Roscoe Manuscripts

Family correspondence and papers of the Roscoe and Gawne families of Liverpool, Chester, Isle of Man, Shropshire, and Buckinghamshire, C18-20th, and of Theodora Roscoe, authoress and poet, and her husband, of Chalfont St. Peter, 1870-1966.

Roscoe Family Papers.

1-24.Papers of Roscoe family of Liverpool, Chester, and Whitchurch, Salop, and Gawne family of Kentraugh, Isle of Man.

Edward Stanley Roscoe (1849-1932) and family.

25-53.E.S. Roscoe's papers.

54-67.K.E. Roscoe's papers (wife of E.S.)

68-72.Papers of E.S. Roscoe's children and children-in-law (except his daughter Theodora, below).

Theodora (d.1962) and Edward Cecil Roscoe (1885-1959).

73-126.Papers of Theodora and her husband, E.C.Roscoe.

127-140.Theodora Roscoe's notebooks.

141-145.Australian Auxiliary Hospital No.1, Harefield Park, Middlesex.

146-157.Overseas Mechanical Transport Directing Committee expedition to Australia 1934.

158-159.Other Australian matters.

160-167.Photographs.

168-171.Papers and maps concerning Horn Hill Court, Chalfont St.Peter, Bucks.

172.E.B. Basden's collected notes etc. about the papers.

COPYRIGHT

For name and address of the copyright holder in the manuscripts of Theodora Roscoe see Ro 15/2 (letter from Watch Project, Reading University, 27/8/1996)

A.R. 1/70, 5/70, 16/70.

The manuscripts were purchased by Bucks. County Library and transferred to the Bucks. Record Office in 1968-70.

E.B. Basden bought the items in this deposit from a bookseller in 1963. Presumably they are the residue of her papers formed from what was not sent to Liverpool, and other family papers.

Edward Stanley Roscoe (1849-1932) was the first of the family to reside in Buckinghamshire when he came to Horn Hill Court, Chalfont St. Peter, with his wife and family in 1884. After his death his widow, Katherine, continued to reside there until her own death in 1942 when her daughter, Theodora, and her son-in-law, Edward Cecil Roscoe (1885-1959) took over the property in which they had already lived for some years. When Theodora died in 1962 Horn Hill Court was sold. She bequeathed her diaries, journals and literary manuscripts to the City of Liverpool Public Libraries, while her library was sold off. In her lifetime she had given a few manuscripts of her poems to the State University of New York at Buffalo, U.S.A. She only published a few slim volumes of poetry and some articles.