Guide to the Roberts, Ursula, Incoming correspondence, ca. 1910-1960

Folder 1

Alexander, Prof. Samuel 1935, n.d.

Physical Description: (2 letters)

Folder 1

Allen, Mrs. Roland n.d.

Physical Description: (1 letter)

Scope and Content Note

Annotated by Roberts.

Folder 1

Anson, Peter F. 1967

Physical Description: (1)

Folder 1

Ashley, Corbette (1)

Physical Description: 1935

Folder 1

Asquith, Anthony 1958

Physical Description: (1)

Folder 1

Attlee, M.A.S. 1935

Physical Description: (1)

Folder 1

Barlow, Lady Anna 1938, n.d.

Physical Description: (2)

Folder 1

Baxter, K. 1961.

Physical Description: (1)

Scope and Content Note

Annotated by Roberts.

Folder 1

Beaumont, Geoffrey 1947

Physical Description: (1)

Folder 1

Blackburn, Thomas poem "In the Fire." 1954, n.d.,

Physical Description: (2)

Folder 1

Blomfield, Frances Cuttwell 1956

Physical Description: (1)

Scope and Content Note

Annotated by Roberts.

Folder 2

Bodkin, Maud 1941, n.d.

Physical Description: (3)

Folder 3

Booth, Alan R. 1962

Physical Description: (1)

Folder 3

Boulton, Rev. Walter n.d.

Physical Description: (2)

Folder 3

Brailsford, H.N., ed. The New Leader1924, 1936

Physical Description: (2)

Folder 3

Brasch, Charles, Landfall New Zealand Quarterly 1958-1959

Physical Description: (2)

Folder 3

Browne, Nancy 1938, n.d.

Physical Description: (4)

Scope and Content Note

Re: Dick Sheppard

Folder 3

Burnet, I. Compton (?)

Scope and Content Note

(1 copy of letter from Roberts to I.C.B.)

Folder 3

Byrde, N.B.

Physical Description: (1 letter)

Scope and Content Note

addressed to Mr. Roberts, n.d.

Folder 3

Castemar, William 1943

Physical Description: (1)

Folder 3

Cecil (?) 1935

Physical Description: (1)

Folder 3

Cestr, Gerald, Bishop of Chester 1967

Physical Description: (2)

Folder 4

Chamberlain, Rev. Elsie 1960

Physical Description: (1)

Folder 4

Chapman, R.W., The Clarendon Prefs 1922

Physical Description: (1)

Folder 4

Chase, Lewis, Peking University 1922.

Physical Description: (1)

Scope and Content Note

Re: His article on her work, teaching English, R. Ellis Roberts, the Chinese Renaissance.

Folder 4

Christopher (Wansey?) 1962

Physical Description: (1)

Folder 4

Cockin, Arthur Smith (?) Bishop of Bristol, Dublin University (1) n.d.

Scope and Content Note

Annotated by Roberts.

Folder 4

Collins, Canon L. John 1962, 1966.

Physical Description: (2)

Scope and Content Note

Re: Disarmament, Dick Sheppard

Folder 5

Collins, Vere H. 1950.

Physical Description: (2)

Scope and Content Note

Poem by V.H.C.?

Folder 6

Courtney, Miss K.D. 1935.

Physical Description: (2)

Scope and Content Note

Re: Peace, Suffrage Movement, politics, the L.N.V.

Folder 6

Cowley, P. (Reverend Patrick Cowley?) 1935

Physical Description: (1)

Folder 6

Cram, J.M.C. 1953.

Physical Description: (1)

Scope and Content Note

Annotated by Roberts.

Folder 6

Dalton, Hugh 1937.

Physical Description: (1)

Scope and Content Note

Annotated by Roberts.

Folder 6

Day, Mabel 1918, 1937.

Physical Description: (2)

Scope and Content Note

Annotated by Roberts.

Folder 6

de Burgh, W.F. 1935

Physical Description: (1)

Folder 6

de? (de la Mare?), W.F. 1929

Physical Description: (1)

Folder 6

de la Mare, Walter 1922

Physical Description: (1)

Folder 6

Dearmer, Percy 1913-1914.

Physical Description: (2)

Scope and Content Note

Annotated by Roberts.

Folder 6

Dickinson, Patric n.d.

Physical Description: (1)

Scope and Content Note

Forwarded, with unsigned note by Roberts?

Folder 6

Dougall (?), L. 1916.

Physical Description: (1)

Scope and Content Note

Annotated by Roberts.

Folder 6

Driberg, Tom, M.P. 1962

Physical Description: (1)

Folder 7

Earl, Ethel n.d.

Physical Description: (1)

Folder 7

Earnsworth, Mary C. SMV 1956

Physical Description: (1)

Folder 7

Ebor, William 1939-1940,

Physical Description: (3)

Scope and Content Note

one addressed to "Mr. Bird." Annotated by Roberts.

Folder 7

Edyell, Prof. Beatrice 1923.

Physical Description: (1)

Scope and Content Note

Annotated by Roberts.

Folder 8

Ethel (?) 1922-1929, n.d.

Physical Description: (4)

Folder 9

Fanks (?), Alfred (?) n.d.

Physical Description: (1)

Scope and Content Note

Annotated by Roberts.

Folder 9

Fawcett, Philippa 1936, n.d.

Physical Description: (2)

Scope and Content Note

Re: Refugees, L.N.V., G. Lansbury's funeral.

Folder 10

Fay, Judith 1934, n.d.

Physical Description: (6)

Scope and Content Note

Annotated by Roberts.

Folder 11

Fer (?), Elisavita (?) 1961

Physical Description: (1)

Folder 11

Fraser, (?) 1926.

Physical Description: (1)

Scope and Content Note

Annotated by Roberts.

Folder 11

Fraser, Vera n.d.

Physical Description: (1)

Scope and Content Note

Annotated by Roberts.

Folder 11

Fry, Ruth 1935-1936

Physical Description: (2)

Folder 11

Gardner, Brian 1965

Physical Description: (1)

Folder 11

Godber, Joseph, M.P. 1961

Physical Description: (1)

Folder 11

Goodyear, R.E. 1935.

Physical Description: (1)

Folder 11

Gould, Barbara Ayrton 1935

Physical Description: (1)

Folder 11

Gray, Reverend A. Herbert n.d.

Physical Description: (1)

Folder 11

Grensted, L.W. 1935

Physical Description: (1)

Folder 11

Hamilton King, H.E. 1918.

Physical Description: (1)

Scope and Content Note

Author of "The Disciples." Annotated by Roberts.

Folder 11

Harton, Sybil n.d.

Physical Description: (1)

Folder 11

Hebert, A. Gabriel n.d.

Physical Description: (1)

Folder 12

Heppenstall, Rayner 1937-1957.

Physical Description: (4)

Scope and Content Note

Re: "Blind Men Crossing a Bridge" in Adelphi, Heppenstall's poems, Eric Gill, Max Plowman, P.P.U., Basque children, Murry, organized pacifism, B.B.C., nuclear bombs, smoking, English hypocrisy.

Folder 13

Hesketh, Phoebe 1961-1972.

Physical Description: (8)

Scope and Content Note

Re: Susan Miles' poetry and "near-blindness," Day Lewis, Herbert Palmer's death, H.P. Villon.

Folder 14

Heywood (?), Rosalin 1969

Physical Description: (1)

Folder 14

Holbrook, David 1965-1966

Physical Description: (3)

Folder 15

Housman, Lawrence 1922-1923

Physical Description: (2)

Folder 15

Hugel, F. V. 1919,

Physical Description: (1)

Scope and Content Note

addressed to "Dear Reverend Sir"

Folder 15

Hughes, Molly 1942

Physical Description: (2)

Folder 15

Hyett, V.A. 1934, n.d.

Physical Description: (2)

Folder 16

Isaacs, Susan 1935

Physical Description: (1)

Folder 16

Joad, C.E.M. 1935

Physical Description: (2)

Scope and Content Note

(in secretary's hand and signature) and 1938. Re: "Pax," Susan Stebbing. Annotated by Roberts.

Folder 16

Kershaw, John 1955.

Physical Description: (2)

Scope and Content Note

Including Re: Anna Wickham.

Folder 16

Laski, Margharita 1971

Physical Description: (1)

Folder 16

Lea, F.A. 1957

Physical Description: (1)

Folder 16

Levett, Elizabeth, King's College n.d.

Physical Description: (2)

Folder 16

Levett, ? (possibly Elizabeth) 1929.

Physical Description: (1)

Scope and Content Note

Annotated by Roberts.

Folder 17

Lewis, Naomi 1956, 1972

Physical Description: (4)

Folder 17

Liverpool, Clifford 1964

Physical Description: (1)

Folder 18

Lubock, Yvonne 1961-1966

Physical Description: (7)

Folder 19

Margaret (?) 1958

Physical Description: (1)

Folder 19

Markreiter, C.G., letter to 1959,

Physical Description: (1)

Scope and Content Note

poem by (1) (translation of "Dies Irae").

Folder 19

Kingsley, Martin, letter to 1968

Physical Description: 1)

Folder 19

Matthews, Rev. Charles H.S. 1934

Physical Description: (1)

Folder 19

Maurice Brown Ltd. 1931.

Physical Description: (1)

Scope and Content Note

Re: "Miss Tabernacle"

Folder 19

Maychurch (?) 1918

Physical Description: (1)

Folder 19

McBride, Mary F. n.d.

Physical Description: (1)

Folder 19

Meigher (?), Moira (?) 1924

Physical Description: (1)

Folder 19

Micklem, Nathaniel 1957-1958

Physical Description: (2)

Folder 19

Moore, Sturge, daughter of 1954.

Physical Description: (1)

Scope and Content Note

Letter requesting reminiscences of her father for a book. Annotated by Roberts.

Folder 19

Morris, Stuart 1937.

Physical Description: (1)

Scope and Content Note

P.P.U.

Folder 19

Morrison, Sybil 1962.

Physical Description: (1)

Scope and Content Note

P.P.U.

Folder 19

Muir, Willa 1968

Physical Description: (1)

Folder 20

O'Malley, Ida 1918-1937.

Physical Description: (6)

Scope and Content Note

Re: "The Common Cause" Suffrage Movement, Dr. Royden, Church League, sanctions, "The late War and Mussolini," Malta military, non-resistance, Ethiopia, O'Malley's "Florence Nightengale," the P.P.U.

Folder 21

Oakley, Hilda D. 1936. Annotated by Roberts.

Physical Description: (1)

Folder 21

Oberholzen, Enid 1969-1970

Physical Description: (2)

Folder 21

Orld (?), Herman 1943-1948

Physical Description: (3)

Folder 22

Palmer, Bernard, ed. Church Times, copy of letter (1) to the editor by Roberts, (1) letter 1970-1971.

Scope and Content Note

Annotated by Roberts.

Folder 22

Pankhurst, Sylvia New Times and Ethiopia News,1938.

Physical Description: (1)

Scope and Content Note

re: sanctions and war, Italy, dictators, appeasement, imperialists, pacifism. Annotated by Roberts.

Folder 23

Philpotts, Adelaide 1926-1937.

Physical Description: (4)

Scope and Content Note

Annotated by Roberts.

Folder 24

Plowman, Dorothy n.d.

Physical Description: (10)

Scope and Content Note

Re: Max Plowman, poetry, J.M.M., refugees, religion, Peace News, P.P.U., death of Max Plowman, Basque children.

Folder 25

Plowman, Max 1937-1938.

Physical Description: (6)

Scope and Content Note

Re: P.P.U., Dick Sheppard.

Folder 26

Ponsonby, ? 1935.

Physical Description: (1)

Scope and Content Note

Re: "PAX"

Folder 26

Porter, Alan 1922

Physical Description: (1)

Folder 26

Pritchard, V. 1968

Physical Description: (1)

Folder 27

Raven, Charles E. n.d.

Physical Description: (3)

Folder 28

Reeves, James 1959

Physical Description: (1)

Folder 28

Reid, H.M.

Scope and Content Note

Annotated by Roberts.

Folder 28

Reuss, Rose 1940.

Physical Description: (1)

Scope and Content Note

Wife of Austrian sculptor, refugee. Annotated by Roberts.

Folder 29

Reynolds, Reginald n.d.

Physical Description: (1)

Folder 29

Ridley, Simon 1966.

Physical Description: (1)

Scope and Content Note

Annotated by Roberts.

Folder 29

Rien, E.V., Penguin Classics 1954.

Physical Description: (2)

Scope and Content Note

Re: Susan Stebbing, the Gospel story.

Folder 30

Rogers, Canon T. Guy 1949-1967, n.d.

Physical Description: (11)

Folder 31

Rose, Walter 1938

Physical Description: (1)

Folder 32

Royden, A. Maude 1918-1953.

Physical Description: (9)

Scope and Content Note

Re: Religion, women's ordination, Roberts' work.

Folder 33

Sangster, Paul 1963-1965.

Physical Description: (3)

Scope and Content Note

Annotated by Roberts.

Folder 33

Sangster, William E. 1959-1960

Physical Description: (2)

Folder 34

Savage, Derek 1968

Physical Description: (3)

Folder 35

Scott, Dr. Gordon, "A Country Doctor" 1961-1965.

Physical Description: (5)

Scope and Content Note

Re: Facing Retirement.

Folder 36

Scripture, E.W. 1927.

Physical Description: (1)

Scope and Content Note

Annotated by Roberts.

Folder 36

Seaman, Sir Owen 1923

Physical Description: (2)

Folder 36

Selassie, Haile (secretary of, Dr. Bayen) 1936.

Physical Description: (1)

Scope and Content Note

Re: "his every effort for justice."

Folder 37

Shepherd, Arthur P., Archdeacon of Dudley 1941-1965

Physical Description: (7)

Folder 38

Sheppard, Dick 1937.

Physical Description: (7)

Scope and Content Note

Includes newspaper clipping.

Folder 38

Sheppard, Edgar 1937.

Physical Description: (1)

Scope and Content Note

Re: Dick Sheppard, biographical details.

Folder 39

Smith (?) 1918?-1923

Physical Description: (2)

Folder 39

Soskice, Julia n.d.

Physical Description: (1)

Folder 40

Stebbing, Susan 1922-1938

Physical Description: (4)

Scope and Content Note

Re: poetry, fascist Chamberlain, Benes, Hitler, France, Mein Kampf, Marx, Trotsky, Lenin. Annotated by Roberts, including the note: "I had masses of letters from [Susan Stebbing], but I have destroyed them. She would have hated them to have been read or her biography to have been written."

Folder 41

St. Albans, Philip (?) 1947

Physical Description: (1)

Folder 41

Swann, Donald "A fellow A.P.F. member," 1963.

Physical Description: (1)

Scope and Content Note

re: setting Roberts' verse to music, Michael Flanders.

Folder 41

Tasker, Robert I. 1936.

Physical Description: (1)

Scope and Content Note

Re: editorial on Germany.

Folder 41

Thomas, Alice Lloyd 1934.

Physical Description: (1)

Scope and Content Note

Annotated by Roberts.

Folder 41

Tibble, Anne 1935

Physical Description: (1)

Folder 41

Waddell, Helen

Folder 41

Weatherhead, Rev. Dr. Leslie D. 1968

Physical Description: (1)

Folder 42

Wells, Carlton F. 1965-1966

Physical Description: (3)

Folder 42

Whitehead, A.N. 1924.

Physical Description: (1)

Scope and Content Note

Re: Susan Stebbing. Annotated by Roberts.

Folder 43

Wickham, Anna One to "Young Andrew." n.d.

Physical Description: (2)

Scope and Content Note

Includes poems by Wickham. Annotated by Roberts.

Folder 44

Wikins, Paula Writer 1934-1940

Physical Description: (9)

Scope and Content Note

Wife of Indian communist writer

Folder 45

Williams, Edith M. 1964

Physical Description: (1)

Folder 45

Wisdom, John 1970

Physical Description: (1)

Folder 45

Woodhouse, Charles 1961.

Physical Description: (1)

Scope and Content Note

Addressed to "Mr. Palmer."

Folder 45

Wragg, Arthur n.d.

Physical Description: (2)

Scope and Content Note

Re: Dick Sheppard's book, illustration, P.P.U.

Folder 45

Young, Wayland 1962

Physical Description: (1)

Folder 46

unidentified/signature illegible

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