Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection documents the literary life of British Catholic authors and editors Alice and Wilfrid Meynell, as well as their sponsorship of poet Francis Thompson. It contains materials created or collected by both Alice and Wilfrid, as well as six of their children: Everard, Francis, Madeline, Monica, Sebastian, and Viola. Materials include correspondence, drawings, ephemera, manuscripts, photographs, proofs of publications, and a scrapbook. Alice Meynell’s materials mostly...

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Collection is open for research.

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Inventory number 1988.304

Accessible through Boston College collection of the Alice and Wilfrid Meynell family, MS-1986-061. John J. Burns Library.

On view in Burns Library, Thompson Room.

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This collection is minimally described and includes many items on public view or too large to be easily paged. Burns Library might not be able to fulfill access requests.