Kate Fielding collection

The bulk of the collection consists of the personal papers of Kate Fielding née Käthe Lichtenstern. These include vital records and identity papers, various accounts of her life, her poetry and prose, her doctorate and related materials, letters to her family in Vienna sent from London and letters she received, many concerning her relatives captured by the Nazis.

In addition there are materials belonging to her sister Edith, father Victor and mother Olga, as well as relatives still on the continent: her grandfather Carl Löw, uncle Hermann Löw, aunt Erna Löw and Erna’s mother Minna Bernstein. Much of this is correspondence.

The collection also contains photographs of the Lichtenstern family and digitised items (above all, letters from Victor to Olga before they married). It arrived with a set of objects (mostly Habsburg militaria), which have been catalogued and described separately here.