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...
Bisham Club and Institute programme 1887-1888 Letter to Mrs Powell from Fanny Hamilton, 14 October 1903 Photograph of Thomas E Powell Printed sermon: In memoriam Thomas Edward Powell, Vicar of Bisham 1848-1900, sermon by the Rev W Farrer (1901) ‘The last Ribstone pippin’, ode by Margaret Powell, ...
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'.
Letters to members of the Powell family, bound by Edgar Powell. Letters mainly from Oswald Byrom Powell at Weimar, Dresden and Tours, August 1887 – November 1890. The volume includes letters, postcards, envelopes. Some letters include pen and ink sketches, including those on pages 45, 70, 223, 2...
Letters celebrating the golden wedding anniversary of Thomas E Powell and Emma Powell, 1897, and an account of a presentation of silver plate. Title page: ‘Letters to the Revd Thos E. Powell & Emma his wife on the occasion of their Golden Wedding on 5 January AD 1897. Also an account of the ...
Conservation of the Book of Kells and the Book of Durrow: report and lecture
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Roger Powell: Report on the binding and repair of the Book of Kells; and The Repair and Rebinding of the Book of Durrow. 1954. Two typescript reports illustrated by black and white photographs (pasted in) and diagrams. The reports are bound in one volume, described on the flyleaf as number 4 of 2...
Letters to members of the Powell family, bound by Edgar Powell. The volume includes: pencil sketch, photographs (include photographs of Victoria’s diamond jubilee taken by E V Powell from Apsley House (p. 109-120), cuttings. It has a decorative binding: “VR”. There is another volume in the co...
Letters to members of the Powell family, written by Edgar Powell during his tour in America, 1890, bound by Edgar Powell. The volume includes letters, postcards, and a photograph of Edgar Powell.