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We acknowledge we are on Kaurna Miyurna land. The Dreaming is still living. From the past, in the present, into the future, forever.

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Mrs Mary Vera (Mollie) Walker personal diaries

Archive Collections / Dr William Delano Walker / Series AA357/08 / Mrs Mary Vera (Mollie) Walker personal diaries

Previously accessioned as D3/6

A loose leaf diary detailing Mrs Walker's daily life including travel and personal routine. This item covers locations around London, Somerset and Oxbridge England.

Significant events are documented as follows:

  • Mollie, presented at court 16 May 1934

  • ukDerby day ukEpsom 6 June 1934

  • WD Walker lectured at Temperance Hospital 8 September 1934

  • Mollie, lectured to Womens International at ukBath 11 September 1934

  • The Associated Country Women of the World (ACWW) meeting London 18 September 1934

  • Mollie, lectured at ukBath 1 October 1934

  • Barron Gurney meeting 2 October 1934

  • Clutton and Somerset meetings 4 October 1934

  • Hinton Charterhouse meeting 5 October 1934

  • ACWW meeting London 12 October 1934

  • Messthan meeting 15 October 1934

  • discussion regarding Inland Mission Society 18 October 1934

  • WD Walker lecture regarding flying doctor Hebden Bridge 21 October 1934

  • results ukEngland to vicMelbourne air race 23 October 1934

  • Littleworth meeting 25 October 1934

  • meeting ACWW London 13 November 1934 and 15 November 1934

  • WD Walker lecture to Lyon’s Literary Club Cadly Hall 15 November 1934 then The Boy’s College ukCheltenham then ukHalifax and Bradford, and London 21 December 1934



References to photographs taken include:

  • Mollie, at their room in the Abbotsford Hotel dressed for court presentation 16 May 1934

  • Royal Photographic Society (RPS) exhibition had 16 photos 8 September 1934

  • Rhona at hospital 23 September 1934

  • ukBath village 2 October 1934

  • Barron Gurney 3 October 1934

  • Oxbridge and King John’s hunting lodge 5 October 1934

  • Hinton Charterhouse 6 October 1934



Individuals, subject matter and locations noted include:

  • Mrs Sparrow, High Beech, 22 April 1934

  • Ron and Rhoda (Lees), Greensted, Mrs Symes 29 April 1934

  • Mardley Hill, Mrs Dickson, Mollie Francis, Wolmer Green 4 May 1934

  • Mrs Dickson, HSW (Photographic processors), Miss Butcher, court dress 5 May 1934

  • ACWW, Mrs JH Thomas, Admiral Biomley, Dorothy Kean (vicMelbourne), Lady Tyler, Lady Preston, Mrs de Benales, Mrs Henry Woolf, Mrs Franklin Hutchinson, Lady Trevelyan, Mrs Drage, New Forest Womens Institute, ACWW, Maisie Gillespie, Epping 8 May 1934

  • Mr Christy, St Giles Hospital Camberwell, Miss Butcher 10 May 1934

  • Mrs Hutchinson, Glave's Beauty Parlor, DH Evans, Rhoda Lees, Miss Butcher, Brenda Carlyon, Betty Francis, Mrs Pike, Dora Hend, Maisie Gillespie, Admiral Biomley, Una Sanders, Lady Maud Carnegie, Signora Matsudaira, Sir Samuel Hoore, Miss Kean, Mrs JH Thomas, map, of how to get to the Derby 16 May 193

  • Derby day, Epping, Ron Lees, Windsor Lad, Don Bennet, Mrs Sparrow 6 June 1934

  • Mrs Dickson, Mrs Balls 7 June 1934

  • Rhoda Lees, Mr Patey, Mrs Sparrow 18 August 1934

  • RPS exhibition, Temperance Hospital, 'Seal studies' photographs reported in The Times (seals) 8 September 1934

  • Bath, Monbton Farleigh, Lady Fox, Sir Charles Hobhouse, Lady Hobhouse, 11 September 1934

  • Brent Knoll, Lady Fox, Mrs Hunter 12 September 1934

  • Lady Fox, Dulwich. Hospital, Dr Roberts (Surgeon Dulwich. Hospital) 13 September 1934,

  • Rhoda Lees 16 September 1934

  • ACWW, Mrs Dolling, Mrs Ricardo, Dr Lucy Lowe, Miss Toynbee, ukOxford, Mrs Drage, Mrs Moseley, 18 September 1934

  • Osmond 24 December 1934

  • Violet Alexander, Uncle Jim, Mr and Mrs Letts 25 December 1934

  • Mrs Hall Scott 6 December 1934

  • Mrs Sith 31 December 1934

Creator: Dr William Delano Walker
Control: AA 357/8/3/6
Date Range:  22 April, 1934  -  30 December, 1934
Quantity:  0.1cm,    
Formats: Diaries
Series:  AA357/08