Papers relating to Bangor Schools

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(a) Inquiries concerning the number of girls attending Bangor elementary schools and the number likely to enter an Intermediate School for Girls (with answers from attendance officer and Heads of Schools); answers from proprietors of Bangor private Schools for girls concerning terms, subjects taught, examinations taken etc.; notices of preliminary meetings re. establishing a Girls' School; letter from A.H.D. Acland from Clynnog (9 December 1890); letters from Bishop Lloyd against proposal to utilise part of palace grounds for site (October 1893); list of subscriptions promised but not paid (1894); letter from J. Allanson Picton describing an interview he had with Mr Bruce at the Board of Education over the scholarships problem (18 October 1904)

(b) Rebutters of Sir Henry Lewis to the attack on the administration of the School (English tone, lack of Welsh atmosphere, discouragement of working-class girls in matter of scholarships etc.) by Mr T.J. Williams, Headmaster of St Paul's School (1901)

(c) Estimates and accounts of the school for 1897, 1901-1905

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