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Family photographs from Mae Duncan
2016-025 / 002 (14) · File · 1890 - 1960
Part of Lynn Gehl fonds

File consists of photocopied historical photographs of family members related to both Mae Duncan and her grand neice Lynn Gehl (nee Glassford). Most images are annotated with identifying information, marriage dates and other contextual details.
Abel, Dr Karl
1970-010/001(02) · File · 1890-1891, 1895-1896
Part of Lady Victoria Alexandrina Maria Louisa Welby fonds

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.
Wedgwood, Miss F. Julia
1970-010/019(14) · File · 1891-1892
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 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..
Lang, Andrew
1970-010/009(04) · File · 1891-1904
Part of Lady Victoria Alexandrina Maria Louisa Welby fonds

File consists of original, typed transcriptions and extracts of correspondence between Andrew Lang and Welby. Includes some draft letters. Topics include: Lang's attack of a Miss Wilkins in the publication "Illustration", origins of ghosts in primitive societies, early religions, Welby's correspondence with Dr. Tylor, Prof. Boys, a Dr. "Wllr" and Prof. L.M.; meetings with Max Muller and Prof. Michel Breal; discussion of "animal Land", eugenics and the Sociological Society. Lang writes from Ardtornish, Movern, Fort William, Corby Castle in Carlisle, Edinburgh and St. Andrew's.
Alexander, Samuel
1970-010/001(06) · File · 1892-1897, 1900, 1903, 1908-1911
Part of Lady Victoria Alexandrina Maria Louisa Welby fonds

File consists of numerous typed, handwritten and transcribed excerpts of correspondence between Professor Samuel Alexander, President of The Aristotelian Society and Lecturer at Lincoln College, and VW, including typed statements and long dialogues between the two about Semantics and meaning. Alexander visited Denton in 1894. Includes a transcription of a letter written by Dr. Henry J. Watt of the Physiological Labratory of the University of Glasgow to Alexander. Keywords include: The Aristotelian Society, Leslie Stephen, Moral Order and Progress, Semantics, meaning, semse, signification, Sidgwick, Bonsanquet, Marshall, Harnack, Dogmengeschichte, logic, signification, interpretation, philosophy, Arthur Balfour, Stout, Galton, David Hogarth, Taylor, Problem of Conduct, nature of mental activity, Galton, the Infinite,Santaana, Lowes, images, immortality, consciousness,Heritics Club of Cambridge,
James, Henry
1970-010/008(01) · File · 1892, 1911
Part of Lady Victoria Alexandrina Maria Louisa Welby fonds

File consists of folder of correspondence. Several letters edited and published in "Other Dimensions, A Selection from the Later Correspondence of Victoria Lady Welby." Letters transcribed and published by Petrilli include: HJ to VW 23 June 1911, VW to HJ 5 July 1911. See: Mrs. Henry Cust, ed. Other Dimensions: A Selection from the Later Correspondence of Victoria Lady Welby. London: Jonathan Cape, 1931, pp. 342-343.