Memory Pictures: manuscripts: Item 4, 1952
Scope and Contents
Label on cover reads 'Memories of Cambridge etc etc - see also small green & blue notebooks for accounts of 'Dear Grandpapa' etc etc [Also in 'Christian Old Age' and 'The Glory of the West']'. Contains, at front, partial family tree with 'Henry Wetenhall (who lived in a house demolished to make room for St John's College Chapel)' at the top, and Catharine Sarah [Katie Wetenhall] marrying Alfred Isaac Tillyard at the bottom. Contents list on flyleaf reads:
'In this book.
1. The Earliest Memories of all;
2. The Verralls (and Leckhampton House);
3. Parties - Trinity; Garden Parties (and the Cambridge Place party);
4. Mrs Venn;
5. My Little Brother, Conrad Francis;
6. My Father (Letter to him);
7. Mrs Lewis and Mrs Gibson;
8. A Wet Sunday at Fordfield (earliest days);
9. God - and gods and goddesses;
10. The Children we played with, The Creightons.
Inverted at back:
(i) family tree entitled 'Dear's ancestry', starting at bottom with Eustace, Julius, Aelfrida and their children and going back through Katie Wetenhall and Alfred Tillyard as far as Aelfrida's great-great-grandfather Daniel Goodman and his wife Ann;
(ii) extracts copied from and notes on various sources and texts including George Fox, mid-17C; John Wesley's journal; Gibbon; Bacon; and Locke on Toleration.
Dates
- Creation: 1952
Creator
- From the Fonds: Graham, Aelfrida Catherine Wetenhall, 1883 - 1959 (nee Tillyard, writer) (Person)
Extent
1 volume(s) : Paper
Language of Materials
English
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Angela Yaffey 17.4.09.
Date information
DateText: No date, but probably early 1950s.
Originator(s)
Tillyard, Aelfrida
Finding aid date
2010-01-19 10:17:49+00:00
Repository Details
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