Canterbury
Found in 72 Collections and/or Records:
From Florence, Lady Alwyne Compton, Canterbury, 26 July 1913
Is enjoying Dent's accounts of France; attributions of bons mots
From Florence, Lady Alwyne Compton, Canterbury, 4 Sep. 1913
Comments on Dent's letters from southern France, and the enclosed photographs; Birmingham society; a visit to the Birmingham art gallery
From Florence, Lady Alwyne Compton, Canterbury, 6 Sep. 1913
Is enjoying the photographs [of France], postcard
From Florence, Lady Alwyne Compton, Canterbury, 10 Sep. 1913
Comments on Dent's travels, incomplete
From Florence, Lady Alwyne Compton, Canterbury, 18 Sep. 1913
Giuseppi Verdi; Miss Fellowes is to be married, incomplete
From Florence, Lady Alwyne Compton, Canterbury, 3 Oct. 1913
Further memories of Italy
From Florence, Lady Alwyne Compton, Canterbury, 30 Jan. 1914
Enclosing some papers (?), card
From Florence, Lady Alwyne Compton, Canterbury, 13 Feb. 1914
A thank-you note, postcard
From Florence, Lady Alwyne Compton, Canterbury, 11 June 1915
Glad Dent would like to keep the letters [?copies of Lord Alwyne Compton's letters from Egypt]; memories of an Italian summer; is now unable to read; 'I cannot write of the present.'
From Florence, Lady Alwyne Compton, Canterbury, 30 June 1915
Dent's visit [to Henrietta Synnot]; is 'becoming rapidly quite blind'; wants to send him two books on Italy
From Florence, Lady Alwyne Compton, Canterbury, 12 July 1915
Salisbury cathedral; Henrietta Synnot, card
From Florence, Lady Alwyne Compton, Canterbury, 8 July 1915
'[T]he books will go tomorrow'; can read nothing, 'but that includes the newspapers, and I am thankful'
From Florence, Lady Alwyne Compton, Canterbury, 9 Mar. 1908
Thanks Dent for his hospitality
From Florence, Lady Alwyne Compton, Canterbury, 9 Apr. 1908
Memories conjured by Dent's latest account of Italy; he has confirmed her prejudice against Naples; an exorcism carried out on the young Lord Alwyne Compton; Rimington's drawings
From Florence, Lady Alwyne Compton, Canterbury, 20 Aug. 1905
A traumatic move to their new house; they are 'tortured by motor-cars'; Dent's letters; the value of local guidebooks, and recollections of German cities; Canterbury cathedral is 'crowded with tourists from the watering places that surround us'; a retired colonel as neighbour; day-trips to Calais; the demolition of their dilapidated coach-house
From Florence, Lady Alwyne Compton, Canterbury, 10 Sep. 1905
Dent's postcards from Germany have awakened memories; she has been exploring Canterbury, 'so like an old German town'
From Florence, Lady Alwyne Compton, Canterbury, 28 Sep. 1905
Their rate-assessment officer knows Italy well; a polite interior decorator; Dent's letters have consoled them 'for missing Italy this year', incomplete
From Florence, Lady Alwyne Compton, Canterbury, 7 Oct. 1905
A visit to Sandwich; travelling arrangements from London to Canterbury - hopes Dent will visit them; 'We are absorbed in Gardening.'
From Florence, Lady Alwyne Compton, Canterbury, 27 Jan. 1906
Dent's Italian travels; 'We like Canterbury better and better.'; 'Dr [Edward] Moore gave us four lectures on the Paradiso of Dante.'; news from Venice
From Florence, Lady Alwyne Compton, Canterbury, 10 May 1906
Acknowledgement of Dent's condolences on death of her husband
From Florence, Lady Alwyne Compton, Canterbury, 11 Oct. 1906
Her further travels with Miss Fellowes
From Florence, Lady Alwyne Compton, Canterbury, 20 June 1907
Has spent a fortnight abroad with Miss Fellowes; twelfth-century shrines at Cologne; uncertain whether to go to Italy this year
From Florence, Lady Alwyne Compton, Canterbury, 3 July 1907
Dent is now exploring parts of Italy unknown to her; hopes to visit an exhibition in Bruges of 'the treasures of the order of the 'Golden Fleece', which would amuse my mediaeval mind very much'; has decided not to travel to Italy, but to 'grow old gracefully'
From Florence, Lady Alwyne Compton, Canterbury, 14 Oct. 1907
Appreciates the list 'of old [German] towns thought worthy of dessert-plates'; encloses a list of some Cistercian churches in Italy (35a); a Disraeli anecdote
From Florence, Lady Alwyne Compton, Canterbury, 16 May 1908
Dent's discovery of an opera by ?Gardigiani; recollections of Louis Napoleon