Correspondence with her mother, Ursula Grant Duff, with other papers relating to Ursula
MS. Grant Duff 58
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
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Title
Correspondence with her mother, Ursula Grant Duff, with other papers relating to Ursula
Shelfmark
MS. Grant Duff 58
Summary
Comprises
Correspondence with Ursula when Shiela was at Oxford, 1931-1934
Letters from Shiela to her mother, mainly from Europe, 1934-1936
Letters from Shiela to her mother, 1937, and one letter to Ursula from the Institute of Foreign and Colonial Forestry, Germany, Feb 1937
Letters from Shiela to her mother, 1938-1954 [1951-1952 = Closed]
Letters relating to a family quarrel over 'Czech Gold', 1939
Correspondence of Shiela with friends of her mother, 1932-1942
Correspondence between Sir Shane Leslie and Ursula and Shiela, 1948-1960; letter to Ursula from Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit about the risk of war, n.d.; and incomplete offprints of Ursula's A Mere Woman's Notebook, 1931-1938
Date
1931-1960
Language
English
Physical extent
1 box
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Collection contents
Archive of Shiela Grant Duff, with Grant Duff and Lubbock family papers
Papers of Shiela Grant Duff, later Shiela Newsome, afterwards Shiela Sokolov Grant
Shiela's family correspondence
Correspondence with her mother, Ursula Grant Duff, with other papers relating to Ursula
