Personal and biographical materials relating to Aelfrida Tillyard and to her family and acquaintances, collected by Sheila Mann in the course of her research on Aelfrida Tillyard, 1816 - 2013
Scope and Contents
File contains:
1) Accounts of the Warren, Barrett and Wetenhall families written circa 1932 following the death of Catharine Sarah Tillyard (née Wetenhall). Possibly written by Ancifera Gregory, cousin of C S T. 22 pages of photocopied typescript / manuscript [Sheila Mann considers that these accounts are ‘very imperfect’];
2) Photocopy of a poster addressed by H[enry] J Wetenhall ‘To the Burgesses of the East Barnwell Ward’, offering himself as a candidate for election as an Alderman for the ward, 1856;
3) Norwich Census extracts for 1851, 1861 and 1881 with details of Aelfrida Tillyard’s Norwich ancestors, 3 pages;
4) Photocopy of a page from J A Venn, Alumnae Cantabrigienses Pt II Vol II including entries for Julius Tillyard, Alfred Tillyard, Kerchever Tillyard and Robert John Tillyard;
5) Photocopy of Alfred Tillyard’s obituary from The Times, 10 October 1929, probably composed by Aelfrida Tillyard;
6) Note of some entries in the Tillyard family bible, from 1816 (birth of Henry Joseph Wetenhall) to 1935 (death of Agatha Graham), 2 pages;
7) Photocopy of a letter from Aelfrida C W Graham to Maynard Keynes, addressed from the British Consulate General in Paris, 21 July 1913, relating to poems to be included in an anthology [Cambridge Poets 1900-1913], 2 pages (the letter is a photocopy of the original in the Keynes papers at King’s College, Cambridge, ref JMK/PP/45/123);
8) Obituary by Sir Dingle Foot in The Times, 25 May 1974, for Anthony Wrightson;
9) Photocopy of p. 1381 of Vol. 12 of Dictionnaire de Biographie Française, giving biographical details of Albert Erlande;
10) Article by Simon Parke from the Church Times 17 May 2013, describing but not naming Aelfrida Tillyard;
11) Photocopy of a letter from A C W Graham to Mr [Alan Whigham] Price, addressed from St John’s Home, Oxford, 26 January 1955, concerning the ‘Learned Twins’ [Dr Agnes Smith Lewis and Dr Margaret Dunlop Gibson], 2 pages (the letter is a photocopy from the archives of Westminster College, Cambridge).
Dates
- Creation: 1816 - 2013
Creator
- From the Fonds: Graham, Aelfrida Catherine Wetenhall, 1883 - 1959 (nee Tillyard, writer) (Person)
Extent
1 file(s) : Paper
Language of Materials
English
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Donated by Sheila Mann 4 September 2013.
Date information
DateText: The dates above are the dates of events covered by this material: the material was collated by Sheila Mann 2003-13.
Originator(s)
Various
Finding aid date
2013-10-01 11:09:52+00:00
Repository Details
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