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Sample Page

ABC/21-1
Series

Part of Architectural Books Collection

Sample Page

ABC/21-2
Series

Part of Architectural Books Collection

Sample Page

ABC/21-3
Series

Part of Architectural Books Collection

Amateur Scraps

ALL/1
Series
1885-1888

Part of Herbert Allingham

Editions of the unpublished monthly journal of the Amateur Library Society. The Society was established by sisters Nellie and Lilian Robinson who lived in Warkworth Road, Cambridge. The Society usually had about a dozen members, men and women, some of whom were undergraduates at the University. Herbert Allingham was a member and regularly contributed to the magazine. The journals include lists of members, Society rules, literature and sketches. Incomplete series.

Fragments

ALL/10
Series
nd [1885-1935]

Part of Herbert Allingham

Unidentified fragments of otherwise untraced texts.

Correspondence

ALL/11
Series
[1886]-1935

Part of Herbert Allingham

Correspondence, including business letters to Herbert Allingham, copy letters from Herbert Allingham, scraps of paper. The series also includes correspondence to Margery and Emmie Allingham. The content of each letter has been transcribed or summarised.

Photocopies

ALL/12
Series
[1914-1927]

Part of Herbert Allingham

A4 photocopies 1914 - 1927 - various marked P on Appendix 1 list. Also some illustrative photocopies eg Books for Tommy in the Trenches (Woman's Weekly)
A4 photocopies - miscellaneous, including several by Em Allingham or Em + Herbert (often as Tess Allan wood)

A3 photocopies
File for Christian Globe
Package re boys papers (inc Barrington's Fag)
People's Journal serial openings & other 1920s serials
Home Mirror Story 1927 (the first for Anne Cooper)
File for AP serials - including an example of Martin Steel and 12 lady detectives, a series to which HJA contributed. Also including a story by Harold Garrish HJA's first AP editor

File including samples of Em Allingham's stories for the Christian Globe + HJA serials for The Miracle
1894 - How the Sunday Companion is produced Other material re Sunday Companion, Home Companion, Family Journal and Picture Show

Miscellaneous, non HJA - includes Answers article by Stead 'Howe to Become a Journalist' + material from Puck, Butterfly, Young Folks Paper,

Non-HJA photocopy first issues of Tit-Bits and Answers

Boy's Stories