The Reb and the Redcoats by Constance Savery

The News Clippings and Ephemera series includes unused postcards, mementos of Savery’s father, newsletters, church programs, and papers related to the Somerville College 75-year reunion (which Savery attended as a representative of the first cohort of women to receive degrees from Oxford). These chapbooks were produced by Eric Schonblom, and contain the bookplate of Agneta Thomson. The ‘Chapbooks’ subseries contains over 100 color facsimiles of Savery’s publications (many excerpted from anthologies or scanned from unpublished typescripts).

The collection also includes many unpublished typescripts and manuscripts of Savery’s writing. The diaries in the collection detail Savery's daily work on publications. The second subseries, ‘Others,’ contains other incoming correspondence to Constance Savery, as well as correspondence exchanged between Thomson and Hummerstone (a relation of Savery’s) regarding the death of Savery. The subseries ‘Agneta Thomson’ includes all correspondence between Savery and Thomson arranged in chronological order from 1989-1999, with a numerical index prepared by Agneta Thomson. Savery and Thomson began exchanging letters in 1989 when Thomson requested some publication information, and the two remained pen pals until Savery’s death in 1999. Correspondence includes incoming letters from Savery’s family, but the collection is primarily composed of letters exchanged between Constance Savery and a fan of Savery’s writing, Agneta Thomson of Sweden. The Constance Savery papers include correspondence, work diaries, drafts and typescripts, ephemera, personal documents, published material, photographs, and artifacts.

The Reb and the Redcoats by Constance Savery