This consists of an introduction and five parts. 6 files in total (the introduction and Part I are in one file; Part V is divided into 2 files).
Introduction: My Home - detailed description [with plan drawn by one of her grand children] of the family house at Harborough Parva near Rugby. My Mother - includes research into Sarah Walker’s life before her marriage. My Father - includes information about William Ivens’ parents and his life before his marriage, also original newspaper cuttings about his marriage to Dora Pym’s mother 1890 and his obituary 1905.
Part 1: Harborough Parva 1890-1901 pp 1-87 (Part I incorporates at the end ‘Dora’s adventure’ pp1-9 a personal recollection of childhood covering the same years as part I and first written in 1948. It has its own page numbering and is continued in parts II and III, at the end of each of these parts). In the pagination of volume I, pages 28 & 29 appear to be missing, this is to take account of the typed up versions of newspaper cuttings. Part I includes accounts of early childhood, lessons at home, illnesses, manners, animals, step-brothers and sisters and the impact of the Boer War on a child of nine.
Part II: Harborough Parva 1901-1906 pp 88-216 (part II incorporates ‘Dora’s adventure’ pp10-18, at the end). Includes the widening social contacts of the teenage years, life in the village and neighbourhood; life in the household of Dora’s father, a prosperous timber merchant, his death, Dora’s start at school, King Edward VI High School for Girls, Birmingham.
Part III: Harborne, Birmingham 1906-1910 pp 217-323 (part III incorporates the final part of ‘Dora’s adventure’ pp19-25 at the end) Owing to a slip in pagination, page 273 is missing. This part includes life in Birmingham, school, exams, scholarship to Girton.
Part IV: Cambridge 1910-1913 pp 324-473. Detailed description of life at Girton, lectures, supervisions, reading parties, vacations etc.
Part V: Cambridge and War 1913-1918 pp 474-695 [Vol. 1 pages 474-571, Vol. 2 pages 572-695]. This part includes much about the Student Christian Movement, as well as her final year as an undergraduate, her postgraduate year at Girton teaching, her time lecturing at Westfield College, coming back to Girton and finally her time in France working with the YMCA, where she met Tom Pym, a chaplain. They were engaged and married in 1918, before the end of the war (First World War).
There is a photograph of Dora at the begining of the memoir, taken in July 1918. On page 639 there is also a photograph of 'Some staff of the YMCA Hut II, Camp VI, Calais, 1917-1918'. Dora is pictured in the back row.