The letters of Gertrude Bell
Harmondsworth
Category
Books
Date
1939
Materials
Place of origin
Harmondsworth
Collection
Standen House and Garden, West Sussex
NT 3177389
Summary
Bibliographic description
2v., plates. ill..,maps,ports.. 8vo. With a portion of dustjacket laid in v.1; v.2 has a similar portion of dustjacket and a cutting from The Times about Bell and a movement to establish a British School of Archaeology in Iraq as a memorial to her. Provenance: pencil inscription in v.1: “H.M. Beale Standen E[ast]. G[rinstead].” [i.e. Helen Mary Beale (1885-1972)]. Inscribed in v.2: “H.M.B. from M.S.B. Christmas 1939” [i.e. to Helen Beale from Margaret Sarah Beale ((1872-1947)]. Paperback.
Makers and roles
Harmondsworth Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell, CBE (1868-1926) Florence Eveleen Eleanore Olliffe, Lady Bell (1851-1930).