The BBC hymn book.
British Broadcasting Corporation
Category
Books
Date
1951
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Nymans Estate, West Sussex
NT 3194164
Summary
Bibliographic description
[unpaged] ;. 19 cm. Heavily annotated throughout in Maud Messel's hand. Many items laid in, including: printed prayer of St. Francis of Assisi; note from the vestry clerk at St. George's Hanover Square; pencil notes for a telegram; postcard headed Holmsted Manor, Cuckfield, Sussex; note on Valentine's Day from Oliver Messel; address given at the marriage of Elizabeth Messel and Ian Church; manuscript notes; postcard from the BBC "In reply to your recent enquiry, the BBC has pleasure in informing you that the item in which you are intereste is "Repton" by Parry ..."; orders of serice for Red Cross Society service at Nymans; Remembrance Day services. Provenance: pencil inscription "Maud Messel ... 1953 Homsted Manor For broadcast services ..." [i.e. Maud Frances Messel, née Sambourne (1875-1960)]. Binding: publisher's red cloth; original dust jacket torn and laid in.
Makers and roles
British Broadcasting Corporation Walter Stanton (1891-1978)