[Wallington notebook]
Sir George Otto Trevelyan, 2nd Baronet, OM, MP (1838-1928)
Category
Manuscripts and documents
Date
1888 - 1922
Materials
Place of origin
Cambo
Collection
Wallington, Northumberland
NT 3008726
Summary
Bibliographic description
[ca. 40] leaves; 25p., [24] leaves :. plans ;. 20 cm. 'This book was begun on the 2nd November 1888. We wrote it to supplement the printed books which relate to Wallington … and to preserve a record of what was done , ..., in our own time …'. Pp.1-2 contain notes on reading from 1914-1922.The final section relates to the garden and includes Trevelyan's original list of trees with their measurements. With a letter pasted on front free endpaper from Thos Agnew and Sons, 15 Nov 1904, giving information on the painting 'Chaucer's Dream'. Text of Mary Trevelyan's introduction to her copy of the 'Book of trees', handwritten on 6 leaves loosely inserted at end of volume. Binding: nineteenth-century black morocco notebook.
Makers and roles
Sir George Otto Trevelyan, 2nd Baronet, OM, MP (1838-1928), author Mary 'Molly' Katherine Bell, Lady Trevelyan (1881-1966), author