Scope and Contents Marion was a talented artist and accompanied her husband to the Australian conference of the British Association for the Advancement of Science in 1914, painting a 'Colour Diary' of 160 watercolours recording their destinations on the four month voyage (during which time the First World War broke out). Includes photographic portrait of Marion, 1923, and watercolours of the following (various views of each and others included, plus several sunsets and sea views): Plymouth; Tenerife; Cape...

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Correspondence and other papers compiled in his capacity as Master of Downing College.

Scope and Contents Includes photographs of family life before A. C. Seward became Master at Downing, including at the family's Old Farm Cottage in Walberswick with family, visitors and friends, Seward's lab and the family home (at Westfield, Cambridge), including Marion's studio. Others pictured include: Frances Lupton; Arthur Rackham; Connie and Molly Scott; Bertram Priestman (painting with Marion) and Mrs Priestman; Professor Yapp; Taffy Giles and Betty Willis; Mr Rose and Dr Giles; Mrs Alexander and...

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Scanned copies only. Letters to Phyllis from various trips and holidays abroad and, from 17 March 1923, from Marion in Cambridge to Phyllis in Darlington after her marriage to Michael Sampson. Letters increase in frequency after this date, with updates from Cambridge and relating to various post-wedding matters. Letters from 1915 often describe visitors to the Master's Lodge at Downing and her husband, Prof. A. C. Seward's work engagements.

Scope and Contents Includes: portrait photographs of Marion as a younger and older woman (one with the following information on the back: "Hon. Secretary of the Cambridge Tipperary Club - with 800 members, one of the largest in the country... A nursery is attached, a Library and various entertainments arranged. Chairman of the Communal Kitchen Committee and serving on the committees of various other war activities.") Other photographs show Marion sketching in a variety of locations (including on Paris Plage...

Scope and Contents "Received this book from Mr Cruikshank", 28 August 1919. Brief, but often very informative, daily entries detailing guests at the Master's Lodge in Downing, activities and events attended in College and elsewhere in Cambridge (by herself as well as her husband, A. C. Seward), including Tipperary Club and Cambridge Drawing Society, and family matters, including holidays to Suffolk (Walberswick, Southwold and Aldeburgh) and Denmark, August 1921. [Her husband is referred to as 'B' throughout.]...

Scope and Contents Includes: views of Cambridge Botanic Garden rock garden and pond, June 1914; interior and exterior of family home (before Downing) at Westfield, Cambridge, and various interior and external shots at Downing; May Races, 1914 (Seward family, Mr Blackman, Mr Kidd, Mr Price, Margaret and Mrs Tarsley); Cadets sports prize giving, 1917, including Col. Edwards and Cadet Stewart; 'Hospital Group', 1915 and various photographs of staff and patients (incl Pte Mansfield) at the Red Cross Wordsworth...

Scope and Contents Includes: interior of the Tipperary Club meeting room in Fitzroy Street; several photographs of Tipperary meetings and social events, including women with children and garden party (with children's train track) in Downing Master's Lodge garden and sewing sand bags for the war effort; exhibits for homemade toy exhibition, including dolls' house (2) and Red Cross hospital (6) made by Marion and Margery Seward; visit of Admiral Weekes (in naval uniform), Lady Jellicoe (with Mrs Keynes), Lady...

Scope and Contents Includes: card announcing visit of Lady French, 30 April 1915; letter from Courtney Kenny accepting invitation to speak, 4 Dec. 1915 (or 1918); names of subscribers of the Tipperary Club, 1916; printed address of M. R. James, Provost of King's College, at the unveiling of the Roll of Honour of the Cambridge Tipperary Club on 12 July 1916; card announcing possible visit of the Queen while on a visit to the First Eastern General Hospital, 4 Oct. 1918; printed address to members of the...

Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Correspondence and other papers compiled in his capacity as Master of Downing College.