Box 2

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"Dear Mr. Steevens, How very kind of you to write in connection with our loss. All these items had a personal story attached to them and we were very fond of them. You have been very much in our minds on account of what we have heard of your accident..."

Scope and Contents "Private and Strictly Confidential: Your kind letter sent to me through Harry Walston has deeply touched and delighted me and I want to thank you most sincerely for it. ... Everyone was conscious of Lewis's charm. This was very disarming and it was closely associated with his manners. I use this word deliberately as dintinguished[sic] from his charm because I have in mind not merely his most attractive social manners but manners in a profound intellectual and spiritual sense which made him...

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"Dear Madam, Thank you for your letter of the 24th April regarding a suitable memorial for your late husband. The memorial we erected in Fingest that you mention is of Portland stone and is in the form of kerbing surrounding the grave space and a large cross set on four basis at the head of the grave..."

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"Dear Madam, Thank you for your letter dated 12 May, enclosing the photograph and sketch. These will enable us to draw up a design for your approval..."

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Reproduction image. Faint unreadable signature by the artist.

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Lists Ernest Andrews as a tradesman, aged 38, of 9 Harcourt House, Cavendish Square, W. Indicates that it was issued by the St. Marylebone Borough Council.

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Text roughly translates to "Through this we fulfill the sad duty of the passing of my dear husband, our faithful father and grandfather..." and lists Schabert's titles and honoraries. There is also a list of named relatives.

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Formal and original document appointing Ernest Andrews to be the Consul in Rangoon for the King of Siam. Signature at the bottom reads "Salisbury," likely signed by or for Britain's Prime Minister in 1899, Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury.

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Papers of passport issued to Ernest Andrews, issued by William Ward, the Consul-General of various areas of the British Empire. Contains multiple additions and notes, presumably from Andrews' travels, but also possibly from someone in the Andrews family or Rebecca West as part of family research.

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Reprint of a baptismal register for Louis Harry John Andrews in the St. Catherine Church of Hamburg.

Note that the dates vary: the reprint itself was created in 1891, but the document indicates that the original recorded birth occurred in 1857, appeared on page 14 of the register for that year, and was item number 134.