The following letters and extracts of letters are taken from Clementina Black's book 'The Cumberland Letters'. Additional material not found in the book is given in the Appendix. This is a draft version and is by no means complete. The illustrations have not all been labeled and some dates have been left blank to be filled in later. The initials CB refer to the original editor Clementina Black.  At the turn of the last century Clementina Black visited the British Library and was perhaps one of the first to peruse in earnest the sixteen bound volumes of correspondence which George Cumberland collected throughout his life. In 1912 she published a book called 'The Cumberland Letters' which contained some of the more interesting letters among the first of those sixteen volumes.  

The purpose of these pages is to further extract and distill from Clementina Black's book all instances where the Cumberland brothers refer to members of the Balchen / Man families in the hope of casting more light on the relationships among them. By removing extraneous material, the familial and social ties that bound the parties together can be seen more clearly. There are therefore three contributors to the following pages: The brothers Cumberland, whose letters or extracts are presented in 'italics', Clementina Black's commentary which are given between " " and my own which have no distinguishing font or punctuation.

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