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Obituaries for Alice Zimmern and related correspondence, 1939 - 1950

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Reference Code: GBR/0271/GCPP Zimmern 1/3

Scope and Contents

File contains:
1) J B Chapman: ‘Miss Alice Zimmern. Literary, educational and social work’, obituary notice in The Times, 23 March 1939;
2) ‘Miss Alice Zimmern. Devotion to classical culture’, obituary notice from The Daily Telegraph, 24 March 1939;
3) Jane T Stoddart: ‘Miss Alice Zimmern. A distinguished classical scholar’, obituary notice from [British Weekly, 30 March 1939];
4) Correspondence between H I McMorran (as Editor of the Girton Review) and J B Chapman [d. 1949] concerning the reprinting of Chapman's Times obituary in the Girton Review, 1939;
5) Letter from Margaret Chapman to the Mistress of Girton, 20 September 1950: this was a covering letter in a parcel in which M C sent ‘a few papers of our old friend Alice Zimmern’ [M C and her husband (a classicist himself) had been close friends of A Z’s for many years in London]. She makes a brief mention of Alice Kendon, a family friend (G 1949).




Dates

  • Creation: 1939 - 1950

Creator

Extent

1 file(s) : Paper

Language of Materials

English

Originator(s)

Various

Finding aid date

2014-10-13 10:08:52+00:00

Repository Details

Part of the Girton College Archive Repository

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