Girton/GCPP Parkes 1 contains:
1A	Autobiographical material
1B	Family and biographical sketches
1C	Poems etc
1D	Miscellaneous and fragments
1E	Bound volumes

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Personal Papers of Bessie Rayner Parkes

Title	Bound volumes
Reference	GCPP Parkes 1E
Creator	Parkes, Bessie Rayner
Covering Dates	1843–1883
Extent and Medium	8 volumes; paper

Content and context

GCPP Parkes 1/29-36. Including poetry, notebooks and journals.

Girton/GCPP Parkes 1E contains:

1/29

Poems. Poems written between June 1846 and Feb 1847. Paginated and indexed.
Creator: Parkes, Bessie Rayner.
1 volume; paper.

1846–1847

1/30

Poems. Poems written between Aug 1847 and July 1849. Listed. Begins with 'The Argument' introduction and poet's role.
Creator: Parkes, Bessie Rayner.
1 volume; paper.

1847–1849

1/31

Poems. Poems written between 1855 and 1856 entitled 'Gabriel' (These poems were published under the same name by John Chapman, London, 1856) and dedicated to MMH.
Creator: Parkes, Bessie Rayner.
1 volume; paper.

1855–1856

1/32

'Book of Abstracts 1847'. Paginated and indexed. Includes extracts from:. Kitto 'Travels in Persia'. Sismondi 'The Italian Republic'. Gibbon 'Decline and fall of the Roman Empire'. Robertson 'History of Charles V'. George Combe 'Moral Philosophy'. Lyell 'Elements of Geology'.
Creator: Parkes, Bessie Rayner.
1 volume; paper.

1847

1/33

'Abstracts of Sermons, Lectures etc'. Written between 1843 and 1883. Partly paginated and listed. The abstracts of sermons are to page 42, thereafter are reports of lectures (on 'Domestic Life' and one in support of the Metropolitan Early Closing Association) and on page 47 a parable, 'Filia' possibly written by Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon.
Creator: Parkes, Bessie Rayner.
1 volume; paper.

1843–1883

1/34

Notebook. Inscribed 'To my friend Barbara Leigh Smith'. The first section is a short story, with a preface written in September in 1847, 'Minny or the Eldest Daughter'. Blank pages used by Hilaire Belloc as a child.
Creator: Parkes, Bessie Rayner.
1 volume; paper.

1847–1885

1/35

Journal for [1853-1854]. Incomplete, pages torn out.
Creator: Parkes, Bessie Rayner.
1 volume; paper.

1853–1854

1/36

Journal. 'Journal of a month in Normandy in the Autumn of 1846' incorporating 'Journal of a week in Paris.. 1846' and 'Journal of a tour up the Rhine into Switzerland.. 1845'. Illustrated and paginated.
Creator: Parkes, Bessie Rayner.
1 volume; paper.

1845–1846

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