Bookmark
Category
Textiles
Date
Unknown
Materials
Silk
Measurements
130 x 50 mm
Collection
Erddig, Wrexham
NT 1154073
Summary
A bookmark. A silk rectangular bookmark with a printed prayer entitled 'Worth Remembering'.
Provenance
Given by Philip Yorke III (1905-1978) along with the estate, house and contents to the National Trust in 1973.
Marks and inscriptions
On the textile: WORTH / REMEMBERING / "I SHALL PASS / THROUGH THIS / WORLD BUT ONCE / ANY GOOD THING / THEREFORE THAT / I CAN DO OR ANY / KINDNESS TAHT I / CAN SHOW TO ANY / HUMAN BEING, OR / DUMB ANIMAL, / LET ME DO IT / NOW, LET ME NOT / DEFER IT, OR / NEGLECT IT, FOR / I SHALL NOT PASS / THIS WAY AGAIN."