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Jackson-Stops, Gervase, ‘The Cliveden Album: drawings by Archer, Leoni and Gibbs for the 1st Earl of Orkney’, Architectural History 19 (1976): 5–16 & 77–88.
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PART III
ARCHIVAL SOURCES
British Library
Add MS 32417, Ludwig von Schrader to Casper Wettstein
Add MS 61467, Marlborough correspondence
British Museum
BM Satires 4877 (museum number 1618,0808.9971), ‘Vice triumphant over virtue, or Britannia hard rode’, 1 August 1771
BM Satires 4885 (museum number Y,4.578), ‘The excursion to Cain Wood’, 1771
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PART IV
ARCHIVAL SOURCES
British Library
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Buckinghamshire Record Office
D/BASM/74/35, documents related to Taplow
D/X/1174/1, The Children’s Journal
D92/18–33, house conveyances and legal documents
D11/9/1c, ‘Her Majesty’s stay at Cliveden’, 1866
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nbsp; D158/1, ‘An Inventory of the Effects of Cliefden House, Maidenhead, Berkshire’, 1849
D158/3, Cliveden guest books
Flintshire Record Office
Glynne Gladstone MS 803
National Maritime Museum
HB Sketches no.667, ‘The Taking of Chusan’
The Royal Archives
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Staffordshire Record Office
D593/K/1/3/43, Cliveden accounts
D593/P/20, Sutherland correspondence
D593/R/3/2/7, J. Fleming’s vouchers concerning Cliveden
D593/R/3/2/9/14, plate and wine at Cliveden, 1868
D593/R/2/41, Duchess of Sutherland, receipts
D868/11–12, Sutherland correspondence
D6578/14/11, Cliveden Inventory, 1861
D6578/15/1–14, Sutherland correspondence
D6579/22/1–99, Sutherland correspondence
D6579/73/1–3, Sutherland correspondence
D6579/74/1–16, Sutherland correspondence
D6579/75/1–50, Sutherland correspondence
D6579/80/1–39, Sutherland correspondence
D6579/83/1–48, Sutherland correspondence
D6579/84, duchess of Sutherland, commonplace book
D6579/85/1–13, Sutherland correspondence
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Barry, Alfred, The Life and Works of Sir Charles Barry, R.A., F.R.S. (London: John Murray, 1867).
Beales, Derek, ‘Garibaldi in England: the politics of Italian enthusiasm’, in Davis, John A., and Ginsborg, Paul (eds.), Society and Politics in the Age of the Risorgimento (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991).
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Fleming, John, Spring and Winter Flower Gardening; Containing the System of Floral Decoration as Practised at Cliveden, the Seat of Her Grace Harriet Duchess of Sutherland (London: Journal of Horticulture and Cottage Gardener, 1864).
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PART V
ARCHIVAL SOURCES
British Library
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‘Viscountess Nancy Astor interviewed’, BBC Radio, 2 August 1954. (Interviewer: Stephen Black), British Library Sound Archive.
[Lady Astor Interview] Interviewer: Kenneth Harris, BBC, 1962, British Library Sound Archive.
‘Work at Cliveden as Under-Butler for the Astors, Charles Dean’, National Trust Sound Archive, 1/1/1997, and British Library Sound Archive.
Buckinghamshire Record Office
D158/6/1, agreement for private wire into a post office, 1906
D158/6/2, agreement for a telephone installation at Cliveden, 1907
D158/6/3, additional flex, telephone (Cliveden), 1914
D158/29, servants’ payroll, Cliveden
D158/49, payroll notes, Cliveden
Reading University Archive (Special Collections, Nancy Astor Papers)
MS 1416 1/1/1635, Palestine problem, 1947
MS 1416 1/2/28, General Correspondence 1919
MS 1416/1/2/653, First World War Soldiers B2 1914–1921
MS 1416/1/3/1, letters from the earl of Ancaster
MS 1416 1/3/25, correspondence concerning Wissie
MS 1416 1/3/27, correspondence concerning the Astor children
MS 1416 1/3/30 [1927], letters from Wissie
MS 1416 1/3/32, scrap books & moments
MS 1416 1/3/35, interviews
MS 1416 1/4/49, letters from Philip Kerr 1916–1919
MS 1416 1/6/77, Nancy Astor’s diary.
MS 1416 1/6/86, ‘Astor Story’ (unpublished autobiography of Nancy Astor)
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MS 1416 1/7/84 Jul–Jul 1945–49, British Press Cuttings
MS 1416 1/7/85 Jul–Oct. 1949–50, British Press Cuttings
MS 1416 1/7/87 Jan–May 1960–64, British Press Cuttings
MS 1416 1/7/89 May 1964, British Press Cuttings on Nancy Astor’s death
MS 2422/1–3, letters of Nancy, Viscountess Astor, to members of her family
The Women’s Library @LSE
9/31/21: Nancy Astor to various, December 1919
3AMS/B/02/08: General Election: correspondence with parliamentary candidates
7BSH/5/1/1/1: Manuscript notes for a life of Lady Astor
7MGF/A/1/210: Nancy to Mrs Fawcett [Millicent Garret Fawcett], 15 July 1920
8SUF/B/122–123c: Interview with Barbara Strachey about Ray Strachey
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