The file contains the following:
1) Papers relating to a performance by Girton College Musical Society of Handel’s Oratorio ‘Athaliah’, produced by Flora MacLeod, 5 and 6 March 1954, including the following: flyer; poster; press cuttings from the Times, the Observer, the Cambridge Daily News and the News Chronicle; ticket; programme; black and white photograph taken by A C Barrington Brown of the cast; hand drawn birthday card [to Flora MacLeod?] illustrated with coloured sketches relating to the production of Athaliah; 5 black and white snaps of cast members in costume; typescript list of final arrangements for the performance, compiled by Flora MacLeod and Ann Eminton;
2) 7 black and white snaps taken in the grounds of Girton College, all undated except one which is dated 1952: subjects include Ann Avery, Flora MacLeod, Ann Eminton, Helen Argyriades, Sheila Gillies, Clare Durrant, Rosemary Barrie, Susan Babington, Janet Bourne, Julia Cook and Judith Greenacre;
3) Two-verse limerick about the Mistress of Girton, written by Flora Wallace, circa 1995;
4) Daily Telegraph illustrated supplement entitled ‘English Girls’ Schools’, 26 June 1933, with information on and photographs of Cheltenham Ladies’ College, North London Collegiate, Roedean and Wycombe Abbey, amongst others;
5) Sepia postcard of the Princess Helena College Lacrosse Team, 1907, showing the team wearing ‘calisthenic dresses’ (the postcard was reproduced for use as an invitation to the College’s Old Girls’ Association’s 2011 Reunion Lunch), together with a photocopy of a letter from Flora Wallace, May 2019, containing background detail.