Showing 1600 results

Visiting card with Zola's name and address. Inscribed: 'Je recommande bien vivement M.J. Sofer, qui est un artiste en miniature micrographique fort adroit et des plus intéressants'.

Autograph, unsigned.

Records, 1871-1894, of the Youths' Christian Institute (YCI), Young Men's Christian Institute (YMCI) and Polytechnic Young Men's Christian Institute (PYMCI), comprising PYCMI minute book, 1887-1891; records relating to membership, comprising candidate books [1880]-1887, register of honorary members, 1885-1894, and subscription ledgers, 1882-1891; lease of nos 48-9 Long Acre, 1871, with assignments, 1877, 1882; leases of premises in Langham Place, 1888, 1890; copies of licences for alterations to nos 309 and 311 Regent Street, 1887, 1889; agreement for alterations between nos 309 and 311 Regent Street, 1889; draft assignment of leasehold premises in Regent Street, 1889; draft deed for an Endowment Fund, 1889, and Deed of Trust, 1890; agreement to take over the West London School of Art, 1889; memorandum of agreement with Cassell and Co Ltd concerning publication of books for use by Polytechnic students, 1889; apprenticeship indentures for boys from the Youths' Institute and Boys' Home, Long Acre, 1877-1880; rules of the YCI and Reading Rooms, Long Acre, with a report of the Annual General Meeting, list of members, and rules of the savings bank, 1875; Quintin Hogg's roll book (probably for Bible Class), 1876-1878, including titles of talks given, 1877-1878; printed rules of the YCI (Strand branch) and Reading Rooms, 1880, including report of the third Annual General Meeting, 1879, the 'Ian' Athletic Club rules and an account of its second Annual General Meeting, rules of the Provident Savings bank and of the Relief Fund, and list of members; programme for swimming bath opening [1884]; PYMCI diary, 1886-1887; circular letter from Robert Mitchell concerning the Polytechnic Industrial Exhibition, 1887; PYMCI membership tickets, 1889; article by Henry Solly, 'The London Polytechnic Redivivus' [1884]; catalogue of the ninth annual industrial exhibition, 1886; PYMCI rules, 1891; reprint of article on appeal in The Times, 1888; receipts, accounts, balance sheets and financial report, 1883-1885, 1889; photocopies of letters to the Society of Arts from Quintin Hogg, 1873, and James Cousins, 1878; prospectus, 1888-1889; Charles F Mitchell's Polytechnic course: forty lessons in carpentry workshop practice, revised by G C Pope (1888); Home Tidings, 1879-1888, and its successor The Polytechnic Magazine, 1888-1891, the contents varying over time, but containing much information on Polytechnic activities, and including timetables, lists of members and club reports; view of frontage of nos 48-9 Long Acre, c1878.

Letter from Arthur Young of Suffolk Street, Charing Cross to J B Holroyd [afterwards 1st Earl of Sheffield], Sheffield Place, East Grinstead, Sussex, 4 Feb 1777. Asks for information relating to the management of Holroyd's estates in Ireland.

Autograph, with signature.

Letter from Arthur Young to the Rt Hon Lord Sheffield [1st Earl of Sheffield], Sheffield Place, East Grinstead, Sussex, [Aug 1790]. Refers to Young's last journey to France and Italy in 1789. The Duc de Liancourt entertained him in Paris for three weeks; he wishes to buy "some capital Sussex oxen" for Liancourt and enquires whether Lord Sheffield has any "of the first rate". States that France is absolutely ruined in point of trade and manufactures. Mentions a conversation with Lord Hawkesbury [Charles Jenkinson] 'on ye new corn bill wch appar. will be a governt. one - & so not too good for ye L Int. [landed interest]".

Autograph, with signature. Written on the blank pages of a printed questionnaire asking for information from corn growers in relation to the Corn Laws, for use in Young's 'Annal of Agriculture'; answers to the questions are filled in in MS.

Printed annual reports, 1867-1869, 1871, of the York Place Ragged School, Mission, and Boys' Home, comprising first, second, fourth and fifth reports, the first with a loose insert on the new home for boys; view of frontage of premises in Of Alley, c1867.

Casebook of Isaac Burney Yeo, 1871-1880.

The archive consists predominantly of photocopies of manuscript and typescript lecture notes by Yates. It also includes photocopies of press cuttings, flyers, membership cards and annual reports relating to the Wimbledon Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) of which Yates was an active member. The archive also contains press cuttings concerning the donation of the Emily Wilding Davison papers to the Fawcett Library in 1986.

Letter from John Yates of Liverpool to his son, Reverend James Yates, 30 Apr 1810. Congratulating him on coming of age.

Autograph, with signature.

Letter from John Ashton Yates of Bryanston Square, London to his brother James Yates of Bagdale, Whitby, 19 Aug 1843. Describing his family's journey from Whitby to London and the visits they made en route. 'The second night we slept at Rugby and saw the 500 boys at their desks'.

Autograph, with signature. Date derived from the postmark; the letter itself is dated 'Saturday noon'.

Letter from James Yates of Lauderdale House, Highgate, London to Samuel [A Thompson Yates], [1861-1871]. Mentioning 5s 6d paid to Mr Sackett for 'the engraving of Baskerville ... A person named Matthews in Birmingham has published a new edition of the view of the houses at Birmingham, which were destroyed at the Riots [of 1791 against Joseph Priestley and other non-conformists]. One of these is a view of Baskerville House. It [the house] was purchased and enlarged by Mr John Ryland, and in that state was destroyed by the mob ...'

Autograph, with signature.

The archive consists of 48 manuscript letters concerning the Writers' Club, the majority addressed to committee members Miss Florence Routledge (daughter of publisher George, and later wife of playwright St John Hankin), and some to Miss EE Dickinson (Honorary Secretary), concerning subscriptions, meetings, membership, recommendations and well wishing.

The archive consists of a list of names and a caricature (1917); press cutting and list of names of British delegation (1919); correspondence related to the Overseas League in Scotland and the English Speaking Union and Mother's Institute; one letter from Sylvia Pankhurst (1920-1938); Christmas Card for the Canadian Women's Institute (1939).

2 letters from Francis Wormald of 59 Warwick Square, London to Miss Joan Gibbs, 1 Oct 1967-10 Mar 1970.

Both items are autograph, with signatures. Filed with the original envelopes.

World War One Pamphlets collection, 1913-1921, comprises suppressed leaflets and pamphlets including those written by Clifford Allen and Fenner Brockway, 1913-1917; The Tribunal, 1918-1919; Union of Democratic Control leaflets, 1919; pacifist leaflets, 1915-1916; No-Conscription Fellowship leaflets, 1916.

Letter from William Wordsworth to G B Airy, Astronomer Royal and member of the University of London Senate, [Mar c 1838]. Supporting John Thomas Graves's application for the post of Registrar to the newly-formed university.

Autograph, with signature.

Records of Woolwich Polytechnic, comprising minutes of the Trustees, 1891-1895; minutes of the Governing Body, 1894-1970; minutes of Committees of the Governing Body, 1895-1970; minutes of the Education and Finance, General Purpose Committee, 1896-1941, including sub-committees, building, recreation, schools, equipment; minutes of the Polytechnic Council, 1891-1903; minutes of the Polytechnic Trustees and Friends, 1891-1895; minutes of the Young Man's Christian Institute Social and Recreative Committee, 1895-1901; minutes of the Woolwich Polytechnic Social and Recreative Committee, 1901-1903; minutes of the Technical Board of Studies, 1923-1934; minutes of the Technical and Trade Board, 1937-1945; minutes of the Board of Studies, 1932-1934; minutes of the Academic Board, 1935-1960; registers of members of the Governing Body, 1895-1961; Governors' attendance books, 1935-1989; Governing Body handbooks, 1898-1970;

Woolwich Polytechnic sundry reports, 1890-1902; Principal's reports, 1900-1903; Principal's Report on the Social Side, 1905; Principals' reports, 1905-1950; reports of the Governing Body, 1905-1970;

administrative records, comprising Secretary's files, 1907-1973, notably applications for recognition to the Board of Education, 1907-1913; letters to T A Denny concerning buildings for Woolwich Polytechnic, 1890; licences to erect buildings, 1898-1902; minutes of meetings of Secretaries of London Polytechnics, 1939-1960; minutes of Head's meetings, 1953-1963; papers relating to the refectory and Refectory Advisory Sub-committee, 1940-1961; technical education, 1956-1961; teaching staff, 1959-1964; administrative staff, 1962-1972; financial records, comprising report and financial statements, 1892-1969; block grant files, 1911-1971; City Parochial Reports, 1927-1937, on the work of London Polytechnics; papers relating to trusts and prizes, comprising declarations of trusts and trust deeds, 1901-1931, Charity Commissioners order, 1960;

annual reports, 1904-1925, 1967-1970; prospectuses, 1891-1971, including for schools associated with Woolwich Polytechnic; calendars of classes, 1895-1934; information leaflets, including calendars of dates, 1953-1971; Students' Handbook, 1904-1933; albums of press cuttings, 1894-1907, 1958-1968; photographs of student classes, 1899; photographs for prospectuses, 1901-1905; internal views of the Polytechnic, including cookery school, laundry, club rooms, engineering workshop, ladies tailoring, playing fields; albums of staff photographs, 1950s-1960s, presentations, staff cricket matches, coats of arms; photographs of Governors, 1891-1970; Chairmen of the Governing Body, 1891-1973; Principals, 1893-1970;

magazines of Woolwich Polytechnic and Day Schools, 1905-1970, comprising The Pom-Pom, 1905-1906; The Polytician; The Probationer; Secondary School magazine, 1923; The Polygon, 1933-1954; Polly, Cycling Club magazine, 1948-1952; Chanticleer, 1948-1959; Proceedings of Woolwich Polytechnic Engineering Society, 1908-1914; Broadsheet, 1965; Principal's newsletter, 1969; staff bulletins, 1934-1953; staff journal, 1970; minutes, 1952-1957, and correspondence, 1950-1957, of the Magazine Board;

student records, comprising student record cards, 1900-1910; registers of attendances, 1905-1912; students' schedules, 1932-1945; class attendance books, 1908-1912, 1932-1964; student record sheets, 1912-1932; teachers' class reports, 1912-1976; class reports, 1953-1954; course reports, 1957-1961; examination results and reports, 1948-1957; statistics relating to students and student hours, 1946-1967; School of Art student record sheets, 1914-1932; School of Arts and Crafts record sheets, 1941-1943;

minutes of Woolwich Polytechnic Union of Clubs and Societies, including Woolwich Polytechnic Association, 1891-1903, 1929-1933, 1943-1968; annual accounts, 1960-1970; correspondence, not dated; Woolwich Polytechnic Students' Union handbooks, 1960-1970;

student theses and dissertations, [1929-1970];

Woolwich Polytechnic Lodge Ladies Festival programme, 1978.

Fragment of a letter from Virginia Woolf to an unknown recipient, [1924]. 'We [?Virginia and Leonard Woolf] are here [?in London] till October ... I'm so sorry about Lady Colvin' [?a reference to the death of Frances Colvin, the wife of Sir Sidney Colvin on 1 Aug 1924].

Autograph, with signature.

Manuscript prescription book of Robert Woody, Surgeon, of Tamworth, Staffs, [1800]-1823.

Letter from John Woodrow of the Cannon Hotel, Cockspur Street to [Patrick] Colquhoun, 26 May 1818. Covering letter sending a copy of his pamphlet on savings banks and friendly societies.

Written in another hand and signed by Woodrow.

Letter from Sir Charles Wood, Chancellor of the Exchequer, of Hickleton, [near Doncaster] to an unspecified recipient, 19 Oct 1849. 'Dear Sir, It is unlucky that the D.G. [i.e. Dei Gratia (by the grace of God)] was left out [from the inscription on the new florin (2 shilling) coin] - people attach more importance to such matters now a days. Yours truly C. Wood'.

Autograph, with signature.

Letter from John Wood to Richard Oastler via the Post Office, Leeds, Yorkshire [redirected from Foxley Hall, Huddersfield], Nov 1830. 'I send you this as proof of the general disposition to meet the question. The signatures annexed include almost every Bradford Spinner ...'.

Autograph, with signature. Written on the dorse of a poster advertising a meeting of Bradford worsted spinners on 22 Nov 1830, with the aim of improving working conditions; the poster is folded in half, with the direction and postmarks on one leaf and the content of the letter on the other.

Christopher Wood met Frosca Munster in Paris in 1928. Although she was married, they began an intense relationship, meeting in Cornwall, London or Paris whenever possible. The collection contains a large number of love letters and telegrams from Wood to Frosca, and letters from Rene Crevel and Jean Cocteau. It includes telegrams of condolence to Frosca after Wood's death, memoirs of him by, among others, Winifred Nicholson, Max Jacob and Jean Cocteau, and reports about his death. The collection also contains photographs of Wood and his friends, press cuttings relating to his death and exhibitions, and locks of his and Frosca's hair.

The majority of the collection is written in French, although Wood's letters to Frosca (TGA 723/5-75) have been translated into English.

Papers of the Women's University Settlement including minutes of the Women's University Settlement Council (1887-1949); Finance and General Purposes Committee minutes (1947-1960); Annual General Meetings (1888-1963); Papers of the Nelson Square Community Club (minutes: 1947-1949, 1952); Annual Reports (1890-1960); programme of settlement activities (1953); Clubs' Boards of Management minutes (1954-1959); Community Club Committee Minutes (1961-1963); `Notes from the WUS' (1912, 1913, 1916); legal documents including papers regarding incorporation (1890-1961); records related to apprenticeships and educational activities including minutes of St Crispin's Workshop Committee minutes (1898-1909), registry and apprenticeship committee minutes (1898-1911) and Nursery School Council minutes (1929-1940); Workers Sun-committee minutes (1925-1927); records of the Acland Club including annual reports of the Work Girls Protection Society (1890-1899), the St Mary's Girls Club (1900-1929), the St Mary's and Acland Club (1930-1939); records of the St Mary's Girl's Club (1890s-1919) including minutes of constituent groups (1893-1923); records of the Quinn Square Social Centre including annual reports, minutes and papers related to the transfer of management (1934-1963); records related to the Pfeiffer Scholarship (1894-1930) and Hankinson Trust on the Octavia Hill Manchester Scholarship (1907, 1931-2, 1940-1); Papers of the Blackfriars Settlement including Annual reports (1963-1967); Minutes of the Council (1963-1965), General Purposes Sub-committee (1966-7); Federation of South London Settlements (1965-8); administration (1963-1971); Blackfriars Chronicle (1965-6); subject files (1959-1973).

Records of the Tax Resistance League, 1909-1919, comprising annual reports, leaflets and pamphlets.

The collection contains correspondence of Philippa Strachey, Millicent Garrett Fawcett, Lady Balfour and Vera Douie amongst others concerning suffrage meetings, speeches given, subscriptions paid, response to press coverage, circular letters, suffrage processions and parliamentary progress.

The archive consists of :

• administrative papers

• subject files and correspondence

• resource material used in Women's Research and Resources Centre newsletter

The archive consists of minutes of the planning, executive and annual general meetings including reports, papers and agendas (1939-1956); copies of incorporation documentation (1940) and membership documentation (1940-1944); correspondence (1943-1957); papers of the Women for Westminster group (1942-1943) and the Equal Citizenship Campaign (1944-1945); leaflets (1940-1944).

Abbreviations used in the archive include:

DEMC Dorothy Evans Memorial Committee

IAW International Alliance of Women for Suffrage and Equal Citizenship

IWM International Women's News

WFW Women for Westminster

WPPA Women's Publicity Planning Association

The archive consists of printed Constitutions (1950s; 1972); minute books (1924-1984); details of membership (1924-1984); general papers (1930s); 1 correspondence; letters; 2 bulletins; play scripts; 2 watercolours; objects; ephemera.

The archive consists of pamphlets, leaflets, an associate card, a league manifesto and a constitution.

The archive consists of Papers of Alliance for Fair Images and Representation in the Media (AFFIRM), Women's Media Action Group (WMAG) and the Women's Monitoring Network.

The collection includes policy documents including minutes, manifestos, programmes of action and press releases, correspondence of members with various individuals and groups including Lord Hill, the Home Office, etc on the images of women in the media, papers related to symposia organised by the group and the book 'Is This Your life?' administration papers and general correspondence.

The collection contains letters to the Women's Institute from its members including Miss Beale, Dr Mary Scharlieb, Emma Cons, Walter B McLaren, Florence Dixie, Henrietta Barnet, Margaret Bondfield, Helen Gladstone, Helen Blackburn, Elizabeth Haldane, Ethel Moberley Bell, Madge Kendal, Ethel Smythe, Lady Isabel Somerset, Lena Ashwell, Mrs Fawcett, Cicely Hamilton, Rosita Forbes, Miss P Strachey, Charlotte C Stopes, EM Sidgwick, Flora Anne Steel and Nina Boyle.

Collection includes: Women's Industrial Council Annual Report 1894-1912; 'Boy and Girl Labour' by N Adler and R H Tawney, Women's Industrial Council, 1909; 'Eight reasons why you should support the Council' Women's Industrial Council; Lectures 1907-1908; Report of the national conference on the unemployment of women, 1907; 'What has already been done' not dated; The Women's Industrial Council, 1909; The Women's Industrial News 1895-1919; Notice of a national conference on the unemployment of women, 1907.

The archive consists of volume of minutes of the branch, with rough notes of the points made at a Rents Campaign meeting held on the 2 Apr 1932.

The archive consists of Minutes: National Executive Committee including loose financial statements and Committee reports (1908-1961), Political and militant department (1910-1935) Finance sub-committee (1907-1909), press sub-committee (1908-1910) social committee (1908-1909) Parliamentary committee (1908), organising committee (1908-1909), fair committee (1925-1930), Vote Brigade committee (1913-1914); Annual Conference reports including some agendas, resolutions, nominations, attendance at National Executive meetings reports, standing orders, secretarial reports, organising secretary's reports, etc (1908-1940); Annual reports 1907-1929; constitutions (c1907, c1910, 1929, 1931); pamphlets; programmes of events.

Records of the Women's Forum and its predecessors including of minutes and minute books of the Executive Committee (1939-1980) and correspondence (1943-1973), meetings agendas, papers and minutes including those for annual general meetings (1963-1974), annual reports (1946-1979), administrative papers (1941-1973), file lists (1965, 1980) various newsletters and magazines (1948-74), Council of Scientific Management in the Home (COSMITH) minutes, correspondence and papers (1945-1977), publications, papers and reports by international organisations (1943-1977), papers of committees and subcommittees on education and leisure, the under-fives, hygiene, working class credit, the organisation of women's clubs, women's work in the regions, air-raid shelters, planning, welfare in the Women's services, fuel, food education, the Beveridge Report, social insurance, shortages of craft and cookery teachers, home making, clean food, public questions, the social aspects of loneliness, advertisements and the situation of homeless families (1940-1973), files on other organisations (1945-1963), papers of the Standing Conferences Advisory Committee (1942-1975) and joint conferences between the Women's Group on Public Welfare (WGPW) and Standing Conferences of Women's Organisations (SCWO) (1944-1976) as well as individual standing conferences.

The archive consists of memorandum and articles of association (1946; 1969), Council papers (1943-1988), Sub-committees papers (1949-1964), Conferences (1948-1984), London Branch papers (1957-1984), bound copies of Membership lists (1963-1983), General Papers (1939-1983), Press releases and press cuttings (1949-c.1975) and Publications (1955-1986).

The archive consists of a file containing reports (1932-1939), accounts (1937, 1939, 1946), agendas (1938), a copy of the Companies Act 1948 (1948), blank stationary and order forms.

Papers of the Women's Co-operative Guild, including: Annual reports of the Women's Co-operative Guild (incomplete), 1889-1988; Minutes of the National Executive Committee of the Women's Co-operative Guild, with minutes of Joint meetings with Sectional Secretaries and of Sectional Secretary meetings, 1969-1979; Circulars, programmes and resolutions from Annual Congresses of the Women's Co-operative Guild, along with texts of presidential addresses and other Congress-related ephemera, 1904-1989; Miscellaneous Women's Co-operative Guild papers, including circulars from Margaret Llewelyn-Davies and others, papers relating to Guild properties, Llewelyn Davies' publications on maternal welfare and the Committee of Inquiry into Domestic Service, along with material regarding A.Honora Enfield, Victoria House Printing Company Limited and the Guild's People Who Care' campaign, 1910-1988; Minute books, financial accounts, correspondence, petty cash, bank and postage books regarding the Women's Co-operative Guild's Mrs Ben Jones Convalescent Fund, 1908-1984; Typescript papers,Hints for Speakers', produced centrally by the Women's Co-operative Guild for external Guild speakers on a variety of social, political and economic topics, 1910-1955; Papers, ephemera and correspondence regarding the Women's Co-operative Guild's centenary and related celebratory events, including organisational correspondence of General Secretary, Kathleen Kempton, papers regarding the Centenary Congress at Worthing, proposed pageant and other national and local events, 1980-1983; Minute books, member's attendance and contributions and financial records compiled by 117 branches of the Women's Co-operative Guild, primarily in the London, Surrey and Kent area, along with various national branches, 1892-1988; Miscellaneous items regarding the Women's Co-operative Guild, including certificates, copper printing blocks and framed photograph, 1909-1934.

The library has many items relating to women, boxed by subject. Subjects include: poverty, family, marriage, contraception, abortion, child legislation, divorce, illegitimacy, International Women's Year, Equal Opportunities Commission, National Council of Women, Feminist Review, Women of Europe Newsletter.

The library has many items relating to women, boxed by subject. Subjects include: women in the trade unions, including the TUC Women Conference Reports and monograph publications, women's employment, sexual harassment, equal pay, wages, hours, child labour and youth employment. Some of these subjects have been listed in more detail elsewhere in the catalogue.

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.

The collection contains letters written to members of the Church League for Women's Suffrage, principally Ursula Roberts, connected with fact-finding and the organisation of a conference on the role of women in the Church and the general issue of women's ordination. Letters to Ursula Roberts in 1913 regarding reply to circular questionnaire from: Isabel Basnett (2 letters), Gertrude Francis, Ethel M Davis (2 letters), Miss Clare Portsmouth, William Temple, Edith Clarence, Dr Maude Royden, Mabel Day, Jessie C Barton, Janet B Allen, Ruth Cavendish Bentinck, Irene Batty, GM Gunter, Ethel Fennings, MEJ Taylor, Florence Canning, Mother Gertrude, Miss RL Taylor, Dorothea Layton, MB Alder, Edith de Burgh, EM Griffiths. Papers and letters to Ursula Roberts in 1914 regarding arrangements for a conference in Sep 1914, later postponed until 1917: from Ruth Cavendish Bentinck, Edith Picton Turberville, the Rector of Rampton College Cambridge, Isabel Basnett, Miss Z Fairfield, Janet B Allen (2 letters), GM Gunter, Ethel M Davis (2 letters), Miss Clare Portsmouth, Dr Maude Royden, Jessie C Barton, Janet B Allen, Ruth Cavendish Bentinck, MEJ Taylor, Florence Canning, MB Alder, E Maude Griffiths, Miss IB O'Malley, Agnes Aubrey Hilton, G Tollemache, Dr Jane Walker, Sister Ethel (2 letters), Mabel Fitzroy Hecht, Dorothea Jordan, Mrs Anne Warner Marsh. Papers and letters to Miss Corben in 1914 regarding arrangements for the same conference: Bishop of Kensington (2 letters), Board of Trade (in reply to letter from her also in the collection), Bishop of London. Letters in 1915: to Miss Corben from William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury (and reply); to Mrs Roberts from Anne Gilchrist, Rev. TB Allworthy. Letters in 1916: to Miss Corben from Bishop of Kensington, Bishop of Willesden, Dr Maude Royden; to Ursula Roberts from Anne Gilchrist (3 letters), Arthur W Robinson, JC Squire, Dr Jane Walker (2 letters), MEJ Taylor (2 letters), Maude Royden (2 letters), Miss Edith Picton Turberville; to Anne Gilchrist from Maude Royden; to Miss Corben from Maude Royden; Ursula Roberts to the Bishop of London, Lady Willoughby de Broke to Dr Maude Royden; paper by Miss MEJ Taylor. Letters in 1917: to Miss Corben from the Archbishop of Canterbury, Bishop of London and Miss GE Hodgeson; to Miss Picton Turberville from the following - Bishop of Southwark, Bishop of Wakefield, Bishop of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich, Bishop of Lichfield (2 letters), Bishop of Newcastle, Bishop of Sheffield, Bishop of Oxford, Bishop of Gloucester (2 letters), Bishop of Ripon, Bishop of Norwich, Bishop of Lincoln, Bishop of St David's, Archbishop of Canterbury, Bishop of Salisbury, Bishop of Ely, Millicent Garrett Fawcett; letters to the Church league for Women's Suffrage from Mr Athelstan Riley and the Earl of Halifax; letters to Ursula Roberts from Rev. FM Green and Edith Picton Turberville; Alfred Fawkes to the Rev Roberts, Lady Montgomery to Miss Glichrist, J Outram Marshall to Rev. CG Langdon and reply, circular letter to all bishops from the Bishop of Willesden and timetable of Quiet Day and conference conducted by Agnes Maude Royden. Letters in 1918: to Church League for Women's Suffrage from Dean Inge of St Paul's (2 letters), Rev HJ Hall, Rev V Holt, Rev. AM Bolland; to Miss Corben from Millicent Garrett Fawcett, Bishop of Lincoln, Maude Royden. Letters in 1919: to Miss Corben from Maude Royden, the Bishop of Kensington, Rev HRL Sheppard, Bishop of Lincoln, Bishop of Oxford; to Miss Picton Turbeville from Rev S Proudfoot (6 letters) and Mrs Knox; to Ursula Roberts from Maude Royden. Letters in 1920: to Miss Corben from the Bishop of Winchester, the secretary of the Bishop of Lincoln, the bishop of Ely, the archbishop of Canterbury and Edward A Welch, the Rector of Southchurch; to Miss Picton Turberville from Rev JEC Welldon, and the Rev. Gage S Green; M Dorothea Jordan to Mrs Roberts, the Bishop of Norwich to the League (2 letters) and the Archbishop of Canterbury to the Bishop of London. Letters in 1921: Secretary of King's College London to the League, Dr Maude Royden to Miss Corben, the Rev. GKA Bell to Miss Corben and Miss Abadam to Mrs Acres. Letters in 1922: Rev GKA Bell to Mrs Acres (2 letters), Lawrence Housman to the CLWS, AG Robinson Archdeacon of Surrey to Mrs Acres. Letters in 1924: Rev Edward Paget to Mrs Acres, Mary Scharlib to Mrs Acres Letters in 1926: Father Lacey to Mrs Acres (2 letters). Letters in 1927: Rev Dick Sheppard to Mrs Acres. Letters in 1928: Sybil Thorndyke to Mrs Acres, Archbishop of Canterbury to Mrs Acres Letters in 1931: John Carl Flugel to Ursula Roberts, Helen Ward to Viscount Cecil, Rev. Alfred Fawkes to Ursula Roberts. Letters in 1932: JK Mozley, Cannon Matthews and SM Payne to Ursula Roberts. Letters in 1933: Marjorie Brierly, Evelyn Underhill, Canon Grensted and Leonard Hodgson to Ursula Roberts.

The collection contains letters from women involved in the arts concerning their work, business matters, publicity, articles and general social correspondence. Correspondents include Sarah Siddons, Emily Faithfull, Fanny Kemble, Elizabeth Thompson, Isabella Dallas Glyn, Mary Davis, Fanny Stirling, Mrs Morritt, Lady Bancroft, Genevieve Ward, Lucy Kemp-Welch, Madge Kendall, Mrs Steele, Philippa Strachey, Ethel Coffin, Rutland Boughton, Marion Terry, Eva Moore, Sybil Thorndyke, Alys Russell, Lena Ashwell, Marie Tempest, Agnes Hill, Marie Lohr, Dame Ethel Smyth, Irene Vanbrugh, Ruth Draper, Ethel Warwick, Dame Laura Knight, Cicely Courtney, Lilian Braithwaite and Ninette de Valois.

The collection is arranged in chronological order and includes letters written by and to individuals concerned with work in this area, including: Dr Elizabeth Blackwell, Sir John Seeley, George Eliot, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, Cardinal Manning, Lady Strangford, Lord Shaftesbury, Mr Rickman J Godlee Dr Helen Wilson, Dr Sophia Jex-Blake, Frances Power Cobbe, Millicent Garrett Fawcett, Lord Baldwin and Margaret Lawrence (45 items, 1865-c.1972). Subjects include the training of women as doctors, the medical profession and their experiences as medical students.

The archive consists of working papers, leaflets, articles (1973-1987) and a photocopy of a periodical 'Women and Librarianship', volume 5 number 4 1984.

Records of Women in Gynaecology and Obstetrics, comprising:
Minutes (1982-1996), correspondence, policy papers, campaigning material, training programmes, conference papers (1991-1997) and published articles (1985-1997).

The archive consists of minutes of the Bournemouth branch meetings and of the Executive Committee.

Printed papers relating to The Women and Socialism Conference 1973, and the Leeds Conference on The Family 1973, from a left-wing Women's Liberation Movement perspective. Includes papers from International Feminist Collective and Gay Liberation. Collator unknown.

This small collection remains enigmatic. Somebody (c 1950) went to the trouble of typing out larger parts of Lenin's published work on Women and Communism (held in the main book sequence, though a slightly different edition). Typescript copied from 'Women and Communism' and newspaper delivery note.

Collection includes: Periodicals 1925- , annual reports 1923-1957, rules, pamphlets etc of the Women Sanitary Inspector's and Health Visitors Association (founded 1896) renamed Women Public Health Officers' Association and later renamed again Health Visitors' Association. News sheet, 1925-1946, (incomplete) Women Public Health Officers' Association journal 'The Woman Health Officer' 1928, 1936-1937; Health Visitors' Association rules; Woman Health Officer: official organ of the Health Visitors' Association; pamphlets and annual report; A History in Health 1896-1996 by Jennifer Smith, 1996. Association for Moral and Social Hygiene founded by Josephine Butler in 1870, annual reports 1922-1934 (incomplete).