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- [c. 1888]-1893. (Creation)
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v, 104 ff. (leaves cut out between ff. 10 and 11) ; c. 185 x 110 mm. Cloth binding; 'Letters of Well Known Women' tooled in gold on red leather on spine.
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Larry Hutchison; Dunfermline; Purchase; 1983
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Fifty-one letters, [c. 1888]-1893, to Leonora Philips (née Gerstenberg), first wife of Sir John Wynford Philipps, 1st viscount St Davids, from prominent women including Frances Hodgson Burnett (2) [c. 1888], Millicent Fawcett (6)[ c. 1888]-1893, Rosalind Howard, countess of Carlisle (5) 1891-1893, and F. E. MacFall (Sarah Grand) (3) 1893. They relate mainly to the activities of the women's suffrage movement.
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English.
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The contents of NLW MSS 21701-22852 are indexed in greater detail in Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, vol. 8 (Aberystwyth, 1999).
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Preferred citation: NLW MS 21971B.
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- Philipps, Nora, d. 1915 -- Correspondence. (Subject)
- Burnett, Frances Hodgson, 1849-1924 (Subject)
- Fawcett, Millicent Garrett, Dame, 1847-1929 (Subject)
- Howard, Rosalind Frances, Countess of Carlisle, 1845-1921 (Subject)
- MacFall, Frances Elizabeth Clarke (Subject)
- Philipps, Nora, d. 1915. (Subject)
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This description follows NLW guidelines based on ISAD(G) 2nd ed.; AACR2; and LCSH.
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- English