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Violet Fane Collection MS 2608 University Museums and Special Collections Service Violet Fane Collection MS 2608 The bulk of the collection consists of around 2000 items of correspondence, mostly addressed to members of Violet Fane's family during the period 1850 to 1905. Many are written by family members, but there are also letters from friends, including literary figures of the time such as Alfred Austin, Robert Browning and Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, and letters from diplomats and government members. The collection includes letters written by Violet Fane herself, and letters written to her by her husbands and children. In addition, there is an earlier collection of letters from members of the Burges/Lamb family, c. 1785-1867 (Sir James Burges came into the possession of the estate of his friend John Lamb in 1821 and assumed the name of Sir James Lamb by royal license). There are also letters written to members of the family in the twentieth century, particularly to Sir Charles Lamb. The rest of the collection consists of diaries kept by Violet Fane 1898-1905; diaries kept by her mother Anna Charlotte Lamb 1859 and 1875-1880; pen and pencil sketchbooks by Violet Fane and other family members; newscuttings relating to Violet Fane's life and work, to literary and political life, and to foreign affairs, c. 1865- 1920; notebooks containing manuscript fair copies of Violet Fane's poems; manuscripts of prose articles and notes; prose and verse manuscripts by Violet Fane's daughter Sophie Singleton (Mrs Lionel Harbord); manuscript and typescript poems by other writers; a large number of photographs of Violet Fane, her friends and family, and official portraits; printed verses, illustrated material, catalogues, orders of service etc.; and sundry papers chiefly related to Sir Philip Currie's activities in the diplomatic service. The Collection covers the year’s 1785-1958. The physical extent of the collection is 7 boxes and 232 files. See also MS 5514: Minnie Lamb pen & ink sketches, (1859-1863), 1 volume Introduction Mary Montgomerie Lamb was born at Beauport, Littlehampton, Sussex, on 24 February 1843, eldest daughter of Charles James Saville Montgomerie Lamb and his wife Anna Charlotte Gray. Her grandfather was Sir Charles Montolieu Lamb, second baronet, of Beauport, Sussex. She was brought up at Beauport, where from an early age she showed an interest in poetry and story-writing, which was strongly discouraged by her family. For this reason all her work was published under the pen-name 'Violet Fane', the name of a character in Disraeli's Vivian Grey . In 1864 she married Henry Sydenham Singleton, an Irish landowner, and Page 1 of 312 University Museums and Special Collections Service subsequently became well known in London society for her beauty, charm and original conversation. Henry Singleton, by whom she had two sons and two daughters, died on 10 March 1893. On 24 January 1894 she married Sir Philip Henry Wodehouse Currie, G.C.B., later Baron Currie of Hawley, and accompanied him to Constantinople, where he was ambassador. In 1898 her husband was transferred to Rome, and there they lived until his retirement in 1903, when they settled at Hawley, Hampshire. Lady Currie died of heart failure on 13 October 1905 at the Grand Hotel, Harrogate, and was buried at Mattingley Church, Hampshire. Her first publication was a volume of verse entitled From Dawn to Noon (1872). This was followed by Denzil Place: a story in verse (1875), The Queen of the Fairies and other poems (1876), and Anthony Babington, a drama in prose and verse (1877). In 1880 she issued her Collected Verses. She also wrote prose, beginning with the witty social sketches entitled Edwin and Angelina Papers (1878) and continuing with a number of light essays, originally contributed to periodicals and later republished in volume form. Three novels, Sophy, or the Adventures of a Savage (1881), Thro' Love and War (1886) and The Story of Helen Davenant (1889), were followed by further poems, Autumn Songs (1889). In 1892 a second edition of her collected poems was published, now in two volumes. Also in that year, her Memoirs of Marguerite of Valois, Queen of Navarre was published. While living in Constantinople she wrote two books of poems, Under Cross and Crescent (1896) and Betwixt two Seas: poems and ballads written at Constantinople and Therapia (1900). MS 2608/1 Correspondence: general 1785-1958 176 files MS Letter from Hon. Mrs Boscawen to Mrs Delaney 2608/1/f1-3 5 December 1785 1 file MS Letter from Minnie (i.e. Violet Fane) to her father 2608/1/f4-5 1854 1 file Page 2 of 312 University Museums and Special Collections Service MS Letter from Tenants of the Cavan Estate to Henry Sydenham 2608/1/f6-7 Singleton 14 March 1864 1 file MS Letter from 'Rachel' to Violet Fane 2608/1/f8-9 23 February 1860 1 file MS Letter from 'Augustine' (?) to Minnie 2608/1/f10- 27 December [1863] 11 1 file MS Letter from Emily to Mary Montgomerie Lamb Wednesday 2608/1/f12- undated 13 1 file MS Letter from Emily to Mary Montgomerie Lamb Tuesday 2608/1/f14- undated 16 1 file MS Letter from 'P' to Mary Montgomerie Lamb, Friday night 2608/1/f17- undated 18 1 file MS Letter from Astley to Mary Montgomerie Lamb 2608/1/f19- 25 December 1863 22 1 file Page 3 of 312 University Museums and Special Collections Service MS Letter from 'P' to Mary Montgomerie Lamb 2608/1/f23 28 December [1863] 1 file MS Letter from to Mary Montgomerie Lamb 2608/1/f24- 31 December 1863 25 1 file MS Letter from to Mary Montgomerie Lamb 2608/1/f26- 14 January 1864 27 1 file MS Letter from to Charles James Saville Montgomerie Lamb 2608/1/f28- 14 September 1865 29 1 file MS Letter from Emma Bennett to Mary Montgomerie Singleton 2608/1/f30- 24 May 1866 35 1 file MS Letter from Emma Bennett to Mary Montgomerie Singleton 2608/1/f36- c. May 1866 38 1 file MS Letter from Wilfrid Scawen Blunt to Philip Currie 2608/1/f39- [1869] 40 1 file Page 4 of 312 University Museums and Special Collections Service MS Letter from Mary Montgomerie Singleton to her mother 2608/1/f41 16 March 1870 1 file MS Letter from Lord Rendlesham to Mary Montgomerie Singleton 2608/1/f42- 21 July 1874 45 1 file MS Letter from 'R' to Mary Montgomerie Singleton 2608/1/f46 7 November [1874] 1 file MS Letter from Knollys to Macdonald 2608/1/f47 undated 1 file MS Letter from Wilfrid Scawen Blunt to Mary Montgomerie Singleton 2608/1/f48 24 February 1880 1 file MS Letter from Wilfrid Scawen Blunt to Mary Montgomerie Singleton 2608/1/f49- 27 December 1882 50 1 file MS Letter from Bantigany (?) to Mary Montgomerie Singleton 2608/1/f51 11 November 1883 1 file Page 5 of 312 University Museums and Special Collections Service MS Letter from Bantigany (?) to Mary Montgomerie Singleton 2608/1/f52- 21 November 1883 53 1 file MS Letter from Bantigany (?) to Mary Montgomerie Singleton 2608/1/f54 2 December 1883 1 file MS Letter from M. Cole to Mary Montgomerie Singleton 2608/1/f55- 25 April 1884 56 1 file MS Letter from Incomplete letter from P. Quinn 2608/1/f57 c. April 1884 1 file MS Letter from to Mary Montgomerie Singleton 2608/1/f58- 6 August 1884 59 1 file MS Letter from to Mary Montgomerie Singleton 2608/1/f60- c. August 1884 61 1 file MS Letter from Ibrahim Hilam to Smart 2608/1/f62- 30 March 1886 63 1 file Page 6 of 312 University Museums and Special Collections Service MS Letter from George P Holmes (?) to Mary Montgomerie 2608/1/f64 Singleton 18 September [1887] 1 file MS Letter from Dorothy Tennant to Mary Montgomerie Singleton 2608/1/f65 15 November 1887 1 file MS Letter from 'Proteus' (i.e. Wilfrid Scawen Blunt) to Sophie 2608/1/f66- Singleton 67 22 August 1888 1 file MS Letter from 'Proteus' (i.e. Wilfrid Scawen Blunt) to Sophie 2608/1/f68- Singleton 71 5 May 1889 1 file MS Letter from Wilfrid Scawen Blunt to Sophie Singleton 2608/1/f72 26 May 1889 1 file MS Letter from Wilfrid Scawen Blunt to Sophie Singleton 2608/1/f73- 12 June 1889 74 1 file Page 7 of 312 University Museums and Special Collections Service MS Letter from Wilfrid Scawen Blunt to Sophie Singleton 2608/1/f75 22 June 1889 1 file MS Letter from Wilfrid Scawen Blunt to Sophie Singleton 2608/1/f76- 16 July 1889 77 1 file MS Letter from Wilfrid Scawen Blunt to Sophie Singleton 2608/1/f78- 28 July [1889] 79 1 file MS Letter from Wilfrid Scawen Blunt to Sophie Singleton 2608/1/f80- 10 August 1889 81 1 file MS Letter from Arthur Duke of Connaught to - Moncrieff 2608/1/f82 16 October 1889 1 file MS Letter from A. S. Adair to [J. R. Singleton] 2608/1/f83 23 September 1890 1 file MS Letter from Allan S. Adair to Mary Montgomerie Singleton 2608/1/f84 25 September 1890 1 file Page 8 of 312 University Museums and Special Collections Service MS Letter from Wilfrid Scawen Blunt to Sophie Singleton 2608/1/f85 7 January 1891 1 file MS Letter from J. N. O. Holman to Harry R. M. Singleton 2608/1/f86- 17 February 1891 89 1 file MS Letter from C. N. Charrington to Mary Montgomerie Singleton 2608/1/f90- 9 January 1892 92 1 file MS Letter from Wilfrid Scawen Blunt to Sophie Singleton 2608/1/f93- 4 February 1892 94 1 file MS Letter from Wilfrid Scawen Blunt to Sophie Singleton 2608/1/f95 26 April 1892 1 file MS Letter from Wilfrid Scawen Blunt to Sophie Singleton 2608/1/f96 c.
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