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Collection Level Description: Papers of Lady Kathleen Harvey Simon

Reference: GB 0162 MSS.Brit.Emp.s.25
Title: Papers of Lady Kathleen Harvey Simon
Dates of Creation: 1927-1951
Extent: 33 boxes
Name of Creator: Kathleen Harvey Simon

Language of Material: eng


Administrative/Biographical History

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

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 Information

Access Conditions

Bodleian reader's ticket required.

Reproduction Restrictions

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

Further Information

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).

Access Points

Simon | Kathleen | d 1955 | 2nd wife of 1st Viscount Simon

Slavery

Anti-slavery Society (Great Britain)

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04 January 2012
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