Graphical version

Women's Library

Scholars and Learned Ladies: (Autograph Letter Collection)

IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 106 9/22

Held at: Women's Library

Title: Scholars and Learned Ladies: (Autograph Letter Collection)

Date(s): 1850-1970

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 33 items

Name of creator(s): Various

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

The collection contains correspondence related to the theme 'Scholars and Learned Ladies', including letter from Anna Gurney to Sir William Hooker, c. 1850. Correspondence dealing with the election of Miss Mary A Blagg as a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society. Extract from Professor Turner's introduction to Miss Blagg's 'Collated List of Lunar Formations'. Letters from Professor Turner. Letter from Frank Dyson. A short account of the life and work of Mary Blagg produced by her nieces, 1968. Correspondence in 1962 about the late Miss Pernel Strachey's typescript edition of the Emmanuel College manuscript. Admission of women Fellows to the Royal Society. Correspondence between Royal Society, Society for Women's Service, Mrs Hutton and Miss P Strachey, 1954. Correspondence between Lucy Norton, John Carter and Joan Bennett about some George Eliot letters and an article on them by Joan Bennett, 1968. Copy of a letter from Mrs Baines (Bedford College) to Miss Pernel Strachey about a tapestry for Newnham College, 1945. Letter from Myra Curtis (Newnham) to Pernel Strachey, 1945. Letter from Hertha Ayrton to Dr Gorthon, 1911. Autograph signatures of Margaret McNair Stokes, Mrs Agnata Frances Butle, Jane Ellen Harrison.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Conditions governing access:

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 and 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:

Also held at The Women's Library are personal papers of Philippa Strachey (7PHS) and Pernel Strachey (7JPS). Other Collections within Strand 9 which may be of interest include 9/04 Female Education and 9/07 Literary Ladies.

Publication note:

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Archivist's note: Collection description by Maxine Willett and Liza Giffen The Women's Library 2002. Catalogue by Jean Holder, Vicky Wylde and Teresa Doherty 2005.This document was generated by Javascript from an HTML form which structured the input according to the elements of ISAD(G) Version 2. Edited for AIM25 by Sarah Drewery.