Scope and Content Note
The papers of Moreton Frewen (1853-1924) span the years 1823-1934. The collection consists of correspondence, speeches and extracts of writings, photographs, newspaper clippings, and other printed matter documenting Frewen's activities in business ventures or government service in England, the American West, Hyderabad, Kenya, Ireland, Mexico, China, Canada, and Australia. The collection is organized into three series: Subject File , Chronological File , and Miscellany . An appendix to the finding aid consists of an index of selected correspondence and documents.
Frewen corresponded with royalty, noblemen, diplomats, American and British political and social leaders, writers, poets, journalists, financiers, industrial magnates, and others. Included in the collection are some family letters. Topics in the correspondence relate primarily to bimetallism and other currency affairs of the British Empire and United States. Other papers concern tariff matters, imperial preference, world trade, and Frewen's period in Parliament as member from Cork, Ireland. Correspondents include Arthur James Balfour; William Jennings Bryan; Sir Austen Chamberlain; Lord Randolph Henry Spencer Churchill; Henry George Grey, Lord Grey; James K. Jones; Rudyard Kipling; Henry Cabot Lodge; and Charles Richard John Spencer Churchill, Duke of Marlborough. Also included is correspondence and journals kept by his brother, Richard Frewen, during an 1872 tour of Europe and the Middle East and an around the world journey, 1873-1876.