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Winifred Holtby collection

Box 1:

Correspondence:
F.1 W.H. to George Catlin 1924 to 1925, 10 letters
F.2 W.H. to George Catlin 1926 to 1929, 11 letters
F.3 W.H. to George Catlin 1933 to 1935, 15 letters
F.4 George Catlin to Winifred Holtby 1924 to 1925, 14 letters
F.5 George Catlin to Winifred Holtby 1926 to 1927, 13 letters
F.6 George Catlin to Winifred Holtby 1928 to 1931, 16 letters
F.7 George Catlin to Winifred Holtby 1932 to 1934, 17 letters
F.8 George Catlin to Winifred Holtby [undated] 29 letters
F.9 Phyllis Bentley to Winifred Holtby undated, 1932 to 1933, 12 letters
F.10 Other correspondence to Winifred Holtby:
Lillian Baker, September 12, 1935
Agnes Body [n.d.], October 15, 1933
Wm. Collins Sons & Co. Ltd., September 11, 1936 (reply Alice Holtby)
Rev. G.H. Crossland, October 16, 1936
E.P. Dutton & Co., February 10, 1936
J.L. Hodson to Alice Holtby, September 30, 1935 (reply V.B. October 3, 1935)
Frank Horrabin, September 27, 1935
E.O. Lorimer, August 31, 1935 (V.B. to E.O. Lorimer October 7, 1935)
Macmillan Co. (George Brett), September 6, 1935, September 10, 1935, September 16, 1935 (2 letters)
Emmeline Pethick-Laurence, September 25, 1935
Isabel Ross, September 27, 1935
J.E. Whitehead., September 29, 1935 (reply V.B. September 30,1935
Evelyn Thompson May 20 [n.d.]
Unidentified correspondents

F.10a Other correspondence to Winnifred Holtby:
George P. Brett, 10 June
Hattie (?) Brooks, 8 September 1935
Curtis Brown Ltd., 27 July 1933
Jonathan Cape, 29 November 1929
W. Collins Sons & Col. Ltd., 14 Sept. 1933
Elizabeth Delafield, 1933 and 1935
Ger. G. Hopkinson, The Heaton Review, 22 Dec. 1931
Margaret C. Lemierrre, December 4 1933
Letters addressed to WH's mother, 30 September 1935
Two letters to Miss Moore re WH's illness, 1935

Memorials:

F.11 Document on Winifred Holtby Memorial Fund
F.12 Winifred Holtby Memorial Service, September 29,1954: clippings, programmes, notes, photographs
F.13 W.H. Memorial, September 29,1960: clippings, notes
F.14 W.H. Anniversary, September 29,1965: clippings, notes

Box 2:

Other information on Winifred Holtby:
F.1 Winifred Holtby Estate: financial statements to Vera Brittain, literary executor
F.2 Winifred Holtby Estate: publishing agreements entered into by Vera Brittain as executor
F.3 Photographs of Winifred Holtby
F.3a Photographs: 2 of Winifred; 2 of her grave
F.4 Clippings of published work by Winifred Holtby
F.5 Reviews of her work (clippings)
F.6 Articles about Winifred Holtby
F.7 Description of Winifred Holtby Memorial Collection at Fisk University

Lecture Outlines and Notes:

F.8 Armistice Day
F.9 Arthur Ponsonby on the Pacifist Opportunity
F.10 The Balkan League
F.11 Blake
F.12 Border States
F.13 The British Empire or the League of Nations
F.14 The Causes of the War and the Treaty of Versailles
F.15 Central Europe
F.16 Central Europe Today
F.17 China
F.18 The Choice Before Us
F.19 The Citizen and Education
F.20 The Citizen and Justice
F.21 The Citizen and Local Government
F.22 The Citizen and Social Life
F.23 The Citizen in Parliament
F.24 Colour Bar and Women's Careers
F.25 The Congresses
F.26 The Congress of Vienna
F.27 Conservative Peacetime 1792-1852
F.28 Democracy Reconsidered 1919-1929

Box 3:

F.1 Eastern Question
F.2 Educational Work of the League of Nations
F.3 The Empire and the League
F.4 English Citizenship (Lectures)
F.5 English History since 1066
F.6 English Women Novelists
F.6A An essay on the removal from No.2 Downe St.
F.7 Europe from Napoleon to Mussolini
F.8 Europe since 1789--from Napoleon to Mussolini
F.9 The Experimental Novel
F.10 The Forerunners and Prophet of International Law
F.11 Fourteenth Century England
F.12 The Fourth Assembly
F.13 Franco-German Relations
F.14 French Revolution as a World Force
F.15 The Geneva Protocol
F.16 Gothic Architecture
F.17 Grotius 1583-1645
F.18 History and the League
F.19 History of the Law of Nations
F.20 The House of Lords
F.21 The Hundred Days
F.22 Hungary
F.23 The Ideal of a Holy Alliance
F.24 The Ideal of a League of Nations
F.25 The Ideal of International Law
F.26 Ideal Scheme for Teaching History
F.27 Ideals of World Unity
F.28 Imperial Rivalries
F.29 Innocent III and the Mediaeval World
F.30 International Experiment 1800-1929
F.31 International Federation of University Women
F.32 International Law
F.33 International Legal Theory of Middle Ages
F.34 International Politics
F.35 International Relations
F.36 The Layman and the Pulpit
F.37 League of Nations and International Law
F.38 Louis IX
F.39 Lunacy Reform
F.40 Macchiavelli
F.41 The Mandate System
F.42 Mandates
F.43 Meals on the Train
F.44 The Mediaeval Ideal
F.45 Minorities
F.46 Modern Political Movements

Box 4:

F.1 Nationality Triumphant
F.2 Nominalism/Realism
F.3 Notes on Namier's classes--French Revolution
F.4 Organization and Origins of International Labour
F.5 Outlines of English Constitutional History
F.6 Phases of the Eastern Question
F.7 Pioneers of the British Empire
F.8 Pioneers of the New Empire
F.9 The Reduction of Armaments
F.10 Russia
F.11 The Russian Revolution...
F.12 The Search for Identity
F.13 Short History of Women
F.14 Six Italian Reformers
F.15 The Six Point Group
F.16 Tom Johnson on Socialism and the British Empire
F.17 South Africa (Lectures on)
F.18 The Story of our Government
F.19 Syria and Palestine
F.20 Testament Politique
F.21 The Treaty of Versailles and Reparations
F.22 Treitschke
F.23 Treaties of the Nineteenth Century
F.24 Twenty-five Years 1892-1916
F.25 Why did England Lose the 13 Colonies
F.26 William Penn 1644-1718
F.27 Writers of South Africa
F.28 Miscellaneous lecture notes, some unidentified

Speeches :

F.29 Reigate School, November 22, 1933
F.30 Grammar School, Barton-on-Humber, July 27, 1934
F.31 Bridlington School, July 30, 1934

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