Sidgwick family papers 1854-1898.

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

ArchivalResource

Sidgwick family papers 1854-1898.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122398935

This collection consists of one handwritten letter and a handwritten manuscript. The eleven page letter is dated October 6, 1854 and was sent from Mrs. E. Attersoll to Mary Crofts Sidgwick in Rugby, Warwickshire. Mrs. Attersoll relates the current events, which include news from her niece's husband, who is fighting in Sevastopol during the Crimean War (1854-1856); the planning of a Roman Catholic school by Robert Isaac Wilberforce (1802-1857) and his brother, Henry William Wilberforce (1807-1873); and frictions between the Wilberforce brothers and the local Anglican Rector of Westport. The manuscript is entitled "A Grandmother's Tales" and was published in MacMillan's Magazine in 1898. It was written by Mrs. William Sidgwick, wife of William Carr Sidgwick, and recounts her youth in early Victorian London and brief experiences with great figures of nineteenth-century Britain. In many cases these include mere glimpses of prominent personalities: the state visit of Nicolas-Jean de Dieu Soult, Minister of War under King Louis-Philippe (1830-1848) of France; Italian lessons from Napoleon's former private secretary, the Marchese di Moscati; and a piano concert by composer Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847). Mrs. Sidgwick also presents insightful descriptions of the poet Matthew Arnold (1822-1888) falling in love; the poet Robert Browning (1812-1889) relating his adventures in Florence with fellow writer Walter Savage Landor ( 1775-1864); the funeral of Arthur Wellesley, the first Duke of Wellington (1769-1852); and the debate regarding the theory of evolution sponsored by the British Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in 1860 between Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895) and Samuel Wilberforce (1805-1873), then Bishop of Oxford. Of interest to researchers will be Mrs. Sidgwick's recounting of mannerisms and customs prevalent in early Victorian society, as well as her descriptions of public ceremonies. The manuscript is twenty-seven pages, and includes marks and alterations made before publication.

.2 cubic ft. (2 letter size folders)

Flugschriften des Fruhen 16 Jahrhunderts

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 6702632

Flugschriften des Fruhen 16 Jahrhunderts

Related Entities

There are 7 Entities related to this resource.

Sidgwick family.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6vr29d1 (family)

Mary Crofts Sidgwick (ca. 1811-1879) was married in 1833 to the Reverend William Sidgwick (d. 1841), headmaster of Skipton grammar school in Skipton, Yorkshire and a cleric in the Church of England. She had four surviving children: William Carr Sidgwick (1834-1919), a Lecturer at Merton College, Oxford; Henry Sidgwick (1838-1900), celebrated Professor of Philosophy at Cambridge and instrumental in the admission of women to university examinations in 1881; Arthur Sidgwick (1840-1920)...

Sidgwick, Mary (Crofts) (ca. 1811-1879).

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6c28q5w (person)

Wilberforce, Henry William, 1807-1873

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6b31p2h (person)

Epithet: Reverend theologian British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001072.0x00018f ...

Wilberforce, Samuel, 1805-1873

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w69k4qpn (person)

English bishop of Winchester. From the description of Autograph letters signed (2) : [London] and [n.p.], to Duncan & Co. and Captain Young, 1820 Mar. 30-1831 June 1. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270861184 Anglican bishop of Oxford and of Winchester. From the description of Correspondence, 1790-1872. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 20504517 Anglican theologian and Bishop of Oxford Samuel Wilberforce was born at Clapham C...

Attersoll, E., Mrs.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6hb2zqp (person)

Sidgwick, Sarah Isabella (Thompson) (d. 1918).

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6vb22vt (person)

Wilberforce, Robert Isaac, 1802-1857

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6tq9vdn (person)

Epithet: diplomatist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000750.0x000385 Epithet: Reverend; of Add MS 35794 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000212.0x00000b Epithet: cultural advisor at the British Information Services New York British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_10...