The files comprise miscellaneous early correspondence, notes, reports etc, concerning constitutional, academic, University, financial, domestic and social matters.
File 1 includes:
1) Letter from Miss Townshend concerning the Little-Go, 1871;
2) Book of those invited to Girton ‘At Home’ 1897;
3) Bessie Rayner Parkes Belloc to Emily Davies [?], 20 June 1884; with copy of E D’s previous letter to her, 14 June 1884 about her contribution to a nomination; Bessie Rayner Parkes Belloc to Emily Davies, 12 June 1884; Note by Emily Davies on the matter [to Committee], 5 July 1884; Letter from Barbara Bodichon on the same subject, [1884];
4) Miss Muller to Miss Kensington, 20 November 1882, refusing financial support for additions to the College;
5) Two letters (one with original envelope), from Mr W D Niven of Trinity agreeing to examine Miss Woodhead, and from Mr A Holmes of Clare agreeing to examine candidates from the College, 1872;
6) Correspondence between Emily Davies and the Vice-Chancellor of the University, 1876;
7) C E Graves to Emily Davies, 19 September 1872, concerning the lecturers’ timetable for Hitchin and referring to the possibility of finding examiners for Tripos papers for Girton College;
8) William Carpenter, University of London, to Emily Davies, 22 June 1877, concerning the placement of candidates in [Girton?] entrance examination, including general comments on the admission of women to medical degrees [in the University of London?];
9) Letter from William Jebb, 5 April 1883, concerning the presence of Girton students at vivisections;
10) Letters from Miss Bernard to Miss Davies, 9 April 1883, and from Miss Davies to Mr Jebb, 10 April 1883, the presence of Girton students at vivisections; Emily Davies to Barbara [Shore Nightingale], 12 September 1897 concerning conditions required to qualify for examinations;
11) Dr Cunningham, to Miss Clover, [4?] October 1908, concerning the abolition of ‘Tray’;
12) Letter from JG Fitch, 21 June 1877, reporting that the Senate had vetoed the admission of women to medical degrees; includes a list of voters on the back;
13) Correspondence concerning Miss Scott’s resignation, including: Miss Bernard to Emily Davies concerning Miss Scott’s views on salary, 9 May [1883]; Miss Bernard to Emily Davies, 21 May [1883] concerning students/lecturers in Long Vacation, including Miss Scott’s views on pay; Miss Bernard to Emily Davies, 22 May [1883],concerning Miss Scott’s teaching; Notes concerning lecturers’ pay; Emily Davies to Miss Scott, 26 May 1883; Miss Scott to Emily Davies, 4 June 1883 concerning terms of employment; Emily Davies to Miss Scott, 5 June 1883; Emily Davies to Miss Scott, 9 June 1883; Miss Scott to Emily Davies, 28 June 1883, accepting terms for the time being; Letter of resignation from Miss Scott, 11 August 1884;
14) Papers referring to ‘at home’, 1893: List of guests who accepted and itinerary [for tour of College];
15) Printed papers referring to ‘Daily Routine’ etc. both at Girton and Hitchin; details of early entrance scholarships; ranking of Girton in Tripos results, 1882;
16) Two letters from the Vice-Chancellor, E H Perowne, concerning the election of a University representative to Girton College Council, 23 February and 9 March 1880;
17) Papers concerning party to Girton in 1887: bills for railway fares from London and cabs from the station for 50 people;
18) Papers relating to the joint building with Newnham of a Physiology [Balfour] Laboratory, including opening letters from Eleanor Mildred Sidgwick 1881;
19) Loose letters from Miss Bernard & Miss Welsh concerning University lecturers, Miss Wallas’s illness and examinations, 1883;
File 2 includes:
20) Letter from Miss Welsh, Mar 13 1896, concerning a student re-grading;
21) Correspondence concerning Telescope, 1876: A Freeman to Miss Bernard, 6 November 1876; A Freeman to Miss Bernard, 4 November 1876; Miss Bernard to Miss Davies, [nd]; A Freeman to Miss Davies, 14 November [1876]; Dr Selwyn to Miss Davies, 21 March [no year]; A Freeman to Miss Davies, 1 December 1876; ‘Description of a telescope made by R J Mann, Esq., M D, F R A S, and given to him by the late Prof W Selwyn, & now offered by Mrs Selwyn to the Trustees of Girton College, Cambridge’;
22) Correspondence concerning gas in the laboratory, 1877: Miss Bernard to Miss Davies, 18 January 1877; J T B Porter, Gas and General Engineers, to Miss Bernard, 16 January 1877, concerning the cost of installing gas supply; W C Holmes & Co., printed details of ‘Improved Gas Apparatus’ [nd]; J T B Porter & Co. to Miss Bernard, 29 January 1877; R S Wright to Lady Stanley, 24 January 1877; with [?] to R S Wright, 24 January 1877; printed prospectus of J T B Porter & Co., (Lincoln, 1871);
23) List of early students (up to 1876) in Emily Davies’ hand, together with draft sheets of regulations re guests etc;
24) Printed statement of revised regulations for use of College by ‘Certificated Students’, November1908, signed by Miss Clover;
25) Copy of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge Bill, March 1877.