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Woking (England)

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 25 Collections and/or Records:

A One-Legged Man Looks After 211 Pigs, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/1566
Scope and Contents

Photographs of an ex-soldier with a wooden leg tending a herd of pigs and sitting with the farmer having a drink. The text beneath the images notes the amount of pork and produce they were able to put on the market and the cost received in the early/mid 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Letter to Dr Mary Gardner Grierson from Elizabeth Trevelyan, 28 April 1952

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Identifier: Coll-411/1/1/L2531
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Letter, 28 April 1952, Surrey, Elizabeth Trevelyan to Mary Grierson. Enclosing letters from Tovey, and reminiscences. Dictated, with stamped envelope.

Dates: 28 April 1952

Letter to Dr Mary Gardner Grierson from John W. Tanen, c 12 March 1942

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Identifier: Coll-411/1/1/L2667
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Letter, 12 March [n.y], Surrey, John W. Tanen to Mary Grierson. Praising Grierson's biography of Tovey. Holograph signed, with stamped envelope.

Dates: c 12 March 1942

Letter to Dr Mary Gardner Grierson from Sophie Weisse, 18 October 1938

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Identifier: Coll-411/1/1/L2610
Scope and Contents

Letter, 18 October 1938, Surrey, Sophie Weisse to Mary Grierson. News of Weisse's state of health, description of a lecture given by Tovey, news of Weisses travels in Germany. Holograph signed.

Dates: 18 October 1938

Letter to Dr Mary Gardner Grierson from Sophie Weisse, 28 August 1939

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Identifier: Coll-411/1/1/L2612
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Letter, 28 August 1939, Surrey, Sophie Weisse to Mary Grierson. Expressing anxiety over the threat of a European war and over Tovey's health. Holograph signed.

Dates: 28 August 1939

Letter to Dr Mary Gardner Grierson from Sophie Weisse, c1935

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Identifier: Coll-411/1/1/L2618
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Letter, [n.d], Surrey, Sophie Weisse to Mary Grierson. News of Tovey's illness and anxiety over Lady Tovey's charge of Tovey. Holograph signed.

Dates: c1935

Letter to Hubert James Foss from Sophie Weisse, c1940

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Identifier: Coll-411/1/1/L2577
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Letter, [n.d], Surrey, Sophie Weisse to Hubert Foss. Informing Foss that Miss. Weisse will attempt to work on his dissertation, but explaining that Miss. Weisse is quite helpless now. Holograph signed.

Dates: c1940

Letter to Hubert James Foss from Sophie Weisse, c1941

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Identifier: Coll-411/1/1/L2578
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Letter, [n.d], Surrey, Sophie Weisse to Hubert Foss. Inviting Foss to visit Weisse, and expressing a desire to go to Worplesdon and visit Tovey's grave. Holograph signed.

Dates: c1941

Letter to Sir Donald Francis Tovey from Arthur James Balfour, 16 February 1929

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Identifier: Coll-411/1/1/L715
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Letter, 16 February 1929, Surrey, Arthur James Balfour to Donald Tovey. Expressing Balfours' hopes that the new Vice-Chancellor of the University will support Tovey as Professor of music. Typescript signed.

Dates: 16 February 1929

Letter to Sir Donald Francis Tovey from Batty Balfour, 02 December 1925

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Identifier: Coll-411/1/1/L719
Scope and Contents

Letter, 2 December 1925, Surrey, Batty Balfour to Donald Tovey. Thanking Tovey for his letter. Holograph signed.

Dates: 02 December 1925