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Correspondence

Correspondence received by June Hutton (née Shires), including Christmas and good luck/congratulation cards/telegrams from friends and family (one of which contains a sprig of dried heather), receipts, and letters from (amongst others) matron Muriel Powell. Also includes a 2006 cover letter addressed to Carol McCubbin from Brenda White (who donated items on Hutton's behalf).

Correspondence

Correspondence relating to the commemoration of Muriel Powell, much of it addressed to her sister Winifred Pickthorne. Correspondents include Terry Gould, Doreen Norton, Cecily Wade, Heather Bond (on behalf of the Nurses' League), etc. Also includes a few letters from a Mary [surname not mentioned] from 1977 (i.e. before Powell's death), an annotated catalogue of the contents of Powell's house (1979, two copies), and information about an appeal from the Alzheimer's Disease Society (1982).

Daphne Chynoweth

Items (mostly photocopies) donated by/relating to Daphne Chynoweth (née Kinch), including:

  • typed recollections headed 'Priliminary [sic] Training School' and 'Atkinson Morley Hospital'
  • report on 'October 1951 Set Reunion: Tenterden, Kent'
  • annotated printouts of scanned photographs taken in 1950s
  • photocopied correspondence (with St George's Hospital, General Nursing Council, Royal College of Nursing, etc. – originals 1950s)
  • copy of 'Oxford Ward Junior Plan' (instructions for night duty on ward)
  • copy of St George's School of Nursing certificate (original 1954)
  • photocopy of signed nurse's belt with transcribed list of names
  • photocopied/transcribed poems, 1950s

Dorothy Jack

Items relating to Dorothy Jack, donated by her niece Gillian Wilson, including:

  • cover letter to Carol McCubbin from Wilson, explaining that Jack 'worked from 1946 on the Maternity Ward at Hyde Park Corner, I think as a kind of lay assistant, and kept mementoes of her grateful patients', 27 Jul 2005
  • cards and letters of thanks sent to Jack from patients/parents, c.1940s-1950s
  • press cuttings about St George's staff (including the nurses' team winning a tennis cup) or the hospital's maternity ward (including stories of notable births), c.1940s-1950s
  • 'Just Between Us Preemies' – booklet of cartoons drawn by American nurse Yvonne Shannon, promoting the Isolette infant incubator, c.1950s
  • programme for funeral of superintendent midwife Margaret Stiles, 1960

Educational records and employment correspondence

Documents relating to Joan Nash's education and employment, including:

  • school reports (Nonsuch County School for Girls, Surrey), 1938-1942
  • certificates from St George's Hospital, General Nursing Council, Central Midwives Board, West Middlesex and Chiswick Hospitals, and University of London, 1950-1960
  • correspondence with St George's Hospital (including Muriel Powell and Eileen Rees), South West Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board, Department of Health, World Health Organization and others, 1951-1986
  • University of London exam paper and pass list for the sister-tutor's diploma, 1960
  • CVs, job application forms/descriptions and accompanying notes, 1960s-1970s
  • copy of St George's Hospital 'General Rules for Student Nurse', nd
  • cover letter (card) from Peter Newman Brooks, 9 Jan 2006

Elaine Frew

Items donated by/relating to Elaine Frew (née Bursnell), including:

  • envelopes containing St George's offer letter with accompanying correspondence (signed by Muriel Powell) and details of entry, 1959-1960
  • Record of Practical Instruction and Experience for the Certificate of General Nursing, 1961-1963
  • St George's School of Nursing Library membership card, c. 1961
  • programme for Evensong and Dedication of Altar Frontal at Hyde Park Corner, 12 Jun 1961
  • preliminary state examination card, 1962
  • St George's Hospital cloth badge, c.1960s
  • letter to Frew from Heather Bond of St George's Nurses' League, 14 May 1999

Grove Hospital

File labelled 'Fever and Tropical Fevers' containing the following:

  • correspondence between Grove Hospital sister tutor Margaret Thomas and the Hospital for Tropical Diseases (enclosing syllabus of lectures), Jun 1957
  • correspondence from the General Nursing Council, 1952-1957
  • transcripts and correspondence from former trainees, 1949-1953
  • receipts for books and stationery, 1940s-1950s
  • envelope labelled 'Fever Papers' containing GNC exam papers for fever nurses, 1955-1959
  • quarterly ward report forms and blank record of training form, 1940-1952
  • test paper from trainee nurse Grace Bradford, c.1940s

'In memoriam' file

Items retained by Nash in an 'In memoriam' file, including:

  • service programmes for funerals (of Philip Constable, Beatrice Dodwell, Brenda Mee, Muriel Powell, and Eileen Skellern) and commemorative events (St George's Day; Florence Nightingale Commemoration Day), 1978-1986
  • correspondence from Muriel Powell, Joan Clague and Phyllis Friend, 1966-1980
  • press cuttings of obituaries (of Powell and Dame Catherine Hall [the latter not originally in this folder, but stored loose]), book reviews, news items (about Margaret Scott Wright), etc., c.1976-1996
  • programme for 'Opening of St George's Hospital and Medical School by Her Majesty The Queen', 6 Nov 1980

Janet Brown

Items donated by/relating to Janet J. V. Brown, including:

  • Record of Practical Instruction and Experience for the Certificate of General Nursing, 1961-1963
  • envelope containing congratulatory letter to Brown from K. M. Carver, Travelling Secretary of King Edward's Hospital Fund for London, 4 Jul 1960
  • correspondence from St George's Hospital (Muriel Powell) and the General Nursing Council, 1960-1962
  • GNC examination card, 1962

Julie Hull

Items donated by/relating to Julie Hull (née Julia Kemp), including:

  • information sheets about St George's School of Nursing, c.1950s
  • class photograph annotated on reverse with names of students and their subsequent employment, c.1950s
  • St George's Hospital booklet of regulations for 'Medicines, Poisons and Dangerous Drugs' (with additional page of 'Duties of the Staff Nurses' inserted), 1951-1953
  • four letters from Muriel Powell, 1952-1957
  • General Nursing Council state examination papers and instructions to candidates, 1955-1957
  • programme for St George's Hospital Dramatic Society Christmas pantomime 'In Witch We Swerve', Dec 1955
  • St George's Hospital General Nursing course completion certificate, Dec 1956
  • envelope containing GNC certificate of registration and St George's certificate of one year service as staff nurse, 1957-1958
  • Royal College of Nursing certificate of admission to membership, Aug 1957
  • Central Midwives Board certificate of training in the administration of inhalational analgesics, Jul 1958
  • programme for Middlesex Hospital 57th annual variety concert, Oct 1958
  • letters from Hull to Dr [Elizabeth] Scott (about Muriel Powell) and the Honorary Secretary of St George's Nurses' League, 1998-1999

Lady Livingstone/Muriel Powell funds

Papers relating to charitable funds operated by St George's Nurses' League (and continued with the League's funds after its cessation), including:

  • correspondence about Lady Livingstone Fund, Jun 1982
  • proposals for a Dame Muriel Powell Award Fund and related correspondence, 1984-1987
  • meeting minutes (including discussion of the 'winding up' of the League and related notes, 1983-1986
  • St George's Nurses' League income and expenditure account statements, 1983
  • correspondence about applications for the Powell Award and the future of the fund (enclosing account statements), 1992-1994
  • copy of interview with Muriel Powell and memo announcing her memorial service, 1976-1979

Letters

Five miscellaneous letters written by Florence Nightingale over several decades, apparently collected as memorabilia and with no obvious connection to St George's:

  • letter describing her experiences with the Deaconesses of Kaiserwerth, Germany [written double-sided on thin paper, so difficult to read], c.1850
  • letter relaying a message from Lady Canning that 'no more nurses are required at present in the East', 19 Jul 1855 [enclosed in card frame]
  • letter to Dr C. B. N. Dunn, requesting that he intervene with the overseer of a mill so that a girl who works there might be relieved of 'stooping work', and complaining about an uncooperative servant, 3 Nov 1880
  • letter to 'Messrs Mitchell' complaining about the quality of white bread ['it has often been not baked enough: quite pale-faced the crust'], 21 Oct 1885
  • Christmas greeting to a Miss Dr Macdonald, 26 Dec 1893
  • two envelopes addressed to Nightingale, one bearing the seal of the Crown Princess of Germany, c. 19th century [mounted on board]

Mary Frayling

Items donated by/relating to Mary Frayling (née Leaning), including:

  • postcard from assistant matron Grace Hickie, Dec 1945
  • Christmas cards (including from St George's Nurses' League), c.1960s-1980s
  • three St George's Day evensong service programmes, 1974-1980
  • Country Life article on 'Future of St George's Hospital' by Marcus Binney, 11 Nov 1976
  • correspondence from J. A. Leeves (Nurses' League treasurer) and Olive Walden Jones, 1979-1980
  • invitation and programmes for St George's 250th anniversary thanksgiving service, 1983
  • press cuttings about redevelopment of St George's Hyde Park Corner site as hotel, 1980s-1990s
  • photocopied extract from 'Home from Sea' by Joy Packer, nd
  • identification badge worn at reunion, nd

Medical School Council Minutes and Papers

Minutes of meetings of the Medical School Council. Papers relate to staffing, salaries, funding, committees, costs, curriculum, prizes, examinations, new buildings and facilities, and various other matters.

In 1907 the Medical School Council merged with the Medical School Committee. There was further reorganisation of the medical school administration in 1945 which led to the vision of the Medical School Committtee into a new School Council and an Academic Board. The new School Council met for the first time in October 1946.

St George's Hospital Medical School, London

Minutes

Includes:

  • St George's Hospital Nurses' League Minute Book, 1951-1985
  • letter from Honorary Secretary Ann M. Hewson (Dec 1985) about the closure of the League, enclosing typed minutes for the 1985 Autumn meeting (with related correspondence, 1985-1986)

Nurses' League Newsletter

Issues of St George's Nurses' League Newsletter for 1971, 1973 and 1976 (unnumbered series); 1996 (no 9); and 1998-2004 (nos 14-18, 20-23, 26). Also includes cover letters to library staff from Honorary Secretary Heather Bond (2000-2004), some of which enclose additional event information.

Papers relating to John Hunter

The collection relates to Hunter’s dispute with St George’s Hospital and the division of pupils’ fees among the surgeons, which Hunter perceived as unfair, arguing he brought in more pupils than the other surgeons. The dispute culminated in a meeting in Oct 1793 at the hospital, during which Hunter suffered a heart attack and died.

In addition to the papers relating to the dispute, there are some additional notes, some collected by Charles Hawkins and some by George Edwards. These include copies of two letters from John Hunter’s pupil James Williams to his sister, describing working with Hunter, dissections and the work of the so-called ‘Resurrection Men’, and describing Hunter’s death. These were acquired apparently from a descendant of Williams by Edwards; the location of the original letters is unknown.

Patricia Cobb

Items donated by/relating to Patricia Cobb, including:

  • correspondence between Cobb and St George's Chief Nurse Judy Anderson about donating prints of the hospital, Jul 1999
  • 6 prints/engravings (mixture of originals and facsimiles) of the St George's Hospital building at Hyde Park Corner, c.19th-20th century [one is dated 1831]
  • press cuttings about the Lanesborough Hotel, including a photograph of the building and a restaurant review by Jonathan Meades, c.1980s-1992

Peggy Dean

Two letters to Peggy Dean (née Dunstan) from Muriel Powell (May-Sep 1952) with accompanying envelope and index card recording the donation to the archive (in 1999)

Royal Masonic Hospital

Correspondence between teaching staff in the schools of nursing at the Royal Masonic Hospital (Ravenscourt Park) and St George's Hospital relating to study programmes for Royal Masonic students on secondment to St George's for paediatric training. The letters are accompanied with copies of proposed study day programmes and timetables.

Royal Richmond and related hospitals

Correspondence, separated with alphabetical dividers, relating to requests for references/transcripts from nurses who trained at the Royal Hospital, Richmond or occasionally other hospitals in the Kingston Group (Surbiton and Kingston). Copies of transcripts and original training records are sometimes enclosed.

St George's Nurses' League

Papers relating to St George's Nurses' League, including:

  • minutes and agendas of League meetings, with accompanying correspondence and notes, 1978-1985
  • (proposed) constitution and bye-laws, 1980-1994
  • envelope of correspondence (including four photographs) from Patricia Cranston (aka 'Crannie'), Ann Hewson, Olive Walden Jones and others, 1981-1985
  • correspondence and programmes relating to the 250th anniversary of St George's, 1983
  • text of a speech to League members by Trevor Clay on 23 Apr 1990
  • cards featuring the 'St George's – Then and Now' watercolour painting by Audrey Hammond, with explanatory key, 1990-2000s
  • League membership lists and reunion correspondence, 1993-2003
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