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    <unittitle>John Herbert Maxse letters</unittitle>
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      <persname source="ingest">Maxse, John Herbert, 1901-1978</persname>
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      <extent altrender="materialtype spaceoccupied">2 boxes</extent>
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    <unitdate datechar="creation" normal="1917/1936" type="inclusive">1917-1936</unitdate>
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<p>Cataloged.</p>  </arrangement>
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<p>This collection is located on-site.</p>  </accessrestrict>
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<p>Letters written to Maxse from his family, friends, and military colleagues. These depict social life in England and British Army life from 1920 to 1935. The letters from Pansy Lamb and Margaret Wyndham concern the first marriage of Evelyn Waugh. Among the correspondents are Helen Hardinge, Henry and Pansy Lamb, Violet Milner, Edward Sackville-West, and Henry Yorke ("Henry Green").</p>  </scopecontent>
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<p>Identification of specific item; Date (if known); John Herbert Maxse letters; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.</p>  </prefercite>
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    <head>Immediate Source of Acquisition</head>
<p>Source of acquisition--293. Method of acquisition--Purchase; Date of acquisition--01/12/80. Accession number--M-80-01-12.</p>  </acqinfo>
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<p>Major in the Coldstream Guards serving in India and elsewhere.</p>  </bioghist>
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<p>Cataloged Christina Hilton Fenn 08/--/89.</p>  </processinfo>
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    <persname source="unknown">Wyndham, Margaret</persname>
    <persname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79049248" source="naf">Waugh, Evelyn, 1903-1966</persname>
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