The papers listed here comprise the following:
1) Six letters from Constance Ryley to her aunt, written 1916-1919, ie before and during her time at Girton. The letters cover subjects such as the entrance examination, daily life at Girton, her College room, College activities and societies (particularly chapel choir, musical society and Christian Union), the First World War (eg a zeppelin scare in October 1917), study, church, sport (netball) and singing lessons. The letters have been annotated in pencil at a later date with explanatory notes;
2) Testimonial for Constance Ryley, written 14 July 1920 by A Y Campbell, Fellow and Classical Lecturer of St John's College (who had given her tuition in Greek and Latin prose composition, 1919-20), in which he says that she intends to take up teaching work and notes, inter alia, that she had taken part in a recent performance at the Cambridge Theatre of Purcell’s ‘Fairy Queen’, which had excited ‘much interest among London critics’;
3) Scans (two jpeg images) of one page from Constance’s photograph album showing sepia photographs from her Girton years, as follows: group photograph of staff, including Katharine Jex-Blake (who was Mistress of Girton during C R’s years), 1919; photograph of Eleanor Allen (Bursar of Girton 1906-29) and Katharine Jex-Blake; photograph of 3 students with bicycles on the driveway; photograph of 3 students on the tennis court; photograph of ‘Bunny Swann’ [? Irene Gertrude Swann, née Bonnett, Girton 1916]; and two further informal photographs, possibly of Girton students, unidentified [no dates found but presumably 1917x1920];
4) Studio portrait photograph of Constance Whitehorn, head and shoulders, no date [circa 1940s?], photographer unknown, 10.5cm x 14.5cm;
5) Photocopy of the typed address given by the Rev Reg E Fenn, brother-in-law of Constance Whitehorn, at her memorial service at St Columba’s United Reformed Church, Cambridge, 22 September 1976;
6) Copy of Girton College Register entry for Constance Ryley, 1948.