UEA/SMI - Adrian Smith (letters home)

UEA/SMI

Series

Adrian Smith (letters home)

1963-1966

1 box Letters (MS)

University of East Anglia -- Students
University of East Anglia. School of Biological Sciences

Smith, AdrianAdrian resided in a digs at 398A Unthank Road (1963/64). He was in the University’s first small residence at 96 Newmarket Road (1964/65). He married Helen Kindon at the beginning of his final year and they lived in a flat at 64 Lilian Close, Norwich, NOR 82 N (1965/66).

Adrian had his own printing press hence the freely available headed notepaper. He also printed programmes, tickets and invitations for the University and for fellow students, some have been included in this deposit. He was a member of the Film Club, a member of the Labour Club, and a member of the Students’ Council. Helen was Secretary of the Students’ Council (1965/66).

This collection of letters was gifted to the UEA Archives in December 2012 by Adrian Smith. The letters had been written and sent by Adrian to his parents in Saffron Walden in the 1960s. When his parents died the letters found their way back to Adrian.

Contains 88 letters, postcards and notes from Adrian Smith (1944- ) to his family in Saffron Walden, Essex while he was a student in BIO at UEA from 1963-1966.

There is one 1964 diary which mainly contains figures of expenses.
Also included:
- Agenda and minutes of the Students’ Council (1965-66).
- Constitution of the Students’ Council.
- Students’ Council members.
- Report of the April Council of the National Union of Students meeting at Goldsmith’s College, London, 1965.
- Minutes of the Students’ Union (1965).
- Report on the Catering Committee.
- Rules and regulations questionnaire.
- Student concessions in Norwich, 1965?
- Eastern Counties bus service no.15 (bus service from Norwich nus station to Earlham Hall), 3/1/1964.