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Martineau, Mary Ellen

File consists of folder of letters from Mary Ellen Martinau, Dr. James Martineau's daughter, requesting that Welby refrain from sending her father literary matter to read or criticize as he was 90 years old. Welby loaned letters to her for reference and copying for her biography of her father.

Correspondence of Louisa Murray

Box consists of 26 files of reproductions of letters from literary and artistic figures in Canada, such as Susanna Moodie, Daniel Fowler and George Munro Grant, addressed to Louisa Murray (b.1818-d.1894).

Bradley, A. C.

File consists of folder of correspondence. According to Petrilli, the correspondence is incomplete. 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 ACB 17 May 1899
ACB to VW 19 May 1899
VW to ACB 16 April 1900
VW to ACB 27 April 1900.
See: Susan Petrilli, Signifying and Understanding: Reading the Works of Victoria Welby and the Signific Movement. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. 2009, pp. 47-48.

Wedgwood, Miss F. Julia

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: closing her parent's London home; arranging her parents' correspondence; gift of flowers; Welby's injury; semantics; mental suffering; ghosts; phantom limbs, love between men and women; Wedgwood's correspondence with Mrs. Russell [Guerney?]; insomnia; the death of Lord Farrer; Welby's writing; Welby's eye trouble in 1901, and not being contacted to contribute letter for a memoir on Gurney; the movment of plants and a critique of the biography of Martineau. Wedgwood writes from: Idle Rocks, Stone, Staffordshire; 16 Landsdowne Road, Notting Hill, W. and 94 Gower Street, W.C.

Ward, Mrs (Mary A.) Humphrey

File consists of folder of handwritten and typed correspondence, as well as typed transcriptions, excerpts and letter drafts, between novelist Mrs. Humphrey Ward (Mary Arnold Ward) and Welby. Topics include: Welby's campaign to defend Ward's novel "Robert Elsmere" in the English press; types of Christianity; writings by Laurence Oliphant, Max Muller, Professor Clifford ; "Lux Mundi" ; Welby's "Mental Biology;" Ward's philanthropic work; letters that Welby forwarded from others regarding Ward's writing and Welby's cousin (The Warden of Keble? Not present in file); a letter from a Mr. Wickstead forwarded by Ward to Welby (not present in file). Includes Welby's extensive typed notes on religion and faith. It is clear that Welby and Ward met in 1887, July 1888, 1890. Ward writes from: 61 Russell Square; Fox Gyll, Ambleside; Lower Grayswood, Haslemere; 25 Grosvenor Place, S.W. and Villa Iqca, Pallermo. Some of Welby's letters are written from Strathpeffer Spa.

Ward, James

File consists of folder of correspondence between Welby and James Ward. Includes a letter written to Prof. Sidgwick by Ward about Welby's thoughts on psychology and the science of interpretation. Topics include: indepth debates about Welby's theories; Welby's efforts to meet with Ward (at Cambridge University?) in 1902; writings by Dr. Royce; the Unseen, the Spiritual and the Super-Natural; the psychology of metaphor or anology; the logic and epistemology of metaphor; education versus information; and Wards reactions to Welby's theories. Ward writes from: 6 Selwyn Gardens, Cambridge.

Airlie, Lady Blanche

File consists of typed, handwritten and trascribed excerpts from correspondence between Lady Blanche Airlie with VW. Keywords include: "young married women" , religion, loss, grief, silence, comfort.

Booth, Charles

File consists of folder of correspondence between Welby and the author Charles Booth. Topics include Welby setting up a district nurse at Grantham and Grantham Village; starting up a Mother's Union; and country nursing. Welby also mentions that her aunt Mrs. J. Stuart-Wortley was founder of East London Nursing Society (in succession to Welby's other aunt, Mrs. J. Talbot who establish the Parochial Mission Women.

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