Early life, school, and home

This material is held atSt John's College Library Special Collections, University of Cambridge

  • Reference
    • GB 275 Woollen/1
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1895-1907
  • Physical Description
    • 1 folder, paper, photograph

Scope and Content

Covers the period that WHW attended the Lavender Hill Board School and Ipswich Grammar School. Includes school reports and certificates, newspaper accounts of school speech day 1907 and King Edward VII's proclamation from Ipswich Town Hall in 1901, school magazines, letters from WHW to his mother whilst on a trip to Cambridge in 1902, manuscript juvenile magazines written by WHW, a handwritten programme for a school dramatic entertainment, an issue of the Lady's Gazette from 1904, a music manuscript book given to WHW by his father in 1895, congratulatory postcards to WHW following success at school, and one photograph of WHW as a schoolboy.

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