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Women Travellers: (Autograph Letter Collection)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 106 9/17

Held at: Women's Library

Title: Women Travellers: (Autograph Letter Collection)

Date(s): 1868-1936

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 1 A box (1 volume - 38 items)

Name of creator(s): Various

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

The collection contains letters from Isabella Bird to a friend, 1868; to Captain Coburn, 1879; to Mrs Waller, 1879; to Miss Gilpin, 1887; to Mrs Smith, 1887; to unnamed man, 1889; to unnamed man, 1889. Constance Gordon-Cumming to Miss Smith, 1897. Mary Kingsley to Mr Maclehose, 1899. Rosita Forbes to Mr Simpson, 1910. Mary Hall to Mr Simpson, 1910. Olive Macleod to Mr Simpson, 1910-1911. Edith Durham to Mr Christy, 1912-1914. Freya Stark to Lady Currie, 1933-1936. Evelyn Cheesman to Miss P Strachey, 1936; Note by Miss Strachey introducing Miss Cheesman's lectures; letter from Miss D Steiner about programme of lectures.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Conditions governing access:

This collection is available for research. Readers are advised to contact The Women's Library in advance of their first visit. Available on microfiche only.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Physical characteristics:

Finding aids:

Abstracts of individual letters in the autograph letters collection were written and held alongside the letters. This work was done from the 1960s by volunteers including Nan Taylor. In 2004 Jean Holder completed a 3 year project to list the letters, copy-type the abstracts, and repackage the letters to meet preservation needs. In 2005 Vicky Wylde and Teresa Doherty proof read and imported the entries to the Special Collections Catalogue.

The original card index of all correspondents, including date of letter & volume reference, is available on the microfiche.

Detailed catalogue

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

Accruals:

Archival history:

This collection consists of letters taken from various sources and filed individually in ring binders. The original source of the item (often from archive collections) is not generally indicated.

Immediate source of acquisition:

ALLIED MATERIALS

Existence and location of originals:

Existence and location of copies:

A copy of this archive is available on microfilm held at The Women's Library.

Related material:

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Archivist's note: Finding aid created by export from CALM v7.2.14 Archives Hub EAD2002. Edited for AIM25 by Sarah Drewery.

Rules or conventions: In compliance with ISAD (G): General International Standard Archival Description - 2nd Edition (1999); UNESCO Thesaurus, December 2001; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: 25/03/2008


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Entomology | Zoology
Lectures (teaching method) | Teaching methods
Travel abroad | Travel
Women | Sex | Sex distribution
Women authors | Authors

Personal names
Bishop | Isabella Lucy | nee Bird | 1831-1904 | traveller
Cheesman | Lucy Evelyn | 1881-1969 | entomologist, traveller and author
Cumming | Constance Frederica | Gordon- | 1837-1924 | traveller and author
Durham | Mary Edith | 1863-1944 | traveller and anthropologist
Forbes | Joan Rosita | 1893-1967 | traveller and author x Sitt Khadija x McGrath | Joan Rosita
Hall | Mary | 1857-1912 | traveller and author
Kingsley | Mary Henrietta | 1862-1900 | traveller and author
Macleod | Olive Susan Miranda | 1886-1936 | traveller and author
Stark | Dame | Freya Madeline | 1893-1993 | traveller and author
Strachey | Philippa | 1872-1968 | feminist activist and organiser

Corporate names

Places