Gardner, E. W.

SSC-48-1: Letters or part letters to 'Beloved' and to 'Christine' - 24 Oct 1937 to 22 March 1938 describing the expedition to the Hadhramaut undertaken with Gertrude Caton-Thompson and Freya Stark. Also three letters from Norway - 27 July to 9 Aug 1951.

SSC-48-2: Family letters etc.: letter from Guy H. Gardner to son, 5 July 1886; letter from Guy H. Gardner (jnr) to sister, 'Gawk', 6 Dec 1896; letter from Betty(?) to Aunt Elinor (Gardner) 30 April 1965; verses, illustrated with ink sketches addressed by ?Elinor W. Gardner to her sister nd.; letter from Emilie Gardner to father 17 Dec 1890. Picture postcard from Gertrude (Caton-Thompson) to Elinor (Gardner) 14 Dec 1956.

SSC-48-3: Sketch and notebooks: i) 1922-23 water colours of churches and wild flowers, UK. ii) 1962, 1969 and 1970 note on wild flowers recorded in the France Alps and Bernese Oberland. iii) 1951 notebook and some daily entries, Norway, July-Aug. iv) 1937 and 1946 watercolours of landscapes, UK. v) 1928 and 1976 pencil and watercolour sketches of flowers ?France. vi) 1978 watercolours of wild flowers, Portugal. vii) Dairy of Mrs Guy H. Gardner on visit to England from USA, 1890.

SSC-48-4: Packet of photographs, mounted on paper pages, taken by Gertrude Caton-Thompson at Kharga oasis, Egypt 1938.

SSC-48-5: Four packets of photographs (in Kodak wallets), including negatives, of the excavations at Bethlehem, 1937 during E.W. Gardner's time with the Wellcome Archaeological Expedition to the Near East. Packet of family photographs, nd. Enlargements of same photographs. Small number of photographs taken in Sinai. Date unknown.

SSC-48-6: Packet of photographs of Turkey, nd.

SSC-48-7: Packet of photographs of a town in the Near East: no captions, no date.

SSC-48-8: Three packets of photographs of Athlit, Tell Duweir, Wadi eraitun, Dime, Garal el Ghindi, Rem Ashim, Wadi Moghara, Ain Musa, Zirka Ma'in.

SSC-48-9: Packet of postcards: Bethlehem, UK etc. nd.

SSC-48-10: Brief lecture notes on: Fayum; 'Some excavations, pre-historic Egypt; Wind and water in the Egyptian desert; Hadhramaut expedition. Off print from Egyptian Gazette, 28 Feb. 1928 with article 'Discoveries in the northern Fayum'.

SSC-48-11: News cuttings :concerning votes for women, suffragettes and Miss Gardner's addresses, 1908-1909. (Oversize) - News cuttings referring to the Hadhramaut expedition, 1938.

SSC-48-12: Glass negatives. ?Bethlehem. ?Hadhramaut.

SSC-48-13: E.W. Gardner's birth certificate.

Geologist known particularly for her fieldwork (alongside archaeologist Gertrude Caton-Thompson FRGS) in Egypt in the 1920s and 1930s. Joined the RGS on 10 February 1930 (with Caton-Thompson as her proposer), whilst a lecturer in geology at Bedford College, London. She remained an FRGS until she resigned her Fellowship on 11 December 1939.