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1. Add MS 88942/1/223

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 88942/1/223
Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('The Garden')
Scope & Content:
The earliest entry in this notebook, which takes the form of a Lacock garden diary, is at the back (17 December 1828). At the front of the notebook, the first page (f. 2) has been removed. The notebook begins (f. 3) with an entry dated 4 April 1829: 'Put an edging of saxifrage & thrift 3 inc...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1828-1829
Extent:
1 notebook (16 ff.)

2. Add MS 88942/1/224

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 88942/1/224
Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Lacock Tithe Apportionment')
Scope & Content:
Notebook entitled ‘Lacock Tithe Apportionment’ containing detailed estate records, with two plans (ff. 58 and 59) showing 'altered apportionments' (1864). A small note in red ink (f. 15) records 'Altered Appt. Nov 2nd 1923'. Includes (f. 4) a document listing 'Amount of Rent Charge payable from...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1837-1923
Extent:
1 notebook (59 ff.)

3. IOR/R/15/2/1514

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1514
Title:
‘File 16/17 i Agency Gardens’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence and other papers relating to purchases for and the maintenance of the Bahrain Political Agency gardens. The file’s correspondents include: the Political Agent (Major Cyril Charles Johnson Barrett; Captain Charles Geoffrey Prior; Lieutenant-Colonel Percy Gordon Loch); representativ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and Latin
Date Range:
13 Oct 1927-8 Nov 1942
Extent:
1 file (314 folios)

4. Or 12813

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 12813
Title:
[Mecmua]
Scope & Content:
This volume contains the following two works : (I) ff 1v-42v : Kitab-i Risale-yi Ravnak-i Bustan, a treatise on gardening in four fusul, a tetimme, and a hatime, without the name of the author provided, copied by Bekir İbn-i Mustafa at the castle of Szigetvár in 1009 AH (1600-01 CE) ; (II) ff...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
Early 17th century
Extent:
2 texts, 48 ff

5. Photo 1411(76)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1411(76)
Title:
Back of Ward’s House. Photographer: Hooper, Willoughby Wallace
Scope & Content:
A view of the back of a house with four women gardening. There is a woman at the lower left window. Inscription in ink: ‘Back of Ward’s House’, ‘Hoddesdon 6.10.69'
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
6 Oct 1869
Extent:
1 item

6. Photo 1411(77)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1411(77)
Title:
The Return Home (No.1). Photographer: Hooper, Willoughby Wallace
Scope & Content:
A view of a group returning to a house. A woman welcomed another at the front door. A servant and footman help a woman off the carriage on the right. On the left, a gardener is plotting a plant. Inscription in ink: ‘The Return Home (No.1)’, ‘23-10-69’
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
23 Oct 1869
Extent:
1 item

7. Photo 1411(79)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1411(79)
Title:
Harefield Cheam. Avenue up to House. Photographer: Hooper, Willoughby Wallace
Scope & Content:
View of two gardeners working on a tree-lined avenue. Inscription in ink: ‘Harefield Cheam. Avenue up to House’, ‘25-10-69.’
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Oct 1869
Extent:
1 item

8. Photo 1411(104)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1411(104)
Title:
The Parsonage. Photographer: Hooper, Willoughby Wallace
Scope & Content:
View of a front of a house; three people around the front door and a man with a lawn mower to the right. Inscription in ink: ‘The Parsonage’
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1869-1880
Extent:
1 item