Inventory Acc.11388 Ashburton Papers
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Inventory Acc.11388 Ashburton Papers National Library of Scotland Manuscripts Division George IV Bridge Edinburgh EH1 1EW Tel: 0131-466 2812 Fax: 0131-466 2811 E-mail: [email protected] © Trustees of the National Library of Scotland Papers of William Bingham Baring, second Baron Ashburton (succeeded 1848; 1799- 1864), his first wife (m.1823) Lady Harriet Mary Montagu (?1805-1857, eldest daughter of the 6th Earl of Sandwich) and his second wife (m.1858) Louisa Caroline Stewart Mackenzie (1827-1903). Also papers of his only child surviving to adulthood, Mary Florence (1860-1902, married William Compton, fifth Marquess of Northampton), and their extended family, especially Louisa’s mother, the Hon. Mary Frederica Stewart Mackenzie of Seaforth (formerly Lady Hood) (1783-1862). These individuals are referred to below as Bingham, Harriet, Louisa, Mary and Mrs Stewart Mackenzie respectively. The importance of the papers lies in the enormous range of the correspondents: politicians British and French, writers, artists. Bingham was an MP from 1826 until he succeeded to the peerage, and this, as well as his family of bankers and politicians gave him a wide-ranging acquaintance. Harriet too was deeply interested in politics, and also knew many writers, presiding over a salon and conducting a large correspondence. Louisa was a well-known figure in society, especially in the artistic world. Mrs Stewart Mackenzie was a close friend of Sir Walter Scott. Particularly notable are the correspondences with Scott, Thomas and Jane Carlyle, Dr John Brown, Charles Bullen, Edward Ellice, Louis Adolphe Thiers, Richard Doyle, the 1st Earl of Auckland, Prosper Mérimée, John Stuart Mill, William M Thackeray, the 4th Earl of Clarendon, the 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne, Sir Edwin H Landseer, Florence Nightingale, the 1st Earl of Northbrook, Robert Browning, William B Carpenter, Thomas Erskine of Linlathen, John Forster, J A Froude, Anna Jameson, Edward Lear, W L Leitch, the 1st Baron Houghton, Sir Richard Quain, D G Rossetti, A C Tait, Archbishop of Canterbury, Pauline Trevelyan, and John Tyndall. There are also extensive passionate correspondences between Louisa and Harriet Hosmer and Margaret Coutts Trotter. The papers have been used in Raleigh Trevelyan, A Pre-Raphaelite Circle, London, 1978, and Virginia Surtees, The Ludovisi Goddess, Salisbury, 1984. Bought, 1996, with the aid of a grant from the National Heritage Memorial Fund. Arrangement: The original filing system is unknown. When the papers came to the Library, some letters of famous people had been separated out; other letters had been grouped by writer and numbered consecutively (but the individual groups were in no observable order); there was a separate, unnumbered alphabetical sequence; and many more letters, including some which ought to have been in one or other of the previous groups, were not arranged at all. A new arrangement has been imposed by the Library, though it builds on the previous one, the main difference being the separation of the different correspondences; the all too common sequences of undated letters have as yet been mostly left as found. This is very much an interim listing: much work remains to be done. Many of the correspondents are unidentified, many signatures unread. Much dating, more or less approximate, will be possible after further research. Overlaps between the general and estate correspondences remain to be dealt with. The assistance of users of the papers will be welcome: please point out any suggested improvements to the staff, but do not alter the order yourself. Note: **** after an entry denotes that a list giving further details about individual letters exists in the Manuscript Collections Division. Outline: 1-23: CORRESPONDENCE OF THE IMMEDIATE FAMILY 24-30: CORRESPONDENCE OF THOMAS CARLYLE AND HIS FAMILY 31-38: GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE OF WILLIAM BINGHAM BARING, SECOND BARON ASHBURTON 39-51: GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE OF HARRIET, LADY ASHBURTON 52-58: CORRESPONDENCE OF MRS STEWART MACKENZIE AND FAMILY 59-104: GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE OF LOUISA, LADY ASHBURTON 105-15: CORRESPONDENCE OF MARY, MARCHIONESS OF NORTHAMPTON 116-20: MISCELLANEOUS LETTERS 121: FINANCIAL CORRESPONDENCE AND ACCOUNTS 122-42: ESTATE PAPERS 143-53: MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS 154-56: PAPERS OF HELEN ARBUTHNOT RELATING TO THE ASHBURTON PAPERS DEEDS 1-23. Correspondence of the immediate family: 1. Letters of Alexander Baring, Baron Ashburton (cr. 1835), to his son Bingham (12; 1828-44, n.d.) and daughter-in-law Harriet (2; 1831, 1844), and letters of Bingham to him (2; n.d.). 2. Letters of Anne Louisa Baring, Baroness Ashburton, to her son Bingham (19; 1831-4, n.d.) and daughter-in-law Harriet (12; 1839-42, n.d.); and letter of Bingham (1; 1829) and Harriet (1; n.d.) to her. 3. Letters of Mary A J L H Montagu, Countess of Sandwich, to her daughter Harriet (141; 1823-56, n.d.) and letter of Harriet to her (1; n.d.). **** 4. Letters of Mary A J L H Montagu, Countess of Sandwich, to her son-in-law Bingham (20; 1822-44, n.d.), and to Louisa (2; n.d.); letter of Bingham to her (1; n.d.); and various letters to and of her (7; 1822-41, n.d.). Letter of the 7th Earl of Sandwich to his sister Harriet (1; 1841), and letters to him from his mother (1; 1841), Bingham (1; 1862) and Harriet (1; n.d.). Letter of C H Montagu to Bingham (1; n.d.). **** 5. Letters of Bingham to Harriet, dated (95; 1823-57, n.d.). Letter in French, signed “Charles”, with a postscript from Bingham (1; 1829) and a fragment (n.d.). **** 6. Letters of Bingham to Harriet, undated (29 signed WBB, before 1848; 56 signed A., 1848-57; 8 unsigned but addressed; 48 neither signed nor addressed, some fragmentary). **** 7. Letters of Harriet to Bingham (110; 1822-45, n.d.). 8. Letters of Mrs Stewart Mackenzie to her daughter Louisa (13; 1844-61, n.d.) and son-in-law Bingham (2; n.d.). **** 9. Letters of Louisa to her mother, Mrs Stewart Mackenzie (42; 1858-9, n.d.); of Louisa and Bingham to Mrs Stewart Mackenzie (3; n.d.); of Bingham to Mrs Stewart Mackenzie (1: n.d.); and unidentified (1; n.d.). **** 10. Letters of Bingham to his mother-in-law, Mrs Stewart Mackenzie (115; 1858-62, n.d.); of Bingham and Louisa to Mrs Stewart Mackenzie (9; 1860, n.d.); and of Louisa to her mother (1; n.d.). **** 11. Letters of Bingham to Louisa (153; 1857-1860, n.d.); from Louisa to Loo, her sister (1; n.d.) and two envelopes (1861, n.d.). **** 12. Letters of Louisa to Bingham (10; n.d.). 13. Letters of Maria L. (“Mrs George”) Mackenzie to her brother-in-law Bingham (2; n.d.) and sister-in-law Louisa (1; n.d.), and letters to her of Bingham (10; n.d.), of Louisa (149 [? all]; n.d.), and of Mrs Mary Anstruther and Louisa jointly (1; 1863). 14. Letters of various Mackenzie relations: Anne Hay to Louisa (9; n.d.); Augusta to Mrs Stewart Mackenzie (2; n.d.); and to her cousin Louisa (1; n.d.); Hon Augusta Ann to her nephew Francis (11; 1838-43, n.d.); Frances Mary to her cousin Louisa (11; n.d.); and to Mary (1; n.d.); Louisa ? to Frances Mary (1; 1876); Francis Stewart to his cousin Mary (2; n.d.); Geddes M. to Louisa (2; 1858, n.d.); Hannah C Stewart (wife of Keith) to Mrs Stewart Mackenzie (1; n.d.); to Mrs Mary F Anstruther (3; n.d.); and to Louisa (14; 1861, n.d.); possibly to Hannah, from Magdala (1; 1868); Helen Anne (Mackenzie) to her sister Mrs Stewart Mackenzie (1; n.d.); to her nephew Francis (2; n.d.); to her nephew George (1; n.d.); to her niece Louisa (5; 1860, n.d.); and 2 others; Jane to Louisa (5; 1848, n.d.); Julia Stewart to her aunt Louisa (1; n.d.); and to her cousin Mary (1; n.d.); Keith W Stewart to his brother-in-law, Bingham (2; 1863); and to his sister Louisa (3; n.d.); to Keith Stewart from George Thomas Keppel, 6th Earl of Albemarle (1; [1874?]); Marion to Louisa (7; 1850-8, n.d.); Mary E. Stewart to her aunt Mrs Mary F Anstruther (2; n.d.); Mary Jane to her aunt Louisa (1; n.d.); Mary Stewart to her aunt Louisa (13; n.d.); and to her cousin Mary (1; n.d.); Penuel Augusta to her cousin Louisa (14; 1866, n.d.); to Mary (1; n.d.); and to Emily de Bunsen (1; n.d). 15. Letters of Louisa's sister Mary F Anstruther and her children: Mary to Louisa (17; 1865-6, n.d.); Mary to Mary (6; 1896-1902, n.d.); and reverse (1; n.d.); Stewart Mackenzie to Louisa (2; 1882-4); and to Mary (4; 1878-90); Invitation to John N. (1; 1867); Mary to Louisa (1; 1882); Katharine F.G. to Louisa (3; 1878); Annie N. [Stewart] to Mrs George Mackenzie (4; 1863-5); to her brother John (1; 1866); to Louisa (27; 1863-1902, n.d.); to Mary (4; 1866-99); Bingham to Annie N. (4; n.d.); Catherine P (Mackay) to Mary (1; 1879); Commission as Lieut. Governor of Ceylon to and two financial papers concerning Hon Philip Anstruther, 1838, 1840, n.d. 16. Letters of John B Petre to his sister-in-law Louisa (1; n.d.); and of his wife Caroline S to her brother George (1; 1848) and to her sister Louisa, (9; 1844-9, n.d.). 17. Letters of various members of the Proby family, relations of Mrs Stewart Mackenzie's mother: Anne to Mrs Stewart Mackenzie (5; 1846, n.d.); and to Frank (1; n.d.); Charles to E Caddell (1; 1843); and to Mrs Stewart Mackenzie (10; 1843-59, n.d.); Charlotte to Mrs Stewart Mackenzie (10; 1821, 1857, n.d.); and to Louisa (6; n.d.); Elizabeth to Mary F Anstruther (1; n.d.); F to James A Stewart Mackenzie (1; 1828); and to Mrs Stewart Mackenzie (6; 1843, n.d.); F S to Louisa (2; n.d.); Fanny C to Louisa (2; n.d.); G [?] to Mrs Stewart Mackenzie (2; 1853-8); to George (1; 1858); and to Louisa (1; n.d.); J N J to James A.