The notebook contains a few notes, calculations and small sketches in pencil that appear to be related to Lacock Abbey (the notebook begins with the dimensions of the 'North window of Gallery') and the garden (various measurements given in paces). With the notebook is a single sheet (originally...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
1 notebook (18 folios, 8 pages of text), 1 loose sheet (1 folio, 1 page of text)
Talbot: Notebook ('Books & Manuscripts relating to the Illustrious Family of Talbot and its Noble Alliances')
Scope & Content:
Divided into two sections. 1. 'Books & Manuscripts relating to the Illustrious Family of Talbot and its Noble Alliances'. An assembled bibliographical pedigree, combining partly printed descriptions of books and manuscripts (cut and adhered to the notebook folios) and partly copied passages...
Accounts from August to December (no year given) regarding Lacock tenants (e.g. Baker, Tuck, Estcot, Webb's wife, Taylor, Estcot, Shewring, Cole, Fortune, Humphreys). With three sheets containing further records, one of which refers to 'Rent received in 3 years' and 'Repairs in 3 years'.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
1 notebook (8 folios, 16 pages of text), 3 loose sheets (3 folios, 5 pages of text)
A notebook with an accompanying loose sheet, neither of which are in Talbot's hand. The notebook contains ten brief copied extracts of letters (1806-1823) from Lady Elisabeth Feilding to Lady Mary Talbot, and includes an anecdote by Lady Harriot Frampton; the extracts have been selected with a ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
1 notebook (20 folios, 14 pages of text), 1 loose sheet (1 folio, 1 page of text)