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215 x 162 mm. Good condition.

Scope and Contents From the File: Contains prints approximately 50 x 80 mm to 290 x 249 mm. Captions are handwritten by the Prince of Wales. This records the rest of visit to India of the Prince of Wales (later King George V) and Princess Mary. Subjects include: visits to Aden, Cairo, and Corfu on the return journey to the U.K., with arrival in London on May 8, 1906. Appended are photographs taken during the visit by the Prince and Princess of Wales to Madrid for the wedding of King Alfonso XIII and Queen Ena (May 31,...

Scope and Contents From the File: Contains prints approximately 50 x 80 mm to 290 x 249 mm. Captions are handwritten by the Prince of Wales. This records the rest of visit to India of the Prince of Wales (later King George V) and Princess Mary. Subjects include: visits to Aden, Cairo, and Corfu on the return journey to the U.K., with arrival in London on May 8, 1906. Appended are photographs taken during the visit by the Prince and Princess of Wales to Madrid for the wedding of King Alfonso XIII and Queen Ena (May 31,...

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Visit to Madrid for wedding of King Alfonso and Queen Ena

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Originals and transcripts of letters between MAR and his mother, and later between him and his wife, Gladys.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: This is a collection of art work created by the Royal Engineer Edward Charles Frome (1802-1890). In 1929 Frome’s surviving daughter, Mrs Frank Wynne, presented some of the South Australian drawings to the Royal Empire Society through the good offices of Sir Harry Wilson, to whom she bequeathed the rest of the collection. He presented it to the society in 1931. The majority of Frome’s individual watercolours and drawings, varying in size from 250 to 450 mm, were then housed in eight...

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An album, labelled on the spine, containing prints of various sizes. The numbering is sequenced from 1 to 131, but 101 is omitted. 14 of these prints are loose (118-131) , and are kept in a separate envelope in the album. Some of the prints are good quality professional work. Some of the photographs are captioned in ink; in other cases the titles have been derived from duplicate copies in Davies' other Indian album or from other photographs of the same scenes.

Scope and Contents ‘Mediterranean and Spain, 1864’: 10 letters, 4-27 Oct. 1864; ‘Holland, April 1866’: 5 letters, 24-29 March 1866; ‘Auvergne, Easter 1868’: 9 letters, 6-15 Apr. 1868; ‘First Lord: Cruise with the Channel Fleet, 1869’: 12 letters, 31 Aug.- 5 Oct. 1869, with three letters from Charles Childers to his mother, 30 Aug. 1869 and n.d.; ‘Rome, 1870’: 6 letters, n.d. and 13 -21 Apr. 1870 with one from Charles Childers to his mother, Easter Sunday. Label endorsed [by Spencer Childers] ‘Oecumenical...

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205 x 140 mm. A view of Las Palmas, Grand Canary.

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210 x 160 mm. A landscape.

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210 x 154 mm. A street scene in Las Palmas, Canary Islands.

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218 x 164 mm. A view showing a group of Canary Island women with baskets on their heads containing small milk churns, posed for the photographer. Photograph by Jordao da Lux Perestrello (sic).

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173 x 220 mm. A view showing a man and a woman in national costume standing in the doorway of a house. Photographer unknown, but probably Jordaco du Lux Perestrello (sic).

Scope and Contents Black album, measuring 255 x 190 mm, containing photographs; one is loose and there is an empty space by one caption. The majority are amateur photographs, presumably taken by Canham or his associates during his early days in the Gold Coast. He travelled with a number of colleagues also on their first appointment to the Colony and many like Canham served until Independence. Brief biographical details of these and other members of the Gold Coast administration who appear in these...

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155 x 115 mm.

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Memoranda by HL with accompanying correspondence on a case involving the Compania Naviera Sota y Aznar, mainly relating to whether the Government of General Franco was recognised as having jurisdiction in the Basque area of Spain.

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215 x 160 mm.

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85 x 60 mm. Sunbathing on boat.

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Scene after blomb explosion that killed 20 in the Royal procession through Madrid.

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Prominent subjects include Bell’s social life, interests, travels and personal affairs; letters to the press on mortality in Mauritius and suggestions for aiding sugar planters, Manchuria and the League of Nations, unemployment, and fish; the financial crisis; the Caribs of Dominica; the composition of ‘Glimpses of a Governor’s life’; a plan for international colonial conferences; Charles George Gordon; and spiritualism (circa 100 sheets).

Scope and Contents Prominent subjects include Bell’s social life, interests, travels and personal affairs; letters published in the press concerning gold mining in Kenya, witchcraft in Africa, British and French colonial experience in Africa, and international peacekeeping; the composition of ‘Glimpses of a Governor’s Life’, including quotations from a notebook of 1906 now lost; public health in Mauritius; Winston Churchill’s visit to Uganda; ideas for encouraging native arts in Africa; and the publication of...

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A diary of time spent in Spain and Morocco (1933), the Channel Islands (1934), England (1934), Ireland (1935), Italy via Germany (1937), Lincolnshire and the Cotswolds (1939), Lynmouth (1940), Sussex (1941), Somerset (1942), the north of England and Wales (1943) and the Lake District (1944).

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160 x 215 mm.

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215 x 160 mm.

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A volume containing 36 architectural and landscape drawings in pencil and related media.

Subjects are:

The Commonwealth Institute, London, 1961-1962 (4 drawings)

West Africa Tour 1968 (8 drawings)

Canada 1969 (19 drawings)

Jamaica 1969 (2 drawings)

Gibraltar 1985 and 1988 (3 drawings)