Doris Mary Holden 
07 October 1896  - 24 December 1937

Doris's Royal typewriter used to prepare the manuscripts for the majority of her work featured here.  I believe this to be a 1930s Royal manual typewriter standard model P.

Maybe one day I will get this serviced and install a new ribbon?

Doris M Holden

My grandmother Doris was a 1930's writer of short stories, newspaper and magazine columns, letters and articles. 
This website is my attempt to make her work accessible again to all. Presenting copies of her original manuscripts the family have located, their transcriptions, and where I have been able to identify them, images of, and links to, the final published versions.

"What'll I do..."

My Grandmother, Doris Holden and Grandfather, Alexander Bell, on their wedding day 29 December 1927.

THE MAIDEN REPLIES...

I can hear Apollo piping,

As I type "We are, dear Sir..."

Almost see his beckoning finger

And the woodland branches stir.


If I stop my cruder music

(Click! clack! click! clack! rattle! jar!)

I can hear his strains enchanting,

Coming softly from afar.

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But alas! for modern music,

Held in business' fatal grip,

Listening to Apollo's music

Means ...  "regret our typist's slip."

Winifred Holden -

"A diary of my voyage to Australia and the orient SS "Ormonde" leaving Tilbury 25 May 1929."


Taken from a photograph of Winnie on deck during this voyage.



Alexander Brown Bell  - selected manuscripts, cuttings, poems and lectures.