| Description | The file predominantly covers the period of Marian Henry Jones (née Phillips) master’s degree and Ph.D studies (1935-? 1939), with some items relating to a talk in 1968. Included are - University College Swansea letter awarding Marian a two years University Postgraduate Studentship, 1935 [see also letters in UNI/SU/PC/13/3/3]; 5 letters (3 in Welsh) from E. Ernest Hughes - 1938 and 1939, and 1944, including i) 19 Sept 1939, Hughes comments ‘your refugee guests I am sure bless the day when they became acquainted with you’, ii) Oct 1944, mentions John Henry Jones’ return after war duties, a course of lectures Hughes was giving to troops at R.A.S.C. [Royal Army Service Corps] depot Fforestfach [Swansea], and other news from the university; reply letter from Group Secretary Michael Balfour at The Royal Institute of International Affairs (1938) concerning Marian’s research interests; letter to Marian from Winnie [Winnifred Taffs?], August 1938, mainly concerning anti-Semitism in Austria and recounting a visit to the anti-Jewish exhibition in Vienna [Miss Taffs is named in several letters from W.N. Medlicott to Marian Phillips]; personal letter from Paul Geiger [Jewish friend] at Bishopsgate, March 1938; printed material from the School of Slavonic and East European Studies including – a summer school programme 1941 (also see UNI/SU/PC/13/3/1), a calendar 1937-1938, a ‘Public Lectures schedule 1937’, a ‘Report on the work of the school 1936-1937’; postcard to Marian at a London address, from R.W. Seton-Watson, Feb 1939, regards teaching matters and attending The Julian Corbett Lecture at Senate House; official letter confirming Marian's appointment as Assistant History Lecturer at University College Swansea, October 5th 1939, and the 'Particulars of duties and remuneration' with a draft of her acceptance; material relating to Marians lecture to the The Honourable Society of Cymmrodorian, 1968 on "Wales and Hungary", includes -letters signed Max Phillips (April 10 1968), Norton [Medlicott] (April 11, 1968) and Ieuan [Gwynnedd Jones?] (April 8, 1968), and an event advertising card. |