| Description | 2 boxes containing envelopes which are alphabetically arranged by corespondent. The collection includes, for example:
MSH/M4 A letter to Sir James Headlam-Morley from John Bailey, Political Intelligence Department, Foreign Office, stating: 'My friend Miss Norton, the daughter of old Charles Eliot Norton[,] the friend of Carlysle and Fitzgerald, is more than waspish in every word she says about him [Woodrow Wilson] and cannot bear the way which we, as she says, 'beslabber him with flattery', 25 April 1919.
MSH/M36 A letter from H Lucy Friend, Maida Vale, a former Foreign Office employee, asking for assistance as she had resigned from her position, had been ill and stating that her 'funds [were] getting low, so must bestir myself to get some occupation and really don't know how to set about it - Govt. things are so precarious and ill paid, unless perhaps the Air Force which seems more likely to continue.' Asks for help 'to get lessons if nothing better is to be had', 14 February 1919.
A letter from H Lucy Friend to S A Guest, 'in Eng[land] no one seems to want people with experience, only young girls who know how to "frivol"', 25 April 1919.
MSH/M60 A letter to Miss Mulliner, Sherbourne School for Girls, regarding the new Education Bill, 21 February 1919.
MSH/M47 A letter to Lady Headlam-Morley, thanking her for a photograph of children, 8 February 1916.
2 uncatalogued letters from Professor Agnes Headlam-Morley (daughter of Sir James and the first woman professor at Oxford) to Peggy Donaldson, Portrush, County Antrim, mentioning the Versailles Treaty and her father's work, 27 November 1977 and 18 November 1977.
MSH/M114 A letter to Elaine Trotter, Darlington High School, regarding social history and the importance of teaching social history in secondary schools, 5 December 1919.
MSH/M131 A letter from Rose Gertrude Headlam, relating family news, 18 July no date. |
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