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The documents are arranged alphabetically by correspondent and comprise letters commenting on the work.

Correspondents include A T Bedingfield of New Zealand; Avraham C Ben-Yosef; Clive Cazes; Dickin Moore; Doris Mode of the Institute for Rankian Psychoanalysis, Dayton, Ohio, U.S.A.; Roger Money Kyrle; T H Pear; H Scriven.

The letters are arranged alphabetically. Correspondents include Esther Adams; Hugh Fausset; Joan Penman.

Between 1934 and 1939 Marion Milner conducted research into the education system of the Girls Public Day School Trust. This work resulted in the book 'The Human Problem in Schools', (1938).

The documents include reviews; notes; correspondence commenting on the work.

The documents also include material directly related to Milner’s work at various schools across the Trust, including Ipswich, Streatham Hill, Oxford, Putney High School, Wimbledon, Croydon, Portsmouth. They comprise general reports, reports on pupils and intelligence test results.

Note - Some documents are confidential and closed to researchers.

Some of the reports are handwritten, some are typescript. Many are accompanied by standard questionnaires completed by pupils to help Milner in her psychological assessment of them. They are questioned on their family and school life and pastimes. Many questionnaires are annotated by Milner. Some are also accompanied by drawings done by pupils at the request of Milner. The documents also include a prospectus for the school; leaflet describing the Psychological Centre for School and Home, Gower Place, London; related correspondence.

The schools include Bath High School, South Hampstead, Putney and Sheffield.

Some of the reports are handwritten, some are typescript. Some are accompanied by standard questionnaires completed by pupils to help Milner in her psychological assessment of them. Many questionnaires have annotations.

The documents comprise a mixture of reports on intelligence tests conducted by Marion Milner at the schools across the Girls' Public Day School Trust including Streatham Hill, Oxford, Kensington, Sheffield, Portsmouth, Putney, Bath, Ipswich, Birkenhead, Croydon, The reports show pupils’ scores on an 'Index of Brightness' and 'School Certificate Results'.

There are several accompanying notes from teachers.

The form is headed National Institute of Industrial Psychology. Marion Milner filed it with notes on day dreaming and interview techniques.

These include reviews published in 'The New Era', 'The Manchester Guardian', 'The Listener', 'New Statesman and Nation', 'British Medical Journal'.