Letters to Family Members

There are sixty-three letters from William Holman Hunt to his second wife Edith, n%#233;e Waugh, 1876-1899 (/2-64). /5-33 were written while Hunt was in Jerusalem and his wife was staying in Jaffa in 1877; they are contained in a manilla envelope marked Holman's Daily Letters to me from Jerusalem to Convent Jaffa, May 8 to June 7, 1877. In addition, there is a single letter to his mother, 1881 (/1); two letters to his son Hilary, 1884 and 1890 (/65-66); and single letters to his sister Elizabeth and an unnamed aunt, 1854 and 1873 (/67-68).

• /1: To his mother Sarah Hunt, Warwick Gardens, Kensington, 31 October 1881.
• /2: Jaffa, 13 March 1876.
• /3: 'Ramleh' [Ramla], 14 March 1876.
• /4: 'Schaama', n.d. [March 1876].
• /5: Jerusalem, 8 May 1877.
• /6: Jerusalem, 11 May 1877.
• /7: Jerusalem, 12 May 1877.
• /8: Jerusalem, 12 May 1877.
• /9: Jerusalem, 13 May 1877.
• /10: Jerusalem, 15 May 1877.
• /11: Jerusalem, 16 May 1877.
• /12: Jerusalem, 18 May 1877.
• /13: Jerusalem, 19 May 1877.
• /14: Jerusalem, 20 May 1877 (includes sketch).
• /15: Jerusalem, 21 May 1877.
• /16: Jerusalem, 23 May 1877.
• /17: Jerusalem, 23 May 1877.
• /18: Jerusalem, 24 May 1877 (section excised).
• /19: Jerusalem, 25 May 1877.
• /20: Jerusalem, 28 May 1877.
• /21: Jerusalem, 29 May 1877.
• /22: Jerusalem, 29 May 1877.
• /23: Jerusalem, 29 and 30 May 1877.
• /24: Jerusalem, 31 May 1877.
• /25: Jerusalem, 1 June 1877.
• /26: Jerusalem, 2 June 1877.
• /27: Jerusalem, 3 June 1877.
• /28: Jerusalem, 4 June 1877.
• /29: Jerusalem, 5 June 1877.
• /30: Jerusalem, 6 June 1877.
• /31: Jerusalem, 7 June 1877.
• /32: [Jerusalem], n.d. [1877] (first sheet missing).
• /33: [Jerusalem], n.d. [1877] (first sheet missing).
• /34: Athenaeum Club, 3 September 1878.
• /35: Draycott Lodge, Fulham, 24 August 1887.
• /36: Athenaeum Club, 23 September 1878.
• /37: Draycott Lodge, Fulham, 31 August 1887.
• /38: Mitre Hotel, Oxford, 31 January 1888.
• /39: Draycott Lodge, Fulham, 3 August 1888.
• /40: Draycott Lodge, Fulham, 9 August 1888.
• /41: 13 August 1888 (section excised).
• /42: 20 August 1888 (half-leaf excised).
• /43: 1888 (small section excised).
• /44: Mitre Hotel, Oxford, 12 December 1888 (small section excised).
• /45: Mitre Hotel, Oxford, 16 December 1888 (second leaf missing).
• /46: Holywell St [Oxford], 8 January 1889.
• /47: [Oxford], 10 January 1889.
• /48: [Oxford], n.d. [January 1889].
• /49: Mitre Hotel [Oxford], 25 January 1889.
• /50: 3 August 1890 (2 sheets).
• /51: Draycott Lodge, Fulham, 14 August 1890.
• /52: Draycott Lodge, Fulham, 17 August 1890.
• /53: Draycott Lodge, Fulham, 20 August 1890.
• /54: Woolpack Hotel, Warwick, 2 September 1890.
• /55: Red Horse Hotel, Warwick, 5 September 1890.
• /56: Postcard, 3 May 1895.
• /57: Tabley House, Knutsford, 6 June 1897 (2 sheets).
• /58: Draycott Lodge, Fulham, 13 December 1898.
• /59: 8 August 1899.
• /60: 10 August 1899.
• /61: Fulham, 19 August 1899.
• /62: Draycott Lodge, Fulham, 20 August 1899.
• /63: n.d. [October 1899].
• /64: n.d. (first and last sheets missing).
• /65: To his son Hilary Lushington Holman Hunt, 8 September 1884 (sketch included).
• /66: To his son Hilary Lushington Holman Hunt, 13 March 1890.
• /67: To his sister Elizabeth, from the Pyramids of Giza, 2 May 1854 (sketch included).
• /68: To his aunt, from Wilton Terrace, Campden Hill, 26 November 1873.