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Alice Mary Smyth
Category
Books
Date
1944
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Nymans Estate, West Sussex
NT 3187534
Summary
Bibliographic description
xv, [1], 879, [1] p.;. 25cm. With pencil marginalia. Laid in: orders of service for the funeral of Leonard Charles Rudolph Messel, 7th February 1953 and William Alfred Dengate, 1948; Special service for the British Red Cross, Nov. 13 1953. Also small envelope, sealed, from The Misses A. and D. Allen-Brown, The Violet Nurseries, Henfield, Sussex, with a small calendar for 1949 pasted onto front. Provenance: inscribed in pencil "M.F. Messel Summer 1947 Holmsted. purchased at Mr Sexton's Brighton 1947" [i.e. Maud Frances Messel, née Sambourne (1875-1960)]. Also "Mrs. Messel". Binding: publisher's cloth, faded, spine loose.
Makers and roles
Alice Mary Smyth Bernard Richard Meirion Darwin (1876 - 1961)