| Title |
Personal and Biographical |
| Reference |
GCPP Duke 1 |
| Creator |
Duke, Alison |
| Covering Dates |
1910–2005 |
| Extent and Medium |
4 boxes; Paper |
|
| Content and context |
This section includes school reports; certificates; photographs; biographical material; correspondence and papers concerning AD's entry to Girton and various appointments; and speeches. The section is arranged broadly chronologically. [NB: there is further correspondence relating to appointments etc in the general correspondence series at GCPP Duke 2/1.] |
| Girton/GCPP Duke 1 contains: |
|
1
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The Ladies of Castlebrae. The life of Dr Agnes Smith Lewis and Dr Margaret Dunlop Gibson, by A Whigham Price, being the text of the annual lecture to the Presbyterian Historical Society, October 1964. Flyleaf signed 'J Stevenson' [AD's mother]. [ASL and MDG were twin sisters, nee Smith, born Irvine, Ayrshire January 1843, who became Semitic scholars and benefactors to Westminster College, Cambridge and later lived at Castlebrae on Chesterton Road, Cambridge.] Together with the following items:. 1) cutting from the Cambridge Daily News, 31 August 1977, concerning the connection between ASL and MDG and the Taylor-Schechter Collection at Cambridge University Library;. 2) sepia photograph of Mrs Gibson, Mrs Lewis and a Mrs Jane Sturge, nd [circa 1910?], originally sellotaped inside The Ladies of Castlebrae;. 3) in Johanna Stevenson's hand, 'Thoughts on Sept 6th 1975 (not spoken at the wedding)' - being thoughts of friendship, presumably towards a couple getting married on that day, though no names are given - possibly descendants of ASL and MDG?.
Creator: Whigham Price, A.
1 file; Paper. |
1910–1977 |
|
2
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Certificates. Including the following: baptism certificate 1915; school certificates 1930 and 1932; Life Saving Society Certificate 1932; shorthand and typing 1934; University of Cambridge, Title of Degree of Bachelor of Arts 1938; British Red Cross Society Anti-Gas Training 1939.
Creator: Various.
1 file; Paper. |
1915–1939 |
|
3
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School reports for Alison Duke from the Perse Girls' School, Cambridge.
Creator: Perse School for Girls, Cambridge.
1 file; Paper. |
1925–1934 |
|
4
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Girton College. Correspondence and papers relating to AD's entrance to Girton, scholarship, Tripos examinations, fees etc. Including letters from W H D Rouse, Mary Duff and J M Edmonds.
Creator: Duke, Alison.
1 file; Paper. |
1932–1940 |
|
5
|
Book of clerihews. Compiled by Will Carter, with ? AD's additions.
Creator: Carter, Will; Duke, Alison.
1 volume; Paper. |
1938 |
|
6
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Jedermann. Programme and poster for CU German Society production of 'Jedermann' [AD was a member of the cast].
Creator: Cambridge University German Society.
1 item; Paper. |
1939 |
|
7
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Charles Oldham Classical Scholarship. P.1186 of the Cambridge University Reporter, 5 July 1939, reporting elections to various scholarships etc, including AD's election to the Charles Oldham Classical Scholarship.
Creator: University of Cambridge.
1 item; Paper. |
1939 |
|
8
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Reading University post. Application for a post at Reading University and testimonial for AD from [Professor] P[ercy] N Ure.
Creator: Duke, Alison; Ure, P N.
1 file; Paper. |
1939–1945 |
|
9
|
AD's YHA membership card.
Creator: Youth Hostel Association.
1 item; Paper. |
1940 |
|
10
|
Account by AD of a meeting with Mercy Money-Coutts in the 1940s.
Creator: Duke, Alison.
1 file; Paper. |
circa 1945 |
|
11
|
Girton College communications. Official communications, including offer of post as Assistant Tutor 1947 (previously Acting Assistant Tutor), stipend, accounts, information for members of High Table etc.
Creator: Girton College.
1 file; Paper. |
1946–1947 |
|
12
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Programme for United Nations Weeks events. [AD answered questions at some sessions during these events.].
Creator: United Nations.
1 file; Paper. |
1946 |
|
13
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Director of Studies in Classics. Minutes of a Joint Meeting of the Committee on Appointments and the Committee on Tutorial Arrangements of 4 May 1950, including a recommendation to Council that AD be appointed Acting Director of Studies in Classics and a suggestion that the question of AD's appointment to a College Lectureship in Classics ought to be considered.
Creator: Girton College.
1 file; Paper. |
1950 |
|
14
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[Palaeography exercise for AD] by Margaret Graven. Involving a spoof edition of a non-existent papyrus from the Thrall collection [Margaret Thrall was also a Girton Classicist].
Creator: Graven, Margaret.
1 file; Paper. |
circa 1951 |
|
15
|
'Cambridge Today' - speech given in Edinburgh. Ms text of a speech given by AD in Edinburgh [September 1960?] [at St George's School? - Jean Lindsay became headmistress there in 1960] entitled 'Cambridge Today'. Touches on developments in Cambridge such as Churchill College, New Hall, Fitzwilliam College, and the Sidgwick Avenue site; also the status of women undergraduates, including a reference to Union Society membership remaining exclusively male and references to the social lives of women undergraduates, marriage patterns on going down from Cambridge etc. As Girton College Praelector - 'my only regret is that the Syndicate decided against giving to women Praelectors the title of 'Mother of the College', to correspond to the title of 'Father of the College', which is borne by their masculine colleagues'.
Creator: Duke, Alison.
1 file; Paper. |
circa 1960 |
|
16
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List of members of ICHTHYS as at January 1960. Arranged alphabetically by College, including 9 members of Girton College, including Alison Duke. [ICHTHYS was presumably a Cambridge University Christian society.].
Creator: Unknown.
1 item; Paper. |
1960 |
|
17
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Birthday card [to Alison Duke] from 'The Resident Fellows' [of Girton College]. Being a watercolour of the Stanley Library and surrounding trees, artist unknown.
Creator: Unknown.
1 item; Paper. |
1976 |
|
18
|
Speech Day address given at St Elphin's School, Matlock.
Creator: Duke, Alison.
1 file; Paper. |
1977 |
|
18a
|
April 1940: A War Diary. Typescript of Margaret Reid's diary, edited by Leif C Rolstad in collaboration with Blanche Larsgaard and Arvid S Kapelrud; translated from Norwegian into English by L C Rolstad and revised by Mrs C M Charlton.
Creator: Reid, Margaret; Rolstad, Leif C.
1 file; Paper. |
1980 |
|
19
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Personal tribute by Dorothy Thompson to Mrs [Johanna] Stevenson [Alison Duke's mother].
Creator: Thompson, Dorothy.
1 file; Paper. |
circa 1982 |
|
20
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Retirement of Alison Duke as Registrar of the Roll. Leather bound volume given to Alison Duke by members of the Roll, containing a selection of signatures of Girtonians 1916-83, together with menu for Roll Luncheon 13 July 1985 at which AD was Speaker and Guest of Honour, on the occasion of her retirement as Registrar of the Roll.
Creator: Various.
1 volume; Paper. |
1985 |
|
21
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Retirement speeches. Ms notes for a speech given by AD at her retirement dinner, describing her undergraduate career, the war years, her return to Girton College, teaching Classics, and being Praelector, with references to many Girton colleagues. Also undated ms notes for a speech, possibly also a retirement speech.
Creator: Duke, Alison.
1 file; Paper. |
1985 |
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22
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Retirement tributes from former students. Typescript extracts from letters sent to Dorothy Crawford when organising a retirement collection for Alison Duke from former Classics students. [The money collected was used to buy AD a Greek figurine and send her on a cruise of the Nile.].
Creator: Various.
1 sheet; Paper. |
1985 |
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23
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80th birthday card to Alison Duke.
Creator: Various.
1 item; Paper. |
1995 |
|
24
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Missee Lee / Arthur Ransome Society publication. Article written by AD for Despatches [the newsletter of the Arthur Ransome Society], 1998, being an account of her undergraduate years as a Classicist in Cambridge, to be used as background to an edition of Despatches devoted to Arthur Ransome's novel entitled Missee Lee, in which the character of the title is educated at Cambridge. Together with related material including: correspondence with Trevor Johnston and Ruth Buckley (G 1947), editors of Despatches, 1998-99, and 2 cassette tapes of a radio play of the book.
Creator: Duke, Alison.
1 file; Paper. |
1998–1999 |
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25
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Script of a talk by Valerie Grove. Possibly for VG's talk at Newnham September 1998? Together with an accompanying postcard from VG to Alison Duke in which, inter alia, she says 'It was wonderful to see you as the Cover Girl on Educating Eve'.
Creator: Grove, Valerie.
1 file; Paper. |
1998 |
|
26
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Visiting card, 'Miss Alison Duke'.
Paper. |
|
|
27
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Address book.
Creator: Duke, Alison.
1 volume; Paper. |
|
|
28
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Alison Duke's Girton College blazer with College crest on pocket.
1 item. |
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|
29
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Copy of AD's death certificate.
1 item; Paper. |
8 November 2005 |
|
30
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Programmes, invitations etc. Papers relating to various [non-Girton] events attended by Alison Duke, including dinners, lectures, weddings, church services, sermons, concerts, theatre, etc. The following items in particular are included: Service of Thanksgiving for Victory, British Forces CMF [1945?]; Cambridge University Classical Society and Greek Society programmes; papers relating to the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, 1953; record of speeches made by the Baroness Wootton of Abinger and Mrs C D Rackham at the Golden Jubilee dinner of the Cambridge Branch of the National Council of Women held on 9 July 1962 at the University Arms Hotel, Cambridge; 'Law and Love', a sermon preached on Sunday 5 June 1994 by Dr Priscilla Chadwick (G 1967), at Great St Mary's, Cambridge.
Creator: Various.
1 file; Paper. |
1938–1998 |
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31
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Photographs.
Creator: Various.
1 box; photograph. |
1934–2001 |
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