| Description | This correspondence consists of telegrams and letters of congratulations written to Cynthia Mosley shortly after the birth of her first child, Vivien, in February 1921. The majority of these letters are from friends and family members, and consist of brief messages of support, but there are also several longer letters which discuss other personal and social news. Letters include:
/1 from 'Aunty', Margaret Hyde Paget, (nee Leiter), Countess of Suffolk
/4 telegram from 'Aunt Daisy and Uncle Hardress'; Margaret Waller (nee Curzon) and Hardress John Waller
/5 telegram from Alfred, Hubert and Marcella Duggan
/18 from 'Aunt Sophy', Sophia Macmichael, Walpole Grange, Sittingbourne
/22 from 'Elsie', Nottlers, Bricket Wood, St Albans, with congratulations from her and 'Rob'. For further letters from 'Rob', see OMN/A/4/2/9, and from Elsie, see OMN/A/2/23/35-38
/23 from 'Rob', Nottlers, Bricket Wood, St Albans
/24 from 'Nigs', Ashby St Ledgers, Rugby. For further letters from 'Nigz', see OMN/A/2/23/73-76
/37 from Cecil Gairdner, Cavendish Club, 119 Piccadilly, London
/38 from 'Aunt Blanche' Curzon, Cadogan Place, London
/40 from 'Aunt Daisy', Margaret Waller, nee Curzon
/41 from Barbara Wallace (nee Lutyens), Pattishall House, nr Towcester, containing news about house hunting and her health
/42 from Euan Wallace, Pattishall House, nr Towcester
/46 from Gladys Waterbury, signed 'Quart', Fairfield House, Convent Station, New Jersey, with details of her travel plans. For further letters from Gladys Waterbury, see OMN/A/2/16
/49 from M. Campbell, Campbell Ranch, Goleta, California, enclosing a brooch which had belonged to Cynthia's mother, intended to be given to her first granddaughter
/52 from 'Auntie', Margaret Hyde Paget, nee Leiter, Countess of Suffolk, enquiring about Cynthia's poor health since the birth of her daughter
/55 from Ernald Mosley, brother of Oswald Mosley's grandfather, Monksgate House, nr Horsham
/60 from Nancy Astor, St James's Square, London |