sub-fonds 46 - Letters from Henry Babington Smith to his wife Lady Elisabeth Mary Babington Smith, née Bruce

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SMIH/46

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Letters from Henry Babington Smith to his wife Lady Elisabeth Mary Babington Smith, née Bruce

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  • 23 Jan 1903-31 Dec 1907 (Creation)

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137 letters; 1 press cutting; text of speech; notes of conversation; two printed songs.
two flowers

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Smith, Sir Henry Babington (1863-1923), knight, civil servant and financier
(1863-1923)

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Trinity College Library, Cambridge

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23: 19 Jul 1904, enclosing press cutting announcing engagement of George Herbert Duckworth to Lady Margaret Leonora Evelyn Selina Herbert.
27: [12 Jul 1904?], with addition: Henry Babington Smith to Michael James Babington Smith.
41: 22 Jun 1905, with enclosure: speech by Henry Babington Smith at Trinity College dinner, 21 Jun 1905.
81: 8 May 1906, with enclosure: notes by Henry Babington Smith on conversation with the King and Queen of Italy, 6 May 1906.
127: 18 Jul 1807, with enclosures: letter from D. C. J. Ibbetson to Henry Babington Smith, 17 Jul [1807]; two printed French songs of Yvette Guilbert.
131: 5 Sept 1907: end missing.

Flowers enclosed with 66, 86.

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  • English
  • French

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