Introduction
A
Correspondence and papers of Sir John Fischer
Williams (1870-1947)
B
Papers of Marjorie Hay Williams née Murray
(1886-1943)
B.1 Letters from Sir John Fischer Williams,
1910-43
B.2 Miscellaneous Correspondence,
1886-1950
C
Correspondence and papers of Jenifer Hart née Williams,
1914-2005
C.1 General correspondence,
1930-2004
C.2 Letters and cards,
1935-1941
D
Personal correspondence and papers of Jenifer Hart,
1912-2005
E
Papers, 1932-2003
F
Memorial Service
| Abstract: Correspondence and papers of Jennifer Hart (1914-2005), civil servant and historian, and of her father, John Fischer Williams (1870-1947), international lawyer. |
John Fischer Williams (1870-1947) was an international lawyer. His daughter Jenifer Hart (1914-2005) was a civil servant and historian, and wife of Herbert Lionel Adolphus Hart (1907–1992), legal philosopher. Further details of both are in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (for Jenifer see under H.L.A. Hart).
Oxford, Bodleian Library [followed by shelfmark and folio or page reference, e.g. MS. Eng. c. 7472, fols. 1-2].
| Letters to John Fischer Williams from his wife
Marjorie née Murray, 1910 Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 7472 Extent: 126 leaves |
| Letters to John Fischer Williams from his wife,
1911 Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 7473 Extent: 133 leaves |
| Letters to John Fischer Williams from his wife,
1912-4 Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 7474 Extent: 135 leaves |
| Letters to John Fischer Williams from his wife,
1915 Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 7475 Extent: 65 leaves |
| Letters to John Fischer Williams from his wife,
1916 Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 7476 Extent: 137 leaves |
| Letters to John Fischer Williams from his wife,
May - July 1917 Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 7477 Extent: 152 leaves |
| Letters to John Fischer Williams from his wife
Marjorie, Aug. - Oct. 1917 Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 7478 Extent: 172 leaves |
| Letters to John Fischer Williams from his wife,
Feb. - Aug. 1918 Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 7479 Extent: 191 leaves |
| Letters to John Fischer Williams from his wife
Marjorie, Sept. - Nov. 1918 Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 7480 Extent: 138 leaves |
| Letters to John Fischer Williams from his wife,
1920, 1924 Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 7481 Extent: 169 leaves |
| Letters to John Fischer Williams from his wife,
1925-43 Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 7482 Extent: 219 leaves |
| Bound typescript copy of correspondence between
Sir John and his wife, Feb. - Oct. 1918 Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 7483 Extent: 250 leaves |
| Letters to and from their children,
1914-44, n.d. Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 7484 Extent: 138 leaves |
| Photocopies of letters to Sir John from Lady
Courtney, 1921-3 Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 7485 Extent: 244 leaves |
| Photocopies of letters to Sir John from Lady
Courtney,1924-7, n.d. Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 7486 Extent: 344 leaves |
| Typescript copies of correspondence between Sir
John and Lady Courtney, 1922-3, with an introduction by
David Hubback, 1988 Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 7487 Extent: 146 leaves |
| Typescript copies of letters to Lady Courtney
from Sir John, 1925-7 Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 7488 Extent: 223 leaves |
| General correspondence, 1891-1939,
n.d. arranged chronologically, except fols. 1-61, letters from
Paul Harvey,
1919-45 Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 7489 Extent: 148 leaves |
| Mainly copies of letters of congratulation to
Sir John on receiving his knighthood, 1923 Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 7490 Extent: 74 leaves |
| Personal and miscellaneous papers,
1893-1946, n.d. Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 7491 Extent: 146 leaves |
| Diaries, 1886-1914,
n.d. Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 7492 Extent: 7 items |
| Lecture notes on Plato in the hand of J.F.
Williams, 1896-1930, with (fols. 1-2) a letter to
H.W.B. Joseph
from J.A. Smith,
1928 Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 7493 Extent: 195 leaves |
| Printed material,
1884-1935 Shelfmark: MS. Eng. d. 3818 Extent: 6 items |
|
Oct. 1910 - Mar. 1911
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 7494 Extent: 134 leaves |
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Apr. - June 1911
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 7495 Extent: 124 leaves |
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July 1911-12
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 7496 Extent: 74 leaves |
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1913-14
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 7497 Extent: 167 leaves |
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1915 - July 1916
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 7498 Extent: 143 leaves |
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Aug. 1916 - May 1917
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 7499 Extent: 114 leaves |
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June - July 1917
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 7500 Extent: 116 leaves |
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Aug. - Oct. 1917
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 7501 Extent: 118 leaves |
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Feb. - July 1918
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 7502 Extent: 143 leaves |
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Aug. - Oct. 1918
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 7503 Extent: 106 leaves |
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May - July 1919
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 7504 Extent: 118 leaves |
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Aug. - Oct 1919
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 7505 Extent: 102 leaves |
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1920
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 7506 Extent: 87 leaves |
| 1921-32, 1943,
including (fols. 146-59) diary of a Greek holiday, 1935, in letter
form Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 7507 Extent: 170 leaves |
| Correspondence including (fols. 1-131)
family letters and personal papers, 1886-1917 and
(fols. 132-74) general correspondence, 1905-50,
including (fols. 143-54) letters from Leonard
Huxley, 1907-10 Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 7508 Extent: 175 leaves |
| Ablett-Brownlie Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 7509 Extent: 216 leaves |
| CUP-Feiling Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 7510 Extent: 189 leaves |
| Felkin Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 7511 Extent: 94 leaves |
| Fisher-Murrill Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 7512 Extent: 186 leaves |
| JW from Moorsom Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 7513 Extent: 85 leaves |
| Moorsom from JW Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 7514 Extent: 160 leaves |
| National-Plamenatz Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 7515 Extent: 154 leaves |
| Pool Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 7516 Extent: 137 leaves |
| Poore-Thompson Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 7517 Extent: 123 leaves |
| Warnock-Zuckerman Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 7518 Extent: 126 leaves |
| Unidentified Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 7519 Extent: 120 leaves |
| Letters of congratulation: (fols. 1-58)
first class degree, 1935; (fols. 59-89) Civil Service
Exam, 1936; and (fols.90-126) engagement and marriage,
some addressed to Sir John and Lady Williams,
1941 Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 7520 Extent: 126 leaves |
| Postcards Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 7521 Extent: 152 leaves |
| Mainly Christmas cards Shelfmark: MSS. Eng. c. 7522-3 Extent: 285, 292 leaves |
| Letters from her parents,
1916-43 Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 7524 Extent: 195 leaves |
| Miscellaneous family letters,
1930-2003 Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 7525 Extent: 164 leaves |
| Personal papers, 1920-2005
including (fols. 232-56) tributes to Jenifer Hart,
2005 Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 7526 Extent: 264 leaves |
| School and university exercise books,
1928-35 Shelfmark: MS. Eng. d. 3819 Extent: 3 items |
| Holiday diaries,
1912-92 Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 7527 Extent: 14 items |
| Mainly letters to Jenifer and Herbert Hart from Joy Fuller,
1965-68, n.d. concerning their son Jacob, with related
correspondence, 1969-95 Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 7528 = RES. Extent: 108 leaves |
| Joy Fuller's letters and reports, relating to
Jacob, 1965-7 forwarded to Dr. Meltzer by J. Hart, 1972 Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 7529 = RES. Extent: 211 leaves Scope and Content: fols. 207-11 comprise photographs (now MS. Photogr. c. 458 = RES.). |
| University essays, 1932-3,
1934-5, n.d Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 7530-1 Extent: 156, 208 leaves |
| History notes,
n.d. Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c.7532 Extent: 385 leaves |
| Reviews and readers reports,
1956-85 Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 7533 = RES Extent: 154 leaves |
| C E Trevelyan, an
article published in the English Historical Review, 1960
with related correspondence, 1957-98 and (fols. 121-41) an
article entitled Nineteenth Century Social Reform
published in Past and Present, July 1965 with comments by
Sir Isaiah
Berlin and related letters, 1965-73. Written
on the verso of students' essays Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 7534 = RES Extent: 141 leaves |
| Notes on C.E. Trevelyan's letter books,
n.d. Many are written on the verso of students
essays Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 7535 = RES Extent: 291 leaves |
| References and theses reports,
1972-4. Some written on the verso of students'
essays Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 7536 = RES Extent: 86 leaves |
| Correspondence relating to Jenifer Hart and the
Communist Party, 1966-2003 Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c.7537 Extent: 205 leaves |
| Notes, newscuttings, and articles relating to
spying and the Communist Party, 1981-2003,
n.d. Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c 7538 Extent: 73 leaves |
| Women and crime, misc. notes for articles and
lectures with some correspondence, 1981-8. Some written on
the verso of students' essays Shelfmark: MS. Eng c. 7539 = RES Extent: 323 leaves |
| Misc. notes on the influence of literature on
utilitarianism, with related correspondence, 1984, n.d.
Some written on the verso of students' essays Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 7540 = RES Extent: 200 leaves |
| Notes for and a talk by Jenifer Hart entitled The Literary Image of
Utilitarianism, n.d. (some written on the verso of students essays) Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 7541 = RES Extent: 179 leaves |
| Notes on the history of the Proportional Representation Society, n.d. Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 7542 Extent: 98 leaves |
| The Plant Report - A Working Party on Electoral Reform
1991, annotated by Jenifer Hart, with (fols.119-22) her
typed comments on the report, 1991 Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 7543 Extent: 123 leaves |
| Correspondence and notes relating to Jenifer Hart Proportional
Representation: Critics of the British Electoral System (Clarendon
Press Oxford, 1992) Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 7544 Extent: 286 leaves |
| Jenifer Hart’s annotated copy of Proportional
Representation, 1992 Shelfmark: MS. Eng. d. 3820 Extent: 1 item |
| Notes for a talk on Electoral Reform, 1994 and
misc. ERS papers, 1984-96, including (fols. 103-18)
The Best System: An Account of the First Hundred Years of the
Electoral Reform Society, 1984 Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 7545 Extent: 130 leaves |
| Biographical notes on people A-Z, n.d. Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 7546 Extent: 286 leaves |
| Current work, misc. papers Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 7547 Extent: 92 leaves |
| Misc. papers Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 7548 Extent: 225 leaves |
| Ask me no More (Peter Halban, London, 1992) Jenifer
Hart’s autobiography. Letters and reviews relating to the autobiography,
1996-2000. Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 7549 Extent: 163 leaves |
| Notes and drafts for chapters 1-5 with a few letters Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 7550 Extent: 276 leaves |
| Notes and drafts for chapters 6-11 Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 7551 Extent: 249 leaves |
| Notes and drafts for chapters 12-13 and misc. material Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 7552 Extent: 264 leaves |
| Booklet of tributes to Jennifer Hart, compiled
for her memorial service. Shelfmark: MS. digital 23 2005 Extent: 1 item Scope and Content: Booklet of tributes to Jennifer Hart, compiled for her memorial service. Includes copies of published obituaries as well as personal remembrances. |