Lady Frances Balfour to Mrs Lees

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Reference
- GB 106 9/02/154
Former Reference
- GB 106 ALC/1588
Dates of Creation
- 27 Nov 1910
Physical Description
- 1 item

Scope and Content

Mrs Lees (Sarah Anne Lees later DBE) of Oldham. Recalling to mind how 'the masculine of mind simply shuddered at the idea of women being mayors;' and how she had enjoyed her visit.

Administrative / Biographical History

Miss Marjory Lees (Mother) donor of these letters.

Archive Record|Table of contents

Autograph Letter Collection: General Women's Movement9/02

Frances Elizabeth King to CN Wawn9/02/001

The Duchess of Clarence to Miss Lloyd9/02/002

Mary Anning to Sir Astley Cooper9/02/003

Mary Howitt to Mary Carpenter9/02/004

Miss Mary Linwood to Mrs Burnaby9/02/005

The League of Universal Brotherhood to Mary Carpenter9/02/006

Mr J Marshall to [unknown man]9/02/007

Lady Leigh to Mary Carpenter9/02/008

Mary Carpenter to 'Dear Sirs'9/02/009

Emily Faithfull to Mrs Newman9/02/010

Theophilus Smith to Mr Robert M Milnes MP9/02/011

Maria Rye to Madam Bodichon9/02/012

Miss Emily Faithfull to Miss Bethell9/02/013

Madame Bodichon to [unknown]9/02/014

Lord Shaftsbury to Madame Bodichon9/02/015

Madame Bodichon to Lord Shaftsbury9/02/016

Miss Rye to Madame Bodichon9/02/017

John Knapp to Miss Rye9/02/018

Maria Rye to Madame Bodichon9/02/019

Seed Lives9/02/020

Maria Rye to Madame Bodichon9/02/021

Miss Helen Taylor to Madame Bodichon9/02/022

John Stuart Mill to Mary Carpenter9/02/023

Frances Power Cobb to [unknown]9/02/024

Maria Rye to Miss Paget9/02/025

Florence Nightingale to Miss AJ Clough9/02/026

Florence Nightingale to Mar Carpenter9/02/027

Part of a review of an article by Edwin Chadwick9/02/028

Emily Faithfull fragment9/02/029

Sir Leopold McClintock to Mary Carpenter9/02/030

Helen Taylor to Madame Bodichon9/02/031

Miss Burdett Coutts to Mary Carpenter9/02/032

Duke of Argyll to Mary Carpenter9/02/033

L Hubbard to Miss Ridley9/02/034

Annie Macpherson: signatures9/02/035

Frances Power Cobb to Millicent Garrett Fawcett9/02/036

Sir Edward Clarke to Mr James Hain Friswell9/02/037

Sir Alexander Grant to Mrs Blyth9/02/038

Miss Winkworth to Miss Warren9/02/039

Miss Faithfull to the Duke of Argyll9/02/040

Emily Faithfull: business letter9/02/041

Miss Emily Faithfull to [unknown]9/02/042

Mary Carpenter to Prof Henry Fawcett9/02/043

Louisa Gann to Miss Ridley9/02/044

Louisa Gann to 'Katie'9/02/045

Octavia Hill to 'Dear Sir'9/02/046

Johanna Chandler to Miss Ridley9/02/047

Dr Elizabeth Blackwell to Mrs Lewes9/02/048

Agnes I Ward to Miss Ridley9/02/049

Duke of Westminster to Octavia Hill9/02/050

Millicent Garrett Fawcett to Mrs Elmy9/02/051

John Stuart Mill to Millicent Garrett Fawcett9/02/052

Mrs Henrietta Barnett to Miss Ridley9/02/053

Mrs Alice Westlake to Miss Ridley9/02/054

Dr Elizabeth Blackwell to Madame Bodichon9/02/055

Ursula Bright to 'Sir'9/02/056

Selwyn Image to Miss Garrett9/02/057

Dr Elizabeth Blackwell to Madame Bodichon9/02/058

Dr Elizabeth Blackwell to Madame Bodichon9/02/059

Dr Elizabeth Blackwell to Madame Bodichon9/02/060

Dr Elizabeth Blackwell to Madame Bodichon9/02/061

Dr Elizabeth Blackwell to Madame Bodichon9/02/062

Mrs Mary Hyett to Miss Ridley9/02/063

Emily Faithfull to Mr Baynham9/02/064

Mrs Emma Paterson to Mr Ernest Hart9/02/065

Daniel Cooper to 'Dear Madam'9/02/066

Lady Strangford to Miss Faithfull9/02/067

Daniel Cooper to 'Dear Madam'9/02/068

Maria Susan Rye to Miss Buss9/02/069

The Earl of Dalhousie to 'The Editor'9/02/070-71

Emily Faithfull to Mr Baynham9/02/072

Edmund Yates to Miss Emily Faithfull9/02/073

Lady Frances Brabham to Mrs Stirling9/02/074

May H Steer to Miss Ridley9/02/075

Bishop William Walsham How to Octavia Hill9/02/076

Miss Frances M Buss to Millicent Garrett Fawcett9/02/077

L Ormiston Chant to Miss Ridley9/02/078

Lord Rippon to Miss Faithfull9/02/079

Lord Derby to Miss Faithfull9/02/080

Dr Elizabeth Blackwell to Mme. Bodichon9/02/081

Dr Elizabeth Blackwell to Mme Bodichon9/02/082

Dr Elizabeth Blackwell to Mme Bodichon9/02/083

'J' to 'My dear Ethel'9/02/084

Lord Brabazon to Miss Faithfull9/02/085

Baroness Burdett Coutts to Octavia Hill9/02/086

Emily Faithfull to Mr Pritchard9/02/087

Miss Emily Faithfull to 'gentlemen'9/02/088

John Morley to Mrs Fawcett9/02/089

Princess Victoria of Battenberg to Octavia Hill9/02/090

Octavia Hill to Miss Sunderland9/02/091

Octavia Hill to Archdeacon Farrar of Westminster9/02/092

Mary H Hart to Miss Ridley9/02/093

The Countess of Aberdeen to Mr Miles9/02/094

Lord Derby to Mrs Fawcett9/02/095

Mrs EP Phipson to Mrs Fawcett9/02/096

Lester Drummond to Miss Bidder9/02/097

Lady Dufferin and Ava [Harriot] to Miss TF De la Forse9/02/098

Mr Walter McLaren to Millicent Garrett Fawcett9/02/099

Frances Power Cobb to Millicent Garrett Fawcett9/02/100

Mr Walter Mc'Laren's Notice of Motion, Matrimonial Causes Act 18879/02/101

Summary Jurisdiction (Married Women) Bill9/02/102

Mrs Ellen Frances Pinsent to Miss Hughes9/02/103

Eleanor Marx Aveling to 'Dear Comrade'9/02/104

Sale of Furniture notice9/02/105

Lady Isabella Caroline Somerset to Mrs Fawcett9/02/106

Prince George to Mr Hugh Smith9/02/107

Miss Rosamond Davenport Hill to the Editor of the 'Daily Graphic'9/02/108

Emma Cons to Miss Somerville9/02/109

Frances Evelyn Warwick to 'Dear Madam'9/02/110

Lady Frances Balfour to Millicent Garrett Fawcett9/02/111

Lady Frances Balfour to Millicent Garrett Fawcett9/02/112

Lady Frances Balfour to Millicent Garrett Fawcett9/02/113

Lady Frances Balfour to Millicent Garrett Fawcett9/02/114

Lady Frances Balfour to Millicent Garrett Fawcett9/02/115

Lady Frances Balfour to Millicent Garrett Fawcett9/02/116

The Duchess of Northumberland9/02/117

Duchess of Northumberland9/02/118

International Council of Women Circular Letter9/02/119

Constance M Eden to Mrs Binks9/02/120

Lady Frances Balfour to Millicent Garrett Fawcett9/02/121

Mrs Fawcett to 'My Lord'9/02/122

Octavia Hill to [unknown]9/02/123

Lady Frances Balfour to Millicent Garrett Fawcett9/02/124

Lady Frances Balfour to Millicent Garrett Fawcett9/02/125

Lady Frances Balfour to Millicent Garrett Fawcett9/02/126

Lady Frances Balfour to Millicent Garrett Fawcett9/02/127

Lord Milner at Johannesburg to Mrs Fawcett9/02/128

Mrs Arthur Lyttelton to Millicent Garrett Fawcett9/02/129

Ed Navilly to Mrs Fawcett9/02/130

Sir David Gill to Mrs Fawcett9/02/131

Mrs Louise Creighton to Mrs Franklin9/02/132

Earl Spencer to Mrs Courtney9/02/133

Louisa Twining to Lady Strachey9/02/134

Mr Gordon Hewart to Mr Parks9/02/135

Miss Nancy Paul to Miss Alice Zimmern9/02/136

Mrs Emily Crawford to Miss Palliser9/02/137

Mrs Mary Auga Ward to Mrs Loftie9/02/138

Charlotte Carmichael Stopes to Mrs Elmy9/02/139

Mrs Mary Auga Ward to Lord Lytton9/02/140

Miss RE Lawrence to Mrs Lees9/02/141

Miss Strachey to Florence Nightingale9/02/142

Elizabeth Bonsanquet to Miss Strachey9/02/143

Dinner programme9/02/144

Miss Clementina Black to Miss Strachey9/02/145

Miss Clementina Black to Miss Strachey9/02/146

Miss Clementina Black to Miss Strachey9/02/147

Mrs Shelley Gulick to Miss Strachey9/02/148

Milly Emily Loch to Miss Ford9/02/149

Maud RR Mackenzie to Miss Strachey9/02/150

Maud RR Mackenzie to Miss Strachey9/02/151

Dr Shipman MP to Mrs Lees of Oldham9/02/152

Agnes Savory to Miss P Strachey9/02/153

Lady Frances Balfour to Mrs Lees9/02/154

Mrs Margaret Macdonald to Mr Nodin9/02/155

Lady Frances Balfour to Mrs Lees9/02/156

Mr Asquith to Mr Alfred Emmott MP9/02/157

Alfred Emmott MP to the Prime Minister [Asquith]9/02/158

Mr Asquith to Mr Emmott9/02/159

Mrs Mary Auga Ward to Mr Matheson9/02/160

The Duchess of Montrose to Miss Ford9/02/161

Marian Berry to Miss P Strachey9/02/162

Millicent Garrett Fawcett to Mr HJ Wilson9/02/163

Miss Emily Penrose to Mrs Vaughan Nash9/02/164

Mary A Ward to Mrs Stokes9/02/165

Resolutions 19/02/166

Resolutions 29/02/167

Mary A Ward to [unknown]9/02/168

Maria [Vice President] to 'Dearest Evelyn'9/02/169-170

Mr OM Westerberg to Dr [Helen] Wilson9/02/171

[Dr Helen Wilson] to M Sublet9/02/172

Dr Helen Wilson to Dr Alstrom9/02/173

Hedda Alstrom to Dr Wilson9/02/174

Dr Helen Wilson to Dr Alstrom9/02/175

P Sublet to Dr Helen Wilson9/02/176

Dr Hedda Alstrom to Dr Wilson9/02/177

Dr Hedda Alstrom to Dr Wilson9/02/178

Dr Hedda Alstrom to Dr Wilson9/02/179

Dr Hedda Alstrom to Dr Wilson9/02/180

Dr Hedda Alstrom to Dr Wilson9/02/181

Dr Hedda Alstrom to Dr Wilson9/02/182

Dr Hedda Alstrom to Dr Wilson9/02/183

Mrs Louise Creighton to Miss Lees9/02/184

Mrs HM Swanwick to Mrs Lees9/02/185

Mr AWG Jamrach to Mrs Corbett Ashby9/02/186-189

Mabel Chapman to Mrs Lees9/02/190

Lady Astor to Lord Derby9/02/191

Dame Katherine Furse to Lord Derby War Office9/02/192

The Welding School. Notting Hill Gate to Miss Strachey9/02/193

Miss P Strachey to Lady Bertha Dawkins9/02/194

Lady Bertha Dawkins (lady in waiting to Queen Mary) to Lady Brassey on the occasion of a visit of H.M. to the Women Welders9/02/195

Millicent Garrett Fawcett to Miss P Strachey9/02/196

Miss BA Clough to Miss MM Longley9/02/197

Mrs Ellen Duncan to Miss Strachey9/02/198

Secretary to Miss P Strachey to Mrs Ellen Duncan9/02/199

Lady Edmonstone to Miss Ford9/02/200

Dame Katherine Furse to Miss Strachey9/02/201

Lady Edmonstone to Miss Ford9/02/202

Dame Katherine Furse to Miss Strachey9/02/203

Executive Committee of the London Society to Lord Buckmaster9/02/204

Lord Buckmaster to [London Society]9/02/205

Mrs A Chalmers Watson to Miss Gibson9/02/206

Article: Mrs A Chalmers Watson and Miss Gibson9/02/207

Miss Mary HJ Henderson to Mrs Graves9/02/208

Miss Swiney to Miss MAR Tuker9/02/209

Millicent Garrett Fawcett to Mrs Atkinson9/02/210

Gwyneth Thomson to Miss Strachey9/02/211

Miss P Strachey: Speech9/02/212

Bessie Ingman Drysdale to Teresa [Billington Greig]9/02/213

Mr NK Warren Fisher to Lady Emmott9/02/214

Miss P Strachey to Mrs Fawcett9/02/215

Mrs Fawcett to Miss Strachey9/02/216

Miss Philippa Strachey to Lady Emmott9/02/217

Carrie Chapman Catt to Miss Daisy Solomon9/02/218

[MUA] Ward to Miss Morrison9/02/219

Archbishop of Canterbury, Private Secretary to the League of the Church Militant9/02/220

Elizabeth Macadam to Miss M Lees9/02/221

Mrs Maria Ogilvie Gordon to Miss Marjory Lees9/02/222

Evelyn Sharp to Mrs Catford9/02/223

Evelyn Sharp to Mrs Catford9/02/224

Miss Champneys to Miss Ford [probably Miss S. Gertrude Ford, suffragist and free lance journalist]9/02/225

Dame Ethel Smyth to Miss P Strachey9/02/226A

Miss Agnes Brown to Miss Helen Ward9/02/226B

Duchess of Atholl to the Curator of the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and Library9/02/227

Miss Nina Boyle to Miss Berry9/02/228

Lord Robert Cecil to Miss Strachey9/02/229

Marjory Lees to Dame Adelaide Livingstone9/02/230

Lord Crewe to Lady Emmott9/02/231

Miss Speyer to Miss P Strachey9/02/232

Miss P Strachey to Miss Speyer9/02/233

Miss Evelyn Adelaide Sharp to Miss Strachey9/02/234

Miss Evelyn Adelaide Sharp to Miss Strachey9/02/235

Mrs Alys Russell to Miss Strachey9/02/236

Miss Philippa Strachey to Editor Time and Tide9/02/237

Assistant Editor Time and Tide to Miss Strachey9/02/238

Miss MS Kilgour to Miss Philippa Strachey9/02/239

London & National Society for Women's Service to Miss Mary Smieton9/02/240

Miss Mary Smieton to Miss Blackwell9/02/241

Miss Frances Mary Sterling to Miss Strachey9/02/242

Miss Honor Lawrence to Miss Philippa Strachey9/02/243

Miss Honor Lawrence to Miss Philippa Strachey9/02/244

Miss Emmy Mahler to Miss Eleanor Rathbone MP9/02/245

Miss Emily Mahler to Miss Eleanor Rathbone MP9/02/246

Dame Margaret Tuke to Miss Strachey9/02/247

Mrs Ibbott to Mrs. How-Martyn9/02/248

K Bompas to Mrs Billington Greig9/02/249

M Corbett Ashby to 'The Secretary'9/02/250

Mrs Corbett Ashby to Mrs Billington Greig9/02/251

Lady Stephen to Miss Strachey9/02/252

Lady Stephen to Miss Strachey9/02/253

Edith Tancred to Miss Strachey9/02/254

Lady Stephen to Miss Strachey9/02/255

Dame Ethel Snowden to Miss Strachey9/02/256

Helen Nutting to Mrs Billington Greig9/02/257

Helen Nutting to Mrs Billington Greig9/02/258

Elspeth Huxley to Mrs How-Martyn9/02/259

Dr Marie Stopes to Mrs Edith How-Martyn9/02/260

Mrs Corbett Ashby to Members [addressed to Mrs Billington Greig]9/02/261

Lord Templewood to Miss Philippa Strachey9/02/262

Clifton Brown to Miss Philippa Strachey9/02/263

Myra Curtis to Vicountess Davidson9/02/264

Lord Ruffside to Vicountess Davidson9/02/265

Lord Pethick Lawrence to Vicountess Davidson9/02/266

Dame Edith Evans to Vicountess Davidson9/02/267

Lord Ruffed to Mrs Horton9/02/268

Mrs Barbara Castle to Librarian of Fawcett Society9/02/269

Mrs Barbara Castle to Mrs W Popplewell9/02/270

Autograph signatures9/02/271

Fragment from Printing Works; E Leathes Esq. With Miss Faithfull's compliments9/02/272

Fragment from Printing Works; E Leathes Esq. With Miss Faithfull's compliments9/02/273

Fragment from Printing Works; E Leathes Esq. With Miss Faithfull's compliments9/02/274

Millicent Garrett Fawcett to Mrs Newson Garrett9/02/275

Millicent Garrett Fawcett to Mrs Newson Garrett9/02/276