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Diaries and commonplace books etc compiled by members of the Leigh family

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Reminiscences of Mary Cordelia Leigh, recalling in particular her childhood at Stoneleigh Abbey in the 1870s; written c. 1950, with an addendum, November 1954. Enclosed: - papers concerning the death of her brother, Gilbert Henry Chandos Leigh, 1884. - letter reporting Queen Victoria's funeral, 1901.