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Wedgwood, Miss F. Julia
1970-010/019(16) · File · 1897-1902
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: 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
1970-010/019(05) · File · 1887-1888, 1890, 1892, 1897, 1903
Part of Lady Victoria Alexandrina Maria Louisa Welby fonds

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
1970-010/019(06) · File · 1894, 1896, 1898, 1902-1903
Part of Lady Victoria Alexandrina Maria Louisa Welby fonds

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.
Unbound newspapers
S00253 · Series · 1842-1903
Part of Sheldon and Judy Godfrey collection

Series consists of unbound issues of newspapers published in Montreal, Toronto and Victoria, which contain advertisements and notices concerning Jewish businesses.
Airlie, Lady Blanche
1970-010/001(04) · File · 1881, 1882, 1884, 1889, 1890, 1893, 1895, 1897-1899, 1903
Part of Lady Victoria Alexandrina Maria Louisa Welby fonds

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
1970-010/002(02) · File · 1903
Part of Lady Victoria Alexandrina Maria Louisa Welby fonds

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.
Galton, Francis (5)
1970-010/005(19) · File · 1902-1903
Part of Lady Victoria Alexandrina Maria Louisa Welby fonds

File consists of folder of correspondence between Welby and the eugenics scholar Francis Galton. Also includes a copy of Francis' "Index to Achievements of Near Kinsfolk of some of the Fellows of the Royal Society, 1904".
Bradley, F. H. (Francis Herbert?)
1970-010/002(07) · File · 1887, 1885, 1894, 1903
Part of Lady Victoria Alexandrina Maria Louisa Welby fonds

File consists of folder of correspondence. Petrilli transcribed and published all but a "few brief notes." 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 FHB 17 January 1887
FHB to VW 8 February 1887
VW to FHB 11 February 1887
FHB to VW 23 February 1887
FHB to VW 22 May 1887
VW to FHB 8 November 1894
VW to FHB [1894]
FHB to VW 11 November 1894
VW to FHB 15 November 1894
FHB to VW 16 November 1894
VW to FHB 26 May 1903.
See: Susan Petrilli, Signifying and Understanding: Reading the Works of Victoria Welby and the Signific Movement. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. 2009, pp. 48-55.