Identity area
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Title
Date(s)
- 1936 - 1937 (Creation)
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File
Extent and medium
1 file correspondence
Context area
Name of creator
Name of creator
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Relates to the announcement of the intended bequest of the estate to the Trust.
Also includes a paper entitled England's Country Houses: The Case for their Preservation read at the National Trust AGM in 1934, a press release announcing the bequest, a pamphlet entitled National Trust News , Volume 1 Number 4 (September 1936) announcing the bequest, a reproduction of a book introduction written by Charles to commemorate his donation, a pamphlet entitled The Bequest of Wallington to the National Trust by Charles Trevelyan , a transcript of a broadcast from Newcastle made on March 23rd 1937 and related newspaper cuttings.
Correspondents include W P Crozier, George Lansbury, Marquess of Lothian, Henry W Nevinson, Anna M Philips, Arthur Ponsonby, M Philips Price, George Macaulay Trevelyan and J C Wedgwood.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
During re-cataloguing in 2018 one later item, photocopies of reminiscences by a family friend written made in 1993, was relocated from the archive into the library's administrative files.
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Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Open to the public
Conditions governing reproduction
Language of material
- English