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Personal Papers of Kathleen Mary Peace
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Personal Papers of Kathleen Mary Peace |
| Reference |
GBR/0271/GCPP Peace |
| Creator |
Peace, Kathleen Mary, 1904-1974, Secretary to Girton College, Cambridge |
| Covering Dates |
1910–1971 |
| Extent and Medium |
4 boxes; paper |
| Repository |
Girton College Archive, Cambridge |
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| Content and context |
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Kathleen Mary Peace was born in Cambridge on 24 April 1904, where her father was Fellow and sometime Bursar of Emmanuel College, and University Printer 1916-1923. They lived at 1 Wollaston Road. She attended the Perse High School for Girls, and was a College Scholar at Girton 1923-26 where she read Mathematics under the direction of Frances Cave-Brown-Cave. She gained a Class II degree, followed by an MA in 1930.
After her degree, she attended a secretarial course in London. She returned to Girton in 1927 to become Assistant to the College Secretary, Mary Clover, whom she succeeded in 1933. She was Secretary to the College Council and all its committees, and responsible for the Entrance and Scholarship Examinations. She was made a Staff Fellow in 1936, Life Fellow in 1964, and was Member of College Council from 1945. She was Honorary Treasurer of the 'Girton Review' 1935-63.
She contributed several obituaries, book reviews and articles to the 'Girton Review', a notable history being an account of an outbreak of smallpox at the college in 1878, which ended in a libel case. In 'Smallpox and Slander', she relates the story of how a Mr Farren, who took in students as lodgers at his house near to the college during the outbreak, brought an action against an American student called Miss Minturn who had complained of 'terrible smells from neglected drains' at his house. Miss Mintern won the case.
Her sense of humour is reflected in her own verse, sketches and anecdotes, where she parodies college meetings and protocols, along with those of colleagues, which she also collected.
She retired to Ticehurst in Sussex in 1964, and died suddenly on 14 March 1974.
The papers comprises a diverse collection of notes and writings on philosophy, religion and ethics, from 1936-48 with critical responses from Helen Wodehouse; verses; college papers; letters; leaflets, and other miscellaneous ephemera and artefacts.
These papers were found in College by Poppy Jolowicz, who succeeded Kathleen Peace as Secretary to Council. The transfer to the Archive is not documented.
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Copyright in Kathleen Peace's writing presumed to be held by her heir/s.
Please cite as Girton College Archive, Cambridge, Personal Papers of Kathleen Mary Peace, GCPP Peace
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| Further information |
This collection was sorted and entered onto Cantab by Anna Crutchley, an Archive volunteer, January 2011. |
| Index Terms |
| Poetry |
| Peace, Kathleen Mary (1904-1974) Secretary to Girton College, Cambridge |
| Girton/GCPP Peace contains: |
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School records.
Creator: Various.
2 items; Paper. |
1910–1920 |
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2
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Verse and songs.
Creator: Peace, Kathleen M; Various.
7 items; Paper. |
1912–1950 |
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3
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Religion, ethics and philosophy.
Creator: Peace, Kathleen M; Various.
8 files; Paper. |
1926–1954 |
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4
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Publications by or about Girton and Girtonians.
Creator: Various.
10 items in 1 file; Paper. |
1935–1969 |
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5
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College Records.
Creator: Various.
6 files; Paper. |
1937–1971 |
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Photographs. A collection of photographs related to Girton, consisting mainly of colleagues and college staff:. 1) Sepia portrait of Miss Allen, not dated . 2) Sepia photograph of Lionel Storrs in uniform, not dated [the photograph is tarnished with a silvered surface]. 3) Unidentified woman by a lake, sepia, 1921. 4) 5 black and white photographs of the Rehearsal of 'Rappresentazione di anima e di corpe' ('Body and Soul'). The photographs taken in rose garden outside hyphen gate, 8 June 1949 [copies are at GCPH 7/1/13]. 5) Black and white photograph of the Tower with students walking by the corner of the Stanley Library, not dated [circa 1940s], taken by the Pictorial Press. 6) Black and white photograph of the members of domestic and garden staff, July 1944, taken by Stearn & Sons. 7) Black and white photograph of Bertha Jeffreys leaving the Senate House after reading the lists as Chairman of Examiners for Parts II and III of the Mathematical Tripos, June 1948. 8) Black and white photograph of Historians at Girton: Janet H Matthews, Marjorie M Chibnall, Jean Lindsay, Helen M Cam and M G Jones, Summer 1948. 9) Black and white photograph of Wendy J R Sadie inside talking to Sylvia J Lightburne through a window, October 1948. 10) Black and white photograph of Emily Hills in the Portress's Lodge, October 1948. 11) Black and white photograph of Norah C Jolliffe in her room giving a supervision to Classics Students, October 1948. 12) Black and white photograph of three students in gowns cycling down the front drive towards the Tower, October 1948, taken by the [Keystone Press Agency?] . 13) Black and white photograph looking across the College pond towards the College buildings, not dated. 14) 2 black and white photographs of The Queen Mother outside the Senate House, 21 October 1948, taken by Fox Photos Ltd. 15) Black and white photograph of the College Governors, May 1954, taken by Stearn & Sons. 16) Black and white photograph of the Girton College Dons gathered for Rosemary Murray's farewell party, summer 1954, taken by Stearn & Sons. 17) Colour photograph of Kathleen Peace, Helen I McMorran, Helen D Megaw, Audrey N M Rich in the Senate House Yard, 25 June 1960. 18) Colour photograph of Harry and Marjorie Holland in Russia, 1960. 19) Black and white photograph of Harry and Marjorie Holland, September 1961. 20) Colour photograph of Joan Bennet, September 1961. 21) Black and white photograph of the farewell party for May Hales, December 1961, taken by Stearns. 22) Black and white photograph of Christine Clarkin and Mary Prime, 1962. 23) 2 black and white photographs of the College Dons [slightly different shots], possibly taken on the occasion of Helen I McMorran's farewell party, 27 June 1962, taken by Stearn and Sons. 24) 3 colour photographs of room B3, July 1964. 25) Black and white photograph of Mrs Garner and Helen I McMorran in a [College] kitchen, 1967, taken by Mrs Bamber Gascoigne. 26) Colour photograph of Mrs Garner in a [College] kitchen, 1967. 27) 2 colour photographs of Helen I McMorran in the Mistress's flat, 1967.
Creator: Various.
1 file; photograph. |
1921–1967 |
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Peace family papers.
Creator: Peace, T R; Peace, James Bennett.
4 files; Paper. |
1923–1961 |
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Ephemera & Artefacts.
Creator: Various.
11 items; Paper. |
1925–1968 |
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