Add MS 89057

Contains photographs, watercolours, verse, and sketches, namely:

• ‘Gawsworth Church, Cheshire as restored’, photograph, 1861
• ‘Falls of the Hoigne, near Spa, Ardennes’, watercolour by Paul R-.
• ‘Promenade des Artiste, Spa, Belgium’, watercolour
• Pencil sketch of a man
• ‘The poet [Samuel] Rogers’, ink sketch
• Ink sketch of a man
• Ink sketch of a man
• Pencil sketches of Tilff and Chaudfontaine, Belgium
• ‘Bridge over the Vesdre near Chaudfontaine, Belgium’, pencil sketch
• ‘Ballinahinch Castle, Galway, the seat of Mrs Martin’, pencil sketch by M. G. Fraser
• ‘The Bay of Renvyle, Ireland’, pencil sketch by M. G. Fraser
• ‘Ballinahinch Castle, Galway, the seat of Mrs Martin’, pencil sketch by M. G. Fraser
• ‘Ballinahinch Castle, the old ruins in the lake’ Galway, pencil sketch by M. G. Fraser
• ‘A Party to Richmond’, verse ‘said to be in the hand writing of Charles Fox’
• ‘Les Tombeaux des Évêques dans la Cathédrale a Vienne', watercolour by Lady Anna Chandos Pole
• Bridge over the Sauvenière, Spa, Belgium, watercolour
• ‘La Waux Hall à Spa (Belgique)’, watercolour
• Watercolour of a woman, by Lady Anna Chandos Pole
• Watercolour of a man, [by Lady Anna Chandos Pole]
• Pencil sketch of a woman, by Lady Anna Chandos Pole
• Pencil sketch of a woman and girl, by Lady Anna Chandos Pole
• Watercolour of two men on a beach, by Lady Anna Chandos Pole
• Ink sketch of a man
• Watercolour of a woman and boy, by Lady Anna Chandos Pole
• Pencil sketch, partially coloured, of an artist sitting at his easel, by Lady Anna Chandos Pole
• Watercolour of two men, one apparently a soldier, by Lady Anna Chandos Pole
• Watercolour of a man walking alongside a woman on horseback, by Lady Anna Chandos Pole
• Watercolour of a boy fishing with a woman seated beside him, by Lady Anna Chandos Pole
• Pencil sketch of a lakeside or riverside house, by Adolphus Gee?
• Pencil sketch of a bridge leading to a church, [by Adolphus Gee?]
• Playbills and programmes for Le Château de ma Nièce, The Follies of a Night, Raising The Wind, The Rendezvous, Captain of the Watch, performed at Ashburnham House, Woburn Abbey Theatre, and the Theatre Royal Park Lane, 1843. Some parts were played by The Hon. Mrs Leicester Stanhope.
• ‘Souvenir of Chaudfontaine’, pencil sketch by the Hon. Mrs Fraser
• Watercolour of a tomb, with the Stanhope arms and Stanhope and Royal arms
• ‘View of Spoundon Church through an Arch, Elvaston’, pencil sketch by ? de Malfort
• Ink sketch of a man’s head
• ‘Elvaston Castle, North View’, pencil sketch by – de Malfort, 1850
• ‘Elvaston Castle, Derbyshire, South Front looking on the Parterre’, pencil sketch by ? de Malfort, 1851
• ‘The port of Bastia, Lion Rock. One of the last drawings of the Dowager Countess of ? done from recollection at 80’, pencil sketch
• ‘Charade written at Chatsworth (for a young lady)’
• Pencil sketch of cherubs, by R. Westmacott
• Pencil sketch of cherubs, partially coloured, [by R. Westmacott?]
• ‘In the Museum at Derby the following Rules are framed & hung up. Rules to be observed in the Ladies Assembly in Derby’
• Pencil sketches of a man playing a musical instrument and an angel
• ‘To the Lady Anna Chandos Pole’, verse by Antony G. Jamaica, Elvaston Castle, 9 Sep 1857
• ‘To the Lady Anna Chandos Pole’, verse by G. T. Spencer, Elvaston Castle, 9 Sep 1857
• ‘To the Lady Geraldine Stanhope “Come unto Me!”’, verse by G. T. Spencer, Elvaston Castle, 9 Sep 1857
• ‘Stanford Hall, Leicestershire, the seat of the Baroness Braye’, ink and watercolour sketch, Sep 1855
• ‘Coast of Normandy’, watercolour by Saba, Lady Holland, [bef. 1867]
• ‘To the Lord Viscount Petersham’, verse by G. T. Spencer, Elvaston Castle, 10 Sep 1857
• Watercolour of a woman writing or sketching
• Watercolour of a man, by ‘PFW’?
• ‘Elvaston Castle, Derbyshire South Front’, watercolour by A. Macdonald, Jan 1855
• ‘Elvaston Church, Derbyshire seen from the South Front of Elvaston Castle’, watercolour by ‘IAW’
• Pencil sketch of a ‘mean looking house at Tooting’ with the text of signboards
• Ornamental initials, in pencil by R. Westmacott
• ‘View at Lebanon’, watercolour by Saba, Lady Holland [bef. 1867]
• ‘The Priory, Hampstead drawn by Lady Geraldine Stanhope’, watercolour, 1861
• ‘Elvaston Castle. A Chair from the Great Hall’, watercolour by Geraldine Stanhope, 1858
• Photographs of Gawsworth, Cheshire
• Photograph of the Boulder Stone, Macclesfield
• ‘Gawsworth Hall, Cheshire’, ink drawing on embroidery
• Photographs of Elvaston Castle, Derbyshire
• Pencil sketch of a man
• ‘Suite of drawing rooms at Harrington House, London August 1858’, watercolour by Geraldine Stanhope
• The same scene, as painted by Viscount Petersham, Aug 1858
• The same scene, as painted by C. J. Richardson, architect, June 1858
• ‘Old Buildings near the Woodhouse End, near the Fool’s Nook, Gawsworth, Cheshire, now pulled down’, watercolour by - Daykin, ‘a poor Shoemaker at Macclesfield’
• Pencil sketch of a woman
• Pencil sketch of a man
• Pencil sketch of a man
• Pencil sketch of a woman in a classical pose
• ‘South Front, Elvaston Castle’, photograph
• Pencil sketch of a woman
• ‘The Back portion of the remains of the Old Hall, Gawsworth, Cheshire with the Arms of the Fyttons over the door - part of the old Terrace wall leading to the Tilting ground', watercolour by - Daykin, ‘a poor Shoemaker of Macclesfield’
• Ink drawing of a woman’s face
• ‘The cygnets walking down to the lake, Elvaston, Oct 7 1858’, ink sketch
• Pencil sketch of a woman
• ‘On Hellen Lady Rossmore placing coals on the grate with her own hands’, two lines of verse by ‘WB’
• Caption for a missing picture, 'Drawn by Viscount Petersham 1859'
• ‘Lake, Elvaston Castle sketched by Viscount Petersham from nature’, 1859
• Photograph of C. N. Newdegate, [William?] Cornwallis-West, Lady Geraldine Stanhope, Elizabeth, Countess of Harrington, the Hon. C. Sugden, Sir William Fairfax, and Leicester, 5^th Earl of Harrington, South Porch, Elvaston Castle, 1861
• Photograph of the Marquis d’Andigne, Lady Anna Chandos Pole, Mrs [Anne?] Newdegate, the Hon. Mrs Rowley(?) and daughters, Georgiana, Lady Willoughby de Broke, Maria, Dowager Countess of Harrington, and Leicester, 5^th Earl of Harrington, [South Porch, Elvaston Castle], Oct 1861
• Pencil sketch of a woman
• Text of an inscription found by Sir George Armytage on a stone placed over the grave of Robin Hood, Kirklees Park
• Pencil sketch of a John Gibson, sculptor
• Photograph of a woman
• Photograph of a man
• Pencil sketch of a woman
• Pencil sketch of a man, viewed from behind, in a rowing boat, ‘Portrait by desire Dec 1861’
• Photograph of Villa Boissy, Settimello, Florence
• Rough pencil sketches of women
• Watercolour of a dhow, or similar sailing vessel, ‘Copied from a [?] in the collection of Lord Lansdowne by Saba, Lady Holland’ [bef. 1867]
• Pencil sketches of a man and a woman
• Verse beginning ‘The curfew has sounded in Harrington’s halls / And the traveller hastes by those mouldering walls’, by ‘LG’
• ‘St Peters Church, Harrington, Northamptonshire’, pencil drawing by Miss Louisa Harrington Tollemache (b 1833, d 1928)
• ‘South Garden, Elvaston Castle sketched from nature by Lady Geraldine Stanhope’, watercolour, 1859
• Pencil sketch of ‘“young” Curzon’
• ‘Reception of Miss C… and her companion, Elvaston, December 1860’, ink sketch
• Ink sketch of a boy
• ‘Park Hall, Shropshire’, watercolour by Louisa Eliza Lloyd (b 1805, d 1884), 1860
• ‘The Lord Freake’, ink sketch, 10 Nov 1860
• Watercolour of a village scene, ‘drawn by Mrs Marley’
• ‘Charade written by Dr Stanley Bishop of Salisbury’
• Pencil sketch of a woman
• Rough ink sketch of a man and a woman

The exact connection with the Stanhope family is not known, but there are many items in the album by, or relating to, Lady Anna Chandos Pole (b 1837, d 1913), daughter of Leicester Stanhope, 5th Earl of Harrington and Elizabeth, Countess of Harrington, along with items by Lady Geraldine Stanhope (d 1914), the Earl and Countess's other daughter, and pictures of Elvaston Castle, the family seat.