More letters from Martha Wilmot :. Impressions of Vienna 1819-1829 relating her experiences ... as the wife of the Rev. William Bradford, Chaplain to the British embassy …
Martha Wilmott (1775 - 1873)
Category
Books
Date
1935
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3215770
Summary
Bibliographic description
xlvii, 339 p., plates : double geneal. tab., ill., ports. ; 23 cm. With substantial number of paper scraps loosely inserted as bookmarks. Provenance: Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (dated 1922) with portrait: "Edith Helen Marchioness of Londonderry. D.B.E." [i.e. Edith Helen Chaplin, m. in 1899 Charles Viscount Castlereagh, 7th Marquess of Londonderry from 1915]. Motto in Scottish Gaelic over portrait ("Tha mo cridhe's an tir nam beann" [My heart is in the land of mountains]).Gilt armorial stamp displaying Vane-Tempest-Stewart marshalled with Chaplin under a marquess coronet with charges and motto (Metuenda corolla draconis). Binding: Twentieth-century full mottled calf, gilt armorial centre-piece. Green leather spine labels, lettered in gilt.
Makers and roles
Martha Wilmott (1775 - 1873) Mrs Catherine Anne Daschkaw Brooke (née Bradford) (1813-1881) The Hon. Edith Helen Chaplin, Marchioness of Londonderry (1879 - 1959) Harford Montgomery Hyde (1907-1989)