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Letters to Gertrude Lysons

Reference code
LYS/13
Title
Letters to Gertrude Lysons
Date
c.1882-1910
Level of description
Series
Scope and content
Various letters and papers mainly comprising letters to Gertrude Lysons from Leonard Price relating to research on the Lysons family and their connected families and family pedigrees. Correspondence regarding family portraits and sale of family books. Copies of the Pedigrees and Arms of various connected families including the Campbell, Andrews, Egerton, Thistlethwayte, Savery, Hardy, Townend, Servington, Coker, Wright, Marshall Collard, Molesworth families.

Letter to Mrs Lysons postmarked Cairo with address in Cairo struck out and forwarded to Cataract Hotel Aswan.
Extract from the Beauties of England and Wales by John Brittan and Edward Wedlake Brayley regarding Hempstead and how it came into ownership of the Lysons. Newspaper cutting of its sale in 1892.

Envelope addressed to Mrs Pattinson, Brisbane Queensland with letter from Leonard Price to Teresa Pattinson dated 2 Feb1915 re the effects of the War and the billeting of troops and deaths and wounding of friends and family.

Newspaper cuttings of the installation of Sir Daniel Lysons as Constable of the Tower, his funeral and Obituary from the Gloucestershire Standard 2 Feb 1898.
Creator
Lysons family of Hempsted
Previous reference number(s)
SAL/MS/782/13