| Description | Children's Sunshine Home
Box 23
Includes:
Photograph Album of Children's Sunshine Home Stillorgan, County Dublin, [1925-1930]
Folder entitled 'Sunshine Home', file kept by Letitia Overend of letters, newspaper cuttings and reports regarding the aim, operation and management of the Children's Sunshine Home, 19 February 1925-1971. Includes: Correspondence with Dr Robert Steen concerning general administration, 1953-1961
Letters regarding the hiring and resignation of staff members, 1954
Letters and newsletter regarding the nursery nurse training scheme, 1958-1971
Letters thanking Miss Overend for her offer of land, 1961
Letter relating to the deep regret felt at Miss Overend's discontinuance as Treasurer and
Trustee, May 1961
Manuscript list of the number of children discharged and cured, 1928-1956,
Letters relating to the resignation of E.J. Stuart, Matron, 1958
Annual Reports and Accounts
(110 items)
Letter from Dorothy Miley, Dietician, relating to her satisfaction with her visit, 1954.
Bound volume entitled 'Children's Convalescent Home Preliminary Notes', 1 February 1923-6 August 1926, detailing:
Minutes of the first meeting and a list of committee members, February 1923
List of subscriptions and donations received, 1923,
List of payments, 1925
Income tax and expenditure accounts, 1923-1926.
File kept by Letitia Overend entitled 'Letters of Interest 1923', 15 March 1923-6 June 1954, concerning various matters relating to the Children's Sunshine Home. Includes:
Letter from John Ross, London, discouraging her efforts at starting a hospital in the present Irish climate, 1923,
Draft resolution concerning procedures for treating children
Letters from Mrs Blanche Cole, committee member, concerning accounts, arrangements for meetings and subscriptions and letters sympathising with the committee on her death, 1926-1942,
Letters regarding donations
Letter from A F Scott, Cripples' Home, Bray, confirming that the name of their home will still be 'The Sunbeam House' despite objections, 1930,
Agenda for Annual General Meeting and inspection of the Home by the Minister for Health, Dr M.F. Daly, 1954,
Draft letter of appeal for funding and letter thanking Letitia for the treatment and kindness given to a young patient, Kathleen Daggett.
(42 items)
'Children's Sunshine Home Stillorgan Appeals, Press Advertisements and printed matter relating to the Home', 18 March 1923-21 January 1933. Bound volume kept by Letitia Overend of newspaper cuttings and advertisements relating to funding appeals for building and operating Sunshine Home; opening of the Home; benefits of sunlight treatment; excellent work of the medial and nursing staff; committee administration; visits of VIPs; musical and dramatic performances in aid of the Home; fetes and lists of subscriptions with other material, 1908.
Material relating to provisional scheme for the Children's Sunshine Home, including pamphlet detailing the provisional scheme which details members of the Committee of Management, medical staff etc. Also directions and regulations concerning the aims, objectives and general administration of the Home and the Committee of Management, 1923.
Minutes of the Meeting of the Council of Management of the Children's Sunshine Home, 21 February 1945.
'Building Fund', file kept by Letitia Overend regarding the building of a new Home for the Children's Sunshine Home and the collection of funds of building, 8 March 1947-8 December 1953.
(88 items)
'Building Fund Correspondence with Architect, Part I', file kept by Letitia Overend concerning the planning and erection of a new Home for the Children's Sunshine Home, 24 September 1948-23 November 1954.
(106 items)
'Secretary Applications and Appointment', file kept by Letitia Overend concerning the employment of a new secretary at the Children's Sunshine Home. Includes:
Letter requesting information
Letters of application for the position
Copy references
Letters thanking Letitia for interview and letter of acceptance from Kathleen McConnell
15 November 1950-28 July 1951
(10 items)
A Memorial to Harriet E. Reed written by Letitia Overend in remembrance of her great work and dedication in the general administration and as Vice Chairman and Chairman of the Committee of Management of the Children's Sunshine Home, 2 April, no date.
'The Children's Sunshine Home: A Success Story', pamphlet written by Elspeth Watson detailing the history of the Sunshine Home, [1988]. |
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