Mourning paper
Category
Ephemera
Date
18 May 1908
Materials
Paper
Measurements
100 x 120 mm
Collection
Calke Abbey, Derbyshire
NT 286897
Summary
Note inscribed on a piece of mourning paper in an envelope with embossed initials in black and silver 'G.I.C. Found with a collection of wrapped child's books/I.C./Anglesey May 18 1908'. The letter reads 'Anglesey Gospark May 18 1908/The Nursery books of my 3 dear children carefully kept and valued by my late dearest son Hugo Harpur Crewe and to be carefully kept in the nursery cupboard in ? ? (wardrobe) at Calke Abbey, Derbyshire in loving memory of all three by their mother's ? and request GC.'
Marks and inscriptions
Anglesey Gospark May 18 1908/The Nursery books of my 3 dear children carefully kept and valued by my late dearest son Hugo Harpur Crewe and to be carefully kept in the nursery cupboard in ? ? (wardrobe) at Calke Abbey, Derbyshire in loving memory of all three by their mother's ? and request GC.