Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Comprises correspondence and papers of Mary Hope Allen, as well as correspondence of her grandfather Robin Allen (1820-98), Secretary of Trinity House and a poet and critic, and of her father, Sir Ernest King Allen (1864-1937), Assistant Public Trustee 1915-23. Robin Allen's correspondents include 19th century politicians, artists, poets and critics such as W.E. Gladstone, Thomas Hardy, Lord Leighton, John Ruskin, Lord Tennyson, Arnold Toynbee and Mrs. Humphry Ward. There is a collection of...

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Comprises correspondence and papers of Mary Hope Allen, as well as correspondence of her grandfather Robin Allen (1820-98), Secretary of Trinity House and a poet and critic, and of her father, Sir Ernest King Allen (1864-1937), Assistant Public Trustee 1915-23. Robin Allen's correspondents include 19th century politicians, artists, poets and critics such as W.E. Gladstone, Thomas Hardy, Lord Leighton, John Ruskin, Lord Tennyson, Arnold Toynbee and Mrs. Humphry Ward. There is a collection of...

Scope and Contents Scrapbook includes:- Items about Florence Keynes [Margaret Hill's mother], including obituaries- "Langstone Lays" by Florence Keynes in 1895- Items about Margaret Hill and Hill Homes for old people, her CBE award, and photo of women in one of her homes- Various items about A V Hill and his work, especially as President of the British Association- Some items about John Maynard Keynes [Margaret Hill's eldest brother]-...

Scope and Contents Includes:- Various items about visit by A V and Margaret Hill to Russia in 1935, including proceedings of the 15th International Congress of Physiology in Leningrad, fragments of commentary by AV Hill and a cartoon from Isvestia.- Article about knighthood for William Langdon Brown- Obituary articles about Eglantyne Jebb, 1938 and 1939- Order of Service for Katharine Arnold-Forster- Letter to A V Hill from Pavlov's widow and a photo...

Scope and Contents Scrapbook include cuttings on:- A V Hill's Nobel Prize and photos of the Nobel Proceedings, 1923- A V Hill's research, including Royal Institution lectures, 1924-1926- A V Hill as Third Wrangler at Cambridge, 1907- the marriage between John Maynard Keynes [Margaret Hill's eldest brother] and Lydia Lopokova, 1925Also includes- photographs of John Maynard Keynes' rooms at Cambridge with murals by Vanessa Bell and Duncan...