Canterbury
Found in 72 Collections and/or Records:
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 Oct. 1908
A misdirected letter, card
From Florence, Lady Alwyne Compton, Canterbury, 22 Oct. 1908
A new organist; a statue to Gentile
From Florence, Lady Alwyne Compton, Canterbury, 20 Apr. 1909
Spring weather; visit to a foggy London; the new organist's noisy performances
From Florence, Lady Alwyne Compton, Canterbury, 9 June 1909
Dent's travels in Germany and Austria; the Esterhazys; her travels; the organ at King's College; a party in All Souls Library, which is now lit with electric light
From Florence, Lady Alwyne Compton, Canterbury, 26 Aug. 1909
A meeting in Canterbury with Dr Allen; her travels; the cost of a royal visit to Birmingham; is planning an expedition to south-western France; Dr Budge of the British Museum and his tales of mummies
From Florence, Lady Alwyne Compton, Canterbury, 4 Sep. 1909
Dent's travels; the evils of motor-tours; Dr Waldstein's marriage; a confusion of 'lodger' for 'loggia'; Miss Fellowes and she have finalised plans for their expedition to Toulouse
From Florence, Lady Alwyne Compton, Canterbury, 27 Sep. 1909
Her tour of southern France: Toulouse, Albi, Carcassonne, Montauban, Cahors, Limoges, and Moissac
From Florence, Lady Alwyne Compton, Canterbury, 29 Dec. 1909
Italian castles; thoughts on the evils resulting from the industrial revolution; another Egyptian tale from Dr Budge; new lighting in the cathedral; [John Willis] Clark's illness
From Florence, Lady Alwyne Compton, Canterbury, 29 Mar. 1910
Further Italian reminiscences
From Florence, Lady Alwyne Compton, Canterbury, 2 Apr. 1910
Further Italian reminiscences
From Florence, Lady Alwyne Compton, Canterbury, 16 Apr. 1910
Has had a cold; comments on Dent's latest letter; Leonardo da Vinci's painting; foreign incomprehension over use of 'esquire' in addresses; compatibility in marriage
From Florence, Lady Alwyne Compton, Canterbury, 9 Sep. 1910
De luxe train travel; architectural problems in Venice; an art theft in that city; her recent travels in England; a visit to St John's College, Oxford; a drive in Windsor forest
From Florence, Lady Alwyne Compton, Canterbury, 29 Sep. 1910
Dent's comments on Venice; is saddened by increasing class divisiveness in England; the noise in London
From Florence, Lady Alwyne Compton, Canterbury, 17 Oct. 1910
Still further Italian memories; her Dorset holiday; death of [John Willis] Clark
From Florence, Lady Alwyne Compton, Canterbury, 20 Oct. 1910
Thanks for description of Wolfenbuttel, card
From Florence, Lady Alwyne Compton, Canterbury, 26 Apr. 1911
Is just as delighted by Dent's description of English walks; Charles ?Anchester; her young nephew, and other visitors; a household code of conduct in old Wolfenbuttel; memories of J[ohn] W[illis Clark]; is growing both blind and deaf
From Florence, Lady Alwyne Compton, Canterbury, 2 May 1911
Has heard from Mr [Arthur?] Shipley, but cannot help him much with his memoir [of John Willis Clark], card
From Florence, Lady Alwyne Compton, Canterbury, 9 Sep. 1911
A memory of Brescia; hot weather during her travels in the west country; a transport strike (?), 'It is unpleasant to live in a country where there is no law.'; recent visitors