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...
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
Pen and ink sketches of church architecture at Adderbury, Garsington, Bloxham, Cowley, Marston, Cuddesden. Written pages at other end of album have been cut out. Label: ‘T. E. Powell 1844. Architectural notes when at Oxford. Oriel Coll.’
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)’.
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...
Genealogical Table of the Houses of Gordon, Corrie and Goldie
Scope & Content:
Printed pedigree: Genealogical Table of the Houses of Gordon, Corrie and Goldie, verified by by Jessie E. Corrie, Itchen Abbas, Hampshire, 1897 (London: Mitchell and Hughes, [1897]).
Papers of Ann Donnelly relating to the Festschrift for her father, Roger Powell, eventually published as Roger Powell: the Compleat Binder, edited by John L Sharpe (Turnhout: Brepols, 1996). Publisher’s blurb for The Compleat Binder, a Festschrift for Roger Powell, originally to have been edited...
The file includes papers relating to Roger Powell’s estate, correspondence between Ann Donnelly and her sister, Jill Thompson-Lewis, and others, photographs of family members, greetings cards, ephemera, press-cuttings, childhood writing of Ann, Jill and David Powell, and Christmas cards for 1952,...