Janus: Personal Papers of Bessie Rayner Parkes

Girton/GCPP Parkes 6 contains:
6A	Letters from Sarah Atkinson to BRP
6B	Letters from Anna Jameson to BRP and others and associated material
6C	Letters from BRP to Kate Jeavons
6D	Letters from BRP to Anne (Nannie) and Isabella (Belle) Leigh Smith
6E	Letters from BRP to Mary Merryweather
6F	Letters from Mary Merryweather to BRP
6G	Letters from Lady Jane Shelley to BRP and associated material
6H	Letters from Julia Smith to BRP
6I	Correspondence between BRP and George Eliot and related items

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Personal Papers of Bessie Rayner Parkes

Title	Letters from BRP to Kate Jeavons
Reference	GCPP Parkes 6C
Creator	Parkes, Bessie Rayner
Covering Dates	1846–1854
Extent and Medium	14 items; paper

Content and context

GCPP Parkes 6/49-62.

Girton/GCPP Parkes 6C contains:

6/49

BRP to Kate Jeavons, London. Concerns girls' education and girls being taught responsibilities; reminiscences re Leam School and the Field family. Typescript copy, 3pp.
Creator: Parkes, Bessie Rayner.
1 item, 3pp; paper.

15 May 1846

6/50

BRP to Kate Jeavons, Hastings. Reminiscences re Leam School and the Field family. Typescript copy, 3pp.
Creator: Parkes, Bessie Rayner.
1 item, 3pp; paper.

24 Jan. 1847

6/51

BRP to Kate Jeavons, Brighton. BRP's opinion of R W Emerson; BRP's early experiments with photography; BRP compares unitarianism with other doctrines. Ms, pp 1-2, with typescript copy, pp 3-7.
Creator: Parkes, Bessie Rayner.
1 item, 7pp; paper.

11 Nov. 1847

6/52

BRP to Kate Jeavons, Hastings. Re. Elizabeth Blackwell being the first woman doctor; also personal and physical characteristics of Barbara Bodichon; reminiscences re Leam School and the Field family. Ms, pp1-3, with typescript copy, pp 4-7.
Creator: Parkes, Bessie Rayner.
1 item, 7pp; paper.

8 Mar. 1849

6/53

BRP to Kate Jeavons, Leam. Reminiscences re Leam School and the Field family. Ms, p 1(1 page missing), and typescript copy of whole letter, pp 2-6.
Creator: Parkes, Bessie Rayner.
1 item, 6pp; paper.

6 June 1849

6/54

BRP to Kate Jeavons, Hastings. Reminiscences re Leam School and the Field family; BRP's comments on political economy of J S Mill. Ms, p 1, with typescript copy, pp 2-6.
Creator: Parkes, Bessie Rayner.
1 item, 6pp; paper.

7 Nov. 1849

6/55

[BRP] to Kate Jeavons, Hastings. Reminiscences re Leam School and the Field family.
Creator: Parkes, Bessie Rayner.
1 item; paper.

8 Mar. 1850

6/56

BRP to Kate Jeavons, Hastings. Reminiscences re Leam School and the Field family; also BRP admires D G Rossetti and 'The Blessed Damozel' in The Germ. Ms, pp 1-5 (1 page missing), with typescript copy of whole letter, pp 6-11.
Creator: Parkes, Bessie Rayner.
1 item, 11pp; paper.

17 Apr. 1850

6/57

[BRP] to [Kate Jeavons]. Typescript copy of a fragment of a letter.
Creator: Parkes, Bessie Rayner.
1 item; paper.

10 Oct. 1853

6/58

[BRP] to [Kate Jeavons]. Typescript copy of a fragment of a letter.
Creator: Parkes, Bessie Rayner.
1 item, 3pp; paper.

7 Dec. 1853

6/59

BRP to [Kate Jeavons], London. Concerns BRP's changing views on marriage; dedicating her life to the causes of women. Ms, pp 1-3 (pages missing), with typescript draft of whole letter, pp 4-7.
Creator: Parkes, Bessie Rayner.
1 item, 7pp; paper.

5 Jan. 1854

6/60

BRP to [Kate Jeavons], London. BRP on duty towards society.
Creator: Parkes, Bessie Rayner.
1 item, 2pp; paper.

8 Jan. 1854

6/61

BRP to [Kate Jeavons]. Concerns Dr Duke, the Parkes family physician, a convert to Roman Catholicism; also BRP's desire to earn money. Ms, p 1, with typescript copy of part of same, p 2.
Creator: Parkes, Bessie Rayner.
1 item, 2pp; paper.

6/62

[BRP] to [Kate Jeavons]. Typescript fragment of a letter.
Creator: Parkes, Bessie Rayner.
1 item; paper.