Restoration Record Book VII: Letters
by or after Sheila Pettit
Category
Ephemera
Date
Unknown
Materials
Paper
Measurements
369 mm (Width); 314 mm (Length)
Place of origin
Cragside
Order this imageCollection
Cragside, Northumberland
NT 1232773.7
Summary
One of sixteen Restoration Record Books created by Sheila Pettit, former Historic Buildings Representative for the National Trust. A scrapbook with green fabric covers and grey pages, with layers of protections between pages. The scrapbook contains an introduction and contents page “Manuscript letters, poems and copy documents, a number of them in Sir William Armstrong’s own hand.” [William George Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong of Cragside (1810 - 1900)]. There is also a cover letter from Sheila Pettit (Historic Buildings Representative) which describes her discovery of a packet of letters in a cupboard at the back of a desk. The letters were sorted and stuck into the scrapbook, each double-page spread now contains a hand-written letter in plastic wallets, some sealed with Sellotape, and a typed up (typewriter) copy. The letters map Lord Armstrong’s dissatisfaction with and resignation from the War Office.
Makers and roles
by or after Sheila Pettit, creator