Box: 13 Fold: 2 Iris C. Leslie - Correspondence from Shane Leslie Box: 13 Fold: 3 Iris C. Leslie - Correspondence from Shane Leslie Box: 13 Fold: 4 Iris C. Leslie - Correspondence from Shane Leslie Box: 13 Fold: 5 Iris C. Leslie - Correspondence from Shane Leslie Box: 13 Fold: 6 Iris C. Leslie - Correspondence from Shane Leslie Box: 13 Fold: 7 Iris C. Leslie - Correspondence from Shane Leslie Box: 13 Fold: 8 Iris C. Leslie - Correspondence from Shane Leslie Box: 13 Fold: 9 Iris C. Leslie - Correspondence from Shane Leslie Box: 13 Fold: 10 Iris C. Leslie - Correspondence from Shane Leslie Box: 13 Fold: 11 Iris C. Leslie - Correspondence from Shane Leslie Box: 13 Fold: 12 Iris C. Leslie - Correspondence from Shane Leslie Box: 13 Fold: 13 Iris C. Leslie - Correspondence from Shane Leslie Box: 13 Fold: 14 Iris C. Leslie - Correspondence from Shane Leslie Box: 13 Fold: 15 Iris C. Leslie - Correspondence from Shane Leslie Box: 13 Fold: 16 Iris C. Leslie - Correspondence from Shane Leslie Box: 13 Fold: 17 Iris Leslie - Corres. re marriage to Shane Leslie
1. Shane Leslie to Iris Leslie, ALS 1/5/1956 & ALS 3/20/1956 re apprehensions regarding marriage.
2. Iris Leslie to Shane Leslie, ALS 3/22/1956, responding.
3. Bishop Eugene O'Callaghan to Shane Leslie, ALS 4/15/1956, re place of the wedding ceremony.
Box: 13 Fold: 18 Iris C. Leslie - Corres. re Death of Shane Leslie Box: 13 Fold: 19 Iris C. Leslie - Corres. re Death of Shane Leslie Box: 13 Fold: 20 Iris C. Leslie - Corres. re Death of Shane Leslie Box: 13 Fold: 21 Iris C. Leslie - Corres. re Death of Shane Leslie
Box: 13 Fold: 22 Iris C. Leslie - Corres. to Mrs. de Sales la Terriere Box: 13 Fold: 23 Iris C. Leslie - Correspondence (misc. fragment) Box: 13 Fold: 24 Iris Leslie - Correspondence Received (Misc) Box: 13 Fold: 25 Iris Leslie - Correspondence Received (Misc) Box: 13 Fold: 26 Iris C. Leslie - Corres. from John M. Barton Box: 13 Fold: 27 Iris C. Leslie - Corres. from John M. Barton Box: 13 Fold: 28 Iris C. Leslie - Corres. from John M. Barton Box: 13 Fold: 29 Iris C. Leslie - Corres. from M.M. Bonaventure Box: 13 Fold: 30 Iris C. Leslie - Corres. from Anne & Robin Brindley Box: 13 Fold: 31 Iris C. Leslie - Corres. from Patrick Bury Box: 13 Fold: 32 Iris C. Leslie - Corres. from Alphonse Chapeau Box: 13 Fold: 33 Iris C. Leslie - Corres. to Alphonse Chapeau Box: 13 Fold: 34 Iris C. Leslie - Corres. from Alistair Cooke Box: 13 Fold: 35 Iris C. Leslie - Corres. from Richard Crookshank Box: 14 Fold: 1 Iris C. Leslie - Corres. from Shirley Eshelby Box: 14 Fold: 2 Iris C. Leslie - Corres. from Lord Esher (4th Viscount) Box: 14 Fold: 3 Iris C. Leslie - Corres. from Isabella Grandin Box: 14 Fold: 4 Iris C. Leslie - Corres. from David Hall Box: 14 Fold: 5 Iris C. Leslie - Corres. from Rupert Hart-Davis Box: 14 Fold: 6 Iris C. Leslie - Corres. from P. Henchy/Natl. Lib. Ireland Box: 14 Fold: 7 Iris C. Leslie - Corres. from Harford Montgomery Hyde Box: 14 Fold: 8 Iris C. Leslie - Corres. from Rita Jackson Box: 14 Fold: 9 Iris C. Leslie - Corres. from Joseph Jeffs Box: 14 Fold: 10 Iris C. Leslie - Corres. from Michael Meredith Box: 14 Fold: 11 Iris C. Leslie - Corres. to Michael Meredith Box: 14 Fold: 12 Iris C. Leslie - Corres. from Robert Speaight Box: 14 Fold: 13 Iris C. Leslie - Corres. from Henry Thorold Box: 14 Fold: 14 Iris C. Leslie - Corres. from Hugo Vickers Box: 14 Fold: 15 Iris C. Leslie - Corres. from Alec Vidler Box: 14 Fold: 16 Iris C. Leslie - Corres. from George Wansbrough Box: 14 Fold: 17 Jack Leslie - Correspondence from Elsie Crichton-Stuart
Letter(s) dated 3/1/1958-3/27/1958
DESCRIPTION: Contains 12 ALS from Shane to Iris Leslie. Letter 3/27/1958 includes typed carbon copy of a poem written by Sir Shane, "On meeting Gladys Cooper in a remote Glen of California."
Letter(s) dated 4/1/1958-4/29/1958
DESCRIPTION: Contains 14 ALS from Shane to Iris Leslie, written while still on his lecture in the U.S.
Letter(s) dated 5/6/1958-5/23/1958
DESCRIPTION: Contains 7 ALS from Shane to Iris Leslie, writing about his lecture tour of the U.S.
Letter(s) dated 8/8/1958-11/22/1958
DESCRIPTION: Contains 18 ALS from Shane to Iris Leslie.
Letter(s) dated 4/22/1959-11/23/1959
DESCRIPTION: Contains 19 ALS from Shane to Iris Leslie, recounting the former's many and various activities including visiting haunted houses (11/23/59).
Letter(s) dated 2/5/1960-11/20/1960
DESCRIPTION: Contains 6 ALS from Shane to Iris Leslie.
Letter(s) dated 5/5/1961-11/11/1961
DESCRIPTION: Contains 4 ALS from Shane to Iris Leslie. Note, letter of 6/21/1961 was written on the back of a TLS by Charles Eliot Norton (pp.1-2 missing from Norton's letter): "...The power of thinking, which is one of the greatest securities for happiness, is very rare among men, and still rarer among women, and it is not likely to be promoted by the habit of dwelling upon single thoughts, however wittily put or however pregnant in meaning..."
Letter(s) dated 4/25/1962-11/24/1962
DESCRIPTION: Contains 17 ALS from Shane to Iris Leslie.
Letter(s) dated 7/31/63-11/24/63
DESCRIPTION: Contains 6 ALS from Shane to Iris Leslie.
Letter(s) dated 6/1/1964-11/16/1964
DESCRIPTION: Contains 8 ALS from Shane to Iris Leslie.
Letter(s) dated 5/2/1965-11/12/1965
DESCRIPTION: Contains 7 ALS from Shane to Iris Leslie.
Letter(s) dated 7/19/1966-10/13/1966
DESCRIPTION: Contains 20 ALS from Shane to Iris Leslie.
Letter(s) dated 4/25/1967-8/11/1967
DESCRIPTION: Contains 18 ALS from Shane to Iris Leslie.
Letter(s) dated 4/15/1970-4/26/1970
DESCRIPTION: Contains 3 ALS from Shane to Iris Leslie during her visit to Spain.
undated
DESCRIPTION: Contains undated ALS and ALS fragments from Shane Leslie to Iris Leslie.
Letter(s) dated 1/5/1956-4/15/1956
DESCRIPTION: Contains the following letters re the marriage of Sir Shane and Iris Leslie -
1971
DESCRIPTION: Contains correspondence received by Lady Leslie concerning the death of Sir Shane Leslie. Letters are alphabetically arranged and include the following - Pilar Anadon, Anne Brindley, Alphonse Chapeau, Florence Cohalan, Margaret Cresson, Count De Lisle (William Philip Sidney), John F. Fleming, Michael Hanbury, Eric Holt, David James, Enid Leslie, Lionel Leslie (2 ALS), Jack Lucas-Scudamore, Nora Mellor (2 ALS), Ronald Moffat, John Murray, Morwenna Kendall, John Maunsell, Marian Purfoy (sp?) Lady Leslie's sister, John Rumsey, Wilfrid Tighe, Donald Weeks.
1971
DESCRIPTION: Contains correspondence to Lady Leslie concerning the death of Sir Shane Leslie. First names only; unidentified.
1971
DESCRIPTION: Contains telegrams received by Lady Leslie re the death of Sir Shane Leslie.
Letter(s) dated 8/8/1972-11/25/1972
DESCRIPTION: Contains correspondence sent to Lady Leslie on the anniversary of Sir Shane's death. Includes Canon John M.T. Barton, Rev. Roger Doherty (written to Desmond Leslie), Desmond Leslie, John O'Connor.
Letter(s) dated 7/3/1968
DESCRIPTION: Contains ALS (3 sheets/6 pp, final page(s) missing) from Lady Leslie to Mrs. de Sales la Terriere concerning the memorial service for Randolph Churchill.
undated
DESCRIPTION: Contains xerox copy of an ALS fragment (first page missing) from Iris Leslie to unidentified individual.
Letter(s) dated c.1921-1978
DESCRIPTION: Contains correspondence received by Lady Leslie from various individuals including - Roger Adelson, Hubert H.M. Barfleet, R. Butler, Bridget Curry, John F. Fleming, W.G. Godfrey, Charles Lysaght, Hazel Littlefield, Gwen Morgan, Eileen Quelch.
undated
DESCRIPTION: Contains miscellaneous correspondence from various unidentified individuals (only first names signed).
Letter(s) dated 8/12/71-12/17/71
DESCRIPTION: Contains 5 TLS from Msgr. Barton to Lady Leslie. Includes printed card of Easter services given by Msgr. Barton. Letters include references to the last illness of Sir Shane Leslie.
Letter(s) dated 1/12/1972-12/21/172
DESCRIPTION: Contains 6 TLS from Msgr. Barton to Lady Leslie.
Letter(s) dated 9/7/1972-3/23/1973
DESCRIPTION: Contains 6 TLS from Msgr. Barton to Lady Leslie.
Letter(s) dated 11/14/1971-9/18/1976
DESCRIPTION: Contains 5 ALS from Mother Bonaventure to Lady Leslie. Includes ALS sent by the former to Anita Leslie and forwarded to Lady Leslie (9/18/1976).
Letter(s) dated 12/7/1971-4/20/1977
DESCRIPTION: Contains 3 ALS from Anne Brindley to Lady Leslie. Includes 3 ALS from Robin Brindley re binding manuscripts by Sir Shane Leslie.
Letter(s) dated 1/29/1972
DESCRIPTION: Contains ALS from Patrick Bury to Lady Leslie: "I was very interested to have your letter and to learn that Robert Speaight is to do a biography of Shane..."
Letter(s) dated 8/18/1972-7/12/1974
DESCRIPTION: Contains 4 ALS from Fr. Alphonse Chapeau to Lady Leslie with references to Sir Shane Leslie.
Letter(s) dated 4/14/1965-6/14/1966
DESCRIPTION: Contains 2 ALS (one in French) from Lady Leslie to Alphonse Chapeau.
Letter(s) dated 10/30/1975-2/20/1976
DESCRIPTION: Contains 6 ALS from Alistair Cooke to Iris Leslie re his assistance with a biography on Sir Shane Leslie being written by Lady Leslie. Includes 1 TLS from Lady Leslie ((2/7/1976).
Letter(s) dated 2/10/1981-2/14/1981
DESCRIPTION: Contains 2 TLS from Richard Crookshank re Lady Leslie's proposed biography on Sir Shane Leslie. Includes reminiscences by Crookshank of his acquaintance with Sir Shane.
Letter(s) dated 9/6/1971-6/24/1973
DESCRIPTION: Contains 4 TLS from Shirley Eshelby to Iris Leslie. Includes AL reply from the latter. Subject: paranormal communications with the dead, e.g., Sir Shane Leslie and other family members.
Letter(s) dated 2/9/1973-2/26/1973
DESCRIPTION: Contains TLS from Lionel Gordon Baliol Brett, Lord Esher (4th viscount) re the papers of his father, Oliver Sylvain Baliol Brett (3rd viscount). Includes AL draft from Iris Leslie to Lionel Brett; and TLS from J.C. Welch the manager for Orchard Lea, the Esher estate.
Letter(s) dated 1/13/1976
DESCRIPTION: Contains ALS from Isabella Grandin to Iris Leslie.
Letter(s) dated 8/28/1972-5/9/1976
DESCRIPTION: Contains 3 TLS, 1 ACS card, 1 ALS from David Hall to Iris Leslie re compilation by Hall of a bibliography of writings by Shane Leslie. Includes TLS from Hall to Desmond Leslie with AN in margins to Iris Leslie. (cf.folder 14:9, Joseph Jeffs, Georgetown University Library, includes typed list of writings by Shane Leslie.)
Letter(s) dated 12/9/1978-1/29/1979
DESCRIPTION: Contains 3 ALS from Rupert Hart-Davis to Iris Leslie concerning permission to use correspondence by Shane Leslie in a biography on Hart-Davis' mother.
Letter(s) dated 1/17/1972-9/28/1978
DESCRIPTION: Contains 2 TLS from P. Henchy, director of the National Library of Ireland, concerning the disposition of Sir Shane Leslie's papers. Includes 2 AL from Iris Leslie, as well as TLS to Lady Leslie from Gerard Corr, third secretary, Irish Embassy, London. The file includes a list, "Books from the Collection of Sir Shane Leslie."
Letter(s) dated 11/6/1974-10/13/1976
DESCRIPTION: Contains 4 TLS, 4 ALS from Harford Montgomery Hyde to Iris Leslie re the manuscript for a biography of Shane Leslie by Lady Leslie. File includes a typed outline for the book entitled, "A Broken Sword for Ireland" (later changed to "A Broken Lance for Ireland."
Letter(s) dated 5/12/1975-7/12/1975
DESCRIPTION: Contains 2 ALS from Rita Jackson to Iris Leslie.
Letter(s) dated 1/2/1981
DESCRIPTION: Contains TLS from Joseph Jeffs, librarian at Georgetown University, re a list (enclosed) of writings by Shane Leslie.
Letter(s) dated 10/15/1971-6/30/1985
DESCRIPTION: Contains 6 ALS from Michael Meredith, librarian at Eton College, Windsor, to Iris Leslie, re disposition of Shane Leslie's papers. Includes reference to mutual acquaintances Hubert and Grizel Hartley.
1974
DESCRIPTION: Contains AL and TL drafts from Iris Leslie to Michael Meredith, librarian at Eton College, concerning the disposition of some of Shane Leslie's papers and books. Includes notes and typed list of books by Shane Leslie.
Letter(s) dated 3/18/1972-3/31/1972
DESCRIPTION: Contains 3 ALS from Robert Speaight to Iris Leslie, giving advice on a proposed epistolary biography on Shane Leslie to be compiled by Iris Leslie.
Letter(s) dated 4/25/1973-12/18/1979
DESCRIPTION: Contains 2 ALS from Henry Thorold to Iris Leslie re collecting letters exchanged between himself and Shane Leslie for an epistolary biography on Sir Shane planned by Lady Leslie.
Letter(s) dated 1/2/1976-4/12/1976
DESCRIPTION: Contains 3 ALS from Hugo Vickers to Iris Leslie, re gathering information about Gladys Deacon, Duchess of Marlborough, about whom the former was writing a biography.
Letter(s) dated 12/16/1974
DESCRIPTION: Contains ALS from Alec Vidler, former dean of King's College, Cambridge, to Iris Leslie, inquiring about some correspondence by "Catholic modernists" mentioned to him by Shane Leslie: "I understood him to say once that in his castle in Ireland he had a lot more letters that were connected with the modernist movement, notably from William Gibson, Lord Ashbourne..."
Letter(s) dated 7/12/1972-7/21/1972
DESCRIPTION: Contains ALS, TLS from George Wansbrough to Iris Leslie, with reminiscences of Shane Leslie: "It is almost exactly 50 years since I encountered Shane. I reviewed his novel "The Oppidan" in the Eton College Chronicle in 1922..."
Letter(s) dated 11/30/1944
DESCRIPTION: Contains ALS from Elsie Crichton-Stuart to Jack Leslie (Sir John Norman Leslie, 4th Baronet), Sir Shane's eldest son. Reference to the death of Lady Crichton-Stuart's son. Also reference to Desmond Leslie, Jack's brother. The letter is signed, "Your cousin Elsie Crichton-Stuart."
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