| Description | Manuscript. The first letter dated 21 April 1896 was dictated by Sigrid (in M S Pearson's hand?) and contains sketch of Karl in his cap. The majority of letters date from 1901 onwards, when Sigrid was at Lady Barn House School in Manchester, and give accounts of her school work, activities and games, life as a boarder with her roommate Caroline, accounts of summer stay in Sibhaven with news of family members, about visit of Miss Lee in May 1903 enclosing letters from Helga and Egon, on her exams in July 1903, letters from St. Margarets-at-Cliffe in April 1907 on acting a charade, looking forward to Rodean and the end of schooling, letters from Rodean School from June 1907 about exams, visits from family, and about the death of her grandfather William Pearson, a letter in 1911 with thoughts on going to Cambridge and thanking Karl for money to spend on books, postcard enclosing prints of skeletal remains from Harlyn Bay Museum, a letter sent from Girton College, Cambridge, about lodgings and whether to give up medicine, letters from Coldharbour in 1917 asking how to respond to enquiries about letting the Old School House, on air raids and her birthday present, letters in 1927 primarily about her mother Maria and her restricted ability to do work, letters in 1928 about Karl's proposed marriage to Miss Child and her understanding, urging Karl to tell Egon of the engagement, on the second anniversary of her mother's death attaching an apt couplet by Percy Shelley from her calendar, referring to enjoyment at reading letters from Karl and Margaret Victoria Pearson (née Child, Karl's second wife), on her holiday in the Isle of Skye, on the death of Lina Eckenstein from cancer, and on being executrix of Lina's estate. |