Five days in France.
The Hon. Edith Helen Chaplin, Marchioness of Londonderry (1879 - 1959)
Category
Books
Date
1919
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3220646
Summary
Bibliographic description
[52] leaves ; 21 cm. Loose inserts: [1] brown 'On His Majesty's Service' envelope containing 11 photographic prints (5 x 7 cm) of battlefield scenes and ruined buildings of post WW1 France); envelope inscribed: "for war book / Photos French &c / 115 Waterloo Road ; [2] folded leaf of ink manuscript itinerary notes of the French tour 2-5 April, 1919 ; [3] autograph letter signed from Charles F. D'Arcy, Archbishop of Armagh, to Lady Londonderry, praising the journal, intending to re-read it and leave it at Mount Stewart. 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]). Binding: twentieth-century vellum, gilt stamped uppe cover device; yapp edges; green silk ties. Stamped: Bagguley, Newcastle-under-Lyme.
Makers and roles
The Hon. Edith Helen Chaplin, Marchioness of Londonderry (1879 - 1959)