| Girton/GCPP Strong contains: |
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| 1 |
Personal and biographical records |
| 2 |
General correspondence |
| 3 |
Individual correspondents |
| 4 |
Strong correspondence |
| 5 |
Chatsworth |
| 6 |
British School at Rome |
| 7 |
Publications, lectures and working papers |
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Personal Papers of Eugenie Strong
| Title |
Personal and biographical records |
| Reference |
GCPP Strong 1 |
| Creator |
Strong, Eugenie |
| Covering Dates |
1877–1955 |
| Extent and Medium |
5 boxes; paper |
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| Content and context |
This section includes diaries, biographical and autobiographical notes, photographs, personal artefacts, correspondence relating to subjects of personal as opposed to academic interest, obituaries of ES, and some of Arthur Strong's personal papers. It is arranged broadly chronologically, with papers of AS placed at the end of the sequence [GCPP Strong 1/23 - 1/28]. |
| Girton/GCPP Strong 1 contains: |
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1
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Diaries and calendars. Chiefly engagements, with some comment. Also including some cash accounts in volumes for 1895 and 1898.
Creator: Strong, Eugenie.
33 volumes in 1 box; paper. |
1895–1940 |
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2
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Autobiographical notes. Covers the following: 1) Arrival in Rome in 1909 to take up the post of Assistant Director of the British School at Rome; 2) Time at Chatsworth including description of Arthur Strong's work there - 7pp ms; 3) Childhood - 4pp ms; 4) 'Roman Years' - 7pp ms, ca. 1943; 5) Chronology of events; 6) Chronological notes 1919-34 - 13pp ts; 7) 1911 - account of work of ES and AS at Chatsworth - 12pp ts 'in the form of a letter, a few of the facts which stand out clearest in my memory ', to 'Mr Holland' (ms reference at top of p.1 to B. Holland 'The Life of the Duke of Devonshire' 1911); 8) Post-Girton years, teaching, Greek drama and early training in archaeology in Germany - 10pp ms; 9) Social and political notes on life in Germany 1892-97 - 6pp ts; 10) Draft preface for an autobiography - 2pp ms; 11) Draft of part of a chapter on childhood? - 3pp ms.
Creator: Strong, Eugenie.
1 file; paper. |
1911–1943 |
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3
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Domus. Chronology of events and activities in ES's life. Not in ES's hand.
Creator: Strong, Eugenie.
1 file; paper; Manuscript. |
1882–1909 |
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4
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Photographs of Eugenie Strong.
Creator: Strong, Eugenie.
2 files; photograph. |
1877-circa 1940 |
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5
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Photographs of friends and colleagues of ES. Including: Adolf Furtwangler (sepia x 4, 1 as an older man with his daughter?); Vernon Lee / Violet Paget (sepia photo of drawing); Thomas Ashby (2 x b/w snaps, also b/w snap with modern b/w copy and negative); Katharine Jex-Blake with sister (sepia carte de visite); Katharine Jex-Blake (sepia carte de visite, with modern b/w copy and colour transparency); Professor Leigh (b/w); A H Smith (b/w); Mr and Mrs Stevens (head of American Academy, Rome - b/w snap); Axel Boethius (b/w); Ludwig Curtius (b/w, profile); Mary Lowndes (sepia, head and shoulders with modern b/w copy, 35mm slide and neg.); Professor Traube (b/w, with modern b/w copy and neg.); Lord Rennell Rodd (sepia, with modern b/w copy and neg.).
Creator: Strong, Eugenie.
1 file; photograph. |
1890–1920 |
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6
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Photographs of clerical friends and colleagues of ES. Including: 'Dante's Beatrice', 1897, otherwise unidentified; Cardinal Merry del Val (sepia, mounted, with modern b/w copy and neg.); Cardinal Gasquet, 1919 (b/w, with modern b/w copy and neg.); Mgr Algernon Stanley, Bishop of Emmaus (sepia carte de visite); Madeleine Tardieu, Asst. Secretary at the British School at Rome, 1923; Warburg, 1927 (b/w, head and shoulders); Axel Boethius, 1934 (b/w, head and shoulders); Fokker, 1922 (sepia, head and shoulders); Lord Bryce (sepia, head and shoudlers); Humphrey Johnson (b/w, full length, in clerical robes).
Creator: Strong, Eugenie.
1 file; photograph. |
1897–1934 |
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7
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Photograph of a drawing of ES. Photograph of an 1898 drawing, by Alphonse Legros, of ES, with related correspondence between Philip Leigh-Smith and Mary Cartwright (Mistress of Girton), 1955 (2 letters only, re said photograph and also re offer to the National Portrait Gallery of a portrait of ES).
Creator: Strong, Eugenie.
1 file; photograph. |
1955 |
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8
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Photographs of ES's flat at 35 Via Balbo, Rome. 5 sepia prints, one showing ES seated at her desk, head turned away from camera, each 18cm x 24.5 cm (one of the photographs has been cut in two).
Creator: Strong, Eugenie.
1 file; photograph. |
1940 |
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9
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Photograph of gravestone of ES in Rome. B/w postcard - 2 copies with negative.
Creator: Strong, Eugenie.
1 file; photograph. |
1943 |
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10
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Pocket sketchbook.
Creator: Strong, Eugenie.
1 item; paper. |
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11
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Postcards. Unused postcards (ES's personal stationery), reading 'Greetings from XXXV Via Balbo', with an illustration entitled 'Praesepe Romanum'.
Creator: Strong, Eugenie.
1 file; paper. |
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12
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Letters of sympathy to ES on the death of Arthur Strong. File 1: A-K; File 2: L-W.
Creator: Strong, Eugenie.
2 files in 1 bundle; paper. |
1904 |
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13
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Love Lane correspondence. Correspondence concerning the proposed demolition of a house in Love Lane, City of London, thought to have belonged to Sir Christopher Wren, and attempts, including those of ES, to ensure its preservation.
Creator: Strong, Eugenie.
1 file; paper. |
February 1906-April 1906 |
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14
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Mallet Fund. ES's appeal on behalf of Mme Etienne Mallet's fund for sending necessaries and comforts to soldiers from the invaded districts of Northern France: correspondence, papers and press cuttings, including list of financial contributions; copy extracts from some soldiers' letters; and some letters to ES from Blanche Mallet.
Creator: Strong, Eugenie.
1 file; paper. |
1915–1919 |
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15
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Les Etudes d'Art Romain et Madame Eugenie Strong. An appreciation of ES's work by Alice Lion, published on the occasion of the publicationof 'Art in Ancient Rome'.
Creator: Strong, Eugenie.
1 file; paper; Printed. |
1927 |
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16
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CBE and Serena Medal. Press cuttings re award to ES of CBE for services to archaeology in the New Years honours list of 1927 and telegrams and letters of congratulation re same; also 1 letter of congratulation from Harold Idris Bell, 14 July 1938, on the award to ES from the British Academy of the Serena Gold Medal for Italian Studies. . [Includes 3 colour photographs of the CBE, taken by Peter Sparks in 2012].
Creator: Strong, Eugenie.
2 files; paper. |
1927–1938 |
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17
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Medals. 1) Studium Urbis, 1935 Rome; 2) Castrum Ursinum, 1934; 3) Universitatis Catanensis..., 1934; 4) Il Governatore di Roma ad Eugenia Strong, 1938; 5) Regia Lynceorum Academia..., 1928; 6) Serena Gold Medal of the British Academy for Italian Studies, 1938; 7) CBE, 1927.
Creator: Strong, Eugenie.
6 items in boxes; metal. |
1928–1938 |
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18
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Honorary membership card of the British Federation of University Women.
Creator: Strong, Eugenie.
1 item; paper. |
March 1934 |
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19
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ES's last illness and death. Correspondence and papers re illness, death and burial; also re ES's estate. Collected by ES's sister Charlotte Leigh-Smith. Include CL-S's own correspondence with various people re ES's illness and death, including several letters to CL-S from Axel Boethius and Mother Mary Amadeus. Also copy of ES's will giving a large part of her estate to the British School at Rome. Also sketch of ES in death, dressed in the tertiary habit of the Dominican Order.
Creator: Strong, Eugenie.
1 file; paper. |
1943–1953 |
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20
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Obituaries of ES and memorial articles.
Creator: Strong, Eugenie.
2 files; paper. |
1943–1949 |
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21
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Katharine Jex-Blake's papers re ES. Chiefly papers duplicated elsewhere, eg bibliography of ES's works, 1938, and an obituary, 1943; also letter to KJ-B from Gladys Scott Thomson, 14 Jan 1945, re the latter's memoir of ES, and a note by KJ-B on ES's life, 1945.
Creator: Strong, Eugenie.
1 file; paper. |
1938–1948 |
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22
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Correspondence between K T Butler [Mistress of Girton] and Charlotte Leigh-Smith [sister of ES]. Concerns deposit of medals and papers of ES at Girton, 1948-49; also KTB's rough inventory of ES's papers at Girton, 1949.
Creator: Strong, Eugenie.
1 file; paper. |
1948–1949 |
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23
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Certificate of attendance by Arthur Strong at a mathematics class and passing of an examination at King's College London 1880-8.
Creator: Strong, Eugenie.
1 certificate; paper. |
1881 |
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24
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Testimonials for Arthur Strong.
Creator: Strong, Eugenie.
2 files; paper. |
1885–1894 |
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25
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Curriculum vitae of Arthur Strong. Very brief chronology of dates of various events in AS's life, 1863-97.
Creator: Strong, Eugenie.
1 page; paper; Manuscript. |
1897 |
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26
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Photographs of Arthur Strong's family and friends. Anna Strong [AS's mother], 1892 (head and shoulders, profile); R. Gomperz?, undated (inscription in German on back); 1 unidentified, undated; 1 unidentified, undated (in clerical dress, taken in Oxford, possibly Thomas Strong, brother of AS).
Creator: Strong, Eugenie.
4 photographs in 1 file; photograph. |
1892 |
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27
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Obituaries and memorial articles for Arthur Strong, 1904-05; also commemorative booklet re unveiling of a bust of AS at Univesity College, London 6 July 1905.
Creator: Strong, Eugenie.
1 file; paper. |
1904–1905 |
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28
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Bookplates. Sample bookplates for University College, London's 'Arthur Strong Oriental Library 1905'.
Creator: Strong, Eugenie.
1 file; paper. |
1905 |
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29
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Certificates of degrees, diplomas etc. Including LLD St Andrews University 1897.
Creator: Strong, Eugenie.
4 items in 1 roll; Paper. |
1897–1924 |
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