Lilias Mary Grant and Ethel Moir, nursing orderlies with the Scottish Women's Hospital Serbian/Russian Unit
- Grant, Lilias Mary (later Mrs Dacre Dyson) (1880-1975)
- Date:
- 1916-1972
- Reference:
- MS.8449
- Archives and manuscripts
About this work
Description
Typed copies of Grant's diary and Moir's letters, friends from Inverness, while they were nursing orderlies with Dr Elsie Inglis's Scottish Women's Hospital Serbian-Russian Unit in Romania and Russia, 1916-1917.
There are mentions of Elsie Bowerman and Yvonne Fitzroy and other figures now well known to students of the SWH. The playwright Abigail Docherty wrote her play about the SWH play 'Sea, Land and Sky', staged at the Tron Theatre in Glasgow in 2010, after reading the copies of these volumes in Edinburgh. Audrey Cahill published excerpts in : Between the Lines: letters and diaries from Elsie Inglis's Russian Unit , arranged and edited by Audrey Fawcett Cahill (Pentland Press, 1999).
There are mentions of Elsie Bowerman and Yvonne Fitzroy and other figures now well known to students of the SWH. The playwright Abigail Docherty wrote her play about the SWH play 'Sea, Land and Sky', staged at the Tron Theatre in Glasgow in 2010, after reading the copies of these volumes in Edinburgh. Audrey Cahill published excerpts in : Between the Lines: letters and diaries from Elsie Inglis's Russian Unit , arranged and edited by Audrey Fawcett Cahill (Pentland Press, 1999).
Publication/Creation
1916-1972
Physical description
2 volumes
Acquisition note
Purchased from Elizabeth Crawford, April 2014
Related material
See sources guides "Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting" and "War, Medicine and Health: World War I"
Location of duplicates
Another set of these volumes is held in Edinburgh Central Library. The whereabouts of a third set formerly in the possession of Ethel Moir's sister is not known.
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Identifiers
Accession number
- 2073