Personal papers of, and relating to, Robert Castle, Organiser, Oxford Committee for Famine Relief
MS. Oxfam DON/1/2
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
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Title
Personal papers of, and relating to, Robert Castle, Organiser, Oxford Committee for Famine Relief
Shelfmark
MS. Oxfam DON/1/2
Summary
Comprises:
Folder 1: correspondence and related papers of Robert Castle, including publicity materials, news sheets and newspaper cuttings relating to his fundraising efforts on behalf of the Oxford Committee for Famine Relief, 1945-1964. A few items relate to his work for the Friends Relief Service in Salisbury in 1945.
Folder 2: Friends Relief Newsletters and other Friends' materials, 1945-1950
Folder 3: scrapbook kept by Robert Castle, including newspaper cuttings detailing his career with Rowntree's and materials relating to his fundraising efforts on behalf of the Oxford Committee for Famine Relief, 1946-1947
Folder 4: three photographs of Robert Castle with Frederick Thurston, Dick Jepson Turner and other participants in a 1947 fundraising concert at the Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford, probably in aid of the Oxford Committee for Famine Relief; photograph of Robert Castle and an unidentified man, n.d. [c. late 1940s]; two photographs of David Hoggett, a carpenter who had been working in Linz, Austria, in hospital following an accident, 1956. The connection of the latter with Robert Castle is unknown.
Folder 5: comprising:
photocopies and transcripts of notes made by Robert Castle in his copies of two books: The Oxfam Story by The Pergamon Press, 1964, and Two ears of corn - Oxfam in action by Mervyn Jones, 1965, transcribed by his daughter Jean MacFarlane, 1965-2007 and n.d. [c.1964-2007]
timeline of notes about Robert Castle's life and career by Jean MacFarlane, apparently written following a meeting with Rosie Dodd, Oxfam Archivist, 2007
Jean MacFarlane's correspondence with Rosie Dodd, mainly about her time in Lagos, Nigeria, with her brother Stephen, and their support to Oxfam during the Nigerian Civil War, 2007-2010
Date
1945-2010
Language
English
Physical extent
1 box (5 folders)
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Collection contents
Personal papers of staff and trustees
Personal papers of, and relating to, Robert Castle, Organiser, Oxford Committee for Famine Relief
