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Wedgwood, Miss F. Julia
1970-010/019(12) · File · 1885-1888
Part of Lady Victoria Alexandrina Maria Louisa Welby fonds

File consists of folder of handwritten and typed letters between Welby and Miss F. Julia Wedgwood. Also included typed excerpts and letter drafts. Topics include: Wedgwood's thoughts on Welby's articles and theories; nature of evil; writings of Thomas Erskine; their mutal friendship with Mary Everest Boole; gifts of flowers; Wedgewood's sister Hope; the death of Mrs. Oliphant; "moral insanity"; Wedgwood meeting Mrs.Hinton; the bigamy scandal of Howard Hinton, who was married to Mrs. Boole's daughter, Mary Ellen; and Wedgwood's advice to Welby about seeking out a leading scientific scholar, Huxley perhaps, to respond to her writing. Wedgwood writes from: 56 George Street, Portman Square, W.; Putney, and Abinger Hall, Dorking.
Aitken, (W. H.)
1970-010/001(05) · File · 1886, 1889
Part of Lady Victoria Alexandrina Maria Louisa Welby fonds

File consists of typed, handwritten, and transcribed excerpts of correspondence between W. Aitken and VW. Keywords include: fire, life, heat, light, Divinity, Christ, Horton, Akkadian Genesis, Dr. King of Cambridge. Also includes a scrap of handwritten notes by VW.
Arnold, Sir Edwin
1970-010/001(12) · File · 1887-1889
Part of Lady Victoria Alexandrina Maria Louisa Welby fonds

File consists of folder of correspondence. According to Petrilli, the file consists of a “…consistent corpos of mostly handwritten letters [covering] the years between 9 September 1887 and March 1889… Some letters are typewritten and bear editorial comments, though only one, dated 30 September 1887, from Arnold to Welby, was included … [in]… Echoes of Larger Life.” The following letters have been transcribed and published in Petrilli’s Signifying and Understanding: Reading the Works of Victoria Welby and the Signific Movement:
VW to EA 9 September 1887
EA to VW 30 September 1887
VW to EA 1 October 1887
EA to VW 3 January, 7 February 1888
VW to EA 6 March 1888
EA to VW 3 May 1888
VW to EA 3 July 1888
See: Susan Petrilli, Signifying and Understanding: Reading the Works of Victoria Welby and the Signific Movement. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. 2009, pp. 42-47.
Wedgwood, Miss F. Julia
1970-010/019(13) · File · 1889-1890
Part of Lady Victoria Alexandrina Maria Louisa Welby fonds

File consists of folder of handwritten and typed letters between Welby and Miss F. Julia Wedgwood. Also included typed excerpts and letter drafts. Topics include: the illness and death of Wedgwood's mother and the sudden blindness of her father; the writings of Huxley, Nasmyth, Coleridge, and Darwin; Wedgwood responding to Welby's "Appeal"; concept of Redemption; the nature of evil; Wedgwood's research on the Talmud; Welby's curiosity about Wedgwood's correspondence with Miss C. Stephen regarding "The Moral Ideal"; gifts of flowers; Welby's aversion to the term "supernatural;" Wedgwood's reflections on her uncle's work "Origin of the Species" ; and their mutual friendship with Mrs. Mary Everest Boole. Wedgwood writes from: 31 Queen Anne Street; 13 Upper Wimpole Street; The Grove, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge; Idle Rocks, Stone, Staffordshire and 94 Gower Street, W.C..
Lang, Andrew
1970-010/009(03) · File · 1889-1890
Part of Lady Victoria Alexandrina Maria Louisa Welby fonds

File consists of voluminous correspondence between Andrew Lang and Welby, originals, as well as typed copies and duplicates. Topics of discussion include: VW's work, ghosts, ghost theory, treatment of the dead, a falling out with Mr. Sayce, metaphysics of "certain savage races", "Primitive Intelligence", a visit by Prof. Patrick Geddes, significs, expression, impression, feedback that Welby received from Lloyd Morgan on "Practical Religion", reaction to the publication of "Mind", death of Aubrey Moore, Welby's "linking" work, Father Gerard's essays on Evolution and Thought, a study of specific terms ("rubbish", "inference", "primitive humans"), animal reactions to ghosts and the failures of translations, Father Harper, Wilfred Ward, reading the work of Perrault, and Welby's frustration at not being able to publish "Links & Clues". Includes one copy of a letter from Mrs. Lang. Lang writes from Selkirk, Edinburgh.