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Introduction
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Correspondence of Walter Merivale
A.1 Correspondence with his parents and sisters
A.2 Family correspondence addressed or forwarded to Walter
and Maggie Merivale,
1881-92
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Family and business correspondence
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Correspondence of Philip Merivale
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'Walter Merivale and his family'
| Abstract: Correspondence of the Merivale family, 1869-1943, mainly of Walter Merivale, railway engineer in India, Costa Rica and Barbados. |
Correspondence of the Merivale family, 1869-1943, mainly of Walter Merivale, railway engineer (1855-1902) and his wife Emma Magdalene (Maggie, 1854-1940) in India from 1881 to 1889, Costa Rica from 1890 to 1892 and Barbados from 1894 to 1899. Letters to and from many different members of the family were circulated and retained by Walter and Maggie. The principal family correspondents are Charles Merivale, Dean of Ely (1808-93), his wife Judith (née Frere), their daughters Maria Sophia (Sophy) and Judith Anne, and sons John Herman and Charles.
| Letters to Walter Merivale from his parents, Charles
and Judith,
1869-82 Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 5239 Extent: 228 leaves Scope and Content: With one (fols. 222-6) from Judith Anne Merivale to her mother on Walter's departure for India, 1881. |
| Letters to Merivale's parents and sisters, Sophy and
Judith, from him and Maggie,
1882-6 Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 5240 Extent: 386 leaves |
| Letters to Merivale's parents and sisters, Sophy and
Judith, from him and Maggie,
1887-9 Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 5241 Extent: 384 leaves |
| Letters to Merivale's parents and sisters, Sophy and
Judith, from him and Maggie,
1890-1,
1894-9 Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 5242 Extent: 284 leaves |
| Two volumes of letters to Walter and Maggie Merivale
from his mother, in journal form,
1887,
1888 Shelfmark: MSS. Eng. e. 2910-11 Extent: ii + 254, iii + 238 leaves Binding: half red calf, marbled and (e. 2911) cloth boards |
| 1881-4 Shelfmark: MS. Eng. e. 2912 Extent: iii + 322 leaves Binding: half calf, marbled boards, with amateur repairs |
| 1885-6 Shelfmark: MS. Eng. d. 2635 Extent: ii + 485 leaves Binding: half calf, marbled boards, with amateur repairs |
| 1887 Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 5243 Extent: 465 leaves |
| Nov. 1887-July 1888 Shelfmark: MS. Eng. d. 2636 Extent: iii + 363 leaves Binding: half calf, marbled boards, with amateur repairs |
| July-Dec. 1888 Shelfmark: MS. Eng. d. 2637 Extent: vii + 339 leaves Binding: half calf, marbled boards, with amateur repairs |
| 1889 Shelfmark: MS. Eng. d. 2638 Extent: ii + 480 leaves Binding: half calf, marbled boards, with amateur repairs |
| 1889-90 Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 5244 Extent: 316 leaves |
| 1891 Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 5245 Extent: 343 leaves |
| Family letters to Walter and Maggie Merivale,
1892 Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 5246 Extent: 345 leaves Scope and Content: Includes
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| Volume of family and business correspondence of Walter
and Maggie Merivale,
Jan. -July 1892 Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 5247 Extent: 300 leaves Binding: half red calf, marbled boards |
| Typescript copies of letters from the actor Philip
Merivale, Walter and Maggie Merivale's elder son, to his aunts Sophy and
Judith,
1895-1 Jan. 1914 Shelfmark: MS. Eng. d. 2639 Extent: 126 leaves |
| Letters from Philip Merivale, with a few from his first
wife Viva Birkett, to his aunts, principally from the United States
1911-15,
1916-20,
1926-43 Shelfmark: MSS. Eng. c. 5248-50 Extent: 240, 248, 224 leaves |
| Typescript account of 'Walter Merivale and his family,
1855-1902', by his grand-daughter Judith Shirley Bunbury,
1990 Shelfmark: MS. Eng. d. 2640 Extent: ix + 170 pages Scope and Content: Based on the family correspondence, with (p. 169) a family tree to 1991. |