IDNO

P.147782.WIL

Description

A portrait of Margaret Williamson wearing a printed dress sitting at her desk inside her office at the British Residency in Gangtok, where she and her husband, Frederick Williamson, lived during his posting as Political Officer. The room contains a dresser, armchair, desk chair, desk and rugs on the floor. There are framed pictures hanging on the wall and standing on the dresser in front of a jade screen (donated to the MAA by Margaret Williamson in 1988, 1988.501.1-2). [Rebekah Hodgkinson 16/06/2021]

On album page above print P.97321.WIL : “Gangtok Residency, Spring 1934 (Peggy).” [manuscript in black ink; Margaret Williamson’s handwriting]

On album page next to print P.97321.WIL : “Peggy’s office.” [manuscript in black ink; Margaret Williamson’s handwriting]

Place

S Asia; India; Sikkim; Gangtok

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Margaret Williamson

Photographer

None

Collector / Expedition

Date

March - May 1934

Collection Name

Williamson Collection

Source

Williamson, Margaret

Format

Print Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

P.147762.WIL - P.147806.WIL were located in an Army & Navy Stores envelope, now numbered C903/1/56.

Related Image: P.147781.WIL is another photograph of Margaret Williamson's office in Envelope C903/1/16. Both have duplicates in Album A.130.WIL. [RH 16/06/2021]

Bibliographical Reference: Margaret D. Williamson, Memoirs of a Political Officer's Wife in Tibet, Sikkim and Bhutan, (Wisdom, 1987), "On the ground floor besides the large L-shaped drawing room with its two fireplaces and the two offices, one for Derrick and one for myself, there was a large hall with a dining-room off it and beyond that what I called the Tibetan Suite." (p. 142)