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Handwritten diary of the Reverend Canon Arthur Charles Copeman, recording the events of his daily life, including a number of handwritten transcripts of letters he wrote or received. The volume begins on 23 Jan 1856 when he was senior curate of the parish of St Peter's, Wisbech in Cambridgeshire...
Handwritten diary of the Reverend Canon Arthur Charles Copeman, recording his daily life. Several long press cuttings are pasted into the start of this volume, recording a meeting of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in May 1858. The handwritten diary begins with the installation of ...
Journal of the Reverend Arthur Copeman of a walking tour of Brittany, France
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Handwritten journal of a walking tour in Brittany, France, belonging to the Reverend Canon Arthur Charles Copeman. Journal begins on 15 Aug 1864, travelling from Ely station to London with Frederic M Metcalfe, probably the brother of his second wife. They travelled the next day to Southampton an...
Sir William Boord's journal of a tour of New Zealand
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A typed journal of a "camp and coach" tour of New Zealand undertaken by Sir William Arthur Boord mostly through the South Island, but also including some further travel in the North Island. The journal is decorated with several ink sketches, mostly transferred from the original diary, and 29 sma...
A volume of lined paper bound in brown leather, embossed with the words Recipes and Ethel, containing handwritten recipes. This volume probably belonged to Ethel Margaret Copeman (née Boord), daughter-in-law of the Reverend Canon Arthur Charles Copeman. This volume includes a letter from Jack t...
A volume of lined paper bound in black leather embossed with the words Inventory and Ethel. This volume contains an inventory of the possessions of Ethel Margaret Boord and her husband, Sydney Arthur Monckton Copeman. Many of the items are identified as gifts by the inclusion of the names of the...
Correspondence relating to the purchase of the Codex Sinaiticus
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Correspondence donated to the British Library by dealer, Maggs Brothers Limited, concerning the purchase of the Codex Sinaiticus in 1933 from the Soviet Goverment. The letters and copies of letters within this folder are generally between Maggs Brothers and their clients, Sir Frederick Kenyon, fo...
A large scrapbook belonging to Henrietta Maria Sarah Stuart, together with a framed portrait depicting her, and a volume containing printed anecdotes and correspondence of the Stuart family.
A large volume bound in red leather with the spine embossed "H.M.S.S." for Henrietta Maria Sarah Stuart, and including her bookplate at the front. This volume contains material collected by Henrietta: mostly transcriptions of anecdotes and some poems and letters, along with postcards, prints and...
Loose items originally held within Henrietta Maria Sarah Stuart's scrapbook (Add MS 89723/1). This folder contains: seven loose prints showing views of Italy by unidentified artistsa painting signed by Henrietta in 1880 depicting a view of Florence from the surrounding countrysidesome handwritt...