- Collection Overview
- Collection Description & Creator Information
- Access & Use
- Collection History
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Collection Overview
- Creator:
- Roberts, Eirlys, 1911-
- Title:
- Eirlys Roberts Collection
- Repository:
- Manuscripts Division
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/cj82k734c
- Dates:
- 1935-1977
- Size:
- 2 boxes and 0.6 linear feet
- Storage Note:
- Firestone Library (scamss): Box 1-2
- Language:
- English
Abstract
Consists of miscellaneous material of Eirlys Roberts primarily relating to her United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation work in Italy and Albania during World War II and at the Consumers' Association, a consumer rights organization in the United Kingdom.
Collection Description & Creator Information
- Description:
The collection consists of miscellaneous material of Roberts primarily relating to her UNRRA work in Italy and Albania during World War II and at the Consumers' Association. Included are 32 photographs and 19 postcards of Albanian people and scenes, assembled by Roberts; "The Partisans Hold the Heights," an unpublished, typed manuscript (308 pp.) of a World War II novel by Roberts; her diary (autograph and typed manuscript) as UNRRA representative, at the end of WWII (25 March - 27 July 1945), based at the Italian Mission, Ruvo di Puglia; fashion reports, 1935-1936; Roberts's firsthand account of UNRRA operations in Albania, 1943-1947; letters by Roberts to her sister, Helen, 1947-1954; and a scrapbook compiled by employees of the Consumers' Association to mark the retirement of Roberts from CA in 1977.
- Arrangement
Material arranged chronologically.
- Collection Creator Biography:
Roberts, Eirlys, 1911-
Considered the "mother" of the modern British consumer movement, Eirlys Roberts was a member of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) Albanian Mission; later, editor-in-chief and head of research at Consumers' Association, a consumer rights organization in the United Kingdom, founded in 1957. She died on March 18, 2008.
Collection History
- Acquisition:
Purchased from Richard M. Ford in 2007 with matching funds provided by the Program in Hellenic Studies with the support of the Stanley J. Seeger Hellenic Fund.
AM 2009-6
- Appraisal
No appraisal information is available.
- Processing Information
Folder inventory added by Nicholas Williams '2015 in 2012.
Access & Use
- Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open for research.
- Conditions Governing Use
Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. No further photoduplication of copies of material in the collection can be made when Princeton University Library does not own the original. Inquiries regarding publishing material from the collection should be directed to RBSC Public Services staff through the Ask Us! form. The library has no information on the status of literary rights in the collection and researchers are responsible for determining any questions of copyright.
- Credit this material:
Eirlys Roberts Collection; Manuscripts Division, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/cj82k734c
- Location:
-
Firestone LibraryOne Washington RoadPrinceton, NJ 08544, USA
- Storage Note:
- Firestone Library (scamss): Box 1-2
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- Subject Terms:
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Fiction.
- Genre Terms:
- Correspondence -- 20th century
Diaries -- 20th century.
Manuscripts -- 19th century.
photographs -- 20th century - Names:
- Consumers' Association
United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration. Albanian Mission
United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration. Italian Mission - Places:
- Albania -- Photographs.
