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John Herbert Maxse letters, 1917-1936

Summary Information

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Call No.: MS#0858
Bib ID 4079091 View CLIO record
Creator(s) Maxse, John Herbert, 1901-1978
Title John Herbert Maxse letters, 1917-1936
Physical Description 2 boxes (2 boxes)
Language(s) English .
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Arrangement

Arrangement

Cataloged.

Description

Summary

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").

Using the Collection

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This collection is located on-site.

This collection has no restrictions.

Terms Governing Use and Reproduction

Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. The RBML maintains ownership of the physical material only. Copyright remains with the creator and his/her heirs. The responsibility to secure copyright permission rests with the patron.

Preferred Citation

Identification of specific item; Date (if known); John Herbert Maxse letters; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.

Accruals

Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. Contact rbml@columbia.edu for more information.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Source of acquisition--293. Method of acquisition--Purchase; Date of acquisition--01/12/80. Accession number--M-80-01-12.

About the Finding Aid / Processing Information

Columbia University Libraries, Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Processing Information

Cataloged Christina Hilton Fenn 08/--/89.

Revision Description

2020-09-23 EAD document created by CCR.

Subject Headings

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Great Britain. Army. Coldstream Guards -- Military life Portal CLIO ArchiveGRID
Green, Henry, 1905-1973 Portal CLIO ArchiveGRID
Hardinge, Helen, 1901-1979 Portal CLIO ArchiveGRID
Lamb, Henry, 1883-1960 Portal CLIO ArchiveGRID
Lamb, Pansy Portal CLIO ArchiveGRID
Milner, Violet Georgina Milner, Viscountess, 1872-1958 Portal CLIO ArchiveGRID
Sackville-West, Edward, 1901-1965 Portal CLIO ArchiveGRID
Waugh, Evelyn, 1903-1966 Portal CLIO ArchiveGRID
Wyndham, Margaret Portal CLIO ArchiveGRID

History / Biographical Note

Biographical / Historical

Major in the Coldstream Guards serving in India and elsewhere.

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Series I: Cataloged Correspondence



Box 1 Acland-Hood, Francis Periam


Box 1 Anthoine, François Paul


Box 1 Barttelot, Sir Walter de Stopham


Box 1 Beaumont, Faith Muriel Pease


Box 1 Beaumont, Michael Wentworth


Box 1 Bell, George Kennedy Allen


Box 1 Blakiston, Rachel Georgina Russell (Mrs. Hugh Noel)


Box 1 Bucknall, Rixon


Box 1 Carnegie, Susan Ottilia de Radowski-Rivers (Mrs. Alexander Bannerman)


Box 1 Codrington, Adela Harriet Portal (Lady)


Box 1 Codrington, John Albert


Box 1 Codrington, William Melville


Box 1 Colange, Pierre


Box 1 Forbes, William Dudley Henry Charles


Box 1 Gage, Aella Molyneux Berkeley


Box 1 Graham, Alan


Box 1 Graham-Campbell, Archibald Rollo


Box 1 Hardinge of Penshurst, Helen Mary Gascoyne-Cecil Hardinge, Baroness


Box 1 Hunt, Robert Augustus Carew


Box 1 Hylton, William George Hervey Joliffe, 4th Baron


Box 1 Lamb, Henry Taylor


Box 1 Lamb, Lady Margaret Pansy Felicia Pakenham



Box 2 Leconfield, Beatrice Violet Rawson Wyndham, Baroness


Box 2 Leconfield, Edward Scawen Wyndham, 5th Baron


Box 2 Leconfield, Hugh Archibald Wyndham, 4th Baron


Box 2 Leconfield, Maud Mary Lyttelton Wyndham, Baroness


Box 2 Loewe, Lionel


Box 2 Lucan, George Charles Patrick Bingham, 6th Earl of


Box 2 Malcolm, George Ian


Box 2 Malcolm, Jeanne Marie Langtry (Lady)


Box 2 Maxse, Henry FitzHardinge Berkeley


Box 2 Maxse, Mary Caroline Wyndham (Lady)


Box 2 Maxse, Sarah Algeria Marjorie


Box 2 Milner, Violet Georgina Maxse Gascoyne-Cecil Milner, Viscountess


Box 2 Owen, Gwilym


Box 2 Pozzi, Jean


Box 2 Sackville, Edward Charles Sackville-West, 5th Baron


Box 2 Samuel, Evelyn


Box 2 Sinclair, Alan Fraser


Box 2 Snagge, L. William


Box 2 Tayler, Alistair


Box 2 Thorne, William Hobart Houghton


Box 2 Thynne, Oliver St. Maur


Box 2 Tollemache, Edward Devereux Hamilton


Box 2 Watson, Diana


Box 2 Watson, John


Box 2 Wyndham, Margaret Blanche


Box 2 Yorke, Henry Vincent ("Henry Green")


Box 2 Yorke, Maud Evelyn Wyndham (Mrs. Vincent Wodehouse)