Letters of John Newton and Elizabeth Catlett to Dr Thomas and Sophia Ring
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44 letters by John Newton (1725-1807) to Dr Thomas Ring (1761-1840) and Sophia Ring, née Tompson (1768-1848), dated 1793-1802 (ff. 1-79). The letters begin after a visit to Reading and concern Newton’s close friendship with the Rings. Subjects include the spiritual concerns of evangelicals in Re...
20th-century letters inserted into the volume of letters of John Newton and Elizabeth Catlett
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Loose materials inserted into the volume of letters: f. 106: Newspaper cutting of Lamb's letter to the Times, 7 May 1930. ff. 107-108: Letter from Frederick Bull to [Charles E.] Lamb, 26 July 1930. ff. 109-110: Letter from R. B. Mackinnon to Lamb relating to records of marriages at Gretna Gre...
Personal papers of nurse Helen Muriel Jerram, including her memoirs, letters to family members, and some photographs. Helen Muriel Jerram was born on 29 May 1887 in Godalming, Surrey, and died in 1975 in Exeter, Devon. Known as Muriel, she worked as an assistant nurse and housekeeper in Delhi a...
Typed and handwritten memoirs written by Helen Muriel Jerram and originally kept within a ringbound volume. The typed memoir ends on page 139 and transitions into handwriting part way through a sentence, but continues until page 202. The memoirs have been separated by dividers with the followin...
Correspondence of Helen Jerram with family members. This folder contains: a letter to her father from Muriel, dated 6 Jan 1915?, describing staying in Plymouth with an old school mistress and Muriel’s memories of Calcutta a letter to her father from Muriel, dated 20 Nov 1917?, from the hospital...
Letters of reference and praise regarding Helen Jerram’s work as a nurse and housekeeper. This folder contains the following: a reference from Wynefrede Bury of St Stephen's Hospital, Delhi a reference, dated 12 Sep 1916, from Matron L Faden of the British Hospital of Port Said a reference, da...
Travel documents used by Helen Jerram. This file encloses: a passport for Muriel Jerram, issued by the Viceroy of India on 9 Dec 1915, containing a photograph of Muriel, aged 28, and stamps recording her travels from India and around Europea Spanish travel permit from 1937an Allied Forces travel...
Photographs depicting Helen Jerram and her workplaces. This folder contains: three photographs depicting the interior of Port Said Hospital one photograph depicting the exterior of Port Said Hospital one photograph depicting Helen Jerram with seven other nurses in uniform, annotated as VADs i...
Archive of novelist, playwright and literary critic Nigel Dennis (b. 1912, d. 1989) covering his literary and creative life from the 1930s to 1981, including manuscript and typescript drafts of his published and unpublished works, his notebooks, correspondence and other printed material regardin...
Material relating to Nigel Dennis's fictional and non-fictional works, including novels and short stories, plays and playlets, poetry, book reviews, essays and other edited works.
