Additional Papers: Papers of the Ranee Sylvia, wife of Sir Charles Vyner Brooke, 1911-1977

File

Shelfmark: MSS. Pac. s. 83/16

Held at the Weston Library

Papers relating to her life in England and Barbados, where she spent her last years. Many are damaged or fragmentary. They were deposited in Rhodes House Library by the Department of Archives, Barbados. Comprises:

(items 1-3) Three volumes of photographs, press cuttings, and a few letters, concerning her wedding in 1911 at Cranbourne in Berkshire; scenes and people, mostly taken in England and uncaptioned, including some of herself and Vyner; reviews of her books, 1911-1957.

Folders 1-5, Miscellaneous photographs and cuttings, a few letters, and fragmentary typescripts, 1911-1971:

folder 1: photographs, cuttings, and letters relating to her wedding, family, and friends (35 fols.), 1911 and n.d.
folder 2: typescripts of three short stories by the Ranee, fragmentary (pp. 1-43, 1-26, and 1-59), n.d.
folder 3: photographs of the Ranee, her ADC in Barbados, Frank de Buono, her sister Dorothy Brett, and other members of her family and friends (61 fols.), n.d.
folder 4: cuttings from Barbados, American and Canadian newspapers relating to the Ranee's social activities and reviews of her books, and to her sister Dorothy Brett (19 fols.), 1957-1971
folder 5: two typed letters from Dorothy Brett, New Mexico, to the Ranee [also cutting of The Times obituary of Dorothy Brett, 1977] (4 fols.), 1 Aug and 14 Nov 1970.