Manuscripts
Assortment of journals and other material, 19th-20th century
£350
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 13 July 2022 from 10:00 BST
Description
including:
Journal of a family holiday in Germany and Austria, July-August 1939, kept by Mary Wilshire (apparently a schoolgirl), c.50 ff., visits to Salzburg, Nymphenburg Palace, Berlin, Marquartstein, references to Hitler's house, popular support for Hitler, Hitler Youth and children under the Nazi regime ('little time to play'), evacuees, etc.;
Three recipe books: 1836, 30 ff., kept by 'Mrs Henry Poole, 56 Park Street, Bristol', recipes include ginger wine, gingerbread, Wellington beef steak, medlar jelly, etc.; the 2 others c.1900 and c.1950 and in poor condition;
Journal of Louisa [?]Machel, 1856 , governess and instructor in music and German with the Clarke-Jervoise family at 35 Eaton Place, London, and Delvine House ('Castle'), Dunkeld, c.80 ff.;
Second Boer War journal, 12 ff., inscribed 'H Company, 2 Bn Dorset Reg[iment], South African Field Forces', front cover detached, ends with relief of Ladysmith;
Two schoolboy journals kept by W. I. Letherby, 'A Thesis of Guildford and Environs', c.1925, approx. 70 ff., illustrated with manuscript maps and diagrams, mounted photographs, etc., and a journal of a visit to Oxford, 1926, 25 ff.;
British army sapper's notebook, c.1930-40, including notes on explosives (use and storage), smoke screens, anti-tank ordnance, etc., c.34 ff., illustrated with diagrams, wear to binding, a few leaves loose;
together with a very large quantity of letters, photographs and ephemera mainly relating to the career or family of Frederick Allan Wilshire (1868-1944), Bristol-based musician, barrister, and judge, including numerous letters of congratulation from members of the legal profession on his appointment as recorder of Bridgwater in 1936 (1 box)