Part of : Earl Grey Papers
Miss Elizabeth Mary Copley (1801-1887), was the sister of Maria, Countess Grey (wife of the 3rd earl), and daughter of Sir Joseph Copley, Bart, of Sprotborough, Yorks, and his wife Cecil, née Hamilton, the divorced wife of the 1st Marquess of Abercorn.
Miss Copley had numerous relatives and a circle of highly connected female friends who are well represented among her correspondents, but by far the most prolific was her sister Maria, Countess Grey, who often wrote to her every day, accounting for 1,354 letters among these papers.
Miss Copley was involved in numerous religious and charitable enterprises, especially a Protestant mission to the Catholics of Ireland, based on a school and model farm at Ballinglen, Co. Mayo, and a Protestant educational mission to girls and women in Syria and Lebanon. These endeavours feature largely in her papers as does news of family and friends.
Alphabetically by correspondent, followed by a number of subject files.
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Papers of Maria, Countess Grey.