| Description | This series largely consists of personal correspondence sent to Cynthia from various members of her family, but also includes a small number of letters written to her sister Irene Curzon, later Baroness Ravensdale, both before and after Cynthia's death in 1933, most of which do not relate directly to Cynthia herself. The series also contains material relating to the education of Cynthia's daughter Vivien Mosley, consisting of a mixture of school work and reports dating from the early 1930s. The majority of letters from all family correspondents discuss social engagements and activities, but letters from Cynthia's uncle Francis Curzon are concerned with her financial affairs, and the sequence of letters from her aunt Margaret Paget (nee Leiter), include details about a 1926 court case relating to the possible appropriation of funds from the Leiter Estate trust, from which most of Cynthia's income was derived. The most prolific correspondents among Cynthia's family were her sisters, Irene Curzon and Alexandra (Baba) Metcalfe (nee Curzon). Letters from Baba in this sequence were written during her childhood and adolescence, and are therefore mainly concerned with her social plans, while many of those from Irene were written during her time working with the YMCA in France during the final months of the First World War in 1918, and contain information about her life and work there. There are also sequences of correspondence from Cynthia's aunts and cousins on her father's side, and some letters from her father, George Nathaniel Curzon, as well as letters from other correspondents who are clearly relations but who cannot be further identified. |