Item 21 - Letter, from Ethelwyn B. Lemon

Ethelwyn Bruce Lemon was an Educationist and book collector. Ethelwyn was a native of Northumberland and attended Gateshead High School. As an undergraduate she served on the Executive Committee of the SRC for 1895/96, and graduated from the University of Edinburgh in the same Arts class as Arthur Berriedale Keith, Sir Stewart Macpherson and Frances Helen Melville. For more than 40 years she was a successful classical coach in Edinburgh, including among her students the families of Lord Oxford and Asquith and of the Haldanes of Cloan. For 20 years she was an Assistant in History at the University, and acted as an Inspector for the Scottish Education Department.