Archive / Papers / Swithinbank Papers: Box 2

Description

Bernard Winthrop Swithinbank, I.C.S. Appointed to Service (Burma Commission) 1909; Commissioner, Pegu Division 1933-42; Adviser to the Secretary of State for Burma 1942.

Papers given by Mr Charles Swithinbank (son).

File 1

Further donation of about 70 of Mrs Swithinbank’s letters written in 1914 and 1915 mainly to her father.

File 2

Collection of about 30 letters to or from Mrs Swithinbank written between 1916 and 1958. Some are additional letters to her father. File includes press cuttings, other ephemera and text of two articles written as D. Molesworth in issues of the World Magazine of about 1925 with the title ‘My jungle jaunts: an Englishwoman’s experiences in Burma’.