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Catalogue description Estate, family, official, literary and personal papers of the Bulwer-Lytton family of Knebworth House, Hertfordshire
This record is held by Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies
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| Title: | Estate, family, official, literary and personal papers of the Bulwer-Lytton family of Knebworth House, Hertfordshire |
| Description: |
This collection is made up of the following separate elements: estate and family papers some of the literary manuscripts of Bulwer Lytton, official papers and correspondence derived from his long career in Parliament and more especially from his year (1858-59) as colonial secretary, and correspondence, personal and literary, from his early manhood to his death in 1873; literary manuscripts of his son Robert ("Owen Meredith"), official papers and correspondence from the latter's diplomatic activities and from his four years as Governor-General and Viceroy of India (1876-80) and a personal and literary correspondence almost as extensive as his father's. The collection of letters takes its present shape from the fact that two schemes of arrangement appear in the past to have been imposed upon it: first, those parts of Bulwer Lytton's correspondence not already bound were collected for publication in Life, Letters and Literary Remains and thereafter divided incompletely into two sections, 'letters received' and 'letters sent;' Robert Lytton's correspondence was left partly in the order in which a selection was published by Lady Betty Balfour in Personal and Literary Letters of the Earl of Lytton, and partially in a similar divided state as his father's. In the body of this inventory the names of the principal members of the family have been abbreviated, following the practice adopted before this collection was deposited. Abbreviations are as follows: EBBL Elizabeth Barbara Bulwer Lytton EBL Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer Lytton RBL Rosina Bulwer Lytton RL Edward Robert Lytton EL Edith Lytton HBL Henry Bulwer Lytton |
| Date: | 1700-1962 |
| Held by: | Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies, not available at The National Archives |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical description: | 6 series |
| Immediate source of acquisition: |
[Accessions 941] Deposited 1962 |
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