BELOE PAPERS

Correspondence mainly of the Ady and Beloe families

Letter from Col. Joseph Holden Strutt, former M.P. for Maldon, to William Brice Ady, later (1867) Archdeacon of Colchester, from Witham, 18 March 1839, concerning Ady's accommodation and introduction at Little Baddow, and describing his own circumstances (f.1).

Correspondence between Archdeacon W.B. Ady and Richard Aubrey Cartwright, of Edgcote, Northants., 1880, concerning the marriage of William Henry Ady to Julia Cartwright (ff.3-10).

Letters from Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, 1st Bart., painter, to Julia Ady (née Cartwright), [1890-7] (ff.13-43), and (ff.46-55) four letters from Philip Burne-Jones [2nd Bart (1898)] about an exhibition of his father's work at the Fine Art Society, 1896.

Letters from Frank Trelawny Arthur Ashton-Gwatkin, diplomat, probably to Julia Ady, 1913-[17], describing Japan (ff.56-68v).

Letter from Clive Wigram, 1st Baron Wigram (1935), en route to India, to Jane Bramston, wife of John Trant Bramston, housemaster at Winchester, 15 December 1900, describing his experiences in the Boer War (f.69).

Letters from Robert Douglas Beloe, father of Robert Beloe, and (1915) Headmaster of Bradfield, to his parents Robert Seppings Beloe (Rector of Holton) and Elizabeth Mary Beloe, November 1886 - June 1887, describing a visit to Australia and New Zealand (copy) (ff.71-123).

Letters to David Melville, Canon of Worcester, as follows:

Roundell Palmer, later (1882) 1st Earl of Selborne, [29 March 1832], consigning a parcel (f.124).

William Ewart Gladstone (Statesman), from Hawarden, 25 September 1850, acknowledging a letter pressing for cheaper education at Oxford university (f.126).

John Henry Newman, from Bromsgrove, 6 September 1861, on spiritualist manifestations and modern superstition (f.128).

George William Frederick Villiers, 4th Earl of Clarendon, from Watford, 15 December 1862, discussing opposition to the educational Bill by John Walter, chief proprietor of The Times newspaper (f.131).

William Ewart Gladstone (statesman), from London, 23 July 1868, on the Irish Church Measure (f.133).

George William Lyttelton, 4th Baron Lyttelton, from Stourbridge, 19 December 1875, congratulating him on translating into Greek Tennyson's epitaph on Sir John Franklin (f.138). Also a second letter on the same subject, no date (f.140).

James Fraser, Bishop of Manchester, from Manchester, 1 May 1876, on the death of Lord Lyttelton and the inadequacy of school boards for religious teaching (f.142).

Thomas Legh Claughton, Bishop of Rochester, and (1877) St. Albans, [1876], on a translation by Gladstone (f.144).

William Ewart Gladstone (statesman), from Hawarden Castle, 16 August 1876, on the translation of Franklin's epitaph, giving his own Latin version (f.145).

Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, Dean of Westminster, from Westminster, 26 December 1878, regretting his inability to preach in Worcester cathedral (f.147).

Henry Irving (actor; kt., 1895), from Grafton Street, 18 November 1879, declining to alter the text of a play by Shakespeare according to modern rules of grammar (f.149).

Sir Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant Duff to - Boyle, from Twickenham, 10 July 1881, referring to Gladstone's praise of Melville's translation of Tennyson; looks forward to his new appointment [as governor of Madras] (f.151).

Joseph Henry Shorthouse, the novelist John Inglesant, from Bury St. Edmunds, 19 September 1886, on a visit to Worcester (f.154).

Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner (1902), from London, 2 January 1893, expressing the view that the next half century may be the most critical time in the nation's history (f.158).