| Title | Details | Location | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alice Mullen's notebook | Contains Alice Mullen's handwritten life story from 1879 - 1977, written for her daughter Bertha; one volume | Wandsworth Heritage Service, Battersea Library, Lavender Hill, London SW11 1JB. Returnable only if threatened e.g. by Library closure. | D210/1/1 |
| Alice Mullen's notebook on the making of her garden | One volume - 1935 - 1937 | Wandsworth Heritage Service, Battersea Library, Lavender Hill, London SW11 1JB. Returnable only if threatened e.g. by Library closure. | D210/1/2 File |
| Alice Mullen's Notebooks | One notebook contains Alice Mullen's handwritten life story, from 1879 - 1977. The other is a diary about the making of he garden, 1935 - 1937 | Wandsworth Heritage Service, Battersea Library, Lavender Hill, London SW11 1JB. Returnable only if threatened e.g. by Library closure. | D210/1 - series |
| Archives relating to the writing, editing, publication and responses to Flo Hickson's book Flo: child migrant from Liverpool [Plowright Press 'Ordinary' Lives Series No 3. UK 1998] | 22 groups of papers (including photos) as listed by Ruth's Archive and detailed on records of the the holding public archive library. Donated holdings = 17cm. Copyright details: Writers, Artists and their Copyright Holders | State Library of Western Australia, Perth Cultural Centre, 25 Francis Street, Perth, WA 6000 slwa.wa.gov.au |
ACC 8234A - Full list of documents available from State Library of Western Australia |
| Bertha Mullen's memoirs | 3 files | Wandsworth Heritage Service, Battersea Library, Lavender Hill, London SW11 1JB. Returnable only if threatened e.g. by Library closure. | D210/2 - series |
| Bertha Mullen's memoirs C1997 | Typed version of Bertha's memoirs, including her childhood in Tooting and Streatham, working as a missionary in the Congo and working as a probation officer after the Second World War. Includes a letter about editing the manuscript 1 Folder |
Wandsworth Heritage Service, Battersea Library, Lavender Hill, London SW11 1JB. Returnable only if threatened e.g. by Library closure. | D210/2/1 - File |
| Bill Cross, author of Bill of Bulwell [Plowright Press 'Ordinary' Lives Series No 1. 1995 & 1998] | Manuscript of Bill of Bulwell, and a memoir about Bill's retirement; correspondence and newscuttings. Copyright details: Writers, Artists and their Copyright Holders | Nottinghamshire Archives, Castle Meadow Road, Nottingham NG2 1AG www.nottinghamshire.gov.uk/archives |
ACC 8374 |
| Copy of Bertha Mullen's notebooks c1997 | Copy of part of the first notebook and all of the second notebook containing Bertha's personal memoir | Wandsworth Heritage Service, Battersea Library, Lavender Hill, London SW11 1JB. Returnable only if threatened e.g. by Library closure. | D210/2/2 - File |
| Correspondence between Anne Bott and Bertha Mullen c1996 | Relating to the editing of "Alice from Tooting" and supplementary questions about the manuscript 1 Folder |
Wandsworth Heritage Service, Battersea Library, Lavender Hill, London SW11 1JB. Returnable only if threatened e.g. by Library closure. | D210/3/4 - File |
| Correspondence between Irene Yates and Ruth I Johns c1996 | Relating to Alice Mullen's life story. Also includes letters from Bertha Mullen to Ruth I Johns 1 Folder |
Wandsworth Heritage Service, Battersea Library, Lavender Hill, London SW11 1JB. Returnable only if threatened e.g. by Library closure. | D210/3/6 - File |
| Correspondence between Ruth I Johns and Bertha Mullen c1997-2002 | Relating to Alice Mullen's book. Also includes personal letters and Christmas cards. 1 Folder |
Wandsworth Heritage Service, Battersea Library, Lavender Hill, London SW11 1JB. Returnable only if threatened e.g. by Library closure. | D210/3/1 - File |
| Correspondence between Ruth I Johns and Hillary Mead c2003 | Hillary Mead was a friend and attorney of Bertha Mullen. The correspondence relates to Bertha dying 1 Folder |
Wandsworth Heritage Service, Battersea Library, Lavender Hill, London SW11 1JB. Returnable only if threatened e.g. by Library closure. | D210/3/2 - File |
| Correspondence between Ruth I Johns and Hillary Mead, poems by Bertha Mullen c2003 | Relating to Bertha Mullen's death and her poems 1 Folder |
Wandsworth Heritage Service, Battersea Library, Lavender Hill, London SW11 1JB. Returnable only if threatened e.g. by Library closure. | D210/3/7 - File |
| Correspondence between Ruth I Johns and Kate Mander c2011 | Copy email to Kate Mander, agent for Alys Fowler (horticuluralist and journalist) relating to Alice Mullen's notebook on creating her garden 1 copy email |
Wandsworth Heritage Service, Battersea Library, Lavender Hill, London SW11 1JB. Returnable only if threatened e.g. by Library closure. | D210/3/8 - file |
| Correspondence from Irene Yates to Anne Bott c1996 | Relating to the planned book of "Alice from Tooting". Also includes copies of letters from Bertha Mullen 1 Folder |
Wandsworth Heritage Service, Battersea Library, Lavender Hill, London SW11 1JB. Returnable only if threatened e.g. by Library closure. | D210/3/5 - File |
| Correspondence relating to the editing and publication of "Alice from Tooting" c1996-1997 | Includes correspondence between Ruth I Johns and Anne Bott relating to editing the manuscript and correspondence with Bertha Mullen relating to her mother's manuscript 1 Folder |
Wandsworth Heritage Service, Battersea Library, Lavender Hill, London SW11 1JB. Returnable only if threatened e.g. by Library closure. | D210/3/3 - File |
| Correspondence relating to the editing and publication of Alice Mullen's notebooks c1996-2011 | Correspndence ralting tothe editing and publication of Alice Mullen's notebooks | Wandsworth Heritage Service, Battersea Library, Lavender Hill, London SW11 1JB. Returnable only if threatened e.g. by Library closure. | D210/3 - File |
| Flo Hickson, Child Migrant | Various correspondence regarding research for the above publication by Plowright Press; Various reports in connection with Child migrants 1997-1998; Child migration interim report Western Australia 1996; Copy letters held in the state library Western Australia; various news clippings, notes etc. Re: Flo Hickson; Sundry letters re: Flo's book preparation; Barnardo's document copies from records; Poems by Flo Hickson; Letters from vaious friends/child migrants to Flo Hickson; School progress reports etc. | Liverpool Record Office Liverpool Central Library William Brown Street Liverpool, L3 8EW Tel: 0151 2335874 |
Awaiting Accession Number |
| Ordinary lives documents | Correspondence and documents relating to Ruth I Johns personal research publications of Bill of Bulwell; Life Goes on by Ruth I Johns 1982 | Nottinghamshire Archives County House Castle Meadow Road Nottingham NG2 1AG Tel: 0115 9581634 |
Acc. No: 9638 |
| Ordinary lives working papers | Working papers and/or publications for various publications in the ordinary lives series inc. Geoff: 44 years a railwayman; Flo: child migrant from Liverpoool; Alice from Tooting; Vic: Lambeth to Lambourn; Dorothy from Hythe; papers re: Radford Care Group Book 2000; Bill of Bulwell | Nottinghamshire Archives County House Castle Meadow Road Nottingham NG2 1AG Tel: 0115 9581634 |
Acc. No: 9611 |
| Ordinary Lives; Flo: Child Migrant from Liverpool | Photographs x 14 circa 1914 - 1997 Ephemera (envelope with notes) |
State Library of Western Australia, Perth Cultural Centre, 25 Francis Street, Perth, WA 6000 | BA/PA/11/0156; Accession No. 8234A |
| Possible material for publication c1997-2007 | Two chapters from Bertha Mullen's memoir about missionary work in the Belgian Congo in the 1930's and work as a probation officer after the Second World War. Copies of newspaper articles | Wandsworth Heritage Service, Battersea Library, Lavender Hill, London SW11 1JB. Returnable only if threatened e.g. by Library closure. | D210/2/3 - File |
| Reading/Community books; Transcripts of interviews by Ruth I Johns | Transcripts of interviews in relation to St Ann's Nottingham: Inner City Voices (Plowright Press 2002/2006) - restricted access until 2002; 4 box files dates 1967 - 2008 | Nottinghamshire Archives, County House, Castle Meadow Road, Nottingham, NG2 1AG | Accession Number 8618 - restricted until 2002 |
| Source material for Alice from Tooting [Plowright Press 'Ordinary' Lives Series No 2.1997] | Alice Mullen Collection: 879 - 2011 Alice Mullen (1879-1977) hand wrote her life story in an 'Army Book' notebook which her daughter Bertha discovered after her mother's death. Alice Mullen also left a handwritten gardening notebook. Copyright details: Writers, Artists and their Copyright Holders |
Both notebooks donated to Wandsworth Heritage Service, Battersea Library, Lavender Hill, London SW11 1JB. Returnable only if threatened e.g. by Library closure. www.calmview.eu/wandsworth/calmview |
D210 - Fonds |
| The Job Makers by Ruth I Johns (1984) | Gift to the Quaker library of "The Job Makers" by Ruth I Johns Sharespace: A study of a working community of small firms (Oct 2013) Also a copy of "The Friend" d/d 30 Aug 2013 with article "Fertile Soil" |
Friends House Library 173 Euston Road London NW1 2BJ |
Data from 2014 is entered by Christine Davies