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Personal diaries: Volume 7, 1925-12-30 - 1926-04-06

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Reference Code: GBR/0271/GCPP Graham, A2 1/7

Scope and Contents

Friends and visitors include Kitten [Isabel Drummond] Mr Michaelis, John Blackie, Isabel Mills, Mervyn Roberts, Alan Goodman, Aubrey Pike.
p 6 Guildhall New Year party - 7 pages
pages 12-25 trip to Felixstowe with Aunt Phyllis and Stephen and Veronica in early January
p 28 various Perse events - fancy dress dance; dance given by the Perse Magazine Committee; old Perseans annual entertainment
pages 33-39 party 'at the Roxburghs' with Isabel Mills and others from the Perse
pages 39-46 visit of Walter, much treating of him and cooing over him and taking him out
pages 47-51 Art Club Dance at school
pages 55-58 Miss Hobbling, the new classics mistress at the Perse
pages 62-65 Magazine Dance at school
pages 72-80 Lent Bumps on the Cam - p 78 'A lot of girls - - run on the tow path. I'm not old fashioned as a rule, but I do think it's disgusting. They puff & pant along laboriously, red in the face, looking ridiculous and getting in everyone's way'
pages 85-91 'Lilac Time' at the theatre
pages 91-99 Three Short Plays presented by the Shirley Society (March 1926 - programme loose in volume) escorted by Tom Henn
pages 99-102 tea with Aubrey Pike at 139 Huntingdon Road - much detail on AP who is to take holy orders in Oxford
pages 103-106 school competition for Choirs of Female Voices at Guildhall
p 109 Alethea is to go to Paris
p 110 Alethea wins a Carlise Scholarship at Girton - 'What a sister to live up to'
p 112 in bed for 5 days with flu
p 114 Alethea goes to the Boat Race with Mr [Ralph] Nattrass
pages 120-123 picnic at Hardwick Woods
pages 123-125 tea with Dorothy and Greta Watson, mistresses at school
pages 126-128 tea with the Merton House family
p 131 Alethea going to Paris soon
At back: 3 b/w photos of the Fordfield garden under snow January 1926.





















Dates

  • Creation: 1925-12-30 - 1926-04-06

Creator

Extent

1 volume(s) : Paper

Language of Materials

English

Originator(s)

Graham, Agatha

Finding aid date

2010-01-05 13:40:30+00:00

Repository Details

Part of the Girton College Archive Repository

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