Subfonds 784 - Papers of Bertha Gwendoline Wright

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Add. MS a/784

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Papers of Bertha Gwendoline Wright

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  • 1900-1983 (Creation)

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3 boxes: MS; typescript; photocopies; photographs.

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Wright, Bertha Gwendoline (1897-1985), writer, model maker and artist
(1897-1985)

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Trinity College Library, Cambridge

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Received from Bertha Wright via her nephew Philip Gaskell, Librarian of Trinity College, Sept. 1983.

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Manuscript of Bertha Wright's autobiography 'Bad Aunt Bertha, or, A Puritan's Progress', with photocopies and typescript copies. Loose photographs of Bertha Wright. Letters from her father Philip Baker to her stepmother Lillie Dell. Also present is a photocopy of Ralph Wright's journal, Apr. 1947-May 1951.

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