Covering letter (dated 2 March 1925) and 10 page memoir by Dove in which she describes her 'great adventure of going to college' in 1871 firstly at Hitchin, followed by the move to Girton in October 1873. She relates how students from Hitchin travelled to Cambridge to take their exams, staying at the University Arms Hotel.
Fellow students include Miss Cook and Miss Lumsden, and the new students ‘Miss Muller, Miss Borchardt and the rest’.
Also mentions Miss Manning, Mr Tomkinson, Miss Townsend, Miss Gibson, Miss Welsh, Miss Aitkin and Miss Lumsden.