Lot 245

Norfolk, Lady Charlotte Levesen-Gower, Duchess, wife of the 13th Duke




Rare Books, Maps and Manuscripts
Auction: 29 August 2012 at 12:00 BST
£2,250
Description
Autograph Journal, 1843 to 1853, describing her life as Lady-in-Waiting to Queen Victoria and at Arundel Castle, and contemporary events including Loius Philippe's visit to England, the singing of Jenny Lind, Queen's Victoria's speech in the new House of Lords, Chartist demonstrations, the growth of the railways and the Duke of Wellington's funeral, lacking the pages covering ther period October 1848 to March 1852, contemporary green morocco stamped in blind, with clasp, 159pp, 4to, loose
Footnote
Provenance: Viscount Strathallan, Stobhall, Perthshire



