The letters contain the following: personal news; Girton College news (including news of L S’s daughter Vivien [Girton 1957, music] - a letter of 8 December 1957 mentions Vivien’s performance in the Freshers’ concert; arrangements for mutual visits; suggestions for potential new members for the Manchester Association of Cambridge University Women and other MACUW matters; thanks for books and other items donated to Girton, also donations to the ‘Third Foundation’ [later New Hall, now Murray Edwards College] (a letter of 29 Nov 1953 thanks L S for a cheque for the Third Foundation which she has sent on to Rosemary Murray); condolences on the death of L S’s friend Constance Sykes (Girton 1928, mathematics) in a letter of 2 November 1954; discussion of L S’s application (unsuccessful) for the post of Bursar at New Hall in letters of 21 March and 20 May 1961; news of H M’s upcoming East African safari in October in a letter of 19 July 1971; and news of H M’s move to a nursing home (in a letter from Isabel Clarke, H M’s sister, 19 November 1978).
The file also contains a printed private circular from H M to Roll members on the occasion of her retirement, October 1962, thanking them in detail for individual gifts given to her to mark her work as Librarian, Registrar of the Roll and Vice-Mistress.
[H M first addresses L S by her first name in August 1958. Some of the letters are typed, some handwritten.]