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THE CHARLOTTE MASON ARCHIVE

The Charlotte Mason Archive held in the Armitt Library and Museum consists of:

i)          60 boxes of archives, together with some loose materials, housed in the secure store in the basement of the Armitt building;

ii)         a collection of books, mainly from the old College library, housed in the restricted access area of the Armitt Library. This collection is catalogued in the Library Catalogue. It contains many books owned by Charlotte Mason, and also copies of most of her published works. There is also a complete collection of the Parents’ Review.

This catalogue refers to the materials held under i) above. The contents of the catalogue are as follows:

A          A chart showing the location of the archive boxes (1-60) on the shelves in the inner secure store in the basement of the Armitt building

B          A catalogue of the materials held in each of the 60 archive boxes. It should be noted that since the boxes have been brought together from different sources there is no overall pattern of organisation. However, most boxes contain materials on one or two topics. Those wishing to follow a particular topic in detail should consult the index (see C below) and/or use the computer search facility on the disc version of this catalogue

C          An index to the above catalogue under the headings of the main persons and institutions contained in the archive.  The index is organised as follows:

            Ambleside Council and Trustees (the governing body of the College until 1961)

            Fairfield 

            Franklin, Henrietta 

            Kitching, Elsie    

            Mason, Charlotte M

                        i) Photographs and Pictures   

                        ii) Manuscripts  

                        iii) Correspondence 

                        iv) Documents

                        v) Other Materials  

            PNEU

                        i) Constitution, Minutes of Committees, etc

                        ii) Teaching Programmes and Examinations 

                        iii) Conferences/Gatherings  

                        iv) Other Materials  

THE CHARLOTTE MASON ARCHIVE

Box CM1

3 pages of newspaper cuttings re PNEU

Photograph of group including Charlotte Mason

Copy of Charlotte Mason’s death certificate

Envelope containing letter re Charlotte Mason’s grave, dated 20.7.32

Various tributes to Charlotte Mason

Copy of picture of Charlotte Mason

Charlotte Mason’s lesson observation note books 1894-99

About 20 copies of Charlotte Mason’s will

2 books: ‘Walks in Hampshire, Kent, etc’; ‘Bradford, Whitby, etc.; London to Berkshire’

2 books of poetry and other notes by Charlotte Mason

Charlotte Mason’s sketch book: ‘Northern Capitals tour with Miss S. Armitt 1897’

‘Jacob Behman’ by Alexander Whyte, inscribed “Miss Mason from Alexander Whyte, May 1895’ (owned by Charlotte Mason)

Letter from Charlotte Mason to Miss King, 1922

2 pages (source not identified) on House of Education

Small notebook of Charlotte Mason, alphabetically arranged, perhaps draft index for a geography book

Blank notebook with clasp

Box CM1(a)

Blue teapot presented to Charlotte Mason on the ‘coming of age’ of the College (1913)

Box CM2

Charlotte Mason’s Diary for 1890; Diary for 1892 (actually a diary printed for 1891); Diary for 1895

Memo book (‘My Mems’) of Charlotte Mason containing thoughts and poems

Green shot silk memo book

Cards marked ‘Mineral baths for Miss Mason’ at Bad Neuheim 1899-1914, at Llangammarch Wells 1915-16, and at Builth Wells 1917-19

Folder marked ‘Cook’s International Travelling Tickets’ belonging to Charlotte Mason, containing prescriptions for medical treatment of CM at Ambleside and at Bad Neuheim

2 small leather folders

Small hymn book inscribed ‘C.M. ‘67’, purchased in Worthing, owned by Charlotte Mason

Book of Common Prayer owned by Charlotte Mason

Book ‘Joyce’s Scientific Dialogues’ owned by Charlotte Mason

Charlotte Mason’s wallet containing visiting cards

Box containing glass-plate photograph of Charlotte Mason

Diary of H. Webb of 6-day visit to Charlotte Mason at Ambleside

Charlotte Mason’s notes for geography books

Charlotte Mason’s note books (A,B,C), notes on grammar, and poems

Box CM3

Envelope headed ‘Miss Mason’s MSS First Grammar Lessons A & B’

Charlotte Mason’s earliest MSS (undated, probably 1870-90), including:

              -  ‘About Words’

              -  ‘A Girl’s Fair Inheritance’

              -  ‘Childhood’s Estate and Other Poems’

              -  ‘The Bringing-up of Johnny Fordyce’

              -  ‘The Greengap Children’

              -  ‘A Public Spirited Bookseller’

              -  ‘Pleasant Introductions’

              -  ‘Our Young People’

Charlotte Mason’s MSS of the Ambleside Geography Books 1880-92, 2 files labelled I and II

Box CM4

‘Parents and Children’ by Charlotte Mason, 3rd edition, 1896, notes and proofs. Also letter from Essex Cholmondeley to Miss Marsden, Ambleside, re publication as a paperback, dated 18 October 1962

‘Ourselves, Our Souls and Bodies’ by Charlotte Mason, MSS and proofs, 2 files labelled I and II

Box CM5

‘School Education’ by Charlotte Mason, 1904, printer’s proofs

‘Some Studies in the Formation of Character’ by Charlotte Mason, 1st, 2nd and 3rd editions, 1905, printer’s proofs

‘Home Education’ by Charlotte Mason, 3rd edition 1906, proofs and notes

Box CM6

‘An Essay Towards a Philosophy of Education’ by Charlotte Mason, 1923, MSS and notes, 2 files labelled I and II

‘Children Are Born Persons’ by Charlotte Mason, first draft and typescript

Draft articles by Charlotte Mason with copy letters to newspapers (c.1910-23)

‘Max Pauli’ by Heinrich Hoffmann, draft revision by Charlotte Mason, in envelope marked ‘Notes by Agnes Drury and Charlotte Mason’

Box CM7

6 BEd degree course submissions, 1980-1

Envelope containing keys

Several School of Education Certificates (blank)

Cine film and covering letter labelled ‘Ambleside’ from William Van Straubenzee

Envelope of negatives for the 1967 Jubilee Exhibition of the PNEU

Envelope marked ‘Miss Kitching’s badge – presented by the Ambleside Old Students’ Association in 1905’ [see also Box CM33]

Folder marked ‘Pied Flycatcher (let’s go out) 5-8-69’ containing a metal stamp

Small book entitled ‘The Golden Thread’ by Norman McCleod, owned by Charlotte Mason

4 notebooks tied together, top one marked ‘August 1931? Miss A Drury’; diaries of Miss Drury and index of Nature Note Books

List of fungi drawings by Beatrix Potter compiled by Miss A Drury

Certificate awarded to Miss A. Millar, 1951

Certificate awarded to May Openshaw, Dec. 1913

Certificate awarded to Margaret Morris, from time of Ellen Parish as Principal

Box CM8

Practising School and Criticism Lesson Reports dated 1959-62 [see also Box CM22]

School Library Additions 1960-64

6 books of Fairfield Examination reports:

              I:           1921-

              II:          1939-44

              III:           1947-51

              IV:           1950-51

              V:           1950-51

              VI:          Few entries for summer 1949

House of Education Nature Note Book of Emma Annie Clark, 1896 (or 1895)

Box CM9

10 Students’ Log Books, House of Education, covering the period 1899-1969 (with some omissions)

Box CM10

Student Enrolment Registers (9) with record of fees paid, from 1891 to 1958, with notebook containing index 1891-c.1948

Box CM11

Programme for Opening of Extensions to College, 25 June 1982

Draft accounts for College as at August 1957

Correspondence (to and from Charlotte Mason) re circulation of educational pamphlets to LEAs, 1916

Miscellaneous notes re members of staff, c.1903-1951

Miscellaneous press cuttings re College, etc., c.1910-1968

Lists of necessaries, applications forms, prospectuses and HMI reports, c.1910-1982

Summaries of receipts and expenditure, House of Education, 1913-23

Correspondence re status of College and post of Principal, 1945-62

Correspondence and notes re accounts of College 1951-58

File re Elsie Kitching (1870-1955)

Inventories and valuations for College, 1938-77 (includes list of archive material held by College c.1977)

 Loose-leaf booklet: A Short Guide to Charlotte Masonry (PNEU) by Pauline Holmes, 1965

Miscellaneous items re Valedictory Ceremony, c.1965

Correspondence and press cuttings re 75th Anniversary Celebrations 1967

Mr Inman’s Christmas Letters, 1967-79

‘The College Crier’ and Rag Magazine, 1968-78

Correspondence re Charlotte Mason archives and artefacts, 1968

Correspondence with/re members of staff, 1949-62

Mrs Franklin’s papers: correspondence and notes re ‘L’Affaire Marofsky’ (the exclusion of a Jewish student from a place at Charlotte Mason College, 1926-27

Childhood memories of Fairfield PNEU School in the 1950s, by Jaqueline Buksh, 1998

Box CM12

4 books tied together, Minute Books of the Trustees of Charlotte Mason:

              -          1923-46

              -          Jan. – Sept. 1923

              -          July 1923

              -          1931-49

Trustees’ legal correspondence re establishment of Trust recognition of the College and purchase of Scale How, 1906-11

Miss Kitching’s copies of Trustees’ correspondence, etc., 1923-35

Trustees’ legal correspondence re Trust, 1923-26

Envelope containing documents relating to purchase of property and land, etc., 1900-1941

Copy of Charter of Lancaster University

Box CM13

Trustees’ legal correspondence, accounts, minutes, etc., 1923-34

Constitution and Regulations of the Ambleside Council and Memorandum of Articles of Association of the Charlotte Mason Foundation (PNEU)

Scale How additions and alterations, plans and building accounts, 1925-35

Miss Kitching’s copies of correspondence re purchase of land from Greenbank Syndicate, 1927-28

File of miscellaneous correspondence re College properties, etc., 1932-47

Correspondence, Minutes, notes, etc., re revision of PNEU Articles of Association 1944-49

Memoranda and Articles of Association, etc. of PNEU, 1892-1961

Box CM14

10 volumes of PNEU Teaching Programmes and Examinations, 1921-68 (but omitting 1949-64)

File marked ‘Form VI Programmes’

Envelope marked ‘Points Exam. Papers’

PNEU Schools’ Programme and Exams. 146, Forms I-VI, 1940

PNEU Schools’ Programmes 222-230, 1965-68

PUS Schools’ Programme and Examination Papers, 1929-32

Box CM15

PNEU: correspondence, newspaper cuttings and other papers re the Hon. Mrs Henrietta Franklin (1866-1964), Hon. Secretary of the PNEU 1893-1964, together with ‘Birthday Book’ containing autographs and greetings of past and present colleagues, 1956, and a file of cuttings of speeches, 1912-56

PNEU: A Short Synopsis of the Educational Philosophy Advanced by the Founder of the PNEU, with revisions proposed by Miss M. Marsden, 1958; also related correspondence

PNEU: Mothers’ Educational Course Examination Certificates, c.1898 (blank)

PNEU: Form VI Reading Certificates (blank)

Scrapbook belonging to Mrs Franklin re the International Council of Women, The Hague, May 1913

Box CM16

2 WES files containing miscellaneous PNEU/WES papers and pamphlets

File of PNEU paper and envelopes

2 copies of Memorandum and Articles of Association of PNEU

5 blue PNEU files with miscellaneous PNEU papers

Green WES file containing miscellaneous pamphlets and leaflets re PNEU

PNEU teaching programmes 1968-77

Box CM17

PUS Diamond Jubilee Magazine, 1891-1951, ed. E.L. Molyneux (first copy printed with 2 others)

PUS 1951 Jubilee Scrapbook of newspaper cuttings and 2 souvenir programmes

PUS and PNEU: Examinations in the PUS (pamphlet, 2 copies)

Book of letters of Miss Francis Power Cobbe, 1876-98

Essex Cholmondeley, The Story of Charlotte Mason, typescript and MSS: 2 files

Miscellaneous papers found in previous item, including:

              -          photograph of Charlotte Mason, 1864

-            newspaper cutting of letter entitled ‘The War and the Teacher’ sent by Charlotte Mason to the Timees Educational Supplement, 2 Feb. 1915

-            souvenir photograph, memento and letter re Golden Wedding Anniversary of Lord and Lady Aberdeen (Joint Presidents of the PNEU), 1927

-            pamphlet re Moral Training given in secondary schools s for girls

-           notes [by Essex Cholmondeley] for The Story of Charlotte Mason, c.1958

-           proof illustrations for above work, c.1958

F. Epps, The British Museum for Children, 1914

W.G. Collingwood, The Fesole Club Papers, being Lessons in Sketching for Home Learners, 1906

Letter from Miss Kitching offering the above two volumes for reprinting, 11 Oct. 1929

4 letters from W.G. Collingwood to Miss Mason re establishment of PNEU correspondence course in art, 11, 19 and 21 Jan. and 28 March 1891

Miscellaneous pamphlets re the training and employment of women, 1928-36

Typed extracts from Mary Yates’s diary, 1907

PNEU posters, 1912

List of PNEU officers, c.1900-51

Box CM18

8 large folios of PUS Scouts Pewit Patrol, c.1910-12

File of correspondence, notes and newspaper cuttings re scouting in PUS and the formation of the scouting movement, 1910-77

Photograph of Lady Baden-Powell and Fairfield Brownies and Guide Cadets, 1949

Guides’ ‘Thinking Day’ cards, 1945-60

Envelope containing Pewit Patrol Badge, 1910-17

Envelope of Scouting press cuttings, 1929

Girl Guide Company Register marked ‘2nd Ambleside Company’

Pewit Patrol notebooks: Book headed ‘Blue-tit’; 2 books bound together with white tape, marked ‘First Pewit Book’

Minute book of meetings of Bantam Patrol, 2nd Ambleside Guide Company

Minute book of meetings of Blue-tit Patrol (1929-32) with loose Guide test card, 1922

Exercise book containing photographs of CMC Guide Cadets, c.1910-60

Register of 2nd Ambleside Guide Cadet Company, Charlotte Mason College, c.1938-48

File labelled ‘A few Pewit records’, 1910-12

Regulations of the PUS Scouts, c.1910

Box CM19

Cumbria Poetry Centre: 44 booklets of poems, 1970s

Box CM20

Photocopies of original archive resources on Ambleside local history from the Armitt Library

Box CM21

5 Green files of drawings of fungi given to CMC by the Community of the Holy Family, St Mary’s Baldslow, Sussex, 1938, drawn and coloured by E. Notley, Oblate CHF

Box CM22

Book labelled ‘Mothers’ Education Course’, giving students’ names and report on examinations, 1891-1900

Mothers’ Education Course registers (2), 1896-1907, 1910-14

Wooden covered College Visitors’ Book, 1898-1968

Scrapbook of student examination papers, 1897-1906

3 exercise books: Cricket scores, College and School matches 1923-41; K. Hugman, Natural History 1922-23; and K. Hugman, Natural History 1923-24

Ledger of College accounts, 1929-30

Small book labelled ‘Presentations to Charlotte Mason College Library, 1940-‘ (last entry 1952)

Report and lesson criticism notebooks, Juniors and Seniors, 1898-1921; 1938-58 [se also Box CM8]

Red exercise book labelled ‘Schemes of Work and Exam. Papers’ (Manchester University 1955-62), with memoranda of College and School staff giving details of age, salary, etc., Jan. and March 1955

Box CM23

Drawing book containing cuttings etc., from Jubilee Gathering 1936

Bundle of certificates of attendance of university graduates at one-year teaching course at House of Education, Ambleside (blank)

Bundle of choral certificates and awards for the Mary Wakefield Festival, Ambleside PNEU School, Fairfield, 1949-59

File re PUS, including 2 account books, draft exam. papers, lit of first PUS members, 1891-2

PNEU notes on the forming of branches, c.1892-1901

PNEU miscellaneous papers, 1892-1965, including PNEU report for 1892

File re PNEU Children’s Gathering at Winchester, 1912

File re PUS badge and motto, c.1915-63

File of miscellaneous PNEU programmes and examination papers and scripts, c.1916

File of examination scripts from various PNEU schools, 1921-22

File of miscellaneous programmes of PNEU annual conferences, PUS Children’s Gatherings and music festivals, with photographs, 1925-37

Register of subscribers to PNEU Reading Course, 1926-31

PNEU school prospectuses: Fairfield, Ambleside; Sneep School, Hexham; Overstone, Northampton; Burgess Hill, Sussex; Queens Gardens, Lancaster Gate, London; also HMI report on Fairfield, 1953; also list of PNEU schools, April 1964

Bound volume labelled ‘Jubilee Gathering, Ambleside, 1936, containing Parents’ Review, March, June and July 1936, and L’Umile Pianta, July 1936

File re PNEU Jubilee Conference, May 1938

Bundle of Mrs Franklin’s correspondence, programmes, guest lists, newspaper cuttings and other papers re PNEU lunches and dinners, 1938-48

Box CM24

Envelope marked ‘F. Yates Pastel: Elsie Kitching 1914’ [see portraits held in store]

Miscellaneous watercolour views and drawings, c.1890-1953

Envelope marked ‘Photos for College archives’ from C. Stewart, mainly from 1972

4 mounted photographs marked ‘Winchester PNEU Gathering 1912’

2 albums of photographs marked ‘PUS Gathering 1936’

Flower lists of flowers recorded on College site and elsewhere, 1900-03, 1932, 1939, 1947-56

Bird lists of birds recorded on College site and elsewhere, 1941-51, 1953-56

House of Education Student’s Nature Note Book, May Openshaw, Scale How, 1912

Folder entitled ‘Ferns from the Lakes’

Dorothy Flower, Index to Nature Note Book, 1926-27

Chalk drawing 1936-37

Box CM25

Art History Course I:

              Folder marked ‘Ethnic Art – American Indian: 19 charts’

              Envelope marked ‘Leonardo da Vinci’

              Folder marked ‘Schools of Siena, Parma, Padua, Rome, Bologna’

Folders marked ‘Florence Pictures’, ‘Perugia’, ‘Genoa’, ‘Lucca’, ‘Pompeii’, and ‘Centona di Pavia’

Folder marked ‘The 3 Bellini Venetian Schools’

              Miscellaneous pictures and plans, etc.

Box CM26

Art History Course II:

              Miscellaneous pictures of religious subjects

              2 unlabelled folders of religious pictures

              Folders labelled ‘Portraits of the Painters’, ‘Florence’, ‘Rome’, ‘Perugia’, ‘Paris’, ‘Tivoli and Roman Campagna’

              Folder marked ‘Schools of Verona, Ferrar, Cremona, Modena,

Box CM27

Art History Course: Items relating to Church and Cathedral Architecture

              Folder of cuttings

              Postcards, some unused, some addressed to Miss Drury

              Postcards, European, mostly French cathedrals

              Miscellaneous booklets and folders relating to cathedrals

Box CM28

Miscellaneous stamps and copper photographic plates

Box CM29

Van Straubenzee collection of mounted and unmounted photographs, 1938-53

Box CM30 (wooden box)

Large glass negative portrait of Charlotte Mason

Envelope marked ‘Art work for T-shirts’

Box CM31 (held separately on stack 8, shelf A)

PNEU plaque

Madeline Lambert plaque

Laura Faunce plaque

Photograph, 26 May 1922, of Miss Mason, Miss Kitching and Lady Baden-Powell

Drawing (photograph) of Dr Helen Webb

Photograph of Mrs Francis Steinthal

3 photographs of Elsie Kitching

Photograph of Mrs Dallas Yorke

Photograph of Charlotte Mason

1 unidentified photograph

Photograph of Mary Hardcastle

2 photographs of Elizabeth L. Molyneux

Print of Ambleside

Triptych

Plate of House of Education Certificate

Postcard of Charlotte Mason College

Box CM32 (small attaché case)

Photograph of Ambleside Conference, April 1946, names on reverse. Also student group 1938

Collection of photographs of groups and outdoor activities given by N. Williamson, together with negatives of Exhibition photographs, 1987

Carved wooden box, provenance unknown, owned by Charlotte Mason?

Box with 5 medals of PNEU/House of Education

Flower list, 1927, by Margaret Deck (?)

Loose Materials on Stack 4, Shelf C

Scale How extensions 1976: architect’s drawings – separately held in stand 4C

Commemorative sign “Planted by Miss Mason…”

Charlotte Mason’s picnic hamper, containing:

              Pencil case (African?)

              Bronze stamp of the House of Education

              PUS tea-pot from the House of Education

              Fringed stole

              Round woven basket (African?)

              Tortoiseshell shoehorn

              Hand mirror

              Tie

3 loose-leaf books containing newspaper cuttings and photographs, marked CM1, CM2, CM3, mainly 1970-79

Photographs of Winchester Gathering 1912

Volume of PUS School Reports, 1880-1956

Certificate from House of Education to Margaret Dick, 1911

Box CM33 (Doreen Russo’s bequest)

Small brown box containing Elsie Kitching’s medal, 1905 [see also Box CM7]

Folder containing History of PNEU/PUS/Scale How: negatives of Exhibition photographs (1987) et al.

Plastic wallet containing reprints of photographs of student groups and activities, 1907-c.1920

Postcards and photographs of Scale How, 1917-c.1930

Plastic wallet of photographs of PNEU Thanksgiving Service 1987

                                          “ PNEU Gatherings 1912-72

                                          “ Fairfield Practising School

                                           “ reprints of two photographs of Charlotte Mason

Burgess Hill School for Girls 1906-86, A Short History by Angela Davies

Various PNEU programmes, etc.

Articles of Association of the Charlotte Mason School Company, 1934

Red and black file: Index to photographs and to negatives of Exhibition: ‘History of the PNEU/PUS/College 1987

Notes by John Inman on PNEU, College, PUS, etc.

Box CM34

PNEU Executive (and other) Committee Minute Book, 1890-99

PNEU Minute Book, 1899-1903

PNEU Minute Book, 1903-08

PNEU Minute Book, 1908-16

File of PNEU Executive Committee Minutes and Agendas (copies), 1956-59

File of PNEU Propaganda Sub-Committee Minutes, 1945-46, 1952-59; and Development Sub-Committee Minutes, 1959-61

File of PNEU Executive Committee Miscellaneous Papers, 1890-1958

File of PNEU Executive Committee Minutes and Agendas (copies), 1950-55

File of PNEU Propaganda Sub-Committee and Development Sub-Committee, 1958-60

File of PNEU Executive Committee Minutes (copies), 1936-39

Box CM 35

Ambleside Council Meeting papers 1923-31

Box CM 36

Ambleside Council Meeting papers 1932-51

Box CM 37

Ambleside Council Minutes 1923-1960

Box CM 38

Trustees of Charlotte Mason, Annual Balance Sheets 1923-47

Sundry PNEU Examination Papers 1938-47

Box CM 39

PNEU Executive Committee Minutes 1925-35

Box CM 40

PNEU Executive Committee Minutes 1936-60

Box CM 41

PNEU Executive Committee Minutes 1916-25

PNEU Executive Committee Draft Minute Books:             1923-34

                                                                        1934-46

PNEU Executive Committee Attendance Books 1914-62

HMI Reports on PNEU Schools c.1947-57 (3 files)

Box CM 42

Miss Pennethorne’s Reports on PUS School Visits:

-                                  June 1933 – December 1934

-                                  January 1936 – July 1937

-                                  September 1937 – August 1939

-                                  Meetings and Interviews 1936 – 1940

Correspondence with Training Colleges (1927)

Correspondence between Mrs Henrietta Franklin and Miss Elsie Kitching (1933-38) et al.

Correspondence re. Teaching post in Barcelona (1968)

Letters to/from Mr Household (1923-51)

PNEU Council Papers and correspondence January 1966 – December 1968

PNEU Jubilee 1936

PNEU Jubilee 1938

Box CM 43

PNEU Annual Reports:

-                                  1892-96

-                                  1897-1901

-                                  1902-06

-                                  1907-11

-                                  1912-16

-                                  [1917-19 missing]

-                                  1920-26

PNEU Jubilee Dinner 12 May 1938, Table List

The Children’s Quarterly: October 1909, July 1910, July 1911, and April 1912

College Cash Books:

            I: 1923-36 + Ledger

            II: January 1937 – April 1942

            III: April 1942 – January 1947

File of miscellaneous items (perhaps from Elsie Kitching?)

Box CM 44

[Mostly in PNEU envelopes]

Correspondence re PNEU AGMs 1958, 1959, 1960

Desmoor School, Ewhurst, School List 1946-

Burgess Hill School, Overstone

Miscellaneous letters in alphabetical file

Correspondence re recognition of CMC qualification

Charlotte Mason’s letters to Mrs Knittel(?)

Correspondence re Miss Clough and her school at Eller How

Manuscript drafts of 6 letters by Charlotte Mason

Charlotte Mason’s correspondence with Kegan Paul (publisher)

MS of “Akerue in Erehwemos”

Typescript of Charlotte Mason’s letters to students (in L’Umile Pianta) [2 envelopes]

Correspondence re “A Liberal Education for All”

Typescript of various letters of Charlotte Mason to the press etc. [4 envelopes]

The PUS and secondary schools

Correspondence between Charlotte Mason and Dr Knittel re translation into German of Home Education Series

Letters re “The Basis of National Strength”

Article on Women’s Employment

Letters re Miss Wix’s work in PUS elementary schools

Letters from Charlotte Mason to Henrietta Franklin

Miscellaneous letters from Charlotte Mason, including her last letter, dated 4.1.23 [to Mr Household]

Loose materials:

            Small file on conditions for schools using PNEU programmes

Article on “Classics in Elementary Schools” from Yorkshire Observer Budget of 15.3.19

            Article on The House of Education by K.R. Hammond

Box CM45

File containing copies of minutes and papers of the Council of the Charlotte Mason Foundation, Jan. 1951 to March 1955, property of Miss E. Molyneux

Various loose papers re. Council of the Charlotte Mason Foundation 1958-9

Blue file (labelled ‘G. Walton: correspondence’) of correspondence between Miss Hardcastle and members of Council, 1958-61

Board of Education Syllabus for Training Colleges, 1927

File of Regulations and Syllabuses, University of Manchester School of Education, 1949-51

In brown paper wrapping:

-     correspondence on affiliation with Manchester University 1949-50

-     information submitted for College inspection, October 1948

In brown paper wrapping: miscellaneous items (re. Council?) 1946-60

Box CM46

Photograph album: PNEU Conference 1930

Red file labelled ‘Dorothy Cooke’s Pictures – Children at Ibadan, Nigeria’ (from 1953), but also containing many other photographs of the College, students and PNEU pupils

Blue file containing photographs of Charlotte Mason and of Scale How

Photographs of ‘National Nature Week, May 1964’

Photograph album: ‘The Book of the Barn 1928-9’, showing reconstruction of the Barn

Envelope containing 8 copies of photograph of Charlotte Mason

6 loose sepia photographs of Lakeland scenes

Envelope containing glass photographic plate and 2 prints of John Ruskin and Sir Henry Acland

Large album of photographs of College students 1893-1936

Album ‘1932’ (Conference)

Raffia packet of ‘Pictures of College and environment’

Album (with pink ribbon) of miscellaneous photographs (c.1900)

File of loose photographs of College, students and pupils 1900-45

Box CM47

Dissertation by G.J. Childs, St. Paul’s College, Cheltenham: ‘The Educational Philosophy of Charlotte Mason’ (no date)

Dissertation by Valerie Hetzel, Brighton College of Education, 1975: ‘A History of the William Davison Church of England High School for Girls, Worthing’ [deals fully with Charlotte Mason’s time as a teacher at this school 1861-73]

Questionnaires on the future of the PNEU, March 1969

PNEU Correspondence Course, Parts II, III and IV

PNEU Correspondence Course: file of correspondence 1927-63

Green file of miscellaneous correspondence (property of Mrs Franklin?)

PNEU file; ‘ Notes on Posting, Advertising, Executive Committee, Filing’

File of ‘Correspondence with Chairman & other members of the Council…’ 1961-4

PNEU: History (miscellaneous items)

            Diamond Jubilee: letters, etc.

PNEU: ‘Notes on how to form Parents’ Associations’

PNEU: Rev. Pott (correspondence 1948-9)

PNEU: Mrs Woolley: Sicily correspondence

PNEU: List for AGM invitations, 1962

PNEU: Nursery School Campaign Leaflet, 1962-3

File: ‘Ambleside: Principal (Molyneux & Kitching): correspondence – Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, 1959

PNEU: Blue book: ‘First Enquiries’, Jan. 1964 to June 1967

Box CM48

Box file of “Photos taken at PNEU Jubilee Festival at Ambleside 1932”

PNEU file of correspondence on “Triennial Conference” 1960

PNEU file of correspondence on “Heads of Schools Meeting” 11 April 1962

PNEU file on “Development Sub-Committee Agenda and Minutes 1960-1”

Loose Minutes of “Propaganda Sub-Committee” (PNEU) 1946

Sundry loose press cuttings

File of notes from ‘Who’s Who’ 1923 on Charlotte Mason

Articles of Association of PNEU 1921, 1960, 1961

Articles of Association of the Charlotte Mason Schools Co. 1929, 1934

“The Monkey Club” prospectus (1920s?)

Envelope of letters to Mrs Franklin from pupils of Overstone School, June 1962

Elsie Kitching 1870-1955: Recollections (PNEU 1956)

Envelope of “Correspondence re School Posts 1962/3”

Envelope of “Old PNEU Reading Course”

2 blue exercise books: “House of education: Examinations” and “Students’ Final Exams.” 1892-1902

Envelope of “House of Education leaflets before 1923”

“The PNEU from a Parent’s Point of View”, Mrs J.H. Tasker (PNEU)

“Some Suggestions for the School Curriculum of Girls and Boys under 14”, Charlotte Mason (PNEU 1906)

Sundry booklets on PNEU

Proof copy of “Second PNEU Reading Course”

Purple file: “PNEU Reading Course – correspondence and exam. papers

Box CM49

Fairfield PNEU School Ambleside prospectus (1950s?)

Exercise book: “Jubilee Fund; Library Fund”

Correspondence with Miss Wix and Miss Curry 1950-60 on student exams.

Loose correspondence with International Friendship League and Inter-Varsity Fellowship re holiday use of Springfield 1948-50

File on “Property – Greenbank Cottage” 1948-51

File on “Property – TAX” 1952-4

File on Council Minutes 1943-55 (not complete)

File on “Insurance” 1950-55

File on “Property – Rank Roods Field” 1952-3

File on “Heelis and Son” 1946

File on “Tennis Court Fund” 1956-7

Loose papers on wages etc. (1940s – 1950s)

File on “Finance: lettings of College for Summer Courses etc.” 1946/7

Loose papers on insurance 1936-8

PNEU Articles of Association 1960

File (“Archive”) on Fairfield School 1960-62

File on “Property” 1936-55

A4 wallet (grey) “Misc. Papers” (1940s)

4 files bound together, all labelled “Important! Do not destroy: Archives/Research Materials” on Youth Leader Training (1966-75)

Box CM50

Wallet of copies (transcripts?) of letters from Charlotte Mason (to Henrietta Franklin?)

Proof copy of “A Brief Account of the Life and Work of Charlotte Mason” by E. Kitching (PNEU)

File on “Replies to Membership Drive Letter” (1959)

PNEU Advertisements (1959)

File on Roslyn Hopekirk (1939-40)

Clipped collection of “Principal’s Reports” 1955-9

File on “Council – Old Correspondence” 1953-9

Envelope of PNEU Council Papers 1960-1

File on Isobel Druce (1951-2)

File on Marguerite Darnsley (1951-3)

File on Nina Cox (1951-3)

File of reports on “Special Studies” (1954-9)

File on “Hill Top Incident” June 1957

Envelope of “Examples of Exam. Papers under Manchester University” 1950s and 1960s

File on “Temple” [i.e. Col. Temple, Council adviser on buildings] including Greenbank Cottage, correspondence and estimates

Envelope “Schedule of Insurance” 1958

Charlotte Mason Foundation Accounts 1956 and 1957

File (“Petrie”) on PNEU accounts etc. 1958-60

File on “Council – Current Correspondence” 1955-9

File “E.C. Clarke” – correspondence with Director of Education for Westmorland on transfer of College to LEA control (1961)

File of “Nature Note Book Reports” 1951-6

File of “Art and Craft Reports” 1952-9

File “Record of 2 Days Visit of Col. Temple on Buildings” 1955

Box CM51

Proof copy of “Home Education”

Charlotte Mason’s manuscript of “Book Review for the PR 1922”

“Illustrations to ‘The Saviour of the World’”

“Mrs Francis Steinthal 1886”

Press cuttings of PNEU Conference etc. 1905

Reviews of Charlotte Mason’s books

Letters to Charlotte Mason on Whitsuntide Conference 1922

Notes from Canon Rawnsley

Notes on “An Essay towards a Philosophy of Education” to Elsie Kitching

Reviews of “An Essay towards a Philosophy of Education” 1924

Elementary teachers’ meeting at Scale How 1905

Notes by Charlotte Mason: list of visitors for servicemen; a book of extracts

Syllabus for a Conference on RE by Charlotte Mason

Envelope containing:            Mrs Clement Parsons and Ourselves

                                                Mrs Franklin and University Training

                                                Mrs Franklin and Miss Lazarus’ book

Loose file: Charlotte Mason’s MS of “The PUS – Subdivision of Classes”

“The last proofs which Miss Mason corrected before she passed away. December 1922”

Booklet: “Some Impressions of the Ambleside Method: arranged by Charlotte Mason (PNEU)

First proof of “Home Education”

Envelope containing:            Cutting from Daily Mail of 2.4.1907 on Charlotte Mason

                                                Cutting from Parents’ Review

                                    Miss Mason and Mr C.W. Bradley

Envelope containing:            Letters to Charlotte Mason about the Yorkshire Experiment 1916

Letters from Miss Parish about the Gloucestershire Experiment 1917

Special meeting and legal opinions taken on the controversy of 1895 on the objects of the PNEU

Various letters to Charlotte Mason 1904-19

1894: controversy on objects of PNEU

Letters to Charlotte Mason 1894

Charlotte Mason’s “Prefaces to Undine”

Memorandum and Articles of Association of PNEU 1921

Various PNEU booklets

Mothers’ Education Course: Examinations

First edition of “The Basis of National Strength” (1913) by Charlotte Mason

Final corrector’s proofs of “Children as Persons” by Charlotte Mason

Notes for the Gloucester Conference of the PNEU (1925)

Reviews of “40 Shires” by Charlotte Mason

Envelope containing Parents’ Review July 1906 and July 1912

Charlotte Mason’s notes to The Times, with thanks for the publication of “The Basis of National Strength”

Reviews of “Parents and Children”

Reviews of “Home Education”

Charlotte Mason’s MS “Opinions and Principles”

Letters (to Elsie Kitching) about letters written by Charlotte Mason, with a letter from a student of Charlotte Mason at Bishop Otter College (1923)

PNEU Council Papers 1965-6

Box CM52

Summer let of Fairfield:             Inventories 1946-9