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Robert Taylor : correspondence and papers 1875-1883
1971-012/001/(1) · File · 1875-1883
Part of York University Archives manuscript collection

File consists of correspondence to Miss. Annie Hill and later Mrs. [Robert] Taylor. Letter content describes conditions of Winnipeg in the late 1800s, such as the weather, business, price of bread, real estate and journey to Winnipeg, as well the prospects out west and in Ontario. In one letter Robert Taylor asks Annie's father for permission to marry her, and in another letter he mentions a fight that broke out in which a miller working for Wadsworth was beaten. There is also a Dissolution and Partnership document involving and signed by Robert Taylor.

 Taylor, Robert
Walrond, T.
1970-010/019(03) · File · 14 Apr. 1884
Part of Lady Victoria Alexandrina Maria Louisa Welby fonds

File consists of a handwritten letter and two typed transcripts from Mr. T. Walrond, writing from 65 Lancaster Gate West regarding extracts that Welby had prepared of her correspondence with Dean Stanley. It appears Walrond was writing about Stanley or editing a collection of his letters.
Welldon, J. C.
1970-010/019(18) · File · Apr. 1884
Part of Lady Victoria Alexandrina Maria Louisa Welby fonds

File consists of folder of a typed letter from Welby and a handwritten response from a Mr. Welldon, writing from Dulwich College, S.E., on the subject of Welby's writing and an invitation to visit Welby in London at 5 Upper Berkeley Street in Portman Square.
Wedgwood, Miss F. Julia
1970-010/019(11) · File · 1884
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 from 1884. Also included typed excerpts and letter drafts. Topics include: Wedgwood's reading as directed by Welby; their mutual friendship with Mrs. Mary Everest Boole (and conflict arrising from Boole's mental illness, "moral insanity', and charges leveled against a mutual friend); Wedgwood's article on Maurice in the British Quarterly Review; Wedgwood's thoughts of "Links and Clues"; Wedgwood writes from: Cilrhiw Narbert, South Wales and 56 George Street, Portman Square, W.
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.