Granny's Garden of verses.
Florence Eveleen Eleanore Olliffe, Lady Bell (1851-1930).
Category
Manuscripts and documents
Date
1950
Materials
Place of origin
Wallington
Collection
Wallington, Northumberland
NT 3055321
Summary
Bibliographic description
unnumbered pages. Catalogued from photographs - state unknown. Manuscript, probably in the hand of Mary Trevelyan. Black ink. 'My mother, Florence Bell made this collection of songs in the '90's, … ... she very rarely recorded the origin of the tunes ... and now many of them are untraceable. I have added half a dozen songs which were put together at a later date for my own children. Mary Trevelyan Wallington Christmas 1950'. Some songs were published in 1970 as 'Granny's songbook''. Provenance: donated by Caroline Baker, 2023. Binding: brown card, stitched with white cotton. Hand-lettered on upper cover 'Granny's Garden of Verses'
Provenance
Donated by Caroline Baker, 2023
Makers and roles
Florence Eveleen Eleanore Olliffe, Lady Bell (1851-1930)., arranger Trevelyan, Mary Katharine, arranger Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894), librettist