Personal Papers of Alison Duke, 1875 - 2005

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Personal Papers of Alison Duke, 1875 - 2005

1875-2005

https://archivesearch.lib.cam.ac.uk/repositories/19/archival_objects/370732

The process of clearing papers from Alison Duke's house was begun in 2000 by Dr Dorothy Thompson (colleague and College contact) and Mrs Patricia Acres (an executor). This clearance continued after AD's death in November 2005. The resulting collection of papers was catalogued in 2008. A great deal of arranging and attempted reconstruction has taken place in order to achieve the catalogue which appears below. It includes the following: some personal and biographical material; photographs; correspondence; collected files on Girton College administrative and teaching matters; and a sizeable quantity of the cuttings and obituaries which AD collected for many years. Some of the papers cleared from the house were dispersed to archives elsewhere, including: New Hall, Cambridge (where AD also undertook Classics teaching); Guide Headquarters in London; and the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama in the University of Oxford.

19 archive box(es) (19 boxes) : paper

eng, Latn

Girton College Library, University of Cambridge

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SNAC Resource ID: 11659829

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