Box 63

Scope and Contents A schoolgirl’s notebook of approximately 75 pages from the first decade of the 19th century, quarter bound in brown leather with marbled paper covers in red, blue, and yellow, heavily worn. The contents are split: the first half of the book contains notes on various countries and continents followed by question-and-answer exercises about Great Britain and British politics in a widely-spaced cursive hand. Running the opposite direction, inverted from the back cover are poems by a number of...

Scope and Contents A collection of materials related to English publisher Roger Senhouse. The collection falls into two parts: First, a photo album containing images from an August 1928 trip to Scandinavia with his sometime lover Lytton Strachey (1880-1932) and writer Raymond Mortimer (1895-1980). 96 black and white images from various sites around Denmark and Sweden, all of which are labeled in Senhouse’s hand, with occasional commentary or humorous additions: beneath a photo of Kronborg Castle, known as the...

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A manuscript book containing a number of sermons based on Psalms 9 and 119, written in a small neat secretary hand and bound in black leather with simple blind-tooled decoration. The text contains some anti-Catholic invective. An ex libris above the table of contents reads Gulielmus Wall. Elmore. Anno Domini 1612. Elmore is a village in Gloucestershire, England.