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Letters from Hilda Gosling to her mother Nellie Gosling: File 4, 1919 - 1920

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Reference Code: GBR/0271/GCPP Sebastian 1/1/4

Scope and Contents

Specific references include:
The gradual return and increase in number of male students in Cambridge after the war;
Anticipation of the ‘Victory Ball’ / ‘Peace Ball’;
Anticipation of a ‘glorious time in May week’, with a list of events to which H G is invited, 18 May;
Tennis matches against some of the men’s colleges (‘we beat Christ’s’; ‘we’re playing Downing next week’; ‘When the Sidney people asked the Master if they might challenge us, he said ‘ Yes, but for Heaven’s sake don’t let them beat you!’ ‘), 25 May;
Illness and death, in June, of H G’s father;
Long Vacation term study, staying with Alice McConnel in rooms at 16 Park Parade;
Girton Jubilee garden party, July;
Visiting Hurrion Rushmer’s family, July (letter of 20 July addressed from Ormsby, Norfolk);
Purchase and use of a car, from October [on p.162 of ‘Lace Collars and Cocoa Cups’, Hilda Sebastian says she was the only woman at Girton to own a car at the time];
The offer of a job at Charing Cross Hospital, 14 October.
Letters of September to December 1919 are addressed from rooms at 57 Oxford Road. The only letter of 1920 is dated 1 November and comprises a short note addressed from ? Witham, in which H G says ‘John [Gardner] wants me to stay until Thursday’.










Dates

  • Creation: 1919 - 1920

Creator

Extent

1 file(s) : Paper

Language of Materials

English

Bibliography

Hilda Sebastian (nee Gosling) quotes from some of these letters in pp 153-165 of her book 'Lace Collars and Cocoa Cups'. Letters quoted include those dated 11, 16 and 25 Feb 1919; 27 April 1919; 18 May 1919; 8 and 21 July 1919; 2, 3, 5 and 14 October 1919; and 2 December 1919.

Originator(s)

Gosling, Hilda

Finding aid date

2013-05-14 15:46:36+00:00

Repository Details

Part of the Girton College Archive Repository

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