| Description | Correspondence including letter from College godmother Violet Gordon, describing college life, May 1918; letter from Miss Custance 1950.
May Day memorabilia: photos, programmes, correspondence relating to 1919 May Day, and subsequent May Days, including 1979 diamond jubilee.
Printed part music, including League of Arts for National and Civic Ceremony song books.
Series of Christmas newsletters from Annie Betts and Janet, to 1920s cohort, 1972-1988.
Books - ‘the treasured books received from her College friends’
1. ‘Poems by John Milton’ with intro by Walter Raleigh, Blackie & Son (intro date 11 Jan 1905); some pages uncut; ‘To Janet With Fondest Birthday Wishes, Connie. 13 July 1919’
2. Bulley, Eleanor, ‘Victoria the Good Queen and Empress’, Wells, Gardner, Darton & Co.; 4th Ed 1901; miniature
3. ‘Poetical works of Alfred Lord Tennyson’, Eyre & Spottiswoode; ‘to dear Queen Janet with love from Bea’; covered detached; ND; miniature
4. ‘The Book of Common Prayer’, Oxford; ‘Queen janet with much love & best wishes Violet, May Day 1919’; plastic cover?
5. ‘Poems by Tennyson’, London & Glasgow; ‘To Janet with fond Christmas wishes, from Connie, 1918
6. Walsham How, W ‘Holy Communion, Preparation & Companion’, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1907; ‘to dear Queen Janet with love and best wishes from Ella’
7. Trotter, ME ‘Little Helps’, Marshall Bros Ltd, 1897? ‘Queen Janet 1919 with love and thanks’
8. King, Harriet Eleanor Hamilton ‘The Disciples’, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co, 1919, ‘To Janet with much love and best wishes from Dorm II, May day 1920’
9. Carter, Frederick ‘London at night – A sketch book by Frederick Carter’, Adam & Charles Black, London, W. 1914; ‘To Queen Janet with love and best wishes from Dormitory II, 1919’ [individual signatures];
10. Hughes, MV ‘A London Girl of the 1880s’, OUP, 1980, paperback, with separate folio inscription to Janet re May Hatch (nee Brooks), written 1981, and note re visit of MV Hughes to Whitelands as a visiting lecturer, and May visiting her in her home;
11. ‘Poems by William Morris’, Collins, 1920?; to Queen Janet from Dorm III, with signatures)
12. ‘Lyrics from Herrick’, Collins; the Annexe, May Day 1920, with signatures
13. Sickert, Bernhard ‘Whistler’, The Popular Library of Art, Duckworth & Co London, EP Dutton & Co NY, 1905?; to Queen Janet with love from [Signatures];
14. ‘The Browning Birthday Book’; ‘Janet with love from Connie Xmas 1917’; some entries completed
15. Mather, Marshall ‘John Ruskin His Life & Teaching’, Frederick Warne & Co, 1900, 7th impression; ‘Albert F Hitton’
16. ‘Gems from Mrs Browning’, Collins [1910]; from the Annexe 1919, with signatures; covered detached
17. Oxenham, John ‘Bees in Amber’, 1918; from Dorm IX May Day 1920
18. ‘1914 & other Poems by Rupert Brooke’ Sidgwick & Jackson 1919; from Dorm XII May Day 1920;
19. ‘Selected Poems Ella Wheeler Wilcox’, WP Nimmo, Hay & Mitchell; from Connie 1922; cover detached
20. ‘The Poetical Works of Robert Burns’, Collins; from ‘all the girls at the lodge’ with signatures;
21. Sims, Albert E ‘The Little Book of Cheer’, Choice Books; from Vi 1920; cover detached;
22. ‘Poems of Whittier’ WP Nimmo; Dorm VI;
23. Ruskin, John ‘The Queen of the Air’, George Allen, 1906; Janet May Queen 1919; with mss notes with quotes and verses ; pressed leaves; book in pieces
24. Telegraph Magazine 10 Oct 1992. Including article ‘Threads of History’ by Fionnuala mcChugh [about May Day dress collection] p56
25. Church Building Spring 1992 with article ‘The Splendour of Light and Line – John Thomas meets Jacquie Binns, Ecclesiastical Embroiderer’ [with detail from the Pentecost panel for Whitelands; later addition of family members]
26. The Antique Dealer & Collectors Guide May 1983 with article ‘A rediscovered symbol of romantic love’ by Charlotte Gere and Geoffrey Munn, re the Burnes Jones designed 2883 May Day Cross. P42
27. The Manual of the Guild of St Peter 1919; with inserted card of Whitelands College Guild of St Ursula
28. ‘Songs from Shakespeare’, Collins Clear Type
29. ‘Thoughts from Charlotte Bronte’, Nimmo, Hay & Mitchell, 1912 inscribed by Edith; with press flower / leaves; detached cover [?]
30. ‘The Odes of John Keats & Ballad la Belle Dame Sans Merci’, Siegle Hill & Co; inscribed and signed by each of ‘The Lodgites’ 1919
31. Kipling ‘Rewards and Fairies’ 1918, Macmillan’s Pocket Kipling; cover detached; inscribed from Dorm V;
32. ‘The Works of Ruskin – Time and Tide – The Crown of Wild Olive’ ; George Allen 1913; inscribed from Edith May Day 1919
33. Anna, Comtesse de Bremont ‘Sonnets from a Parisian Balcony’, Gay & Hancock, 1910; inscribed from Dorm XI
34. ‘Poems by Robert Louis Stevenson including Underwoods, Ballads Songs of Travel’ Chatto & Windus 1917; inscribed from Alice
35. Morris, William ‘The Defence of Guenevere, The Life and Death of Jason and other poems’ Humphrey Milford, OUP, World’s Classic; inscribed with birthday greeting from Ella, July 13th, 1920
36. ‘A Child’s Book of Saints by William Canton’, JM Dent; inscribed from Jessie May 3rd 1919
37. ‘Poems of Tennyson’ Oxford edition, 1917, inscribed from Doris, May Day 1919
38. ‘Collected Poems by Alfred Noyes Vol I’ William Blackwood, 1919; inscribed and signed by Dorm Via
39. ‘Windows in the Chapel of S Ursula, Whitelands College, Chelsea’ taken by Mrs Ross [b/w postcards; not bound in covers]
40. Kipling ‘The Seven Seas’ Methuen & Co, 1919; inscribed by Dorothy, Emma, Ida, Doris
41. ‘Stories of the Italian Artists from Vasari’ arranged and translated by EL Seeley, Chatto & Windus; inscribed from Majorie]
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