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The bulk of the material charts nine months in the life of Agnes Lake from her arrest in April 1913 to her release from prison in December 1913, including an account of her imprisonment and correspondence with Christabel Pankhurst. The collection also includes three suffrage sashes and miscellaneous pamphlets and cuttings relating generally to the campaign for women's suffrage.

Scope and Contents Comprises a series of diaries and private journals kept by Bartholomew between 1904 and 1925 giving a detailed record of his daily life, social engagements and friendships, aspects of his work at the University Library, progress of various literary projects, plays attended and important books that he read. The entries during the last dozen years covered by the journals show Bartholomew as increasingly preoccupied by real or imagined health problems, and subject to fits of depression and...

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Diaries, writings on the history of music in Cambridge and the history of the Vatican library, correspondence and papers on Ximénès Doudan, Caspar von Kinschot and Reyner Wolfe.

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Comprising extracts from his Boer War diary.

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Comprising correspondence with Adolphus George Charles Liddell, including a diary, 1880 (218).

Scope and Contents Diary. Subjects covered include: relations with members of United Nations committees; discussions surrounding China and Kashmir [region in China, India and Pakistan]; Cadogan's reflections on his diary-writing and personal archive, including scrapbooks; Cadogan's retirement from the United Nations; the family's relocation to London and notes on interior decoration, shopping, and household provisioning; Cadogan's appointment to the boards of the National Provincial Bank and the Phoenix...

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Gives a general account of Bagnold's movements during the Second World War, including desert patrols and operations. Events covered include: Bagnold's arrival in Egypt (1939); Turkey reconnaissance (1940); tour of Aden Gulf area (1940); visit to Fort Lamy (1940); journey to Kufra proclamation ceremony (May 1941); journeys to Gaza, Brummana and Jeruslaem (Oct 1942), Sudan and Eritrea (Dec 1942) and Turkey (May 1943 and Aug 1943); and his return to England (Mar 1944).

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Very small pocket diary printed by Stone and Co. Limited. Dougall has written regularly in the diary in pencil recording training, military movements, food and conditions and other activities.

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Small pocket diary printed by Charles Letts and Co. Dougall has written regularly in the diary in pencil and ink up until 13 April [the day before he was killed]. He records training, military movements, food and conditions and other activities. Also includes 2 advertisement flyers for insurance (they are the same advertisement), the announcement of the engagement of Major C. F. Rodewald and Miss R. M. Boult torn from an unidentified newspaper and a pink sheet of blotting paper.

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The diary reflects the life of a young girl whose horizons were limited by social and religious constraints. She was eager for self-improvement and created for herself a series of routines and good intentions, which are inserted into the end of the diary. In the daily entries she often refers to these programmes by a system of capital letters and Roman numerals.

Scope and Contents The main bulk of the files are survey records. These document stations occupied, data, bearings, field sketches, and often include catalogues of specimens, localities, and photographs. These were written on 8x10” paper.The series also includes field notebooks (approx. 500) kept by each member of the party. They document occupied stations, observed points (triangular), specimens collected, and those locations/specimens which were photographed. Brian Harland explained in a number...

Scope and Contents This catalogue lists the papers of Oliver Ridsdale Baldwin ('ORB'), elder son of Stanley and Lucy Baldwin, and brother of Windham Baldwin; and also includes groups of letters from him to his parents and (of particular interest) to his companion of thirty-five years, John Parke Boyle. They illuminate all the main aspects of his career: as a soldier in both World Wars, as Labour politician, author, journalist, film critic, and as Governor of the Leeward Islands. The papers have been used...

Scope and Contents The papers include Aelfrida Tillyard's personal and biographical records, the most substantial of which are 75 personal diaries in an unbroken sequence dating from 1897 to 1959. The papers also include copies of some of her published works and manuscripts of some of her unpublished writings, in particular those religious works and novels which she wrote in the 1940s and 1950s. Papers of both daughters are also held in the archives: see GCPP Graham A1 (Alethea Graham, Girton 1926) and GCPP...

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The papers include personal diaries; photographs; and some of Agatha's writing, including poetry and short stories.

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The papers include personal diaries; poems; a few personal and biographical items; photographs; and some letters written to Alethea (chiefly those written to her by her spiritual 'adviser', Father O'Brien).

Scope and Contents In 1948 Anne Wilson travelled to Greece with three other Girton Classics students, Margaret Bowen (Girton 1944-1948), Sheila Spire (Girton 1945-1949) and Rosalind Day (Girton 1942-1944 and 1947-1948. When they visited the Acropolis they were joined by Zita, a friend of another Girtonian who was not on the trip.In 1949 Anne visited Italy and Sicily, again with fellow Girton classicists. On this occasion she travelled with Alison Evans [Girton 1946] and they met up in Rome with Veronica...

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The papers listed here include a miscellany of personal and biographical items, together with personal diaries, sketchbooks, photographs, and some correspondence, including transcripts of correspondence between Elspeth Giles and Julian Lathrop, an American officer who spent 3 months at St John’s College, Cambridge just after the end of World War I.

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The papers comprise photocopies of two of Georgina Buckler's diaries and some biographical material.

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The papers listed here comprise diary extracts from 1947-1951 (Joan Garrod's last year at school and her three years at Girton); autobiographical notes compiled in 2013; and photographs and sketches.

Scope and Contents The papers listed here comprise largely personal and biographical materials, including letters, diaries and photographs. The letters and diaries in particular provide detailed insight into the middle years of Margaret Anderson’s life, from 1924-36. The diaries cover part of her time at Girton College; the time she spent teaching at Malvern Girls’ College and lecturing at Manchester University; part of the time she spent in Barbados; and part of the time she spent living at Hardwick,...

Scope and Contents The papers listed here comprise miscellaneous items found with the papers of Margaret Anderson (mother of Nan Anderson) and there is some overlap with Margaret Anderson’s life, for example amongst the photographs. These papers present a fragmented snapshot of the early life and work of Nan Anderson. For example there is only one diary, though it would appear that others were written; there is a handful of letters written home to her father from New Hall, Cambridge; and there are some...

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The papers comprise personal diaries and notes, undergraduate notes, Girton ephemera and obituaries.

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Margaret Smith's surviving papers comprise a series of 17 diaries dating from 1900 to 1963, a 1950s/60s record of share dividends and income tax, and some of her published articles, together with 3 diaries written by Florence Smith, one of her six sisters, 1905-07.

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Rhoda Power's surviving papers listed here comprise the diaries she kept of her experiences in revolutionary Russia in 1917-18; a series of letters which she wrote during her travels in South and North America in 1946-47 for circulation amongst her friends; and publishers' agreements. There are photographs of Rhoda Power in the papers of Eileen Power at GCPP Power, E 1/1.