Letters addressed chiefly from Girton College or from 3F Morpeth Terrace, Victoria Street, London SW, with some from Newlands, Oxford. The letters discuss Margery's affairs and babies, also numerous other friends and relatives including Karin Costelloe, EEP's sisters Beryl and Rhoda, Gwladys Jones, Topsy Jones, and Roma Wilson [G 1911, later Mrs O'Brien and the novelist Romer Wilson]. The letters also discuss EEP's lectures and WEA [Workers' Educational Association] classes; undertaking research on the papers of the Paycockes of Coggeshall, Essex, medieval clothiers; and wartime conditions.
9 July 1912: 'I had an epic five days with Gwladys';
18 July 1912: from Bridport, staying with her friend Mary Brinton, who was shortly to marry John Stocks. Mentions 'Machiavellian machinations in order to subjugate Mrs Arthur Strong [Eugenie Sellers, Girton 1879, Research Fellow 1910] - she has - quite taken me up'; several pages on the subject of Margery's son Charles, motherhood and caring for children ('What earthly harm does it do Charles if you go away for a holiday?'); and a 'heavingly weekend with Gwladys at Cambridge';
12 September 1912: setting up flat with Karin [Costelloe] - 'why don't you settle Kingsley Game in my old rooms?' [Margery was having an affair with KG at this time];
17 November 1913: refers to the death earlier that year of Margery's baby daughter Isabelle;
28 November 1913: going to spend part of December with Gwladys at Cheltenham;
21 July 1914: 'I haven't got the Fellowship because I withdrew my application for it after getting the LSE lectures'; refers again to baby Isabelle;
24 September 1914: engagement of Karin Costelloe to Adrian Stephen;
25 September 1914: has written to LSE offering to postpone her lectures because of the war;
31 January 1915: wartime conditions at Girton College - 'there is a picket of soliders at the bottom of Woodlands - the Director of Studies in History much enjoys being saluted & questioned by romantic young officers - ';
16 March 1915: death of EEP's youngest uncle in Egypt - Aunt Ivy 'is very hard hit'; giving a speech with Mrs Fawcett [MGSR's aunt] at a suffrage meeting; extract re Beryl from a letter from Rhoda to EEP: 'Beryl is temporarily off Eugenics - suddenly announced that she had 'no use for virginity as such' ';
23 April 1915: Roma and Topsy coming to stay; 'I applied for the Pfeiffer Fellowship and have got it - '; 'I am full of skels about Kingsley Game' (indiscreet sounds through walls etc);
20 September 1915: further gossip re Kingsley Game;
5 September 1915: addressed from Bangor - 'At Barnstable I saw a most painful fairwell [sic] - boy off to the front -';
21 September 1916: addressed from 184 Ebury St: MLGSR going for a 'suffrage job';
26 February 1917: pending visit to Paycockes, Coggeshall; visit from Gwladys;
10 June 1917: being on Girton College Council; establishment of better relations between Staff and Council; 'I want to work for abolishing the Council and being incorporated under a charter like the men's colleges: Newnham has just got one. It'll always stand in our light, should we get degrees, if we're not self-governing'; 'Cambridge is an awful place to be in just now' [because of the war];
17 July 1917: visit from Gwladys; WEA classes in Southall - planning to lecture on the Congress of Vienna;
25 September 1918: addressed from Paycocke's, Coggeshall: describes negotiations with Methuen concerning a history textbook; 'I wish Girton would let me be a half-timer'; had a 'peaceful time with Roma, and she read me five chapters of 'If all these Young Men'. I shouted with laughter over the Jones family in it' [Florence Roma Muir Wilson, 1891-1930, Girton 1911, later Mrs O'Brien and a novelist writing under the name Romer Wilson].