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 death of Wedgwood's father; . Wedgwood visit to Denton in December 1891; gifts of flowers; a lunar eclipse in May 1892; Wedgwood's opposition of vivisection; the "sudden insanity of your literary acquaintance"; and their mutual correspondence with Dr. van Eeden. Also includes a clipping from "Women's Herald" from 23 May 1891 featuring an article about Julia Wedgwood. Wedgwood writes from: West Terace Folkestone, and 94 Gower Street, W.C..
File consists of folder of correspondence between Welby and Frank Harris of The Fortnightly Review.
File consists of folder of correspondence.
File consists of folder of correspondence.
File consists of folder of correspondence.
File consists of folder of correspondence.
File consists of folder of correspondence. Annotation in original finding aid reads "Her Letters Published."
File consists of folder of correspondence.
File consists of folder of correspondence between Welby and G.L. Gomme, of the Folklore Society.
File consists of folder of correspondence.
File consists of folder of correspondence between Welby and Mary Leger Harrison, also known by her pen name Lucas Malet.
File consists of folder of correspondence.
File consists of correspondence between Bishop Joseph Barber Lightfoot, the Bishop of Durham, and Welby. Topics include sharing each others writing; their mutual correspondence with Canon Westcott; Welby's mss (presumably "Links & Clues" to be published by Macmillan; their mutual invitation from Lady Scarborough to visit her at Lumley in 1888; the bishop's helpping of Welby's friend, a Miss Hopkins; and a visit from Mr. Body who was critiquing her work "Recognition". File also includes letter written by Bishop Aukland in 1881 address to a J.B. [Dueth?] .
File consists of folder of correspondence.
File consists of folder of correspondence.
File consists of folder of correspondence between Welby and eugenics scholar Francis Galton.
File consists of folder of correspondence. According to Petrilli, "[t]he corpus of letter exchanges between Benjamin Jowett only consists of four letters from Jowett in illegible and fading handwriting, and three letters from Welby…" 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 BJ 25 March 1891
VW to BJ 27 October 1892
VW to BJ 3 June 1893.
See: Susan Petrilli, Signifying and Understanding: Reading the Works of Victoria Welby and the Signific Movement. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. 2009, pp.59-60.
File consists of folder of correspondence.
File consists of folder of correspondence.
File consists of folder of correspondence.
File consists of folder of correspondence.
File consists of folder of correspondence.
File consists of folder of correspondence.
File consists of folder of correspondence.
File consists of folder of correspondence.
File consists of folder of correspondence.
File consists of two letters and an envelope from Joseph C. Wallich, writing from 466 Cass Avenue, Detroit Michigan, responding to Welby's article "Meaning and Metaphor" published in the July 1893 issue of "Monist." Wallich requests pamphlets which Welby offered to interesed readers in the article.
File consists of folder of handwritten, typed and typescript excerpts of letters between Welby and C.V. Boys. Topics include: Welby inviting Boys to lecture to Science and Art classes, inviting him to Denton at Easter in 1889; Boys inviting Welby and party to visiting him "to see the machine in action"; Boys experiments on spiders regarding vibration; the primariness of the curve; geo-centrism; Professor Clifford, Prof. Lloyd Morgan; visiting M. Cornu in Paris to see his apparatus; visiting M.E. Donkin at Cooper's Hill and Holloway College; Dr. Lodge's metaphysics; Welby's introduction to Mr. C. Cunynghame and Karl Pearson.
Written from 11 Alexander Square SW, 7 Brownton Square SW, Science and Art Department, South Kensignton and Oxford and the Cavendish Experiment.
File consists of folder of correspondence.
File consists of folder of correspondence.
File consists of folder of correspondence.
File consists of folder of handwritten and typed correspondence (including typescript excerpts and drafts) between Welby and Clement C.J. Webb. Topics include: Webb's participation in a week long conference at Denton hosted by Welby in April 1892; Webb's responses to Welby's articles and writing; significs, metaphor; thinking 'spherically'; writings of Gegl, Jowett, Oliver Lodge and Mr. Sully; Web writes from Magdalen College at Oxford.
File consists of folder of correspondence between Welby and Miss Lily K. Trotter, including a letter from 1888 address to Miss Trotter from William Smith.
File consists of folder of correspondence.
File consists of folder of correspondence.
File contains geographical guide to Cuba.
File consists of folder of correspondence between Welby and Lady Mary Feilding, including letters from her sister (Jane) L. H. Levitt in 1897 and Mary Denleigh 1897.
File consists of folder of correspondence.
File contains geographical guide to Cuba.
File consists of folder of correspondence.
File consists of folder of correspondence, typescripts, extracts and handwritten letters between Welby and Dr. James Martineau, including clippings "James Martineau" by E.M.H. , The Academy, 20 Janaury 1900, pp. 65-66. Topics include Martineau's "Study of Religion," Welby's "The Living Test," church reform, "Life of Father Suffield", significs, article submissions for "Mind"; Miss Hollins
Martineau writing from The Polchar, Ruthiemurrhus, Aniemore and 35 Gordon Square, London, W.C.
File consists of folder of correspondence.
File consists of folder of correspondence.
File consists of folder of correspondence between Welby and eugenics scholar Francis Galton.
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: writings of Huxley, Vernon Lee and the Duke of Argyll; sorrow and depression; gifts of flowers; Wedgwood's trip to Aux les Bains; religious topics and significs. Wedgwood writes from: Leith Hill Place, Dorking; Abinger Hall, Dorking, The Rookery, Richmond, Yorkshire; and 94 Gower Street, W.C..
File consists of typed, handwritten and transcribed excerpts from correspondence between VW and Karl Abel. The two corresponded at the suggestion of Professor Sayce. Welby sought out Dr. Abel and shared her writing on mental biology, seeking his feedback on her ideas. Welby also invited Abel to visit her in Denton. Keywords include: psychology of language, pscyological semantics, mental evolution, folklore, etymology, IndoEuropean languages.
File consists of folder of correspondence.
File consists of Alice Florence Sitwell's journal dated 1896. The journal is bound in delicate paper. The contents are typed and have been annotated.
Sitwell, Florence AliceFile consists of folder of correspondence.
File consists of folder of correspondence, from B. Bonsanquet to H. Sidgwick.
File consists of folder of correspondence.
File consists of folder of correspondence.
File consists of three handwritten letters from Rev. John Watson, writing from Sefton Park Church in Liverpool. One letter has been annotated "Ian Maclaren."
File consists of folder of correspondence.
File consists of folder of correspondence.
File consists of correspondence between Welby and Mrs. Bertha Lathbury and later from her husband D. C. Lathbury, the editor of the Guardian newspaper. Welby reintroduces herself, mentioning a summer 1887 meeting with Mrs. Lathbury "at the Pollocks' Hind Head cottage when Mrs. Clifford was there." Correspondence concerns the work "Robert Elsmere" published by Mrs. Humphry Ward; includes a list of books drawn up by Welby of Christian evidence that refutes Ward's book. Also includes correspondence of Welby's efforts in 1892 to have "Witness to Ambiguity" advertised and reviewed by the Guardian, as well as a series of letters about the Athanasian Creed that Lathbury declines to print. Letters from the Lathbury's written from 11 Markeston Mansions, and the Guardian head offices.
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File consists of a petition seeking a new church for the English-speaking Roman Catholics of Sherbrooke, minutes of a public meeting called to discuss the provincial election in Quebec in 1885, and legal documents regarding social and commercial matters.
File consists of folder of correspondence.
File consists of folder of correspondence.
File consists of folder of correspondence.
File consists of a typed transcription (possible excerpt) of a letter from William Watson. Annotated "William Watson [D.R.M.?] on the 'Keynote'." The letter is critical analysis of a poem (by Welby?).
File consists of folder of correspondence.
File consists of folder of correspondence.
File consists of folder of correspondence.
File consists of folder of correspondence.
File consists of a letter from Prof. Joseph Le Conte writing from Berkeley, California regarding Welby's pamphlet "Witness of Science to Linguistic Anarchy". File includes three duplicate transcriptions.
File consists of folder of correspondence.
File consists of folder of correspondence.
File consists of folder of correspondence.