Pioneering women archivists in England: Ethel Stokes (1870–1944), record agent

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Accessed 10 Mar 2016 Northamptonshire Record Office (NRO): Joan Wake Collection at 1974/27, 355 boxes unlisted: Box 100. J Wake diary (8/1940); Box 103. Account book (1896–1897); Box 103. Account books, Stokes and Cox (1903–1927, 1911–1957); Box 103. Letter books, Stokes and Cox (1919–1922, 1923–1930, 1930–1937); Box 103. Letters from E Stokes to J Wake (4/6/1936, 24/12/1936); Box 103. Bound book presented by Paddington Boys Scouts Association (nd.); Box 103. Black note book, Stokes, ‘British Record Society suggestions’ (1928–1934); Box 103, J Wake ts draft memorial; Box 104. Letter from L Drucker to J Wake (22/11/1944), enclosing note from A Mayes (11/1944); Box 104. J Wake memoir ts note; Box 104. J Wake enclosures and memoir notes; Box 104. Letter from C Jordan to J Wake (12/8/1945); Box 104. Letter from de Alberti to J Wake (3/1/1945); Box 104. Letter from A Clermont, Chairman, Boy Scouts Association Paddington District, to J Wake (7/10/1950); Box 104. Letter from L Redstone to J Wake (6/5/1951) enclosing advertisement for the Index, (c.1901–1902); Box 104. Letter from AD Stokes to J Wake (6/11/1954); Box 235. Envelopes, bundles and files, mainly arranged by client name (c.1930s); Box 235. Ladies Territorial Committee photograph on printed notepaper (nd.); Box 236. Envelopes, bundles and files, mainly arranged by client name (c.1930s); Box 236. Letter McGarvey to E Stokes (1938); Box 236. Letters from E Neustadt, Vienna, to E Stokes (13/9/1938, 28/9/1938, 18/10/1938, 29/10/1938, 4/11/1938, 13/11/1938, 2/3/1939); Box 236. Letters from E Neustadt, Shoreham, to E Stokes (4/4/1939, 22/4/1939, 25/6/1939); Box 236. Letter from Society of Friends German Emergency Committee to E Stokes (3/2/1939); Box 236. Letters from Lady Gregory to E Stokes (20/6/1939, 8/1939); Box 236. Copy letter from E Stokes to Lady Gregory (23/6/1939); Box 236. Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company, Australia House, receipt for passage (4/7/1939); Box 238. Bundles of letters and notes about various families and peerages (c.1930s); Box 238. Letters HA Doubleday to E Stokes (1939); Box 239. Letter to M Cox (25/5/1935); Box 239. Letter F McGarvey to E Stokes (24/6/1936); Box 239. Letter from S Attems to E Stokes (18/7/1936); Box 239. Letters from F McGarvey to E Stokes (14/7/1938, 5/9/1938); Box 240. Paddington Boys Scouts Association, ts list of officers (1936–1937); Box 240. Copy letters about VCH dinner and ts account by Doubleday of VCH (1938); Box 240. Copy letter HA Doubleday to G Proby (7/5/1938); Box 241. Photograph (nd.) 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