrait of Mrs Charles Gurney, Laura's mother (afterwards
Mrs Stracey Clitherow, nee Alice Princep), 1 medium photo portrait of Alice Hughes with baby, border very foxed, 3 photo portraits
of Sir Thomas Troubridge Bart, various sizes, 1 large and with Tom in ceremonial attire, 1 photo of Sir Thomas Troubridge
Bart, Edward St Aubyn (Bean) and a dog outside the front door of Knocklofty Castle (1884), 2 photo portraits of Laura Gurney
(later Laura "Queenie" Troubridge)
box 65, Folder 20
Photographs of Gurney family
Scope and Contents
Includes photograph of Somerville Gurney's daughters
box 69, Folder 7
Photoreproductions of portraits of Thomas Troubridge (1st Bt.) and Frances Northall Troubridge
box 69, Folder 8
Photographs of family and friends
Scope and Contents
All unlabeled except one labeled "Bate"
box 66, box 67
Framed photographs of family
about 1860-1927
Scope and Contents
Box 66:Includes photographs of Mary Cleghorn Nicholson, Sarah Chisnall Cleghorn, The Firs (Hampstead), Jaqueline Hope-Nicholson,
members of Nicholson family, Esme Hope, Amy Troubridge, Sir Thomas Troubridge, Helen Troubridge, Arthur Gore, and miniature
calendar given to Adrian Hope from Jaqueline.
Box 67:Includes photographs of Esme Hope, Salthorpe Rectory (home of Rachel Gurney Jones), Rachel Gurney Jones, Jessie Graham
Hope, and a ca. 1920s photograph album with unlabeled snapshots from Old Place (?)
box 68, Folder 4
Photographs of Felix Hope-Nicholson, Daniel Gurney and Ernest Troubridge
about 1890-1921
box 116, Folder 2, 11
Various Troubridge letters
box 116, Folder 7
Letters to Charlotte Troubridge "Chatty"
box 116, Folder 10
Letters to Lady Troubridge (Anna Maria Cochrane Troubridge)
box 116, Folder 21
Letter from Viscount Melville
box 100, Folder 4-12
Troubridge family "interest" items and genealogy notebooks
Scope and Contents
clippings (esp. Mary Troubridge Otter marriage [1916]), notes, letters, family portraits (original and reproductions), funeral
cards
box 100, Folder 2
Gurney family portrait reproductions and other miscellany
box 100, Folder 3
United Service magazine and other journals with articles by Rachel Gurney Jones and others
box 86, Folder 24, box 91, Folder 11
Sir Thomas Troubridge auction catalog
1867
box 91, Folder 12
Gurney-related clippings about houses
box 91, Folder 6
Accounts of Runcton House by Laura Troubridge Hope and D. Gurney
box 87, Folder 28
Gurney materials
about 1958
Scope and Contents
catalog for 1958 Daniel Gurney sale, images of artworks
box 88
Black clutch purse (with coin purse inside) and tortoise shell monocle
box 87, Folder 6
Army list and Florence Nightengale paperbacks
about 1842
box 87, Folder 7
Jock and Puss drawing
1921
box 87, Folder 8
Reprints of 1805 newspapers
box 87, Folder 9
Miscellaneous photocopies and broadsheets
Scope and Contents
Includes broadsheet by Diana Gurney and photocopies from Diana Cooper scrapbook
box 86, Folder 3
Gurney and Troubridge genealogy notes from Daniel Gurney
about 1920-1940?
box 85, Folder 26-28
Locks of hair
1890-1933
Scope and Contents
Locks of hair from multiple generations of Troubridge, Nicholson and Hope children
box 130
Gurney family cartes-de-visites album
about 1850-1860
Scope and Contents
Gurney family album of cartes de visite of well known people including
members of the royal family, politicians, members of the peerage and also some of the Gurney family, particularly Louisa Gurney
Troubridge.
box 172-173
Troubridge and Gurney miscellaneous items
Scope and Contents
Rent book for 1817, Westerton's diary for 1859, Lett's Diary for 1844 (unknown former owners)
box 172-173
Charles Stuart Cochrane materials
Scope and Contents
Includes notebook of accounts and "Rules and Abbreviations on Seaman Ship and Navigation" (1813/14) and 'Journal on Way to
Bermuda,' unsigned but similar hand to Charles Stuart Cochrane. Includes some seascape sketches.
box 174
C. Rachel Gurney Jones ("Aunt Bache") "Occasional Journal"
1890
box 174
C. Rachel Gurney Jones, A notebook containing letters of import for familial history
box 174
A packet containing "Sir E. T. T. Troubridge & Lacy T née Cochrane relics etc"
Scope and Contents
2 pebbles, one marked with ink 'N 1844' and a note "Pebble picked up by Mr. B. Nod in 1844". 1 small possibly woven pouch
with green silk lining containing a small fabric book for needles, a single tiny fingerless glove and a small purse.
box 176
The Great Seal of Victoria in red wax housed in its original skibbet with attached
parchment
1841
box 130
C. Rachel Gurney Jones scrapbook for Bertram
1868
Scope and Contents
Green notebook with 'Scrap Book' embossed in gold on the front. Inscribed "Bertram Jones My Book. Mama drew the pictures,
And made all the rhymes – For her little Bertram to look at sometimes. March 1868 London." Contains drawings, photographs,
poems and printed music.
box 192
Runcton Christmas Annual
1886
Scope and Contents
Red cloth covered boards with gilt lettering. Gurney/Troubridge collaboration of stories, creative writing and accompanying
drawings. Short fables include "the peer and the mustard seed", "the cowherd and the hermit" and "the sidecurls and the scalpette",
all with humorous and caricature-esque drawings, mostly by Laura Troubridge.
box 130
Scrap album, possibly of Ernest Troubridge
Scope and Contents
1 scrap book. Red cloth covered boards. 'Scrap Album' stamped in black on the front cover and black stamped geometric patterned
boarder. Barely used. Possibly belonged to Ernest Troubridge (Laura's uncle).
box 197
Somerville Gurney family scrapbook
Scope and Contents
Includes photographs, news clippings and ephemera related to Somerville Gurney and his family.
box 130
Thomas Troubridge's first boots
1861
Hope and Hope-Nicholson families Series 5
1762-1996
Scope and Contents
This series contains material produced or collected by members of the Hope and Hope-Nicholson families, particularly Esme
Hope, Marie-Jaqueline Hope-Nicholson Lancaster, Felix Hope-Nicholson and the Tom Allen family. Materials include correspondence,
photographs, diaries and journals, research files, literary manuscripts, business records and house inventories.
- Subseries 5.1.
- Esme Hope, 1893-1936
- Subseries 5.2.
- Felix Hope-Nicholson, 1927-1987
- Subseries 5.3.
- Marie-Jaqueline Lancaster, 1950-1996
- Subseries 5.4.
- Allen family, 1888-1991
- Subseries 5.5.
- Other Hope family, 1762-1995
Esme Hope Subseries 5.1.
1893-1936
Scope and Contents
This subseries comprises a mini-archive compiled in part by Laura Hope following the death of her beloved younger daughter
Esme in February 1905. Included are letters from Esmé to Laura and Adrian, as well as letters about Esmé and letters of condolence
to Laura and Jacqueline after Esmé's death. There are 19 letters. 11 picture cards, 3 photos and 11 artistic items, including
juvenile drawings and watercolors, some evidently by Esmé, others possibly executed by Laura and colored in by Esmé. In addition,
there are items related to Esmé's death, such as pressed flowers and fragments of the wreaths that lay about Esmé during her
wake, as well as multiple copies of the book The Horizon by Catherine Marsh (1911). The book tells the story of Esmé's life
and death. Finally, there are 3 "Spirit Letters," presumably channeled through Laura, in the style of automatic writing.
Some take the form of conversations with the departed Esmé, and some of these are addressed to the angel Raphael. An alphabetized
concertina file includes letters of condolence to Laura after Esmé's death. There are a number of photos of Esmé as a baby
and as a child, many of them framed.
Biographical Note
Esme Hope was born in 1896 to Laura Troubridge Hope and Adrian Hope. She died of diptheria in February 1905 in London.
box 41, Folder 10-12
Letters to Laura Hope from S.A. Henry ("Nana")
1893 June 20-1903 September 3
Scope and Contents
Letters to LH from S.A. Hendry, aka "Nana Hendry," servant and nursemaid to LH and AH; letters seem to mainly be about caring
for EH as a baby and young child.
box 41, Folder 13
Letters from Esme Hope to her parents and her sister
1900-1904
Scope and Contents
Letters written by Esme Hope as a child to her parents, Laura Hope and Adrian Hope. Letters are in a childish hand and often
contain the remnants of pressed flowers; folder includes one letter from Esme to her sister Jacqueline, on "The Hare and The
Tortoise" stationery (5/22/1904)
box 41, Folder 14
Letters to Esme Hope from her cousin Charlotte Allen
1903-1905
box 41, Folder 15
Assorted letters to Esme Hope
1903-1904
box 41, Folder 16, box 43, box 44, Folder 11
Letters to Laura Hope regarding the death of her daughter Esme
1898-1905
Scope and Contents
Box 41/Folder 6:Letters to LH from assorted close family members including: Margaret J. Gurney (of Keswick)(2 letters), Helen
Gurney (1 letter), "M. Hope"(Madge Hope?)(1 letter), Charles & Alice Hope (1 letter), Caroline J. Hope (1 letter), M. Orde
(nee Gurney)(1 letter), Evelyn 'E' Orde (1 letter), Rachel Jones (nee Gurney) aka "Aunt Bache" (of Sculthorpe) (2 letters),
Eve Creswell (nee Gurney) of Runcton Rectory (4 letters); letters seem to be about Esme's birth and death.
Box 43: Filed alphabetically in "The Popular File" binder; "Correspondents of interest include Agnes Egerton-Castle, Cyril
D. Fitzroy, Robert Bontine Cunninghame-Graham (on 'Ardoch, Cardross' headed paper), G.P. Jacomb-Hood, Mary Millais, Una Troubridge,
and Viola Tree (on 'His Majesty's Theatre' headed paper).
box 44, Folder 1
Photographs
about 1903-1905
Scope and Contents
Folder includes photo of Esme holding a baby, labelled "Ralph & Julyan, King's Lynn" (photographers) as well as a photo postcard
of Esme wearing a beret, sent to LH from JHN and dated 9/12/1903. Elsewhere in this box is a 2"x3" Hollinger box with a clear
plastic window containing a glass plate negative of Esme and plastic negative and black oval paper frame. User should handle
glass plate negative carefully, and hold by the edges, as touching the plate can wear off the emulsion.
box 44, Folder 2
Picture postcards to and from Esme Hope
1904
Scope and Contents
Folder includes a number of cards and color postcards to and from EH. Many are to EH from LH, many depict animals.
box 44, Folder 3
Misc. keepsakes, cards, and clippings
1897-1905
Scope and Contents
A number of newspaper clippings feat. EH's obituary, a card sent from LH to EH for her first Christmas; a 1905 calendar: "Merry
Months" (with envelope), and a number of flowers pressed between folded leaves of paper: "From the wreaths that were about
our darling Esm� when she was lying in her last sleep" (LH's handwriting); a separate small Hollinger box also contains a
segment of a wreath from EH's grave; elsewhere in box, separately wrapped, are 7 copies of the book The Horizon (London: James
Nisbet & Co., Ltd., 1911) by Catherine Marsh. The volume is 9x11 cm and "tells the story of Esm�'s life and death, including
personal anecdotes, quotations from letters along with much consoling material of a religious nature" (from B.D.); box also
includes a separately wrapped 1894 Charles Lett's diary that belonged to EH and includes drawings, scribbles and arithmetic
in a childish hand; diary is dated 1894, but since EH was not born until 1897, the diary probably originally belonged to LH.
box 44, Folder 4
Remembrances and keepsakes
1897-1905
box 44, Folder 5
Drawings by Esme Hope
about 1900-1905
Scope and Contents
A number of drawings done by EH as a child, or drawings done by LH and colored in by EH. Includes an envelope which contains
a drawing of "Young Lady of Dover" and a letter;
box 44, Folder 6
Letters to Esme Hope from Laura C. Allen and Jacqueline Hope
1896-1905
Scope and Contents
Folder includes 7 letters to LH from JH as a child and 14 letters from Laura C. Allen
box 44, Folder 7
Letters to Laura Hope from her siblings
1899-1904
Scope and Contents
Letters to LH from her sister Violet Troubridge (14 letters), her brother Ernest Troubridge (1 letter), and her sister Helen
Troubridge (1 letter)
box 44, Folder 8
Letters to Laura Hope from family
1896-1905
Scope and Contents
Letters to LH from family members Jessie Hope (3 letters), Anna Cunninghame-Graham (6 letters), Madge Napier (n�e Hope), and
M. Lizzie Napier (3 letters)
box 44, Folder 9
Letters and keepsakes to Laura Hope from Catherine Marsh and her niece, Lucy O'Rorke
1907-1910
Scope and Contents
4/8/1908 envlope includes letter and a booklet: "In Memoriam: Evelyn Marchioness of Ailsa;" 1/2/1907 envelope from CM includes
other booklets titled Beyond and The Vision, presumably the inspriration for The Horizon - that is, booklets printed after
the death of a loved one that tell a life story and offer consolation of a religious nature; last envelope in folder includes
3 letters from CM's niece, Lucy O'Rorke.
box 44, Folder 12
Assorted letters of condolence
1922
box 44, Folder 10
Assorted letters regarding Esme
1905-1911
Scope and Contents
Letters about EH in life and after her death, many without envelopes.
box 44, Folder 13
Documents addressed to Esme concerning the estate of Robert Bontine Cunninghame-Graham
1936
Scope and Contents
EH was seemingly a beneficiary of RBCG's estate even though she predeceased him.
box 44, Folder 14
"Spirit letters"
1904-1905
Scope and Contents
Folder contains 3 spirit letters presumably channeled through Laura (although in a distinctively mediumesque hand), in the
style of automatic writing. They take the form of conversations with the departed Esme, and some of these addressed to 'Raphael'
- presumably the angel. They give a heartbreaking insight into a mother's grief.
Felix Hope-Nicholson Subseries 5.2.
1927-1987
Biographical Note
Felix Hope-Nicholson (actually Charles Felix Otho Victor Gabriel John Adrian) (1921-1990) was the only son of Jaqueline and
Hedley Hope-Nicholson, and, like them, devoted to family history, pageantry and genealogy. Felix lived with his mother at
More House for most of his life and he was a well-known social figure in London circles.
Scope and Contents
This subseries contains correspondents from relatives and friends, as well as photographs from Felix's time at the Summerfield
School.
box 45, Folder 1-12
Letters to Felix Hope-Nicholson
1927-1939
Scope and Contents
Letters are mostly out of chronological order and without envelopes; they appear to be from mostly family and friends and
were sent on the occasion of a birthday or holiday; 2/21/1929 is a B&W photo postcard of kittens.
box 45, Folder 13
Letters to Felix Hope-Nicholson from Henrietta Taylor
1936 May-1937 January
box 45, Folder 14
Letters to Felix Hope-Nicholson from Anton Dolin
1937-1948
Scope and Contents
All of the letters in this folder to FHN are from Anton Dolin, presumably the English ballet dancer and choreographer.
box 45, Folder 15
Letters to Felix Hope-Nicholson from Harold Nicolson
1942 July-1942 September
Scope and Contents
Letters in this folder were sent to FHN from Harold Nicolson, seemingly a military superior, concerning matters of military
service and discharge (?).
box 45, Folder 16
Misc. letters to Felix Hope-Nicholson
1941-1944
box 45, Folder 17
Letters to Felix Hope-Nicholson from Thomas Woodcock
1986-1987
Scope and Contents
Letters to FHN from Thomas Woodcock concerning matters of genealogy and family heraldry.
box 53, Folder 3-6
Letters to Felix Hope-Nicholson from his mother Jacqueline
1930-1934
box 53, Folder 7
Letters to Felix Hope-Nicholson from his sister Lauretta and his father Hedley
1931-1934
box 53, Folder 8
Letters to Felix Hope-Nicholson from his sister Marie-Jacqueline
1929-1934
box 53, Folder 9-13
Letters to Felix Hope-Nicholson from his mother Jacqueline
1934-1936
Scope and Contents
Letters to FHN from JHN and others, including his sisters Lauretta and Marie-Jacqueline, as well as letters from other, miscellaneous
senders, identities unknown.
box 57, Folder 1-9
Letters to Felix Hope-Nicholson from his mother Jacqueline
1936-1939
box 68, Folder 4
Photographs of Felix Hope-Nicholson, Daniel Gurney and Ernest Troubridge
about 1890-1921
box 69, Folder 3
Class/school photographs from Summerfield School
box 207
Metal plate labeled "Cholera plate"
Physical Description: loose in box with other rolled and odd-sized materials
Marie-Jacqueline Lancaster Subseries 5.3.
1950-1996
Biographical Note
Marie-Jaqueline Hope-Nicholson was born in 1922 to Jaqueline and Hedley Hope-Nicholson. She was a well-respected magazine
editor and, along with her siblings, made More House a hub of London social life during the war years. In 1945, she married
Maurice Lancaster who was a war correspondent and manager of the March of Time newsreels (later a managter at Harpers Bazaar).
M-J (as she liked to be called in lieu of her very long formal name) also saw herself as the More House archivist, particularly
after the death of her brother in 1990, and was instrumental in the (failed) efforts to save More House and keep it intact
as a research center and museum. She edited her grandparents' correspondence as
Letters of the Engagement and also reissued her mother's
Life Amongst the Troubridges, in addition to working on several other editing projects of material from the More House Archive (particularly the diaries
of Charlotte Allen), which were not published. M-J Lancaster died in 2010.
Scope and Contents
Materials include business papers, typescripts and manuscripts of material culled from the More House Archive, contracts,
correspondence (mostly business), and More House inventories and reports. These inventories include listings of furnishings,
doll and art collections, and detailed listings of all of Laura Troubridge Hope's known artworks.
box 119, Folder 13
Everyday amongst the English radio transcript
box 119, Folder 6
Ernest Troubridge research files (MJL)
box 117, Folder 9-17, box 118, Folder 12-13, 17, box 119, Folder 7-10
Typescripts and manuscripts of Laura Troubridge Hope journals and Life Amongst the Troubridges, by Jaqueline Hope-Nicholson
and Marie-Jaqueline Lancaster
box 119, Folder 11
BBC Radio program on Life Amongst the Troubridges
box 118, Folder 20
Correspondence re: LTH book
box 118, Folder 21, box 117, Folder 11, box 116, Folder 27-29
Some Pictures of the Past (Laura Troubridge Hope) typescripts by LTH and MJL
box 116, Folder 33
MJL: More House contents and history
1989
box 117, Folder 1-5
MJL: More House history and sale
box 118, Folder 5
More House histories and estate files
box 117, Folder 6
MJL: source material and photocopies
box 117, Folder 7
JHN: More House dolls and relic shelf
box 117, Folder 8
MJL: Reminiscences by Miss Margaret Hope typescript
box 117, Folder 18-20
Hope and Troubridge essays and stories
Scope and Contents
Includes JHN essay on historical films, Andy: An Epic of Desert Cattle Droving by Jim Hope, pageant lists by JHN
box 117, Folder 21-23, 25
MJL files on More House, LTH publications and artwork
Scope and Contents
Includes notes from LTH journals 1892-1929
box 117, Folder 24
Constantinople Journal (1901) typescript
box 117, Folder 26, box 118, Folder 1, 3
Laura Troubridge Hope catalogue by MJL
box 118, Folder 2
AH-LTH correspondence notes by MJL
box 118, Folder 4
Printed More House catalogue by George St. Sayn and MJL
box 118, Folder 6
Copies of old Hope letters from other relatives
box 118, Folder 7-8
MJL files on Charlotte Allen journals
box 118, Folder 11
Letters of Engagement typescript
Allen family Subseries 5.4.
1888-1991
Biographical Note
Adrian Hope's sister Laura (1859-1936) spent much of her young life in Europe, being brought up by her material aunt Annie
Cunninghame Graham. She met Greek scholar Thomas W. Allen (1862-1950) in 1888 and married him in 1894. He was a fellow at
Queen's College, Oxford, where they lived with their only child Charlotte. Laura was a devout Christian Scientist, which
unfortunately contributed to Charlotte's untimely death at the age of 23, when she did not seek medical attention for an illness.
Scope and Contents
This subseries contains correspondence, Charlotte Allen's 1910 journals, address and autography books and photographs. Charlotte's
journals were edited, though not published, by Marie-Jaqueline Lancaster and there is additional material regarding these
journals in the above subseries 5.3.
box 68, Folder 5
Photographs of Uncle Tom Allen
about 1900
box 76, Folder 38-40, box 77, Folder 1-19
Laura Hope letters to Thomas Allen
1890-1896
box 77, Folder 20-21
Laura Hope letters to Thomas Allen
1911
box 77, Folder 22
Charlotte Allen letters to Thomas Allen
1912-1913
box 75
Charlotte Allen autograph book
1912
box 75
Laura Hope address book
1888-1894
box 78
Charlotte Allen journals
1910
box 87, Folder 22
Tom Allen estate sale typescript
1950
box 76, Folder 37
Thomas William Allen biography by Nigel Wilson, Proceedings of the British Academy 76
1991
Other Hope family Subseries 5.5.
1762-1995
Scope and Contents
This subseries contains documents related to or created by various members of the Hope family, including Lauretta Hope-Nicholson,
Jessie Graham Hope, Henrietta Hope, Lt-Col. W. Hope, Madge Hope Napier, Jean Hugo, Mrs. Greville-Nugent, Robert Bontine Cunninghame-Graham,
and others. Materials include correspondence, photographs, clippings, historical and research documentation, genealogical
papers, pamphlets and ephemera (especially concerning Hopetoun House and the Earl of Hopetoun).
box 203, Folder 7
William Hope, VC, Crimea letters to his parents (mostly transcripts)
1855
box 57, Folder 12
Letters to Lauretta, Felix, and Marie-Jacqueline Hope-Nicholson
8/6/1924-6/20/1926
Scope and Contents
Cards and letters to sent to the children in their early years; Includes a watercolor birthday card to JHN from LHN: "Polly
would like a cake today!" Last item in folder is an envelope containing letters in both JHN and the children's handwriting,
all undated, but probably from 1926-1928.
box 58, Folder 1
Letters from Felix, Lauretta, and Marie-Jacqueline Hope-Nicholson to their parents
8/8/1927-4/26/1933
box 58, Folder 3, 5-7
Letters and invitations to Lauretta Hope-Nicholson
1931-1936
Scope and Contents
Box 58/Folder 3:A hand-painted doily valentine with a hand-written verse in the center, given to Lauretta as a child by Michael
Law, age 12.
Box 58/Folder 5: Invitations sent to Lauretta
Box 58/Folders 6-7: Letters to Lauretta from Hedley and Jaqueline while she was on a trip to Paris.
box 203, Folder 6
Nicol Graham correspondence and transcribed letters
about 1790s
box 58, Folder 2, 4
Items related to Lauretta, Felix, and Marie-Jacqueline as children
1927-1939
Scope and Contents
Box 58/Folder 2:Includes a number of certificates and report cards belonging to the three children, as well as assorted play
programs and a some sewing done by Lauretta as a child; also a magazine spread featuring the Marie-Jaqueline and Maurice Lancaster.
Box 58/Folder 4:Includes a number of whimsical color postcards featuring fairies, parrots, etc., as well as newspaper clippings,
and drawings done by the children. Also includes one of Felix's exams and a play program.
box 65, Folder 18
Photographs of Hope-Nicholson family
about 1920-
Scope and Contents
Includes portrait of Marie-Jacqueline
box 207
Nicol Graham letters
Physical Description: loose in box with other rolled and odd-sized materials
box 22, Folder 12
Letters regarding Colonel Hope's sword
1914
Scope and Contents
Includes a handwritten note by LH: "Correspondence about Colonel Hope's sword, lent to Archie Napier for the campaign - 1914"
box 41, Folder 8
Hope family obituaries
1893-1936
Scope and Contents
Various obituaries, funeral programs, and newspaper clippings about the deaths of Hope family members, including Jessie Hope
and Charlotte Allen.
box 104
Hope family newspaper clipping album
box 65, Folder 14
Photographs of family, friends and others (most unidentified)
Scope and Contents
Includes photographs of Roger Tewkesbury Kynaston, Aunt Phil Vickerman, G. Grunston?,
box 68, Folder 3
Photographs of Jessie Hope
about 1890?
box 83, Folder 31
"A Royal Idyll" by Jessie Hope
box 83, Folder 32-33
Jessie Graham Hope manuscripts
box 70, Folder 1-2
Unidentified portrait photographs
about 1916-1920
box 83, Folder 11-12, 25
Letters about the Hope tree and book
1912-1913?
box 83, Folder 14-16, 23, 26-30, 36-38, box 85, Folder 4
Hope genealogy notebooks, correspondence and pedigrees
box 85, Folder 9
Letters from Mary Breton Hope to Henrietta Hope
1762-1766
Scope and Contents
With some background information and transcripts by MJ Lancaster
box 83, Folder 19-20
Reproductions of Hope family portraits and pictures of homes
box 83, Folder 21
Hope-related news and magazine clippings
box 83, Folder 22
Pamphlets on John Hope and Sir Thomas Hope House
box 83, Folder 24
Hope after Kay portrait and offprints
box 83, Folder 34-35
Print articles by Lieutenant-Colonel W. Hope
box 78
Madge Napier miniature diary with notes about Oscar Wilde plays
1893
box 78
Margaret? Hope journal
1857-1862
box 84
A Diary of the Public Correspodnence of Sir Thomas Hope of Craighall, Bart.
1843
Scope and Contents
covers detatched and backstrip missing
box 85, Folder 1-3, 5-6, box 87, Folder 32
Hope and Hopetoun House clippings, brochures and ephemera
about 1970-1995?
box 85, Folder 7
Hope family-related articles/journals
1980s-1990s
box 85, Folder 8
Royal Oak by Dorothea Monro
box 207
Rolled and damaged photographs
Physical Description: loose in box with other rolled and odd-sized materials
box 86, Folder 1-2
Materials related to Farewell Dinner for the Earl of Hopetoun
1900
box 66, box 67
Framed photographs of family
about 1860-1905
Scope and Contents
Box 66:Includes photographs of Mary Cleghorn Nicholson, Sarah Chisnall Cleghorn, The Firs (Hampstead), Jaqueline Hope-Nicholson,
members of Nicholson family, Esme Hope, Amy Troubridge, Sir Thomas Troubridge, Helen Troubridge, Arthur Gore, and miniature
calendar given to Adrian Hope from Jaqueline.
Box 67:Includes photographs of Esme Hope, Salthorpe Rectory (home of Rachel Gurney Jones), Rachel Gurney Jones, Jessie Graham
Hope, and a ca. 1920s photograph album with unlabeled snapshots from Old Place (?)
box 86, Folder 27-28, box 87, Folder 1-2
Hope photos, reproductions, prints and cuttings
box 119, Folder 18-20
A Soul for Sale by Mrs Greville-Nugent
box 119, Folder 12
Memorandum by Mrs. William Hope (nee Cunninghame-Graham)
box 118, Folder 16, 18-19
Col. William Hope research
box 119, Folder 1-5
William Hope estate (Adrian Hope files)
box 116, Folder 22-26
Various Hope letters
Scope and Contents
Various Hope and Troubridge letters
box 100, Folder 1
Printed paper napkins from family weddings
1916-1928
box 91, Folder 5
Stuart H.J. Johnson estate sale including portrait of Sir Thomas Hope
1958
box 87, Folder 3
Letters to Mrs. Greville-Nugent from various people
Scope and Contents
Letters from Marie Troubetzskoy, Lord Alfred Douglas and others
box 119, Folder 15-17
Miscellaneous
Scope and Contents
HHN clippings and files, Col. William Hope estate/Hope v. Hope, Laurence Napier account, travel diary (HHN?)
box 86, Folder 14
Aunt Anne Cunninghame Graham and Cunninghame Graham files
1870s-1979
box 86, Folder 15-16
Robert Cunninghame Grahame newspaper clippings and obituaries
box 27, Folder 8-10
Letters to Jacqueline Hope from Robert Cunninghame Graham
1908 May 20-1935 June 13
Scope and Contents
Box 27/Folder 10 Last item in folder is a long envelope sent to JHN from RCG, including 1 letter from RCG and 2 from a James
Mailer regarding matters related to Scottish heritage, as well as a poster printed on blue paper: "Genealogy of the Gordons,
Muir of Rhymie (?)"
box 27, Folder 11
Letters to Hedley Hope-Nicholson and Felix Hope-Nicholson from Robert Cunninghame-Graham
7/3/1924-8/20/1934
Scope and Contents
Folder includes 1 letter each to Hedley Hope-Nicholson and his son Felix from RCG. 8/20/1934 letter to FHN from RCG includes
a Christmas card: "With Christmas Greetings and Best Wishes for the New Year from R.B. Cunninghame-Graham."
box 27, Folder 12
Letters about Robert Cunninghame-Graham
12/1/1906-8/10/1922
Scope and Contents
Letters to LH about RCG from Jessie Hope (2 letters), Annie Cunninghame-Graham (3 letters), A.E. Bontine (RCG's mother); also
includes 2 letters to JHN from A.E. Bontine.
box 27, Folder 7
Letters to Laura and Adrian Hope from Robert Cunninghame Graham
1884 September 10-1927 April 21
Scope and Contents
Letters to LH and AH from their cousin, Scottish "politician and adventurer"(bookseller's description) Robert Bontine Cunninghame-Graham.
box 145
Hope family photograph album
about 1850-1905
Scope and Contents
Includes images of Cunninghame-Graham, Napier, Allen and Hope families (esp. Laura Hope Allen and Adrian Hope), as well as
pictures of diplomats and locations abroad. Many of the locations and people have camptions relating to Lt-Col. William Hope.
box 151
Hope family photograph album
about 1850-1880
Scope and Contents
Includes photographs of Adrian Hope, Laura Hope Allen, Robert Bontine Cunninghame-Graham, John Hope, Charles Douglas Hope,
and many other members of the Hope and Cunninghame-Graham families. Some unlabeled images, but many labeled by Jaqueline
Hope-Nicholson.
box 170
Hope-Nicholson and Allen photograph album
about 1905-1920
Scope and Contents
album containing various photos of the Hopes, Hope-Nicholsons and Allens such as 1906 and 1907 Pageants and the OUDS fancy
dress ball with Jaqueline and Hedley Hope-Nicholson. There are a lot of photos of the Allens, particularly Charlotte Allen.
box 174
"When I was young Dedicated to my nieces Lucy, Anne, Zoe and Kalitza Hope, to all the little Cooks and Stevensons and to all
my little Grandnephews and Grandnieces by Aunt Loo Loo"
1869
box 171
Letters from the Crimea from William Hope VC to his parents
box 207
Hope of Langholm pedigree by John Basil Hope
1923
Physical Description: loose in box with other rolled and odd-sized materials
Nicholson and Cleghorn families Series 6.
1587-1924
Scope and Contents
Series 6 contains materials and documents related to the Nicholson and Cleghorn families, particularly Alfred John Nicholson
and Mary Cleghorn Nicholson. Items include photographs, correspondence, notebooks, clippings, estate files, deeds and mortgage
documents. Though most items date from the 19th century, there are a large number of historical Cleghorn documents dating
from the early 17th century also included here, possibly items collected by Hedley Hope-Nicholson as a part of his genealogical
research.
- Subseries 6.1.
- Alfred John Nicholson and Mary Cleghorn Nicholson, 1872-1924
- Subseries 6.2.
- Nicholson and Cleghorn families, 1587-1910
Alfred John Nicholson and Mary Cleghorn Nicholson Subseries 6.1.
1872-1924
Biographical Note
Alfred John Nicholson (d. 1928) and his wife Mary Cleghorn Nicholson (1856-1922?) were the parents of Hedley Hope-Nicholson.
A.J. Nicholson owned the highly profitable Nicholson's Raincoats, which was centered in St. Albans, Hertfordshire. Mary Cleghorn
was the youngest child of Thomas Cleghorn and Sarah Chisnall Cleghorn of Bildeston, Suffolk.
Scope and Contents
This subseries contains correspondence, photographs, diaries and other materials created or collected by A.J. Nicholson and
Mary Cleghorn Nicholson. For letters between them and their son Hedley Hope-Nicholson, please see Subseries 3.1.1. A large
subset of this material issues from Mary Cleghorn's travels in France as a young woman.
box 206, Folder 1-2
Mary Cleghorn Nicholson periodicals and clippings
box 206, Folder 3-6
Mary Cleghorn Nicholson school certificates
1871-1885
Scope and Contents
Includes certificates from Globe House School and Academie Philotechnique
box 203, Folder 24
Mrs. Alfred J. Nicholson calling cards
box 65, Folder 13
Cards and poetry book from collection of Mary Cleghorn
1880s
box 65, Folder 23
Mary Cleghorn cartes-des-visites
about 1880
Scope and Contents
4 copies of same photograph
box 203, Folder 25-29
Mary Cleghorn Nicholson correspondence from Paris
box 101, Folder 19-21
Mary Cleghorn letters and materials from Paris
Scope and Contents
Includes green folder labeled "Blotter"
box 115, Folder 4
Letters to MCN from Emily Cleghorn
1915
box 115, Folder 5
MCN: Calling cards from acquaintances
box 115, Folder 23-28
Letters from French correspondents (mostly Mlle Cagnet) to MCN
1873-1910
box 115, Folder 29-30
MCN correspondence, school certificates, notebooks and other materials
about 1872-1900
box 122
List of jewelry left by Mary Cleghorn Nicholson to her grandchildren
1922
box 138, box 131
Mary Cleghorn Nicholson engagement diaries
box 101, Folder 22-24, box 110, Folder 3-5, 20-22, 24-35
Letters to Mary Cleghorn Nicholson and A.J. Nicholson
1906-1907
box 110, Folder 1-2, 6-19, 23
Letters to Mary Cleghorn Nicholson and A.J. Nicholson
1908-1910
box 110, Folder 29
Letters to Mary Cleghorn Nicholson and A.J. Nicholson
1907, 1924
box 114, Folder 17
Correspondence and ephemera of AJN and MCN
box 65, Folder 4
"A's Belgium photos also H's"
1900?
Scope and Contents
possibly contains some portraits of Alfred John Nicolson and "WHN" in addition to unidentified others
box 111, Folder 1-3, 12-18
AJN financial and legal material
Scope and Contents
Includes Mary Cleghorn Nicholson Estate, materials about various properties, account books
box 131
AJ Nicholson daily diaries and ledgers
Other Nicholson and Cleghorn family Subseries 6.2.
1587-1910
box 65, Folder 1
Photographs of Alfred John Nicholson; Eric and Cyril Tennent and Roy Vinson; "Grand-pere at Saint Albans?"; unidentified military
group
1902-1910?
box 65, Folder 3
Photographs of Mary Cleghorn, Maria Bruce Cleghorn, Kate Cleghorn
late 1800s
box 65, Folder 5-11
Cleghorn-Nicholson family photos
1850-1890
Scope and Contents
Includes cartes-de-visite of Mary Cleghorn, Semplin family, Marian Harvey, Mary Gibbs Mould, Sarah Cleghorn, Mary Nicholson,
Phillis Cleghorn, Hill House, Alfred John Nicholson, AJ Nicholson "with his tent invention," Barmouth, Ipswich, Carisbrooke,
H.B. Cortis, Phil Vickerman, Josephine Gibbs, and other unidentified individuals
box 65, Folder 12
Templier family prayer/mourning cards
1901
box 65, Folder 17
Photographs of Nicholson family
about 1890-1910?
Scope and Contents
Photographs of A.J. Nicholson and family
box 68, Folder 1
Photographs of Thomas Cleghorne and Sarah Chisnall Cleghorne
box 66, box 67
Framed photographs of family
about 1860-1905
Scope and Contents
Box 66:Includes photographs of Mary Cleghorn Nicholson, Sarah Chisnall Cleghorn, The Firs (Hampstead), Jaqueline Hope-Nicholson,
members of Nicholson family, Esme Hope, Amy Troubridge, Sir Thomas Troubridge, Helen Troubridge, Arthur Gore, and miniature
calendar given to Adrian Hope from Jaqueline.
Box 67:Includes photographs of Esme Hope, Salthorpe Rectory (home of Rachel Gurney Jones), Rachel Gurney Jones, Jessie Graham
Hope, and a ca. 1920s photograph album with unlabeled snapshots from Old Place (?)
box 110, Folder 26-28
Nicholson wills, maps, and other materials
box 111, Folder 5-8
Materials related to real estate properties in Sussex and Essex (AJN?)
about 1875-1890
box 111, Folder 9
Thomas Cleghorn and Cleghorn general clippings
box 111, Folder 10-11
William Cleghorn and Phyllis Vickerman estate
box 111, Folder 20, box 112, Folder 1
Nicholson-Hearn title deeds and mortgage documents
Scope and Contents
Includes deeds of house in street leading to the Townehouse 1587-1653.
box 112, Folder 5-7
Hearn-Clements
Scope and Contents
Includes documents and clippings
box 112, Folder 9-23, box 113, Folder 1-13
Cleghorn and other family deeds and mortgage documents
Scope and Contents
Box 112: Includes Carlo documents, Mary Cleghorn Nicholson documents, Old Place mortgage, More House insurance, HHN documents,
Thomas Cleghorn certificates, Hurlock documents.
Box 113:Includes Beaulieu Cottage documents, early Cleghorn documents, title deeds of 13 St. Austin's Lane and others to the
North of it (1658-1759), title deeds of Horners in street leading to Burnan's Gate (1605-1673), family pedigrees & genealogy
files, title deeds of The Gunnhouses opposite King's Yard (1696-1733), Captain Thomas Hearn (the first) documents, great-aunt
White and grandfather Cleghorn correspondence, Captain Thomas Heard (the second) and Mary Jackson documents, Mary Cleghorn
Nicholson death, misc. newspaper clippings, title deeds of Sturnans Davenant (1605-1759)
box 115, Folder 3
Letters to Nicholsons related to deaths and inheritances
box 131
Cleghorn address books and notebooks
Scope and Contents
Includes address books of Mary Cleghorn Nicholson and Sarah Cleghorn, birthday book of Phillis Cleghorn
box 138
Thomas Cleghorn prayer book, Phillis Cleghorn diary, and Sarah Chisnall Cleghorn birthday book
box 138
Night Thoughts by Edward Young book (London, 1790) from Cleghorn family collection
box 174
Small case with "P.V" on lid, likely Phillis Vickerman
box 211
Suitcase with label from Esperanza on lid, originally held materials relating to the Nicholson family