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Stephen, James Fitzjames, 1829-1894 Hill, Octavia, 1838-1912
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Letters to Nassau William Senior (II)

Some one hundred and twenty-one letters to Nassau William Senior, mostly from statesmen, economists and ecclesiastical dignitaries; together with a letter, 1831, to Mary Charlotte Senior (f. 433) and eleven letters, 1874-1914, to Walter Nassau Senior, grandson of Nassau William Senior, pertaining mainly to the papers of the Senior family (ff. 599-621). The letters were previously in an album, a list of the original contents of which is NLW MS 23858iE, ff. i-ii.
The correspondents are Sir James Stephen, 1848 (f. 310), James Fitzjames Stephen, 1859 (f. 312), Joshua Bates, [?1845]-1848 (ff. 314-318 verso), John Campbell, Baron Campbell, [1830s]-1850 (ff. 319-326 verso), Harriet Elizabeth Georgiana Leveson-Gower, Duchess of Sutherland, [?1858] (f. 327), George Granville Leveson-Gower, Duke of Sutherland, 1854-1858 (ff. 329-334 verso), Sir George Grey, 1854 and [n.d.] (ff. 335-337 verso), Sir Howard Douglas, 1855-1857 (ff. 339-343 verso), Edward Ellice, 1855 (ff. 344-350 verso), Arthur Richard Wellesley, Duke of Wellington, 1856 (f. 351), Henry Richard Charles Wellesley, Earl Cowley, 1857-1862 (ff. 353-357), Henry Labouchere, Baron Taunton, 1857 (f. 359), Charles Grant, Baron Glenelg, 1858 (f. 361), Sir Charles Beaumont Phipps, 1858 (f. 363), John Romilly, Baron Romilly, 1858 (f. 365), Charles Richard Fox, 1858 (f. 367), Sir Thomas Wyse, 1859 (f. 369), Sir Henry Knight Storks, 1858-1861 (ff. 383-386), Edward Law, Earl of Ellenborough, 1853 (f. 387), Sir William Erle, 1863 (f. 391), Sir Charles Bullen, [1840s] (ff. 393-394), Henry Pelham Fiennes Pelham Clinton, Duke of Newcastle, [?1840s] (f. 396), Sir Robert Peel, [?1836] (f. 398), Sir J. L. Knight Bruce, [n.d.] (f. 400), William Wilberforce, [c. 1830] (f. 402), Denis Le Marchant, [1830s] (ff. 404-406), Albany Fonblanque, [?1828] (f. 408), Miles Thomas Stapleton, Baron Beaumont, [c. 1850] (f. 410), Sir James Kay-Shuttleworth, [?1863] (f. 417), James Andrew Broun Ramsay, Marquis of Dalhousie, [?1850s] (f. 419), J. G. Ward, [mid 19 cent.] (f. 423), R. H. Wrighton, [mid 19 cent.] (f. 425), Henry P. Walford, [?1829] (f. 428), Joseph Blanco White, 1831-1839 (ff. 433-458), Thomas Perronet Thompson, 1833-1836 (ff. 459-470 verso), Thomas Peregrine Courtenay, 1836 (f. 471), Macvey Napier, 1841-1843 (ff. 475-484 verso), Edward Wakefield, 1840 (f. 485), James Pillans, 1847 (f. 487), Sir Austen Henry Layard, 1857 (f. 491), Edwin Chadwick, 1861 (ff. 495-504), Hekekyan Bey, 1862 (ff. 505-508 verso), Sir James Emerson Tennent, 1863 (f. 509), Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey, [mid 19 cent.] (ff. 510-515), Caroline Clive, [mid 19 cent.] (f. 516), Anna Jameson, [mid 19 cent.] (ff. 518-521 verso), Charles James Blomfield, 1830-1856 (ff. 522-527), Edward Copleston, 1830-1845 (ff. 528-547), Thomas Chambers, 1832 (ff. 548-551), Richard Whately, 1832-1858 (ff. 552-556), John Bird Sumner, 1834 (ff. 557-561 verso), Francis Jeune, 1850 (f. 562), William Henry Brookfield, 1858 (f. 564), William Thomson, 1849-1850 (ff. 566-569), Archibald Campbell Tait, 1863 (f. 570), Samuel Wilberforce, [1845x1864] (f. 576), Sherlock Willis, 1818 (f. 578), Peter Ewart, 1831 (f. 580), Jane Haldimand Marcet, 1836 (ff. 582-585), Thomas Ashton, 1846 (f. 590), Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright, 1838 (f. 596), Albert Henry George Grey, Earl Grey, 1894-1896 (ff. 603-607 verso), Caroline Emelia Stephen, 1874-1905 (ff. 599, 608), C. Edmund Maurice, 1912 (ff. 610-613), and Dorothea M. Hughes, 1914 (ff. 614-621 verso). There are references to Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay, 1848 (f. 310 verso), the death of Charles Buller, 1848 (ff. 310-311), Sir Leslie Stephen, 1848 (f. 311 verso), Sir James Stephen, 1859 (f. 312), George Sumner, 1848 (f. 316), John Sutherland, 1838 (f. 451 recto-verso), Prof. [Pierre] Prevost, 1836 (ff. 582-583), Virginia Woolf, 1905 (f. 609), Octavia Hill, 1912 (f. 610), Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, prince de Bénévent, 1863 (f. 389 recto-verso), political events in Paris and France, 1848 (f. 316), and the Battle of Waterloo, 1818 (f. 578), and a poem by Joseph Blanco White, [c. 1830] (f. 432).

Senior, Walter Nassau, 1850-1933