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NOTCUTT, Rachel Lydia (1841-1921)


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.

Detailed catalogue

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).

Publication note:

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


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Academic buildings | Educational buildings

Personal names
Notcutt | Rachel Lydia | 1841-1921 | librarian and teacher
Sargant | Alice | fl 1905 | correspondent of Rachel Lydia Notcutt

Corporate names
Bedford College x Bedford College for Women

Places
Bloomsbury | London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Holborn | London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Camden
Camden