Bickerdike, Rhoda Dawson

• Main Author: White, Linda, 1950-
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Memorial University of Newfoundland. Libraries 1995
• Subjects: Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/ead/id/483

Most of the material in this collection was generated by Rhoda Dawson when she lived in Newfoundland and Labrador between 1930 and 1935. The collection contains essays, diaries, correspondence, and photographs. The essays are on various aspects of life in Newfoundland and on the coast of Labrador which were drafts for a book she had planned to publish entitled Memoirs of Newfoundland and Labrador. The diaries detail day-to-day life; the correspondence is from residents of Labrador, International Grenfell Association workers, her father in England, and friends and acquaintances. The letters are in three forms: handwritten originals, typed copies and typed copies in a manuscript form apparently in preparation for publishing. The photographs include pictures taken by Dawson during her years in Newfoundland and Labrador and pictures taken after she had returned to England, mainly of her watercolour paintings.