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General correspondence (mainly non-estate) of the 1st Earl of Wharncliffe

Catalogue reference: Wh M/418

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Wh M/418
Title
General correspondence (mainly non-estate) of the 1st Earl of Wharncliffe
Date
1856-1891
Description

This follows on from the sequence Wh M/408-417, but the estate correspondence was mainly kept with the estate papers. The bundles are therefore small and consist of various non-estate business letters, begging letters and personal and family matters and public office.

Though never a front-rank politician (he was offered an under-secretaryship by Lord Derby), Lord Wharncliffe was active in many fields and his correspondence is of a varied nature.

The correspondence indexed contains much that is trivial, but a good deal will be found concerning such maters as local schools and church building, and from a number of figures in the art world whom Lord Wharncliffe patronised; and letters from may people well known in society in the later Victorian period.

In the index, items are listed by year date, followed by a number indicating how many letters, e.g. 1866 4 letters

Index of Correspondents:

A 'Plan of the letters as arranged in the drawers, 1846-91'. Filed at end of Wh M/418.

Anonymous letters (abusing Ld. W. for his support of Southern Independence Assn.)

1863 2 letters (one from 'Indignant Englishman'; one from 'Lover of Truth'

1864 2 letters

A - [signature missing] (Hull)

1871 1 letter

Ace, Rev. Daniel (Laughton Vicarage)

1882 1 letter

Adair, Mrs. C. (Curzon St.)

1888 1 letter

1891 1 letter

Ailesbury, Maria Elizabeth Brudenell-Bruce, Marchioness of (née Tollemarche, widow of 1st Marquis)

1862 1 letter

1863 1 letter

1865 1 letter

1867 1 letter

1868 1 letter

1869 2 letters

1890 1 letter

Alcester, Admiral Frederick Beauchamp Paget Seymour, Baron, cr. 1882.

(Filed under Seymour until 1883)

1871 2 letters

1873 1 letter

1874 1 letter

1875 1 letter

1876 4 letters

1880 6 letters

1881 4 letters

1882 6 letters

1883 2 letters

1891 1 letter

Note: 1 misplaced in 1871 owing to signature partly destroyed.

Alexander, H. (Calcutta)

1856 1 letter

Alford, Marianne Margaret Cust styled Viscountess (née Compton, widow of John Hume Cust, Viscount)

1882 1 letter

Allen, R. C. Estate steward at Hawes

1857 3 letters

1860 6 letters

1861 6 letters

1862 7 letters

1863 4 letters

Allott, Alfred (Sheffield)

1872 1 letter (and draft reply from Ld. W.)

Anderson, J. Macvicar, architect (Stratton St.)

1871 1 letter 29 June 1871: re drains at Wharncliffe House, London (2 pp)

Anderson, Mary

1884 3 letters

Andrews, Burrows & Co. (Wortley Iron Works)

1857 1 letter

Annoot, Charles (Annoot & Gale, Old Bond St.)

1858 2 letters

1861 3 letters

Anson, Isabella (widow of General George Anson, brother of 1st Earl of Lichfield)

1858 1 letter

Antrobus, Hugh Lindsay

1857 1 letter

Antrobus, Robert Crawford (Hong Kong)

1856 1 letter

Arbuthnot, Gen. W. (Cairo)

1883 2 letters

Argyll, George Douglas Campbell 8th Duke of

1884 1 letter

(For the 9th Duke see Lorne, Marquis of)

Ascoli & Angiolini, Messrs. (Bologna)

1875 4 letters

Ashley, Evelyn (? son of 7th Earl of Shaftesbury)

1868 1 letter

1869 1 letter

Atkinson, Rev. George Barnes (Collegiate School, Sheffield)

1861 1 letter

1862 1 letter (enc. subscription list)

Attenborough, Walter A.

1890 1 letter

Auckland, William G. Eden 4th Baron

1872 1 letter

1875 2 letters

Aveland, Gilbert Henry Heathcote-Drummond, 2nd Baron (subs. 22nd Baron Willoughby de Eresby)

1886 1 letter

Aylesford, Heneage Finch 6th Earl of

1862 1 letter

Bachmayer, J. (?) (St. James')

1860 1 letter

Badnall, Rev. Hopkins (Cawthorne Parsonage)

1857 1 letter

Baker, Sir Samuel White ('Baker of the Nile') 1821-1893

1857 2 letters

1859 1 letter

1861 1 letter

1862 1 letter

1865 3 letters

1867 3 letters

1868 5 letters

1869 1 letter

1870 1 letter

1871 1 letter

1873 2 letters

1875 6 letters

1876 4 letters

1877 2 letters

1878 5 letters

1879 1 letter

1880 2 letters

1881 3 letters

1882 1 letter

1885 2 letters

1886 1 letter

1888 4 letters

1889 2 letters

1890 2 letters

1891 3 letters

Baker, Valentine (Baker Pasha, brother of Sir Samuel) 1827-1887

1882 1 letter

1885 1 letter

Barker, Robert cabinet maker, (Sheffield)

1862 3 letters criticising Ld. W.'s views on foreign affairs

1864 1 letter criticising Ld. W.'s views on foreign affairs

Barlow, Rev. Henry (Pitsmoor, Sheffield)

1856 2 letters

Barnsley Church, Yorks.

1866 (Parsonage appeal, Printed)

Barnstable, Devon Churchwardens of

1861 1 letter

Baron, Rev. John R.C. priest, (Wakefield)

1864 1 letter

Barrington, George William 7th Viscount

1876 1 letter

Barron, Rev. J. A. (Bath)

1856 1 letter

Barthrop, E. (Birmingham)

1859 1 letter

Bates, Mrs. Harriet (Wortley tenant)

1856 1 letter

Bath, Frances Isabella Catherine Thynne Marchioness of (née de Vesci, wife of 4th Marquis)

1869 1 letter

1871 1 letter

Battersby, Rev. James (Sheffield)

1858 1 letter

Baxter, R. Dudley (Westminster)

1868 1 letter (re candidates for S. Division of Yorks.)

Baxter, Robert solicitor (Doncaster)

1857 2 letters (to Vincent Corbett)

1867 1 letter (to Rev. W. Fenn - filed with his)

Beaconsfield, Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of (cr. 1876)

1873 1 letter (filed under Disraeli)

1877 1 letter

1879 2 letters

Beauchamp, Frederick Lygon, 6th Earl

1880 1 letter

Beaufort, Henry Charles Fitzroy Somerset, 8th Duke of

1879 2 letters

Beaumont, Henry (Grantham)

1867 1 letter

Beckett, Ernest (Old Bank, Leeds)

1890 1 letter

Beckett, William (Nun Appleton)

1889 1 letter

1890 1 letter

Bedford, John (Birley House, Sheffield)

1874 1 letter

Beet, Thomas (Messrs. Uppam and Beet, New Bond St.)

1856 1 letter

Bell, Jemima S. (Scarborough)

1859 1 letter

BELL, Steward & May, Messrs. (solicitors, Lincoln's Inn Fields): concerns business relating to Duke of Northumberland's Trust.

1877 1 letter

1879 1 letter

1884 1 letter

1886 4 letters

1887 1 letter

1888 1 letter

1889 4 letters

1890 2 letters

1891 3 letters

Bennet, Dawson & Bennet, Messrs. (of Lincoln's Inn)

1882 1 letter

Bennet, Rowland Nevitt (of Lincoln's Inn)

1857 4 letters

Beresford, Mina (née Gardner) Lady Charles Beresford

1886 8 letters

Best, Robert Storr (Goole)

1874 1 letter (re memorial to John Wells)

Bingley, Dr. Chas. William (Whitley Hall, Sheffield)

1859 1 letter

Bingley, Dr. J. H. (Whitley Hall, Sheffield)

1882 1 letter

Bingley, William (Ellerslie Lodge, Penistone)

1860 1 letter

Birchall, Charles accountant (Sheffield)

1858 1 letter

Birks, John (Hemingfield)

1856 1 letter

1860 3 letters (re Ellis charity)

Blades, James (Hawes)

1861 1 letter

Blane, Sir Seymour 2nd bart.

1872 4 letters

Blomfield, Arthur W. (Cavendish Sq.)

1871 1 letter

Bolton, William Henry Orde-Powlett, 3rd Baron

1879 1 letter

Bond, Charles M. (Pimlico)

1857 1 letter

Bonssod, Valadon & Co. (New Bond St.)

1889 2 letters

Borrow, Rev. H. (Lanivet, Cornwall)

1864 1 letter

Borthwick, Sir Algernon, bart. (cr. 1887)

1869 1 letter

1870 1 letter

1891 1 letter

Bossert & Scholl, Messrs. (London)

1880 2 letters

Bourke, Hon. Robert (cr. Baron Connemara 1887)

1882 1 letter

Bowden, Rev. John (Thurgoland Parsonage)

1860 2 letters

1866 1 letter

1867 7 letters

Bowen, Rev. C. (Kirton Vicarage)

1868 1 letter

Boy, E. art dealer (Paris)

1862 2 letters

Boyle, Henry B. styled Viscount (suc. as 5th Earl of Shannon, 1868)

1859-60 2 letters

1860, 1861 2 letters

1867 1 letter (Ld. Wharncliffe to)

Boyle, Richard Henry, styled Viscount (subsequently 6th Earl of Shannon - nephew of Ld. W.)

1886 1 letter (from Ft. Macleod, Canada)

Bradford, Selina Louisa Bridgeman Countess of (wife of 3rd Earl, previously Viscount Newport)

1863 1 letter (filed under Newport)

1868 2 letters

Bradley, F. (Sheffield)

1858 2 letters

Brewer, Rev. Dr. W. (St. George's, Hanover Sq.)

1856 1 letter

Brewin, Rev. George (Wortley)

1860 2 letters

1862 1 letter

1864 1 letter

1865 2 letters

1868 1 letter

1872 3 letters

1874 1 letter

Brewster, Sir David

1856 1 letter

Bright, Lieut. Augustus (Sheffield)

1866 1 letter

Bright, T. (Bright & Sons, watchmakers, Sheffield)

1856 1 letter

Bristol, Frederick William Hervey 2nd Marquis of

1856 1 letter

1857 1 letter

1858 1 letter

1859 1 letter

Bristol, Frederick Wm. J. Hervey 3rd Marquis of

1861 1 letter (as Lord Jermyn - courtesy title)

1875 1 letter

1879 1 letter

Broadhead, William (of Sheffield 'outrages')

1868 1 letter

Brooke, Lady (Francis Evelyn Greville née Maynard, subs. Countess of Warwick)

1886 1 letter and card (in Beresford packet)

Brooke, G. F. wine merchants (Dublin)

1857 2 letters

1860 3 letters

1865 1 letter

1866 2 letters

1868 1 letter

1870 1 letter

1873 2 letters

1874 1 letter

Broomhead, Barnard P

1873 1 (about Mark Firth)

1880 1 (Sheffield politics)

Brown, A. C. (Aberdeen)

1858 1 letter

Brown, John steelmaker (Atlas Works, Sheffield)

1863 4 (one with circular re rolled-iron armour plate)

1864 2 letters

1865 1 letter

1872 see Ellis

Brown, Walter (Sheffield & Rotherham Bank)

1856 1 letter

1857 33 letters

1858 15 letters

1859 8 letters

1860 1 letter

1867 1 letter

Brown(E), Thomas Alexander ('Rolf Boldrewood', Australian novelist)

1856 1 letter

1860 1 letter

1862 2 letters

1863 1 letter (from Belfast)

1865 1 letter

1868 2 letters

1876 1 letter

1889 1 letter

Brownlow, Adelaide Cust Lady (wife of 3rd Lord Brownlow, dau. of 17th Earl of Shrewsbury)

1891 1 letter

Buccleuch, Charlotte Anne Duchess of (née Thynne, wife of 5th Duke)

1861 4 letters

1864 1 letter

1891 3 letters

Buccleuch, Walter Francis Scott 6th Duke of

1862 1 letter

Buckland, Dr. F. (Salmon Fisheries Office)

1868 1 letter

Burbeary, Jas. Pashley (Southbourne, Sheffield)

1856 1 letter

1860 1 letter

Burgess, Samuel W. (Stratford, Essex)

1856 2 letters

Burn, Miss E. (Dundee)

1856 2 letters

1860 2 letters

Bury, Rev. C. A. (Sandown, I.o.W.)

1865 1 letter

Bute, John Patrick Crichton-Stuart 3rd Marquis of

1881 6 letters

1891 2 letters

Byram, Richard (Knottingley)

1856 1 letter

Byron, Rev. J. (Welby)

1865 2 letters

Cadogan, Hon. Charles

1882 1 letter (from Geneva)

Cairns, Hugh McCalmont 1st Baron

1869 1 letter

Calvert, W. (Sheffield Conservative Club)

1881 2 letters

Cambridge, Princess Augusta Wilhelmina Duchess of (widow of 1st Duke)

1870 1 letter

Cambridge, Prince George W. F. C. 2nd Duke of

1869 1 letter

1870 4 letters

Cardall, Rev. W.

1868 2 letters

1869 1 letter

Carden, Sir R.

1860 1 letter

Carlhian & Corbière, Messrs. London

1862 2 letters

Carnarvon, Henry Howard Molyneux Newbery Herbert, 4th Earl of

1874 1 letter

1877 1 letter

Carnegie, Hon. Charles

1860 2 letters (re elections)

Carpenter, Wm. Boyd-

see Ripon, Bishop of

Carr, Robert (? Don Glass Works)

1856 1 letter

1858 1 letter

1859 1 letter

1866 1 letter

1872 2 letters

Carter, Thomas (Sheffield)

1857 2 letters

Cartier, Sir G. Edward

1868 1 letter

Cass, W. (Liverpool)

1864 1 letter

Cassan, Mrs. Phoebe (co. Dublin)

1870 2 letters

1871 3 letters

1872 6 letters

Cavendish, Lord Frederick Charles (2nd son of 7th Duke of Devonshire)

1862 1 letter

1874 2 letters

Cayley, George Everard Arthur subs. 9th bart. (husband of Susan Stuart-Wortley)

1891 2 letters

Cayley, George John (2nd son of Edward S. Cayley of Wydale House, York)

1857 2 letters

Chambers, A. M. (Thorncliffe Iron Works and Tapton Lodge)

1888 1 letter

Chambers, George (Messrs. Newton & Chambers)

1857 1 letter

Chambers, J. N. (Thorncliffe Iron Works)

1862 1 letter

Chaplin, Henry President, Board of Agriculture

1891 1 letter

Chapman, J. (Manchester, Sheffield & Lincolnshire Rly.)

1856 2 letters

Charles, A. F. (Sheffield People's college)

1857 1 letter

Chester, Rev. G. J. (Sheffield)

1859 1 letter

Chesterfield, Anne Elizabeth Countess of (née Forrester, wife of 6th Earl)

1864 2

'Chesterfield letters of 1873'

1874 Printed statement re same

Chichester, Capt. H. (Huddersfield)

1862 1 letter

Childers, Hugh Culling Eardley, First Lord of the Admiralty

1870 1 letter

Christie, Rev. J. (Turiff, Aberdeen)

1857 1 letter

Christofre, Messrs. of Paris (Maire, -, representative of)

1871 1 letter

Clarke, Sir Andrew

1860 1 (re appointment to Ceylon)

1862 2 letters

1863 (outline of career)

1864 3 letters

1866 1 letter

1880 1 letter

1884 2 letters (War Office)

Clarke, E. (Paddington)

1868 1 (with cutting about W. Broadhead)

Clarke, Robert Couldwell (of Noblethorpe)

1862 1 letter

Clere, Rev. H. (Todmorden)

1856 1 letter

Cleveland, Henry (late Col. in Confed. States Army)

1872 5 letters

Clifford, W. (former colliery manager)

1876 1 letter (S.S. Colombo, returning to England)

1887 1 letter (re miner's safety lamp)

Cloncurry, Laura Sophia Lawless Lady (nee Winn, wife of 4th Baron)

1889 1 letter

Clough, John (Piccadilly)

1864 1 letter

Cobb, Rev. C. (Barnsley)

1864 1 letter

Cobbe, Col. W. (Chief Constable's Office, Wakefield)

1867 1 letter

1868 6 letters

Cockburn, Mrs. Amelia (widow of Capt. Cockburn)

1866 1 letter

Coe, Augustus F. (Argyll St., London)

1870 3 letters

1871 4 letters

1872 7 letters (and Ld. Forrester)

1873 7 letters

Colam, John (R.S.P.C.A., London)

1877 1 letter

Collie, William

1874 1 letter

1875 1 letter

1879 5 letters

1881 1 letter

Collins, Rev. R. (Kirkburton Vicarage)

1863 1 letter

1868 1 letter

Collman & Davis, Messrs. (wallpapers, Portman Sq.)

1856 2 letters (re wallpapers for Worthy Hall)

Colnaghi, P. & D. & Co. (print dealers, Pall Mall)

1856 2 letters

1858 (see under Goble)

1860 5 letters

1861 7 letters

1862 1 letter

1863 1 letter (offering portrait of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu)

1864 1 letter

Commerell, Admiral Sir J. Edmund

1878 4 letters

Conyngham, Francis N. Conyngham 2nd Marquis

1859 1 letter

Cooper, J. (Messrs. Cooper, Mt. Vernon, nr. Barnsley)

1866 1 letter

1870 1 letter

Corbett, Rev. J. (Wigginton)

1859 1 letter

Corbett, Vincent (Wortley)

1862 2 letters

1864 5 letters

Corbett & Wood (mineral agents, Sheffield)

1861 1 letter

1862 4 letters

1863 12 letters

1864 12 letters

Cork, Emily Boyle Countess of (nee Bourke, wife of 8th Earl)

1889 1 letter

Courteney, Mrs. M. (Portsmouth)

1859 2 letters

Coutts & Co. (bankers)

1856 13 letters

1861 1 letter

1872 3 letters

Cox, S. (London)

1861 3 letters

Crampton, William (Sheffield)

1882 1 letter & 1 letter to (about Ommaney case)

Crane, Walter artist

1877 1 letter

1879 4 letters

1882 5 letters

Creswick, Sarah (Mrs. N. Creswick, Handsworth Grange)

1886 1 letter (filed with J. Carr Fletcher's)

Croker, Dr. George (co. Down)

1861 1 letter

Crosby, Col. J. Selington

1881 1 letter (from Lucerne)

1882 1 letter (from Florence)

Cubitt, S. (Beaulieu)

1883 1 letter

Curzon, Lt. Col. R.

1857 1 letter

Danby, James

1864 1 letter

Dancer, Mrs. Sarah

1860 1 letter

Daniell, Rev. Raymond S. (Totteridge Rectory)

1856 2 letters

Davidson, James (Gr. School, Bowness on Windermere)

1866 3 letters (re his history of Wortley and the Wortleys)

Davies, Richard Henry

1873 1 letter (from Spain)

Dawson, George (Thorncliffe Iron Works)

1879 1 letter

Dawson, Rev. H. (Malvern Link)

1863 1 letter

Dawson, Jacob (Primitive Methodist minister, Middleham)

1857 1 letter

Dawson, William (Lincoln's Inn)

1857 1 letter

Day, Rev. Henry (Barnsley)

1863 1 letter

D'Azeglio, Marquis

1868 1 letter

Deale, D. A. Gilbourne

1856 1 letter

Deane, Rev. R. (Sheffield)

1856 2 letters

De Lancey, Capt. J.

1875 2 letters

1878 1 letter

Denison, Ed. Beckett- (subs. Sir Edmund Beckett, 4th bart.)

1862 1 letter

1863 2 letters

Denison, W. A. (Meanwood Park, Leeds)

1870 1 letter

Denning, H. (Philosophical Hall, Leeds)

1858 2 letters

Dent, John (Ribston Hall)

1869 1 letter

Derby, Edward Geoffrey Stanley, 14th Earl of

1863 2 letters

1864 5 letters

1865 1 letter

1866 (Wharncliffe to Derby refusing under-secretaryship)

1867 1 letter

1868 3 letters

1876 1 letter

Devitt, Anthony (co. Mayo)

1860 1 letter

Devonshire, Wm. Cavendish 7th Duke of

1869 1 letter

Dexter, J.

1856 1 letter

1861 1 letter

Dixon, B. (Clerk of the peace, Wakefield)

1856 1 letter

Dixon, Wm. Frederick (Page Hall, Sheffield)

1864 1 letter (from Southport)

1868 2 letters

Donaldson, S. (Mayfair)

1856 1 letter

Doran, Dr. John (Notting Hill)

1872 2 letters (about Edward Wortley Montagu papers)

Dorchester, Dudley Wilmot Carleton 4th Baron (succeeded Dec. 1875)

1874 1 letter filed under Carleton

1875 1 letter filed under Carleton

1883 1 letter

Dransfield, John attorney (Penistone)

1856 1 letter

1857 1 letter

1860 2 letters

1867 1 letter

1869 1 letter

Dransfield, John N. (Penistone)

1880 1 letter (about Penistone Gr. School)

1884 1 letter (about Penistone Gr. School)

Drogheda, Henry Francis Seymour Moore 3rd Marquis of

1881 1 letter

Drogheda, Mary Caroline Moore (née Stuart-Wortley)

Marchioness of

1859-62 2 letters (1859, family file)

1865 1 letter (from U.S.A.)

1881 1 letter

1885 1 letter

1887 1 letter

1888 3 letters (from Govt. House, Wellington, Tasmania, Kandy)

1890 1 letter

1891 1 letter

Ducie, Henry John Reynolds Moreton, 3rd Earl of

1874 1 letter

1875 2 letters

1883 1 letter

Duff, Stronach, J. (Ceylon)

1862 (2 letters about him)

Dufferin, Frederick Temple Blackwood 1st Earl of

1858 1 letter

Duffus-Hardy, J. (Public Record Office)

1859 2 letters

1860 1 letter

Du Fosse, Dr. (Paris)

1872 1 letter (re Varsy fam.)

Du Maurier, George novelist and artist

1875 1 letter

1888 2 letters

Duncan, J. (Bexley Heath)

1860 1 letter

Duncombe, Rev. & Hon. A. (Dean of York)

1859 2 letters

1877 1 letter

Dunn, J. (Hyde Park)

1857 1 letter

Durham, W. G. (Stepney)

1860 1 letter

Eden, Hon. R. H. S. (Hillhampton House)

1891 1 letter

Edward Prince of Wales (subs. Edward VII)

1866 2 letters

(And 1 letter from Wharncliffe)

Edwards, George (Sheffield)

1872 1 letter (re Wortley church choir)

Edwards, Sir H.

1870 1 letter (re militia)

Elcho, Francis Charteris-Douglas, styled Baron, subs. 9th Earl of Wemyss

1870 2 letters (re militia)

Ellershaw, Rev. H. (Mexborough)

1863 1 letter (with subscription list and printed view of Mexbro' church)

Ellice, Col. H.

1860 2 letters

Ellis, J. (J. Brown & Co., Atlas Works)

1872

Ellison, Rev. Henry (Windsor)

1857 1 letter

Ellison, Michael J. (Duke of Norfolk's agent, Sheffield)

1866 1 letter

1868 1 letter (with encl. from C. L. Coward)

Elliss, H. C. (Sheffield)

1856 2 letters (Ragged schools)

Eminson, John (Barrowby, Grantham)

1861 1 letter (advice about Library)

Enfield, George H. C. Byng, styled Viscount, subs. 3rd Earl of Strafford

1871 1 letter

Erard, Messrs. S. & P. (music dealers)

1861 1 letter

Erskine, D. (Drumkilbo)

1859 1 letter

Erskine, R. St. Clare-

see Rosslyn, Earl of

Euston, Henry James Fitsroy, styled Earl of

1890 1 letter

Eversley, Charles Shaw-Lefevre 1st Viscount

1862 1 letter

Ewen, Capt. C.

1863 1 letter (re a Yorkshire '8' for Counties match)

Eyre, G. L. P. (Bedford Row)

1864 4 letters

Faucourt, Marquis de

1890 1 letter

Feilding, Major Gen. Percy (Warminster)

1872 1 letter

Fenn, Rev. W. M. (Tankersley Rectory)

1867 2 letters

1869 2 letters

1874 1 letter

Feversham, Mabel Violet Duncombe Countess of

(Née Graham, wife of 1st Earl)

1882 1 letter and 1 letter to

Feversham, Wm. Ernest Duncombe 1st Earl of

1882 2 letters

Feuerheerd, Matth. & Co. (Oporto)

1875 1 letter

Field, W. veterinary surgeon (Oxford St.)

1856 1 letter

Fisher, Herbert (Marlborough House)

1868 1 letter

Fisher, William (Woodside, Sheffield)

1856 1 letter (Savings Bank)

Fitzwilliam, Hon. H. (Wentworth Woodhouse)

1889 1 letter (death of Hon. John F.)

Fitzwilliam, William Charles 5th Earl Fitzwilliam

1856 1 letter

Fitzwilliam, William Thomas 6th Earl Fitzwilliam

1861 1 letter

1862 1 letter

Fletcher, Benjamin (President, Working Men's Church Defence and Reform Assn., Sheffield)

1877 1 letter

Fletcher, John Carr (Sheffield)

1886 3 letters (re Hallamshire Primrose League)

Floyd, R. A. (Holmfirth)

1859 1 letter

Fondrinier, Miss

1857 1 letter

Foote, Major F. O. Barrington (subs. Col.)

1885 1 letter (Simla)

Forester, John G. W. Weld Forester, 2nd Baron

1872 2 letters (filed with Coe, re Earl of Bristol's trust)

1873 1 letter

Forster, Lieut. Gen. W. F.

1871 1 letter

Fortescue, Hugh 3rd Earl

1869 1 letter

Fortescue, Col. John William (Madeira)

1859 1 letter

Fortescue, Seymour R.N. (H.M.S.Surprise)

1888 2 letters

Fowler, John (Braemor)

1869 1 letter

Fowler, William (Whittington Hall, Dbs.)

1872 2 letters (re proposed newspaper and Leng's reactions)

Fox, C. J. (Sheffield)

1858 1 letter

Fox, Samuel (Stocksbridge Works)

1874 1 letter

Francis, Dr. -

1857 1 letter

Frankland, Sir Frederick 10th bart.

1887 1 letter

1890 1 letter

Franks, Augustus W. (British Museum)

1877 1 letter (re sword discovered on Catterdale Moors)

Fraser, Col. Keith

1882 1 letter

French, Rev. Robert Jackson (Flockton Parsonage)

1862 2 letters

1866 2 letters

1868 1 letter

Freshfield and Williams solicitors (London)

1885 1 letter

Frith, Luke (Sheffield)

1881 1 letter

Frodsham, C. clock-repairer (Strand)

1860 1 letter

1869 1 letter

Fullerton, J. of Thrybergh

1856 1 letter (Ld. Wharncliffe to, filed under Dixon)

Fulton, H. H.

1862 2 letters

Gallear, George and Frances (Staffs.)

1863 3 letters Supposed relationship to Wortley family

1864 1 letter Supposed relationship to Wortley family

1865 1 letter Supposed relationship to Wortley family

Garrards jewellers

1866 1 letter

Gatty, Rev. Alfred (Ecclesfield)

1856 1 letter

1859 1 letter

1860 1 letter

1864 6 letters

1867 2 letters

1868 3 letters

1869 2 letters

1870 7 letters

1872 12 letters

1873 3 letters

1874 1 letter

1875 1 letter

1876 3 letters

1877 1 letter (encl. details of Sir F. Wortley's nuncupative will, 1652)

Gatty, Alfred Scott- Rouge Dragon

1880 1 letter

1881 1 letter

1883 2 letters

Gill, Rev. W. (Stannington)

1856 1 letter

Girardin, Mme. Mina de

1870 4 letters

1871 1 letter

Gladstone, Mrs. Catherine

1862 1 letter

Gladstone, W. E. politician

1862 1 letter

Goble, Miss -

1858 4 letters

Goode, Rev. W., Dean of Ripon

1862 1 letter (filed under Ripon)

Gould, John ornithologist

1865 1 letter

Graham, Col. L.

1868 1 letter (American politics)

Graham, W. (Loch Alsh and Kensington)

1884 6 letters

Grand Buffalo Hunt

1872 1 letter (circular)

Grant, Sir Francis (?8th bart. of Monymusk)

1874 1 letter

Grant, Maria (Paris)

1861 1 letter

Granville, Granville George Leveson-Gower 2nd Earl

1856 2 letters

1871 1 letter

Graves, Hon. H.

1871 1 letter

Gray, J. (Paris)

1862 1 letter

Greaves, Rev. T.

1873 2 letters

Greville, Henry

1860 2 letters

Groom, Mrs. Sophia

1860 1 letter

Grossmith, George actor

1878 1 letter

Grosvenor, Norman (son of Baron Ebury, husband of Caroline Stuart-Wortley)

1883 1 letter

Grosvenor, Lord Richard

1868 1 letter

Guest, Montague (brother of Ld. Wimborne)

1871 2 letters

Hadgate, Glarke & Co. (Strand)

1864 1 letter

Haigh, Daniel Henry

1870 1 letter

Halifax, Charles Wood, 1st Viscount (cr. 1866)

1860 1 letter (filed under Wood)

1870 1 letter

1877 1 letter

Hall, Dr. J. C.

1857 1 letter (circular re Sheffield Public Dispensary)

Hamerton, P. G.

1885 3 letters (from Autun, France)

Hamilton, Rev. C. (Kimberworth)

1862 1 letter

Hammond, J. (West Burton)

1865 1 letter

Handley, Eliza

1856 2 letters

Hanstein, Harriet

1856 2 letters

Harding, J. D.

1862 1 letter

Harewood, Henry Thynne Lascelles 4th Earl of

1874 1 letter

Harewood, Louisa Countess of (née Thynne, widow of 3rd Earl)

1858 (Epitome of will)

Harman and Stevens (Christchurch, N.Z.)

1872 2 letters

1873 4 letters

Harrison, J. (Carlton, Barnsley)

1858 1 letter

Harrowby, Dudley Ryder 2nd Baron

1860 1 letter

Hartley, Rev. W. S. (Laughton vicarage)

1856 2 letters

Hartman, Mrs. Emma

1889 1 letter

1890 1 letter

1891 2 letters

Haskoll, Rev. J.

1862 6 letters (offers MS. of Lady M. Wortley Montagu)

Hassall, Dr. Richard (Richmond)

1868 1 letter

1870 1 letter

HAWKES & Co. (Piccadilly)

1859 1 letter

Hawksley, George (Owlerton)

1864 1 letter (re Dewsbury waterworks and R. Don works)

Haworth, Rev. W.

1856 1 letter

Henville, Rev. E. (Attercliffe)

1867 2 letters

Herbert, Henry A.

1883 1 letter (and 1 to)

Herford, E. (Manchester)

1877 2 letter

Herring, Rev. A. S. (Islington)

1870 1 letter (encouragement of emigration)

Herring, W. dealer in game

1861 3 letters

1863 10 letters

1864 1 letters

Hertford, Francis G. H. Seymour 5th Marquis of

1871 1 letter

Hervey, Lord Arthur (later Bishop of Bath & Wells)

1861 1 letter

Hervey, F. W.

see Bristol

Hervey, John

1875 2 letters (and 1 to)

Hewitt, J. (Royal Library, Leamington)

1860 1 letter

Heyrick, W. (Wortley)

1858 1 letter

1866 1 letter

Hicks, W. (Newton, Leeds)

1859 1 letter (Encl. from Sir Peter Fairbairn)

Hill, Frank H.

1886 1 letter (re dismissal as editor of 'Daily News')

Hinde, E. (Exeter)

1858 1 letter

Hirst, Fanny E.

1856 1 letter

1857 1 letter

1858 2 letters

Hirst, H. I.

1857 1 letter

Hodson, M. Storr- (Aire & Calder Nav.)

1872 1 letter

Holland, George (cousin of Dr. G. Calvert Holland)

1856 1 letter

Holland, G. C. perfumier (Manchester)

1856 1 letter

Holt, Henry (Wakefield)

1857 2 letters

Home, Hon. James A.

1891 1 letter

Honolulu, Bishop of (Rev. Thos. Nettleship Staley)

1862 2 letters

Hook, Rev. Dr. W. F. (Vicar of Leeds)

1858 1 letter

1864 1 letter (from Addington, Croydon)

Hope, A. Beresford

1863 5 letters (re Southern Independence Assn.)

Horsley, T. (York)

1859 1 letter

Hounsfield, Rev. J. G.

1856 2 letters

Hounsfield, Mrs. R. (wife of above)

1856 1 letter

Howard, Rev. R. (St. Peter's College, Rawdon)

1869 6 letters

1870 8 letters

Howard, Rev. W. (Whiston Rectory)

1861 1 letter

Hoyland, Benjamin (Sheffield)

1886 1 letter (filed with J. Carr Fletcher's)

Hudson, Rev. J. (Dodworth)

1859 1 letter

Hudson, Col. Joseph

1871 2 letters

1874 3 letters

Hughes, Thomas (Athenaeum Club)

1873 1 letter (about a railway co.?)

Hulbert, Rev. C.

1862 1 letter (printed appeal for Rashcliffe church)

Hunt, Mrs (Stanwix)

1858 1 letter

Hunt, D. (Carlisle)

1858 3 letters

Hunt, John emigrant (Auckland)

1880 1 letter

Hutton, Rev. T. P. (Sompting Vicarage)

1861 1 letter

Hyatt, Rev. J. C. (Queensbury Parsonage, nr.Halifax)

1869 1 letter

Ibbetson, Rev. - (Brighouse)

1857 1 letter

Ibbotson, Joseph (Bradfield)

1869 1 letter

Inglefield, Capt. E. A. marine artist (Windermere)

1856 1 letter (filed with Colnaghi & Co.)

Ironside, Isaac (Sheffield radical)

1857 2 letters

1863 3 letters

Jackson, Dr. F.

1867 1 letter (Oaks Colliery Relief Fund)

Jackson, John Chief Constable, Sheffield

1881 1 letter

James, P. V. R.N. (Vancouver)

1858 1 letter

Jeffcock, Parkin

1856 1 letter (encl.: printed notice re Wharncliffe, Silkstone & Tankersley circulating library)

Johnson, Rev. J. (Denby)

1866 1 letter

Johnstone, W. R. (National Gallery, Edinburgh)

1861 3 letters (loan of Ld.W's Chinese articles)

Jones, Sir Edward Burne- R.A.

1878 2 letters

1879 3 letters

1882 1 letter

1884 2 letters

1885 2 letters

Karslake, Preston (London)

1866 1 letter

1867 1 letter

1876 1 letter (filed with Col. E. Neville's)

1884 1 letter

Kaye, Sir J. Lister 2nd bart. (Denby Grange)

1856 2 letters

Kaye, Sir J. Lister 3rd bart.

1883 1 letter

Kendall, Rev. J. Hutton Fisher (Holbeck parsonage)

1856 1 letter (printed circular)

1860 1 letter

Kerr, Lord Charles

1857 2 letters (Perthshire election)

Kerr, C. Webster (Dunster)

1856 1 letter

Kerrison, Sir Edward 2nd bart.

1869 1 letter

1874 1 letter

Kilmorey, Francis Charles Needham 3rd Earl of

1886 4 letters

King, P. S. bookseller (Westminster)

1858 1 letter

Kingscote, Henry (London Assurance Co.)

1869 3 letters

Kingsley, Dr. G. H. author and traveller

1877 1 letter (opinion of Harriet Martineau)

Kinsman, Rev. G. (Gildersome, Leeds)

1858 1 letter

Kinsman, Rev. R. B. (Tintagel)

1856 4 letters

1857 2 letters

1858 1 letter

1863 2 letters

Kintrea, A.

1863 2 letters (re Southern Independence Assn.)

Knapton, W. M. (Albion Foundry, York)

1856 1 letter

Knight, Rev. James (Sheffield)

1856 2 letters

Knight, Rev. William (Oughtibridge, Sheffield)

1856 2 letters

1859 1 letter

Knollys, Francis (Titness Park)

1875 1 letter

Knollys, Sir W. (Windsor Castle)

1872 1 letter

Knowles, Sir Francis 3rd bart. (Ryde, I.o.W.)

1862 1 letter

Lambert, Rev. A. (Monk Bretton parsonage)

1856 1 letter

1859 1 letter

1861 2 letters

1862 1 letter

1864 1 letter (enclosing petition from inhabitants of Smithies re water supply)

Lambton, Hon. Hedworth (younger son of 2nd Earl of Durham)

1888 1 letter

Landseer, Sir Edwin R.A.

1862 2 letters

1863 2 letters

1865 1 letter

1866 4 letters

Langtry, Lillie actress

1879 11 letters

1880 9 letters

1883 3 letters

1889 1 letter

1891 2 letters (and 1 Ld.W. to)

Lascelles, Hon. Charles (nephew of Ld. W.)

1869 1 letter

Lascelles, Hon. Edwin (brother-in-law)

1861 1 letter

Lascelles, Lady Florence subs. wife of Lt.Col. Francis Cust (sister-in-law)

1859-66 1 letter (and 1 Ld.W. to)

Lascelles, Hon. Frederick R.N. (nephew)

1876 2 letters

Lascelles, Henry Ulick Viscount, subs. 5th Earl of Harewood (nephew)

1870 1 letter(from Simla)

Lascelles, Hon. Horace R.N. (brother-in-law)

1859-62 (family letters) 10 (stationed in Canada)

Lascelles, Lady Maud subs. Lady George Hamilton (sister-in-law)

1871 1 letter

Lavalett, Mons. (Perth)

1873 1 letter

Lawley, Lady Constance (nee Lascelles, wife of Beilby Lawley, subs. 3rd Baron Wenlock)

1879 5 letter

Lawley, F[rancis?] (Daily Telegraph)

1873 2 letter

Lawley, Rev. Stephen

1866 1 letter

1871 2 letters

Lawson, Peter

1864 2 letters (re Southern Independence Assn. - abusive letters)

Leader, J. D. (Sheffield antiquary)

1879 2 letters (re Francis Wortley and Mary Queen of Scots)

Lees, Col. W. Nassau

1873 1 letter

1874 1 letter (and 1 letter to)

1880 1 letter

Leighton, Sir Frederick R.A.

1889 1 letter

1891 1 letter

Leng, William (proprietor, Sheffield Daily Telegraph)

1880 1 letter

Lennox, Lord Henry

1869 1 letter

Leslie, Constance Wilhelmina (nee Dawson-Damer, wife of John Leslie of Glaslough, cr. a baronet 1876)

1861 1 letter

1862 2 letters

1863 1 letter

1873 1 letter

1880 1 letter

Lindsay, Sir Coutts, bart.

1890 1 letter

Lindsay, Rev. David (Eassie)

1857 2 letters

Lindsay, Violet

1882 1 letter

Lismore, Geo. Ponsonby O'Callaghan, Viscount

1865 1 letter

Livesey, Rev. John (St. Philips, Sheffield)

1856 4 letters (re St. Philip's burial ground)

1867 3 letter

Lochiel, Donald Cameron 24th Chief of

1867 2 letters

1868 1 letter

1869 1 letter

Loewenstern, Von O. (UberRiga and Edinburgh)

1857 5 letters

Longley, Rev. Dr. Charles Thomas

see York, Archbishop of

Lorne, John D. Southerland-Campbell styled Marquis of Lorne, subs. 9th Duke of Argyll.

1873 1 letter

1876 1 letter

Loseby, G. (Leicester)

1864 3 letter

Lothian, W. S. P. Kerr, 8th Marquis of

1863 1 letter

1864 1 letter

Lunn, Rev. J. (Marton cum Grafton)

1868 1 letter

Luxmoore, Rev. H. (Barnstable Vicarage)

1860 1 letter

Luxmoore, Mrs. M. (wife of above)

1864 2 letters

Lyne, Francis (New London Chamber of Commerce)

1882 1 letter

Lyttleton, Lady Margaret

1857 1 letter

Lytton, Edward R. L. Bulwer Lytton 1st Earl of

1887 1 letter

Lytton, Edith (nee Villiers) Countess of

1883 1 letter

Maberley, Sarah L.

1856 2 letters

MacCarthy, Hamilton

1881 1 letter

McCracken, J. & R. (agents to Royal Academy)

1861 6 letters

Mackie, Dr. R. (Little Huthwaite)

1864 1 letter

Maclure, John W.

1864 1 letter (Relief of Distress Fund - Manchester)

McNeill, Capt. Duncan (Barnsley - ?chief constable)

1869 1 letter

Malet, Sir Edward

1883 1 letter (from Cairo)

Malmesbury, John Howard Harris 3rd Earl of

1872 2 letter

Manchester, William Drogo Montagu 7th Duke of

1880 1 letter

Manchester, Louisa Frederica (Countess Von Alten)

Duchess of

1861 1 letter

1862 1 letter

Manners, Henry (?son of Lord John Manners)

1881 1 letter (from Rendlesham)

Manners, Janetta (nee Hughan, wife of Lord John Manners, subs. 7th Duke of Rutland)

1873 2 letters

1874 1 letter

1877 2 letters

Marlborough, Frances Anne Emily Spencer-Churchill

Duchess of (nee Vane-Tempest, wife of 3rd Duke)

1872 1 letter

1878 1 letter

1880 1 letter

1883 1 letter

Marlborough Club, secretary of

1888 1 letter

Marlow, F.

1882 1 letter (re a speech of Ld.W's)

Marsden, J. (W.Riding Solicitor's office)

1859 2 letters

1867 1 letter (re Wadsley Park Asylum)

Marsham

see Romney, Earl of

Martin, R. (Artisans', Labourers', etc. Dwellings Co.)

1873 2 letters

Mary, Princess, of Cambridge

1866 1 (Ld. W. to)

Mason, George (possibly emigrant)

1857 1 letter

Mason, Hon. James Murray, American Senator

(Niagara, Canada)

1868 1 letter (sending petition from State of Alabama against the Congress - lacking)

Masonic Hall (Sheffield)

1861 3 letters (re Masonic Hall)

Maule, John B. Judge

1859 1 letter

1866 3 letter (from Jamaica)

1867 1 letter

1868 1 letter

Maury, Capt. Matthew Fontaine

1863 17 letters

1866 2 letters

Maury Testimonial Fund

1866 8 letters

1868 1 letter

Mavor, A. veterinary surgeon

1864 1 letter

Maxwell, Hon. H. Constable-

1864 1 letter (re Catholic chaplain to Wakefield Gaol)

Methuen, F. H. Paul Methuen 2nd Baron

1868 1 letter

1874 1 letter

1891 1 letter

Methuen, Paul Sanford Methuen 3rd Baron

1891 4 letter

Meynell, Rev. Henry (Denstone)

1890 2 letters

Micklethwaite, Rev. W. (Chapeltown)

1859 1 letter

1868 1 letter

1869 1 letter

1870 1 letter

Milbanke, Frederick (cr. a baronet 1882)

1865 3 letters (and 1 letter Ld. W. to, re North Riding election)

Millais, Mrs. Effie (wife of J. E. Millais, R.A., subs. baronet)

1869 3 letters

1870 1 letter

1871 4 letters

1872 5 letters

1873 1 letter

1874 2 letters

1875 1 letter

1876 1 letter

1878 1 letter

Millais, Sir John Everett bart. R.A. (cr.1885)

1870 1 letter

1877 1 letter

Mills, Sir Charles H. (later cr. Baron Hillingdon)

1860 (family letters) 4 letters

Mills, Louisa Isabella (née Lascelles, wife of Sir Charles)

1859-66 (family letters) 1 letter

Milnes, Stansfeld & Co. (Wakefield)

1857 1 letter

Montagu of Beaulieu, Cecily Montagu-Douglas-Scott (née Stuart-Wortley) Lady

(filed under Scott until 1885)

1865 1 letter

1869 1 letter

1883 1 letter

1884 1 letter

1885 4 letters

1886 4 letters

1888 4 letters

1889 5 letters

1890 3 letters

Montagu of Beaulieu, Henry John Montagu-Douglas-Scott

1st Baron (cr. 1885; filed under Scott until 1885. Took name of Scott-Montagu in 1886)

1869 2 letters

1870 1 letter

1877 1 letter

1878 2 letters

1879 1 letter

1880 1 letter

1882 1 letter

1883 1 letter

1885 1 letter

1886 1 letter

1889 1 letter

1890 1 letter

Montagu, John Scott- (Vancouver)

(eldest son of Ld. Montagu)

1888 1 letter

Montagu, Robert Scott- (2nd son of Ld. Montagu)

1888 2 letters (and 1 letter Ld. W. to)

1889 1 letter

1890 1 letter (Carberry, Canada)

Montagu, Lady Victoria (subs. Marchioness of Lothian)

1861 1 letter Gulf of Corinth, Rhodes

1862 1 letter Gulf of Corinth, Rhodes

Montrose, James Graham 4th Duke of

1862 1 letter

Moon, J.

1856 1 letter

Morley, Albert Edmund Parker 3rd Earl of

1882 1 letter

Morritt, W. (Black Swan, York)

1865 1 letter

Moss, John F. (Sheffield Telegraph Office)

1869 2 letters

Mulliner, F. coach maker

1863 1 letter

Munster von Ledenburg, George Herbert von Munster, Count (German ambassador)

1874 1 letter

1875 1 letter

1880 2 letters

1882 1 letter

1884 1 letter (dated 1881?)

Murchison, Sir Roderick bart. geologist

1858 1 letter

Murray, Hon. Charles

1859 1 letter

1860 2 letters (from Dresden)

Musgrave, Rev. Dr. Thomas

see York, Archbishop of

National Early Closing League

1872 4 letters

Neeson, J. (Pimlico)

1861 3 letters

Nesselrode, Count

1882 1 letter (from St. Petersburg)

Nevill, Lady Dorothy Fanny (née Walpole, widow of R. H. Nevill)

1888 2 letters (mentions her iron collection in Sheffield Museum)

Neville, Col. Edward (Huthwaite and Thurgoland)

1870 4 letters

1874 1 letter

1876 3 letters

Newbould, R. (Abbeydale Grange, Sheffield)

1863 1 letter (includes subscription list for Dore Church)

Newcastle, Henry Pelham Pelham-Clinton 5th Duke of

1860 1 letter (from the Colonial Office)

1862 1 letter

1863 1 letter

Newman, C. Barnsley solicitor

1868 1 letter (re hospital)

Newsam, W. C. (Edmonton)

1858 1 letter

Nicholl, William (Newmarket)

1869 1 letter

Nicholson, M. (Bradford)

1858 1 letter

Nocton, W. (Nocton & Broughton, solicitors, Gt. Marlbro' St.)

1887 1 letter

Norfolk, Henry Fitzalan-Howard, 15th Duke of

1879 1 letter

Northumberland, Algernon G. Percy, 6th Duke of (previously styled Lord Lovaine)

1865 1 letter (filed under Lovaine)

1869 1 letter

1871 1 letter

1873 1 letter

1878 1 letter

1879 1 letter

1884 1 letter

1886 1 letter(filed under Bell, Steward & May)

1890 1 letter

Orleans, Duc de

1868 1 letter

Osborn, Samuel and others (Sheffield)

1891 1 letter (smoke prevention)

Overend, Dr. Wilson

1861 1 letter (filed with Masonic Hall letters)

Owen, A.

1862 1 letter

Oxford, Bishop of (Rev. Dr. Samuel Wilberforce)

1862 3 letters

Pantaenius & Owen (Oxford St.)

1859 1 letter

Parker & Son (Sheffield)

1856 1 letter

'Patience'

Printed programme of performance at Tranby Croft, Hull, 1882.

Peake, Henry (Sleaford)

1871 1 letter

Peake, T. (Forest Gate)

1865 1 letter

Peel, Sir Lawrence

1861 1 letter

Pembroke, George R. C. Herbert 13th Earl of

1890 1 letter

Penistone Church and parish

1875 Printed circular re restoration

Penn, John

1889 1 letter

Penrose, F. C. decorator, Trafalgar Square [London]

1856 3 letters about re-decorating at Wortley Hall

1858 3 letters about re-decorating at Wortley Hall

Percival, N.

1856 1 letter

1859 5 letters

Percy, Col. H. (perhaps same as next)

1862 1 letter (from Montreal, about a sleigh)

Percy, Lord Henry

1870 1 letter

Percy, Lady Louisa

1857 1 letter

Perkins, W. (Pontefract)

1857 1 letter

1858 1 letter

1859 3 letters

Perry, W. [?Walter Copland]

1878 2 letters (from British Museum)

Peterborough, Bishop of (Rev. Dr. W. C. Magee)

1869 1 letter

Peyton, Capt.

1860 1 letter

Phelps, Hon. Edward John (U.S. Ambassador)

1886 1 letter (and 1 from Mrs. Phelps)

1889 1 letter

Photogenic Gas Company

1863 3 letters

1864 1 letter

Plant, James (Wortley)

1857 1 letter

1859 2 letters

Playfair, Dr. Lyon

1862 1 letter (appointment of Ld. W. as chairman of Jury on cutlery. International Exhibition of 1862)

Plimsoll, Samuel

1860 2 letters

Plummer, John (Kettering)

1860 1 letter

Portman, Hon. Maurice B.

1867 1 letter

1869 4 letters

1871 2 letters

1873 1 letter

1875 1 letter

1883 5 letters

Portal, Gerald

1882 1 letter (from Alexandria)

Portland, Winifred (née Dallas Yorke) Duchess of

1890 1 letter

Portsmouth, Isaac Newton Wallop, formerly Fellowes, 5th Earl of

1856 2 letters

Potter, Rev. Dr. S. (St. Luke's, Sheffield)

1873 2 letters

Poynter, Sir E. J. R.A. 1st bart.

1871 2 letters (1 to Millais)

1872 3 letters

1874 1 letter

1876 5 letters (re Atalanta copyright)

1877 1 letter

1878 1 letter

1879 2 letters

1880 1 letter

1885 1 letter

Prest, George Waterton (Sheffield)

1882 2 letters (encl. declaration re Catholic Conservative Assn.)

Prest, Major William (Sheffield)

1877 1 letter

Pringle, George (Whitehall)

1879 1 letter (filed with Turnbull)

Prioleau, C. (Isle of Wight)

1873 3 letters

Pulham, J. Terra Cotta works (Broxbourne)

1870 1 letter

Rae, Dr. John arctic explorer

1877 1 letter (re sledge travel in Arctic expedition)

Ratray, N. (Victoria Life Assurance Office)

1856 1 letter

Redesdale, John T. Freeman-Mitford, 2nd Baron

1873 1 letter

1874 1 letter

Redford, G. W.

1882 1 letter

Reilly, Col. E.

1870 1 letter

1873 2 letters

1874 1 letter

Rhodes, - (Messrs. Nixon & Rhodes, mirrors)

1863 1 letter

Rich, Sir Henry

1863 1 letter

Ripon, George Fred. Sam. Robinson 1st Marquis of (cr. 1871, previously Earl De Grey)

1861 1 letter (filed under De Grey)

1875 1 letter

Ripon, Bishop of (Rev. Dr. Robert Bickersteth)

1870 1 letter

1882 1 letter

Ripon, Bishop of (Rev. Dr. William Boyd-Carpenter)

1885 1 letter

Roberts, Rev. R. (St. George's parsonage, Barnsley)

1856 1 letter

Robinson, Arthur (Clitheroe Castle)

1887 1 letter

Rodgers, J. (Sheffield)

1856 1 letter

Roebuck, John Arthur politician

1874 1 letter

Rokeby, Henry Montague 6th Baron

1872 1 letter

Rolleston, Dr. G.

1868 2 letters

Romney, Charles Marsham 3rd Earl of

1862 1 letter

Rosaz, Chevalier de

1881 1 letter (about Wortley and Stuart families')

Ross, Edward (Manchester, Sheffield & Lincs. Railway)

1857 1 letter

1859 2 letters

Ross, Capt. J. A.

1858 1 letter

Ross, Mrs. Kate

1857 2 letters

1858 2 letters

1859 2 letters

Rosslyn, Robert F. St. Clare-Erskine 4th Earl of

1868 1 letter

Rouzaud, Mme. Christine Nilsson-

1874 1 letter

1875 1 letter

Rouzaud, Mons. Nilsson-

1875 4 letters

Russell, Lord John 1st Earl Russell

1858 1 letter

Russell, Dr. W.

1890 1 letter

Russell, William Howard war correspondent

1882 2 letters (from Alexandria, Cairo)

1883 7 letters (from Alexandria, Cairo)

1884 1 letter

Rutland, Charles C. J. Manners 6th Duke of

1858 1 letter

1864 4 letters

1869 1 letter

Rutledge, John (Cordoba, Spain)

1872 2 letters

1873 1 letter

1874 3 letters

Ryder, Hon. Henry Dudley (2nd son of 2nd Earl of Harrowby)

1883 3 letters

Ryder, John E. D.

1873 1 letter

1885 3 letters

1890 1 letter

Sale, Rev. Thomas (Sheffield Vicarage)

1856 1 letter

1863 1 letter

1864 1 letter

1867 1 letter

1868 1 letter

1870 1 letter

Salis, Mrs. J.

1858 1 letter

Salisbury, Robert A. T. Gascoyne-Cecil 3rd Marquis of

1869 1 letter

1870 1 letter

1874 1 letter

1875 1 letter

1881 1 letter

1884 1 letter

Salisbury, Georgiana Caroline (nee Alderson) Marchioness of

1881 1 letter

Saltwell, W. H. (Lincoln's Inn)

1890 1 letter

Sanderson, William

1856 3 letters (from India)

Sandford, Rev. G. (Sheffield)

1856 1 letter

Sandford, Rev. H. (Wortley)

1874 1 letter

Sands, Mrs. Mary

1886 6 letters

1887 1 letter

1888 1 letter

1889 2 letters

1890 1 letter

Sandwich, John Wm. Montague, 7th Earl of

1861 1 letter

1862 2 letters

Sangster, Rev. Chas. (Barnsley)

1864 1 letter

Savile, H. (Rufford)

1858 1 letter

Scarbrough, Richard G. Lumley 9th Earl of

1859 1 letter

1862 1 letter

1869 1 letter

Schetky, J. C. marine painter

1866 2 letters

Schwarz, Chevalier von (Imp. Austrian commission)

1862 1 letter (re International Exhibition)

Scott, George Gilbert architect

1856 1 letter (copy of report on Laughton en le Morthen church - filed, under Hartley)

1859 1 letter

Scott, Penfold & Co. wine merchants (Madeira)

1858 1 letter

Scrimgeour, Messrs. T. & A.

1872 1 letter

Scriven, Rev. J. Barclay (Tadcaster)

1856 2 letters

Scriven, G. E. veterinary surgeon (Wetherby)

1858 1 letter

Sedding, R. (Rugby)

1857 1 letter

Senior, G. (Bromley)

1856 2 letter

Seymour, Rev. A. E. (Barnstable vicarage)

1883 4 letters (and 1 letter to)

Shand, A. (Liverpool)

1873 1 letter

Shannon, Emily Henrietta Boyle Countess of (nee Seymour, widow of 4th Earl)

1871 2 letter

Sharp, Rev. J. (Horbury Vicarage)

1871 2 letters

Shaw, Capt. Eyre (Metropolitan Fire Brigade)

1873 1 letter

Sheffield Public Dispensary

Circular in letter of J. C. Hall, 1857.

Sheild, Francis W. (Westminster)

1856 1 letter (re garden fountain at Wortley)

1857 1 letter

Sheridan, Gen. Philip Henry (Chicago)

1882 1 letter

Simpson, W. (Gardens, Wortley)

1871 1 letter

1874 1 letter

Sims, F.

1857 1 letter

Singleton, Mrs. Mary Montgomerie subs. Lady Currie ('Violet Fane' pseud.)

1879 13 letters

1880 2 letters

1881 1 letter

1882 1 letter

Skelton, J. Kenyon (Middlewood Hall, Sheffield)

1868 4 letters (and 1 letter Lord W. to)

Skinner, George (sec. Sheffield & District Victuallers Assn.)

1879 2 letters

Skinner, Rev. J. (St. Barnabas, Pimlico)

1856 1 letter (with S.P.G. circular)

Slingsby, Sir Charles

1869 1 letter (printed item - poem on death of Sir J. Johnstone)

Smith & Co. (Pimlico)

1877 1 letter

Smith, Rev. E. (Lancaster)

1871 1 letter (re smallpox epidemic among Irish there)

Smith, Frank (Sheffield)

1872 1 letter

Smith, J. J. (Wortley steward)

1870 5 letters

1871 3 letters (incident at Wortley Hall)

Smith, James

1858 1 letter

Smith, John and others (Ceylon)

1862 2 letters (re J. Duff Stronach)

Smith, Lucius colonial dispenser (Gambia)

1874 1 letter

Smith, R. Blakelock- (Sheffield)

1873 1 letter

Smith, Raymond

1859 1 letter (re crests, etc.)

Smith, Rev. Thomas (Infirmary, Sheffield)

1856 2 letters

Smith, W. H. (Henley on Thames)

1879 1 letter

Smith, William (Barnes Hall, Ecclesfield)

1864 1 letter

Sneezum, T. (house repairs)

1857 1 letter

1858 2 letters

1860 1 letter

1863 1 letter

1864 2 letters

Southern Independence Assn.

1863 1 letter

Spence, James

1863 13 letters Southern Independence Assn.

1872 1 letter Southern Independence Assn.

Spencer, Adelaide H. E. Spencer Countess (widow of 4th Earl)

1858 1 letter

Spencer, Charlotte F. F. Spencer Countess (wife of 5th Earl)

1871 1 letter

Spencer, John Poyntz Spencer 5th Earl

1871 2 letters

1879 1 letter

Spiers, R. Phene

1877 1 letter

Stacey, W. (Leicester Sq.)

1856 1 letter

Staley, T. Sec. of Southern Independence Assn.

1863 2 letters

Stanhope, Philip Henry Stanhope 5th Earl

1871 1 letter

Stanhope, General (? Philip Spencer-Stanhope)

1869 1 letter (with notes about disputed W.R. poll)

Stanhope, John Spencer- (of Cannon Hall)

1856 2 letter

Stanhope, W. Spencer- (of Cannon Hall)

1859 1 letter

1863 1 letter (re iron furnace at Istulevera)

1868 2 letters

1869 1 letter

1872 1 letter

1873 1 letter

1876 1 letter (re Miners Accident Relief Fund)

1879 1 letter

1882 2 letters

1883 1 letter

Staniland, S.

1857 1 letter

Stanley, Edward John 2nd Baron Stanley of Alderley

1857 1 letter

Stephens, Henry agricultural writer

1860 1 letter

1867 1 letter

Stephenson, Gen. Sir F.

1884 1 letter (from Cairo)

Stephenson, J.

1859 1 letter

Stevens, Mrs. M.

1860 1 letter

Stewart, Mary (Mrs. K. Stewart, The Trossachs Hotel)

1868 1 letter

Stibbard, Gibson & Sykes, Messrs. (Leadenhall St.)

1886 2 letters

Stirling, William (Dunblane)

1857 1 letter

Stone, Charles H. (Marlborough Club)

1875 1 letter

Stothert, Rev. Dr. S. Kelson (Ordsall Rectory)

1873 3 letters

1876 1 letter

1884 1 letter

1889 2 letters

Strathnairn, Hugh Henry Rose Baron

1873 1 letter

Street, George Edmund architect

1865 3 letters

Street, Henry (Antique Furniture warehouse)

Stutfield, J. (Canterbury)

1865 1 letter (about dogs)

Sullivan, Sir E. (Grosvenor Place)

1879 2 letters

Sullivan, J. (Messrs. Hunt & Roskell)

1857 1 letter

Swift, John (Crane Moor, nr. Barnsley)

1879 1 letter

Sydney, John Robert Townsend 3rd Viscount

1862 1 letter

Sykes, G. Superintendent, Barnsley Police

1871 1 letter (report re incident at Wortley)

Synge, Mrs. George

1856 1 letter (from India)

Synge, Millington (Alverstoke, Hants.)

1870 1 letter

Talbot, Caroline Jane (née Stuart-Wortley, wife of Hon. John Chetwynd Talbot)

1859-62 (family file) 2 letters

Talbot, Rev. E. (Warden of Keble College, Oxford)

1877 1 letter

1878 1 letter

1888 1 letter

Talbot, Margaret (née Stuart-Wortley, wife of Col. Reginald A. J. Talbot)

1883 1 letter

1889 3 letters (from Paris)

Talbot, Lt. Col. Reginald A. J. (brother of 18th Earl of Shrewsbury)

1882 (printed report)

Tankerville, Charles Augustus Bennet 6th Earl of

1862 1 letter

1870 1 letter

1871 1 letter

1872 2 letters (and 1 unsigned)

1873 1 letter

1874 1 letter

1876 1 letter

1877 2 letters

1878 2 letters

1879 3 letters (and 1 unsigned)

1881 1 letter

Tankerville, Olivia Bennet Countess of (née Montagu, wife of 6th Earl)

1861 1 letter

Taylor, Mrs. Charlotte ('a Confederate lately from Savannah State')

1864 5 letters (from Isle of Man)

Taylor, J. (Meltham)

1856 1 letter

Taylor, Rev. R. (Pontefract)

1859 1 letter

1860 2 letters (from Rothbury)

Taylor, Col. T. (Carlton Club)

1873 2 letters

Taylor, Dr. William (Scarborough)

1875 1 letter

1880 1 letter

1882 1 letter

Teck, Claudine, Princess of (White Lodge)

1869 1 letter

1870 1 letter

Teck, [? Francis Paul Charles] Prince of

1870 1 letter

Telegram (M.S. & L. Railway)

1871 1 letter

Templeman, M.

1857 1 letter

Thiel, C.

1857 1 letter (Sth. Yorks. Rly. & River Dun Co.)

Thirkell, John Grey

1875 3 letters (Liverpool Daily Post)

1879 1 letter (Shanghai)

Thirkell, Mrs. Ellie M. (widow of John Grey Thirkell)

1890 1 letter

Thomas, Joseph

See Photogenic Gas Co.

Thomas, R. (Bannatyne House)

1861 3 letters

Thomas, Samuel E.

1878 7 letters

Thorn, W. & T. carriage makers (Oxford St.)

1856 2 letters

1858 4 letters

1859 2 letters

1867 1 letter

1870 1 letter

Thurgoland Church

1872 1 letter (re building fund)

Tod-Heatly, Messrs.

1864 1 letter

Toole, John (Warwick)

1862 1 letter

Tower, Col. William

1861 1 letter (from Yalle, India - big game hunting)

Tremlett, Rev. F. W. (secretary, Maury Testimonial Fund)

1866 5 letters (and Lord W. to - 2 on 1 sheet)

Turnbull, Rev. W. S. (Penistone Vicarage)

1859 1 letter

1860 4 letters

1868 1 letter

1871 4 letters

1874 1 letter

1875 5 letters

1879 2 letters

1880 1 letter

1882 1 letter

1891 2 letters

Tyas, J. (Barnsley)

1869 1 letter

Underdown, George

1879 1 letter

Underdown, R. (Manchester, Sheffield and Lincs. Railway)

1870 1 letter

Valencia, Condé de (Madrid)

1872 2 letters

Van Tuyll, - . (Jelsen?)

1878 2 letters

1879 1 letter

Veitch, J. (Royal Exotic Nursery)

1860 1 letter

Vere, Marie Hope-

1890 2 letters

Vernon, George John Warren 5th Baron

1863 3 letters

Vernon, Augustus Henry Venables-Vernon 6th Baron

1874 1 letter

Verschogle, Col. H.

1869 1 letter

Vesey, Constance [? daughter of Major Vesey]

1882 3 letters (and 3 letters to)

Vesey, Major Gen. [perhaps George Henry, a grandson of Viscount de Vesci]

1882 1 letter (and 1 letter to from Lord W.)

Videon, G. gardener (Clarendon Nurseries)

1859 1 letter

Vincent, Rev. W. (Thurgoland parsonage)

1856 1 letter

Vyner, Robert (Fairfield, York)

1888 2 letters

Vogue, Arthur de

1870 2 letters

Wagram, Princess Berthe de

1890 1 letter

1891 1 letter

Wake, Bernard Sheffield solicitor

1869 1 letter

1876 2 letters (filed with Dr. Watson's)

1877 2 letters (requests views on Sheffield churchyard)

1879 1 letter

1881 1 letter

Wake, W. (Sheffield)

1872 1 letter

Walker, Mrs. A. (Hampstead)

1859 1 letter

Walker, G. (Osgathorpe, Sheffield)

1856 1 letter

Walker, Horace (Silkstone Colliery etc.)

1863 3 letters

1871 1 letter

1880 3 letters

Walker, Miss Maria E. (sister of late Sidney Walker)

1856 2 letters

Walker, Thomas (Doncaster)

1876 1 letter

Wallas, Rev. Gilbert Innes (Barnstable and Bp.Auckland)

1860 2 letters

1863 3 letters

1868 1 letter

Waller, Major Charles B.

1884 1 letter

Walsingham, 'Leila' Lady (Augusta Selina, née Lock, wife of 6th Baron Walsingham, previously widow of E.F.N. Fane styled Lord Burghersh, d.1851 and afterwards Duchess of Santo Teodoro, divorced 1876)

1874 1 letter

1876 1 letter (Duchess of Santo Teodoro)

1877 1 letter (Lady Burghersh)

1886 1 letter (Lady Walsingham)

Walsingham, Thomas de Grey 6th Baron

1884 1 letter

1889 1 letter (re index to Gould's ornithology)

Ward, J. A.

1882 1 letter

Warrender, Sir George

1874 1 letter

Waterford, Louisa Beresford dowager Marchioness of (née Stuart, widow of 3rd Marquis)

1873 1 letter

1874 1 letter

1886 1 letter

1887 3 letters

1888 2 letters

1890 2 letters

Waterford, Blanche Marchioness of (née Somerset, wife of 5th Marquis)

1882 1 letter

1883 5 letters

1884 1 letter

1885 1 letter

1888 1 letter

1889 1 letter

Watkin, Sir Edward William 1st bart.

1868 4 letters (including proposal of John Bright, politician, as Ambassador to U.S.A)

1869 3 letters

1870 1 letter

1871 1 letter

1874 1 letter to

1875 1 letter

1876 1 letter

1890 1 letter

Watson, Dr. Alfred Marchmont (Huthwaite)

1865 1 letter (from Peterborough Infirmary)

1870 2 letters (re Cranemoor School)

1871 1 letter

1872 1 letter

1873 1 letter

1876 2 letters

1878 1 letter

1879 3 letters

Watson, Henry E. (Sheffield)

1856 1 letter

Watts, George Frederic R.A.

1878 1 letter

Welby, R. (Strand)

1857 1 letter

1869 1 letter

Welby, Victoria Alexandrina Lady (née Stuart-Wortley, wife of Sir William)

1859-62 (family file) 2 (V. Stuart-Wortley)

1877 1 letter

1878 1 letter

1880 3 letters

1881 7 letters

1882 2 letters

1885 9 letters

1889 3 letters

1890 1 letter

1891 1 letter

Welby, Sir William Earle 4th bart. (subs. Welby-Gregory)

1869 1 letter

1871 1 letter

1877 3 letters

1880 1 letter

Weldon, R. G. (Girvan)

1856 1 letter

Wells, Mrs. E. (wife of John Wells)

1873 1 letter

Wells, John Wharncliffe's agent and accountant

(Booth Ferry House, Howden)

1872 3 letters

[1874 Letter re memorial to, at Goole]

Wentworth, T. Vernon- (Wentworth Castle)

1891 1 letter

Westminster, Hugh Lupus Grosvenor 1st Duke of

1879 1 letter

Wharncliffe, Edward Montagu-Stuart-Wortley 1st Earl of

1856 1 letter to Belmont tenants

1892 24 letters October memo re proposed disposition of fortune

(Note: all letters to and from him are filed under name of sender/recipient)

Wharncliffe, Georgiana Elizabeth dowager Lady (née Ryder, widow of 2nd baron)

1859-62 (family file) 9 letters

Wharncliffe Silkstone Company (Wortley Hall)

1864 1 letter

White, Major Gen. Henry E. (Machynlleth)

1886 3 letters

White, William (Sheffield)

1861 1 letter (filed with Masonic Hall letters)

White, William junior (Fulwood Parsonage)

1862 1 letter

1864 1 letter (re purchase of copyright of J. Hunter's Hallamshire)

Whitton, Andrew (agent for family estates at Newtyle)

1887 6 letters

1888 2 letters

Whitworth, Sir Joseph (Matlock)

1879 1 letter

Wilberforce, Rev. W. F. (Roystone)

1865 2 letters

Wild, William (Sheffield & Rotherham Banking Co.)

1880 1 letter

Wilkins, Rev. Thomas (St. Michael's Neepsend)

1867 1 letter

1869 5 letters

1871 1 letter

1872 1 letter

1874 1 letter

Wilkinson, Joseph (Barnsley historian)

1877 1 letter

Willcox, J. M. (Warwick)

1858 3 letters

Williams, Sir F. (Gibraltar)

1873 2 letters

Williams, Laurence

1860 1 letter

1874 1 letter

Williams, S.

1856 1 letter

Wilmot, Sir Henry 5th bart.

1881 1 letter

Wilmot, Mrs. Lily (Grove Hall, Knottingley)

1883 1 letter

Wilmot, Robert C. (Woolley, Wakefield)

1873 1 letter

1877 1 letter

Wilson, George (Banner Cross Hall, Sheffield)

1879 1 letter

Wilson, J. W. (Strand)

1862 2 letters

Wilson, Mary (Mrs. A. Wilson, wife of Arthur Wilson of Tranby Croft, [Hull])

1891 2 letters

Wilson, Rev. W. Reginald (Bolsterstone vicarage)

1866 1 letter (re Stocksbridge school)

Winn, George (Askrigg tenant)

1856 1 letter

1862 1 letter

Winn, Rowland of Appleby Hall and Nostell

1863 1 letter

1868 4 letters

1869 1 letter

1870 1 letter

1872 2 letters

1873 1 letter

1874 1 letter

1882 1 letter

Winters, Thomas 'a working man'

1863 1 letter (Sth. London Discussion Society re Confederate States)

Wise, T. S. (Edinburgh)

1857 2 letters

Withers, R.

1875 1 letter

Wolff, Sir Henry Drummond

1867 3 letters

1885 1 letter (from Cairo)

Wolff, Rev. Joseph (Isle Brewers Vicarage, Taunton)

1860 2 letters

Wood, Gen. Sir H. Evelyn

1882 1 letter

1883 1 letter (from Cairo)

1884 1 letter (from Caira)

Wood, J. H. (mineral agent, Sheffield)

1877 1 letter

1879 3 letters

Wood, Nicholas (Hetton Colliery)

1860 2 letters

Wood, R. Hains schoolmaster and organist

1861 1 letter

1862 5 letters

1864 3 letters

1865 9 letters

1866 2 letters

1867 2 letters

1870 5 letters

Woodard, Rev. Nathaniel (Canon of Manchester Cathedral)

1870 4 letters (enc. 3 school circulars)

1871 2 letters

1873 3 letters

1874 2 letters

1875 2 letters

1877 3 letters

1878 1 letter

1881 1 letter

Woodman, H. (Wortley Hall)

1871 1 letter

1874 1 letter

1875 1 letter

Woolcombe, T. (solicitor?, Devonport)

1856 7 letters

1857 5 letters

1860 16 letters

1861 1 letter

1863 12 letters

Working Men's College, Sheffield

1857 1 letter

Worseldine, W. (freelance lecturer?)

1858 10 letters

1859 2 letters

Wortley, Archibald J. Stuart- (cousin)

1871 1 letter

1876 1 letter

1881 1 letter

1883 1 letter

1884 1 letter

1889 1 letter

Wortley, Augusta (wife of Henry S. Wortley)

1869 3 letters (and 1 letter from Lord W. to)

Wortley, Charles B. subs. Lord Stuart of Wortley

1883 1 letter

1886 1 letter (31 July - has not yet been asked to join Govt.)

1887 2 letters

Wortley, E. Stuart- (Mrs. Archibald S. Wortley)

1884 1 letter

1887 1 letter

Wortley, Edward J. M. Stuart- (nephew)

1883 11 letters (from Cairo)

1886 12 letters

1888 2 letters

Wortley, Francis M. Stuart- (brother)

1859-62 (family file) 4 letters

1878 2 letters

1882 1 letter

1883 1 letter

1885 1 letter

1890 2 letters

1891 5 letters

Wortley, Francis J. M. Stuart-subs. 2nd Earl of Wharncliffe (nephew)

1881 1 letter

1888 3 letters

1890 2 letters

1891 9 letters

Wortley, (Archibald) Henry Stuart- (cousin) (photographer)

1859-62 (family file) 2 letters

1864 15 letters

1869 2 letters (and 1 letter from Lord W. to)

1876 9 letters (filed with Sir E. Poynter's about 'Atalanta' copyright

Related material

<p>There is an article on some of Poynter's work at Wortley Hall in 'The Builder' 5 Jan 1884, pp 9, 10 with two illustrations (one coloured), and see W. Cosmo Monkhouse 'The Life and Work of Sir E. J. Poynter R.A.' in The Easter Art Annual, 1897 (extra number of the Art Journal)</p>

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Language
English
Access conditions

Please use microfilms A 276-281 unless there are xerox copies

Physical condition
Much of the correspondence was in an appalling state of decay when received at the Library. Some of the bundles are too brittle for handling and these have been carefully photocopied for general use
Unpublished finding aids
<span class="wrapper"><p>Index of correspondents: This index began as an index to the annual bundles of the general correspondence covering the years 1856-1891 (Wh M/418). After that date he appears to have lived in London, mainly, leaving his nephew and heir in possession at Wortley, and the correspondence for 1891 to his death, which must have once existed, appears to have been lost.</p> <p>The letters in these annual bundles were endorsed by Lord Wharncliffe with the name of the writer and were arranged alphabetically and this arrangement has not been altered. It has the advantage of solving the problem of undated letters. It is not, however, by any standard an ideal arrangement and was adopted as a means of making something like a workable index of correspondents without a great deal of rearrangement; the work was done piecemeal, much of it by visiting students. The biggest disadvantage of the arrangement is that correspondents, who acquired or changed their titles during the period covered, appear under different names in different years.</p></span>
Administrative / biographical background

Edward M. Stuart Wortley was born in 1827 and succeeded his father as 3rd Baron Wharncliffe in October 1855. He was created an Earl in 1876. He died in May 1899.

Copies information

MICROFILM AND OTHER COPIES

General correspondence of the 1st Earl of Wharncliffe, 1856-1891.

The reference for the originals is Wh M/418.

NB. Xerox copies have been made of some of the originals. Where this is so, the originals have not been filmed. Users should ask for the xerox copies. The letters are arranged within each year alphabetically by surname.

IMPORTANT NOTICE: DO NOT TAKE PRINTS FROM THESE FILMS WITHOUT FIRST CONSULTING STAFF.

Microfilm A 276:

1856 A-J ask for xerox copies

1856 K-Y ask for xerox copies

1857 A-C ask for xerox copies

1857 D-Y ask for xerox copies

1858 A-N

1858 P-W

1859-62 Wortley Family

1859-66 Lascelles Family

1859 B-P

1859 R-W

1860 A-H

1860 K-Y

Microfilm A 277:

1861 A-L

1861 M-Y

1862 A-F

1862 G-Y

1863 A-K

1863 L-W

Microfilm A 278:

1864 A-Z

1865 A-Y

1866 A-Y

1867 A-W

1868 A-Gra

1868 Gra-Y

1869 A-M NOT FILMED ask for xerox copies

1869 N-Y NOT FILMED ask for xerox copies

1870 B-M NOT FILMED ask for xerox copies

1871 A-W NOT FILMED ask for xerox copies

1872 A-Hunt

1872 Harman & Stevens - Winn

Microfilm A 279

1873 B-P

1873 R-W

1874 B-W

1875 A-W

1876 B-W

1877 B-Y

1878 B-W

1879 B-N

1879 P-W

Microfilm A 280:

1880 B-W

1881 B-W

1882 A-L

1882 M-W

1883 A-S

Microfilm A 281:

1883 T-W

1884 A-W

1885 B-Y

1886 A-K

1886 M-W

1887 B-W

1888 A-Z

1889 B-W

1890 A-W

1891 A-0

1891 T-W

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General correspondence (mainly non-estate) of the 1st Earl of Wharncliffe