Box: 14 Fold: 18 Jack Leslie - Correspondence from Anita Leslie Box: 14 Fold: 19 Jack Leslie - Correspondence from Desmond Leslie Box: 14 Fold: 20 Jack Leslie - Correspondence to Iris C. Leslie Box: 14 Fold: 21 Jack Leslie - Correspondence to Iris C. Leslie Box: 14 Fold: 22 Jack Leslie - Correspondence from Marjorie Ide Leslie Box: 14 Fold: 23 Jack Leslie - Correspondence to Seymour Leslie Box: 14 Fold: 24 Jack Leslie - Correspondence to Shane Leslie Box: 14 Fold: 25 Jack Leslie - Correspondence to Shane Leslie Box: 14 Fold: 26 Jack Leslie - Correspondence to Shane Leslie Box: 14 Fold: 27 Jack Leslie - Correspondence to Shane Leslie Box: 14 Fold: 28 Jack Leslie - Correspondence to Shane Leslie Box: 14 Fold: 29 Jack Leslie - Correspondence from Shane Leslie Box: 14 Fold: 30 Jack Leslie - Correspondence from Shane Leslie Box: 14 Fold: 31 Jack Leslie - Correspondence from Shane Leslie Box: 14 Fold: 32 Jack Leslie - Correspondence from Shane Leslie Box: 14 Fold: 33 Jack Leslie - Correspondence from Shane Leslie Box: 14 Fold: 34 Jack Leslie - Correspondence from Shane Leslie Box: 14 Fold: 35 Jack Leslie - Correspondence from Shane Leslie Box: 14 Fold: 36 Jack Leslie - Correspondence from Shane Leslie Box: 14 Fold: 37 Jack Leslie - Correspondence from Shane Leslie Box: 14 Fold: 38 Jack Leslie - Correspondence from Shane Leslie Box: 14 Fold: 39 Jack Leslie - Correspondence from Shane Leslie Box: 14 Fold: 40 Jack Leslie - Correspondence from Shane Leslie Box: 14 Fold: 41 Jack Leslie - Correspondence from Shane Leslie Box: 14 Fold: 42 Jack Leslie - Correspondence re Death of Shane Leslie Box: 14 Fold: 43 Jack Leslie - Correspondence re Death of Shane Leslie Box: 15 Fold: 1 John Leslie (1st Baronet) - Corres. from Shane Leslie Box: 15 Fold: 2 John Leslie (1st Baronet) - Corres. from Shane Leslie Box: 15 Fold: 3 John Leslie (1st Baronet) - Corres. from Shane Leslie Box: 15 Fold: 4 John Leslie (1st Baronet) - Corres. from Shane Leslie Box: 15 Fold: 5 John Leslie (1st Baronet) - Corres. from Shane Leslie Box: 15 Fold: 6 John Leslie (1st Baronet) - Corres. from Shane Leslie
Box: 15 Fold: 7 John Leslie (1st Baronet) - Corres. from Shane Leslie Box: 15 Fold: 8 John Leslie (1st Baronet) - Corres. from Shane Leslie Box: 15 Fold: 9 John Leslie (1st Baronet) - Corres. from Shane Leslie Box: 15 Fold: 10 John Leslie (1st Baronet) - Corres. from Shane Leslie Box: 15 Fold: 11 John Leslie (1st Baronet) - Corres. from Shane Leslie Box: 15 Fold: 12 John Leslie (1st Baronet) - Corres. from Shane Leslie Box: 15 Fold: 13 Sir John Leslie (1st Baronet) Corres. from Shane Leslie Box: 15 Fold: 14 Sir John Leslie (1st Baronet) - Corres. about Box: 15 Fold: 15 Sir John Leslie (2nd Baronet) Corres. to Constance Leslie Box: 15 Fold: 16 Sir John Leslie (2nd Baronet) Corres. to Leonie Leslie Box: 15 Fold: 17 Sir John Leslie (2nd Baronet) Corres. to Marjorie Ide Leslie Box: 15 Fold: 18 Sir John Leslie (2nd Baronet) Corres. to Shane Leslie Box: 15 Fold: 19 Sir John Leslie (2nd Baronet) Correspondence from Shane Leslie Box: 15 Fold: 20 Sir John Leslie (2nd Baronet) Correspondence from Shane Leslie Box: 15 Fold: 21 Sir John Leslie (2nd Baronet) Correspondence from Shane Leslie Box: 15 Fold: 22 Sir John Leslie (2nd Baronet) - Corres. from Shane Leslie Box: 15 Fold: 23 Sir John Leslie (2nd Baronet) - Corres. from Shane Leslie Box: 15 Fold: 24 Sir John Leslie (2nd Baronet) - Corres. from Shane Leslie Box: 15 Fold: 25 Sir John Leslie (2nd Baronet) - Death: Correspondence about
Letter(s) dated 7/8/1944
DESCRIPTION: Contains TLS from Anita Leslie to Jack Leslie while both were in military service during World War Two. References to mutual acquaintances during wartime including Gavin Astor and her future husband William King. Includes ALS dated February 25.
Letter(s) dated 7/3/19--
DESCRIPTION: Contains TLS to Jack Leslie from his brother Desmond Leslie, expressing disappointment that the former was not one of the passengers on a homecoming ship. (Jack Leslie was a POW during World War Two.)
Letter(s) dated 9/1/1971-12/17/1976
DESCRIPTION: Contains 9 ALS, 1 ACS from Jack Leslie to Iris Leslie. Written from Rome. Includes 3 b/w photographs of Badia; 1 b/w photograph taken of Jack Leslie in military service in 1945.
Letter(s) dated 11/27/1985-9/6/1988
DESCRIPTION: Contains 7 ALS from Jack Leslie to Iris Leslie. References to various family matters including the death of Lionel Leslie (1/28/1987), Desmond Leslie and the management of the Glaslough estate.
Letter(s) dated 5/2/1941-Christmas 1944
DESCRIPTION: Contains 7 TLS to Jack Leslie from his mother Marjorie Ide Leslie, with family news.
Letter(s) dated 1/26/1968
DESCRIPTION: Contains ALS from Jack Leslie to Seymour Leslie describing the purchase of "the Badia of Alatri" in Italy. The letter bears a pencil drawing of the house by Jack Leslie.
Letter(s) dated 8/8/1932-1/29/35
DESCRIPTION: Contains 3 ALS from Jack Leslie to his father Shane Leslie. Reference to funeral of Clara Frewen (1/20/1935).
Letter(s) dated 2/14/1942-12/10/1943
DESCRIPTION: Contains 3 ALS, 1 ACS from Jack Leslie to Shane Leslie. Reference to funeral of Leonie Blanche Leslie (12/10/1943).
Letter(s) dated 10/20/1944-1/19/1948
DESCRIPTION: Contains 9 ALS from Jack Leslie to his father Shane Leslie. Reference to marriage of Oswald Frewen (6/11/1945), Anita and Desmond Leslie (6/20/1945), and miscellaneous news about Glaslough.
Letter(s) dated 10/7/1962-12/20/1968
DESCRIPTION: Contains 4 ALS, 1 ALS fragment, lower portion missing (12/20/68) from Jack Leslie to his father Shane Leslie. Written from Rome.
Letter(s) dated 11/27/1970-8/6/1971
DESCRIPTION: Contains 3 ALS from Jack Leslie to his father Shane Leslie.
Letter(s) dated 11/24/1928-7/16/1929
DESCRIPTION: Contains 2 ALS to Jack Leslie from his father Shane Leslie.
Letter(s) dated 2/5/1930-12/5/1930
DESCRIPTION: Contains 17 ALS to Jack Leslie from his father Shane Leslie including much family news. References to siblings Anita and Desmond Leslie. Includes an account of a production of "Hamlet" attended by Shane and Anita Leslie: "...It was beautifully done and was thrilling...what makes the play so wonderful is the glorious old English - the splendid lines and poetry flowing out at every corner. So familiar is Hamlet to us that it sounds like a string of quotations strung together."
Letter(s) dated 2/25/1931-12/5/1931
DESCRIPTION: Contains 11 ALS to Jack Leslie from his father Shane Leslie. Letter dated October 30 (1931?) includes clipping of a printed photograph of Anita Leslie.
Letter(s) dated 2/4/1932-10/29/1932
DESCRIPTION: Contains 9 ALS to Jack Leslie from his father Shane Leslie. Includes family news.
Letter(s) dated 2/24/1934-12/27/1935
DESCRIPTION: Contains 27 ALS to Jack Leslie from his father Shane Leslie. Letters written in 1934 describe Sir Shane's visit to the U.S. Letter 4/12/1935 written in French to Jack Leslie who was studying in France at the time.
Letter(s) dated 2/10/1936-10/3/1937
DESCRIPTION: Contains 12 ALS to Jack Leslie from his father Shane Leslie. References primarily to the latter's life and studies at university.
Letter(s) dated 1/14/1938-1/31/1938
DESCRIPTION: Contains 2 ALS, 2 ACS postcards to Jack Leslie from his father Shane Leslie.
Letter(s) dated 1/19/1940-10/13/1941
DESCRIPTION: Contains 22 ALS to Jack Leslie from his father Shane Leslie. Includes news of the family.
Letter(s) dated 1/31/1942-10/16/1943
DESCRIPTION: Contains 12 ALS to Jack Leslie from his father Shane Leslie.
Letter(s) dated 10/28/1945-12/14/1945
DESCRIPTION: Contains 7 ALS to Jack Leslie from his father Shane Leslie.
Letter(s) dated 1/12/1946-Easter 1948
DESCRIPTION: Contains 5 ALS to Jack Leslie from his father Shane Leslie.
Letter(s) dated 2/25/1951-8/29/1951
DESCRIPTION: Contains 3 ALS to Jack Leslie from his father Shane Leslie written during visits to Canada and the U.S.
Incomplete dates
DESCRIPTION: Contains undated ALS + ALS fragment (first page missing) from Shane Leslie to Jack Leslie.
Letter(s) dated 8/15/1971-10/23/1971
DESCRIPTION: Contains correspondence received by Jack Leslie concerning the death of his father Shane Leslie. Correspondents arranged alphabetically, include - Mark Bence-Jones, Bryan Bevan, Hattie Boehm, James Boyle, Marie Cecilia Buehrle, Patrick Bury, John Casey, Pamela Charlesworth, Alfred Cochrane, Comtesse Suzanne de Lalaing, Lord Dunboyne (Patrick Theobold Tower Butler), Maria Delfina Fagan, Michael Fitzgerald, Uma Fitzgerald, L.S. Gogan (ALS & TLS), Isabella Grandin, Anne Haight, Nora Hanson, Daphne Manden, Nora Mellor, Bernadette Morrissey, Leo George Nunes, Robert Oakley, Jeffrey Prendergast, Leda Prescott, Cecil Roberts, Princess Jennie Rospigliosi, Jean Duncan Smith, Thea Stewart, Pierce Synnott, Dorothy Whyte.
1971
DESCRIPTION: Contains correspondence received by Jack Leslie re the death of Shane Leslie. Individuals not identified.
Letter(s) dated 1896-1898
DESCRIPTION: Contains 3 ALS from Shane Leslie to his grandfather Sir John Leslie (1st Baronet). Written while the former was attending Ludgrove and Eton College.
Letter(s) dated 1900-1901
DESCRIPTION: Contains 4 ALS from Shane Leslie to his grandfather Sir John Leslie (1st Baronet), written from Eton College, Windsor.
Letter(s) dated 1/18/1902-12/18/1902
DESCRIPTION: Contains 15 ALS (some in French) from Shane Leslie to his grandfather Sir John Leslie (1st Baronet), while studying at the Sorbonne in Paris.
Undated c.1900-02
DESCRIPTION: Contains 11 undated ALS from Shane Leslie to his grandfather Sir John Leslie (1st Baronet). Written during school days at Ludgrove, Eton, and in Paris.
Letter(s) dated 1/13/1903-5/31/1903
DESCRIPTION: Contains 21 ALS (some in French) from Shane Leslie to his grandfather Sir John Leslie (1st Baronet), while a student in Paris.
Letter(s) dated 6/14/1903-12/31/1903
DESCRIPTION: Contains 20 ALS from Shane Leslie to his grandfather Sir John Leslie (1st Baronet).
Letter(s) dated 1/4/1904-5/29/1904
DESCRIPTION: Contains 16 ALS from Shane Leslie to his grandfather Sir John Leslie (1st Baronet). Includes references to applying for entrance to King's College, Cambridge University.
Letter(s) dated 6/19/1904-12/04/1904
DESCRIPTION: Contains 12 ALS from Shane Leslie to his grandfather Sir John Leslie (1st Baronet). Includes references to entering King's College, Cambridge: "Dearest Daddi-pa, Yesterday I left Trumpington for good and took up my residence in the bosom of the Alma Mater...My first impression of University life is very delightful..." (ALS 10/9/1904).
Letter(s) dated 1/22/1906-11/5/1905
DESCRIPTION: Contains 14 ALS from Shane Leslie to his grandfather Sir John Leslie (1st Baronet), written while a student at King's College, Cambridge.
Letter(s) dated 1/21/1906-11/27/1906
DESCRIPTION: Contains 16 ALS from Shane Leslie to his grandfather Sir John Leslie (1st Baronet). References to Irish politics (elections of 1906), and university life.
Letter(s) dated 1/27/1907-12/15/1908
DESCRIPTION: Contains 11 ALS from Shane Leslie to his grandfather Sir John Leslie (1st Baronet), with accounts of student days at King's College, Cambridge.
Letter(s) dated 5/6/1910-05/27/1913
DESCRIPTION: Contains 12 ALS from Shane Leslie to his grandfather Sir John Leslie (1st Baronet). Special reference to Marjorie Ide (see letters dated 1912 addressed from The Cedars, Port Washington, Long Island): "...I have courted and won the affections of one Marjorie Ide, who is now resident with her father in Madrid, where he occupies the post of U.S. ambassador..."
Undated
DESCRIPTION: Contains 12 undated ALS, 2 ALS fragments from Shane Leslie to his grandfather, Sir John Leslie. Note: some letters have been tentatively dated by year according to their original location interleaved with dated letters.
Letter(s) dated 9/15/1956-9/18/1956
DESCRIPTION: Contains TLS from Ian M. Stuart to Shane Leslie concerning the history of Stratford House, Oxford Street, London, the residence of Sir John Leslie (1st Baronet) from 1874 until 1895 "when his son-in-law Walker Murray Guthrie took over from him on marrying his daughter, Olive..." Includes ALS from Shane Leslie in reply (9/18/1956) with information about the house.
Letter(s) dated 1912-1914
DESCRIPTION: Contains 5 ALS from Sir John Leslie (2nd Baronet) to his mother Constance Damer Leslie.
Undated
DESCRIPTION: Contains 2 undated ALS from Sir John Leslie to his wife Leonie Leslie. Reference to the "Irish Rising" of Easter Week 1916 (?): "Dear Puss, An exciseman has arrived from Dublin. He called at the P.O. was received with courtesy by the Sinn Fein & received a pass out of the city from the Irish Republic. He saw the streets littered with dead horses & wreckage. The Sinn Fein ambulances were at work among the wounded with Green Cross uniforms. Further that the Sinn Fein are trying to keep order and are shooting the looters - Countess Marcovitz in male attire led the assault - I also hear that the troops have blown up a big biscuit factory full of Sinn Feiners & fancy biscuit near Stephen's Green. Are you coming here tomorrow?" (Quoted in full.)
undated
DESCRIPTION: Contains 2 undated ALS from Sir John Leslie (2nd Baronet) to Marjorie Ide (later Lady Leslie, wife of Shane Leslie).
undated
DESCRIPTION: Contains 10 ALS from Sir John Leslie (2nd Baronet) to his son Shane Leslie.
Letter(s) dated 11/8/1902-3/27/1904
DESCRIPTION: Contains 6 ALS from Shane Leslie to his father Sir John Leslie (2nd Baronet). Some letters are written in French during the former's student days in Paris.
Letter(s) dated 2/28/1914-6/16/1919
DESCRIPTION: Contains 17 ALS from Shane Leslie to Sir John Leslie. Letter 9/19/1917 includes newspaper clipping about Gov. Henry C. Ide (father of Marjorie Ide Leslie), delivering a speech to army conscripts.
Letter(s) dated 4/30/1920-7/4/1922
DESCRIPTION: Contains 12 ALS from Shane Leslie to his father Sir John Leslie. Note that letter of 12/8/1921 bears an autograph note signed by John Lavery.
Letter(s) dated 3/7/1928-12/14/1928
DESCRIPTION: Contains 3 ALS from Shane Leslie to his father Sir John Leslie.
Letter(s) dated 10/6/1930-11/14/1938
DESCRIPTION: Contains 11 ALS from Shane Leslie to his father Sir John Leslie. Reference to the "R 101" aircraft crash (ALS 10/6/1930).
Letter(s) dated 9/26/1940-10/14/1940
DESCRIPTION: Contains 3 ALS from Shane Leslie to his father Sir John Leslie.
1943-44
DESCRIPTION: Contains correspondence received by Shane Leslie re the death of his father Sir John Leslie. Includes Peter E. Amigo, Bishop of Southwark; Robin Flower; and the Earl of Caledon, among others.
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