Autograph Letter Collection (additional items)
Identity Statement
Reference code(s) | : GB 106 9/31 |
Held at | : Women's Library Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.lse.ac.uk/Library/Collections/Collection-highlights/The-Womens-Library › |
Full title | : Autograph Letter Collection (additional items) |
Date(s) | : c 1810-1975 |
Level of description | : fonds |
Extent | : 1 box and 1 album |
Name of creator(s) | : Various |
Detailed catalogue | : Click here to view repository detailed catalogue |
Context
Administrative/Biographical history:
Various
Content
Scope and content/abstract:
The collection primarily contains single letters that have been donated or purchased by the Library over a period of time. It contains letters from various notable women including Millicent Garrett Fawcett, Christabel Pankhurst, Agnes Maude Royden and Edith How-Martyn. Subjects covered include the women's suffrage campaign, nursing during the Crimean War and entry of women into the professions.
Access & Use
Language/scripts of material:
English
System of arrangement:
The letters are not arranged in chronological or alphabetical order. Most of the letters are stored in an album; oversize letters are stored in an archive box.
Conditions governing access:
This collection is available for research. Readers are advised to contact The Women's Library in advance of their first visit.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Finding aids:
Archival Information
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
This is a group of autograph letters that has been brought together from many individual accessions. Many of these accessions were acquired from Miss Winifred A Myers. Some are of unknown provenance, found in a box labelled 'autograph letters awaiting listing' during the move into the new building, 2002 and formally accessioned, July 2003. A few of the accessions have been purchased.
Allied Materials
Related material:
Other collections within The Women's Library Strand 9 (Autograph Letters) may be of interest. Also held at The Women's Library are personal papers of Millicent Garrett Fawcett (7MGF), Agnes Maude Royden (7AMR) and Edith How-Martyn (7EHM).
Publication note:
Description Notes
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
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