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Stark, Dame Freya Madeline, (1893-1993), author and traveller

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Surname: Stark
Pretitle: Dame
Forenames: Freya Madeline
Gender: Female
Date: 1893-1993
History: Explorer, travel writer. Engaged on government service in Middle East and elsewhere, 1939-45. Created Dame 1972.
Biography: ODNB link for Stark, Dame Freya Madeline (1893-1993) Author and Traveller
References: Who Was Who; NCA Rules
Name authority reference: GB/NNAF/P275845 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/P148257 )
Online related resources Bibliography of British and Irish History link for Dame Freya Madeline Stark
Collections
Number Description Held by Reference Further information
1
1945-1949: Professor J T Randall: 1947 tour to Switzerland, 1948 tour to Norway, lecturing on...
The National Archives, Kew
BW 83/6
2
1946-58: letters (99) to Bernard Berenson
Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies
Berenson Archive
NRA 21248
3
letters (10) to Charlotte Bonham-Carter
Hampshire Archives and Local Studies
38M49/F7, 38M49/F8
NRA 550 Wickham
4
1935-60: letters to Reginald Davies
Edinburgh University Library, Special Collections
Coll/191
See Location register of 20th century English literary MSS 1988
5
1949: corresp with JHP Pafford
London University: Senate House Library
MS 793
NRA 16152 Ker
6
1935-36: letters to H St JB Philby
Oxford University: St Antony's College: Middle East Centre Archive
NRA 40827 Philby

See Location register of 20th century English literary MSS 1988
7
letters to Gerald de Gaury
Oxford University: St Antony's College: Middle East Centre Archive
0437
See Annual Return 2008
8
1953-70: corresp with Sir EL Spears
Cambridge University: Churchill Archives Centre
SPRS
NRA 21961
9
1976: photographs rel to her visit to Yemen with Hugh Leach
Oxford University: St Antony's College: Middle East Centre Archive
0519
See Annual Return 2011
10
letters
Oxford University: St Antony's College: Middle East Centre Archive
See Cook, Leonard & Leese, Sources in Contemporary British History, vol 2, 1994
11
1893-1993: literary ms, corresp, photographs, clippings
University of Texas at Austin: Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center Library
Freya Stark Collection
See Location register of 20th century English literary MSS 1988