Collection C052 - Eveline Mason Letters collection

Zone du titre et de la mention de responsabilité

Titre propre

Eveline Mason Letters collection

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Document iconographique
Document textuel

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Niveau de description

Collection

Dépôt

Collections spéciales, Bibliothèque de l'Université Concordia.

Cote

C052

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Juridiction responsable et dénomination (philatélique)

Zone des dates de production

Date(s)

1936 - 1950 (Production)

Producteur

Mason, Eveline

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Description matérielle

20 cm of textual records
3 photographs

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Nom du producteur

Mason, Eveline

(1918 - [19--])

Notice biographique

Eveline Mason was born in Montreal in 1918 to Scottish immigrant parents. Eveline had an older sister. They both grew up in Montreal.
Eveline Mason moved to Scotland in 1934 and studied for an arts degree at Glasgow University from 1937 to 1939. During her studies, she met Alexander Cairncross, who at the time was a young lecturer, possibly in Economics. Eveline and Alexander fell in love, but at the beginning of the war in 1939 Eveline returned to Canada, where she worked as a stenographer. She stayed in Canada at least until July 1943. She then moved to Dayton, Ohio. She returned to the United Kingdom in 1946. Between 1946 and 1951, she married Herbert Wiggins, who had been married before, and moved to Finchley, in the outskirts of London. There are no records of them having children.

Historique de la conservation

Materials arrived at Concordia University Library, Special Collections on February 23, 2024. They were donated by Frances Cairncross, daughter of Alexander Cairncross, recipient of the letters.

Portée et contenu

The Eveline Mason Letters Collection documents Eveline’s life before, during, and after the Second World War as she moved between Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The letters describe her experience of moving alone from Montreal to Scotland at a young age, and her plans of pursuing a university degree at Glasgow University, where she met Alexander Cairncross, the recipient of the letters. The contents of the letters also tell of Eveline’s passage back to Canada at the start of the war, her struggles obtaining employment, finding her place in the workforce as a stenographer, her experience and thoughts of living and working in the United States during the war, and finally her return to the United Kingdom.

The collection includes 102 handwritten and typed letters.

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État de conservation

Source immédiate d'acquisition

Frances Cairncross

Classement

Materials are arranged chronologically.

Langue des documents

anglais

Écriture des documents

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Disponibilité d'autres formats

Restrictions d'accès

There are no access restrictions.

Délais d'utilisation, de reproduction et de publication

Use of material in publications cannot be done without permission of the copyright holder(s). Reproduction for research or private study may be permitted.