Box: 29 Fold: 9 E. Gordon Selwyn Box: 29 Fold: 10 Horatia Seymour Box: 29 Fold: 11 Constance Shaftesbury Box: 29 Fold: 12 Thomas J. Shahan Box: 29 Fold: 13 Thomas H. Shannon Box: 29 Fold: 14 George Bernard Shaw
1. ACS to Shane Leslie from GBS, 7/28/1943 refusing the Order of Merit: "Not on your life, Shane. I could have had it years ago; but I refused on the ground that I had already conferred it irrevocably on myself, which was better than a revocable award (like Casement's title) from any other source. Titles and honors are for those whose services are beyond public knowledge and comprehension. Literary stars are monstrously overrated. O.M. suggests Old Man. It ought to mean Ordinary Man, implying "Thou too art mortal." Includes autograph transcription by Sir Shane of this card.
2. 2 ACS (glued together), from GBS to Sir Shane, 11/4/1947, 12/7/1947 re the disposal of his ashes. Sir Shane had attempted to have Shaw's remains buried at St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin. On verso, a printed poem by Shane Leslie, "John Bulls Other Abbey. Bernard Shaw at Westminster..."
3. TLS to Shane Leslie from Lennox Robinson, 11/15/1950 re George Bernard Shaw's posthumous affairs.
4. Newsclipping, "Burial of G.B.S. Letters to Sir Shane Leslie," citing the above correspondence.
Box: 29 Fold: 15 J.W. Shaw Box: 29 Fold: 16 Belle & Richard Sheppard Box: 29 Fold: 17 Sir John Tresidder Sheppard Box: 29 Fold: 18 Clare Sheridan - Corres. to Clara Jerome Frewen Box: 29 Fold: 19 Clare Sheridan - Corres. to Moreton Frewen Box: 29 Fold: 20 Clare Sheridan - Corres. to May Hawkes Box: 29 Fold: 21 Clare Sheridan - Corres. to May Hawkes Box: 29 Fold: 22 Clare Sheridan - Corres. to May Hawkes Box: 29 Fold: 23 Clare Sheridan - Corres. to May Hawkes Box: 29 Fold: 24 Clare Sheridan - Corres. from Lesley Jowitt Box: 29 Fold: 25 Clare Sheridan - Corres. to Shane Leslie Box: 29 Fold: 26 Clare Sheridan - Corres. to Shane Leslie Box: 29 Fold: 27 Clare Sheridan - Corres. to Shane Leslie
Includes description of her subject, Trotsky (ALS 10/23/1920): "He is a charming personality, with a keen forceful sensitive face, & a particularly delightful voice - we have discussed everything from Shakespeare, Shelley & Sheridan to international politics, to mutual personalities! He has the subtle mind of a Latin, who can convey anything without actually expressing it. His talk is full of imagination & imagery. Of course this place has spoilt one for brains, everyone is so brilliant, but Trotski is perhaps the most delightful to talk to that I have met yet..."
Total: 3 dated letters, 14 pages.
Box: 29 Fold: 28 Clare Sheridan - Corres. to Shane Leslie Box: 29 Fold: 29 Clare Sheridan - Corres. to Shane Leslie Box: 29 Fold: 30 Clare Sheridan - Corres. to Shane Leslie Box: 29 Fold: 31 Clare Sheridan - Corres. to Shane Leslie Box: 29 Fold: 32 Clare Sheridan - Corres. to Shane Leslie Box: 29 Fold: 33 Clare Sheridan - Corres. from Shane Leslie Box: 29 Fold: 34 Clare Sheridan - Corres. from Shane Leslie Box: 29 Fold: 35 Clare Sheridan - Corres. from Shane Leslie Box: 29 Fold: 36 Clare Sheridan - Corres. from Shane Leslie (transcriptions) Box: 29 Fold: 37 Clare Sheridan - Corres. to Marjorie Leslie Box: 29 Fold: 38 Clare Sheridan - Corres. to Leonie Leslie Box: 29 Fold: 39 Clare Sheridan - Corres. to Richard ("Dicky") Sheridan Box: 29 Fold: 40 Clare Sheridan - Correspondence (transcriptions) Box: 29 Fold: 41 Clare Sheridan - Correspondence about Box: 29 Fold: 42 Clare Sheridan - Exhibition Catalogue Box: 29 Fold: 43 Richard ("Dicky") Sheridan - Corres. to May Hawkes Box: 29 Fold: 44 Richard Brinsley Sheridan Box: 29 Fold: 45 Wilfrid Sheridan Box: 30 Fold: 1 Canon F.John Shirley Box: 30 Fold: 2 Evelyn & Kathleen Shirley Box: 30 Fold: 3 Eleanor Smith Box: 30 Fold: 4 Hazel Littlefield Smith Box: 30 Fold: 5 Roger Pearsall Smith Box: 30 Fold: 6 J.G. and Mary Snead-Cox Box: 30 Fold: 7 Olivia Somerby Box: 30 Fold: 8 Bridget Somerleyton Box: 30 Fold: 9 Edith Somerville Box: 30 Fold: 10 Archbishop of Southwark, Peter Emmanuel Amigo Box: 30 Fold: 11 Francis Joseph Cardinal Spellman Box: 30 Fold: 12 M.J. Splaine Box: 30 Fold: 13 Sir Cecil Arthur Spring-Rice - Corres. from Shane Leslie Box: 30 Fold: 14 Tom Spring-Rice
Letter(s) dated 12/4/1950-9/12/1959
DESCRIPTION: Contains 8 ALS to Shane Leslie from E. Gordon Selwyn, Dean of Winchester. Includes newspaper obituary for Dr. Selwyn.
Letter(s) dated 9/9/1937
DESCRIPTION: Contains ALS to Shane Leslie from cousin Horatia Seymour.
Incomplete dates
DESCRIPTION: Contains 2 ALS to Shane Leslie from Constance Shaftesbury.
Letter(s) dated 1/16/1918-11/18/1919
DESCRIPTION: Contains 2 TLS, 1 ALS to Shane Leslie from Thomas Shahan, rector, Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C.
Letters dated 7/7/1921-9/3/1951
DESCRIPTION: Contains ALS dated 7/7/1921, TLS dated 9/3/1951 and fragment of typed letter from Right Reverend Thomas H. Shannon, Chicago, to Shane Leslie.
Letter(s) dated 7/28/1943-11/15/1950
DESCRIPTION: Contains the following items pertaining to the great playwright, George Bernard Shaw -
Letter(s) dated 4/2/1924
DESCRIPTION: Contains TLS to Shane Leslie from J.W. Shaw, archbishop of New Orleans re death of Monsignor Hume.
Letter(s) dated 4/18/1932
DESCRIPTION: Contains TLS to Shane Leslie from Richard Sheppard. Includes ALS from Belle Sheppard.
Letter(s) dated 3/22/1954
DESCRIPTION: Contains ALS to Shane Leslie from Sir John Tresidder Sheppard, provost of King's College, Cambridge, and senior fellow at Eton College (1933-54).
Letter(s) dated 11/22/1904
DESCRIPTION: Contains ALS from Clare Sheridan to her mother Clara Jerome Frewen.
Letter(s) dated 2/4/1921-3/21/1921
DESCRIPTION: Contains 2 ALS from Clare Sheridan to her father Moreton Frewen re her visit to New York.
Letter(s) dated 3/25/1931-4/24/1932
DESCRIPTION: Contains 5 ALS from Clare Sheridan to May Hawkes.
Letter(s) dated 1933-1934
DESCRIPTION: Contains 14 ALS from Clare Sheridan to May Hawkes.
Letter(s) dated 3/19/1936-10/26/1937
DESCRIPTION: Contains 8 ALS from Clare Sheridan to May Hawkes. Reference to death of the latter's son (ALS 10/26/1937).
Letter(s) dated 2/1/1943
DESCRIPTION: Contains ALS (2/1/1943) from Clare Sheridan to May Hawkes. Includes undated ALS with reference to Count Johann Heinrich von Bernstorff(?), German diplomat. Also includes AL fragment.
Letter(s) dated 5/13/1946
DESCRIPTION: Contains ALS from Lesley Jowitt to Clare Sheridan, with reference to Albrecht Bernstorff.
Letter(s) dated 1902-08
DESCRIPTION: Contains 2 ALS from Clare Sheridan to Shane Leslie.
Letter(s) dated 10/17/1918-10/19/1918
DESCRIPTION: Contains 2 ALS from Clare Sheridan to Shane Leslie re art appreciation in America and her acquaintance with painter John Noble (ALS 10/19/1918).
Letter(s) dated 10/11/1920-10/23/1920
DESCRIPTION: Contains 3 ALS from Clare Sheridan to Shane Leslie, written from Moscow with reference to her sculpture of Trotsky. Re her family's concern vis a vis her visit to Moscow (ALS 10/17/1920): "...Have no anxieties about me and believe no reports. I do not gather on what basis the family is so upset. Is it for my safety? I am safe. Is it moral? There is no scandal. Is it political prejudice? I have come on no political mission. I am 35 and a working woman, I have come where there is work...I am the guest of the Government and everyone is chivalrous, and not over-chivalrous. I find my Bolshevik friends are people to depend on..."
Letter(s) dated 7/27/1921-10/4/1926
DESCRIPTION: Contains 3 ALS from Clare Sheridan to Shane Leslie. Reference to death of Jennie Churchill (ALS 7/27/1921).
Letter(s) dated 8/4/1930-9/16/1937
DESCRIPTION: Contains 5 ALS, 1 ACS postcard from Clare Sheridan to Shane Leslie.
Letter(s) dated 4/23/1943-5/29/1947
DESCRIPTION: Contains 5 ALS from Clare Sheridan to Shane Leslie.
Letter(s) dated 8/25/1950-8/22/1958
DESCRIPTION: Contains 9 ALS, 1 ACS, 1 typed transcription from Clare Sheridan to Shane Leslie recounting a meeting with Winston Churchill and the U.S. ambassador to London.
Incomplete dates
DESCRIPTION: Contains 8 undated ALS + fragment (page 1 of 5 missing) from Clare Sheridan to Shane Leslie.
Letter(s) dated 1/28/1904-10/18/1915
DESCRIPTION: Contains 6 ALS from Shane Leslie to Clare Sheridan. Includes illustrated envelope addressed by Sir Shane to Clare Frewen (Sheridan).
Letter(s) dated 10/16/1926-12/25/1926
DESCRIPTION: Contains 2 ALS from Shane Leslie to Clare Sheridan.
Letter(s) dated 8/1/1930-9/30/1939
DESCRIPTION: Contains 9 ALS from Shane Leslie to Clare Sheridan.
Letter(s) dated 1899-1957
DESCRIPTION: Contains typed transcriptions by Iris Leslie of letters from Shane Leslie to Clare Sheridan. 19 pages.
Letter(s) dated 11/16/1926
DESCRIPTION: Contains ALS from Clare Sheridan to Marjorie Leslie.
Letter(s) dated c.1920-1936
DESCRIPTION: Contains 2 ALS from Clare Sheridan to her aunt Leonie Blanche Leslie.
Letter(s) dated 10/29/1934
DESCRIPTION: Contains 2 ALS from Clare Sheridan probably to her son Richard Sheridan re his career plans (in acting).
Letter(s) dated 1/20/1901-1/1/1908
DESCRIPTION: Contains typed transcriptions of correspondence from Clare Sheridan to Hugh Frewen, Moreton Frewen, and Clara Frewen. These transcriptions were originally inserted into Anita Leslie's book, "Mr. Frewen of England," now catalogued in the Special Collections Division book collection.
Letter(s) dated 5/18/1967-9/6/1970
DESCRIPTION: Contains 2 ACS from David Payne to Shane Leslie re the grave of Clare Sheridan's daughter at Peper Harow (sp?) churchyard. Includes TLS (2/23/1970) from Rev. P.W. Hill, Brede Rectory re death of Clare Sheridan.
Exhibition datespan 4/27/1971-5/23/1971
DESCRIPTION: Contains printed exhibition catalogue of Clare Sheridan's works shown at the Rye Art Gallery, Sussex, England.
Undated letter
DESCRIPTION: Contains ALS to May Hawkes from Richard Sheridan, son of Clare Sheridan, requesting permission to visit her in London while looking for passage on board a ship bound for Australia.
1805
DESCRIPTION: Contains signed theatre ticket and ink sketch by Richard Brinsley Sheridan, author of "The School for Scandal."
Letter(s) dated 1/1/1908
DESCRIPTION: Contains ALS from Wilfrid Sheridan to Clare Sheridan re Moreton Frewen's financial distress.
Letter(s) dated 6/29/1957-7/7/1966
DESCRIPTION: Contains ALS, 2 TLS to Shane Leslie from Canon f. John Shirley, King's School, Canterbury.
Letter(s) dated c.1930
DESCRIPTION: Contains 6 ALS from Kathleen Shirley to Shane Leslie. Includes ALS from Evelyn Shirley.
Undated
DESCRIPTION: Contains 2 ALS to Shane Leslie from Eleanor Smith re deaths of F.E. Smith and Bianca Locher-Lampson (sp?).
Letter(s) dated 10/14/1947-5/3/1958
DESCRIPTION: Contains 15 ALS to Hazel Littlefield Smith from Shane Leslie. Includes newspaper clippings and 1 color photograph of Shane Leslie.
Letter(s) dated 1/23/1931
DESCRIPTION: Contains ALS to Shane Leslie from Roger Pearsall Smith re death of Lytton Strachey.
Incomplete dates
DESCRIPTION: Contains ALS from J.G. Snead-Cox to Shane Leslie. Includes TLS from Mary Snead-Cox.
Undated
DESCRIPTION: Contains 2 ALS to Shane Leslie from Olivia Somerby.
Letter(s) dated 2/19/1952
DESCRIPTION: Contains ALS to Shane Leslie from Bridget Somerleyton.
Letter(s) dated 3/7/1946
DESCRIPTION: Contains ALS to Shane Leslie from Edith Somerville.
Letter(s) dated 8/24/1943
DESCRIPTION: Contains ALS to Shane Leslie from the Archbishop of Southwark, Peter Emmanuel Amigo.
Letter(s) dated 6/1/1962-6/8/1963
DESCRIPTION: Contains 3 TLS to Shane Leslie from Cardinal Spellman, Archbishop of New York. Reference to Sir Shane's biography on Cardinal Gasquet (1953).
Letter(s) dated 11/18/1918-8/20/1919
DESCRIPTION: Contains 3 TLS to Shane Leslie from M.J. Splaine, St. Joseph's Rectory, Roxbury, Massachusetts, re Sir Shane's visit to the U.S. as representative of the political interests of Ireland.
Letter(s) dated 4/27/1916-10/29/1917
DESCRIPTION: Contains 14 ALS from Shane Leslie to Sir Cecil Arthur Spring-Rice re Ireland, and the effect of political events there on the U.S. Reference also to Canada (ALS 7/17/1917): "The Canadian situation seems very grievous offering parallels with ours in Ireland. In the first place the French Canadians were as pro-French as the Irish were at the beginning of the war. A Quebec member told me that if England had not helped France the french Canadians would have given trouble. It is extraordinary what English officials can do (for the Borden Govt is more English than Canadian). They have hopelessly alienated the French Canadians who are convince that conscription is not a military necessity so much as a political move to split the Liberals to enable Orange Ontario to score Catholic Quebec and to disqualify the Church in Imperial eyes....The Canadian Nationalist is not far removed from the Irish Sinn Feiner..."
Letter(s) dated 9/15/1917-9/27/1917
DESCRIPTION: Contains ALS to Shane Leslie from Tom Spring-Rice re the Roman Catholic Church in Mexico: "...The trouble is that the Mexican bishops are constantly giving open expression to their pro-german (not "neutral") sentiments. They make out, of course, that they are merely pacifists. But one of them recently stated in reply to charges of pro-Germanism that the church would be much more free and prosperous in the event of German victory; that the English were protestants and the French heathen, and when reproached with ingratitude for all we had done - e.g. the rescue of the Bishop of Zacatecas, the nuns of Gomez Palacio, the religious institutions in Mexico City, etc., etc. he actually answered that it was due to Japanese, not British, help." Includes ALS from Shane Leslie to Sir Cecil Arthur Spring-Rice (9/15/1917) which also includes an autograph transcription of a letter to Sir Shane from Richard H. Tierney, S.J.
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