Box: 26 Fold: 33 Sir Edward Marsh (transcription) Box: 26 Fold: 34 Father C.C. Martindale - Corres. from Shane Leslie Box: 26 Fold: 35 John Maunsell Box: 26 Fold: 36 Sheila Mayhew Box: 26 Fold: 37 Sheila Mayhew - Corres. from Shane Leslie Box: 26 Fold: 38 Sheila Mayhew - Corres. from Shane Leslie Box: 26 Fold: 39 Sheila Mayhew - Corres. from Shane Leslie (transcriptions) Box: 26 Fold: 40 William Somerset Maugham
1. Autograph note on envelope by Shane Leslie listing the following items: "Two letters from Somerset Maugham also some leaves from his Diary when we served together in the American Ambulance with the 2nd French Army 1914."
2. ALS dated June 4, on stationery from the Gritti Palace-Hotel, Venice: "Dear Shane Leslie, Forgive me if this is not the right way to address you. I have no means here of consulting Who's Who, Burder, or the Peerage. If I have addressed you wrongly I apologise. Yes, it would be very nice to have my name on the plaque, though I cannot say that I deserve it..."
3. ALS dated August 4, on stationery from Villa Mauresque, Cap Ferrat: "Dear Shane, Here are the bits & pieces. They are uncorrected copies by my secretary from the revised diary; & I don't suppose they will be of the least use to you. But if there's anything here you can use will you let me know & I will try to give it a little more shape & to punctuate it properly..."
4. Six paginated typescript pages, with some autograph corrections in red ink.
Box: 26 Fold: 41 Nora Mellor Box: 26 Fold: 42 Ruby Melville - Corres. from Shane Leslie Box: 26 Fold: 43 Sir Francis Meynell Box: 26 Fold: 44 Sir Francis Meynell Box: 26 Fold: 45 Viola (Prue) Meynell Box: 26 Fold: 46 Viola Meynell Box: 26 Fold: 47 Viola Meynell - Corres. from Shane Leslie Box: 26 Fold: 48 Viola Meynell - Corres. from Shane Leslie (transcr.) Box: 26 Fold: 49 Viola Meynell - Corres. re death Box: 26 Fold: 50 Wilfrid Meynell - Corres. to Leonie Leslie Box: 26 Fold: 51 Wilfrid Meynell - Corres. to Lady Leslie Box: 26 Fold: 52 Wilfrid Meynell - Corres. to Shane Leslie Box: 26 Fold: 53 Wilfrid Meynell - Corres. to Shane Leslie Box: 26 Fold: 54 Wilfrid Meynell - Corres. to Shane Leslie Box: 26 Fold: 55 Wilfrid Meynell - Corres. to Shane Leslie Box: 26 Fold: 56 Wilfrid Meynell - Corres. Rec'd Box: 26 Fold: 57 Wilfrid Meynell - Corres. from Shane Leslie Box: 26 Fold: 58 Wilfrid Meynell - Corres. from Shane Leslie Box: 27 Fold: 1 Wilfrid & Viola Meynell - Corres. from Shane Leslie (transcr) Box: 27 Fold: 2 Wilfrid Meynell - Corres. from Shane Leslie (transcr) Box: 27 Fold: 3 Wilfrid Meynell - Corres. from Shane Leslie (transcr) Box: 27 Fold: 4 Lord Midleton (St. John Brodrick) Box: 27 Fold: 5 Sir Eugen Millington-Drake, K.C.M.G. Box: 27 Fold: 6 Eric Milner-White Box: 27 Fold: 7 Ronald Moffat Box: 27 Fold: 8 Mab Wilson Moltke Box: 27 Fold: 9 Mab Moltke - Corres. from Shane Leslie Box: 27 Fold: 10 Bernard Law Montgomery Box: 27 Fold: 11 Evan Frederic Morgan Box: 27 Fold: 12 Alan Moore Box: 27 Fold: 13 George Moore Box: 27 Fold: 14 Norman Moore Box: 27 Fold: 15 Patricia Moore Box: 27 Fold: 16 Dermot Michael Macgregor Morrah Box: 27 Fold: 17 Edward Patrick Morris Box: 27 Fold: 18 Sir Owen Morshead Box: 27 Fold: 19 Sir Desmond Morton Box: 27 Fold: 20 Walter Moyne Box: 27 Fold: 21 Msgr. J. Moyes Box: 27 Fold: 22 Peter J. Muldoon Box: 27 Fold: 23 Daphne Mul-Holland
Box: 27 Fold: 24 Charles Alexander Phipps Murison Box: 27 Fold: 25 Charles Murphy
Letter(s) dated 7/22/1938
DESCRIPTION: Contains xerox copy of autograph transcription by Shane Leslie of a letter from Sir Edward Marsh, whose career included the position of private secretary to Neville Chamberlain and Winston Churchill.
Letter(s) dated 10/14/1918-11/15/1956
DESCRIPTION: Contains 2 ALS from Shane Leslie to Fr. C.C. Martindale and 2 TLS from Martindale to Shane Leslie.
Datespan 1959-63
DESCRIPTION: Contains ACS Christmas greeting card from John Maunsell to Shane Leslie. Also includes 2 autograph copies of letters from Shane Leslie to 1. Gladys Duchess of Marlborough with reference to Father Maunsell (ALS 5/15/1959 with xerox copy); and 2. Father Maunsell (ALS Christmas 1963). Also includes TLS (4/9/1963) to Shane Leslie re relics of Parnell belonging to Father Maunsell and wanted by the National Museum of Ireland.
Letter(s) dated 1/23/1946
DESCRIPTION: Contains ALS to Shane Leslie from Sheila Mayhew (3 sheets/6 pages): "My dear Shane, This is to send you my very belated thanks for the enchanting poems - particularly for "The Dead Horseman" which might have been written for my father, & which I love more than I can find words to say..."
Letter(s) dated 4/23/1938-4/3/1939
DESCRIPTION: Contains 11 ALS from Shane Leslie to Sheila Mayhew.
Letter(s) dated 1/17/1940-8/6/1952
DESCRIPTION: Contains 14 ALS, 1 undated ALS, 1 AL fragment from Shane Leslie to Sheila Mayhew. References to World War Two, e.g., ALS 1/17/1940: "...I hear...the Germans have sent the French a fairly reasonable Peace Plan with Goering as chancellor, Hitler as president and the rest sacked. Beaverbrook is for it but the French want to fight." Reference also to last illness of Leonie Leslie, ALS 5/15/1940: "...My mother is dying but very gamely and amusingly..."
Letter(s) dated 4/10/1938-9/27/1939
DESCRIPTION: Contains typed transcriptions by Iris Leslie of letters from Shane Leslie to Sheila Mayhew. 5 letters total, each with carbon copy.
undated
DESCRIPTION: Contains the following items -
undated
DESCRIPTION: Contains 9 ALS to Shane Leslie from Nora Mellor. Includes magazine article clipping of a review of Aleister Crowley's autobiography. Also includes typed transcription by Iris Leslie of a letter from Shane Leslie to Mellor, dated 1/3/1963: "I read with interest what you say of experiencing the presence of the dead. That has occurred to me with several of the women whom I have loved, unworthily enough. Far more wonderful than a visible phantom is a sign and the surrounding insistence that such and such a dear one is present. I had experiences of entrancing and satisfying power after the deaths of my Marjorie -- of Judy Rhodes and May Hawkes. The more recent was after the second war when a dear friend Lady Athlumney drowned herself in Ireland just before staring off to England where I was expecting her..."
undated
DESCRIPTION: Contains TL from Shane Leslie to Ruby Melville describing the wedding of Sibyl Hawkes (3 pages).
Letter(s) dated 1/4/1914-7/29/1958
DESCRIPTION: Contains 7 ALS to Shane Leslie from Sir Francis Meynell.
undated
DESCRIPTION: Contains 3 undated ALS to Shane Leslie from Sir Francis Meynell, founder of the Nonesuch Press (1923), and brother of Viola Meynell (poet and writer). Reference to Viola Meynell's letters about which Meynell writes: "There is no likelihood of...publication"; to his first wife Hilda's illness; and to World War One: "Daily the sadness and the horror grow. A spriritual renascence or even a social, born out of the wedding of such horrors and such fear, would have been something gained; but there is not even this. Cruelty and blood and lust are in the air even here, here far from any shells but those of the Zeppelins. I was in Soho when they came over London. The restaurants and theatres emptied; women lay fainting on the pavement...and twenty minutes after...the thousand prostitutes in Shaftesbury Avenue were conducting their "business as usual." The shadow of death is a mighty thing, but this flame of death, this trumpet of doom, is a mightier. There was terror for a little time, but there was no understanding..."
Letter(s) dated 4/29/1943-8/26/1953
DESCRIPTION: Contains 14 ALS to Shane Leslie from Viola (Prue) Meynell.
undated
DESCRIPTION: Contains 4 undated ALS, 1 ACS to Shane Leslie from Viola Meynell.
Letter(s) dated 8/8/1932-3/14/1951
DESCRIPTION: Contains 4 ALS from Shane Leslie to Viola Meynell. ALS 3/14/1951 refers to death of Marjorie Ide Leslie.
Letter(s) dated 9/10/1949-7/3/1954
DESCRIPTION: Contains 6 letters from Shane Leslie to Viola Meynell, in typed transcriptions by Iris Leslie. Total: 9 pages.
Incomplete date, c.1956
DESCRIPTION: Contains ALS to Shane Leslie from Olivia Eaverly (sp?) re death of Viola Meynell: "My dear Shane - You will grieve with us at the death of Viola - last night, at Greatham. She had been critically ill for seven days before, but the end was in an eased sleep. I want to tell you of it knowing your affection and concern..."
undated
DESCRIPTION: Contains ALS from Wilfrid Meynell to Leonie Leslie.
undated
DESCRIPTION: Contains 2 ALS from Wilfrid Meynell addressed to "Lady Leslie" (probably Leonie Blanche Leslie).
Letter(s) dated 1916
DESCRIPTION: Contains 6 ALS from Wilfrid Meynell to Shane Leslie.
Letter(s) dated 2/10/1917-12/27/1917
DESCRIPTION: Contains 8 ALS from Wilfrid Meynell to Shane Leslie.
Letter(s) dated 3/21/1918-1943
DESCRIPTION: Contains 6 ALS from Wilfrid Meynell to Shane Leslie. Reference to reading the latter's book, "The End of the Chapter."
undated
DESCRIPTION: Contains 10 undated ALS from Wilfrid Meynell to Shane Leslie. References to Hilaire Belloc.
Postmarked 8/2/1918
DESCRIPTION: Contains ALS with envelope from Angela Mond (sp?) to Wilfrid Meynell.
Letters dated 11/12/1915-1/19/1922
DESCRIPTION: Contains 21 ALS, 1 TLS from Shane Leslie to Wilfrid Meynell. Many references to the Dublin Review. At one time Meynell had invited Sir Shane to become editor (ALS 4/15/1916).
Letters dated 1926-1930
DESCRIPTION: Contains 12 ALS, 1 undated ALS from Shane Leslie to Wilfrid Meynell.
1910-1953
DESCRIPTION: Contains typed transcriptions by Iris C. Leslie of correspondence from Shane Leslie to Wilfrid and Viola Meynell. Total 86 pages (note error in original pagination). Includes note: "SL to Wilfrid Meynell (Georgetown) Originals at Greatham in Sussex."
1910-1946
DESCRIPTION: Contains duplicates of typed transcriptions by Iris Leslie of correspondence from Shane Leslie to Wilfrid Meynell (datespan c.1910-1946).
1911-1948
DESCRIPTION: Contains typed transcriptions of correspondence from Shane Leslie to Wilfrid Meynell, total 5 pages. Includes letter from Sir Shane to Marjorie Madan re death of Wilfrid Meynell, dated 10/26/1948.
Date unclear: 12/19/1924?
DESCRIPTION: Contains ALS from Lord Midleton to Edmund Talbot concerning Irish political affairs, 4 pages, 2 sheets: "My dear Edmund, When you are in Rome you are sure to see Cardinal Gasquet - and others. Do you not think it would be well to let them know to what a large extent the new Archbishop of Armagh is responsible for the present break up in Ireland?..."
Letter(s) dated 6/5/58-7/2/67
DESCRIPTION: Contains 2 TLS from Sir Eugen Millington-Drake to Shane Leslie.
Letter(s) dated 2/1/1900-3/14/1955
DESCRIPTION: Contains ALS & TLS from Eric Milner-White to Shane Leslie.
Letter(s) dated 12/23/1969
DESCRIPTION: Contains ALS + ANS Christmas greeting to Shane Leslie from Ronald Moffat.
Letter(s) dated 1938-1957
DESCRIPTION: Contains 5 ALS, 3 TLS to Shane Leslie from Mab Moltke.
Letter(s) dated 2/3/1955
DESCRIPTION: Contains ALS from Shane Leslie to Mab Moltke.
Letter(s) dated 5/17/1918
DESCRIPTION: Contains ALS from Shane Leslie to Bernard Law Montgomery: "I have definitely stopped the interview. I have a great sense of Ld. R's justice and wisdom. Could you read and forward the enclosed to Gen. Hutchison. I do not want a mischievous censor to read it..."
Letter(s) dated 1/13/1928-3/8/1941
DESCRIPTION: Contains 2 TLS to Shane Leslie from the Honorable Evan Frederic Morgan. Includes 1 TLS to Marjorie Leslie dated 8/31/1940, with reference to John Norman Leslie being taken prisoner of war during World War Two.
1940-1951
DESCRIPTION: Contains 3 ALS from Alan Moore to Shane Leslie. ALS 2/9/1951 expresses sympathy at the death of Marjorie Ide Leslie. Includes carbon copy of typescript biographical entry on Norman Moore by Alan Moore solicited and published by the Dictionary of National Biography, 14 pages. Also includes printed biographical essay on Norman Moore by Michael J. Linnett (1947), "The Life and Works of Sir Norman Moore," inscribed to Shane Leslie by Alan Moore (5/7/1949).
1916
DESCRIPTION: Contains autograph copy by Shane Leslie of a letter he wrote to George Moore (11/9/1916). Includes autograph transcriptions by Shane Leslie of 6 ALS from George Moore to Leonie Blanche Leslie (only one is dated, 9/22/1916).
Letter(s) dated 10/27/1912-12/20/1919
DESCRIPTION: Contains 4 ALS, 1 ACS to Shane Leslie from Norman Moore.
Letter(s) dated 2/11/1937
DESCRIPTION: Contains ALS to Shane Leslie from Patricia Moore.
Letter(s) dated 5/10/1957
DESCRIPTION: Contains TLS to Shane Leslie from Dermot Morrah.
Letter(s) dated 10/14/1920-2/15/1921
DESCRIPTION: Contains 4 TLS to Shane Leslie from Lord Morris re meeting with Archbishop Mannix to ascertain "...whether is would not be possible through him to open up negotiations with (Eamon) De Valera to try and stop this awful condition of things in Ireland by agreeing to some form of Home Rule..." (TLS 10/14/1920).
Letter(s) dated 2/22/1943-4/13/1964
DESCRIPTION: Contains 4 TLS, 4 ALS to Shane Leslie from Sir Owen Morshead, librarian of Windsor Castle, and assistant Keeper of the Royal Archives. Reference to the papers of the Duke of Cambridge and the Duke of Connaught.
Letter(s) dated 6/10/1942-5/5/1944
DESCRIPTION: Contains 7 TLS, 1 ALS to Shane Leslie from Sir Desmond John Morton, personal assistant to the British prime minister. References to numerous political and clerical officials on education, religious, and war issues, including Brendan Bracken, Archbishop Richard Downey, Denis J. Cardinal Dougherty of Philadelphia - see especially the latter's protest against Allied military action against Rome, TLS 6/30/1943, about which Sir Desmond's writes: "...The bombing of Rome by the Allies would be no more nor less than a legitimate military act, having nothing to do with anti-clericalism and still less with wreaking vengeance. I cannot agree that "the Catholic world would regard as a sacrilege the bombardment of the Holy City." Even if the Vatican can lay claim to such a title, Rome cannot..."
Letter(s) dated 2/17/1941
DESCRIPTION: Contains ALS to Shane Leslie from Walter Moyne.
Letter(s) dated 5/28/1920
DESCRIPTION: Contains ALS to Shane Leslie from Msgr. J. Moyes re the attitude of the Roman Catholic Church on annulment of marriages.
Letter(s) dated 4/29/1919
DESCRIPTION: Contains ALS to Shane Leslie from Peter J. Muldoon, Bishop of Rockford, Illinois, and chairman of the board of trustees for the National Catholic War Council.
Letter(s) dated 1939
DESCRIPTION: Contains 7 ALS to Shane Leslie from Daphne Mul-Holland.
Letter(s) dated 10/13/1946
DESCRIPTION: Contains TLS to Shane Leslie from Charles Alexander Phipps Murison, with comments after reading the former's book, "The Irish Tangle" (1946).
Letter(s) dated 6/5/1916
DESCRIPTION: Contains TLS to Shane Leslie from Charles Murphy, solicitor of Murphy, fisher & Sherwood, Ottawa, Canada, petitioning assistance with the release of two men in Irish prisons. Total, 4 typed pages.
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