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Scope and Contents The Mirrlees Papers consist of 23 boxes of papers and 3 large cartons of research notebooks that now form 8 series. The bulk of the material, including most notebooks, is research for her biography of Sir Robert Cotton. 'A fly in amber', vol I, was published in 1962; vol II, 'The lost pearl', finished but not published, is also in the archive. There are research notebooks on other topics, travel albums, and articles. There is also poetry, in particular 'Moods and Tensions' (extensive...

Scope and Contents The Harrison Collection comprises the papers of and about Jane Harrison collected after her death principally by Hope Mirrlees and Jessie Stewart, former students of Harrison, for the writing of a biography. Most important is the collection of letters to Gilbert Murray and Lady Mary Murray that form the basis of Jessie Stewart's "Jane Ellen Harrison: A Portrait from Letters" (1959). There are also Mirrlees's and Stewart's own letters from Harrison, their manuscripts and drafts for potential...

Scope and Contents Letters between Margaret (Peggy) Steadman, later Ross, and her boyfriend, later husband, Robert (Bob) Ross when she was a student at Cambridge Training College, then assistant classics mistress at St Mary's and St Anne's Boarding School for Girls, Abbots Bromley, Staffordshire; and after their marriage in 1939 when they were separated during World War II. Also letters from her to her parents John and Edith Ross and her sister Barbara whilst she was at Newnham and then from Cambridge Training...

Scope and Contents This is a small collection of some 150 letters written between 1872 and 1882 from Mary Hutton who was born and raised in Dublin to her mother and sisters, including those written when she was a student at Newnham, 1875-1877. The letters to her mother and sister Lilla when she was a student are most important because very few letters exist that describe life in the early days of the College. (Newnham Hall was opened to students in 1875.) There is also her Higher Local Certificate from the...

Scope and Contents This collection consists of the personal and business papers of Olive Cook (1912-2002), writer and artist, and her husband Edwin Smith (1912-1971), photographer and artist. Although they range from the 1930s till her death in 2002, most cover the last third of the 20th century.Olive Cook's archive consists of personal letters and postcards; greetings cards both from her husband and their many friends in the artistic community (all handmade); many research notebooks and drafts of...

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6 printing press proofs by Jaffé and other artists, with explanatory correspondence.

Scope and Contents A collection of photographs, scrapbooks and sketchbooks of members of the family of Lord John Russell, 1st Earl Russell (1792-1878). They include sketchbooks of his second wife, Fanny Elliot, whom he married in 1841, his stepdaughter, Adelaide, eldest daughter of his first wife Adelaide Lister (d. 1838), and their two children, Georgiana and Victoria. Family albums belonging to Lady Agatha contain photographs of her nephew, Bertrand Russell, and one album from her brother Rollo has...

Scope and Contents The Wallas collection contains the personal family papers of Graham Wallas (1858-1932), his wife Ada (nee Radford, 1859-1934) and their daughter May Graham (1898-1972), who deposited the papers at Newnham College, where both she and her mother had been students, and she a lecturer from 1945-1962. (The professional papers of Graham Wallas are deposited at the London School of Economics, where Graham Wallas was Professor of Political Economy). The papers range from 1841 to 1972, but mainly...

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This small collection of Winifred Lamb's papers consists of ten boxes of research notebooks, newscutting books, and photographs, mostly from the 1920s and 1930s. There are also a few printed items and a card index relating to her archaeological research. Many items are undated.