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Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)OJL/1/389
TitleMillicent Leveson-Gower, Duchess of Sutherland
Extent21 items
Date1901-1913
DescriptionCorrespondence from Millicent Leveson Gower, Duchess of Sutherland [1867-1955, society hostess and social reformer].

/1 Letter from Millicent Leveson-Gower to Oliver Lodge, written from Lilleshall, Newport, Salop, dated 19 June [post-1902]. Leveson-Gower writes that she is looking forward to her visit and gives information about her travel arrangements.

/2 Letter from Millicent Leveson-Gower to Oliver Lodge, written from Saint Serf's House, Priory Lane, Roehampton, undated [post-1902]. Leveson-Gower thanks Lodge for a book. She read his address in the Times. She still works at the 'Cripples Guild' in Birmingham but invites Lodge to visit her permanent home in Roehampton.
/3 Letter from Millicent Leveson-Gower to Oliver Lodge, written from Stafford House, London, dated 5 January 1901. Written in the third person. Leveson-Gower thanks Lodge for sending an address on Sidgwick. She hopes to meet Lodge one day.

/4 Letter from Millicent Leveson-Gower to Oliver Lodge, written from Lilleshall, Newport, Shropshire, dated 27 July 1904. Leveson-Gower writes about Lodge's articles; she thinks he will be challenged by the defenders of 'so-called' Church Christianity. She comments on good and evil.

/5 Letter from Millicent Leveson-Gower to Oliver Lodge, written from Lilleshall, Newport, Salop, dated 24 December 1904, and marked 'Private'. Leveson-Gower expresses concern about her eldest son who is failing at Eton. She hopes to find a tutor who can gain control and influence. She proposes sending him to Birmingham to visit factories. With telegraph from (Duke or Duchess of) Sutherland to Oliver Lodge, dated 27 December 1904, about possibility of Roscoe tutoring the boy. With letter from Frank Roscoe to Oliver Lodge, written from the University, Birmingham dated 28 December 1904, about meeting Leveson-Gower's son and his hopes of influencing the boy.

/6 Letter from Millicent Leveson-Gower to Oliver Lodge, written from Pickwell Manor, Oakham, dated 29 February 1905. Leveson-Gower proposes to visit the Lodges and inspect the small arms factory.

/7 Letter from Millicent Leveson-Gower to Oliver Lodge, written from Paris, dated 23 March 1905. Leveson-Gower would like to visit the Lodges and see the small arms factory in May, but she'd rather not do the school opening. She recommends G. Murray's new book 'The Trojan Women' of Euripides.

/8 Letter from Millicent Leveson-Gower to Oliver Lodge, written from Stafford House, London, dated 5 April 1905. Leveson-Gower makes arrangements to visit the Lodges and attend a school opening ceremony. She writes that Mr Roscoe is coming to tutor her son again.

/9 Letter from Lucy A. James (on behalf of Millicent Leveson-Gower) to Oliver Lodge, written from Dunrobin Castle, Sutherland, dated 15 April 1905. James writes that the Duchess will be unable to visit in May as she has been ordered to rest by her doctor.

/10 Letter from Millicent Leveson-Gower to Oliver Lodge, written from Lilleshall, Newport, Salop, dated 29 December 1905. She is sorry to hear Lodge is unwell. She comments on the work of George Bernard Shaw and asks Lodge to send his Clarion article. She writes about Geordie's progress at school. She is unable to be in London for the election. She writes they were obliged to leave Trentham: 'Too many homes and possessions stifle the soul and as it is I live too little anywhere to accomplish the work I would accomplish'. She will send a copy of her new book 'The Conqueror'.

/11 Letter from Millicent Leveson-Gower to Oliver Lodge, written from Stafford House, London, dated 13 March 1906. She thanks Lodge for his letter and writes of imagining him in the south. She comments briefly on the election. She comments on the work of G. B. Shaw and expresses admiration for his 'Major Barbara'. She writes that Mr Roscoe will continue to tutor her son.

/12 Letter from Millicent Leveson-Gower to Oliver Lodge, written from Edinburgh, dated 10 March 1907. She thanks Lodge for a book. She is going to the Outer Hebrides 'to look after the Tweed Industry'. She invites Lodge to her reception for the colonial premiers in April.

/13 Telegraph from Millicent Leveson-Gower to Oliver Lodge, dated 27 July 1907. Leveson-Gower is sorry not to have spoken to Lodge at an event.

/14 Letter from Millicent Leveson-Gower to Oliver Lodge, written from Stafford House, dated May 1908. Leveson-Gower invites the Lodges to call if they are in town.

/15 Letter from Millicent Leveson-Gower to Oliver Lodge, written from Hook Hill, Woking, dated 18 May 1909. Leveson- Gower writes that Geordie is doing well. She hopes to see the Lodges in London in June.

/16 Envelope addressed to Oliver Lodge at Skibo Castle, postmarked 6 September 1909.

/17 Letter from Millicent Leveson-Gower to Oliver Lodge, written from Dunrobin Castle, Sutherland. Leveson-Gower hopes Lodge will come to see her whilst he is staying with Carnegie. She writes that Geordie and his brother 'are out on the military manoeuvres'.

/18 Letter from Millicent Leveson-Gower to Oliver Lodge, written from Lilleshall, with envelope dated 28 January 1910. Leveson-Gower writes that she is going to Egypt and wishes Lodge could come with her.

/19 Letter from Millicent Leveson-Gower to Oliver Lodge, written from London, dated 25 June 1911, with envelope. Leveson-Gower writes of false Gods and mis-directed worship. She refers to Lord Dunsany's play (or possibly ploy).

/20 Letter from Millicent Leveson-Gower to Oliver Lodge, written from Stafford House, London, with envelope postmarked 16 December 1913. Leveson-Gower is leaving for Canada in August. She believes she spoke with true earnestness at Fenton but few understood. She comments: 'What is a man's life or views in the great sum total of time ever marching towards Eternity?'.

/16 & 17 letter in envelope
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