General Correspondence

Date:
1921-1976
Reference:
GC/193/B
Part of:
Fairfield, (Josephine) Letitia Denny
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General correspondence, comprises the following:

  • GC/193/B/1: to Messrs WB Blackwell and Co, Mitre Court Chambers, Temple (unsigned): legal letter referring to `Interrogatories' about a camel, dated 3 February 1921.
  • GC/193/B/2: ms draft of letter to the Rt Hon Lord Merivale, President of the Divorce Court, re the non-availability of women doctors to examine women applying for annulment, with letter of acknowledgement from his secretary, dated 27 February 1928.
  • GC/193/B/3: carbon copy of letter to His Emininence Cardinal Hinsley, Archbishop of Westminister, re negative editorial in The Catholic Herald about refugees and general hostility in Catholic Press, dated 16 January 1939.
  • GC/193/B/4: The Bishop of Brentwood to Letitia Fairfield, re incidents at Saffron Walden Church (display of Franco's flag and congregation being asked to pray for his success), dated 14 April 1939.
  • GC/193/B/5: Miss D J Collier to Letitia Fairfield, with enclosures, re article in Jesuit magazine The Rock, re Basque refugee children in England, dated 21 February 1940.
  • GC/193/B/6: duplicated `Letter from England' to `Dear Friends in America' from Letitia Fairfield, dated 26 April 1941.
  • GC/193/B/7: Rev TJ Fitzgerald to Letitia Fairfield re Mrs Thompson (of Thompson and Bywaters murder case), dated 17 April 1948.
  • GC/193/B/8: Cyril Burt to Letitia Fairfield re George Griffiths, dated 25 June 1948.
  • GC/193/B/9: T/s draft of letter from Letitia Fairfield to The New Statesman, re Miss Jourdain, author of An Adventure, and her claim to have heard `ghostly music' at the Trianon, dated 24 January 1957.
  • GC/193/B/10: Janet Beveridge to Letitia Fairfield re her review of R Fulford's book on the suffragettes, dated 8 May 1957.
  • GC/193/B/11: G D R Butler, clerk to the Chadwick Trustees, to Letitia Fairfield re her meeting with Edwin Chadwick when a small girl, dated July-September 1957.
  • GC/193/B/12: Sir Francis Walshe to Letitia Fairfield re artificial insemination, dated 3 February 1958.
  • GC/193/B/13: Ernest Dudley to Letitia Fairfield re a joint production of theirs concerning Marguerite Steinheil, dated 14 November 1959.
  • GC/193/B/14: Norman St John Stevas to Letitia Fairfield re a review by, and letter from, her, dated 30 March 1961.
  • GC/193/B/14A: JA Scott of the London County Council Public Health Department, enclosing copy of report on persons sleeping out in London, dated 15 January 1964.
  • GC/193/B/15: David Piper, Director, National Gallery, to Rebecca West, mentioning that Letitia Fairfield has presented photos of herself for the record, dated 28 July 1965.
  • GC/193/B/15A: Ruth Dingley of the Medical Women's Federation, about Letitia Fairfield's article for Jubilee issue of its Journal, dated 24 January 1967.
  • GC/193/B/16: Elaine S Burrough SRN SCM to Letitia Fairfield re a letter of hers in The Tablet (cuttings attached) re treatment of the elderly, repudiating claims in book Sans Everything about mistreatment of the elderly in institutions, dated 31 August 1967.
  • GC/193/B/17: Ms draft of letter to `Dear Frank' (Lord Longford) concerning his championing of Myra Hindley, and his reply, dated 29 January 1968.
  • GC/193/B/18: Cyril Burt to Letitia Fairfield 21 May 1971 re a recent meeting, dated 21 May 1971.
  • GC/193/B/19: Ian P Watt, Stanford University, re basis of Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent, with Letitia Fairfield's ms notes, dated July-August 1971.
  • GC/193/B/20: Peter Morley, Director, `The First Casualty', Thames Television, re Letitia Fairfield's claim to have spontaneously coined phrase `truth is the first casualty of war', dated 23 August 1971.
  • GC/193/B/21: Nicholas Bethell to Letitia Fairfield re his book on forced repatriation of Russians 1944-1947, dated 7 January 1975.
  • GC/193/B/22: Robert Vas, Producer, BBC, to Letitia Fairfield re programme based on Bethell's book, dated 7 February 1975.
  • GC/193/B/23: Hugh L'Etang to Letitia Fairfield re her contact with Joseph Bell while a student at Edinburgh, with her ms notes and typed account, dated July-August 1975.
  • GC/193/B/24: Cecil D Coyle to Letitia Fairfield with reprint of his paper `The Changing Hospital', dated 12 November 1976.
  • GC/193/B/25: Draft letter from Letitia Fairfield to `Elizabeth' (a biographer of Queen Victoria: Lady Longford?) re Queen Victoria's death-bed, dated Mid 20th century.

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    1921-1976

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    1 file

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