Manuscripts
Eustace James Anthony Balfour letters
- Description
The collection contains letters addressed to Eustace Balfour and his wife, Frances, among others. Many of the letter's authors were prominent British artists, politicians and scientists of the period. Issues discussed within the collection include the personal lives of Eustace and Frances Balfour as well as 19th and 20th century British art, politics and science. Correspondents include Arthur James Balfour, Georges-Ernest-Jean-Marie Boulanger, Ford Madox Brown, Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, William Benjamin Carpenter, Joseph Chamberlain, Walter Crane, Sir John Gilbert, William Holman Hunt, Henry James, Rudyard Kipling, Henry Charles Keith Petty-FitzMaurice, the Marquess of Lansdowne, Princess Louise, James Russell Lowell, John Morley, Richard Owen, and Robert Cecil, marquess of Salisbury.
- Date
- 1854-1937
- Call number
- mssHM 35000-35064
- Provenance
- Gift of I. Kerrison Preston, 1971.
- Associated people
- Balfour, Frances, (1858-1931,)
- Balfour, Arthur James, (1848-1930.)
- Boulanger, Georges-Ernest-Jean-Marie, (1837-1891.)
- Brown, Ford Madox, (1821-1893.)
- Burne-Jones, Edward Coley, (1833-1898.)
- Carpenter, William Benjamin, (1813-1885.)
- Chamberlain, Joseph, (1836-1914.)
- Crane, Walter, (1845-1915.)
- Gilbert, John, (1817-1897.)
- Hunt, William Holman, (1827-1910.)
- James, Henry, (1843-1916.)
- Kipling, Rudyard, (1865-1936.)
- Lansdowne, Henry Charles Keith Petty-FitzMaurice, (1845-1927.)
- Louise, (1848-1939.)
- Lowell, James Russell, (1819-1891.)
- Morley, John, (1838-1923.)
- Owen, Richard, (1804-1892.)
- Salisbury, Robert Cecil, (1830-1903.)
