IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 106 9/31
Held at: Women's Library
Title: Autograph Letter Collection (additional items)
Date(s): c 1810-1975
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 1 box and 1 album
Name of creator(s): Various
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 AND 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.
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ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
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Accruals:
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
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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).
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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.
Date(s) of descriptions: 25/03/2008