Papers of Florence Jewel Baillie, 1897-1969
Sub-Fonds
Identifier: BAI 2
Scope and Contents
The papers of Florence Jewel Baillie consist of:
- correspondence from John Baillie
- correpondence with the wider Fowler and Pearse families
- diaries
- general papers and correspondence
Dates
- 1897-1969
Creator
Language of Materials
This material is in English
Physical Description
17 boxes
Biographical / Historical
Florence Jewel Fowler was born in 1893, at Erdington, near Birmingham, the daughter of Richard Fowler, land agent & surveyor, and his wife Florence Pearse. During the First World War, she was a volunteer with the British Expeditionary Force in France, where she met John Baillie and, after the end of the war, they married at Leamington Spa.
Jewel took an active interest in her husband's work, accompanying when he travelled, sitting on charitable committees, looking after missionary furlough houses and much more. She also wrote a preface to his Baptism and Conversion and a foreward to his A Reasoned Faith.
Jewel took an active interest in her husband's work, accompanying when he travelled, sitting on charitable committees, looking after missionary furlough houses and much more. She also wrote a preface to his Baptism and Conversion and a foreward to his A Reasoned Faith.
Extent
From the Fonds: 13 metres
Physical Description
17 boxes
Archivist's Note
None
Grant Buttars 27 February 2003
Grant Buttars 27 February 2003
- Baillie, Florence Jewel, 1893-1969 (married to John Baillie)
- Baillie, John, 1886-1960 (Scottish theologian and ecumenical leader)
- Birmingham (England)
- British Expeditionary Force. BEF
- Charities
- Family
- Fowler, Florence, c1870-: (wife of Richard Fowler, land agent & surveyor)
- Fowler, Richard, b1855 (land agent & surveyor)
- France
- Leamington (England)
- Scholarly Publishing
- World War, 1914-1918
Repository Details
Part of the University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections Repository
Contact:
Centre for Research Collections
University of Edinburgh Main Library
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Edinburgh EH8 9LJ Scotland
+44(0)131 650 8379
is-crc@ed.ac.uk
Centre for Research Collections
University of Edinburgh Main Library
George Square
Edinburgh EH8 9LJ Scotland
+44(0)131 650 8379
is-crc@ed.ac.uk