Box: 28 Fold: 7 John Quinn - Corres. to Shane Leslie Box: 28 Fold: 8 John Quinn - Corres. to Shane Leslie Box: 28 Fold: 9 John Quinn - Correspondence to Others (Carbons) Box: 28 Fold: 10 John Quinn - Miscellaneous Related Correspondence Box: 28 Fold: 11 John Quinn - Corres. from Shane Leslie Box: 28 Fold: 12 John Quinn - Corres. from Shane Leslie (copies) Box: 28 Fold: 13 John Quinn - Corres. from Shane Leslie (copies) Box: 28 Fold: 14 Lord Raglan (Fitzroy Richard Somerset) Box: 28 Fold: 15 Princess Victoria Patricia Helena Elizabeth Ramsay Box: 28 Fold: 16 Lord Reading (Rufus Daniel Isaacs) Box: 28 Fold: 17 John Redmond Box: 28 Fold: 18 John Redmond - Corres. with Shane Leslie (Copies) Box: 28 Fold: 19 John Redmond - Corres. from Shane Leslie Box: 28 Fold: 20 Judy Rhodes - Corres. to Shane Leslie Box: 28 Fold: 21 Judy Rhodes - Corres. from Shane Leslie Box: 28 Fold: 22 Judy Rhodes - Corres. from Shane Leslie Box: 28 Fold: 23 Judy Rhodes - Corres. from Shane Leslie Box: 28 Fold: 24 Judy Rhodes - Corres. from Shane Leslie Box: 28 Fold: 25 Judy Rhodes - Corres. from Shane Leslie Box: 28 Fold: 26 Judy Rhodes - Corres. from Shane Leslie Box: 28 Fold: 27 Judy Rhodes - Corres. from Shane Leslie Box: 28 Fold: 28 Antonio Riberi Box: 28 Fold: 29 Duc de Richelieu Box: 28 Fold: 30 Constance Gladys Ripon (transcription) Box: 28 Fold: 31 Athelstan Riley Box: 28 Fold: 32 Fred N. Robinson Box: 28 Fold: 33 Lennox Robinson Box: 28 Fold: 34 Paschal Robinson - Corres. to Shane Leslie
Box: 28 Fold: 35 Paschal Robinson - Corres. to Shane Leslie Box: 28 Fold: 36 Paschal Robinson - Corres. to Shane Leslie Box: 28 Fold: 37 Paschal Robinson - Corres. about Box: 28 Fold: 38 Mrs. Robinson (transcriptions) Box: 28 Fold: 39 Mary Robson Box: 28 Fold: 40 Edmee Duchesse de la Rochefoucauld
1. 1 ALS 9/5/1917 from Eva Wigram to Shane Leslie forwarding the address of the Duchesse de la Rochefoucauld.
2. ACS postcard from the Duchesse de la Rochefoucauld to Shane Leslie, dated 10/13/1917.
3. TL fragment on letterhead of The Fortune Press to Shane Leslie, dated 8/25/1934: "On Thursday, officers from Scotland-yard, armed with a search warrant, broke into these offices during my absence. Amongst the books they removed were a large number of copies of Plato's Symposium, Strato's Boyish Muse, The Twilight of the Nymphs, The Songs of Bilitis, Cyrian Masques and The Unknown Quantity."
4. Typed card from G.F. Sims Rare Books, 3/2/1975: "We are today sending you a book from our Catalogue 89 - with compliments of Mr. M. Meredith, School Librarian, Eton."
5. ALS 3/2/1975 from Michael Meredith to Iris Leslie, "I received a bookseller's catalogue yesterday which had the publisher's own copy of "the Unknown Quantity" for sale, signed by "Gilbert Mauge." As I know you don't possess a copy of this book, I have taken the liberty of buying it for you, and I hope you will accept it as a present from the library, with our thanks for your recent kindness..."
6. Magazine article clipping about Edmee Duchesse de la Rochefoucauld.
Box: 28 Fold: 41 Theodore Roosevelt - Corres. from Shane Leslie Box: 28 Fold: 42 Elsie Rosebery Box: 28 Fold: 43 Stephen Roskill Box: 28 Fold: 44 Victor Rothschild
Box: 28 Fold: 45 Baron Rowallan (Thomas Godfrey Polson Corbett) Box: 28 Fold: 46 Elizabeth Russell - Corres. to Olive Guthrie Box: 28 Fold: 47 Elizabeth Russell - Corres. to Leonie Leslie Box: 28 Fold: 48 Elizabeth Russell - Corres. to Shane Leslie Box: 28 Fold: 49 Archbishop William J. Russell Box: 29 Fold: 1 Doreen Sainsbury Box: 29 Fold: 2 Doreen Sainsbury - Corres. from Shane Leslie Box: 29 Fold: 3 Doreen Sainsbury - Corres. from Shane Leslie Box: 29 Fold: 4 Doreen Sainsbury - Corres. from Shane Leslie Box: 29 Fold: 5 Doreen Sainsbury - Corres. from Shane Leslie (transcriptions) Box: 29 Fold: 6 Lord Salisbury (4th marquess, James Edward Hubert Gascoyne-Cecil) Box: 29 Fold: 7 Lord Salisbury (3rd Marquess, Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil)
1. ALS 8/1/1892 to Earl of Cranbrook, Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy. 2 sheets.
2. 2 ALS 4/27/1880 & 7/27/1885 to "My dear Peel."
3. ALS 6/24/1892 to "Dear Sir Charles."
Box: 29 Fold: 8 J.D. Scanlan
Letter(s) dated 5/1/1917-10/27/1917
DESCRIPTION: Contains 10 TLS to Shane Leslie from John Quinn, re Irish politics, Home Rule and related issues including Roger Casement, Sinn Fein, and German anti-British propaganda in U.S.
Letter(s) dated 1/5/1918-11/14/1923
DESCRIPTION: Contains 4 TLS to Shane Leslie from John Quinn re Irish politics and U.S. attitude towards Ireland. Special reference to role of Cecil Arthur Spring-Rice (TLS 1/5/1918).
Letter(s) dated 3/14/1917-6/9/1919
DESCRIPTION: Contains carbon copies of typed letters from John Quinn to Dr. Douglas Hyde (3/14/1917) and to H. Perry Robinson (6/9/1919), re clemency application for Irish uprising of Easter 1916, U.S. neutrality during World War One, and U.S. relations with Britain at that time.
Letter(s) dated 12/3/1918-4/20/1964
DESCRIPTION: Contains ANS from Lord Devlin (4/20/1964) re loan of letters from John Quinn to Shane Leslie (see typed note attached). Also, TLS from Ben L. Reid to Shane Leslie (3/2/1964) re copies of letters from the latter to John Quinn. Folder also includes autograph transcribed copy of a letter from Woodrow Wilson responding to one from Thomas J. Shahan, rector, Catholic University of America, Washington D.C. (12/3/1918) re his influence at the Peace Conference.
Letter(s) dated 7/6/1916
DESCRIPTION: Contains ALS from Shane Leslie to John Quinn written after the Easter uprising in Ireland: "...Apparently all is chaos, as martial law is not enforced and the Sinn Feiners are beginning to think they have won after all!"
Letter(s) dated 6/11/1916-6/2/1924
DESCRIPTION: Contains xerox and typescript copies (some of these made by Iris Leslie?) of correspondence from Shane Leslie to John Quinn. Total: 40 pages.
Letter(s) dated 6/11/1916-6/2/1924
DESCRIPTION: Contains photostatic copies of correspondence from Shane Leslie to John Quinn. All pages bear stamp from the New York Public Library Manuscript Room. Total: 32 pages.
Letter(s) dated 9/20/1933-4/2/1961
DESCRIPTION: Contains 1 ALS (9/20/1933) with enclosed copy of printed address by Lord Raglan, entitled, "What is Tradition?"; 3 TLS to Shane Leslie.
Letter(s) dated 1952
DESCRIPTION: Contains undated ALS and ALS dated 2/18/1952 re the death of King George VI of England, from Princess Patricia Ramsay, daughter of the Duke of Connaught and wife of Sir Alexander Robert Maule Ramsay.
Letter(s) dated 4/30/1918-11/6/1918
DESCRIPTION: Contains 3 ALS, 1 TL from Shane Leslie to Lord Reading re the Irish Convention, and attitude in U.S. towards Irish Home Rule: "(An) occasion of goodwill occurred yesterday when Cardinal (William) O'Connell (archbishop of Boston?) when entertaining the English and French Bishops took occasion to quote the statements made by Bishops Gore and Keating on the Irish Question in this country and to declare his solemn acceptance of their English expression of good will to Ireland and of their promise that the Dublin Convention should not be void. As the Cardinal is the only real spokesman Irish America trusts his acceptance of a moderate solution..."
Letter(s) dated 1/6/1913-10/23/1916
DESCRIPTION: Contains 3 TLS from John Redmond to Shane Leslie. TLS 1/6/1913 includes typed copy of a letter from Charles Mchugh, Roman Catholic Bishop of Derry, to John Redmond re effect on Derry elections after the death of the Duke of Abercorn.
Letter(s) dated 11/11/1015-12/25/1915
DESCRIPTION: Contains typed transcriptions probably by Iris Leslie of correspondence between Shane Leslie and John Redmond: 2 letters from Sir Shane dated 11/11/1915, 12/25/1915; 1 letter from Redmond dated 11/27/1915.
Letter(s) dated 4/30/1917-6/4/1917
DESCRIPTION: Contains 4 ALS from Shane Leslie to John Redmond. Includes signed memorandum by Shane Leslie re Redmond: "Some of Mr. Redmond's followers think it best not to move as a body until Mr. Redmond makes some statement or until the affair is over. If it is possible I should like to get this sent in cipher to Redmond - Great waves of sympathy for you in Irish circles. Many prominent men seem to be waiting for you to speak. May I suggest your cabling a statement for next number of Ireland..."
Letter(s) dated 4/3/1936-c.1941
DESCRIPTION: Contains 4 dated ALS from Judy Rhodes to Shane Leslie. Includes 2 undated, one of which includes a response from Sir Shane on verso. ALS 4/6/1937 from Rhodes also includes response from Sir Shane dated 4/8/1937.
Letter(s) dated 11/22/1935-12/25/1935
DESCRIPTION: Contains 7 ALS from Shane Leslie to Judy Rhodes.
Letter(s) dated 10/5/1936-12/7/1936
DESCRIPTION: Contains 16 ALS from Shane Leslie to Judy Rhodes.
Letter(s) dated 1/20/1937-2/28/1938
DESCRIPTION: Contains 9 ALS from Shane Leslie to Judy Rhodes.
Letter(s) dated 3/29/1940-12/31/1940
DESCRIPTION: Contains 8 ALS from Shane Leslie to Judy Rhodes.
Letter(s) dated 1/9/1941-7/11/1941
DESCRIPTION: Contains 27 ALS from Shane Leslie to Judy Rhodes.
Letter(s) dated 8/1/1941-12/27/1941
DESCRIPTION: Contains 25 ALS from Shane Leslie to Judy Rhodes.
Letter(s) dated 1/1/1942-7/7/1942
DESCRIPTION: Contains 13 ALS from Shane Leslie to Judy Rhodes.
1959
DESCRIPTION: Contains TLS fragment from the nuncio apostolic Antonio (?) Riberi. Includes TLS dated 9/10/1959.
Letter(s) dated 10/22/1917
DESCRIPTION: Contains TLS to Shane Leslie from the Duc de Richelieu.
c.1913
DESCRIPTION: Contains autograph transcription by Shane Leslie of a letter from Constance Gladys Ripon: "Beecham is giving a season of Strauss and Russian ballet Feb and March at Covent Garden and I believe the Ballet are going to try something on their own June and July. But it is very awkward as I cannot make a propaganda against Covent Garden and I wish that time-honoured Mausoleum of art would close its doors and give someone more enterprising a chance. This between you and me!"
Letter(s) dated 3/25/1939-5/31/1939
DESCRIPTION: Contains 2 ALS to Shane Leslie from Athelstan Riley.
Letter(s) dated 2/29/1917-10/16/1917
DESCRIPTION: Contains 3 ALS to Shane Leslie from Fred N. Robinson.
Incomplete Date: X'mas Day
DESCRIPTION: Contains ALS to Shane Leslie from Lennox Robinson, Irish dramatist, playwright and director of the Abbey Theatre, Dublin.
Letter(s) dated 3/22/1919-5/25/1920
DESCRIPTION: Contains 5 ALS to Shane Leslie from Paschal Robinson, an American Franciscan on whom the Pope bestowed an archbishopric in 1917.
Letter(s) dated 4/29/1939-7/8/1939
DESCRIPTION: Contains 4 ALS to Shane Leslie from Paschal Robinson
Letter(s) dated 8/19/1944-11/21/1947
DESCRIPTION: Contains 9 ALS to Shane Leslie from Paschal Robinson.
1975
DESCRIPTION: Contains ALS from M.M. Bonaventure to Iris Leslie re Paschal Robinson. Also includes 2 copies of article written in memoriam for Robinson by Shane Leslie.
Letter(s) dated 11/7/1894-1/22/1916
DESCRIPTION: Contains autograph copies of letters written to Mrs. Robinson, the famous London palmist, from Sir Philip Burne Jones (1/22/1916), Sir William Gilbert (7/10/1907), and Lord Roberts (11/7/1894).
Letter(s) dated 6/24/1935-2/18/1970
DESCRIPTION: Contains 12 ALS to Shane Leslie from Mary Robson.
Letter(s) dated 9/5/1917-3/2/1975
DESCRIPTION: Contains items originally located in a volume by the Duchess Rochefoucauld (published under her pseudonym): "The Unknown Quantity" by Gilbert Mauge. Translated from the French by Shane Leslie (The Fortune Press, Limited Edition). Catalogued in Special Collections, Georgetown University Library. Items as follows -
Letter(s) dated 9/2/1917-9/21/1917
DESCRIPTION: Contains 3 ALS from Shane Leslie to Theodore Roosevelt re the Irish Convention, Irish independence, and effects on American attitude from the Sinn Fein and German propaganda in the U.S. Includes autograph envelope and inscription addressed to Shane Leslie in the hand of Theodore Roosevelt.
Letter(s) dated 9/14/1962-4/5/1963
DESCRIPTION: Contains 2 ALS to Shane Leslie from Elsie Rosebery (?) Refers to reading "Lord Rosebery's Life" - her father (Earl of Dalmeny)?
Letter(s) dated 11/26/1980-2/10/1981
DESCRIPTION: Contains 2 TLS from Stephen Roskill, naval historian, to Iris C. Leslie. References to Count Alexander Benckendorff (1849-1917), Russian ambassador to London (1903); and to Michael Collins. Includes clippings about Roskill.
Letter(s) dated 8/4/1935
DESCRIPTION: Contains ALS to Shane Leslie from Victor Rothschild re obtaining an annotated copy of "Gulliver's Travels."
Letter(s) dated 10/10/1955
DESCRIPTION: Contains TLS to Shane Leslie from Baron Rowallan.
Letter(s) dated 12/30/1929-3/22/1936
DESCRIPTION: Contains 13 ALS, 3 undated ALS to Olive Guthrie from Elizabeth Russell (Von Arnim), writer.
Letter(s) dated 2/29/1940
DESCRIPTION: Contains ALS from Elizabeth Russell to Leonie Leslie written from South Carolina: "...wish things were happier for you, & for everybody else I love. I can't tell you how much ashamed I am that I, of all my friends & relatives, should be able to give my dog his daily three quarters of a pound of raw beef when over there that's about as much, I gather, as each of you gets in a week....The people here live in a dream world, quite out of touch with the hideous menace of the Nazis & hardly giving it a though. I daresay they give it more thought in the north, but here life is a lazy thing, nobody doing today what they can put off till tomorrow..."
Incomplete dates
DESCRIPTION: Contains 4 ALS from Elizabeth Russell to Shane Leslie.
Letter(s) dated 4/19/1919
DESCRIPTION: Contains ALS to Shane Leslie from William J. Russell, archbishop of Charleston, South Carolina, 3 pages, re the state of Catholicism in the U.S.: "Catholicity in the U.S. is least flourishing where illiteracy most prevails."
Letter(s) dated 8/7/1948-7/27/1957
DESCRIPTION: Contains 5 ALS to Shane Leslie from Doreen Sainsbury.
Letter(s) dated 6/16/1948-12/22/1949
DESCRIPTION: Contains 24 ALS from Shane Leslie to Doreen Sainsbury.
Letter(s) dated 3/11/1950-6/10/1959
DESCRIPTION: Contains 34 ALS from Shane Leslie to Doreen Sainsbury.
Letter(s) dated 11/18/1960-6/6/1964
DESCRIPTION: Contains 12 ALS from Shane Leslie to Doreen Sainsbury.
Letter(s) dated 8/13/1948-6/25/1962
DESCRIPTION: Contains typed transcriptions by Iris Leslie of letters from Shane Leslie to Doreen Sainsbury, 32 pages.
Letter(s) dated 5/30/1949
DESCRIPTION: Contains TLS to Shane Leslie from Lord Salisbury (4th marquess, James Edward Hubert Gascoyne-Cecil): "...As you say, the intricacies of the Irish situation are very great. What I meant by Ulster was of course the area administered by the Government of Northern Ireland. I fully recognise that this Government does not control the whole of the North of the island of Ireland; but it is a phrase in common use, and I think, generally understood..."
Letter(s) dated 4/27/1880-8/1/1892
DESCRIPTION: Contains the following correspondence from Lord Salisbury (3rd Marquess, Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil) -
Letter(s) dated 1968
DESCRIPTION: Contains ACS to Shane Leslie from J.D. Scanlan, archbishop of Glasgow.
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