Family album of Edgar Powell, bound by him, 1910, with later inserts. Photographs, press cuttings and ephemera relating to the Powell family. Spine lettering: 'Praeterita'. Front board: 'Bisham. Uppingham. Cambridge'.
Title page: ‘Notes genealogical, historical, topographical, mostly relating to Suffolk, Edgar Powell. M’. Spine lettering: ‘M.S.S. / NOTES / M / E.P.’ Manuscript research notes bound 1905, with later inserts
Grangerised copy of The Pedigree of the family of Powell, by Edgar Powell, interleaved with manuscript notes, letters, genealogical tables, and press cuttings. MS inscription on flyleaf: ‘Edwar Powell October 1891.’, ‘Proofs – bound at Bisham Vic. Oct/91. EP’, ‘Rebound at Little brook July 1926 ...
Volume of printed pamphlets, bound by Edgar Powell, Bisham, 1891. Contents: Prolusiones, Uppingham, 1879, including three prize pieces by John Clark Powell (Latin prose, Greek iambic and English verse). Prospectus of Powell Pedigree Life and work of Sir George Baden Powell MP (1889) Notices of...
Contents include: Account of walks in Surrey 16 May 1913 Account of tea with W R Lethaby 28 September 1914 Notes on letters in the press April 1921 Autobiographical notes 1946 Notes on handicraft Paper label on front cover: ‘Walks in Surrey. Aubobiographical notes.’ MS annotation on front cover:...
Contents include: Account of visit to Holland (Rotterdam, the Hague, and Texel), with notes on architecture, addressed to C.M.P. Sketch: View south end (verandah) Notes on Tudor Walters Committee Notes on architecture Notes on CPRE policy arguing for constructive creative evolution Pencil sketc...
Contents: Memories of W. R. Lethaby (with intervening draft letter (to The Times?) on Fountains Abbey) Copy of letter from Lenox Murray in Kenya, Feb. 1946 (at other end). Paper label on front: ‘Notes by AP about W.R.L. (might be of use to Lord Esher)’.
Letters from him 1889-1966, the majority to his son Roger Powell 1951-1966, including letters about Bedales 1949-1950 Letters from John H. Badley, co-founder of Bedales School, to Oswald Byrom Powell, 1950-1967, with one letter from him to ‘Mitchener’, 2 November 1938
Oswald Byrom Powell memoirs; and extracts from Powell letters relating to Bedales School
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'My Reminiscences', by Oswald Byrom Powell. Manuscript notebook covering the period up to his meeting with John Badley to discuss the founding of a new school in 1893. The manuscript appears to be incomplete. With a typed transcript covering the period to 1881, also apparently incomplete (13 leav...
Bedales School reports for Roger Powell, 1905-1915, and for Rita Harvey (Roger Powell's future wife), 1920-1921. Two letters from Roger Powell to his mother and grandmother, c 1902. Dinner menu for S.S. Kingfauns Castle, H.M. Transport ship, signed by fellow travellers marked ‘return to R. Pow...