Guide to the Marie Carmichael Stopes Birth Control Collection
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Guide to the Marie Carmichael Stopes Birth Control Collection, ca. 1871-1967
Collection number: Mss 122
Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library, University of California, Santa Barbara
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- University of California, Santa Barbara
- Santa Barbara, CA 93106
- Phone: (805) 893-3062
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Descriptive Summary
Title: Marie Carmichael Stopes Birth Control Collection,
Date (inclusive): ca. 1871-1967
Date (bulk): (bulk 1920-1958)
Collection Number: Mss 122
Extent:
9.0 linear feet
(22 document boxes and 1 oversized box)
Repository:
University of California, Santa Barbara. Library. Department of Special Collections
Santa Barbara, California 93106-9010
Physical Location: Del Sur (Boxes 1-22) and Del Sur Oversize (Box 23)
Language:
English.
Administrative Information
Access Restrictions
None.
Publication Rights
Copyright has not been assigned to the Department of Special Collections, UCSB. All requests for permission to publish or
quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections. Permission for publication is given
on behalf of the Department of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply
permission of the copyright holder, which also must be obtained.
Preferred Citation
Marie Carmichael Stopes Birth Control Collection. Mss 122. Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library, University
of California, Santa Barbara.
Acquisition Information
The bulk of the collection was purchased in 1967 from London bookseller, Peter Eaton, with subsequent smaller purchases from
multiple sources, through ca. 1980s.
Biography
Marie Stopes, the daughter of Henry Stopes and Charlotte Carmichael, was born in Edinburgh in 1880. Charlotte, the daughter
of the artist, J. F. Carmichael, was the first woman in Scotland to obtain a university certificate. At the university Charlotte
was not allowed to attend lectures and although she took the same examinations as the male students, because she was a woman
she was awarded a certificate rather than a degree. Charlotte's university experiences turned her into a passionate feminist
and she made sure her daughter was fully aware of the arguments for women's suffrage.
Henry Stopes was a distinguished scientist and Marie Stopes shared her father's interest in this subject. At the age of eighteen,
she won a science scholarship at University College, London. Stopes was a talented and committed student and in 1901 achieved
a double first, a first-class honors degree, in the subjects of botany and geology. She continued her studies in Munich and
in 1905 when she obtained her Doctorate, she became Britain's youngest Doctor of Science.
Although very involved in her academic work, Marie Stopes was also interested in politics. Like her mother she supported the
women's suffrage campaign and eventually joined the Women's Freedom League. However, she was never arrested or sent to prison
for her beliefs.
Stopes married Reginald Gates in 1911. Unlike Stopes, Gates held traditional views of how women should behave. He strongly
opposed her membership in the Women's Freedom League. After several years of conflict Stopes obtained a divorce in 1916.
During the First World War Stopes began writing a book about feminism and marriage. In her book
Married Love, she argued that marriage should be an equal relationship between husband and wife. However, she had great difficulty finding
a publisher. Walter Blackie of Blackie & Son rejected her manuscript with the words: "The theme does not please me." Blackie
objected to passages such as, " far too often, marriage puts an end to women's intellectual life. Marriage can never reach
its full stature until women possess as much intellectual freedom and freedom of opportunity within it as do their partners."
It was not until, March 1918, that Marie Stopes found a small company that was willing to take the risk of publishing
Married Love. The book was an immediate success, selling 2,000 copies within a few weeks and by the end of the year had been reprinted
six times.
Married Love was also published in America but the courts declared the book obscene and it was promptly banned.
Stopes' next book was about birth control. She had become interested in this subject after meeting Margaret Sanger, a birth
control advocate from America. Sanger had fled to Britain in 1915 after she had been charged for publishing in her newspaper
an "obscene and lewd article" that offered advice on birth control. In London she met Marie Stopes. After hearing Margaret
Sanger's story Stopes decided to start a birth-control campaign in Britain, although realizing it would be dangerous as several
people in Britain already had been sent to prison for such advocacy.
In 1918 Stopes wrote a concise guide to contraception called
Wise Parenthood, which upset the leaders of the Church of England and the Roman Catholic Church. Despite this opposition, Stopes continued
her campaign and in 1921 founded the Society for Constructive Birth Control (CBC). With financial help from her second husband,
Humphrey Roe, Stopes also opened the first of her birth-control clinics in Holloway, North London on March 17, 1921.
Marie Stopes was involved in several other crusades during her life, including an attempt to stop education authorities from
firing married women teachers. She also become involved in the campaign to persuade the Inland Revenue to tax husbands and
wives separately.
Stopes spent the rest of her life campaigning for the causes she believed in. Much of her time was spent writing articles
for her newspaper
Birth Control News. She also wrote novels, poetry, and children's stories. These included
Love's Creation (1928) and
Love Songs for Young Lovers (1938). Marie Stopes died in 1958.
Further information about Marie Stopes is available in a number of works, including:
Bryant, Keith.
Marie Stopes: A Biography (London, 1962).
Cohen, Deborah A. "Private Lives in Public Spaces: Marie Stopes, the Mothers' Clinics and the Practice of Contraception,"
History Workshop Journal 35 (1993): 95-116.
Eaton, Peter.
Marie Stopes: A Checklist of Her Writings (London, 1977).
Hall, Ruth E.
Marie Stopes, a Biography (London, 1977).
Holtzman, Ellen M.
Marriage, Sexuality, and Contraception in the British Middle Class: 1918-1939:
The Correspondence of Marie Stopes (PhD Thesis, Rutgers University, 1982).
Jackson, Margaret.
The Real Facts of Life: Feminism and the Politics of Sexuality c. 1850-1940(London, 1994)
Neushul, Peter. "Marie C. Stopes and the Popularization of Birth Control Technology,"
Technology and Culture, 39, 2 (1998): 245-272.
Peel, Robert A., ed.
Marie Stopes, Eugenics and the English Birth Control Movement (London, 1996).
Rediscovering Forgotten Radicals: British Women Writers (Chapel Hill, 1993).
Reynolds, Moira Davison.
Women Advocates of Reproductive Rights: Eleven Who Led the Struggle
in the United States and Great Britain (Jefferson, N.C., 1994).
Rose, June.
Marie Stopes and the Sexual Revolution (London, 1992).
Stopes, Marie [plaintiff].
Birth Control and Libel: The Trial of Marie Stopes(South Brunswick, N.J., 1968).
Women in the Milieu of Leonard and Virginia Woolf: Peace, Politics, and Education (New York, 1998).
Related works on the history of birth control include:
Controlling Reproduction: An American History (Wilmington, Delaware, 1997).
McClaren, Angus.
A History of Contraception from Antiquity to the Present Day (Cambridge, Mass., 1990).
Soloway, R. A.
Birth Control and the Population Question in England, 1877-1930 (Chapel Hill, 1982).
Web sites with further information on Marie Stopes:
London Museum, WSPU Collection: http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Wstopes.htm (information on Women's Social and Political
Union, with biographical data on Marie Stopes and others affiliated with women's emancipation issues; links to related sites).
Marie Stopes International: http://www.mariestopes.org.uk
Scope and Content of Collection
The collection contains material pertaining to Marie Stopes, organizations with which she was affiliated, and other organizations
and individuals concerned about issues of abortion, birth control, contraception, eugenics, obstetrics, population, sexual
behavior, sterilization, and welfare of women, primarily in Great Britain, but also including some items from the U.S. and
other countries. The collection has been assembled from multiple sources.
Related Material
At UCSB:
The Marie Stopes Collection in the Department of Special Collections also contains a number of printed works, including books
by and about Marie Stopes, as well as books by others on topics including birth control, prostitution, and sexual behavior.
These titles are cataloged and may be searched on Pegasus, the UCSB Libraries online catalog.
The Garret Hardin Papers (UCSB faculty) contains correspondence, research files, and drafts of his publications on birth control
and population studies. UArch FacP 14.
At Other Institutions:
British Library of Political and Economic Sciences.
British Birth Control Material at the British Library of Political and Economic Sciences: 1800-1947, 10 microfilm reels (London, 1974).
Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine Library [London]. Contemporary Medical Archives Centre. Extensive holdings,
with many archival collections relating to birth control, including Marie Stopes papers, 70+ boxes, with letters from members
of the general public, medical profession, clergy, etc., who had read her works; in some cases with copies of her replies.
Also material on clinics and CBC Society, meetings, literary and legal papers. Web site at: http://library.wellcome.ac.uk/
Subseries 1.
Biographical Information
Box 1: 1
Biographical Information, ca. 1918 - 1958
Abstract: [Includes biographical sketches, notice of marriage to Humphrey Verdon Roe, clippings re
Contraception, and passport]
Subseries 2.
Correspondence
Box 1: 2
Andrew W. Barr & Co., 1939 - 1953
Box 1: 3
Barclays Bank Limited, 1938, 1952-1957
Box 1: 5
Bedborough, George, 1931 - 1932
Box 1: 7
Bootle, E. A., 1925, 1938
Box 1: 8
Braby & Waller, Solicitors, 1923, 1935-1937
Box 1: 9
Burn & Berridge, Solicitors, 1935 - 1947
Box 1: 10
Gaunt, Reginald W., 1936-1938, 1946-1947
Box 1: 11
George Ham & Co., 1955 - 1958
Box 1: 12
H. K. Lewis & Co., Ltd., 1923
Box 1: 13
Haire, Norman, 1929 - 1931
Box 1: 14
Himes, Norman E., 1926 - 1927
Box 1: 16
John Bale Sons & Danielsson Ltd., 1923 - 1931
Box 1: 17
Jones, George, 1923, 1931
Box 1: 19
Legation de Suisse en Grande-Bretagne, 1943
Box 1: 20
London Rubber Company Ltd., 1952
Box 1: 21
Methodist Church Temperance & Social Welfare Department, 1943
Box 1: 22
Midland Bank Limited, 1938
Box 1: 23
National Provincial Bank Limited, 1946 - 1960
Box 1: 24
North Kensington Women's Welfare Centre, 1928
Box 1: 25
Patent Office: Trade Marks Branch, 1930 - 1938
Box 1: 26
Putnam & Company, Ltd., 1923 - 1949
Box 1: 28
Royal Society of Medicine, 1923 - 1931
Abstract: [H. E. Powell, Librarian]
Box 1: 30
Thurston, Edwards & Co., 1931 - 1958
Abstract: [A. P. Thurston & Co.]
Box 1: 31
Wickwar, William H., 1927
Box 2: 1 - 7
Miscellany, 1920s-1950s
Abstract: [arranged alphabetically, by surname]
Box 2: 8 - 9
Society of Authors, 1929 - 1953
Abstract: [originals, re copyright and other issues]
Box 2: 10
29 Apr. 1923 - 2 Aug. 1927, 1923 - 1927
Box 2: 11
21 June 1930 - 29 July 1938, 1930 - 1938
Box 2: 12
14 Mar. 1940 - 31 Oct. 1949, 1940 - 1949
Box 2: 13
11 May 1950 - 21 Nov. 1958, 1950 - 1958
Subseries 3.
Financial Records
Box 3: 1
1931, mainly regarding book
Contraception, 1931
Box 3: 2
1953, regarding Leatherhead Theatre Guild, 1953
Subseries 4.
Legal Records
Box 3: 3
Application for a Patent by A. & H., in respect of "An improved contraceptive device", 1927
Abstract: [application refused and appeal dismissed]
Box 3: 4
Buckmaster Resolution, 28 Apr. n.y.
Abstract: [government requested to withdraw instructions causing Welfare Committees to withhold information regarding best means of
limiting their families]
Box 3: 5
Carpenter Case, ca. 1927 - 1930
Box 3: 6
Royal Institute of Public Health - Memorandum and Articles of Association, with amendments, n.d.
Box 3: 7
Salvation Army Trustee Company - Memorandum and Articles of Association, 1931
Box 3: 8
Stopes v. Bournes & Others, 1930 - 1932
Box 3: 9
Sutherland v. Stopes, 1935
Box 3: 10
United States v. One book entitled "Contraception" by Marie C. Stopes, 1931
Subseries 5.
Survey of Biological Research
Box 3: 11
Survey of Biological Research, 1920
Subseries 6.
Writings of Marie C. Stopes
Box 4: 1
General
Abstract: [mainly publishers' advertisements - multiple titles]
Box 4: 3
A Banned Play and a Preface on the Censorship
Box 4: 4
Birth Control Today
Abstract: [incl. print copy with corrections]
Box 4: 5
Change of Life, in Man and Woman
Box 4: 6
Coital Interlocking: A Physiological Discovery
Abstract: [incl. typescript draft with holographic corrections, and related correspondence]
Box 4: 7 - 13
Contraception (Birth Control): Its Theory, History and Practice: A Manual for the Medical and Legal Professions
Box 4: 7 - 8
Typescript with corrections
Box 4: 9
Third edition, holograph revisions
Box 5: 1
Enduring Passion
Abstract: [incl. typescript corrections for second edition]
Box 5: 3
The Human Body and Its Functions
Box 5: 9
Roman Catholic Methods of Birth Control
Box 5: 12
Truth about Venereal Disease
Abstract: [print copy with holographic corrections]
Box 5: 19
Miscellany
Abstract: [includes advertisements and reviews for children's stories by Erica Fay, a pen name for Stopes]
Box 5: 20
Lectures, ca. 1923 - 1958
Abstract: [mainly flyers and advertisements]
Series 2.
CBC [The Society for Constructive Birth Control and Racial Progress]
Box 6: 1
By-laws, list of officers and speakers, reports, resolutions, ca. 1921-1938, 1956
Box 6: 3
CBC Branches, ca. 1939 - 1942
Box 6: 4
CBC Library, ca. 1922-1930s
Box 6: 5
Conferences on Birth Control and Sex Research, ca. 1930s
Box 6: 6
Correspondence - from Sec. Roe, 1930 - 1947
Box 6: 7
Events, 1921 - 1946
Abstract: [includes notices of annual meetings, debates, lectures, luncheons, dinners]
Box 7: 1
Minute Book, 1932 - 1943
Abstract: [includes description of clinic being bombed during WWII]
Box 7: 2
Minute Book, 1949 - 1955
Abstract: [General Committee]
Box 7: 3
Mothers' Clinics, ca. 1938 - 1945
Box 7: 4
Prescriptions and Home Remedies, n.d.
Box 7: 5
Printed Matter, ca. 1930s
Abstract: [includes book lists, flyers, letterhead stationery, membership forms with copies of the CBC constitution]
Box 7: 6
Miscellany, ca. 1920s-1930s
Abstract: [includes blank 1930 University of Chicago survey on attitude toward birth control]
Subseries 2.
Financial Records
Box 7: 7
Banking Records, ca. 1946 - 1958
Abstract: [includes cancelled cheques with Stopes' signature]
Box 7: 8
London Rubber Company Ltd. - Invoices and Order Book, ca. 1955 - 1960
Box 7: 9
Subscriptions, ca. 1928 - 1952
Subseries 3.
Legal Records
Box 7: 11
British Monomarks Limited - Clincocap, 1933
Box 7: 12
Gregg, Helen Edith - Trust, 1954 - 1955
Box 7: 14
Trade Marks - British, ca. 1930 - 1958
Box 8: 1
Trade Marks - Foreign, ca. 1931 - 1955
Box 8: 2
Trade Marks - India, 1934 - 1947
Box 8: 3
Trade Marks - South and South West Africa, 1934 - 1958
Box 8: 5
Wellcome, Sir Henry Solomon - Will, 1932
Series 3.
NKWWC [North Kensington Women's Welfare Centre]
Box 8: 6
Activities, ca. 1932 - 1935
Abstract: [flyers, invitations, programs]
Box 8: 7
Annual General Meeting, 1961
Box 8: 8
Annual Reports, 1926-1931, 1950
Box 8: 9
Architectural Drawings, 1951
Box 8: 10
British Medical Association Controversy, 1952
Box 8: 12
Clinic Workers Handbook, ca. 1950s
Box 8: 13
Executive Committee Meetings, 1960-1961, 1964
Abstract: [minutes, agenda]
Box 8: 14
Financial Records, 1939, 1951, n.d.
Box 8: 16
Minister of Health's Visit, 1955
Abstract: [includes photos]
Box 8: 18
Peel, John, ca. 1950s
Abstract: [lists of materials sent by Spring Rice for Peel's birth control research]
Box 8: 19
Printed Organization Information, ca. 1920s-1965
Abstract: [material issued by NKWWC, including flyers, handouts, informational literature, list of books and pamphlets available for
loan. membership leaflets, order forms for birth control supplies, position papers, reports]
Box 9: 1 - 2
Reports, Position Papers, and Memoranda, ca. 1926-1957, n.d.
Abstract: [typescript and handwritten mss]
Box 9: 3
Spring Rice, Margery - Miscellany, ca. 1930s-1950s
Abstract: [includes lists of potential subscribers]
Box 9: 4
Trusts and Charities, 1950s
Subseries 2.
Correspondence
Box 9: 5
Agnew, Doreen, 1955 - 1961
Box 9: 6
Birth Control Investigating Committee, 1929 - 1953
Box 9: 7
Clifford Smith, N. Josephine, 1957 - 1958
Abstract: [Family Planning Association]
Box 9: 8
Ellis, Arthur, 1927, 1951
Box 9: 9
Eugenics Society, 1930, 1953-1957
Box 9: 10
Family Planning Association, 1954, 1961-1962
Box 9: 11
Garrett, Roderick, 1950 - 1954
Box 9: 12
Hebert, Isabella, 1951 - 1958
Box 9: 13
Llewellyn Smith and Waters, 1951
Box 9: 14
Malleson, Joan, 1938 - 1954
Box 9: 15
Morgan, Nadia, 1954 - 1958
Abstract: [Mrs. A. E. Morgan]
Box 9: 16
Parker, Freda, 1953 - 1958
Box 9: 17
Peel, John, 1962 - 1963
Abstract: [sociologist, birth control study]
Box 9: 18
Peers, Rotha, 1951 - 1958
Box 9: 19
Pyke, Margaret, 1951-1958, 1962
Box 9: 20
Raphael, Nancy, 1951
Abstract: [Mrs. Geoffrey Raphael]
Box 9: 21
Redding, Mary, 1950 - 1953
Box 9: 22
Scott, J. A., 1956 - 1957
Box 9: 23
Stevenson, A., 1953 - 1958
Box 10: 4
Miscellany, 1927 - 1957
Abstract: [various individuals and organizations re birth control, connection to NKWWC unclear]
Subseries 3.
Printed Matter
Box 10: 5
Printed Matter
Abstract: [pamphlets, flyers, articles, clippings, and other materials published by others re birth control and contraceptives]
Series 4.
Other Organizations
Physical Description:
Boxes 10-12.
Scope and Content Note
Contains flyers, leaflets, pamphlets and reports for numerous organizations and conferences, most British, such as the Family
Planning Association, but also some U.S.
Box 10: 6
Abortion Law Reform Association, n.d.
Box 10: 7
American Birth Control League, Inc., ca. 1920s
Box 10: 8
Birth Control International Information Centre, ca. 1930s
Box 10: 9
Birth Control Investigation Committee, ca. 1928 - 1932
Box 10: 10
Birth Control Movement Information Centre, n.d.
Box 10: 11
British National Conference on Social Work, 1953
Box 10: 12
British Social Hygiene Council, n.d.
Box 10: 13
Brook Advisory Centres, n.d.
Box 10: 14
Bureau for Contraceptive Advice, 1929
Abstract: [Baltimore, MD]
Box 10: 15
Cambridge Women's Welfare Association, 1927 - 1928
Box 10: 16
Committee for Legalising Eugenic Sterilization, ca. 1931
Box 10: 17
Committee on Maternal Health, 1924, 1927
Box 10: 18
Conference on the Giving of Information on Birth Control by Public Health Authorities, 1930
Box 10: 19
Doctors' Conference, 1928 - 1933
Box 10: 20
Edinburgh Obstetrical Society, 1947
Box 10: 21
Eugenics Society, ca. 1928 - 1959
Box 10: 22 - 11: 5
Family Planning Association [FPA]
Box 11: 2
Meetings, 1951 - 1965
Abstract: [agenda, minutes]
Box 11: 3
Memoranda, ca. 1940s-1950s
Box 11: 4
Printed Matter, ca. 1943 - 1966
Abstract: [issues by FPA, including flyers, information sheets, leaflets, lists, surveys]
Box 11: 5
Reports and Position Papers, 1945 - 1965
Box 11: 6
Health Promotion Ltd., n.d.
Box 11: 7
Human Betterment Foundation, 1930
Box 11: 8
Illinois Birth Control League, 1932
Box 11: 9
International Planned Parenthood Federation, ca. 1953 - 1965
Box 11: 10
International Union for the Scientific Investigation of Population Problems, ca. 1928, 1931
Box 11: 11
Kontrol Patent Outfit, n.d.
Box 11: 12
League of National Life, ca. 1920s
Box 11: 13
London Marriage Guidance Council, 1954
Box 11: 14
Manchester, Salford, & District Mothers' Clinic for Birth Control, 1931
Box 11: 15
Margaret Sanger Birth Control Headquarters, n.d.
Box 11: 16
Marie Stopes Memorial Clinic, ca. 1960s
Box 11: 17
Maternal Health Center, 1933
Box 11: 18
Modern Churchmen's Union, n.d.
Box 11: 20
National Birth Control Association, ca. 1930s
Box 11: 21
National Birth Control League, 1921
Box 11: 22
National Committee on Maternal Health, Inc, 1934
Box 11: 23
National Conference of Labour Women, 1933
Abstract: [West Hartlepool, UK]
Box 11: 24
National Union of Societies for Equal Citizenship, 1926
Box 11: 25
People's Clinic for Birth Control and Social Welfare, n.d.
Box 11: 26
Planned Parenthood - World Population, ca. 1960s
Box 11: 27
Royal College of Physicians of London, 1930
Box 11: 28
Royal Institute of Public Health, n.d.
Box 11: 29
Royal Society of Health, 1956
Box 12: 1
Sex Study Circle (London) -
More Light letters, 1928
Box 12: 2
Society for the Provision of Birth Control Clinics, ca. 1930-1937, 1962
Box 12: 3
Society for the Study of Fertility, n.d.
Series 5.
Research Files
Physical Description:
Boxes 12-16.
Scope and Content Note
Contains advertisements, articles, flyers, journals, pamphlets, and other printed ephemera re birth control and birth control
devices, contraception, eugenics, family planning; obstetrics, population, and sterilization.
Box 12: 4 - 5
Advertisements, flyers, pamphlets, and other printed ephemera
Box 12: 4
Birth Control Devices, ca. 1920s-1960s
Box 12: 5
Family Planning and Personal Hygiene, ca. 1930s-1960s
Box 12: 6 - 13: 1
Articles by others - re birth control, contraception, eugenics, obstetrics, population, race, sterilization
Abstract: [arranged by surname]
Box 13: 2 - 4
Book Notes, ca. 1919-1930s
Abstract: [mostly references to population, many written on back of
Birth Control Newsstationery]
Box 13: 5
Government Documents, 1871 - 1953
Box 13: 6 - 14: 6
Journals
Abstract: [scattered issues]
Box 13: 6
Archiv fur Gynakologie, 1930
Box 13: 9
Birth Control Review, 1917 - 1934
Abstract: [published by the American Birth Control League, Inc.]
Box 13: 10
Catholic Medical Guardian, 1928
Box 13: 12
Franco-British Medical Review, 1924
Box 13: 13
La Ginecologia Pratica, 1926
Box 13: 14
Journal of the Royal Sanitary Institute, 1932
Box 14: 1
Madras Birth Control Bulletin, 1931
Box 14: 2
Medical Critic and Guide, 1932
Box 14: 3
Medical Officer, 1931
Abstract: [includes letter to editor from H. V. Roe, Stopes' husband
Box 14: 4
Old Moore's Almanack, 1931
Box 14: 5
Trade Marks Journal, 1930 - 1933
Box 14: 7 - 16: 4
Medical Articles
Abstract: [mainly articles and clippings, British and foreign, re abortion, birth control, medical, and Marie Stopes]
Box 16: 4
1950-1954, 1956, 1959, n.d., 1950-1954, 1956, 1959, n.d.
Series 6.
Miscellany
Physical Description:
Boxes 16-18.
Scope and Content Note
Includes correspondence, articles, clippings, notebooks, and typescript manuscripts, re individuals and organizations such
as John Gawsworth, George Ives, the Oneida Community, and Margaret Sanger, on issues of family planning, prostitution, sexual
behavior, and women.
Box 16: 5
Alphabet Cartoon Book, ca. latter 1800s
Abstract: [drawing and short poem for each letter of the alphabet]
Box 16: 6
Bedborough, George - correspondence re contraception and sterilization, 1931
Box 16: 7
Crew, F. A. E. - "Sexuality and Intersexuality", 1925
Abstract: [typescript and proof]
Box 16: 8
Essay on Women, Prostitution and Disease, n.d.
Box 16: 9
First Caribbean Family Planning Seminar, 1967
Box 16: 10
Fuller, Edward - correspondence and articles on sex education, 1920
Box 17: 1
Gawsworth, John - notes, clippings, and other on Havelock Ellis, ca. 1930s
Box 17: 2
Holyoake, George Jacob, 1873
Abstract: [Holyoake started the
Secular Review in 1876, an influential journal that helped pave the way for the birth control movement - 1 letter (ALS), 11 Aug. 1873]
Box 17: 3
Carpenter, Edward - two notebooks and two printed portraits, n.d.
Box 17: 4
Graeco-Roman View of Youth - notebook, n.d.
Box 17: 5
"The Order" - notebook, n.d.
Box 17: 6
"Second Verse Book" - notebook, 1900
Box 17: 7
"Service of Initiation" - notebook, 1899
Box 17: 8
Westermarck - "Sexual Matters in Morocco", 1928
Box 17: 9
"La Main", n.d.
Abstract: [short story, in French]
Box 17: 10
Moulton, H. Fletcher - "Be Fruitful and Multiply", [1945?]
Box 17: 11
Oneida Community (Oneida, NY) - notebook with essays on women, love, and sex, ca. 1900
Box 17: 12
Porter, Noel - Typescript ms, "Four Years' Psycho-Sexual History of a Young Girl, Age 10-14", ca. 1922
Box 18: 1
Prostitutes of Japan, n.d.
Abstract: [2 picture postcards]
Box 18: 2
Richter, R. R. - "A means to prevent conception", n.d.
Abstract: [typescript ms]
Box 18: 3
Roe, Humphrey, 1932
Abstract: [Stopes' husband) - one letter (ALS) to Roe and one letter (ALS), addressed "Darling One," possibly from Roe to Stopes, re
legal issues surrounding Clinicap]
Box 18: 4
Sanger, Margaret - 1 letter (TLS), to Jane Hawthorne (Mothers Clinic), re Seventh International Birth Control Conference,
30 May 1930
Box 18: 5
Sex Education - notes, in French, n.d.
Box 18: 6
Stead, W[illiam] T. - 1 letter l (TLS) to a Mrs. Grant, re visiting him, 1906
Box 18: 7
Streetwalkers in London - 1 letter, typescript, and newspaper article, in Dutch, 1959
Box 18: 8
Telco, Paul - Typescript (carbon) of "The Birth Control Racket," with copy of an accompanying letter, 18 Aug. 1931
Box 18: 9
"To the Married of Both Sexes in Genteel Life", n.d.
Abstract: [photostat of handbill]
Series 7.
Photographs and Illustrations
Physical Description:
Box 18.
Scope and Content Note
Includes a cartoon and portrait of Marie Stopes; a photo of a CBC wagon; drawings, negatives, and printed plates of birth
control devices and the Mothers' Clinic; and color slides of birth control devices contained in Series VIII of this collection.
Box 18: 10
Color slides, with captions, n.d.
Abstract: [images of items in Series VIII]
Box 18: 11
Drawing, 1927
Abstract: [from Johnston Engraving Co.]
Box 18: 14
Photos and related printed plates
Abstract: [also includes images of Mothers' Clinic storefront and interior]
Box 18: 15
CBC Wagon - b/w print, ca. 1920s-1930s
Box 18: 16
Cartoon, 1933
Abstract: [from the
New Statesman & Nation, Dec. 9, 1933]
Box 18: 17
Portrait - lithograph, n.d.
Box 19: 1
11 Spanish animal skin condoms
Abstract: [curved and rather thicker than the French variety. One wrapper. Could be used 2-3 times if washed carefully.]
Box 19: 2
10 condoms
Abstract: [Made from animal tissue, of a fine white quality. Very thin and must only be used once. One wrapper.]
Box 19: 3
4 condoms of a papery texture, tied with pink silk. One wrapper.
Box 19: 4
5 condoms, super rose quality made from animal tissue and colored salmon pink. For use only once. One wrapper.
Box 19: 5
Condom packet, pink in color. Hand made, seamless. "Venus Brand." "Sold for the prevention of disease only."
Subseries 2.
Cervical Caps
Box 19: 6
3 cervical caps, metal, portio-type. Various shapes and/or sizes.
Box 19: 7
2 cervical caps, metal, portio-type. Very springy metal with a nicked rim giving it great flexibility. One large and one small.
Box 19: 8
2 perspex caps, yellow, transparent plastic. Portio and occlusive types, the portio rimless, the occlusive rimmed.
Box 19: 9
1 occlusive cap, rubber with high simple dome and soft rim, with silk thread attached for easy removal. Instructions enclosed
in which it claims the advantage over its rivals that it can be boiled for sterilization. One blue box.
Box 19: 10
2 pessaries. The "Unique" is an occlusive type, high domed rubber, soulded rim with thread attached. Instructions included
along with an address from Dr. R. R. Adige.
Abstract: ["Dr. Patterson's Solid Rim Check Pessary" has a slightly different arrangement of thread. Two boxes.]
Box 19: 11
2 occlusive caps with stiff rims and high simple domes.
Box 19: 12
1 cervical cap, high domed with soft rim.
Box 19: 13
1 occlusive cap, covered with sponge with string attached, "The Gem." 1 note in Marie Stopes' hand calling it a "commercial
freak." Instructions included.
Box 19: 14
2 cervical caps. Red rubber, high domed, soft rimmed. "Racial" caps of the type used by Stopes in her clinic. One note indicating
a patient was returning hers after using it for five years. One box.
Box 19: 15
Directions for a sponge-like occusator. Pink paper.
Box 20: 1
1 cervical cap. "Dutch cap", a flattened version of the cervical cap and Margaret Sanger preferred device. Forerunner of the
diaphragm.
Box 20: 2
1 metal ring for holding the "Kaiser" type pessary during insertion.
Box 20: 3
3 cervical studs. One is light colored, probably bone, smaller than the other two with a slightly bulbous end. Ther other
two are dark in color, made of wood, and are larger than the first.
Box 20: 4
1 cervical stud (?). Has a broad, concave base with a short, thick stem only 1/2 inch long.
Box 20: 5
Photo of the Graefenberg silver ring and the apparatus for inserting the ring. It is a long metal tube, curved at the end
with a plunger of wire in the middle.
Box 20: 6
Intrauterine device: Silk loops or a stands gut tied together with a wire.
Subseries 4.
Chemical Contraceptives
Box 20: 7
Ortho-Gynol. 6 tubes of ointment, 6 metal plungers, 1 box. For use around the cervix itself. A note written in the instruction
leaflet in Stopes' hand reads, "Another of them? Dangerous tubes."
Box 20: 8
1 quinine pessary. Made by Caly & Abraham. Pessary is in a degenerate state. 1 red metal box.
Box 20: 9
Patentex. 1 tube and 1 box. The product that Stopes condemns as dangerous.
Box 20: 10
"Femineax Sterils". Quinine in some form of waxy base.
Box 20: 11
"Pesolettes." Vaginal tablets. Ingredients not named. Made in Germany.
Box 21: 1
Suppositol. Jar of ointment made in Germany.
Box 21: 2
3 kinds of chemical contraceptives: Sanitabs, for "security in feminine hygiene." Discretion, tablets made in Germany. Chinovagin,
a tube of tablets for the treatment of vaginal disorders. 3 boxes.
Box 21: 3
3 boxes of German products: Kreuz-Ovale, Einlage-Pastillen, and Hygibe-Tabletten. 2 instruction sheets included.
Box 21: 4
2 chemical items: 1 box of waxy suppositories and an unnamed box of white tablets.
Box 21: 5
"Anti-stork" tampons. To be impregnated with chemical spermicides and placed in the vagina. Made in England. 1 box.
Subseries 5.
Rhythm Calendars
Box 21: 6
"Concip-calendar" for calculating the safe period of a woman's menstrual cyle. 1 TLS to Dr. Stopes from H. Heyssur. 1 sheet
of instructions.
Box 21: 7
Metal rod calendar for calculating the safe period of the menstrual cycle.
Box 22: 1
2 boxes of Russian products. One held a syringe. The other contains six glass tubes, each holding a brown viscous liquid,
with a cork at one end and a wax plug at the other.
Box 22: 2
1 round sponge. Flat, about 1/4 inch depth and 4" diameter inclosed in a cotton netting. Several notes in Dr. Stopes' hand
describing the advantages of a larger, less porous sponge.
Box 22: 3
2 items. Hollow, curved glass rod, 1/4' in diameter and about 8" long. A glazed porcelain ring, about 3/4" across, hollowed
in the middle.
Box 22: 4
1 brown, hollow, celluloid object. Oval in shape, about 4" long with holes at either end. Rattles slightly.
Box 22: 6
Exhibit labels for the Museum of Contraception at the Mothers' Clinic, n.d.
Series 9.
Oversize
Physical Description:
Box 23.
Scope and Content Note
Contains posters mainly advertising Stopes speeches, and a public notice of the first birth control clinic in the British
empire, opened on Mar. 17, 1921, by Stopes and Roe.
Box 23: 1
Posters
Abstract: [4 items, mainly public meetings advertising Stopes and others as speakers]
Box 23: 1
Public notice, 17th of March, 1921
Abstract: ["This, the first birth control clinic in the British empire, opened on the 17th of March, 1921, by Humphrey Verdon Roe and
his wife, Marie Carmichael Stopes "]
