WOMEN'S

Comprising: ONE. An unbroken run of 18 issues of the Association's reports from 1923 to 1940, with the three issues for 1945, 1953-1954 and 1956-1957 (including a duplicate of the 1931 issue. TWO. Four issues of 'List of Members, Committees and Representatives' (each including 'Proceedings of Annual General Meeting'), 1938-1939, 1939-1940, 1949-1950 and 1951-1952. All 26 items published by the Association of Head Mistresses, 29 Gordon Square, WC1 [London]. 1923-1957.

Comprising: ONE: Bye-Laws. [1897.] 4pp., 12mo. Stitched into pink printed wraps. With application form (1p., 4to) loosely inserted. Fifteen bye-laws, with manuscript emendations reading 'altered 11.11.05' and 'altered 10.11.06'. TWO: Memorandum and Articles of Association. Registered the 1st Day of December, 1897. Busk, Mellor & Norris, 45 Lincoln's Inn Fields, W.C. (London: Printed by Charles North, The Blackheath Press, S.E.) 31pp., 8vo. In grey printed wraps. The only copy on COPAC at the London School of Economics.

4pp., small 4to, stapled top left corner, good condition. The second page is on 'Scholarship Examinations' (referring to an examination to be held in March 1916), and the third on 'Subjects for Examination'. The last page is headed 'Entrance Examination.' Attached to a prospectus (2pp., small 4to) headed 'St. Hugh's College, Oxford.' No publication details. [Oxford, c.1916?] Unfortunate misprint in last sentence: 'Students who have fulfilled certain conditions of residence and examinations ['may' inserted in manuscript here] become members of the College.' No copies on COPAC.

35pp., 8vo. Stapled. Including a 'Report from Oct. 1913 to Oct. 1914'. Pp.12-35 carry a 'List of Past and Present Students'. No copy on COPAC.

27 + xvii pp., 8vo. In grey printed wraps. Stapled, good condition.. Containing a 'Report of the Council, June, 1922-May, 1923', lists of council and committee members, and of those to whom degrees have been awarded. Pp.14-27 carry a list of 'Past and Present Undergraduate Members'. Pp.i-xvii is a list of members, with addresses. No copy on COPAC.

University of Oxford. St. Anne's Society, Musgrave House, 1 South Parks Road, Oxford. No publication details. [Oxford.] 1947. 2pp., 8vo. Prospectus, divided into sections headed 'The Society', 'Applications', 'Residence' and 'Expenses'. No copy on COPAC.

Conditions of Admission. First page headed in manuscript 'Recd. May, 1915.' 4pp., 12mo. Bifolium. Attached to two items. First: Regulations required for B.A. Degree, Oxford. No publication details. [Oxford, c.1915.] 1p., 12mo. Second: a prospectus (1p., 8vo) headed Somerville College, Oxford. No publication details. [Oxford, c.1915.] With list of senior members (the librarian's name altered in manuscript from 'Lucy Kempson' to 'M. GILES.' No copies of any of the three on COPAC.

59 + [1]pp., 8vo. In grey printed wraps, good condition. Containing a 'General Report for the Year ending Michaelmas, 1924.' Pp.35-55 carry a 'List of Members of the College, November, 1924.' No copy on COPAC.

4pp., 8vo. Bifolium, fair condition. No copy on COPAC.

31pp., 8vo. In grey printed wraps, good condition. The only copies on OCLC WorldCat at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France and Stanford.

8pp., foolscap 8vo. Stapled. Heavily worn. Three copies on COPAC.

Five issues, dated 1909, 1911, 1912, 1913 and 1915. Ranging from 159 to 237pp., 8vo, each with additional pages of advertisements, and each in red printed wraps. The first two issues in poor condition, with detached signatures and heavily-chipped covers loose. Each volume containing papers from a range of individuals (including the Countesses of Aberdeen and Jersey, Mrs Edwin Gray, Rev.

88pp., 12mo. Printed front cover on blue paper, loose. In poor condition, worn and aged, with damage from rusty staple. No copy on COPAC.

14pp., 8vo. In green printed wraps. Stapled, good condition. The only copy on COPAC at Leeds.

. No publication details. 11pp., 12mo. Stapled. Good condition No copy on COPAC.

Full title: 'Women in the Civil Service. Copy of Regulations for Competitions governing the Appointment of Women to Situations in the New (Reorganisation) Classes in the Home Civil Service,and with regard to the Appointment and Employment of Married Women in Established Situations.' 2pp, foolscap 8vo. Bifolium. In fair condition, on aged paper, with wear to extremities and a couple of small rust stains. Shelfmark, stamp and label of the Board of Education Reference Library, London. Four copies lsited on WorldCat, one on COPAC (LSE).

2pp., 8vo. Handbill. In fair condition, on aged, creased and worn paper. Shelfmarks (of the Board of Education Reference Library, London). Discussing the proposals: 'Differentiation on Account of Sex', 'Differentiation on Account of the Age of Pupils', 'Differentiation on Account of Area' and 'Allowances over and above Scale Salary'. Scarce: no copy on OCLC WorldCat or on COPAC.

8pp., 4to. The final page carrying an advertisement for the magazine. On worn and aged paper, with stamp, labels and shelfmark of the Education Department Reference Library [Educational Museum]. Scarce: no copies found on COPAC or OCLC WorldCat.

4pp., 12mo. Bifolium. In fair condition, on lightly-aged paper, with damp tide mark across the two leaves. 92 lines of closely-written text, regarding Lynd's book 'Irish and English' (London: F. Griffiths, 1908). The letter begins: 'My dear Robert | I have purchased (please commend this virtuous action) and read your book "Irish and English" and now write to congratulate you on its quality. It has this, sections of it are quite admirable.

50pp., 12mo. In light-blue boards, with white label on front board carrying title and illustration of sickle with sheaves of lavender. Internally good, on lightly-aged paper, in worn and aged boards. Uncommon: only three copies on COPAC (British Library, Oxford and National Library of Scotland), with a further four in American institutions on WorldCat. Farmar's only other book appears to have been 'Castles in Spain' (1907). She also produced the lyrics to a song titled 'Bluebell-time', with music by Ruby Holland.

2pp., 16mo. Bifolium. Good, on lightly-aged paper. Written with the essence of Victorian tact. 'We shall be extremely glad if you can give us the evening of the 7th. instead of the 5th. and I trust you will permit us to consider you engaged to us for that night - 8 oClock - | I am grieved to think that my note should have reached you at a time of grief. Thank you for kindly consenting to come.'

4pp., 16mo. Bifolium. 57 lines of closely-written text. In fair condition, on aged and worn paper. She begins by exclaiming 'I have been so very sorry for you!', before urging her correspondent to 'keep quarantine'. 'But about Isabel? [...] I would gladly take her to stay here as I have done beforetime - but there are some impediments - we must have complete separation between our house & yours - Mr Harris's dread is indescribable - he lost his wife & (I think) two sisters with scarlet fever. I think they wd.

Written over 13 lines on both sides of the 9 x 11 cm card. In good condition, on lightly-aged paper. 'Dear John, | I do feel ashamed of having been so rude to my fellow guest yesterday - It was a dreadful thing to do! The fact is I am, I suppose, very touchy about Time & Tide - ridiculously so really - I don't think he had read it - but after all why should he, poor man - I really wasn't very fair - | Please forgive me - except for feeling that I had behaved abominab[ly], just at the end, I thoroughly enjoyed my most excellent luncheon'.

7pp., 12mo. Stapled and unbound. In fair condition, on lightly-aged paper, with rusted staples, and shelfmarks, stamp and label of the Board of Education Reference Library. Scarce: no copy in the British Library or on COPAC.

1p., 12mo. In good condition, on aged and worn paper, folded twice. Written in a late Victorian or Edwardian hand. The 'Address' is an interesting survival: the sort of ribald saloon-bar joke through which male opponents of the movement sought to tame it through ridicule. Similar examples survive, attributed to Lady Astor speaking in parliament, but this version clearly predates these. Here is a transcript of what is a concentrated dose of double-entendre: 'Mrs.

In its obituary of Prunella Stack the Guardian describes the League as 'the most innocuous of the interwar mass fitness movements': the present item would indicate otherwise. The prospectus is printed on both sides of a 25 x 31 cm. piece of shiny art paper, irregularly folded to make a 25 x 15 cm. front cover, flanked by two 25 x 7.5 cm flaps (with the front of one listing the members of the committee, and of the other the League's rules).

SCORE: [4] + 75pp., 4to. In printed wraps with decorative cover and advertisements. A fair copy, on aged paper, in worn and chipped wraps repaired at the spine. Unusually positive and forward-looking for its period, on the subject of women in the workplace. Note on reverse of title: 'The writer of the Libretto wishes to acknowledge his obligations to "Work and how to do it," by Mrs.

The two documents are on 33 x 24 cm pieces of vellum, and are pinned together. Both in very good condition. Both are printed forms, made out by the signatory. Bramwell's certificate begins (with the manuscript portions in square brackets): 'These are to Certify that on the [Twenty eighth] day of [March] in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-[one] before me the undersigned [Sir George William Wilshere Bramwell Knight one of the Barons of Her Majestys Court of Exchequer] Appeared personally [Catherine Stein] the Wife of [Peter Stein] and produced a certain Indenture marked [A]'.

3pp., 12mo. Bifolium. Good, on lightly-aged paper, with short closed tear at head of second leaf. She begins: 'I was so disturbed and disappointed when I came in on Tuesday to find I had missed you. And I believe you had been kind enough to call when we ought to be, and almost invariably are in - after 4.

2pp., 12mo. Aged, creased and worn. This would appear to be the first printing of Havergal's best-known hymn. The poem is printed on one side, within a decorative border, and with the title in fancy type. Printer's slug at foot of page beneath border. The reverse is filled with biblical texts, under the heading 'Consecration.' Within the a similar border, beneath which: '25 copies, post-free 4d.' Havergal's inscription is at the head of the page bearing the poem: 'J. W. | From F. R. H. Jany 19, 1876.' No other copy traced, either on COPAC or WorldCat. From the Jane Williams papers.