| Repository | University of Roehampton: Archives and Special Collections |
| Level | Sub-Fonds |
| Ref No | RC/2 |
| Creator Name | Richmal Crompton; Richmal Ashbee (niece of Richmal Crompton); and Richmal Ashbee's heirs |
| Title | [Richmal Crompton] Documents relating to Richmal Crompton's personal life and her work as a teacher |
| Date | 1821-2016 |
| Extent | 5 boxes, 42 volumes, 37 files, 12 items, 23 artefacts, 20 digital images, and c25 linear metres of publications |
| Description | Contains the following:
- Correspondence and documents relating to Richmal Crompton's friends and family (RC/2/1)
- Documents relating to Richmal Crompton's time as a pupil and student, and to her work as a teacher (RC/2/2)
- Financial documents belonging to Richmal Crompton (RC/2/3)
- Documents [created and collected by Richmal Crompton] relating to religion and spirituality (RC/2/4)
- Travel diaries [written by Richmal Crompton] (RC/2/5)
- Notes and memoranda [written by Richmal Crompton] (RC/2/6)
- Books and publications collected by Richmal Crompton (RC/2/7)
- Artefacts [belonging to Richmal Crompton] (RC/2/8)
- Correspondence and documents relating to Richmal Crompton's death (RC/2/9)
- Notebooks [belonging to Richmal Crompton] (RC/2/10)
- Address books [belonging to Richmal Crompton] (RC/2/11)
- Appointments diaries; a diary listing birthdays; and a handwritten telephone directory [all belonging to Richmal Crompton] (RC/2/12)
- A notebook [belonging to Richmal Crompton] used to list and plan work to be carried out in the garden (RC/2/13)
- Postcards, greetings cards and photographs received and collected by Richmal Crompton (RC/2/14)
- Postcards sent to Richmal Crompton; and photographs of schoolgirls [perhaps students taught by Richmal Crompton?] (RC/2/15)
- Items collected [by Richmal Crompton] including newsletters, leaflets, press cuttings, programmes, pictures and a published musical score (RC/2/16)
- A Plan of Chislehurst showing the location of [Richmal Crompton's] home (RC/2/17)
- Cooking recipes [collected by Richmal Crompton] (RC/2/18)
- A pack of visiting cards for [Richmal Crompton] (RC/2/19) |
| Language | English unless otherwise stated. |
| Related Material | Poems collected by Richmal Crompton can be found in RC/1/1/1/1/2, RC/1/1/1/1/4, RC/2/6/3, RC/2/6/4, RC/2/16 and RC/4/3.
Richmal Crompton often used small slips of paper to jot down notes, memoranda, and ideas for stories and plays. Some of these slips of paper were found loose and so have been grouped together in the catalogue (primarily in RC/1/1/1/1, RC/1/1/2/1 and RC/2/6). However, many of the slips of paper were found in files throughout the collection, and have been kept in the files in which they were found.
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