Ramsey and Muspratt, Photographers, Cambridge. an Analysis of Desk Diaries from the Early Years of the Firm (1932-1935)

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Ramsey and Muspratt, Photographers, Cambridge. An analysis of Desk Diaries from the early years of the firm (1932-1935).

In 1932 the photographic firm of Ramsey and Muspratt started to operate in St Andrews Street Cambridge. Their premises were above the shops of Johnson Bros Ltd, dyers, and the Alexander Sweet Stores at 20/20A St Andrews Street. On the floors above these shops were a number of professional firms, including solicitors and architects. When the Spalding’s Directory of Cambridge was published in September 1932, Ramsey and Muspratt Photographers had replaced the Cambridge Benefit Society, A.P.Dixon, Secretary, and The Ely Diocesan Board of Finance, who were amongst the occupants in September 1931.

We do not know how many rooms the firm occupied or how much space they had at this address. In November 1933 they held an exhibition at their premises of at least 75 Russian and Cambridge photographs, and appeared to be at the same time doing business as usual, producing portraits for sitters. Perhaps they were able to use other space in the building just for their exhibition, or perhaps other operations shifted to the nearby Post Office Terrace Studio – for more on which see below.

20 St Andrews Street was owned by Jesus College, and it seems likely that Ramsey and Muspratt had a short term sub lease for just a small part of the premises. Unfortunately Jesus College Archives contain no documents relating to Ramsey and Muspratt’s occupation of part of the property. The overall layout of the building can be seen from a plan from a later file in the Jesus College Archives and reproduced at http://www.fadingimages.uk/randm1.asp

A number of diaries survive from the firm which were deposited with the Cambridgeshire Collection by Peter Lofts, the photographer who eventually took over Ramsey and Muspratt’s Cambridge business in the 1980s. Diaries known to have survived are from: 1932, 1933, 1935, 1942 – 1943, 1947 July – 1948 July, 1948 July – 1949 May, 1949 May – 1950 March, 1954 Nov-1955 Nov, 1963, 1964, 1967 and 1973. It may be that other diaries in the series remain to be discovered as these were among material temporarily re-housed at the Council’s storage facility at Cottenham during building work. Some of this material has not yet been returned to the Cambridgeshire Collection’s storage area in the Lion Yard Cambridge.

The three annual diaries transcribed here are foolscap sized desk diaries: Boots Scribbling Diaries for 1932 and 1933, with decorative paper pasted over their covers, and a Collins Scribbling Diary for 1935. These have been transcribed because they cover the early years of the firm’s development. Also, the huge card index of portraits, surviving from the business, commences in 1937, again making the pre 1937 diaries more important as they have the only surviving record of the work of the firm in its formative years. It was also in 1937 that the firm opened their Oxford Studio, which Helen Muspratt ran, while Lettice Ramsey ran the Cambridge Studio.

The 1932 diary is very much a studio diary, and not a personal diary. The first entry in the diary is on Tuesday 23 February 1932. The number of visitors and bookings starts at a very low level, but by the end of the year was hitting four or five sittings per day. By 1933 occasional non-business personal appointments were noted in the diary, e.g. appointments for tennis in the evening or the occasional details of a party.

If the diary correctly identifies the date of the start of the business, then this suggests the business started slightly earlier than has been hitherto documented. Helen Muspratt, in her interviews for the Oral History of British Photography, refers to starting her partnership with Lettice Ramsey in 1932.

Certainly by September 1932 the firm was known as Ramsey and Muspratt 1. Helen also refers to Lettice buying all the equipment to start the studio for £200 and suggesting to Lettice that she should attend a photographic course at the Regent Street Polytechnic, but Lettice only attended for one or two terms. Also, in the biography of her mother, Jessica Sutcliffe states that Lettice met Helen while on holiday with her daughters in Swanage in 1932 and their partnership followed this. If a summer holiday meeting in Swanage pre-dated the start of the partnership, then this must have been in the summer of 1931 – which would then have given time for Lettice to have attended a course at the Polytechnic before opening the studio in Feb 1932.

A careful examination of the handwriting in the 1932 diary, comparing this with exemplars provided by family members of both partners, shows that both were writing in the diary at least by March 1932, although their handwriting is not easy to tell apart.

Westminster University Archives, which cover the old Regent Street Polytechnic, have no surviving record of either partner attending photography courses there – their only surviving records are of examination results and neither partner features in these. The Polytechnic offered a range of different daily and evening photographic courses. Lettice could have managed a term or two of evening sessions in Regent Street alongside the commitments in the 1932 diary. Courses typically required 2 hours attendance one evening per week. Among the courses on offer, those which might have been relevant for a new professional included: “Portrait Operating” at elementary, Intermediate and advanced levels, “Negatives and prints”, “Finishing” and “Re-touching”. 2

Footnotes have been added to the transcriptions where the names of individuals have been recognised as significant. Some of these were the brightest and most interesting theatrical, artistic intellectual and scientific characters in Cambridge and elsewhere at the time. No doubt a number of others have been missed and the author would welcome information on any sitters not already annotated.

In 1932, according to Spaldings Directory, there were no fewer than 17 professional photographers listed in Cambridge, making this a very crowded marketplace for a new firm. No trace has been found in any of the three Cambridge newspapers of the day of any advertising by the firm in February or March of 1932. Instead of newspaper advertising, Lettice Ramsey appears to have used personal contacts to spread the word about the business. These included her contacts at her old college, Newnham, and those of her former husband (Frank Ramsey, 1903-1930) at Kings Coillege, The Cavendish Laboratory and the Cambridge Apostles. A number of sitters are from Newnham College and there are a number of half days struck out in 1932 for “Newnham”. Probably Lettice took photographs at Newnham, perhaps recording these in a different record as there are occasional re-sittings listed in the desk diary where the sitter’s name had not previously featured. Also against some Newnham sessions there are numbers which could be the number of sitters (or images) there: e.g. 10/5/1932 – eleven and 11/5/1932 – five. The Newnham College Archivist has no record of any advertising for, or reporting of, these visits in any college publications.

On a few other occasions individuals were invited to the studio to be photographed free of charge. This was presumably to advertise the business by word of mouth, and perhaps to help Lettice to develop her photographic skills. Complimentary sessions ran at 8 for 1932, 1 for 1933 and 2 for 1935.

From the start of the business it would seem that Lettice also focussed on theatrical performances as a possible source of work, as there are early entries for the Marlowe Society and the ADC. Over

1 The Ramsey and Muspratt name features in Spaldings Directory of Cambridge published September 1932 2 Taken from “The Polytechnic 307-311 Regent St, Prospectus of the School of Photography Session 1930-1”

2 the life of the firm many theatrical performances were recorded. Some of these productions are listed on Peter Loft’s website (http://www.loftyimages.co.uk/section517745_287933.html)

In her interview for the Oral History of British Photography, Helen mentions that the firm quickly took on an assistant, but she did not give an indication of the exact timing for this or the identity of the individual concerned. Entries throughout the 1932 diary appear to be in the hands of the two partners only – although the writing is often hurried, much is in pencil, perhaps written from different angles, making it difficult to be 100% certain of this. There are no indications in this first diary that this business involved the work of more than one or two individuals. There are only two places where others may be mentioned. On 31 May 1932 there is an entry “ (J.S. tea Mrs Letchmer Oertel)”. Who was J.S. and why was this recorded in the diary? Or is the answer to this that J.S. was really J and S – being Lettices’s two daughters Jane and Sarah? Also on 5 August 1932 there was an entry “Mrs Moran in late 5-6”. Who was Mrs Moran (friend, assistant, cleaner, member of another firm in the building)?

The mode of working of the studio seems clear from the diaries. The sitter made an appointment, came to the studio and was photographed. Further details – initials, addresses outside Cambridge, when the customer would call back to see the proofs etc were then added to the diary entry. Occasionally, particularly at busy times, a descriptive phrase was added to an entry, (e.g. “fair wavey hair”, “Fair, glasses, Navy Pullover without sleeves”) to assist with later matching images to customers. The film was developed and (contact) prints made as proofs. These were sent to the sitter or the sitter collected them. Presumably at some point there was a discussion about making the best of the negatives, cropping, mounting, enlarging etc. If the sitter was happy, an order for prints was placed; if not a second appointment was made for a resit and the process was repeated. The diary reveals that resits were relatively common in the first year. Was this due to technical problems or lack of experience on the part of the photographer, a continual striving for perfection, fussy clients, or clients simply wanting more choice before ordering? The percentage of sittings resulting in resittings was 8% in 1932, 5% in 1933 and 4% in 1935.

There are two indications in the 1932 diary that, very occasionally, dark room work, i.e. developing and printing, was outsourced. On 1 April 1932 there is an entry “Mr Griffin will call for his 4 prints (done by Turner)”. Turners were photographic dealers in Cambridge, (36 Trinity Street, 47 Regent Street, 22 Petty Cury according to the 1933 Spalding’s Directory of Cambridge) who ran photo processing services from the 1920s. Again on 4 Dec 1932 there is a note on the blotter “Ring up Mrs Laughton when Mrs Cecils proofs return”, one interpretation of this being that the proofs were being processed elsewhere.

From around 20th January 1933 it is clear that more than at least one other hand appears in the diary. Helen Muspratt referred to herself and Lettice taking turns in taking photographs then developing and printing their own work the next day. This would account for a random interspersing of different hands in the diary. By 1935 the diary shows that occasionally appointments were made with specific partners.

It is not clear exactly when the business took on any administrative or other help. In her interview for the Oral History of British Photography Helen Muspratt said that they were “very soon employing a girl as receptionist” and that they took on the receptionist from J.Palmer Clarke when they took over their business.

From around 31 May 1933 appointments start to appear in the diary for passport photographs (designated “PP” in the diaries). British passports were then renewable every 2 years and a photograph of the holder had been included since 1914. From 1926 the passport photograph had to

3 be full face with no hat and a size was specified. These would have been a fairly lucrative line which might also bring in other work, but which required little artistic input. When Helen Muspratt opened the firm’s second studio in Oxford in 1937 she refused to do passport photographs, only relenting after criticism in the local press dubbed her as a photographer who didn’t take photographs.

Ramsey and Muspratt took over the larger studio of the firm J.Palmer Clarke at Post Office Terrace Cambridge. Spalding’s Directory of Cambridge records in September 1934 that the Post Office Terrace premises were “Ramsey and Muspratt, incorporating Clarke J.Palmer, Art Photographers”. However, there are a few sittings in May 1933 and another on 17th November 1933 marked “PC” and a Diary entry on 30th June 1933 refers to ten “PC” sittings in June alongside 31 R & M sittings. Neither Jesus nor Christ’s College (lessees and owners of the Post Office Terrace property) have any records of when Ramsey and Muspratt took over the lease of the Post Office Terrace studio. It may be that there were a few months of transition involved, or perhaps Lettice and Helen simply offered occasional help to Charles Goodrich, who was the sole remaining Palmer Clarke photographer by this time. Perhaps this was due to health issues as Charles Goodrich died on 19th January 1934, “after a long illness”. In any case, Ramsey and Muspratt still occupied the St Andrews Street premises as late as November 1933 when they had a public exhibition of some of their work there. Also, a loose invoice, dated September 1933, for 3/6d addressed to a Miss Collett, Great Shelford, survives in the 1933 diary and is on a J Palmer Clarke letterhead. This suggests that Ramsey and Muspratt may have had some involvement in the Palmer Clarke business within months of September 1933. The move from St Andrews Street to Post Office Terrace may have been quite straightforward in legal and financial terms as their sublease at 20 St Andrews Street was probably due to end by October 1934, both premises were owned by Jesus college and following the death of Charles Goodrich, Jesus College needed a new tenant for the Post Office Terrace studio.

Helen Muspreratt later described the Post Office Terrace Studio in the following terms. “The whole place was amazing. It had a studio but behind it were cottages which had been turned into storerooms and dark rooms and a huge barn in the middle – which fell down in the end but was a store room for a long time. And you would go out through the shop which was a little Victorian shop and had a door at the end and you would run out into a little garden, up to the workroom and three darkrooms. And stored in that great barn were plates, mainly half plates but some whole plates I think. Lovely old photographs of Cambridge going back to 1860-1870” (Interview by Val Williams for the Oral History of Photography in 1990)

The diaries give an indication of the working week of the firm, but only show the client facing side, not the hours spent in the darkroom, nor, for the most part, which partner did what. Sundays and bank holidays seem to have been generally appointment free. Saturdays were usually a full working day but Thursdays (half day closing for Cambridge shops?) usually had fewer or no booked sittings. Studio portraits made up most of the work with only an occasional appointment on location and very few instances of non-portrait commercial photography. A good proportion of the portraits were of children, obviously something of a studio speciality.

The firm promoted its work through occasional exhibitions. These took place in November 1933 at 20 St Andrews Street and October 1935, and November 1937 at Post Office Terrace. Press reports from 1933 and 1935 have been included in the transcriptions for those years.

Surviving prints from the studio, and the press report on their 1935 exhibition, show that Lettice and Helen experimented with different photographic techniques in their early years, including solarisation and multiple exposures. There is no direct evidence of this aspect of the firm’s work within these diaries. Hopefully it will be possible to use these diaries to date some surviving experimental images where the name of the sitter is known. The only other possible trace comes

4 from the diaries noting that some sitters were “models” or “would make a good model”. Entries of this nature appear on 27 March, 26 June, 3 July, 9 July and 27 July 1935. Of course there may have been other reasons for photographing models rather than ordinary clients.

Management information in the diaries

By 1935 the diary included weekly counts of numbers of paying customers, usually added to the Sunday diary entry. The following tables reconstruct the weekly workloads from the actual diary bookings. The data shows that the business was growing steadily in its early years. The average number of settings per week increased from 6 in 1932 to 9 in 1933 and 13 in 1935.

Finding images relating to diary entries

From 1937 the Cambridge Ramsey and Muspratt studio kept a card index of customers, referring to a job number, which in turn referred to a packet of negatives. The card index and packets of negatives have been deposited with the Cambridgeshire Collection and can generally be accessed at the Cambridge Central Library. Negatives from the period covered by the diaries transcribed here are on cellulose nitrate film stock. These have been stored by the Cambridgeshire Collection in a bunker at Shire Hall because of the fire risk associated with this film type. Names have been added to the packaging of these negatives, but there is no simple finding aid for this material. Some of these early images can be accessed through the Peter Lofts Collection http://www.loftyimages.co.uk/ . More notes on the negatives from Post Office Terrace Studio Cambridge can be found at: http://www.fadingimages.uk/POTNegativesV2.pdf

1932 Workload data 1932 Days Sitters Week with Excluding Of which Of which No W/c sittings Cancellations Resits Complimentary Cancellations 9 22/02/1932 4 6 0 0 2 10 29/02/1932 3 2 0 0 2 11 07/03/1932 4 6 0 0 1 12 14/03/1932 4 4 0 0 0 13 21/03/1932 1 1 0 0 0 14 28/03/1932 0 0 0 0 0 15 04/04/1932 0 0 0 0 0 16 11/04/1932 0 0 0 0 0 17 18/04/1932 2 2 0 0 0 18 25/04/1932 5 6 1 0 2 19 02/05/1932 4 8 0 2 0 20 09/05/1932 3 2 0 0 0 21 16/05/1932 2 4 0 0 2 22 23/05/1932 3 5 0 1 1 23 30/04/1932 3 3 1 0 0 24 06/06/1932 6 10 1 0 1 25 13/06/1932 5 10 1 0 2 26 20/06/1932 4 7 0 0 0 27 27/06/1932 3 5 2 0 0 28 04/07/1932 2 2 0 0 0 29 11/07/1932 2 2 0 0 0 30 18/07/1932 4 5 0 0 0 31 25/07/1932 5 7 1 0 1 32 01/08/1932 4 6 1 0 1 33 08/08/1932 3 3 0 1 0 34 15/08/1932 1 1 0 0 0 35 22/08/1932 0 0 0 0 0 36 29/08/1932 0 0 0 0 0 37 05/09/1932 0 0 0 0 0 38 12/09/1932 0 0 0 0 0 39 19/09/1932 0 0 0 0 0 40 26/09/1932 1 1 0 0 1 41 03/10/1932 5 8 1 3 2 42 10/10/1932 2 3 0 0 1 43 17/10/1932 4 8 0 1 1 44 24/10/1932 3 3 1 0 0 45 31/10/1932 3 4 1 0 0 46 07/11/1932 6 17 1 0 0 47 14/11/1932 6 18 0 0 1 48 21/11/1932 6 23 0 0 1 49 28/11/1932 6 23 2 0 1 50 05/12/1932 6 20 3 0 1

51 12/12/1932 5 7 2 0 0 52 19/12/1932 2 3 0 0 0 53 26/12/1932 0 0 0 0 0

Totals 132 245 19 8 24

1933 Workload Data

1933 Days Sitters Week with excluding Of which Of which No W/c sittings Cancellations Resits Complimentary Cancellations 1 02/01/1933 1 3 1 0 0 2 09/01/1933 4 6 1 0 0 3 16/01/1933 4 6 1 0 0 4 23/01/1933 3 3 0 0 1 5 30/01/1933 2 1 0 0 3 6 06/02/1933 3 6 0 0 1 7 13/02/1933 5 8 0 0 1 8 20/02/1933 2 1 0 0 1 9 27/02/1933 4 8 0 0 0 10 06/03/1933 6 13 0 0 1 11 13/03/1933 6 14 2 0 2 12 20/03/1933 6 11 0 0 1 13 27/03/1933 4 5 0 0 1 14 03/04/1933 2 3 0 0 1 15 10/04/1933 1 1 0 0 0 16 17/04/1933 2 5 0 0 1 17 24/04/1933 6 12 0 0 1 18 01/05/1933 4 4 1 0 3 19 08/05/1933 4 11 2 0 3 20 15/05/1933 6 7 1 0 1 21 22/05/1933 5 10 0 1 0 22 29/05/1933 5 10 0 0 3 23 05/06/1933 5 10 0 0 1 24 12/06/1933 6 15 1 0 0 25 19/06/1933 5 10 0 0 2 26 26/06/1933 4 6 0 0 1 27 03/07/1933 6 8 0 0 2 28 10/07/1933 4 8 2 0 0 29 17/07/1933 4 8 0 0 0 30 24/07/1933 6 9 0 0 0 31 31/07/1933 5 10 0 0 3 32 07/08/1933 2 2 0 0 1 33 14/08/1933 6 13 0 0 0 34 21/08/1933 3 4 1 0 1 35 28/08/1933 0 0 0 0 0 36 04/09/1933 4 4 0 0 0 37 11/09/1933 4 2 0 0 3 38 18/09/1933 4 11 2 0 1 39 25/09/1933 2 2 0 0 0 40 02/10/1933 3 11 0 0 2 41 09/10/1933 4 7 1 0 0

42 16/10/1933 5 9 0 0 3 43 23/10/1933 5 13 0 0 0 44 30/10/1933 6 11 1 0 0 45 06/11/1933 5 15 0 0 1 46 13/11/1933 6 30 0 0 3 47 20/11/1933 6 32 1 0 1 48 27/11/1933 7 23 3 0 1 49 04/12/1933 6 39 0 0 3 50 11/12/1933 6 20 1 0 3 51 18/12/1933 5 6 0 0 3 52 25/12/1933 0 0 0 0 0

Totals 219 486 22 1 60

1935 Workload Data

1935 Days Sitters Week with Excluding Of which Of which No W/c sittings Cancellations Re-sits Complimentary Cancellations 1 31/12/1934 4 5 2 0 2 2 07/01/1935 4 5 0 0 1 3 14/01/1935 5 17 1 0 1 4 21/01/1935 6 18 1 0 1 5 28/01/1935 6 7 0 0 1 6 04/02/1935 5 12 2 0 3 7 11/02/1935 5 7 1 0 3 8 18/02/1935 6 14 1 0 1 9 25/02/1935 4 8 1 0 1 10 04/03/1935 6 20 0 0 2 11 11/03/1935 4 13 0 0 0 12 18/03/1935 5 11 0 0 0 13 25/03/1935 4 5 0 0 0 14 01/04/1935 4 4 0 0 0 15 08/04/1935 4 4 0 0 0 16 15/04/1935 3 4 0 0 0 17 22/04/1935 5 12 0 0 1 18 29/04/1935 5 15 1 0 2 19 06/05/1935 5 13 0 0 1 20 13/05/1935 5 16 1 0 2 21 20/05/1935 6 16 1 0 0 22 27/05/1935 6 17 0 0 1 23 03/06/1935 4 18 0 0 0 24 10/06/1935 5 35 0 0 0 25 17/06/1935 5 19 1 0 0 26 24/06/1935 6 24 0 0 1 27 01/07/1935 6 11 0 1 2 28 08/07/1935 5 12 0 0 0 29 15/07/1935 4 4 0 0 1 30 22/07/1935 5 8 0 0 0 31 29/07/1935 5 17 1 0 0 32 05/08/1935 5 9 0 0 0 33 12/08/1935 4 10 1 0 0 34 19/08/1935 3 5 0 0 0 35 26/08/1935 4 7 0 0 0 36 02/09/1935 3 5 0 0 0 37 09/09/1935 3 4 1 0 0 38 16/09/1935 4 12 0 0 0 39 23/09/1935 6 11 0 0 1 40 30/09/1935 6 12 0 0 0 41 07/10/1935 6 13 3 0 0

42 14/10/1935 5 12 1 0 3 43 21/10/1935 4 8 1 0 2 44 28/10/1935 6 12 0 0 1 45 04/11/1935 6 24 1 0 1 46 11/11/1935 6 23 1 1 0 47 18/11/1935 6 27 2 0 0 48 25/11/1935 6 26 0 0 1 49 02/12/1935 6 26 0 0 0 50 09/12/1935 6 18 1 0 0 51 16/12/1935 5 14 0 0 2 52 23/12/1935 1 3 0 0 0

Totals 253 672 26 2 38

Ramsey and Muspratt, Photographers, Cambridge. Transcription of Desk Diaries from the Early Years of the Firm

1932 – (The firm was at 20 St Andrews Street Cambridge)

[No entry after a date indicates that there was nothing in the diary for that day. There were no entries in the diary from 1st January to 23 February ]

Tuesday 23 February 1932 Betty Wiskemann 59 Bateman Street 3.00 3 Mrs Hardstone called Mrs ? called (no name recorded, just a question mark)

Wednesday 24 February 1932 Mrs Eames 6 Lindwood Road called (entry crossed out)

Thursday 25 February 1932 Margery Seward 12.0 4 Mrs Bush, Ely, called

Friday 26 February 1932 Richard 12.10 Prudence Wilkinson 10.30 Girton College 5

Saturday 27 February 1932 Hedley Briggs 3.0 6 Dadie 12.0 7 Young man called for prices

Sunday 28 February 1932

Monday 29 February 1932 Eileen Burinal and baby 3.0

Tuesday 1 March 1932 Proofs for Prudence and Betty 2.30 P & H Holmes

Wednesday 2 March 1932 Mrs Eames and baby, 6 Lindwood Road (entry crossed out) Mrs Mines called

3 Elizabeth Meta Wiskemann MA (1899 – 1971) was an English journalist and historian of Anglo-German ancestry. 4 Margery Seward was described by Jessica Sutcliffe in her biography of her mother, Helen Muspratt, as her mother’s colleague who shared digs when Helen first went to Cambridge (Face Shape and Angle, p50) Spaldings Directory of Cambridge for 1932 lists a Miss M.G.Seward living at 26A Petty Cury. 5 Prudence Wilkinson, Girton scholar and sculptor, married the novelist and playwright Frank Laurence Lucas in 1932 6 Hedley Briggs, actor, dancer, set designer 7 Dadie, George Humphrey Wolferstan Rylands – literary scholar and theatre director

Thursday 3 March 1932 Mrs Eames and baby (entry crossed out)

Friday 4 March 1932

Saturday 5 March 1932 Marlowe Soc. 10-1.0 8

Sunday 6 March 1932

Monday 7 March 1932

Tuesday 8 March 1932

Wednesday 9 March 1932 “Hamlets” photos ready 3.30 H.V.Kemp, Clare, 2 Pemberton Terrace, Brookside 9 The Red House Elm Park Rd, Pinner Middlesex 22nd. about Monday 11.0 Mrs Eames and baby, 6 Lindwood Rd, 2618 (this entry ticked) Miss Prudence Wilkinson, Girton College (entry crossed out)

Thursday 10 March 1932 Mrs Wiskemann’s photos done Frankie 11.0 T.H.Tilling (the King) Robin Hill, Beresford Rd, Cheam Surrey

Friday 11 March 1932 Sold Hamlet photos 10/6 Mr Heron Ward 51 Eltisley Av. 2663 11.0 press photograph – proofs sent10 10.30 “King” and “Polonius”

Saturday 12 March 1932 (Mrs Holmes c/o Smith Craven Co Doncaster this week till Sat) G.J.B. Wright. Corpus 11.0 (marked X Tea) – linked with an arrow to the following: R.Heron Ward, Burnett Cottage, Albany Drive, Herne Bay, Kent

Sunday 13 March 1932 Took Vanessa Bell 11

Monday 14 March 1932 2.30 Miss Robinson 12 Hills Ave. 421. Proofs sent to the Misses

Tuesday 15 March 1932

8 The Marlowe Society produced Hamlet (in Regency costume) at the ADC Theatre Cambridge 5th – 12th March 1932 9 Harry Kemp, left wing writer, said to have been a lover of Lettice Ramsey 10 Richard Heron Ward, author, critic, 11 Vanessa Bell - artist, Bloomsbury group, sister of Virginia Woolf, mother of Lettice Ramsey’s lover Julian Bell. It seems likely that Julian Bell took Lettice this weekend to his parents’ house at Charlestone, where she met and informally photographed some of the Bloomsbury set.

Mrs W.C. Mansfield, Cherry Hinton Post Office. Paid £1.1.0

Wednesday 16 March 1932 Proofs to Miss Robinson – sent

Thursday 17 March 1932 Sent proofs to Roger Fry 12 and took proofs to Vanessa 13

Friday 18 March 1932 Mrs Burinel’s order to be called for 3.0 Miss Bone, Middlefield, Huntingdon Road. 1871 C/o Mrs Billington Proofs sent for Tues and will call afternoon on Wed

Saturday 19 March 1932

Sunday 20 March 1932 Phyllis Blewitt, 55 Gt Ormond St, Tues. Mus 1256

Monday 21 March 1932 Mr Bateman’s Hamlet photos ready (Kings) Richard’s photo for Banbry sent

Tuesday 22 March 1932 Mrs Eames order ready 2.30 Miss J.Robinson 12 Hills Av.14

Wednesday 23 March 1932

Thursday 24 March 1932

Friday 25 March 1932 (Good Friday)

Saturday 26 March 1932 Miss Bone’s order (2.30-4.30) Miss Robinson’s order (12.45) Miss Robinson’s proofs (12.45)

Sunday 27 March 1932 (Easter Sunday)

Monday 28 March 1932 (Bank Holiday)

Tuesday 29 March 1932

Wednesday 30 March 1932

Thursday 31 March 1932

Friday 1 April 1932

12 Roger Fry, – artist 13 Presumably Vanessa Bell. 14 This was the address in 1932 of Herbert Robinson a Borough Councillor and garage proprietor

Mr Griffin will call for his 4 prints (done by Turner)15

Saturday 2 April 1932 - Thursday 21 April 1932 – no entries in the diary

Friday 22 April 1932 11.0 Drury Smith

Saturday 23 April 1932 Helen Lady Bird

Sunday 24 April 1932

Monday 25 April 1932 11.0 Mr Oeser, Dartington Hall, Totnes Devon – proofs sent 16 2.15 Mr Wilmore’s boy (entry deleted)

Tuesday 26 April 1932 11.30 Mrs Haslam and daughter (ticked) additional sitting Proofs sent.

Wednesday 27 April 1932 10.30 Sarah 3.15 Mrs Claridge’s baby. 13 De Freville Av 1071 – proofs sent

Thursday 28 April 1932 11.0 Miss Macalister 163 Hills Rd, Hollingbury Court, Hollingbury Park, Brighton. Proofs sent

Friday 29 April 1932

Saturday 30 April 1932 12.0 Mr Prichard’s baby (14 months) 58 St Andrews Street17. 2.30 Mr Wilmore’s boy (4) (entry crossed out).

Sunday 1 May 1932

Monday 2 May 1932 12.30 Miss Marche 63 Catherine St (Camb 4) 2.30 A.Marshall18, Lion Hotel, Laundimer House, Oundle, Northants

Tuesday 3 May 1932

Wednesday 4 May 1932 12.0 Mary Valter 7.0 Mr Openheim, 30 St Andrews Street

15 Does this indicate that at this stage occasionally the firm farmed out work to other Cambridge businesses? Turner and Sons, photo dealers had premises at 36 Trinity Street, 47 Regent Street and 22 Petty Cury and provided developing and printing services for their customers 16 the mathematician Oscar Oeser 17 S.H.de G Pritchard MRCS, LRCP medical practitioner resided at 58 St Andrews St in 1932. 18 Arthur Marshall (1910-1989), writer, actor and broadcaster, played female roles on stage at the ADC Theatre.

Thursday 5 May 1932 10.15 Mrs Letchmere Oertel proof Tuesday 11.30 Miss James, The Prior Newport (wants portraits by Tues) Large head mounted on small mount

Friday 6 May 1932

Saturday 7 May 1932 11.0 Abe Maurice (invitation) 2.30 occulist 3.30 J.Hunter, Trinity (invitation)

Sunday 8 May 1932

Monday 9 May 1932

Tuesday 10 May 1932 11.0 Mr Letchmere Oertel’s proofs Newnham 11 19

Wednesday 11 May 1932 2.0 Newnham 5

Thursday 12 May 1932 12.0 Mr F.L. Lucas, The Pavilion, West Road 20

Friday 13 May 1932 Miss Marche’s photos

Saturday 14 May 1932

Sunday 15 May 1932

Monday 16 May 1932 Bank Holiday

Tuesday 17 May 1932 11.0 Group (Soc) 2.30 Mr Oakshot 24 Hills Road21 Miss Sinker’s baby 12 Chesterton Rd 276022

Wednesday 18 May 1932 Newnham

Thursday 19 May 1932 10.30 Miss Longstaff

19 Presumably a visit to Newnham college, with 11 photographs taken 20 Frank Laurence Lucas MA, Kings, critic, novelist, playwright 21 Michael Joseph Oakeshott 1901-1990 was a philosopher and political theorist. 22 At this address in 1932 was A.P.Sinker MA, Fellow of Jesus College.

Friday 20 May 1932 2.30 Miss Longstaff (entry crossed out) 2.0 Newnham

Saturday 21 May 1932 Mrs Hickson 26 Barton Road 1869 – entry crossed out Newnham

Sunday 22 May 1932

Monday 23 May 1932 Newnham (crossed out) 2.45 Mrs Ranby Brown 8 Howes Place – proofs Friday Morning 4.0 Dr Snow. Christ’s. Proofs Wed morning

Tuesday 24 May 1932

Wednesday 25 May 1932 Captain EAC Gyde, Windmill Press, Kingswood, Tadworth, Surrey Messrs William Heinemann23

Thursday 26 May 1932 12.5 Mr Little, The Homestead, Fulbourn

Friday 27 May 1932 J.H.Tilling Pembroke (complimentary) – then “complimentary” is crossed out. 11.30 Mrs Hickson, 26 Barton Rd 1869 24

Saturday 28 May 1932 Newnham

Sunday 29 May 1932

Monday 30 May 1932 10.0 Miss Letchmer Oertel resitting.

Tuesday 31 May 1932 10.30-1.0 Newnham (J. S. tea Miss Letchmer Oertel)25

Wednesday 1 June 1932 Miss J Robinson’s order ready 2.30 Mrs Terry c/o Dr Billington, Middlefield, Huntingdon Road.

Thursday 2 June 1932

Friday 3 June 1932 7.30 ADC at Theatre

23 Appears to be the noting of a contact and address rather than an appointment. 24 At this address in 1932 – G.F.Hickson MA, Clare College 25 Probably refers to Lettice Ramsey’s two daughters, Jane and Sarah.

Saturday 4 June 10-1 ADC (entry crossed out)

Sunday 5 June 1932

Monday 6 June 1932 10.30 Peile Hall 26

Tuesday 7 June 1932 10-12 ADC Lady B, Stephenson, Corpus Cicely Maid 3.30 Mrs Taylor. Coolbawn, Leys Road (leaving here on Friday) 38 Gainsborough Rd Richmond 5.0 Miss Norwood. Newnham, 25 Oakley Crescent, Chelsea SW3

Wednesday 8 June 1932 3.0 Mr Sommerville Trinity (entry crossed out)

Thursday 9 June 1932 12.0 Mr W Sommerville Trinity 18 Alyth Rd Bournemouth

Friday 10 June 1932 10.0 Miss Clark’s (group) send to Miss Wood, 15 St Barnabas Rd27 2.45 Miss Ranby Brown (resitting)

Saturday 11 June 1932 12.0 Miss Savory, Glaven Corner, Wiveton, Cley next the sea, Norfolk 3.15 Mrs WLF Nuttall, Longfield, Madingley Road, 998 post proofs Tues evening28

Sunday 12 June 1932

Monday 13 June 1932 Mrs Terry photograph called for at 5.0 10. Portia Holman 37 Gordon Square WC1 29 11.30 Dr Snow (entry crossed out) 3.0 Mrs Pollock’s 2 children 4.30 Miss Lawe (entry crossed out)

Tuesday 14 June 1932 Mrs Terry’s order to be ready (entry crossed out) 10 V.G.Lawford. Corpus, Quickly Chorley Wood Herts 30 2.30 Pat Hogg. 2 Dial Sq Royal Arsenal, Woolwich 3.30 W Weight. Cambridge House Haverhill Suffolk. Pd £1.1.0

26 a hall at Newnham College 27 Home address of Alexander Wood, MS DSc (Glas) Fellow and Tutor at Emmanuel College and a Borough Councillor. 28 Address of Geo H.F.Nuttall MD, PhD, ScD FRS Fellow of Magdalene College, bacteriologist and parasitologist. 29 Portia Holman, psychiatrist 30 V.G Lawford. Foreign Office civil servant, later Assistant Private Sec to the Foreign Secretary

Wednesday 15 June 1932 5.0 “Algie” G.I. Hamilton 18 Castle Street – proofs by Monday Alec Married, Manton Grange, Marlborough, Wilts

Thursday 16 June 1932

Friday 17 June 1932 11.30 Mr and Mrs Hickson 26 Barton Road 1869 31

Saturday 18 June 1932 3.15 Mrs Nuttall’s children (resitting) 4.45 W.A.S. Dolland. Magdalene

Sunday 19 June 1932

Monday 20 June 1932 10.0 Miss M.Hunter 7 Queen Ediths Way 94

Tuesday 21 June 1932 10.30 Austin Robinson. 3 Trumpington Street 32 12.0 K Garcke. Ditton House, Maidenhead, Berks 4.0 A.R.Jackson. 21 Earl Street Cambridge 5.15 J.Hunter 4 Prince of Wales Terrace Kensington W8. Western 0960

Wednesday 22 June 1932

Thursday 23 June 1932

Friday 24 June 1932 10.0 Joan and sister [11 The Close Winchester by Thursday – post wed 29th] Mrs Robinson 3 Trumpington Street

Saturday 25 June 1932

Sunday 26 June 1932

Monday 27 June 1932 11.0 Mr C Guillebaud. St Johns College 3.0 Miss Dyas. 3 Bene’t Place Mrs Dyas, The Norland Hote,l Granville Pl W1. Rusack’s Hotel St Andrews Fife

Tuesday 28 June 1932 10.0 Jean Stewart (Mrs Stewart, Girton Gate) 33

Wednesday 29 June 1932

Thursday 30 June 1932

31 Home address of Geoffrey F.Hickson MA, Secretary to the Board of Extra Mural Studies, also Sydney J Hickson MA, FRS, Hon Fellow of Downing College. 32 E.A.G.Robinson MA 33 Jean Stewart– one of Anthony Blunt’s circle of friends

10.30 Dolland (resitting) 12.0 Mr Guillebaud (resitting.) Gastof Stocker, Die Ramsan, Schladming, Steiermark, Austria.

Friday 1 July 1932

Saturday 2 July 1932 Done this week 4 ½ Sittings 32 developed 5 sets of proofs 36 contacts printed 15 1/1 enlargements printed 26 cabinets sent off 3 1/1 plates sent off

Sunday 3 July 1932

Monday 4 July 1932 Tuesday 5 July 1932

Wednesday 6 July 1932 3.0 Miss Redgwell, Carfai, Highworth Av

Thursday 7 July 1932

Friday 8 July 1932

Saturday 9 July 1932

Sunday 10 July 1932 2.00 Mrs Hopkinson 9 Adams Road, staying at 35 Millington Road. 1839. Group of 21

Monday 11 July 1932

Tuesday 12 July 1932

Wednesday 13 July 1932 11.30 Michael Smith 10 Brookside.34

Thursday 14 July 1932 10.15 Mrs Julian Taylor’s baby 65 Portland Place W1 Send proofs in Aug.

Friday 15 July 1932

Saturday 16 July 1932

Sunday 17 July 1932

Monday 18 July 1932

34 A.J.Michael Smith PhD was at this address in 1932.

3.0 Miss Laughton 19 Millington Rd (stripes)35 and Miss Cockrell c/o Mrs Edgely 8 Clopton Cottages Wickhambrook near Newmarket. (3-5.15)

Tuesday 19 July 1932 11.0 Dadie’s room 11-12.30 36 2.45 Mrs Gardner. 46 Newton Road 1058 2 children37

Wednesday 20 July 1932

Thursday 21 July 1932 10.30 Mrs Giles at Emmanuel Lodge and 2 grandchildren38

Friday 22 July 1932 10.0 Miss Laxton additional sitting (entry crossed out)

Saturday 23 July 1932 12 Mr and Mrs Hickson 1869

Sunday 24 July 1932

Monday 25 July 1932 11.0 Miss Riddle A/C to Mr Harry Hurley, Garrick Club, Garrick Street. Proof Friday 2.30 Mr A Corke (entry crossed out) 4 Thistle Grove SW10

Devl 48, 1 sitting Mounted 17 Spotted 13

Tuesday 26 July 1932 2.30 J.E.Hardwick Smith, Clare 1 sitting 2 sets proofs Printed 24 Sent off 13

Loose in the diary A5 piece of paper with figures on Owed July 26th £44.1.3 of which £3.4.0. was from Hamlet and £9.30 from the ADC.

Wednesday 27 July 1932 10.0 Miss Moran’s child 20 Tenison Ave 39 11.30 Hickson Mrs opp

Thursday 28 July 1932 Printed 9.30-12.15

35 Occasionally the odd descriptive phrase of a person or clothing was added to an entry, presumably to be able to match proofs with the correct clients 36 Dadie, George Humphrey Wolferstan Rylands – literary scholar and theatre director 37 Address of Robert Gardner MC, MA, Fellow and Bursar of Emmanuel college 38 P.Giles MA LittD was the Master of Emmanuel College. 39 Home address of T.Moran BSc, PhD Caius college.

9.45 Frances Penrose’s children Sawston 41 (entry crossed out)

Friday 29 July 1932 10.0 Miss Lawton additional sitting 12.45 Penrose children at Pampisford. Sawston 41

Saturday 30 July 1932 10.0 E Chapple 6 Luard Road 52940 11.0 Mr A. Cooke 4 Thistle Grove SW10 (entry crossed out) H Smith’s proofs ready morning

Sunday 31 July 1932

Monday 1 August 1932 – Bank Holiday

Tuesday 2 August 1932 2.30 Mrs Bingley Orchard? End Comberton 22 (entry crossed out)

Wednesday 3 August 1932 12.0 Mrs Whittle. Gogs Way, Worts Causeway, Hills Road41 3.0 Mrs Butterfield 41 Park Side42 4.0 Miss Riddle (additional sitting) c/o Mrs Gordon The Malting House43 120 phone

Thursday 4 August 1932 11.0 Mr Cooke Malting House 120

Friday 5 August 1932 3.0 Mr Thomas 49 Harvey Goodwin Ave 211844 Mrs Moran in late 5-6

Saturday 6 August 1932 11.0 Donald Lucas, Kings

Sunday 7 August 1932

Monday 8 August 1932 10.30 Mr Gaskoin (theatrical) Fitzwilliam House, Trumpington Street.45

Tuesday 9 August 1932 10.0 Sage Bernal 46

Wednesday 10 August 1932

Thursday 11 August 1932

40 Home address of A Chapple MA BSc, Barrister at Law. 41 Home of C.H.Whittle MA, MD, MRCP, Queens College. 42 Home address of H.Butterfield MA, Peterhouse. 43 Newnham Rd Cambridge 44 Harold Reeves Thomas was an engineer. 45 Home of C.J.B.Gaskoin MA, Jesus College. 46 Sage Bernal, John Desmond Bernal, scientist

Friday 12 August 1932 2.30 Margie (complimentary)

Saturday 13 August 1932

Sunday 14 August 1932

Monday 15 August 1932 10.0 Miss Fyfe, Langside, Histon 23

Tuesday 16 August 1932

[No entries in the diary from Wednesday 17 August 1932 to Monday 26 September 1932 inclusive]

Tuesday 27 September 1932 Studio re-opened

Wednesday 28 September 1932 4.30 Mr R.A.Ashby Lloyds Bank

Thursday 29 September 1932

Friday 30 September 1932

Saturday 1 October 1932 3.15 Mrs Percy Pirie 8 Harvey Road (entry crossed out)

Monday 3 October 1932 2.30 Mr and Mrs Kathleen Davis (complimentary) St Andrews Chesterton Lane

Tuesday 4 October 1932 11.30 Mrs Morris 44 Grantchester Road (entry crossed out) 3.15 Mrs Pirie 8 Harvey Road (proofs Friday 5.0) 4.30 Patrick Blackett (Complimentary) 47

Wednesday 5 October 1932 11.30 Mrs HEA Morris 44 Grantchester Rd proofs Sat morning (1388 Mrs Ellison mother) 2.0 Miss Hyslop at 25 Newton Rd (to be Mrs Hannah Philpots East Grinstead ) (taxi 4/6)

Thursday 6 October 1932

Friday 7 October 1932 10.30 Bridget Ramsey (complimentary)

Saturday 8 October 1932 10.30 Mrs HFA Morris (resitting) Passenger on H.T.Lancashire, Southampton Docks, Holmes Flats, The Mall, Peshawar, NWFP India 2.30 Mrs Farmer 24 Tenison Ave. Proofs to Library48

47 Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett MA Kings – experimental physicist at the Cavendish Laboratory

4.00 Miss Harvey, Newnham College (entry crossed out)

Sunday 9 October 1932

Monday 10 October 1932 3.30 Miss Harvey Newnham (entry crossed out)

Tuesday 11 October 1932

Wednesday 12 October 1932

Thursday 13 October 1932

Friday 14 October 1932 3.30 Miss Harvey Newnham. Proof Tue 11.0

Saturday 15 October 1932 11.30 Phyllis Blewitt. 55 Gt Ormond St. Hol 8629 49 2.30 Mrs Sudbury. Halebames, Croft Holme Lane, Chesterton Rd (Wed afternoon)

Sunday 16 October 1932

Monday 17 October 1932

Tuesday 18 October 1932 Wright’s photograph ready morning 12-1 (entry crossed out) 2.30 Belasco 36 Jesus Lane

Wednesday 19 October 1932 11.0 Miss Marion Blandford (complimentary) Shaftsbury House Cambridge50

Thursday 20 October 1932

Friday 21 October 1932 2.45 Mrs Arthur Marshall Conduit Head Madingley Road (proofs Tuesday afternoon)

Saturday 22 October 1932 PDF Tannart Trinity 10-11.30 AF Houseman Clare LW Russell Clare 3.0 Dr Cooper Wytherton 171 4.0 Mrs Farmer and son (10) 24 Tennison Ave.

Sunday 23 October 1932

Monday 24 October 1932

Tuesday 25 October 1932

48 Home address of J.C.Farmer, civil engineer. 49 Was this Phyllis Blewitt the Anglo German translator? 50 Home address of F.G.Blandford MA Corpus Christi College.

67 Newnham 106 sittings 95 orders not counting plays or Newnham

Wednesday 26 October 1932 12.0 Miss Francis. Girton College (post next week)

Thursday 27 October 1932 Miss Belesco 40 Woodfield Ave Stretham SW16

Friday 28 October 1932 10.0 Mr Houseman (resitting)

Saturday 29 October 1932

Sunday 30 October 1932

Monday 31 October 1932

Tuesday 1 November 1932

Wednesday 2 November 1932 About 12.0 Mr Tannart (resitting)

Thursday 3 November 1932 Mrs Frank Birch 11 Montpelier Row, Knightsbridge

Friday 4 November 1932

Saturday 5 November 1932 9.30 Miss Greathead. Newnham Sedgwick 11.0 Miss Knott, 8 Cranmer Rd, proofs Wed (post)

Sunday 6 November 1932

Monday 7 November 1932 J.S.Richardson. St John’s F First Court

Tuesday 8 November 1932 10.15 Bartlett 12.0 Mrs Money’s baby. Little Gate, Radwinter End, near Saffron Walden.

Wednesday 9 November 1932 10.15 Miss Clapham Storey’s End 2.30 Miss Willis 3.30 Christopher Willis? Kings 12.0 Miss N Barson, Manageresss refreshment rooms Camb Station.

Thursday 10 November 1932

10.30 Miss Graham 22 Park Side (post proofs) 51 12.0 Miss E O Whetham, Upwater Lodge Chaucer Rd52 2.30 Mrs Burnham 4 Windmill Hill London NW3 London. Hamp 0896 3.30 Mrs Purdin 35a Kimerton St SW1

Friday 11 November 1932 10.45 LM Forbes, 7 St Clements Gardens. Proofs Tues 4.30 12.0 H.C.Hughes, The Garden Cottage Grantchester Trump 25 or Camb 184 Ring Duval 11.30 Trinity (entry crossed out)

Saturday 12 November 1932 10.15 Mr and Mrs Emmott,Latham Shelford Rd, baby 11.30 Mrs Burnett’s children (4) 2.15 Dr Cooper resitting 3.0 Miss N.Robson 10 Park Ter 53

Sunday 13 November 1932

Monday 14 November 1932 12.10 A.R.Gibbs 7 St Margarets Square Cherry Hinton Rd 2.30 P.MacCarthy Emmanuel North Court 3.30 Miss Shrubbs 20 Little St Mary’s Lane

Tuesday 15 November 1932 10.45 Miss Rogerson 46 Newton Rd 12.0 Prof Piccoli Magdalene Col 2.30 Miss Travers, Old Hall 3.30 Miss Aubrey, Belle Vue Hotel. Sat

Wednesday 16 November 1932 10.45 Miss McLeod Innes (small boy) 6 St Eligius Street 12.0 Miss E.H. Whetham. Newnham (Peile) 2.30 Mrs Grieves 10 Tennyson Avenue Cambridge 54 3.30 C.Guillebaud 40 Park Street

On next page, in different writing: Froken Hellis Filliumus Valhallavagen 66 Stockholm Sweden55

Thursday 17 November 1932 London 11.45 Clive Bell 56 2.00 Roger Fry 3.30 Burnham – Camera Club 4.30 Gardiner (entry crossed out) Camera Club

51 Home address of J.C.W.Graham MA, MD, BCh(Cantab) DO (Oxon) MRCS, Surgeon, Hon Clinical Asst, Eye Dept, Addenbrookes Hospital. 52 Home address of Sir W.C.D. Dampier-Whetham, Fellow of Trinity College. 53 Home address of Henry Cumming Robson, Fellow of Sidney Sussex College. 54 Home address of Rev F. Greaves, Wesleyan Minister. 55 Appears to be a note of an address rather than a booking. 56 Arthur Clive Heward Bell 1881 – 1964, art critic, associated with the Bloomsbury Group.

Friday 18 November 1932 10.0 Miss Francis Girton College (resitting) 11.15 Miss Beryl Clark 84 Hertford Street proof by Friday next 2.30 – 4.0 Miss Drew The Old Oast House, Newnham 57

Saturday 19 November 1932 11.30 Mrs H Silk Whitwell Farm, Coton (2 children 5 & 6)

Sunday 20 November 1932

Monday 21 November 1932 11.0 Miss Graham 1.15 Miss Vale 2.30 Mrs Hallward 4 Belvoir Terrace child (entry crossed out) 3.45 Miss Priest Crossways Waterbeach

Tuesday 22 November 1932 10.15 Mrs Creed The College Ely – child 12.0 Miss M.J.Walker South Mead Chaucer Rd 2.30 Miss Mathews 56 Lensfield Rd 3.30 D.T.Low. Trinity 5.0 Miss Breed, The Rosery, Meldreth 6.0 Peggy Whitehouse 106 Pembury Rd Tonbridge

Wednesday 23 November 1932 10.15 Miss Sparrow 2099 4 Bennets Place (child) 11.30 Miss Gibson (Ridley Lodge proofs to The Turrett Wheatley Oxford 2.30 Miss McCormick 1447 9 Scroop Terrace 3.30 Miss Holton 39 Chesterton Rd

Thursday 24 November 1932 10.0 Miss Heinemann Sidgwick Hall Newnham 11.0 D.J.Yates Mason 7 Richmond Terrace (Cats) 12.0 TA Peacock 49 Jesus Lane, proofs as soon as possible going down 3rd

Friday 25 November 1932 10.0 Miss Bartley. Newnham Clough 11.0 Miss Rea Newnham col 58 12.0 Michael Clapham Kings 59 2.45 Miss Burkill 20 Chaucer Rd 2 small children ADC 7 (entry crossed out)

Saturday 26 November 1932 2.30 E.L.Armstrong St Johns 17 Bridge Street 3.45 Miss Stebbing 101 Mawson Road to be called for wed. 5.0 Miss Willis (nudes)

Sunday 27 November 1932

57 Home address of W.S.Drew, MA, Clare College 58 Miss Rea, The Hon. Elisabeth Russell Rea who married Michael Clapham. 59 Michael Clapham, – later the industrialist Sir Michael Clapham

Monday 28 November 1932 10.15 Miss Shrubbs (resitting heads) (entry crossed out) ADC 2.30 Mrs Hallward 4 Belvoir Ter (child) 3.45 Mr Critchley, Elhurst, Huntingdon Road 5.0 Miss J Robson, 10 Park Ter

Tuesday 29 November 1932 10.15 Mr Greeves 11.15 Mrs Gillard Leys School child 2 2.30 R Steele Magdalene 3.45 “Desdamona”

Wednesday 30 November 1932 10.15 Miss Shrubbs (resitting) 11.15 Miss Clarke (resitting) 3.0 Miss Cecil (old) Newnham. Gardd Southbourne on Sea, Bournemouth 4.0 M Wade Sidney College 30 Hamilton Gdns NW8 leaves Camb Tuesday Panto Night Mrs Ramby Brown 4 copies in wedding dress 2 with dog down. Mrs Zamuddin Newnham 3 small at 2/6 if not only one at 3/6

Thursday 1 December 1932 10.45 Mrs Davies 11 Queen Ann Terrace child 2 ¾ 11.45 R Shackleton 19 Guest Rd till 10th 5.0 Mr Abraham St Edmunds, Coleridge Rd 5.45 “Emillia” ADC D Headley Kings Col

Friday 2 December 1932 10.15 Miss Cook Cromwell House Trumpington (twins 14 mth) 11.0 E.R. Santer. Ridley Hall proof Sunday The Ranches Luton Bedfordshire 3.0 Miss Kitching the Low Hall Pickering Yorks 3.30 Miss H Chamberlain Old Hall Newnham. 7 The Close Winchester 5.0 Mrs Law. The Larches, Luton, Beds

Saturday 3 December 1932 10.45 Mrs Scarborough 6 Storeys Way (baby of 9 months) 11.45 Smyth family (father, mother, 2 children) 5.0 Phyllis Hamerton 53 Finchley Rd NW8

Sunday 4 December 1932 On blotter opposite “Ring up Mrs Laughton when Miss Cecil’s proofs return 2850”

Monday 5 December 1932 10.0 Miss Chapman Barkway House Barkway, and dog 3.30 Mrs Moullin, the Priory Horningsea (2 boys 6 and 3)

Tuesday 6 December 1932 10.0 Miss E Hodder 42 Marlowe Rd

2.30 Miss Hodder 42 Marlowe Rd 5.0 Robin. Kings (till 15th)

Wednesday 7 December 1932 10.15 Mrs Henn 32 Millington Rd (2 children 3 and 5 years)60 11.30 Jane & Sarah61 2.30 Mrs Turner Girton Corner (4 children 9 months, 2, 5, 7) 3.30 Mrs Brereton 2 children

Thursday 8 December 1932 10.15 Mrs Birkill (resitting) 11.30 Mrs Gillard (resitting)

Friday 9 December 1932 10.30 Miss Askew (130 Huntingdon Rd) Beacons Hill Denbeigh N Wales 12.0 Mr Shackleton (resitting) 2.15 Ruth Fowler (2 years) Cromwell House Trumpington 3.30 Kathleen Davies 5.30 Miss Coulson 24 Carlisle Rd

Saturday 10 December 1932 10.0 Julian Bell 62 11.0 Mrs Luff the Oaks, Hitchen 349 (child) (entry crossed out) 12.0 N.G.Cooke Grove Lodge Trumpington St (90) 2.45 Mrs Maycock, baby 13 mths, Elton Lodge Gt Shelford (627) 3.45 Miss Moore 10 Trinity Street. 63

Sunday 11 December 1932

Monday 12 December 1932 Away

Tuesday 13 December 1932 2.30 Mrs Drew (resitting)

Wednesday 14 December 1932 10.0 Miss Burton 17 Green St 2.30 Mrs Moullin (resitting)

Thursday 15 December 1932 Top of page in margin (different handwriting – possibly a customer writing her particulars?) 1) Miss Burton 3 Burlington Road Ipswich 2) Mrs John May Kawimbe House, Belstead Road, Ipswich

10.0 JHA Clarke 69 Glisson Road 2.30 Miss Randle 59 Tenison Rd

60 Home address of Thos R. Henn MA, Fellow of St Catharine’s College 61 Presumably Lettice Ramsey’s two daughters. 62 Julian Bell, member of the Cambridge Apostles, son of Vanessa Bell, lover of Lettice Ramsey. 63 The address of The Whim Tea Rooms.

Friday 16 December 1932 11.0 HPB Scholberg 6 Millman St Bedford Row WC1. Proofs Wed if possible. (This entry has an arrow moving it down to Saturday)

Saturday 17 December 1932 12.0 N Mott 4 Sedley Taylor Rd (proofs during week) Post Miss Wiskermann’s photographs to above addresses plus cards.

Sunday 18 December 1932

Monday 19 December 1932 10.0 to 12 Miss Pantin & two boys 2-4 25 Bentley Road 3.15 Peter Nash and Miss P Wright Rothbury Truro. Cambridge till 9th.

Tuesday 20 December 1932

Wednesday 21 December 1932 11.0 Mrs Seznec 4 Bennet Pl

Thursday 22 December 1932

Friday 23 December 1932

Saturday 24 December 1932

Sunday 25 December 1932

Monday 26 December 1932

Tuesday 27 December 1932

Wednesday 28 December 1932

Thursday 29 December 1932

Friday 30 December 1932

Saturday 31 December 1932

Memoranda at end of diary

Sat Jan 7 2.45 Mrs Maycock resitting Miss Appleby Dance Studio PM Cafe64

Statistics were recorded in the diary on: 2 July 1932, 25 July 1932, 25 October 1932.

64 The PEM Cafe was at 75 Trumpington Street, run by F.Vernon Cross, pastry cook and caterer – the premises were situated between Emmanuel Church and Mill Lane on the West side of Trumpington Street.

Transcription of Ramsey and Muspratt Studio Diary 1933

(a date with no further information indicates no entry in the diary that day. Occasional numbers between two and four digits are telephone numbers)

Sunday 1 January 1933 - Friday 6 January 1933 No entries

Saturday 7 January 1933 12.0 Henry Barcroft 13 Grange Road 65 2.45 Mrs Maycock (resitting) [Miss Appleby Dance Studio Pem Cafe ]66

Sunday 8 January 1933

Monday 9 January 1933 2.30 Visit Mrs Kidd 45 De Freville Av to see dogs

Tuesday 10 January 1933

Wednesday 11 January 1933

Thursday 12 January 1933 London 12.0 Ben Meynell 37 Gordon Sq67 2.15 Gourlay 33 Gordon Sq

Friday 13 January 1933 2.15 Mrs Kidd’s dogs 45 De Freville Av 3.0 Mr Downes 15 Kings Parade , proofs to Mrs Downes 3125

Saturday 14 January 1933 10.30 J.H.A. Clarke (resitting)

Sunday 15 January 1933

Monday 16 January 1933 6.0 H.Dyer 59 Tenison Rd

Tuesday 17 January 1933

Wednesday 18 January 1933

Thursday 19 January 1933 11.0 John Hodgson 78 Hartington Grove

65 Later to be Professor Barcroft, physiologist 66 The PEM Cafe was at 75 Trumpington St Cambridge, run by F.Vernon Cross, pastry cook and caterer. It was on the West side of Trumpington St between Mill Lane and Emmanuel Church. This was not a studio appointment – perhaps a note to visit the premises. 67 Home of Vanessa Bell

Friday 20 January 1933 2.30 Miss Garrard Clough Hall (proofs gone)68 3.30 Mr Downes (resitting) (proofs gone)

Saturday 21 January 1933 10.0 E.G.Jackson 14 Walkworth St (Emmanuel) (proofs gone) 3.30 The Misses Haynes (2 girls) 1 Trumpington Street 22269

Sunday 22 January 1933

Monday 23 January 1933 11.0 E.J.A. Cruso (Femhurst Manor, Guildford) Proofs to 52 High Street, Eton, Windsor. 70

Tuesday 24 January 1933 3.30 R.C.Steele Magdalene College

Wednesday 25 January 1933 11.30 Mrs Kidd dogs (resitting) (entry deleted) 3.15 H.V.Kemp Clare College

Thursday 26 January 1933 - Thursday 2 February 1933 No entries

Friday 3 February 1933 10.30 Mrs Ellis (entry crossed out) 4.0 Mrs Topper (entry crossed out)

Saturday 4 February 1933 10.30 Mr Glynne Burand, Sidney Sussex College R1 Garden Court (entry crossed out) 12.45 Miss Haynes 222 (entry crossed out) 3.30 Miss Haslop 251 Victoria Rd

Sunday 5 February 1933

Monday 6 February 1933 10.30 Mr Glynne Burand Sydney Sussex R1 Garden Court. Proofs Wed tea time 4.0 Mrs Topper 49 Devonshire Rd. Proof sent

Tuesday 7 February 1933 11.0 Miss Cunningham Wayside Huntingdon Rd 4.45 H.P.Ruffel.Smith 12 King Parade 71

68 These notes – “(proofs gone)” appear to be in different handwriting. 69 Home address of George Secretan Haynes MD, FRCP, Physician to Addenbrookes Hospital. 70 This appears to be a mis-spelling of F.J.A.Cruso, a Master at Eton in 1933. Francis J.A. Crusoe, is listed in The Cambridge Apostles by Richard Deacon as one of the Cambridge Apostles, along with Julian Bell, and Anthony Blunt 71 It would appear that here we have for the first time a second strong hand, with a backward slant and clearer lettering. This may be the first entry in the studio diary by Helen Muspratt. From this point onwards two hands regularly appear in the diary. Hugh Patrick Ruffell Smith, AFC & Two Bars (1911 – 4 August 1980) was a British physician, pilot, and Royal Air Force officer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._P._Ruffell_Smith

Wednesday 8 February 1933

Thursday 9 February 1933

Friday 10 February 1933 2.30 Miss Illsley 43 Herbert St Chesterton 4.0 Miss Topper, Devonshire Rd.

Saturday 11 February 1933

Sunday 12 February 1933

Monday 13 February 1933 11.0 R.Bourne Kings.

Tuesday 14 February 1933 10.15 P.E. Manger 39 Eltisley Av 2.45 Mrs Dufour Cole 3 Russel St (Russel Agency)72 (Du?? Francois)

Wednesday 15 February 1933

Thursday 16 February 1933 Miss D.G.Willson 3 Cranmer Rd

Friday 17 February 1933 Bridget’s wedding 12 – 5 or 6

Saturday 18 February 1933 12.00 Julian Blackburn 73 3.00 G.H.Dean. Em C5 Front Court Proofs Thurs 5.0 Mr and Mrs Stead. 97 Church Rd Wimbledon SW19

Sunday 19 February 1933

Monday 20 February 1933 10.0 K.T.Thompson. Johns College

Tuesday 21 February 1933

Wednesday 22 February 1933

Thursday 23 February 1933

Friday 24 February 1933 3.0 Miss Bradford. Girton College (entry crossed out)

Saturday 25 February 1933 Away

72 The Russel Agency was a registry office for servants – in modern terms an employment agency. 73 Julian Murray Blackburn, economist and psychologist, completed his PhD in Cambridge in 1933.

Sunday 26 February 1933

Monday 27 February 1933 Away

Tuesday 28 February 1933 12.0 O.F.Prince. Cats 2.30 Miss Milne. The Wilderness Witham Essex. Dunedin Madingley Rd 5.0 H.C.Mc Comas Caius College

Wednesday 1 March 1933 11.0 N.J.F.Craig Em 12.0 Mrs Hodgson 1 Parsons Court, Cambridge Tel 1568

Thursday 2 March 1933

Friday 3 March 1933 Away 2.30 Miss Robinson

Saturday 4 March 1933 11.0 E.H.D. McCarthy Jun. Proofs to P.A.D.McCarthy Emmanuel 3.0 Miss Gunson (G.A.R. Ellsworth, Clare New Buildings). 13 Penywern Rd Earls Court SW5.

Sunday 5 March 1933

Monday 6 March 1933 12.0 E.B.Davies. 7 Green St (Clare) 2.30 J.M.Keynes 46 Gordon Sq Kings74

Tuesday 7 March 1933 10.15 Mrs Dufour Cole (No Chrg) 12.15 N.Wilson 23 Malcolm St 3.0 Mrs Braithwaite

Wednesday 8 March 1933 10.15 K.T.Thomson. Clare (resitting) 12.0 Miss Bradford. Girton College. Apthorpe, Hendford Hill, Yeovil

Thursday 9 March 1933 10.30 Mrs Willey 282 Hills Rd 1827 (small boy) 11.30 Miss Hutchinson 6 Station Rd. (entry crossed out)

Friday 10 March 1933 11.15 Miss Hoare, Newnham College, Kennedy Buildings75 3.30 Miss Ward 7 Mackenzie Rd

74 The Economist, John Maynard Keynes. The Gordon Sq house was his home. 75 Agnes Dorothy Mackenzie Hoare (known as Dorothy Hoare until her marriage, and thereafter Dorothy De Navarro was a lecturer at Newnham in Anglo Saxon literature

Saturday 11 March 1933 12.30 Miss Hutchinson 6 Station Rd. Proofs Wed 5.0 calling. 2.45 H.M.Malik St Caths Coll (The Hermitage Silver St) 4.0 Mrs Neave 50A Hills Rd (£1.1.0)

Sunday 12 March 1933

Monday 13 March 1933 11.0 G.K.Pringle. Caius (6 Brookside). St Phillips, Milltown, Dublin 12.0 Miss P.Leake. Girton College (entry crossed out) 3.15 Mrs Killick. 15 Oxford Rd baby 8 months

Tuesday 14 March 1933 10.30 Miss P Leake The Gables South Wootton, Kings Lynn Norfolk (post no hurry) 12.15 Mrs Nicholes 22 Hills Rd C. (Saturday post midday) 2.45 Mrs Willson “End House” Lady Margaret Road small boy. (proofs next week end) 4.30 Miss R.J.Owen. Newnham College. Maesmawr Hall, Welshpool Mont (no hurry)

Wednesday 15 March 1933 10.0 Miss Pickey-Jones, Girton. Ankuri, Little Sutton, Wirral, Cheshire 10.35 I Magdaline 3 copies 3.0 S.A.Morton, Trinity Hall, Dune Gate Dorchester.

Thursday 16 March 1933 S.W.A. Maude, Corpus. London address 67 Palace Court W2

Friday 17 March 1933 J W Goodison 15 Bateman Street (entry crossed out)76 6.15 Miss Crawshaw. 15 St Andrews Street (proofs by Thurs)

Saturday 18 March 1933 9.45 Sewell – Antonia aged 6 12.0 Miss Hoare, Kennedy Bldgs. (resitting) 4.0 J.M.Keynes (resitting) [30 sittings in March so far]

Sunday 19 March 193377 Dressmaker – Mrs De Rick 6 Barton Rd Ely Teacher at Perse Miss Jane Cazenove, The Perse School

Monday 20 March 1933 12.0 D.N.Magill 35 Walkworth Street 2.30 Mrs B Sheppard-Smith Walkworth St (proofs Thursday) 4.15 Miss Roberts The Old Oast House, Malting Lane, C. Leaving on Thurs – 1 Holland Lane Kensington W14

Tuesday 21 March 1933 3.40 Mrs Harris 178 Huntingdon Rd 2½

76 Later Deputy Director and Keeper of the Department of Paintings and Drawings at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. 77 The two entries for this date seem to be the notes of names for future reference rather than appointments

5.0 A.R.Lillie 5 Magrath Ave. 1 Fleures Avenue, Glasgow S1 (post Friday)

Wednesday 22 March 1933 10 H.Collier 38 Belvoir Rd. St Patrick, Senner, Cornwall (post 1 o’clock Saturday) 12.0 H.M.Malik (St Catharines) The Hermitage, Silver St (resitting) (Proofs Monday) 2.45 Mrs White – baby (1 year) 11 St Johns St (Proofs Monday)

For lettering - Mr Lambert, 1 Wheeler St Cambridge 78

Thursday 23 March 1933

Friday 24 March 1933 12.30 Miss Day 26 Emery St (deliver Millers on Tuesday) 2.30 Mr Russell Woolley, Leys School (post Wed) 4.15 J.W. Goodison 15 Bateman Street (entry crossed out)

Saturday 25 March 1933 12.0 Miss Travers (entry crossed out) 3.30 P. Du Val Trinity

Sunday 26 March 1933

Monday 27 March 1933 3.15 Mrs Killick 15 Oxford Rd

Tuesday 28 March 1933 Ring 2754 Mrs Dufour Cole 2.30 Mr Craske 99 Glebe Rd 184 2.30 Miss Haynes The Corner House (entry crossed out) 3.40 Mrs Harris

Wednesday 29 March 1933 Miss H Haynes, The Corner House, Trumpington Road G Cunningham Sen. The Cottage, Rookfield Avenue, Muswell Hill London N.79

Thursday 30 March 1933

Friday 31 March 1933 10.0 Mrs Welford 17 Tenison Ave 2131

Saturday 1 April 1933

Sunday 2 April 1933

Monday 3 April 1933

Tuesday 4 April 1933 3.0 See Mr Charter (or Chaiter?)80

78 Appears to be a note of the name and address of a contact for future work, rather than a sitting. 79 No appointment time – was this noting an address for future use?

Wednesday 5 April 1933

Thursday 6 April 1933

Friday 7 April 1933 1.45 Miss Cole 49 Cavendish Rd (calling Mon 4.0) 3.0 Mrs Philips Old Abbey House, Abbey Road, baby 20 months (1 guinea calling Tues Morning)

Saturday 8 April 1933 Rugby Group (entry crossed out)

Sunday 9 April 1933

Monday 10 April 1933

Tuesday 11 April 1933 11.0 Miss Cunningham 2 St Pauls Rd

Wednesday 12 April 1933 - Thursday 20 April 1933 No entries

Friday 21 April1933 10.30 Miss Graham, Fordfield, Brooklands Av. (entry crossed out) Katherine Low Settlement 108 High Street Battersea SW1181 12.15 Mrs Jane Nicholson 14 St Johns St (entry crossed out)

Saturday 22 April 1933 10.30 K.N.Welfare 9 Warkworth Street (Proofs Mon 5-6 calling) 4.0 Miss Jane Nicholson 14 St Johns Street (proofs on Tuesday if possible) 5.0 Mrs A.P. Nanda, Royal Military Academy Woolwich SE18 (proofs Wed or Thur) 6.0 Mr R.L Demuth 21 Earl Street. (proofs Wed or Thur)

Sunday 23 April 1933

Monday 24 April 1933 11.0 Mrs Grace 8 Bateman St

Tuesday 25 April 1933 3.0 Miss H.M.Wright Peile Hall, Newnham 4.0 Mrs Smart 47 Fulbrook Rd (Williams Christine) 5.0 Miss Innes Clough Hill

80 This could possibly be a mis-spelling of “Mr Chater”. “See Mr Chater” is different to the way normal sittings with clients are recorded in the diary, suggesting one or other of the partners was going somewhere to an appointment. There were two different accountancy firms in Cambridge in 1933 by the name of Chater, and this could be an end of tax year appointment with the accountants , The two firms were: J Chater and Sons 5 Alexander St and Chater and Goodwin 68 St Andrews Street Cambridge. 81 Katherine Low Settlement is a charity that has been serving the communities of Battersea and the wider Wandsworth community since 1924. They are dedicated to tackling poverty and building stronger communities. Miss Graham was Aelfrida Catherine Wetenhall Graham, 1883-1959, nee Tillyard daughter of Alfred Isaac Tillyard, one-time Mayor of Cambridge and the Editor of the Cambridge Independent Press. https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/search/archives/6690b0df-bfdd-3bf1-8bff-d2a5dc1916e3

Wednesday 26 April 1933 10.15 Mrs Buxton 116 Huntingdon Rd 2 yrs child

Thursday 27 April 1933 10.0 Mrs Norman (Pamela) 81 Chesterton Rd (send)

Friday 28 April 1933 12.0 Miss Hattersley 20 Lensfield Rd 2.30 Mrs Robinson + 2 children (6 and 9) 47 St Peters, Bedford 4.15 Mr Goodison 15 Bateman Street 5.0 Miss Weston 30 Lyndewode Rd

Saturday 29 April 1933 9.45 11.0 Polly Ellis Broxdon, Huntingdon rd 12.15 M.Seznec, 4 Benet Place 3.15 Mrs Mann St Marks Lodge Grantchester St 2704 1 year old boy (entry crossed out)

Sunday 30 April 1933 Ap 20

Monday 1 May 1933 10.0-11.0 Mr Corbett (entry crossed out) 11.15 Mrs Heffer’s little boy 2501 call proofs Friday 2.30 3.15 Mrs Mann (& baby) 2704 St Marks Lodge Grantchester St. (post end of week)

Tuesday 2 May 1933 Away

Wednesday 3 May 1933 4.0 J.C.Darricotte. Sydney Sussex (entry crossed out)

Thursday 4 May 1933

Friday 5 May 1933 10.30 Mrs Buxton (baby) (resitting) 3.0 J.C.Darricotte Sydney Sussex (Proofs Tuesday afternoon calling 4.0)

Saturday 6 May 1933 (Provisional) 12.0 Mr D.P. Groom Johnson 30 Maids Causeway (entry crossed out)

Sunday 7 May 1933 Ellis Tel 771182

Monday 8 May 1933 10.0 Miss Cunningham and boy (Heffer) (Resitting) 2501 Wed Afternoon 11.15 Mrs Pettoello 226 Milton Rd (calling sat morning) 3.0 Miss Smith and Miss Matthews – Sayles (entry crossed out)

82 Appears to be the note of a telephone number rather than an appointment.

Tuesday 9 May 1933 10.15 Mrs Thomas Ripley, Gt Shelford 61 (proofs Friday calling 6.0) 12.0 W.H.Stanton 24 Fitzwilliam Street (post Friday) 3.0 D.P.Groom Johnson 30 Maids Causeway (calling Friday 3)

Wednesday 10 May 1933 12.30 Mrs Hilton 24 de Freville avenue 3.0 Magdalene Col – copies 2.30 Mr Young The Bungalow, Trumpington (baby)

Thursday 11 May 1933

Friday 12 May 1933

Saturday 13 May 1933 11.30 Mrs Miller Sn (entry crossed out) 12.15 M.Seznec (resitting) 12.15 Mrs Buxton (entry crossed out) 3.0 Mr B.Keith Lucas Pembroke83

Sunday 14 May 1933

Monday 15 May 1933 Mrs A Heffer’s little girl 258 Hills Rd (Mrs Parkwood little girl) (Mrs Cunningham Southfields Lodge Winchester) (send proofs)

Tuesday 16 May 1933 3.0 Miss Darby Petersfield House, Park Side 1516 5.15 Miss Hubbard Wincanton, Flamsteed Rd.

Wednesday 17 May 1933 12.15 G.Green Caius (11.45 Sat proofs)

Thursday 18 May 1933 12.0 Mrs Collier, St Patrick, Senner, Cornwall (entry crossed out)

Friday 19 May 1933 12.30 Miss Day (2nd sitting) 3.0 Mr James Tearoe, Langley House, Dorking

Saturday 20 May 1933 5.0 J.C.A. de Soysa - Sidney Sussex College

Sunday 21 May 1933

Monday 22 May 1933 11.30 Barbara Dobb (complimentary) 139 Marylebone Rd NW184

83Bryan Keith-Lucas later qualified as a solicitor before becoming an academic specialising in local government. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bryan_Keith-Lucas

Tuesday 23 May 1933 3.0 J.Alexander (Treasurer Footlights) Pepys Cottage, Pepys Way, Girton Rd. Histon 61

Wednesday 24 May 1933 11.0 Mrs Pryor (Conservative Club) (P C) 85 Park Lodge, Park Terrace. (Complimentary) Miss Hewish 19 Vinery Rd, Mill Rd. Spotter. No retouching – reception work86

Thursday 25 May 1933 10.45 C.C.Aston 37 Newmarket Rd. (calling Monday afternoon) 12.0 Mrs Collier St Patrick Senner Cornwall (calling Tuesday for proofs)

Friday 26 May 1933 10.0 T.L.Morris (Jesus Col) Catch Hall Girton 12.15 Winnington Ingram Trinity College87 3.45 Mr Strangeways 4 Hills Ave P.C. 4.30 Miss Wood 15 St Barnabas 6.30 Group of 24 ( Club) P.C. J.A. Edgar 88 8 Primrose St (24 sittings)

Saturday 27 May 1933

Sunday 28 May 1933 Greselda Maurice 3 Benet Place89

Monday 29 May 1933 12.0 R Washburn. Trinity. 14 Huntingdon Rd 2.15 Mrs H.A.Newport, Walton, Fordham, N. Ely.

Tuesday 30 May 1933 2.45 Miss Robinson 12 Hills Av (send Friday)

Wednesday 31 May 1933 12.0 Mrs Dutton leaving Cambridge post by Sat c/o Mrs Knight Howelands, Huntingdon Rd. Como, Prestatyn, Flyntshire 4.0 Mr Newman, Shilton, Glebe Rd (direct Heffy’s) 5.0 Passport Mr Armstrong, Miss Ladds, 27 Tennison Av.

84 Actress and wife of Marxist Economist Maurice Dobb. There are two Ramsey and Muspratt portraits of Barbara Dobb on Peter Loft’s website http://www.loftyimages.co.uk/gallery_417282.html 85 The initials “PC” against this entry are puzzling. It is possible that this refers to Palmer Clarke and that this is the first indication of a temporary alignment of the two businesses which later involved Ramsey and Muspratt taking over the older Palmer Clarke business and its studio at Post Office Terrace. The letters “PC” appear again against entries on 26 May 1933. 86 Appears to be a note of a possible future employee – not an appointment for a sitting. Was this Ivy May Hewish of this address, b: 1908? If so, her occupation at the time of her marriage in October 1935 was “shop assistant”. 87 Reginald Pepys Winnington-Ingram, classicist 1904-1993, Fellow Trinity College Cambridge 1928-32, lecturer Manchester University 1928, 1930, 1933, Reader in Classics Birkbeck College 1934- 48, Professor of Classics Westfield College 1948-53, Director London University Institute of Classical Studies 1964-66, Professor of Greek Language and Literature King's College London 1953-71 (Emeritus), Fellow 1969-93 88 Astronomer and winner of the Tyson Medal 1932 89 Appears to be the note of a name and address, not a timed appointment.

5.30 Cedric

Thursday 1 June 1933 In the top left hand corner of this page, above the entry for Thursday 1 June, is written H.M.4. Also beside the date 1 June is a little doodle of a plant in a pot. H.M. could refer to Helen Muspratt. The figure 4 could even be a badly written “H” or “M”. If the final letter is an “H” could this refer to Miss Hewish whose name and address appear on 24th May above?

Friday 2 June 1933 Wed at latest for passports 11.0 Mr Critchley (entry crossed out) 11.0 H.S.Crabtree 4 Walkworth St. Passport (2 x 2 ¾ 6 proofs) 3. Picture. At Mrs Fent’s house Owlstone Rd (entry crossed out) 4.0 Mrs Fox (entry crossed out)

Saturday 3 June 1933 10.30 D.J.Yates Masson with ADC 11-1.0 ADC (Patrick Headley Producer) Miss Boggis-Rofle (sic) send to F.Minns 2 Parsons Court

Sunday 4 June 1933

Monday 5 June 1933 Holiday

Tuesday 6 June 1933 3.0 Mrs Mullett (Baby 17 months) Low Eaves, Holbrook Rd.

Wednesday 7 June 1933 11.30 – 1.0 ADC 4.0 Mr and Mrs Fox, West Croft, Hartest, Bury St Ed. 1 copy 1/1 plate biggest head to H.S.Crabtree, Fairmount, Queens Drive, Ilkley Yorkshire.

Thursday 8 June 1933 11.0 A.D.Melville Kings College. Whiteacre, Bengeo, Hertford. (post Sat if poss or Monday) 12.15 R.H.Melville Magdalene. (post Sat if poss or Monday)

Friday 9 June 1933 12.0 C.C.Gaunt Pembroke N7 Old Masters Lodge. Take rooms. Lane Head, Rawdon, Yorkshire. 3.30 Mrs J.B.Thomas, Barrowfield, Fordham. Wants photo by Monday evening. Calling Monday afternoon for proofs.

Saturday 10 June 1933 10.0 Alexander Mackintyre (ADC) 12.0 H.S.Bourne Kings (entry crossed out) 2.30 Miss Trubshaw GFS Lodge, Park Ter. 3.15 Miss G Misson, High Street, Waterbeach.

Sunday 11 June1933

Monday 12 June 1933

9.45 Mr Taylor 7 Green St. 47 Warren Drive, New Brighton Cheshire 10.30 H.S.Bourn Kings, Epplestone Manor, Nottingham. 3.0 Mrs Thomas (baby) resitting.

Tuesday 13 June 1933 11.0 Miss N.Madden, Beech Hurst, Newmarket 3.0 J.F.Cargill 31 Queens Gate Ter. SW7 (post Friday)

Wednesday 14 June 1933 10.30 Miss Mitchell 3 Oundle Villas, Newmarket Rd. 11.15 David Otter-Barry Cambridge University OTC Camp, Cavalry Contingent, Arundel Park, Sussex. 3.0 Miss Clapham, The Porch, Grantchester Street.

Thursday 15 June 1933 10.0 Mrs Aves 4 Bennett Place, Lensfield Rd (Sat 2.30) 11.0 C.W.Oliver 24 Fitzwilliam Street (Calling 4.0 Monday)

Friday 16 June1933 10.0 Colin Clark,90 Dunsford, Devon 12.0 L.F.Hood Q3 Pembroke. Rooms. 2 positions. 3.0 L.A.Hewson. Wesley House, Jesus Lane – call Tuesday afternoon.

Saturday 17 June 1933 12.0 Mrs Wooster 26 Leys Rd 3.0 Mr J.R.Bellerby, Bourn.

Sunday 18 June 1933 Mr C.G.Buttler, St Faiths, Trumpington Rd, re-mount second of Miss Innis

Monday 19 June 1933 11.0 C.L.C.Allan 6 West Castle Rd, Edinburgh 3.0 Mrs Barker 17 Cranmer Rd 1320 (entry crossed out) 3.0 Mr F.A.Marr, 126 Huntingdon Rd.

Tuesday 20 June 1933 11.30 Hood Thursday 31 Queens Gate Terrace SW7. L.F.Hood, Coombins Park Carcuar, New South Wales, Australia. 11.30 Mrs Pascal St Andrews, Chesterton Lane (entry crossed out) 12.30 Miss I. Manton, Victoria University, Manchester 3.0 Mrs Barker 17 Cranmer Rd 1320 4.0 E.K.Wright St Catherines. 111 The Chine, Grange Park London N 21. 5.0 Mr Collet, Salisbury Hotel, Kings Rd, Brighton, and Mr Kerning 1 Kenwood Bank, Sheffield.

Wednesday 21 June 1933 Corn Exchange Sale. (A Hope-Jones91, Bank House, Ingleton, Carnforth)

90 Colin Grant Clark (1905 – 1989) was an economist and statistician. He pioneered the use of the gross national product (GNP) as the basis for studying national economies.

Lady Ewing, send to room 42 Evelyn Nursing Home, Trumpington Street. Phone at 1 oc 1109

Thursday 22 June 1933

Friday 23 June 1933 2.30 J S Barrow Emmanuel, 13 Conway Ave Bolton. Send proofs to Miss M.Ridge, Doddington Rectory, March. 4.0 Miss Theophilus, the Priory, Horningsea, near Cambridge.

Saturday 24 June 1933 10.30 Mrs H E Melville. Address see June 8.

Sunday 25 June 1933 Mrs Kahn rang up about tennis

Monday 26 June 1933 11.0 Booked for going to Clare

Tuesday 27 June 1933 10.30 Mrs Pooley 3 Bentley Rd 1998 2.30 Miss D.J.Wilson 66 Cavendish Ave (Miss Ruxton 111 Inverness Terrace W2)92

Wednesday 28 June 1933 Burn-Murdock c/o Cole Dicken Lewis 22 St Andrews St 3.30 Mrs Gally 2 children, Oakington Vicarage, Oakington Cambs. Miss Birdwood Peterhouse Lodge93

Thursday 29 June 1933

Friday 30 June 1933 5.30 Mr A.D.Melville (entry crossed out) Sittings in June R and M 31 + ADC, PC 1094

Saturday 1 July 1933

Sunday 2 July 1933

Monday 3 July 1933 5.0 Mrs Wilkins 30 John St City Rd Boy 12 years

91 Arthur Hope-Jones was the Ellen McArthur History Prize winner in 1939 and the author of Income Taxes in the Napoleonic Wars, Cambridge, 1933. This diary entry is in brackets and does not have an appointment time. Was it a sitting, or a note of a name and address for future reference?

92 Does not appear to be a sitting as no time stated, but a note of a name and address. 93 Appears to be a note for future reference rather than an appointment 94 Does this mark the point where Ramsey and Muspratt started to incorporate the business of Palmer Clark – i.e. the PC 10 could have been ten of their bookings that month.

Tuesday 4 July 1933 11.0 Miss N Wilson 66 Cavendish Ave 1299 3.30 Mrs Pascal and baby St Andrews, Chesterton Lane 2935

Wednesday 5 July 1933 10.0 Mrs Cook 3 St Pauls Rd 2247

Thursday 6 July 1933 12.0 E.T.Roddy 11 Howes Pl Cambridge (post Monday)

Friday 7 July 1933 4.0 Miss Theophilus, The Priory, Horningsea Cambridge (entry crossed out) 2.15 Mrs Henry Martin 22 Brooklands Ave (entry crossed out)

Saturday 8 July 1933 11.0 Mr and Mrs Armstrong 29 Bedford Rd Clophill, Beds. (Miss Ladds 27 Tennison Ave.) (wedding) groups of 2 and 4. Send in 14 days i.e. Sat 22nd Large 8/6 small 5/6 2.15 Miss Harvey’s brother 22 Brooklands Ave. Calling Wed afternoon. 5.15 Mrs Bushell 25 Newton Rd.

Sunday 9 July1933

Monday 10 July 1933 12.0 Miss Chivers, Howefield, Histon

Tuesday 11 July 1933 10.0 Miss Pegg (for “Outlook”) 4.0 Miss Theophilus (resitting) 5.0 tennis

Wednesday 12 July 1933 4pm away Jane’s School95

Thursday 13 July 1933 11.0 Mrs Creed – baby 20 months, the College Ely 140 Send to The Vicarage Stoke St, Milburgh, Ludlow Salop. 12.0 Miss Costello 73 Panton Street.

Friday 14 July1933 12.0 Away

Saturday 15 July 1933 11.30 S.C.Selwyn, Corpus. Passport 1.40 Miss Johnson 5 Latham Rd 3.0 Wedding Miss Johnson 4.0 Mrs Thomas (resitting)

Sunday 16 July 1933

95 Refers to one of Lettice Ramsey’s daughters.

Monday 17 July 1933 11.30 Mrs Meadows for “Outlook”18 Parsonage St 2.30 Mrs Pickard. The Grove, Hartford, Huntingdon 3.30 Mrs Harris 22 Newton Rd. Children 1 and 4

Tuesday 18 July 1933 10.30 S.C.Selwyn, Corpus. Bransgor House, Bransgor 3.0 Miss A Gayner c/o Mrs Haycock 3 St Peters Ter, Home address, Old Link Field, Redhill 5.30 tennis

Wednesday 19 July 1933 10.45 Miss Peacock 7 Fitzwilliam Rd. Tuesday evening.

Thursday 20 July 1933

Friday 21 July 1933 5.0 Tennis

Saturday 22 July 1933 10.30 Mrs Pleasant 22 Portugal Street 12.0 Miss R.Gayner. Old Link Field, Redhill Surrey.

Sunday 23 July 1933

Monday 24 July 1933 12.0 Mr Koehler 84 Chesterton Rd 5.0 Mrs Williams 69 Barton Rd girl aged 10 (912)

Tuesday 25 July 1933 10.0 Miss Skinner 12 Trumpington Street 11.30 Mrs Emerson, 67 Grange Rd Cambridge (proofs to) Mrs A.P.Richter 5 Lebanon Pk, Twickenham 3.30 Mr Moseby, High Caunds, Whittlesford and Mr Benson, Abbington (sic). Proofs by Wed. Tennis 4.30

Wednesday 26 July 1933 Miss Lloyd, Sleep Hall, St Ives.,(print 9 x 11 about) Miss Warren, The Priory, St Ives.

Thursday 27 July 1933 10.30 Mrs Kidd’s 2 dogs

Friday 28 July 1933 4.0 Mrs Newton 5.0 Tennis

Saturday 29 July 1933 Spring afternoon off96 3.0 Miss Laughton (Mrs Bulmer) wedding Kings

96 This seems an improbably entry for the end of July. The first word of the entry clearly starts with a capital “S” and lower case “p”. From the context it may be more likely that this first word is somebody’s name; but whose?

Sunday 30 July 1933

Monday 31 July 1933 Probably away before lunch (entry crossed out)

Tuesday 1 August 1933 12.0 Miss Crisp, home add Windy Ridge, Warboys, Hunts. Sat at Cleveleys Hydro Nr Blackpool. Post Wed is poss. 2.30 Mrs R.Marsh, Shelford and Copper Kettle K.P. 4.30 W.R.Harrison Em. (entry crossed out, then re-written)

Wednesday 2 August 1933 10.0 2 passports (Miss Pick Chesterton Rd, R.J. Pumphrey, Story’s Way. 10.30 Mr and Mrs Fisher 53 Roebuck Rd, Rochester, Kent (Dr H.L.Fisher) 11.30 Mrs Flack (child) 18 De Freville Ave. North Walsham Norfolk. 10.0 Timmy and Nicky Moor 86 Chesterton Rd (entry crossed out)97

Thursday 3 August 1933 10.0 Nicky and Timmy Moor 86 Chestertin Rd 11.0 Passport. E.B.Hacking Clare College

Friday 4 August 1933 11.30 Passport Miss Collett Gt Shelford. 4.30 W.R.Harrisson Emmanuel (entry crossed out)

Saturday 5 August 1933 11.30 G.H.Potter (passport) 26A Cavendish Avenue.

Sunday 6 August 1933

Monday 7 August 1933 Bank Holiday

Tuesday 8 August 1933

Wednesday 9 August 1933 6.0 G.Occhalini 7 Bateman St 98

Thursday 10 August 1933

Friday 11 August 1933

Saturday 12 August 1933 Passport Mr K Grotler Jesus Lane

97 The surname is spelled incorrectly. These were the poet Nicholas Moore and the composer Timothy Moore, sons of George Edward Moore 1873 –1958, English philosopher, Professor of Philosophy University of Cambridge, a member of the Cambridge Apostles and influential in the Bloomsbury Group

98 Giuseppe Paolo Stanislao "Beppo" Occhialini, was an Italian physicist at the Cavendish Laboratory. In 1932, he collaborated in the discovery of the positron in cosmic rays at the Cavendish Laboratory under the leadership of Patrick Blackett, using cloud chambers.

Passport Mrs ? (entry crossed out)

Sunday 13 August 1933

Monday 14 August 1933 10.0 Passport Mrs Home, Hinxton Grange Gt Chesterford, Essex. 10.30 Passport J.J.Hockliffe 6 Newton Rd Little Shelford. 12.0 R.J.Lyons 124 Huntingdon Rd

Tuesday 15 August 1933 10.30 Mr and Mrs Crouch, Manor Farm, Horningsea, Tel Waterbeach 34. 2.45 Mr C.E.Brock (artist) 38 Grange Rd99 4.0 N.Bell Christs Col

Wednesday 16 August 1933 10.30 Outside of Grange Rd Flats. 2.15 F.T.Ratcliffe 20 Silver St (gown)100 3.0 I.S.Eve (Emmanuel) (glasses) 14 Albion St, Hull. 3.30 R.T.L.Dolbey (Fitzwilliam Hall) (19 Fitzwilliam St next term) Chelsworth Hall, Chelsworth, Suffolk, calling after 4.0 on Tuesday.

Thursday 17 August 1933 12.0 – 12.30 dentist 2.30 Mrs Pritchard’s boy (2 ½ ) 58 St Andrews Street. 3.30 (resitting) W.R.Harrisson. The Chase, Weeke, Winchester.

Friday 18 August 1933 10.30 Mrs Franklin 2 Gresham Rd 3312. (3 children)

Saturday 19 August 1933 11.30 Mrs Wilks (child) 11 Guest Rd.

Sunday 20 August 1933

Monday 21 August 1933 11.0 Miss Southgate, 22 Maids Causeway (entry crossed out)

Tuesday 22 August 1933

Wednesday 23 August 1933 11.30 Mrs Wilks (resitting) Miss Brancke, Esperance Bartington Place, Eastbourne 101

Thursday 24 August 1933

99 Charles Edmund Brock, 1870-1938, Artist 100 These short references to descriptions presumably served to make sure the right prints were shown to each sitter after the event. 101 This does not appear to be an appointment, but a note of a name and address for future use. The address should be Hartington Place, not Bartinton Place. The Esperance was a hospital run by the nursing branch of the Holy Family of Bordeaux Sisters. It is still a hospital today.

Friday 25 August 1933 11.0 Mr G.Slade and Miss J.E.Haeley 40 St Mary’s St Ely 2.45 Miss Blott 45 Glisson Rd 4.30 G.E.Rogerson, Brandon, Suffolk

Saturday 26 August 1933

Sunday 27 August 1933

Monday 28 August 1933 – Sunday 3 September 1933 No entries

Monday 4 September 1933 11.45 R.Vincent, Merton Cottage Queens Rd, Cambridge Mrs Newton Phillips

Tuesday 5 September 1933 3.0 H.J.A.Smart 5 St Pauls Rd.

Wednesday 6 September 1933 3.30 Mrs Ainsworth, 7 Sherbourne Ave, Southall, Middlesex.

Thursday 7 September 1933

Friday 8 September 1933 3.0 B.Dexter, County Mental Hospital, Fulbourn

Saturday 9 September 1933 - Tuesday 12 September 1933 No entries

Wednesday 13 September 1933 Mrs Stokes, Green Gables, Blinco Grove (entry crossed out)

Thursday 14 September 1933 11.30 Allingham 22 Brooklands Avenue 10.30 Mrs King, Brinkley, Stetchworth II X I (entry crossed out)

Friday 15 September 1933 11.0 Re-sit Miss Blott. 11 Ravelston Park Edinburgh. Send to Royal Hotel, Dockay, Penrith, Cumberland

Saturday 16 September 1933 10.30 Mrs King (children) Brinkley Stetchworth II.XI (entry crossed out)

Sunday 17 September 1933

Monday 18 September 1933

Tuesday 19 September 1933

Wednesday 20 September 1933

10.30 Mrs King, Brinkley, Stetchworth II.X I. 3 children 11.45 Miss Dawson (entry crossed out) 11.30 Miss Brenda Simpson & mother Branksome, Bury Rd Newmarket 2.30 Miss Latouche 230 Hills Rd 1961 (entry crossed out then re-written) 3.15 Miss Allingham (resitting)c/o Mrs Harvey 6 Effingham Cres Dover.

Thursday 21 September 1933 10.30 Mrs Moore 86 Chesterton Rd – Nicky (see footnote 95 above) 2.30 Mrs Wordie 63 Grange Rd. 5 children 9 ½ – 15 months

Friday 22 September 1933 11.30 Mrs Hammond 1 Leward (sic) Rd. 2 boys. 2.45 Miss Joan Keeling Cobblers Hill Gt Missenden, Berks till Oct 1 then 3 Mecklenburgh Sq WC1

Saturday 23 September 1933 10.0 Mrs Prichard 58 St Andrews St, resitting 12.0 Miss Dawson, 45 Brompton Sq SW3 (48 De Freville Ave) Send Wed to Finlay & Son 2.45 Miss Goggs 29 Malcolm Street, Works Barclays Bank Benet Street after Oct 1st.

Sunday 24 September 1933 11.0 Mr and Mrs Stokes & 3 children, Green Gables, Blinco Grove (entry crossed out)

Monday 25 September 1933 10.30 G.Barnes & daughter Jesus Col.

Tuesday 26 September 1933

Wednesday 27 September 1933 G.Yusef, Castle Hotel, Passport.

Thursday 28 September 1933 - Wednesday 4 October 1933 No entries

Thursday 5 October 1933 12.0 G.J.Boxall, 36 Bucklesbury, Hitchen, Herts 5.0 Mrs Stokes & children (entry written twice, both crossed out)

Friday 6 October 1933 11.0 Mrs Clarage, 12 Bridge Street, Home address 103 Withersfield Rd, Haverhill, Suffolk. 3.0 Miss Marwick, Newnham College 4.0 Mrs Cockroft child 3 Sedley Taylor Rd. 5.0 Mrs Stokes & children (entry crossed out) 5.0 Mr and Mrs Stokes – children.

Saturday 7 October 1933 10.30 Passport Miss Reumer, 30 Tenison Avenue 11.0 Mrs Norris, Park Terrace. 12.0 Colin Gill 102 3.0 Miss Lowe, 2 Lynwode Rd (entry crossed out) 1.45 Miss Hopkins wedding 71 Grange Rd

102 Was this Colin Unwin Gill (12 May 1892 – 16 November 1940) Artist?

4.0 Mrs Sudbury 96 Oxford Rd girl 15 5.0 Miss Lowe 2 Lynwode Rd.

Sunday 8 October 1933

Monday 9 October 1933 10.0 J.H.Bowman (passport) 1 ¼ x ¾

Tuesday 10 October 1933 12.0 Rev L.C.Jonas West Colville Rect 2.30 Mrs Wordie’s 2 girls (resitting)

Wednesday 11 October 1933 12.0 Lady Hoskins Grange Rd – baby103 3.0 Mrs Andrews – Baby 4.0 Passport Winfield 13 Cranmer Road.

Thursday 12 October 1933

Friday 13 October 1933

Saturday 14 October 1933 2.45 Sudbury – girl 96 Oxford Rd.

Sunday 15 October 1933

Monday 16 October 1933 (BC Meeting 4.30)104

Tuesday 17 October 1933 10.30 Mrs Barker – baby 3.0 Mrs Nichols 2 children (together and separately) 34 Rock Rd Cambridge (tennis 2.30)

Wednesday 18 October 1933 10.30 Mr Keeling (entry crossed out) 12.0 Cargill? (entry crossed out)

Thursday 19 October 1933 11.15 R.C.Horton Fitzwilliam House 12.0 Miss Cargill (entry crossed out) 12.0 J.E.Vidal Pem. (Passport)

Friday 20 October 1933 3.15 Dr Thatcher’s girl send proofs to Fitzwilliam House.

Saturday 21 October 1933 10.30 A.O.S. Keeling 5 St Marys Chambers 12.0 J.M.White Jenkins 7 Malcolm St

103 The wife of Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins OM, PRS (1861-1947) biochemist and Nobel prize winner 104 Who or what was BC?

3.0 P.S. White Kings 4.0 Haycock

Sunday 22 October 1933 3/6 for 20 copies. Rev Moule. Grounds or Church or Vicarage? Time?

Monday 23 October 1933 10.15 Miss La Touche 230 Hills Rd 1961 12.0 Miss Crouch Manor Farm Horningsea 5.30 Mr Coward (tennis 2.30)

Tuesday 24 October 1933 2,45 Mrs F.G.Reynolds 12 Selwyn Gardens 3.45 Mrs Cockle Wittlesford (sic) 4.45 Mr Davis

Wednesday 25 October 1933 12.0 Miss Flack 18 De Freville Avenue Cambridge proofs with sides 3.0 Mrs Tear (2 children) 12 King Street, Potton, Bedfordshire 4.0 Mrs H.B.Johnston 5 Scroop Terrace, prints to Mrs Clulow 5 Scroop Terrace. (5.0 Roger Fry Lecture) 105

Thursday 26 October 1933 10.0 Mr Doubleday, Trinity 11.0 Mrs Maude J.W.M. Kenmare, Trumpington Street. 12.0 Mrs Haynes.

Friday 27 October 1933 3.15 Passport

Saturday 28 October 1933

Sunday 29 October 1933

Monday 30 October 1933 12.0 Mrs Flandus, Landbeach 2.30 R.W.L.C.Jonas (resitting) 4.0 L.Shaw (Downing)

Tuesday 31 October 1933 12.0 Miss Brunker 49 Jesus Lane

Wednesday 1 November 1933 Exhibition 106

105Artist and critic Roger Fry was the Slade Professor of Fine Arts in the University of Cambridge, 1933–1934

106 The exhibition of Russian and Cambridge Photographs, at least 75 in number, took place at the firm’s premises at 20 St Andrews Street and had closed by 15th November when a review by “M.M.” was published in Granta magazine. Unfortunately the reviewer wrote a polemic on why photography generally was lacking as an

2.30 Mrs Holmes – Linton

Thursday 2 November 1933 P.D.Havat (or Hewat?). Corpus

Friday 3 November 1933 12.0 G.F.Panton. Trinity. 37 Jesus Lane 3.45 Miss B.Porter 30 Sidney Street

Saturday 4 November 1933 10.15 Mr J.F.Haries 22 Hertford St 11.30 Dr Borrow Clarke. Selwyn. 4.0 Miss Hill St Ives.

Sunday 5 November 1933

Monday 6 November 1933 10.30 Miss Anthony 12.0 child Mrs Knapp

Tuesday 7 November 1933 12.0 Mrs Haynes 3.0 Mrs Ringer, little boy (entry crossed out) 4.0 Mr J.F.Howorth

Wednesday 8 November 1933 10.30 G.F.R. Mallows (Christs) 2.45 Mrs Flemings 17 Hills Ave 8 years. (5.0 Roger Fry’s Lecture) A.W.White Selwyn. (Quiller Couch Trevelyan) 107

Thursday 9 November 1933

Friday 10 November 1933 12.0 The Mayor 108 12.45 Miss Dawson Bournbrook, St Andrews Rd. 2.30 Miss Walker 3.30 Mrs Jenkins

Saturday 11 November 1933 10.0 N.A. Kaye 63 Cornwall Gdns SW7 11.0 Mrs Norman West 2.30 The Misses Gilbert Carter (4) Cory House, Hills Rd

art form and was critical of their style of portraiture as “a universal highbrow formula “ The full review is on the next page. 107 These two names do not seem to be appointments, but noted for some other purpose. Sir Arthur Quiller- Couch (1863 – 1944) was the King Edward VII Professor of English Literature, University of Cambridge. Was the name Trevelyan a house name for Quiller Couch? 108 The Mayor of Cambridge 1933-34 was Alexander A. Spalding. Alderman A.A. Spalding was instrumental in co-founding No. 104 (City of Cambridge) Squadron Air Training Corps (with Sir Arthur Marshall and Wing Commander Lockyer of the Cambridge University Air Squadron)

3.45 Mrs Stafford Allan, Long Melford, Suffolk. 5.0 A.F.Bryson, London Hospital E1.

Sunday 12 November 1933 Aicheson, Dolland Bond Street. 109

109 Appears to be a note of the address of opticians Dollond & Aitchison. Rather than an appointment.

Granta Magazine, 15 November 1933, p109, reported on three recent exhibitions in Cambridge.

Russian and Cambridge Photos.

"The question of the status of photography is a topical one, owing to the recent exhibition at 20 St Andrews Street, of the Cambridge photographers Ramsey and Muspratt. For the photographs in this exhibition have been taken by people fully conscious of the criticisms which are levelled at photography as an artistic medium. At the same time nearly all these photographs are ones which have been ordered, paid for, delivered and received with satisfaction by actual customers - unlike, I mean, much of contemporary poetry or the works of some of our younger artists. So here is a form of expression which can be seen at once in its most commercial and at its most imaginative aspects, providing, one would have said, a unique opportunity for achievement. The only question is, are the possibilities of achievement too greatly limited by the photographic process itself?

Let us take portrait photography first. Here at once we are up against the old difficulty of the portrait painter: can any one person arrive at a sufficiently varied technique adequately to render different sorts of people? Many modern portrait painters come to grief, I think, on this rock: look at one portrait of theirs and it seems both interesting artistically and psychologically; exhibit twenty in a gallery and the differentiation between them is at once seen to be insufficient.

But in photography, where there is no colour and no line, variety has to be achieved by sharpness or softness of focus, unity and multiplicity of sources of light and degree of detail. Most photographers do not seem to realise that such a variation is desirable; Ramsey and Muspratt even, in this exhibition have a partiality for what might be called a universal highbrow formula of which Girl with a Hoop (no 75) is an example of outstanding merit. It is impossible, one feels, at the first glance, to have one's face in that exhibition without it being made interesting in a certain way. How different from having one's portrait painted by a real genius, etc, etc. Just, however, as one reaches this comfortable conclusion one is jerked out of it again by a closer inspection. Compare 57, H.C.McComas, with 58 B.Keith Lucas. Could any differences in treatment between portraits of these two by the same person be more suggestive of character than the differences between their two photographs.

Consideration of photography in general as opposed to portrait photography in particular leads at once to discussion of its two other alleged limitations, that of complexity and that of emphasis. In spite of the wealth of detail which they can contain, or perhaps because of it, photographs, it is urged, can never be sufficiently complex for one not to tire of them. They are too simple, all in one colour for instance, all in masses of light and shade. This criticism seems unjustified, although it does, I think, go to show that certain subjects, such as ships, or machinery generally (see 26 in the Exhibition, On board the Soviet Steamer) are more adapted to photography than others. But it does seem possible, as in Government Buildings, Kharkov, a superb photograph which conveys an exceedingly subtle and complex sense of space, to get over this difficulty even when not treating a subject specially adapted for photography. It is a lack of sufficient power of emphasis which is really crippling photography as an aesthetic medium, for, as far as I can see, in this medium emphasis kills complexity. But, you will say, can no good work of art be simple? Yes, of course it can; but every good work of art should also be many-sided, that is, capable of being appreciated on different levels. Now, a photograph cannot be appreciated for colour, as distinguishable from tone, or for line, as distinguishable from mass. It seems likely, therefore, that unless it can arrive at a considerable subtlety in emphasis (without becoming vague) as well as certain complexity of rendering (without becoming fussy) its appeal will remain to a certain extent, shallow. Films of course are not cramped in this way, as here time, pace, plot etc can all be used as devices for producing emphasis. But the difficulties in the way of photography becoming an important art do seem, at the minute, to be overwhelming. Will they always remain so? That is for the photographers of this and future generations to discover." M.M.

The exhibition by the way is over now, but any of the photographs referred to in this article can still be seen on request at. In fact the main reason that I am taking all my examples from this one exhibition is so that anyone really interested in photography shall be able to see the originals for himself.

Monday 13 November 1933 11.0 Mrs McLeod Innes small boy 12.0 Mr Few 2.30 R.H.Mallinson 7 Rose Crescent 2.30 Miss Harper The Whim, (entry crossed out) 2 girls for hair. 3.30 W.F.Hooton, Downing 4.30 G.Millikan Trinity

Tuesday 14 November 1933 10.0 Mrs Watson – baby 11.0 Mrs Oakshot 224 Hills Rd child 12.15 P.H.F.White 15 Peas Hill 2.30 Mr Rolf (Trinity College) 5 Park Parade Cambridge. 3.45 Passport.

Wednesday 15 November 1933 10.0 Photographing anti war exhibition 110 11.0 Mrs W.E.L.Brown. Child. 4.0 Johnstone (entry crossed out) On this day there are a couple of barely legible uses of a studio rubber stamp “Ramsey & Muspratt Cambridge” in a simple rectangle.

Thursday 16 November 1933 Passports 10.0 National Provincial Bank Ltd 2 gentlemen 11.0 J.R.Kettle Chapel Court Sidney Sussex 11.45 2 bank passports 12.0 Mr and Mrs Dewson 2 Kimberley Rd [2.30 Dorothy]111

Friday 17 November 1933 10.0 2 bank men 10.30 Mrs Busell & child (3) 21 Barrow Rd. 11.30 2 Bank Men 12.0 (Miss Steen) PC 23 De Freville Ave 2.30 Mrs Adeane, Babraham, Cambs. 2 babies. 3.45 Bank 4.0 Mr White? No more 6.0 Miss Coleman 50 Marshall Rd 1888 (entry crossed out) 5.0 Johnstone

Saturday 18 November 1933 10.0 Miss Jarman 5 Market St 11.0 Mrs Venn & child

110 “The Anti-War Exhibition opened on Monday November 13th with the support of Sir Arthur Eddington, Professor Raven and Sir Frederick Hopkins, is in many ways quite unique. So far as we know it is the first time in Europe that such an impressive collection of photographs, documents, posters, press cuttings and drawings has been shown to illustrate the war and rumours of war from 1918 to the present day.” Granta Magazine 15 Nov 1933 p109. 111 Not clear if this was a person, or a note of a meeting at The Dorothy restaurant and ballroom, Cambridge.

12.0 Miss Dunn 3.30 Mr Finn 4.30 Bennett 3 boys.

Sunday 19 November 1933

Monday 20 November 1933 2.0 Bankers 10.0 Miss Bogis. Rolf & Minns (resitting) 2.30 Mrs Wilson (child) The End House Lady Margaret Rd Tel Cambridge 3 small girl 4.0 J.Vulliamy Millington Rd 5.0 Miss Knibb Furness Lodge, Park Terrace.

Tuesday 21 November 1933 10.0 Bank Manager. 12.0 A.W.Dyson Corpus 2.30 Mr Magill (entry crossed out) 3.45 J.R.Cuthbertson Kings College 5.30 Miss Badun 6.30 Miss Coleman

Wednesday 22 November 1933 10.30 Miss Golding 96 Huntingdon Rd 11.30-1 Mrs Godfrey Wright 63 Barton Rd 12.30 Mrs Phillip Franklin Cottenham 192A High Street 2.40 Mrs Stubbing 3.30 Mr Morrie 4.30 Yolande Moden “Moonville Point” Milton Rd 5.30 Mr Schora Emmanuel. Proofs Sat afternoon.

Thursday 23 November 1933 10.30 Mrs Farr (baby) 11.30 Mrs Tolliday child 1.0 Miss Green 2.30 Mrs Jelley 15 St Andrews Ct.

Friday 24 November 1933 Mr J.C. Jeheangir 35 Bridge St 11.0 Mr W.L.Mather Trin. 12.15 Mr F.R.Hughes. 5 St Mary’s Chambers 2.30 Mrs Currington 18 Grantchester Rd (baby) 3.30 Arnold Richardson.112

Saturday 25 November 1933 11.30 Miss M Reeve 12.15 The Ramsey Family J.S. and L 113 2.30 Mrs Grange 2 children 3.30 Miss B.Reeve

112 Organist at St. Luke’s Church, Cambridge, later appointed as Master of the Music and Organist of St. Albans, Holborn, a prestigeous church music appointment. 113 Jane, Sarah and Lettice Ramsey.

4.30 Mrs Davies G of S Hostal, Park Terrace 5.30 Mr F.L.Kidd 23 Park Parade. (33)

Sunday 26 November 1933

Monday 27 November 1933 12.0 C.G.Scorer Hilton House Lincoln. (resitting) 3.0 Passport Mrs Gildea 3.15 Mrs Hardman 4.0 Model of Hons (or Hous (sic))

Tuesday 28 November 1933 10.0 R.Hirzel 16 Chesterton Hall Crescent 11.0 Mr Ellis L8 Downing 12.0 C.F.N. Wyat. E.M.W. Wood of Peterhouse 2.30 Mrs Cundell 118 High St Cottenham – little girl 5.0 Johnstone (resitting)

Wednesday 29 November 1933 10.0 Mrs McCombie, Thurso House, Conduit Head Rd 11.0 Mrs Guilleband 40 Parkside 12.0 Miss Newbolt Girton College 2.30 Mrs Wilson, child (resitting)

Thursday 30 November 1933 10.15 Mrs Watson

Friday 1 December 1933 10.15 Mrs Purdy – child 2.30 Mrs Butler – child (entry crossed out) 3.30 Miss Means 5.0 Miss Hunter – Newnham

Saturday 2 December 1933 10.0 Mrs Beal, child 11.0 Mrs Hanton 2 children 12.0 Mrs Wright’s boy 2.30 Mrs Kent – child 3.0 – 6.30 ADC

Sunday 3 December 1933 10.30 ADC 114 J.C.Darricotte, Endcliffe, Branhall Lane, Stockport115

Monday 4 December 1933 10.0 Miss Taylor (entry crossed out) 11.0 Mrs Leycester Grove House Fenstanton St Ives 92 12.0 Miss Cock Shaftesbury House

114 In 1933 part of the ADC Theatre was burned down and was rebuilt in 1935. 115 Appears to be a note of a name and address, not a timed appointment.

2.30 Mrs Butler 2 children 3.30 Miss James 13 Benet St 4.30 B.G.Meara 5.30 H.H.Oakland (Pembroke)

Tuesday 5 December 1933 10.0 Mr C.H.E.Wright 57 Lensfield Rd 11.0 S.C.Newton Jesus 12.0 Mrs Bradbury 2.30 Miss Wolaston-Croft 3.30 Mr Taylor 4.30 R.J.Gregory, Lansdowne, Ware Rd Hertford. 5.0 D.C. John G. Williams 85 Ruskin Buildings Westminster

Wednesday 6 December 1933 10.0 Mrs Clay, Upton House, Grange Rd 11.0 Mrs Boxall, baby 12.0 Dr Oakden’s baby. The Hurst, Milton Rd. 1.30 Miss McKnight, 27 Grange Rd 3.30 Mr and Mrs Few 4.15 Mr Dobb (entry crossed out) 5.0 Miss Betts 5.45 Passport S.G.Putt, Christs College.

Thursday 7 December 1933 10.0 T.G.Agoston 11.0 Miss Cropper 12.0 Miss Sandal

Friday 8 December 1933 10.0 (Two children) Mrs Leslie Cole, 5 St Peter’s Terrace 10.45 Mrs Huddleston 185 Hills Rd 2798 11.30 Miss Stainforth 36a Bridge St 12.15 Mr I.S.Few 12.50 Passport 3.0 Miss Woderton Addenbrookes(nurse) 4.0 Mr and Mrs Oldfield 23 a Bridge St 5.0 Miss Ridgill Hatley Park Cambs (evening dress) 5.45 Miss Butler

Saturday 9 December 1933 10.30 Mrs Cox’s child – 2 dogs 11.30 Miss Wiggins 10 Pretoria Rd 12.15 Miss Ruth Stevenson 2.45 Miss Taylor (old lady in hat) 3.30 Mr Benians Master of Johns 116 2.45 Mrs Court 2 boys 4.45 Mr Fitch 5.15 Benians Grange Rd – (entry crossed out) (40)

116 Ernest Alfred Benians (appointed Master in 1933)

Sunday 10 December 1933

Monday 11 December 1933 11.0 Bevan, Longstowe Hall Group. 12.0 Mrs Cole 2.30 Mrs Nicholes 65 Cherryhinton Road. 3.30 Miss Jones 73 Barton Rd 2090 5.30 Miss Spencer 19 Stretton Avenue 4.30 Mrs Malik 157 Chesterton Rd.

Tuesday 12 December 1933 2.30 Passport 3.0 Maurice Dobb 117

Wednesday 13 December 1933 2.30 Mrs Purdy and child resitting

Thursday 14 December 1933 10.0 M.A.Buxton 12 Weymouth Street W1 10.0 Mrs Foster Great Shelford (entry crossed out) 12.0 Miss Goode 1.15 L.P.Roper 57 Chesterton Rd (group)

Friday 15 December 1933 10.0 Mrs Eileen Smith phone 1711 11.0 Mrs Griffiths, Barrington, child (entry crossed out) 12.0 Kenneth Walker (21 Chaucer Rd) Knill Court, Kington, Hereford 4.0 Mrs Genbury. 5.30 Mr G Rust (entry crossed out)

Saturday 16 December 1933 10.15 Miss Clarke and Mr J Davies 11.0 Dr Glynn – child 12.0 Beagles (young mother) 2.30 Mrs Dalgleish. (19)

Sunday 17 December 1933

Monday 18 December 1933 2.30 Dr Whitbread 3.30 Miss.... (entry crossed out) 4.0 At Jane’s School (entry crossed out)118

Tuesday 19 December 1933 10.0 Mrs Foster 2.30 Mr and Mrs .....

117 Marxist economist and a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge 118 Relates to Jane Ramsey, daughter of Lettice Ramsey.

Wednesday 20 December 1933 12.0 Mrs Griffiths Barrington

Thursday 21 December 1933 3.0 Mrs Stobart c/o Mrs Melish Clark 53 Grange Rd (Whitefoots, Warlingham, Surrey) (Entry crossed out)

Friday 22 December 1933 10.45 Mrs Crawley – 2 children 3.0 Mr and Mrs Ellswick 6.0 Mrs Melish Clark 53 Grange Rd.

Saturday 23 December 1933 to Wednesday 3 January 1934 No entries

Thursday 4 January 1934 11.0 Dent 12.0 Mrs Dean (baby)

Friday 5 January 1934 10.45 Mrs Crawley (crossed out) Mr .... 12.0 Mrs Hayward (boy) 12.30 or 2.0 Cargill 3.0 Cargill (entry crossed out) 4.0 Warren

Saturday 6 January 1934 11.30 Miss Jellis (child) 16 Station Rd (entry crossed out) 3.30 Mrs Evans 108 Vivian Rd Harborne, Birmingham 17 4 boys together. 4.30 Miss Golding 12.15 Rev R.L.Child 31 Rock Road.

Ramsey and Muspratt Transcription of Studio Diary 1935

Monday 31 December 1934

Tuesday 1 January 1935

Wednesday 2 January 1935 London and Midland Steel Scaffolding Co, Idesleigh House, Caxton SW1. School of Geography Downing Place. Ask for forman, Foster & Dicksee to go and take before Sat. 12. Miss Long Queen Ann Terr.1 by 11th Tel 3344 (entry crossed out) 12.15 I.H.Glover post Sat if poss otherwise Mon. 3.0 J.D.Brenen Queens Grove Silver St.

Thursday 3 January 1935 10.30 Dr Pantin resitting

Friday 4 January 1935 Miss Lilliott resitting. Not after 4.0?

Saturday 5 January 1935 Away Sat LCR119 2.30 Mr S.W.Ashley, Longmeadow, Lode, Cambs 3.0 Mrs Dalgleish 27 Haig Rd. Entry crossed out and annotated “ill”

Sunday 6 January 1935 (4)

Monday 7 January 1935 12.0 Mrs Ogilvie 281 Hills Rd. H.G.G. son: O.K. 5.0 Mrs Long 7 Queen Ann Ter.

Tuesday 8 January 1935 P.P. 3.15 Mrs Stiernstedt, 4 Grantchester Rd.

Wednesday 9 January 1935

Thursday 10 January 1935 10.0 ADC 12.45 Miss Lewis, Moorcocks, Brasted, Sevenoaks, Kent.

Friday 11 January 1935

Saturday 12 January 1935

P.P. 10.0 Christiani Passport. ADC Trump 230 Lady Howell (entry crossed out) Away after 3.45.

119 Lettice C Ramsey

Sunday 13 January 1935 (4)

Monday 14 January 1935 10.0 C.J.Parsons 73 Grantchester Meadows. 11.0 Miss Goodall 3 Madingley Rd (entry crossed out) 12.0 W.Kilsby 27 St Barnabas Rd for Who’s Who. Conservative. 12.30 ADC Carter.

Tuesday 15 January 1935 PP Dr Lowinski Belle Vue Hotel Thursday call. 12.0 Mrs Goodall (resitting) 2.30 Mrs Stockdale, Little Downham, Ely 2 children and self separately. Pymore 30. 4.0 Miss Irwin, Orchard House, Oundle Peterborough 120 [Guildhall 8.0pm]

Wednesday 16 January 1935 11.0 Mrs L.Wood 21 St Johns Rd. Call Thursday 11.30 121 11.15 H Walker 22 Market Place 3.0 Mrs Harrold 38 Hills Ave Whos Who 4.0 Mrs Nevinson Willis Rd.

Thursday 17 January 1935 10.0 Miss Rutt 146 Tenison Rd 11.15 W.H.J.Hootan (3 St Pauls Rd) Lindley Lodge Nr Nuneaton 11.45 Mrs Ward Grantchester 12.15 H.E.Collin 38 Park Side (Sidney) 3.0 Mr J.Hutchinson 7 Beaumont St Oxford – do some large proofs.

Friday 18 January 1935 Keep free if poss (London evening)

Saturday 19 January 1935 Mrs R away till afternoon. (the words “till afternoon” are crossed out) 12.0 PP G.L.Stephenson. Pem. Tuesday.

Sunday 20 January 1935 (15)

Monday 21 January 1935 12.15 PP D.J. Parkinson St Johns 2.30 Mrs Bradford and baby 244 Milton Rd. 3.30 N.D.Wakeham, Clare College 4.30 J.W.T. Grimshaw (Emma) 1 Earl Street.

Tuesday 22 January 1935 12.0 Mrs Burgess

120 This entry has the letter “H” beside it – suggesting this might have been a sitting handled by Helen Muspratt. 121 This entry has a letter “L” beside is, suggesting the sitting was handled by Lettice Ramsey.

12.30 (linked with a bracket to the above entry) Miss M Whitworth Gt Saxham Nr Bury St Edmunds 2.30 Trevor Jones 21 Jesus Lane 5.0 Miss J. Reynolds Meadow Croft, Old Chesterton. calling sat afternoon. (Theatre – ADC)

Wednesday 23 January 1935 10.0 H.A.Boorse 9 Lyndewode Rd calling 1.0 Sat. 10.45 PP. D.Johnson, Hazlewood, 243 Hills Rd 12.30 Miss Halsey 65 Lensfield Rd calling 12.30 Thurs to see proofs. (2.30 Call on Mrs Osbourn 40 Park Side) 3.30 J.D.A. Chantell 4 Guest Rd 5.0 Miss Nevinson resitting. 6.10 Miss Simmonds 14 Selwyn Rd (2814 business) post Monday proofs.

Thursday 24 January 1935 10.0 Mr W.F.Lovatt 1 Benet St. Not an appointment, but jotted into the space for this date “H.C.C. Band. 10 Green St”

Friday 25 January 1935 2.15 Mrs A.Russell 26 St Barnabas Rd (Miss Lospitt). Stubbens. North Ockendon Essex. 3.15 (Whos Who) A.Carpenter 32 Argyle St (entry crossed out) 3.45 Mrs Swain 38 Chesterton Rd

Saturday 26 January 1935 2.30 – 4.30 Mrs Grist, Flat No 3, 12 Hills Rd. Self and son and daughter (17) and family group.

Sunday 27 January 1935 (18)

Monday 28 January 1935 [10.0 Mrs Osbourne 40 Park Side – sculpture] Mr Boorse will call 12-1 Mrs R

Tuesday 29 January 1935 D.F.W. LeLau Christs Coll Tea Helen M LCR Tea Mrs Benians 4.15

Wednesday 30 January 1935 11.0 H.C.C.Band 10 Green St (entry crossed out) 3.15 Mrs Lee Warner Wimpole Lodge Cambs. Tel Arrington 44 Royston. (LCR Lunch 1.0pm Mrs Downes 1 Silvester Rd) (entry crossed out)

Thursday 31 January 1935 10.0 E.H.Pooley 18 Emery St.

Friday 1 February 1935 11.0 Mr J.Grimshaw 1 Earl St 2.30 Miss E. Canning (2982) 22 Owlstone Rd Newnham

Saturday 2 February 1935

Not PP before 10.30 3.0 Miss E.Howroyd. Old Newnham College. LCR tea Newnham 4.15

Sunday 3 February 1935 (6)

Monday 4 February 1935

Tuesday 5 February 1935 2.30 Mrs Grist (resitting) 3.30 Mrs Irwin Oundle 5.0 A.F.Posnett. Christs.

Wednesday 6 February 1935 Moyne PP Jesus. Calling Friday 12.30 3.30 Miss Hardaker. 128 Huntingdon Rd

Thursday 7 February 1935 10.0 E.H Pooley Esq (Resitting) 10.30 Mr Miller. Bust of Jesus. Photograph oil painting (entry crossed out) 2.15 Heffer. 30 De Freville Ave (At University Arms) Bride & B’groom, cake, presents.

Friday 8 February 1935 12.0 Lady Langdon Brown’s mother Mrs Hurrell? 10 Barton Rd 5.0 R.D.H. Johnson 4 Guest Rd.

Saturday 9 February 1935 10.30 Mr Miller. Jesus College, Painting. 11.0 Miss Benton 71 Lensfield Rd – post 12.0 Mrs Russell 26 St Barnabas Rd calling Thursday for proofs. Stubbens, North Ockendon, Essex. 2.15 Mrs Gale 23 Needingworth Rd St Ives. (entry crossed out) 3.0 Miss Irene Bonne c/o T Jones 21 Jesus Lane – post.

Sunday 10 February 1935 (9)

Monday 11 February 1935 Mrs Heffer 71 Barton Rd, 17 The Park Golders Green. Calling Wed.

Tuesday 12 February 1935 2.30 R.E.Symes Thompson, Christs, 4 Parker St. 3.45 Miss Newmary 16 Emmanuel Rd (entry crossed out) 5.30 R.D.H. Johnson 4 Guest Rd (entry crossed out)

Wednesday 13 February 1935 Geffrey Innes called. Calling for Miss Palmers print. Post Mrs Osborne’s photos 40 Park Side. 11.15 D.L.Ridout. Trinity Hall (entry crossed out)

Thursday 14 February 1935

Friday 15 February 1935 11.0 J.O.W.Dick (resitting). Post. 3.45 Mrs Skyrme Orchard Cottage Royston. Post Wed. Royston 208.

Saturday 16 February 1935 Appointments Board122 10.30 Morrison Trinity calling Wed 1 proof of each position 5/- 11.0 R.W.Thom, St Johns. Post 2.15 – entry erased. 3.0 H.Bourne. 22 Grosvenor Sq. London.

Sunday 17 February 1935 (6)

Monday 18 February 1935 Not morning if possible 2.30 PP. W.H.Oughton Christs Coll. Call Wed morning 3.0 C.Clifford 40 Blinco Grove. Post Thurs.

Tuesday 19 February 1935 12.15 Miss Benton resitting. 2.30 J.G.Frampton. Trinity Hall. 68 Jesus Lane. 3.45 Miss E.Newman. 16 Emmanuel Rd.

Wednesday 20 February 1935 Perse School? 2.30 R.R.Davidson, Emmanuel. Passport as well. 3.45 K.H.Scott. Christs College. PP call Friday. 5.30 R.D.H.Johnson 4 Guest Rd. Proofs Sat 11am calling.

Thursday 21 February 1935 10.30 John Saltmarsh123, Kings, Proofs Sat aft. Call. 11.30 Mrs B.Flint, 2 Park Av. Wisbech. Pd £1.0.0. Post proofs.

Friday 22 February 1935 11.0 Dr Glover’s124 Rooms in Johns To photograph statues. 3.0 Mrs Kilburn, The Firs, Peyps Way Girton. Baby.

122 Cambridge University Appointments Board was the University Careers Service of the day. The Board’s Officers literally made appointments for undergraduates and graduates to see and be interviewed by prospective employers. By the 1930s there was also a Women’s Appointment Board. R and M may have taken photographs for the Board where an employer had indicated that they would like a photograph of a candidate along with the Board’s recommendations. Or perhaps Lettice Ramsey, a successful self-employed business woman and Cambridge graduate, became involved in occasionally advising undergraduates. A history of the Appointments Board can be found at http://www.careers.cam.ac.uk/stuart/cucshistory.pdf 123 Dr John Saltmarsh, born in Cambridge, 1908–1974 was a historian and Fellow of King's College. During WW2 he was to work at Bletchley Park. His special interest was the history of Kings College Chapel. When the stained glass was removed from the Chapel during WW2 it was Ramsey and Muspratt who got the contract to photograph every piece to assist in its later re-installation. 124 Dr Terrot Reaveley Glover (1869-1943), classicist.

Saturday 23 February 1935 10.30 Mrs Kapitya 123 Huntingdon Rd, 2 boys (entry crossed out) 11.45 Perse School – Mummery. 11.0 Mrs Hans Khuvez 18 Woodfall St SW3 12.0 Miss Branford c/o Stock. 16 Jesus Lane. Brundall, Norwich, Norfolk.

Sunday 24 February 1935 (11)

Monday 25 February 1935 10.30 Perse – big hall inside. 3.0 Miss Longland 60 Grange Rd 3.30 Mrs Braithwaite 4 Flamsteed Rd. (entry crossed out)

Tuesday 26 February 1935 10.0 Perse School – Library and Classroom No 1 (at 12.10) 2.30 C.H.Crosthwaite, Johns. Appointments Board 2 for 5/- 3.30 D.Davies. Kings.

Wednesday 27 February 1935 10.30 Mrs Dent Priestman St Johns St (Miss Muspratt) 11.30 E.H.Corfer Corpus. 2.30 Miss R.Robinson Hills Ave 3.30 Miss Newman (resitting)

Thursday 28 February 1935

Friday 1 March February 1935

Saturday 2 March 1935 4.0 Mrs Dent’s 3 daughters. L.J.Eames, 12 Latham Rd.

Sunday 3 March 1935 (7)

Monday 4 March 1935 4.0 Mrs Braithwaite 4 Flamstead Rd 5.0 Miss Elwell. Girton

Tuesday 5 March 1935 11.0 Mrs Mansfield 9 Grange Gardens Grange Rd. Post – do some 1/1 12.0 PP. A.L.Newby. Emma. By Thursday 2.30 F.King. Christs 3.15 E.Jameson (5/-) 5.0 Miss D.Jones 28 Millington Rd. 8.15 Mr E.C.Jacklin. 24 St Andrews St. Miss Savidge.

Wednesday 6 March 1935 PP D.Tau. St Catharines. Post Thurs. 12.0 H.Payne. Peterhouse (5/- 2) (entry crossed out) 2.30 R.Mitchell, Johns (5/- 2)

3.0 Mlle Guy Girton G.H.Rendorp. Trin (proofs) Post Sat 3.30 Miss Mayo. Newnham (entry crossed out) 5.0 S.Montgomery?

Thursday 7 March 1935 10.30 Miss Mayo. Newnham. Sidgewick Hall.

Friday 8 March 1935 10.15 resitting Mrs Elwell. Post Tuesday evening 11.0 PP J.M.Braxton 87 Alpha Rd 12.0 Mrs W.E.A. Bull, proofs Waverley House, Hunstanton Proofs to c/o Miss Boughey, White Ladies, Kings Lynn (entry crossed out) 2.20 J.M.Mackay 35 Halifax Rd. 3.30 W.Payne. Peterhouse 5/- 5.30 Miss Barnes Addenbrookes Hospital

Saturday 9 March 1935 PP 10.30 Miss M.Rogers Newnham. this evening 6 o’clock Helen away afternoon.

Sunday 10 March 1935 (13)

Monday 11 March 1935 PP A.W.J. Thomas Pembroke – Tuesday [2.45 Peter] 4.0 D.Hill Caius College post proofs by Friday morning to The Nook, 1 Pelham Avenue Scarthoe, Lincs 5.0 Miss Hannaford, proofs to Newnham on Friday. 35 Castleton Avenue, Wembley.

Tuesday 12 March 1935 3.15 C. Fletcher Cooke, Peterhouse. PP Canon Cunningham. Westcott House. 3.45 Mrs Henry (baby) The Croft, Melbourne, calling Sat morning for proofs. 4/6 (Sister F) 5.45 M.V.Argyle, in scout uniform, 6 Portugal Street, Trinity, post Saturday

Wednesday 13 March 1935 10.30 P.M.Wilson, Kings College. Proofs Sat – send, 6 Peas Hill 11.30 Miss M.E.Head Newnham College. Send proofs to Laverstock, Tunbridge Wells. (12.0 Dentist) (entry crossed out) 2.15 A.P. Senner 112 Lovall Rd. Calling. Proofs Friday 3pm.

Thursday 14 March 1935

Friday 15 March 1935 11.0 Mrs Colyer, Joyce Hall, Southfleet, Kent 2.30 very good sitter. Miss E.Gadsly, Riverside, 8 Post Street Godmanchester, Hunts.

Saturday 16 March 1935

Sunday 17 March 1935 (10)

Monday 18 March 1935 (10.30 Dentist LCR ) 3.0 Miss Betty Baner – Girton 4.30 (16 Kimberley Rd.) 5.0 Mr Trulove and Miss Hughes, 6 Brooklands Ave. Call Friday.

Tuesday 19 March 1935 11.0 (Miss - crossed out) Mlle Baudoin, 51 Newmarket Rd, send to 4 Kingsley Rd Cotham, Bristol 6 12.0 Mr James 5 Hedgeley Close, Madingley Road, Cambridge. 5.0 Miss E.M.Barnes Addenbrookes.

Wednesday 20 March 1935 12.0 PP Miss Butler, Girton, Thursday call 12.30 2.30 – 4.0 Guy Burgess 125 4.15 Mrs Grave baby, 1 St Barnabas Rd, proofs to Burley Cottage, Burkes Rd, Beaconsfield, Bucks. 4.45 Miss Butler PP

Thursday 21 March 1935 11.0 Mrs Welton 68A St Andrews Street.

Friday 22 March 1935

Saturday 23 March 1935 3.30 Mrs Cryer, baby 1 year, 104 Shelford Rd.

Sunday 24 March 1935 (8)

Monday 25 March 1935 12.30 Passport, Mrs Rothschild (L. tea Ludwig 4.0)

Tuesday 26 March 1935 9.45 Perse School – Class Room no 1

Wednesday 27 March 1935 2.0 Mrs Staines 20 Newton Rd 3.0 Simon Oakshott, model,126 Windrush (unreadable word) Rd Cambs 3.45 – 5.30 Ray Maby – Model

Thursday 28 March 1935

Friday 29 March 1935 3.30 Mrs Cox’s baby (practice sitting)

125 Guy Francis de Moncy Burgess (1911-1963) a member of the Cambridge Apostles, a radio producer, intelligence officer, diplomat and Soviet agent, a member of the Cambridge Five spy ring that operated from the mid-1930s to the early years of the Cold War era. 126 There is no indication why the firm needed models to photograph

Saturday 30 March 1935

Sunday 31 March 1935 (1)

Monday 1 April 1935 11.0 2 boys Mrs Kapitya 173 Huntingdon Rd.

Tuesday 2 April 1935

Wednesday 3 April 1935 11.30 PP M.A. Macshea. Perse School

Thursday 4 April 1935 6.0 Miss Trowell 108 Mill Rd. Tel 1361 when proofs are ready.

Friday 5 April 1935 12.0 Mrs Cattley, 95 Barton Rd. Post the proofs to 3 Chapel Park Rd, St Leonards of Sea, Sussex.

Saturday 6 April 1935

Sunday 7 April 1935 (3)

Monday 8 April 1935

Tuesday 9 April 1935 3.0 Mrs Rolfe. Salen. Gilbert Rd. Baby 2mths

Wednesday 10 April 1935 11.30 A. Krishnaswamin. Kings.

Thursday 11 April 1935

Friday 12 April 1935 3.0 – 4.0 Mr Ellis 203 Chesterton Rd. Finished one by wed

Saturday 13 April 1935 11.30 Louise Maling 18 De Freville Ave.

Sunday 14 April 1935 (4)

Monday 15 April 1935

Tuesday 16 April 1935 F.W.Skeat 78 Ramsbury Rd, St Albans. Christs Coll Library Window. 3.0 PP Mrs Plowden – Wordlaw, 5 Madingley Rd.

Wednesday 17 April 1935

3.0 Mrs De Burgh, Westley Hall Nr Newmarket. Don’t stamp envelope.

Thursday 18 April 1935 11.0 W.Roberts, Basing House, Quayside.

Friday 19 April 1935

Saturday 20 April 1935

Sunday 21 April 1935 (2)

Monday 22 April 1935

Tuesday 23 April 1935 For this night H.Muspratt’s address 38 Margaretta Terrace Chelsea SW3 3.15 Miss T.W.Brooke, Riante Rive Chamblandes, Lausanne Switzerland. Sandfield Potteries Devizes, Wilts. Send proofs to 4 Benet Place PP 4.15 G.K.Murray. Caius.

Wednesday 24 April 1935 PP. G.E.Frayer, Trinity 11.0 Miss M Gregory 6 Richmond Rd. 3.0 Baby. Mrs Hodge 28 Barrow Rd 3032. 4.0 In uniform, P.T.L. Browne Proofs to Col P.T.L.Browne DSO, Mount Royal Hotel, Richmond Hill, Richmond, Surrey. (entry crossed out)

Thursday 25 April 1935 10.0 P.T.L. Browne. Proofs to Mrs W.T.Browne Trebovir Court Hotel, Trebover Rd Earls Court SW5

Friday 26 April 1935 10.15 PP J.G.Jacobsen 76 Hills Rd Appointments 10.30 P. LeCreu Caius 11.0 C.M.Richardson. Emmanuel. R1 North Ct. 3.0 PP J.A.H. Castle, Downing Coll - Monday 3.15 J.W.Pretty c/o Sayle St Andrews St.

Saturday 27 April 1935 3.15 Mrs Winckworth, Milton House, Milton.

Sunday 28 April 1935 (10)

Monday 29 April 1935

Tuesday 30 April 1935 3.0 R.D.Williams Caius. 13 Jesus Lane.

Wednesday 1 May 1935 11.30 J.I.Meikle 56 Jesus Lane (entry crossed out) 2.45 PP J Jervis-Reed. Emma. 17 Bateman St 3.0 J.E.Fowler 3 Victoria Park 4.0 Miss Harvey Brooklands Ave resitting (entry crossed out) will Tel Thurs for Friday afternoon. 3.45 PP R.J.Rebello, Emmanuel.

Thursday 2 May 1935 11.0 – 12.0 2 children, Mrs Knott Parkside. Sat.

Friday 3 May 1935 11.0 G.S.Parker “Castle Brae” Chesterton Lane. Post proofs. 12.0 Miss Leahy, 1 Madingley Rd. Post proofs Mon. Bill to Mrs Leahy, Flesk, Goda Rd, Littlehampton, Sussex. 3.0 M.D.Taseer127 4 St Peters Terrace 3.45 F.Gwynne-Evans 6A Kings Parade resitting. [Miss Harvey]

Saturday 4 May 1935 10.0 Miss J.M.Baker. Post proofs and bill – B.H.Price. John’s 11.0 Mrs Egerton Helme, The Gables, Barton. Boy. Post Thurs. 12.0 Mrs G.S.Hall. The Nook, Sandle Rd Bishops Stortford. 2 boys. 1 and 3 years. 2.30 Mrs Marshall 95 Milton Rd. 3.0 L.J.Kirkgy, Trinity Hall. 5.0 D.C.Cameron RE. RE Mess Aldershot.

Sunday 5 May 1935 (13)

Monday 6 May 1935 Jubilee128

Tuesday 7 May 1935 10.30 Mrs Taylor, Meadow Croft, Trumpington Rd 11.30 J.I. Meikle 56 Jesus Lane (entry crossed out) 12.15 R.L.Miall. St Johns Coll. 3.0 PP D.Pedoe Madenlene (sic) 2 lots. 3.30 Mrs Sand and Mr Sand 7 Storeys Way. 5.0 R.J.Martin 7 Richmond Terrace.

Wednesday 8 May 1935 PP 2.15 R.Pollitt, 3 Bridge St. 3.0 Child. Mrs H.Grain, Belmont, Ely. 4.0 J.M.Ryan, Trinity Coll: (open neck)

Thursday 9 May 1935 11.30 G.B.Gray, St Caths

127 Muhammad Din Taseer (1902–1950), popularly known as M. D. Taseer, was a Pakistani Urdu poet, writer, and literary critic, in Cambridge researching for his PhD. 128 George V & Queen Mary Silver Jubilee

Friday 10 May 1935 PP 10.30 S.J.Boycott, Peterhouse, call Monday.

Saturday 11 May 1935 Helen away this weekend (entry crossed out) 11.30 Miss Pearce. The Kings Mills. Shelford. Proofs Tues. 3.0 Miss Burton. New School Rd, Histon. Calling for proofs Saturday 18th. 4.0 Mrs Wallace, Chesterton Vicarage. 3 children, post proofs.

Sunday 12 May 1935 (9)

Monday 13 May 1935 10.45 Mr Parry Brown, Campo Hall, Cambridge, post Friday. 11.15 PP Lotterdern 11.30 J.I.Meikle 56 Jesus Lane (entry crossed out) 12.15 G.D. Woolley Caius. Call Friday 3.0 Who’s Who, Mrs Bieheno 80 Lawson Rd, post Thursday. 4.0 Fowler Victoria Pk (resitting) post proofs.

Tuesday 14 May 1935 10.15 G.Scott. 28 Alpha Rd Cambridge (entry crossed out) 12.0 M.Mander. Clare Coll. L2 Memorial Court (chase for money) 2.45 G.Scott 28 Alpha Rd 3.30 Mrs D.C.Thompson 31 Park Side. Miss E.D.Miller

Wednesday 15 May 1935 12.15 J.D.M.Jolly. Corpus. Call Sat 12.30 2.30 Miss Harvey 3.30 ( Capt Hunt Saffron Walden S.Reed 27 Hill St S.Walden) LCR Tennis at 5.0

Thursday 16 May 1935

Friday 17 May 1935 11.0 R.C.Hutchinson 68 Jesus Lane (LCR Supper R.B.B.)

Saturday 18 May 1935 10.30 G.B.Lister Trinity. D3 Hughes Court. Post proofs. 11.30 J.I.Meikle 56 Jesus Lane 2.0 Univ Arms for Bride (Miss Rea) (call 12.30) 3.0 Michael Clapham’s Wedding at Kings PP R.C.S. Traill. Peterhouse. 4.30 R.J.Tadman, Selwyn College Miss Muspratt.

Sunday 19 May1935 (16)

Monday 20 May 1935

10.0 Mrs Parry-Brown, Castle Camps Hall, Cambs 10.15 -1.0 ADC Proofs to Edward Bates, Kings. 4.0 PP R.C.S.Traill, Peterhouse

Tuesday 21 May 1935 11.15. PP D.Hathorn, Sydney (12.0 LCR see Miss Catley) 12.15 G.W.F.Coupe, Trinity College.

Wednesday 22 May 1935 2.30 H.M.Every, Queens, post Sat. 3.30 D.Scott, St Johns. Call Sat 3.45 PP P.A.Peters 49 Jesus Lane, call Friday 4.0

Thursday 23 May 1935 10.15 A. Mackintyre Caius college, calling after 4.0 Sat. 11.0 E.Vinter Christs College. PP Mrs Zimmer, 6 Storeys Way

Friday 24 May 1935 10.15 J.R.Squire, Trinity College 2.0 Tennis Mrs Ramsey. 3.45 – 5.15 Penrose child, 60 York Ter NW1 [LCR. RBB to supper)

Saturday 25 May 1935 11.0 R.L.Miall (Resitting) 12.0 PP J.M.Langley. Trinity Hall. 2.30 PP F.G.Gibbs Mag. 4.0 J.S.Pears 45 Jesus Lane. Trin. Call Wed afternoon.

Sunday 26 May 1935 (11)

Monday 27 May 1935 10.15 S.R.Dennison Trin. Post. Away afternoon

Tuesday 28 May 1935 10.0 Geoffrey Cohen, Trinity Hall, 2 Huntingdon Rd. 3.30 H.Lee. Magdalene 4.0 P.Godfrey. Footlights Club. 5.0 Mr P.Bicknell, ( ) House, Tunwells Court, Trumpington Street.

Wednesday 29 May 1935 11.30 PP. I.F.Cornell, Caius, call 1 o’clock Thurs. 2.30 J.W.B.Hext, Jesus, 56 Jesus Lane. 3.0 T.W.Roche Corpus. Post Sat.

3.45 C.J.Cunningham. 50 Bateman Street, check coat, calling Sat afternoon.

Thursday 30 May 1935 10.0 PP Miss M.Rainey, The Whim. Send Friday afternoon. LCR London all day. 12.30 PP. S.D.Pollard. St Johns.

Friday 31 May 1935 10.0 PP. Miss Willard 127 Mawson Rd. Wed post. 10.15 Lord Westbury, Trinity College. 13 Chesterton Rd 11.5 C.Seaford 7 North Ter. Sidney. Tuesday post 11.45. Together R.C.Desch Westcott House Miss D.V.Sfeens (entry crossed out)

Saturday 1 June 1935 10.15 K.A.Rahman, Fitzwilliam House, call Wed 12.30 2.30 G.E.Carter 39 Richmond Rd. 3.0 R.D.K. Silly 25 De Freville Ave. 5.30 Mrs E.M.Crisp, Windy Ridge, Warboys, Hunts

Sunday 2 June 1935 (13)

Monday 3 June 1935 10.30 H.J.Fitzgerald, Christs College, (Footlights) 11.0 PP H.F.Thomson, Trinity Hall. PP R.Macam, Brooklands Ave 11.45 W.A.Dodd Christs.129 Glasses 12.30 J.Wort, St Caths 2.30-4.0 Mr and Mrs Sand and child. 7 Storeys Way (5 sittings) 49 taken 4.0 Mlle Hauter, c/o Mrs Sand, 7 Storeys Way.

Tuesday 4 June 1935 (2.30 Miss Muspratt (Jumper)) (L tea 5.0)

Wednesday 5 June 1935 11.15 Baron G. Dollfus de Volchersley (should this be Volkersberg?) . Kenmare, Corpus Christi Coll. 2.30 Gordon Potter, Jesmond, Cav. Ave. Calling Friday afternoon to see proofs. 3.30 PP L.E.R.Picken Trinity Call Thursday lunch. 3.45 H.L.Birdbrook 10 Walkworth Street. PP.

Thursday 6 June 1935

Friday 7 June 1935 E away if poss.130 10.15 Major C.J.Morris, 5 Collier Rd. Proof Tuesday 12.0 [L. Lunch Newmans] 5.0 Miss Auton, Peile Hall (calling Wed afternoon). 20 Vicarage Rd, Henley on Thames Oxon. (Supper Party)

129 William Atherton 'Bill' Dodd, educationist, born February 5 1923; died February 5 2004 130 Who was E?

Saturday 8 June 1935 10.30 R.J.Linnitt, Trinity . 1 Portugal Street, calling proofs Wed evening. 11.0 H.G.Hancox 15 Marlow Rd, Cats, post proofs Wed evening or Thursday lunch time. 2.30 P.J.R. Wright. Trin Col PP W. Cowley, Jesus 3.45 Miss Vinsen (Eth’s party 8.0)

Sunday 9 June 1935 (17) (Party Kings)

Monday 10 June 1935 Whit Monday

Tuesday 11 June 1935 Major Morris (Resitting) Travellers’ Club, Pall Mall, SW7 11.0 Miss Brearley. 78 Preston New Road Blackburn, Lancs. Call Friday PP P.M.Gardener Peterhouse J.MacLellan 12.30 A.G.H.Clay, Trinity. Post proofs Lady Clay 18 Kensington Park GardensW11 2.30 Mrs W.L.Cole to see LCR 3.45 Roger Wing Wedding Lynton, Huntingdon Road 6.30 Mrs Hart 85 Milton Road. Proofs by Saturday (Anti-War Meeting)

Wednesday 12 June 1935 9.45 Prof Merriman c/o Prof H.Temperley 34 Lensfield Rd – post proofs any time Balliol College Oxford. In degree gown 10.30 J.A.R.Miles 26 Market hill (shirt) post proofs. Helen 11.15 P.W.B.Roberts Christs. Proofs by Saturday 2.30 (freckles) 12.0 F.Gwynne Evans calling Sat afternoon 12.45 A.D.Viney 3 St Andrews Street (send to Langham Hotel, Portland Place W1) 2.30 C.J.Cunningham. Post proofs Mrs A.V.Lister Old Romney , Nailsea, Somerset. 3.15 G.S.Cartmell, Christs, calling Monday 4.0 PP Miss Nora Case 12 Scroop Terrace. Post to Conservative Association, South Sherwood Street, Nottingham 4.15 PP P.R.Faser 17 Green Street. If not done by Sat send to 19 Lambolle Rd NW3 4.30 M.B. Card 11 Willis Rd calling Sat on chance. [Party Michael’s]

Thursday 13 June 1935 10.0 D.B.Keith Queens – post proofs Greenways Kippington, Sevenoaks, Kent. 10.30 A.D.Viney All proofs together. 11.0 H.W.Tracy 8 Warkworth St 11.45 Mrs Viney All proofs together 12.30 R.Gittings Jesus College. Post proofs Wed or Thur H.W.Tracey 11 Lower Brook Street Ipswich. Post Tuesday evening. [ (unreadable) at Kings]

Friday 14 June 1935 10.30 A.J.C.Beddow, Christs, post Friday. White Blazer 11.30 T.A. Viney. All proofs together. 3.0 Mrs Hutchinson 31 Grange Rd 3 children Go to University Offices to photograph Chain (or Chair?). Go to staff room. 4.15 PP. H.C.Carpenter 33 Newmarket Rd. (unreadable) [Edric 6-8]

Saturday 15 June 1935 11.45 B.E.Erith PP. Rockels Barn, Elmdon. Saffron Walden. 12.0 PP. B.Darevsky, Newnham, Calling Tuesday afternoon. 3.0 E.R.Heward 170 Huntingdon Rd 3.30 Mrs Heward 170 Huntingdon Rd. Post proofs to 5 Abbey Building, Abbey St SE1 4.15 Miss Tolson Rushmere, Rook Rd. 5.30 A.C.M. Harding, Magdalene.

Sunday 16 June1935 (25)

Monday 17 June 1935 Nothing earlier [than 11] if possible 11.0 Capt J.Duncan 12 Fitzwilliam Street. Post proofs C/O CUOTC, Dibgate Camp Shorncliffe, Kent. 3.0 Captain Badcock. The Manor, Caxton 4.0 Mrs Womersley 172 Huntingdon Rd PP J.M. Stansfield St Johns 5.15 PP Mrs Sinker 15 Manor Court Grange Rd.

Tuesday 18 June 1935 Appointments board 11.45 W.A.David 10 Glisson Rd 2.30-4.0 Copper Kettle.

Wednesday 19 June 1935 11.0 D.C.Stocker Emmanuel (calling Sat or Tues) 12.0 Miss P.Wright 54 Storeys Way. 12.30 Mrs Leahy 22 Parton Rd. Post Sat with mount. Nothing after 3.30

Thursday 20 June 1935

Friday 21 June 1935 10.30 Child 2 ½ years, Mrs Whittle “Gogs House” Worts Causeway 12.30 Miss Letluen? Clarke, Kings College, Sister. M1 staircase call Tues aft. 3-4 Mrs Osborne experiments. Going away July 1st. 4.15 8 mths Baby. Doggett, Ely Rd, Waterbeach. None after this.

Saturday 22 June 1935 Degree Day 10.0 Mrs Crisp resitting

12.0 B.H.Price Johns College. Post to 64 Selwyn Rd, Birmingham 16 12.30 J.T.Phillips Downing college. Post 22 Queen Street, Neath, S.Wales. 2.15 Beddow, first one in plain clothes. 2.45 Miss Holman post to 74 Abbey Rd NW8

Sunday 23 June 1935 (15)

Monday 24 June 1935 10.0 Who’s Who H.H.Maltly 89 Lawson Rd 2.15 PP Mr Tabrum

Tuesday 25 June 1935 12.30 V.E.Tabbush St Johns College. Post here 2.15 Mr A.Jenkin (glasses all time) 22 Little St Mary’s Lane calling Friday evening proofs 2.30 B.A.Wylde Sidney. Post to Churchwood, Fittleworth, Sussex. (glasses some of time) 2.45 Pickin 121 High Street, Newport, Shropshire. Miss Owens calling. Don’t post. (big nose) 3.0 F.S. Hanania Queens (v.dark)post proofs 3 Lansdowne Court, 42 Lansdowne Crescent W11 3.30 A.S.Waring Christs. Took several heads. Post proofs 95 Dover Rd London E12 3.45 J.P.Moorley, Division Rd, Shirebrook, Nr Mansfield

Wednesday 26 June 1935 10.0 D.Wilmer 25 Ailesbury Rd. Dublin. Proofs to Miss Branston Villa Beaujour, Sentier, Flamand, Zoule, Belgium. PP Mrs Miean Wetenhall Cottage, Brooklands Ave 11.0 Mrs French, French’s Mill, French’s Rd 12.0 G.Robinson 2 Regent St, Chesterton , call Monday 2.15 PP Goodman (2.0 last) 2.30-4.0 Frau Kriebel 22 Maids Causeway (Model) 5.30 P.J.Menear, The Crescent, Histon, calling Sat afternoon. App Bd 5/-

Thursday 27 June 1935 11.30 Baby 3 mths. Mrs McCullagh, Ludlows. Fulbourn. Post proofs next week 12.30 PP Glen?

Friday 28 June 1935 10.0 Mrs Osborne? (entry crossed out) 11.0 R.B.Bryce, St John’s College. Calling Tue afternoon. 12.0 Together. A.H.Christie 19 Grange Rd. Miss D.Sindall 19 Grange Rd. Calling wed. 4.45 Miss Higginbottom. “St Berwyn” Gilbert Road.

Saturday 29 June 1935 10 Sage Bernal 11.0 Miss Malyon 15 High Green, Great Shelford. 11.30 R.W.Sennitt 15 High Green, Great Shelford 3.15 F.C.D.Swann. 172 Newmarket Rd. Call Friday.

Sunday 30 June 1935 (20)

Monday 1 July 1935 10.0 PP Pirie. Glisson rd. 11.0 Mrs Osborne 4.0 Mrs Helme The Gables, Barton. Post.

Tuesday 2 July 1935 Mrs Rees 65 Oxford. Studio for evening. 131 2.30 Mrs Herring. 16 Trinity Street. Baby and group. Post.

Wednesday 3 July 1935 11.30 Mrs Bullard 51 Sidney Street. Model. 2.45 Mrs Leach, The Belt, Newmarket.

Thursday 4 July 1935 11.0 Miss L.E.Lloyd Jones. Stepaside, Trumpington Rd. (entry crossed out) 11.0 PP T.T.McCann Brooklands Ave. By Sat lunch time. 11.30 PP J.M.Bryan, Downing Coll. Sat Call. By Sat lunch time

Friday 5 July 1935 10.0 PP Miss Secretan. Copper Kettle. 10.30 Miss Chapple? Cornerings Sawston 3.30 Mrs Lloyd Jones (entry crossed out)

Saturday 6 July 1935 Anti War (entry crossed out) 4.30-6 Miss Eleanor Singer 36 Regent Sq London132. Complimentary.

Sunday 7 July 1935 (4)

Monday 8 July 1935 10.0 Miss Lloyd Jones. Stepaside, Trumpington Rd. 3.0 Mrs Barker 17 Cranmer Rd. Baby 1 year 4.0 Mrs Duckering 38 St Barnabas Rd.

Tuesday 9 July 1935 10.0 Hannah Kriebel – Model 3.0 L.M.Wyatt. Berry Hse. Waterbeach. Send.

Wednesday 10 July 1935 10.30 Mrs Robinson 139 Huntingdon Rd – as soon as possible. Friday call. 11.30 Mrs Howland. Westchester. Huntingdon Rd. 2 children.

Thursday 11 July 1935 9.0 H.Rackham 9 Park Ter. 4321 Mrs Stanley Rackham Send to 9 Park Ter. 12.0 Mrs Swann. Feltwell. Norfolk

131 No other similar bookings found. Why did Mrs Rees want the studio for the evening? 132 Eleanor Singer was a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain, later to become a medical doctor and pioneer of family planning services. (1903-1999)

Friday 12 July 1935 11.0 Dr W.T.Walker. Tenison Rd. Post next week. 5.0 J.G.Millner Sawston

Saturday 13 July 1935

Sunday 14 July1935 (10)

Monday 15 July 1935 11.0 Miss Mary Wood 15 St Barnabas Rd. Send

Tuesday 16 July 1935

Wednesday 17 July 1935 1/1 and 12x10 send quotation with proofs. Grantchester Wedding. Mrs E.S. Duckett’s house, Burntclose Grantchester Miss Bardwell bride All morning till 5. Ward 75 229 Send proofs to Mrs Britton White to arrive at Dorchester Hotel by Friday evening certain 1. Grantchester Church inside and out 2. Bride 3. Bride and bridegroom 4. Group (6 x ?) 5. Garden

Thursday 18 July 1935 No app if pos

Friday 19 July 1935 10.30 Miss Cheyne, Newnham

Saturday 20 July 1935 3.0 Miss Beatson-Bell Cornish Hall End, Braintree, Essex (entry crossed out) 4.0 Miss Freda Stewart, Girton Gate. Proofs Wed afternoon.

Sunday 21 July 1935 (4)

Monday 22 July 1935 10.15 Miss George 26 Lyndwood Rd (entry in pencil erased) PP. 5.30 Miss Pleasance (fair) and Miss Green, 8 Magrath Ave. Wed adfternoon.

Tuesday 23 July 1935 10.30 – 1.0 Cavendish Lab to photograph Dr Searl 133 3.0 A.D.Christinani, Trinity Hall 4.0 Mrs T.W.H. (M.E.) Hunt 58 Glisson Rd – comps 5.30 Miss Chancellor, Festival Theatre calling Sat.

Wednesday 24 July 1935

133 George Frederick Charles Searle FRS (1864–1954), British physicist and teacher.

3.0 Miss Rolfe. 61 Chesterton Rd. Calling Sat morning before 11. Post to The Limes Walsham – le – Willows, Nr Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk.

Thursday 25 July 1935

Friday 26 July 1935 12. H.G.Campbell, O 3 Queens College, calling Tue afternoon.

Saturday 27 July 1935 L. away afternoon. J’s Party. 4.0 Mrs Diana Impey, 62 Ramsden Square. (Make a very good model) Calling Thursday morning.

Sunday 28 July 1935 (7)

Monday 29 July 1935 Egan and Bernal 68 Walnut Tree Ave 3.30 Miss E.Cartwright, Newnham College. Calling Thurs if not post 4.30 Mrs Brockfield 296 Milton Rd.

Tuesday 30 July 1935 10.0 Tony Pirie 12 Glisson Rd 11.0 Mrs Gosfield 147 Huntingdon Rd 12.0 Miss F.Stewart (resitting) 2.15 Mrs Simpson. Branksome. Newmarket.

Wednesday 31 July 1935

Thursday 1 August 1935 (no time shown) Mrs Mander 6 Rotherfield Rd, Carshalton, Surrey.

Friday 2 August 1935 11.0 Mrs Fox’s children. 2 children together. Shelford 123. Duneford House Stapleford. Send proofs bill etc to – Mrs Sheffield Blaxhall, Nr Woodbridge Suffolk. 12.0 Mrs Hutchinson 31 Grange Rd. 2.30 Miss Violet Marshall White Hall, Newmarket Road. Finished copy by Wed morning proofs Tuesday calling. 3.30 Miss Beatson-Bell, Cornish Hall End, Braintree, Essex. Post 4.30 Dr Holmes. Map. 5.0 Miss Hutton 1 Chaucer Rd calling Wed 5.0.

Saturday 3 August 1935 10.30 K.L.Macartney. Clare. 1 Park Parade (proofs to ) 12.15 PP Mrs Mack Kynance, Gt Shelford. Send Tuesday. 2.30 C.M.H.Harrison. Sidney Coll. E.P.Harrison Esq Trevose, Southsea.

Sunday 4 August 1935 (15)

Monday 5 August 1935 – Bank Holiday

Tuesday 6 August 1935 11.0 Mrs Rackham 9 Park Terrace and Mrs Talbot Fenns, Braintree, Essex. 12.0 Miss Oppenheim, Clough Hall. The Limes Paston, Norfolk 7.30 Dinner Pat.

Wednesday 7 August 1935 10.30 Miss Wynn, Debden 12.15 Miss K.M. Gilbert, Peile Hall. Sat morning at 10 proofs. At Redstute Lodge, Newbury, Berks till Thurs 15th. 2-4 Wedding, Babraham Hall, Adeane.

Thursday 8 August 1935 PP 11.0 J.M.Watson Trinity Hall. Sat morning

Friday 9 August 1935 10.30 Mr Peck. 18 Newton Rd.

Saturday 10 August 1935 10.30 Miss Chapman, Cromwell House, St Ives, Hunts. Post Monday. 3.30 Katherine Tomkin’s Baby, 31 Barton Rd

Sunday 11 August 1935 (5)

Monday 12 August 1935 3.15 1 + 3 years, Mrs Mann, St Marks Lodge, 2 children. 5.0 PP R.H.Angus. Sidney. Monday 8.15 Civil Liberties.

Tuesday 13 August 1935

Wednesday 14 August 1935 Flowers 10.15 Mrs Stevenson 90 Chesterton Rd 11.0 Dr Searle. Resitting. 2.30 R.Postgate 143 Coleridge Rd.

Thursday 15 August 1935 10.0 Mrs D. Maguinness 12 Botolph Lane . Post proofs next week. PP Mrs Saunders 192 Chesterton Rd. Post Frid. Pd. 3.0 Miss Bradley 4 Grange Court. Post proofs next week.

Friday 16 August 1935 1 of M.B.Bruce PP G.N.Ross Jesus coll. 23 Wendover Ct. Finchley Rd, Hampstead NW1. 5.30 Dr R.A.Andrews 21 Chaucer Rd.

Saturday 17 August 1935

Sunday 18 August 1935

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Monday 19 August 1935

Tuesday 20 August 1935 3.0 Baby, Mrs Wedd, Grange Farm, Heydon, Nr Royston. 4.0 Miss Stringer 19 Emmanuel Rd 5.0 Miss V.Hall Ravensworth, Brooklands Ave.

Wednesday 21 August 1935 Hairdressers. Gilians. 10.45. Who’s Who. A. Carpenter 32 Argyle St. Mrs Frost. c/o “Lhassa” 27 St George’s Rd Yarmouth 134

Thursday 22 August 1935 10.30 J.M. Watson, Emmanuel Coll. Spring Lodge, Barnard Castle, Co Durham.

Friday 23 August 1935

Saturday 24 August 1935

Sunday 25 August 1935 (5)

Monday 26 August 1935

Tuesday 27 August 1935 10.15 Mrs P.W.Wood, 1 St Pauls Rd. Family group and 2 dogs. 11.45 Mrs and Mr S.N.Chib 70 Jesus Lane.

Wednesday 28 August 1935 10.30 Mrs Turner, 41 Glisson Rd 3.0 Miss Campbel,l 75 Trumpington St

Thursday 29 August 1935

Friday 30 August 1935 11.30 Mrs Warren Wilson, Wymondham House, Brooklands Ave. 12.0 Olof Kaisser, Marshall’s Flying School 3 1 ¼ x ¾ 2 PP post.

Saturday 31 August 1935 Photograph an ivory model for Mr Woolaston for Queen Mary.

Sunday 1 September 1935 (6)

Monday 2 September 1935

134 The name and address of Mrs Frost is written in the RH side of the page for this day and therefore does not seem to be an appointment, nor information relating to the other entries for that day.

No appointments if possible

Tuesday 3 September 1935 3.30 Miss Going (elder lady) Bedford Cottage, Thriplow, Nr Royston Herts. Call proofs Sat. 3.30 Mrs Bruton 8 Wendover Lodge, Welwyn, Herts. Post.

Wednesday 4 September 1935 Wedding 1.30-3.0 Miss E.M.Sallis 145 Arbury Rd Send proofs to Mrs Johnston, 29 London Rd, Edinburgh. Self and husband, bridesmaids, Group. 4.0 Mrs H.A.West, Hillbank, Newport, Essex.

Thursday 5 September 1935

Friday 6 September 1935 3.0 Miss Mavis Clewett, 8 Little St Mary’s Lane

Saturday 7 September 1935 Don’t make appointments today without consulting Mrs R

Sunday 8 September 1935 (4)

Monday 9 September 1935 Don’t make appointments today without consulting Mrs R 4.30 Miss V.Hall. Send proofs to Ravens Worth Brooklands Ave.

Tuesday 10 September 1935 12.0 Mrs Thomas. Grantchester.

Wednesday 11 September 1935

Thursday 12 September 1935

Friday 13 September 1935

Saturday 14 September 1935 Mrs Strachan 1 Westminster College Bounds. Wedding 2.15 in St Columbas Church. Afterwards at Westminster Coll. Miss Strachan to be Mrs Rowse. 11.00 Mr and Mrs Chib (Resitting)

Sunday 15 September 1935 (3)

Monday 16 September 1935 10.15 Miss N.L.De Paula, Walden Place, Saffron Walden. Post Tues. 12.30 Mrs Longly, Methodist Mission House, Oyo, via Ibadan, Nigeria, West Africa. Post tues, proofs to c/o Mr D.Bannister, Melbourn Rd Royston Herts. 2 small. Large one to Mrs D.C. Bannister, Melbourn Rd Royston Herts 2.30 Mrs Hallward 3 children. 75 Grange Rd. 5.0 K.Ennion, Harlech, Newmarket.

Tuesday 17 September 1935 2.45 Joshua K.Taylor, Little Abington 3.30 Mrs Norman 2 Colleridge Rd, Baby 1 year. 5.0 Miss H.Few, Luard Rd.

Wednesday 18 September 1935 10.30 Miss Harries 10 Glisson Rd 11.15 Mrs Eagle (2 children) Home address Conway, Royston . Proofs to High corner, Near Ringwood, Hants. 3.0 Miss Sophie Raverat, Harlton. Post Sat. 5.30 S.J.Gentle, 11 Trumpington Street.

Thursday 19 September 1935

Friday 20 September 1935

Saturday 21 September 1935 3.30 Child 3 ½ years Mullett 56 Holbrook Rd

Sunday 22 September 1935 (12)

Monday 23 September 1935 Away 4.30 Miss Scroope (dark straightish hair) Miss Murrogh (fair wavey hair) Beverly College, Thetford.

Tuesday 24 September 1935 10.30 D.F. Munsey, 51 Bateman Street. Mrs Munsey. Call Friday. 11.30 Mrs Meldrum, 9 Emmanuel Rd 2.45 Mr E.N. Scratton, 4 Grantchester Rd. Calling Sat afternoon.

Wednesday 25 September 1935 [1.30 MacFisheries shop front open and closed.] 4.0 Mrs Robinson Green Gables, blinco Grove (entry crossed out)

Thursday 26 September 1935 12.15 Basil C.Norris. St Barnabas Vic. Walthamstow E17. Kings.

Friday 27 September 1935 10.30 Dr A.Wood. 2.30 Miss Thompson 23 Grange Rd. 3.30 Miss Rosoman 29 Tenison Ave.

Saturday 28 September 1935 12.0 Miss H.Tansley. Grantchester. 3.0 18 month child. Mrs Payne, 30 Highfield Ave.

Sunday 29 September 1935 (12)

Monday 30 September 1935 3.15 Mrs F.N.Andrewes. Child. 51 Hartington Grove. Post proofs. 4.0 F.M.Symonds, 48 Deparys Ave Bedford. Post. 5.0 M.G.Cox Pembroke, proof Friday afternoon – call.

Tuesday 1 October 1935 10.0 Mrs Salter, 69 Storeys Way. 2.45 C.A.S.Smith. Sidney. Call Wed.

Wednesday 2 October 1935 10.45 Mrs A.Wood St Barnabas Rd. Call Tues. Nelly (short hair) and Maria (long hair plaits) Cyprian, 11 Harvey Rd. proofs Sat

Thursday 3 October 1935 11.0 Woor 4952 Willowfield, 167 Shelford Rd. 11.30 Mrs Peck 18 Newton Rd. Give proofs to St Andrews St if ready by Sat evening.

Friday 4 October 1935 11.0 Mrs A.Roberts Ramden House Park Terrace (entry crossed out) 3.30 Mrs Roberts 16 Gilbert Rd. Baby. 4.15 P.T. Baver Esq Caius. Call Mon lunch time for proofs.

Saturday 5 October 1935 11.0 Convent, Bateman Street. 2.45 Baby. Mrs Tweedie. 14 Grantchester Rd.

Sunday 6 October 1935 (14)

Monday 7 October 1935 10.30 J.O.Dodds. Emma. 12.0 Miss Veitch. Girton College. (another address, “Elmhurst, Huntingdon Rd”, has been crossed out)

Tuesday 8 October 1935 9.50 PP V.Flotow 10.0 Mrs Salter (Resitting)

Wednesday 9 October 1935 10.45 Mrs Hartree. Post 11.30 Mrs Roberts, Camden House, Park Terrace. Post 12.0 Miss Wakefield, 79 Risby Gate, Bury St Edmunds. Post. 2.30 J.D.M.Jolly (Resitting). 74 Trumpington St. 4.30 Brian Heald and Sister, 24 Richmond Rd 4.15 Mr G.Wilding 25 Hinton Ave.

Thursday 10 October 1935 11.0 D.R.W.Stevenson 11 Peas Hill

Friday 11 October 1935

[10.0 Stand at Guildhall. 2 Positions]135 12.30 Ian Hannah136. Unionist Office. 9A Hall St Bilston Staffs. Wed Call.

Saturday 12 October 1935 2.30 Mrs Portway 33 Millington Rd. Call Monday. Glossy Tues. 3.0 R.Postgate (Resitting) Petworth, Hartplain Ave, cowplain, Near Portsmouth. Post. No more sittings.

Sunday 13 October 1935 (12)

Monday 14 October 1935 10.30 A.J.McMullen. Kings 11.0 N.Blackburn. Clare. 5.30 PP.Chris Rydin, 69 Bridge St. Call Tuesday.

Tuesday 15 October 1935 12.0 John Ashton (University Arms) 3 Queen Anne Mews W1 (entry crossed out) 2.30 Ian Henderson 8 New Square. 6.0 Mrs M.L.Clarke, The Laurells, Heath Avenue, Royston. Calling Mon 4-5.

Wednesday 16 October 1935 11.0-1.0 Mr and Mrs Wing. Mayor.137 2.30 Dr J.Gray. Kingsfield, West Road. (entry crossed out) 5.15 Diggle, St Johns. Buchanan, St Johns (entry crossed out)

Thursday 17 October 1935

Friday 18 October 1935 2.45 Mrs Day (baby 15 months) Spring Hall, Bottisham. Colin Post. 3.45 G.C.Barron, post, 23 Park Parade. 5.15 D.E.Graham. 4 St Andrews Street. (Sherry Nevil B 6.0)

Saturday 19 October 1935 11.0 Miss Payne, The Institution, Mill Road. (Resitting) 2.30 PP R.S.T. Woodland. Downing 3.0 Mrs Hardman (baby 1 year) 34 Lyndwode Rd. (No time stated). Miss Josephine Balls, 25 Hillcroft Crescent, Ealing W5

Sunday 20 October 1935 (12)

Monday 21 October 1935

135 At the Cambridge Guildhall from Tues 8 Oct to Sat 11 Oct 1935 was the Guildhall Electrical and Radio Exhibition, admission free of charge. Presumably Ramsey and Muspratt were hired to photograph the stand of one of the exhibitors. The diary does not have the client’s name. 136 Ian Campbell Hannah (1874 – 1944), a British academic, writer and Conservative Party politician, elected to Parliament in 1935. 137 The Mayor of Cambridge 1935–36 was Herbert T. Wing, Conservative. https://www.cambridge.gov.uk/sites/default/files/cambridge-mayors.pdf

2.30 – 4.0 Mrs L.Penrose. 2 boys. (Colchester 2186) 47 Lexden Rd, Colchester.

Tuesday 22 October 1935 10.45 J.Harjes. Magdalene 12.0 G.Sutherland. Pembroke. J2 Ivy Court. Send Tuesday. 3.0 N.Blackburn. Resitting. Post early next week. 3.45 Miss Archer. 89 Cherryhinton Rd. Post Monday.

Wednesday 23 October 1935 2.30 Dr.Gray (Mrs Ramsey) (entry crossed out) 3.30 R.G.Goode. Caius. 6 Brookside. 4.30 Mr P.P.De Mare. Peterhouse. (an indecipherable note of something at 6pm in brackets (Bl*****6.0)

Thursday 24 October 1935 11.0 (Helen) Miss H.Starr. Burnt Close. Grantchester.(entry crossed out)

Friday 25 October 1935

Saturday 26 October 1935 EXHIBITION 138 Travel and Industrial Development Association of Great Britain and Ireland . Kinnaird House. 1 Pall Mall East. SW1. Attention Mr A.F.Primrose. 6.0 Miss L.Cuthbut. Heath view, Newmarket.

Sunday 27 October 1935 (8)

Monday 28 October 1935 EXHIBITION 6.0 K.Fletcher. Christs. 12 Clarendon St. Post.

Tuesday 29 October 1935 11.0 H.E.Hinton. Kings. Saturday. 11.30 T.A.Gresson. Lurgan Hotel, 115 Cromwell Rd SW7. Gordon. Lunch. 6.0 Mrs Hadrill, Wentworth Rectory, Ely, Cambs. L.Tea

Wednesday 30 October 1935 EXHIBITION 10.30 App Board. H.J.H. Eves. Corpus. 8 Kings Parade. 11.0 T.Soutry 32 Jesus Lane. Puppy. Miss M. 6.0 Miss Cruickshank. School of Agriculture.

Thursday 31 October 1935 10.0 Miss Helen Raines. Training Coll.

138 This was the second photographic exhibition mounted by the firm; this time at Post Office Terrace. The exhibition ran from Sat Oct 26th to Saturday Nov 2nd . A press report of the exhibition from the Cambridge Independent Press, 25 Oct 1935 P11, has been added in the text box.

Something new in photography on view at Cambridge show (Cambridge Independent Press 25 October 1935 P11.)

The distinctiveness that is part of the photographic work of Ramsey and Muspratt will in future be ever more marked in certain of their portraits, those in the making of which the solarisation process is used.

Examples of this type of work will be on view for the first time at an exhibition of the firm’s photographs which opens at their Post Office Terrace Studio on Saturday.

The process produces results quite different from the usual type of photograph. By chemical means a black line is made to outline the face of the subject. The dark shadows are also affected with the result that the portrait takes on something of the appearance of a drawing and is given a stereoscopic effect. The degrees to which the process is taken can be varied.

The particular portraits on view at the exhibition show well what effective results the process can provide. One is struck by the effect on the hair which takes on a much more natural appearance than that seen in an ordinary photograph. The portraits are indeed original and striking. But though the most interesting they are far from the only photographs on view. There is a large collection of portraits made by more orthodox methods all marked by that lively vigour and naturalness we have met before in exhibitions of work by Ramsey and Muspratt. In some one gets a glimpse of that something which only the painter is supposed to be able to put into his work- and impression that not only the face but the character of the subject has been captured by the lens.

Some are strikingly mounted on black mounts with the actual photograph outlined in red. A collection of portraits of undergraduates look exceedingly well with silver mounts cased in red frames. Here is the modern note – portraits to match the chromium furniture.

Of topical interest is a number of photographs of Council candidates including Dr Alex Wood. Another University Scientist pictured in the exhibition is Dr Searle, well known at the Cavendish Laboratory in which a large print of the portrait is to be hung.

Some charming child studies provide what might be called “the light relief”. One of the best is a study of a bonny baby by an open door. All the children seem to be thoroughly enjoying themselves and full of the joy of living. There is a delightful liveliness about the portraits. The humorous element is not absent – the series of photographs illustrating the disappearance of an ice down the throat of a small girl is deliciously entertaining to look at.

Other exhibits are of commercial work and of studies suitable for modern advertising. There are interiors, statues, and photographs taken from unusual angles which immediately attract the attention.

The exhibition is open until Nov 2nd.

Friday 1 November 1935 EXHIBITION 10.0 Miss Holland. The Warren, Bramley, Near Guildford. 11.0 P.Ullyott. Trinity 6.15 Miss Tranter. Sidgwick Hall.

Saturday 2 November 1935 11.0 H.W.Tracy. 8 Walkworth St (Miss M) 6.0 Miss W.Strangeways, 4 Hills Avenue. (entry crossed out)

Sunday 3 November 1935 (12)

Monday 4 November 1935 10.0 Appointments Board. McClellan 24 Little St Marys Lane 10.30 Miss M.Starr Grantchester. HM 11.30 Miss Mary Hobbs, Pratt St, Soham. 11.30 I Carter Jonas 26 Storeys Way (post). Family group and baby. 2.45 Mrs Roach 77 Barton Rd. 2737 (post) (3 children separately and together) 3.45 W.D.Heath-Eves. Corpus. 5.15 Miss Hadfield, Watford. New Mills, Stockport. Send to Rev. M.H.J.Bunting. 19 Arden St. New Mills, Stockport.

Tuesday 5 November 1935 11.45. Mrs M.Walker. Child 2 yrs. High St Great Shelford. 3.15 Mrs Hadrill, Wentworth Rectory, Ely. Proofs to arrive by Sat.

Wednesday 6 November 1935 10.0 Painting from Christs of John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester. 11.0 Mrs J.S.Chivers, 3 children 15,12,9. Woodhouse, Impington [LCR?] 12.0 Mrs W.B.Chivers, Drumskillan, Huntingdon Road, 3 children 14, 8, 6. 2.30 Mrs Robinson, Green Gables, Blinco Grove. 3 children 2, 6, 8 yrs. 4.0 A.K.Kisch. Clare, post, J7 Memorial Court. 4.45 R.A.Noble 1 Cranmer Rd.

Thursday 7 November 1935 11.0 T.P.Archibald. Peterhouse. Proofs Mon 4.0 11.45 Miss E.M.Butcher. Girton.

Friday 8 November 1935 11.0 Master of Christs 139 (LCR) 12.0 Mrs C. Morris, 5 Merton Street. (LCR) Baby. 2.30 Miss Peachey, 48 Grange Rd 3.30 Miss Lily Nager, 8 Scroope Terrace. 4.15 Dr F.Roberts, 7 Scroope Ter.

Saturday 9 November 1935 10.0 Hinton, Resitting 12.0 Miss Beasey 1 Westminster Coll Bounds. (entry crossed out) 3.0 Miss Oldham. Rumah Lama, Rushdon, near Buntingford, Herts. 5.30 Miss Strangeways Sherry Salaman 5.0 LCR or MissH

139 The Master at Christs College at this time was Norman McLean FBA (1865 – 1947) who was a Scottish Semitic and Biblical scholar. From 1888 he was also a member of the Cambridge Apostles, a Society whose membership had included Lettice Ramsey’s deceased husband

Sunday 10 November 1935 (25)

Monday 11 November 1935 10.0 Mr Noble, resitting. 10.30 Girl 15 years? Mrs Stubbimgs. 25 Eltisley Ave 12.0 G.E.Wolstenholme, Corpus. Calling Wed afternoon. 2.15 Mrs Malfroy, 8 Little St Mary’s Lane. Deborah. Post Friday. 3.0 Girl 10 years. Mrs Vincent. 10 Selwyn Gardens. 4.0 T.Sorby, 58 Walkworth Ter. Calling Thurs morning 5.0 PP. H.S.Gerfunkel, 92 Glebe Rd

Tuesday 12 November 1935 10.0 Miss M.H.Fitch. Sidgwick Hall. Newnham College. 2.30 Dr H.R.Hulme. Caius. (HM) 3.15 Child. Mrs Ripley. Causeway House New Square. Mrs Abbs 44 New Square

Wednesday 13 November 1935 11.15 Miss E.Clayton. Addenbrookes. 12.0 C.A.Sundy. 22 Orchard Ave. 4.0 A.Crawford, 156 Vinery Road.

Thursday 14 November 1935 11.30 Miss Jarvis. Park Lodge, Newmarket. 12.30 M.Pittie, Fitzwilliam House.

Friday 15 November 1935 Nothing before this (11.0) 11.0 Miss A.Clarke 38 Selwyn Rd. (Complimentary) 12.0 Bridget 1 ½, Susan 3 years. Mrs Roe. 9 Fitzwilliam Rd. 3.0 Miss Starr. Extra Sitting.

Saturday 16 November 1935 10.30 Boy 6 yrs. Jake. Mrs Waddington 173 Huntingdon Rd (LCR) 11.15 Neville Blackburn – in costume. 12. Mrs Mayo 21 Grange Court. H.M. Mrs Mayo call Thursday morning. 2.30 Mrs Kay. Aldham House, Union Lane, Chesterton140. 15 months. 5.30 J.G.Priest C.F.S. RAF Upavon. Group 3 grown up. Proofs to Miss Priest, 93 Grantchester Meadows.

Sunday 17 November 1935 (21)

Monday 18 November 1935 12.15 H.E. Williamson Trinity College. 2.30 Mrs Turner, 47 Bateman Street. Child. LCR. “Jeff”. Soft prints. Leaving on Thursday for Cherry Hill, Cross Oak Rd, Birkhamstead. Together and child separately.

Tuesday 19 November 1935

140 This was the home address of an earlier Cambridge studio photographer, Ralph Herbert Lord, http://www.fadingimages.uk/photoRHLord.asp

10.0 Peter Ling. 69 Chesterton Rd. 2.45 Mrs Raynes, 72 Storeys Way. 2 children. Elder child Ann, youngest child Susan. 3.30 Miss Gibson Ridley Lodge.

Wednesday 20 November 1935 11.0 Mr J.Taylor, Abington 12.0 L.H.Morrison. Corpus. Fair, glasses, Navy Pullover without sleeves. 2.30 P.J.Windgate. St Catherines. 3.0 Rev E.J.White c/o 21 Chaucer Rd. Orwell Rectory, Royston Herts. Call. 4.15 L.R.Forster, Corpus.

Thursday 21 November 1935 11.0 Mrs Wooster. Baby. Mr Wooster – Anthony. 11.30 Mr Wooster, Djinns House, Leys Rd.

Friday 22 November 1935 LCR London. 38 Kensington Park Gardens W11. Park 5715 PP Mrs Pekeris 38 Grantchester Rd. 10.30 Miss Saltmarsh. Barrow Hall. Bury. 11.30 Mrs Nayoss 155 Hamilton Rd Felixstowe. Mr Coupe will call to see proofs Wed 27th 2.30 (Mary) Schoolgirl. Mrs A.Challis. The Laburnums Sawston. Send proofs to Mrs Moulton 22 Hillside Sawston. 3.0 Mrs Lewis, 17 Sedley Taylor Rd baby 18 months (like head shoulders – bare shoulder a “picture photograph”) 3.45 Miss M. Marshall, White Hill, Newmarket Road phone Teversham 240 re proofs. As soon as possible. 4.45 R. Bentley. Magdalene.

Saturday 23 November 1935 10.30 Jane Vincent. Resitting 11.30 Mrs Beasley Reydon Lodge, Newmarket, mother and baby. 2.20 Mrs Chivers (group of 3. 2 girls and boy) Resitting. 3.15 Mrs Simons 36A De Freville Ave. Baby 4 months. 4.15 PP D.N.Paton. Sidney 4.30 L.A.Cannell, Swavesey, Cambs. 5.30 M.F.Radford, St Ives.

Sunday 24 November 1935 (25)

Monday 25 November 1935 10.45 App: J.Bailey, 24 Little St Mary’s Lane 11.0 Mrs H.S.Cole, Savernake House, Newmarket. (2 children) (John elder), baby Christopher 12.0 Miss Ridge, Doddington Rectory, March. 1.30 P.Arris 22 Bateman Street. 2.30 Miss Lowry 54 Bateman Street. 3.15 Miss May. Newnham (Clough Hall) Send.

Tuesday 26 November 1935 10.0 Miss C.G.Thornton. Newnham Coll. Peile Hall. Post proofs. 11.15 A.B.Cozens (Peterhouse) 6 Tennis Court Rd. Proofs send?

12.15 K.S.Dickinson 2 Pembroke St. Post. 2.30 S.L.Hetherington Trinity. Basinghouse. Quayside. 3.15 Mrs Butterfield 4 Belvoir Terr. 4.0 Miss Lily Nager (entry crossed out)

Wednesday 27 November 1935 11.0 Mrs Cook Cromwell House, Trumpington (LCR). Dont send – calling. 12.0 Mrs Govier, Keith House Huntingdon. 3 yrs and 15 months separately. 2.30 Miss Mayo 3.15 Miss O.S.Wells. Peile Hall, Newnham. 3.45 Mrs Harrison. 6 Cromwell Place, St Ives. Child 4 4.15 D.H.Sweeney St Johns.

Thursday 28 November 1935

Friday 29 November 1935 12.0 Mr and Mrs MacClement, Wayside Cottage Burton. 2.30 E.W.Young Emma (high neck) 3.30 Miss Davie ?? 5.0 Miss Becher Peile Hall, Newnham.

Saturday 30 November 1935 10.0 Miss Elizabeth Kara-Michilora, Girton college. Passport price in. Calling Wed afternoon. 12.0 J.D.Morton 13 Manor St. Post. 2.15 Miss Morris, Church Gate St, Soham. 3.0 Miss Alison Clay 11 Grange Rd. Proofs to 104 Oakley St Chelsea SW3 4.0 E.Goode 37 Kingston St Call Sat.

Sunday 1 December 1935 2.30 Miss Cyprian 11 Harvey Rd Tel 5257 (28)

Monday 2 December 1935 11.0 D.J.Bowen 24 Lensfield Rd (Clare). Post proofs. 3.0 E.J.Johnson, 89 Cherryhinton Rd calling Thurs morning 4.0 Miss Stratton, Old Hall, Newnham. 9 The Avenue, Clifton, Bristol. 5.0 Mrs E.R.Walker, 11 Guest Rd (entry crossed out)

Tuesday 3 December 1935 11.0 C.J.Sidgwick. Christs. Post proofs to 3 Queens Avenue, Dorchester, Dorset. 12.0 J.F.Fraser Pembroke. Post proofs 13 Millfield, East Grinstead, Sussex 2.30 Mrs White 2 children 2 and 4 Judy and Jane.23 Bridge Street post proofs to The Turning Point, Colne Place, Cromer. 3.45 Peter Wolf Christs. Calling Saturday evening.

Wednesday 4 December 1935 2.0 Mr Sweeny, calling proofs Saturday evening. 4.0 R.A.Francis. Caius. The Red House, Fakenham, Norfolk. 5.0 Mrs E.R.Walker, 11 Guest Rd, group of 3.

Thursday 5 December 1935

10.0 Mr and Mrs MacClement, calling Saturday at 6 10.30 Mrs Wilderspin Syxtene Girton Rd. Twins 5 years. 11.30 P.W.Wheeldon. Westcott House, Kingswear. Park Road, Hale, Cheshire. 12.15 F.C.Newton 18 Maids Causeway. Couple, 116 Western Boulevard, Nottingham.

Friday 6 December 1935 9.15 Miss E.M.Smith. Sohamdeen, Newmarket, Wed call early 10.15 Miss Spence, Addenbrookes Hospital. Post Wed if not called for. 12.0 Dr K.Bode. 2 Middleton Rd NW11. 2.30 Miss M Ramsey. Howfield, Buckingham Rd. 5.0 F/O R.C.Richmond, Officers Mess, RAF Duxford. Calling Tues 5-6. 5.30 S.Gerard. Coat. Trinity Coll 6.10 K.H.Scott. Christs. Post Wed. Holmwood, Green Walk, Bowden, Cheshire.

Saturday 7 December 1935 10.15 L.H.Bowen (glasses). Lensfield Rd 11.0 Miss Patel c/o Mr Thatcher 6 St Pauls Rd. Proofs Wed or Thurs 11.45 J.P.C. Palmer. Trinity. Mixbury, Goring on Thames, Oxon. 2.20 Baby. Mrs Arnold, Sydney Farm, Cherryhinton (entry crossed out) 3.0 Mrs Godwin, baby. 3.30 Table. J.Vulliamy 6 Millington Rd. (entry crossed out) [ADC Dinner 7.15 Kahn ??]

Sunday 8 December 1935 (26)

Monday 9 December 1935 10.0 PP Miss Van Wely. 114 Huntingdon Rd. 10.30 D.Bolster 21 Richmond Rd Calling Thurs morning. 11.45 Miss Minns 2 Wordsworth Grove. Post Thurs. 3.30 Dr James Gray, Kingsfield, West Road. Post. Going to Burling Gap Hotel Nr Eastbourne Sussex on Fri.

Tuesday 10 December 1935 10.15 Mr Vulliamy go to Merton Hall to photograph mosaic. Butler knows all directions. Post glossy 1/1 to Vulliamy 16 Red Lion Square WC1. Cambridge 4748. 2.30 Baby. Mrs M.R.Arnold. Sydney Farm, Cherryhinton. Husband calling Sat. 3.30 D.W.Ewer. Send Friday afternoon or Monday 4.0 Miss Hallam 2 New Square – Villa Faidherbe, Malo les Bains, France Nord. Calling Sat morning 6.0 Miss Slaik 4 Botolph Lane Post.

Wednesday 11 December 1935 10.0 Miss H.Ward (plait round head) and Miss Bunthorn (not together) Addenbrookes. Post. 11.0 A.W.R.Hughes. Christs 12.0 Mrs T.R.Marshall. 5 yrs boy. Robert. The Garden Hotel. Alconbury House, Alconbury, Hunts. 2.30 Mrs Diver 40 Lyndewode Rd.

Thursday 12 December 1935 No sittings Reproduction of Wooster to Evening Standard or Standard?

Friday 13 December 1935

Saturday 14 December 1935 11.15 Teversham 228. D.White. Poplar Hall, Fen Ditton. Tues Evening call. 2.30 Miss Mines, 5 Brooklands Ave. Calling Tues. Proofs only. Order if possible. 3.30 S.W.Franklin. Duxford. 1 North Rd Stevenage. Calling Wed afternoon 4.0 Miss H.M.Evans 22 Magrath Ave 5.30 Mrs Marshall resitting

Sunday 15 December 1935 (17)

Monday 16 December 1935 12.30 Mrs Arrowsmith. 6 Pemberton Terrace. Send. Not for Xmas. 3.0 Child 6 yrs. Mrs Saddler 13 Barrow Rd. (If Poss) 6.0 proofs only. Order if poss. E.H. Proctor 65 Hertford St. Calling Wed 5-6. 5015 Lloyds Bank Ches Rd.

Tuesday 17 December 1935

Wednesday 18 December 1935 11.15 A.E.Borthwick 96 Cromwell Rd, Coldhams Lane. Post Sat if poss or call Monday 12.0 12.0 Miss S. Rayner 27 Sedley Taylor Rd Calling Tues. 3.0 Mrs Boom, Sawtry Hse, Ely 3 and 4 family taken together. Post some time 4.30 L.P.Thomasset. Baister Miss, Welbrooke Cottage, Girton.

Thursday 19 December 1935 10.30 child 9 yrs. Dr M.P.Taylor, 10 Newnham Terrace. (No time) John McNeill.

Friday 20 December 1935 Send reminder Won’t come before 11 o’clock. Mrs Woods St Pauls Rd Grp resitting (entry crossed out) 12.0 PP D. Johnson 243 Hills Rd 5/- (entry crossed out) 12.0 Proofs for Mrs Stanley 26 Lyndwode Rd. 2720 Mr Carter. Baby Mrs E.S.Ladds. 3.0 Mrs Nunn 29 Cam Rd call Tues. 3.30 W.D.Arthur, 30 High Street, Wellingborough, Northants.

Saturday 21 December 1935 11.0 Miss K.Rayner 27 Sedley Taylor Rd. 12.0 Dr Andrews (deaf). Chaucer Rd.

Sunday 22 December 1935

Monday 23 December 1935 10.45 PP. G.A.Paul. Trinity. 16 Clarendon St. 11.0 Group of 4. Baby 5 months. Mrs Garner 45A Sidney Street. Calling 5 Tues on chance. 12.30 Group. Mrs Reddaway. 2 Buckingham Rd.

Tuesday 24 December 1935

Wednesday 25 December 1935

Thursday 26 December 1935

Friday 27 December 1935

Saturday 28 December 1935

Sunday 29 December 1935

Monday 30 December 1935 Mrs Ramsey (Mrs Kapp) at 54 Gt Percy St London. Terminus 4622.

Tuesday 31 December 1935

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