Caroline and George Otto Trevelyan with their sons Charles Philips and George Macaulay and families posed around a bench in a garden. Includes original envelope.

This archive includes content accumulated and created by both Charles and Mary, and other family members. It reflects the family's personal activities from Charles' childhood in the 1870s to Mary's death in 1966, but also includes some content from Charles' professional life. It can support research into a broad variety of areas, including political history (particularly the Liberal and Labour parties, socialism and international relations), World War I (particularly dissent and the peace movement), childhood and education (from both a personal and political perspective), domesticity, class and landed estates.
This extensive personal archive is mostly comprised of correspondence. This includes: Correspondence to Charles in his role as MP Correspondence to and from Charles relating to the operation of the Union of Democratic Control Correspondence to and from Charles relating to his positions in government Correspondence relating to the management of the Wallington estate and the donation to the National Trust Correspondence between members of the Trevelyan and Bell families, much of which is domestic in tone Correspondence to and from Charles and Mary's children from their early childhood to adulthood Correspondence from visits abroad including North America, Australia, New Zealand, the Middle East, Russia and Germany The correspondents include family members such as Charles' brothers George Macaulay Trevelyan and Robert Calverley Trevelyan, Mary's sister and brother in law Elsa Richmond and Admiral Sir Herbert William Richmond. Other correspondents include Sir Winston Churchill, J Ramsay MacDonald, E D Morel, Arthur Ponsonby, Walter Runciman, Herbert Samuel, George Bernard Shaw and Jennie Lee.

Other documents include: Papers relating to Charles, Mary and their childrens' educations, including exam papers and school ephemera Personal Diaries, in particular a short run of Mary's personal diaries as a young woman Official political papers, including Cabinet Conclusions, draft bills[?] and copies of Hansard Pamphlets and leaflets written by and collected by Charles, many relating to socialism and the UDC Transcripts of speeches given by Charles and Mary in professional and personal capacities Personal notebooks with draft speeches and essays Family photograph albums and glass negatives, recording family events, daily life, and Charles' political career Press cuttings and scrapbooks relating to family events and Charles' career

This series comprises correspondence sent to other members of the Trevelyan and Philips families but which was held alongside Charles and family's papers. The sub-series are as follows:

CPT/5/1 - Letters to George Otto and Caroline Trevelyan nee Philips from and about Charles and family CPT/5/2 - Letters to George Otto and Caroline Trevelyan nee Philips from various correspondents CPT/5/3 - Letters to Robert Calverley Trevelyan from Charles CPT/5/4 - Letters to various Trevelyan family members and related papers

Further correspondence with George Otto and Caroline Trevelyan can be found in this collection at CPT/1/9 and CPT/2/8.

Includes a pencil illustration [possibly of Florence Bell as a young woman], drawings made by either Hugh Lowthian Bell [Hugo] or Mary circa 1888, the cover for a Collins Midget Diary annotated 'from GWT', two of Mary's dance cards, a 'learn to read' print with Mary's name, a list of Bell family members of Mary's generation listing their spouses and children and a watercolour illustrated timetable for 'Pauline, George Lowthian and Katharine [Kitty] Trevelyan's lessons with Miss Clarke' [Elsie Clarke].

Includes extracts in English and Greek

Manuscript transcript of a speech made at Charles and Mary's silver wedding celebrations expressing thanks for gifts and referencing their intentions as Lord and Lady of Wallington, and a typescript transcript of a speech made at the 1938 tenants party which discusses changes made on the estate in the previous 10 years.

Broadcast is part of a series on British Prime Ministers since 1900, produced by Roger Cary. The episode describes Robert Cecil, Marquess of Salisbury.
The Trust report relates to camping and climbing expeditions, and is written by Geoffrey Winthrop Young.

Watercolour background features a fairy and the timetable lists lessons alongside housework.
On the reverse, there is a pencil sketch of an open door.

Envelope formerly containing a childs' toy in which silver nitrate was applied to paper and ignited to 'explode' an illustrated ship. The paper with silver nitrate has been removed from the collection and securely destroyed.