Papers of Lady Kathleen Harvey Simon

This material is held atBodleian Library, University of Oxford

  • Reference
    • GB 161 MSS.Brit.Emp.s.25
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1927-1951
  • Name of Creator
  • Language of Material
    • English.
  • Physical Description
    • 33 boxes

Scope and Content

Correspondence, notebooks, newspaper cuttings and papers dealing with slavery, including lectures and articles written by Lady Simon. Also a few papers connected with other interests such as the Zionist movement.

Administrative / Biographical History

Lady Kathleen Harvey Simon, DBE (1933), was Joint President of the Anti-Slavery Society from 1944-1945.

Access Information

Bodleian reader's ticket required.

Note

Collection level description created by Marion Lowman, Bodleian Library of Commonwealth and African Studies at Rhodes House.

Other Finding Aids

The library holds a card index of all manuscript collections in its reading room and a handlist is also available for this collection.

Listed as no. 33 in Manuscript Collections (excluding Africana) in Rhodes House Library, Oxford, compiled by Louis B. Frewer (Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1970).

Conditions Governing Use

No reproduction or publication of personal papers without permission. Contact the library in the first instance.

Personal Names