Saffery-Whitaker Papers, acc. 126, Angus Library

Calendar of the Saffery/Whitaker Papers, Acc. 126,

Angus Library, Boxes 1 and 2.

The letters in these two boxes have been separated by writer and recipient; some portions have been organized chronologically, but others remain unsorted by date. I have placed them in groups of 10 letters per plastic sleeve, unless otherwise noted, inside folders that are marked according to the calendar below. Included in these two boxes are 579 letters to and from the children of MGS.

I. Box 1

A. Clear Plastic Sleeves:

1. 1 Letter - Jane Saffery (wife of John Saffery II) to Jane Saffery Whitaker, 31 March ?

2. 1 Letter - Walter Saffery[?] to ?, 6 August 1858.

3. 1 Letter - John Saffery to his sister, Marianne, 2 May 1863.

4. 1 Letter - Ann Salter (lived in the Saffery home most of her life) to P. J. Saffery, 31 October 1873.

5. 2 Misc. Letters - 1854, 1858.

6. 1 Letter - Marianne and John Saffery to their sister, Jane Whitaker, 1 February ?

B. Folders:

1. Letters of P. J. Saffery to his sister, Jane Saffery Whitaker, 1845-69 (4 folders).

a. Folder 1 - 1838-52 (37 Letters)

b. Folder 2 - 1853-63 (39 Letters)

c. Folder 3 - 1864-66 (63 Letters)

d. Folder 4 - 1867-69 (35 Letters)

undated (4 Letters)

2. Letters of John Saffery II to Jane Whitaker, 1825-77 (2 folders).

a. Folder 1 - 1825-77 (73 Letters)

b. Folder 2 - Undated (22 Letters)

3. Letters of Walter Saffery to his Aunt, Jane Saffery Whitaker, 1858-78 (21 letters).

4. Letters of Margaret Kirkland (of Liverpool and Jamaica) to Jane Saffery Whitaker (34 Letters).

II. Box 2

A. Folders

1. Letters of Samuel Saffery to Jane Saffery Whitaker (unsorted).

a. 30 letters.

b. 46 letters.

One letter, dated 19 August 1834, is 8 folio pages long, in a very small hand; another one, dated 19 June 1837, from St. Helena, is 10 folio pages, plus a PS; another one, dated 23 March 1840, from Graham’s Town, South Africa, is 12 folio pages long. He seemed to be visiting missionary places, but whether he was ever a missionary himself is unclear.]

One letter from Edward William Alexander, St. Helena, to Jane Whitaker, 28 July 1837.

2. Letters of Marianne Saffery to Jane Whitaker, 1829-48¾2 folders (unsorted).

a. 54 letters.

b. 58 letters.

3. Letters of Mary Ryland [friend to the Saffery’s and former student at MGS’s school] to Jane Saffery Whitaker (1 folder, 63 Letters).

[In a plastic sleeve in this folder is one letter from Jane Saffery Whitaker to Mary Ryland, undated, and a short note.]

B. A commonplace book belonging to Ann Salter.

Dated on front inside page November 1808, Salisbury. Includes ‘The Lay of the Last Minstrel,’ by Scott; ‘The Hall of Justice’ (both parts); ‘Vagrant,’ by Crabbe; ‘The Recollections of this day’s Journey, January 15^th 1797,’ ‘Lines,’ and ‘Musings after visiting the Convent of Arrabidas,’ and three more ‘Lines,’ all by Southey.