LETTERS AND PAPERS OF MARGARET MASSINGBERD, NEE LUSHINGTON

The content comprises:

7854/6/1 DIARIES OF MARGARET MASSINGBERD, 1893-1895
The three diaries of Margaret Massingberd did not form part of the original archive. They were given by the writer Anthony Curtis to David Taylor who placed them with the archive. Curtis used the diaries, together with one belonging to her sister in law Mildred Massingberd in 'Margaret Lushington and the Stephens', The Charleston Magazine, no. 17, Spring/Summer 1998, and in 'Before Bloomsbury. The 1890s Diaries of Three Kensington Ladies. Margaret Lushington, Stella Duckworth and Mildred Massingberd', The Eighteen Nineties Society, 2002. Mildred Massingberd's 1895 diary has been placed in this section of the archive.

7854/6/2 LETTERS TO MARGARET LUSHINGTON FROM JANE LUSHINGTON, 1881-1883
There is also one letter from Vernon Lushington, one letter from Kitty Lushington, one letter from Susan Lushington and one letter from Lucy Goodenough to Margaret Lushington.

7854/6/3 DIARY OF MILDRED MASSINGBERD, 1895
Charlotte Mildred Massingberd (1868-1940). Married Charles Darwin's son Leonard in 1900. For letters from her to Susan Lushington see 7854/4/11/2/-.

Margaret Lushington was born in 1869. She was the daughter of Jane and Vernon Lushington. In 1895 she married Stephen Massingberd of Gunby Hall, Lincolnshire. She died in 1906.

There are no access restrictions.

Deposited by Mr R Norris of London through David Taylor of Cobham in October 2005 and January 2014.

An item level description of the archive is available on the Surrey History Centre online catalogue