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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.

Unbound newspapers

Series consists of unbound issues of newspapers published in Montreal, Toronto and Victoria, which contain advertisements and notices concerning Jewish businesses.

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.

Galton, Francis (5)

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?)

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.

Lang, Andrew

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.

MacDonald, William

File consists of folder of correspondence between Welby and William MacDonald, regarding their collaboration (Macdonald was contracted to assist Welby as an editor of her writing), the purchase of a Remington typewriter, their correspondence with Professor Geddes, gifts of flowers, visits to London, MacDonald's introduction to Mr. McGeegan and other aspects of their work together. Macdonald writes from 18 Essendine Road, and Elgin Avenue West.

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