| Description | Handwritten memoir inscribed 'These Reminiscences of Whitelands are presented to Miss A E Evers [Whitelands 1878] in grateful acknowledgement of her kind help in assisting the writer to an Annuity of the "Church Teachers' Benevolent Institution". By Elizabeth Clark’.
Her reminiscences include a description of college, and reference personalities including Rev Baber, Miss Gillott, Mrs Field, Mrs Harries, Miss Cuckoo, Mr Knighton, Miss Stretton, Miss Fryfield, Mr Hullah, Mr May, and Lady Finch. She also discusses the first Queen's Scholars coming to College, Lizzie Barber and her ‘very distressing case of smallpox’, visiting the Great Exhibition, and the lying in state of the Duke of Wellington at Chelsea Hospital. Fellow students referenced include Rebecca Batterham, Isabella Joslyn, Charlotte Hammett and MA Clarke. Three letters - from Mrs Harries to all students, the students to Mr Knighton on his leaving Whitelands, and his reply - are transcribed into the book.
Additionally, enclosed within the book are:
A letter from Eliz. Harries [Mrs Harries] addressed to ‘My dear young friend’ 21 March 1853, also mentioning C Hammett.
A sampler of stitches.
A letter to 'Miss Davis' from Annie E Evers dated 19 March 1922, explaining her association with Elizabeth Clarke and giving her history as she knew it. This letter discusses other subjects saying ‘I don’t know anything about the Edith Allenby book but perhaps I may be able to hear of it through an old pupil who went to Whitelands somewhere in the nineties’, and mentioning her own half-sister Susan Staines / Starnes who attended in about 1866, and Mrs Leverton nee Phillimore, who attended in 1864-5.
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