IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0505 PP15
Held at: Royal Holloway, University of London
Title: NOTCUTT, Rachel Lydia (1841-1921)
Date(s): 1905
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 3 items
Name of creator(s): Notcutt | Rachel Lydia | 1841-1921 | Librarian and teacher
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Born 1841; student at Bedford College, 1868; Resident, Bedford College Boarding House in Bedford Square and York Place, London, until 1894; Assistant, Department of Latin, Bedford College, 1881-1891; Honorary Librarian, Bedford College, 1883-1895; Member of Council, Bedford College, University of London, 1891-1901 and 1909-1913; Member of House Committee, 1891-1921, and Library Committee, 1890-1921, Bedford College; Secretary of Reid Trustees, 1882-1921; Notcutt Travelling Studentship instituted by the Reid Trust, 1918; died 1921.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Correspondence, 1905, between Rachel Notcutt and Alice Sargant, relating to the objections to a proposed new site for Bedford College in Bloomsbury, London.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
3 items.
Conditions governing access:
Open to all registered users of the Royal Holloway, University of London Archives.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copies may be supplied, subject to the condition of the original. Requests to publish original material should be directed to the College Archivist.
Physical characteristics:
Finding aids:
Handlist available in the Royal Holloway, University of London Archives reading room.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:
Accruals:
Archival history:
The papers were transferred from the Bedford College Archives when the College merged with Royal Holloway in 1985.
Immediate source of acquisition:
ALLIED MATERIALS
Existence and location of originals:
Existence and location of copies:
Related material:
The Royal Holloway, University of London Archives hold two framed pencil sketches, 1920, of Rachel Notcutt by Francis Dodd (BC RF151/2); a letter, 1985, written by Norah McNaulty, former Bedford College student and Registrar, containing reminiscences of Rachel Notcutt (BC RF140/1/2); papers relating to the Notcutt scholarship, 1913-1933 (BC GB130/1/1-7); and a framed photograph (BC PH1).
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Archivist's note: Compiled by Sarah Aitchison as part of the AIM25 project.
Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with general International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.
Date(s) of descriptions: Mar 2000