Identity area
Reference code
Yapp/2
Unique identifier
Title
Date(s)
- 1895-1936 (Creation)
Level of description
Series
Extent and medium
26 folders, paper
Context area
Name of creator
Repository
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Handwritten letters, sometimes with accompanying envelopes, very occasionally containing pressed flowers, written to and from RHY and/or his wife. While much of the correspondence relates to personal and family matters, some professional correspondence is also present. The correspondence covers the period from RHY's acceptance at Cambridge University, through to condolences on his death.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
The overall arrangement is very loosely chronological. Some letters were organized into thematic bundles by the family, which have largely been preserved, though individual letters which did not fit thematically or were out of sequence chronologically have been moved in the course of cataloguing better to group letters in an order useful for researchers.