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Personal Papers of Rosalie MacLeod, 1918 - 1921

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0271/GCPP Wallace, F 2

Scope and Contents

The file contains the following:
1) 7 sepia postcards of Girton from the Frith’s Series, as follows: Stanley Library (external); Emily Davies Court (3 different views - one shows the view looking across to Hospital Wing with the Stanley Library just visible to the right hand side); the Tower; Woodlands Court [prior to the building of the Hyphen] with the Chapel to the left; and the Chapel and the Tower. None dated but all circa 1920?;
2) 4 sepia postcards of Girton from the Boots Cash Chemists ‘Real Photograph’ series, entitled ‘Woodlands Court’, ‘Chapel’, ‘Tower Wing’, and ‘Gateway’, circa 1920;
3) Sepia postcard photograph by Bassano of the inside of the Stanley Library, no date [circa 1920?];
4) Black and white postcard of Girton, showing Emily Davies Court and the Tower, surmounted by the College crest: Crescent Series no. 15, no date [circa 1920?];
5) Sepia postcard photograph by Bassano of Girton College staff, circa 1918, including Katharine Jex-Blake, Mistress, in the centre;
6) Sepia postcard photograph by Scott & Wilkinson & Co of Cambridge of a group of Girton students, with key to names (Ruth Corder, Elspeth Giles, Joan Bedale, Dorothy Marshall and Rosalie Wetton);
7) 2 copies of a b/w print of a scanned copy of an album page (26.5cm x 37cm) with seven snapshots. The snapshots include: i) Miss Betty MacLeod [?] standing outside holding a violin case [identified as Miss MacLeod by the donor, who noted that she used to have the room above the Chapel and occasionally played chamber music with Rosalie Wetton], (10cm x 6cm): ii) exterior view of Tower Wing, with two students sitting on the window ledges, no name key (7.5cm x 10cm); iii) Kathleen Butler (later Mistress 1942), standing outside holding a hat (10cm x 6.5cm); iv) an unidentified lake (7cm x 9.5cm); v) three male students [?] having a picnic, no name key (3.5cm x 6cm); vi) two students, standing on the lawn in front of Tower Wing, no name key (10cm x 6cm); vii) three students in a hedgerow, no name key (7.cm x 10cm) [this item was formerly catalogued as GCPH 11/17];
8) Article from The Sphere, 11 June 1921, entitled ‘The Mistress and Vice-Mistress and Some of the Lecturers at Girton College’, including photographs of the buildings and photographs of the following: Miss P K Leveson, Junior Bursar; Miss H M R Murray; Mrs [Barbara] Wootton; K T Butler; Miss Jex-Blake, Mistress; Miss E M Allen, Vice-Mistress; students in the Natural Science Laboratory; and Miss M B Thomas.







Dates

  • Creation: 1918 - 1921

Creator

Biographical / Historical

Rosalie Wetton was born on 27 July 1899 at St John’s Wood, the daughter of Dr Henry Davan Wetton, Professor of Music, and Annie Beatrice Radmar. Like her daughter (Flora Wallace, nee MacLeod) Rosalie was educated at Princess Helena College, followed by a period at the Royal College of Music. She came to Girton College to study Modern Languages, 1919-1922. Like her daughter, she was a Turle Music Scholar at Girton. After training at Mrs Hoster's Secretarial College, she became organist for two London churches then spent two years as a secretary and 'foreign correspondent' to a company director in New Malden before returning to Mrs Hoster's to teach English, French and German shorthand. She was a translator in the Press Department of the British Army of the Rhine in Wiesbaden 1927-29. Rosalie married Roderick MacLeod in 1930. Rosalie MacLeod died on 14 July 1989.

Extent

1 file(s) : photograph

Language of Materials

English

Former / Other Reference

GCPH 11/17 (pt)

General

These papers were referenced as part of GCPP Wallace, F at the time of accession because of the direct connection between Flora Wallace, nee MacLeod, and Rosalie MacLeod, nee Wetton, although under more recent conventions (as at March 2016) they would have been referenced GCPP Wetton.

Originator(s)

MacLeod, Rosalie Davan, 1899-1989, nee Wetton

Finding aid date

2016-03-22 09:14:20+00:00

Repository Details

Part of the Girton College Archive Repository

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