Letters of Lord and Lady Aberdeen

Letters of John Campbell Gordon, 7th Earl of Aberdeen and 1st Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair (1847-1934) and Ishbel Maria Gordon (nee Marjoribanks), Marchioness of Aberdeen and Temair (1857-1939) to Sir George Newman. With some memorials of Lady Aberdeen. 17 items 1899-1939.

The detailed listing of the letters is as follows:

1. Aberdeen. 2 Bryamston Square, 19 July 1899, to Dr. [George] Newman, 3p. Typ.

2. Ishbel Aberdeen, Vice Regal Lodge, Dublin, 17 March 1912, to Sir George [Newman] 2p. Ms.

3. Aberdeen, Connaught Hotel, 10 December 1914, to Sir George [Newman] 2p. Ms.

4. Ishbel Aberdeen and Temair, House of Cromar, Tarland, Aberdeen, 15 April 1919, to Sir George [Newman], 3p. Ms.

5/1-2 Aberdeen, 51 South Street, Park Lane W., 21 February 1920

6. Ishbel Aberdeen and Temair, House of Cromar, Tarland, 27 August 1920, to Sir George [Newman], 1p. Typ.

7. Ishbel Aberdeen and Temair, House of Cromar, Tarland, Aberdeenshire, 6 April 1921, to Sir George [Newman], 1p. Ms.

8/1-2 Ishbel Aberden and Temair, House of Cromar, Tarland, Aberdeenshire, 20 November 1925, to Sir George [Newman], 4p, Ms.

9/1-4 Aberdeen and Temair, House of Cromar,Tarland, Aberdeenshire, 8 January 1927, to Sir George Newman, 4p. Typ.

10/1-2 Ishbel Aberdeen and Temair, House of Cromar, Tarland, Aberdeenshire, 28 April 1928, to Sir George [Newman] 4p. Ms.

11. Ishbel Aberdeen and Temair, House of Cromar, Tarland Aberdeenshire, 16 April 1934, to Sir George [Newman], 4p. Ms.

12. Ishbel Aberdeen and Temair, Gordon House, Rubislaw Den. N., Aberdeen, 10 May 1937, to Sir George Newman, 2p Ms. and envelope

13. George Gordon, 2nd Marquis of Aberdeen and Temair, Marjorie Pentland and Dudley E. Gordon, Haddo House, Aberdeen [1939], to [Sir George Newman], 1p. printed note of acknowledgement of sympathy on the death of their mother, Ishbel Aberdeen and Temair

14. Marjorie Pentland. Gordon House, Rubislaw Den. North Aberdeen, 14 May 1939, to Sir George [Newman], 1p. Ms.

15. Ishbel Aberdeen and Temair, portrait photograph. In form of a black-and-white postcard 12.00 x 9.0cms. Inscribed right 'Ishbel Aberdeen on behalf of "We Twai" March 14 1857-1934' and below 'Taken at Gordon House, March 1937', hand of Ishbel Aberdeen and Temair.

16. Ishbel Aberdeen and Temair, portrait photographed, stamped verso 'Aberdeen Journals Limited. Copyright Photograph', b + w 11.00 x 7.5 cms. Inscribed 'Ishbel Aberdeen and Temair March 14 1857-1937', hand of Ishbel Aberdeen and Temair

17. 'Scotland's Grand Old Lady … Appreciation 'Of The Late Aberdeen'. Reprinted from the Aberdeen Bon-Accord and Northern Pictorial, 20 April 1939 1p. printed.

1899-1939

17 items Partly printed.

Database description taken from that in: Richard Palmer, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Wellcome Library for the History & Understanding of Medicine: Western Manuscripts 5120-6244 (London: The Wellcome Library for the History & Understanding of Medicine, 1999).