The Capel letters : being the correspondence of Lady Caroline Capel and her daughters with the Dowager Countess of Uxbridge from Brussels and Switzerland 1814-1817 / edited by the Marquess of Anglesey ; with an introduction by Sir Arthur Bryant.
Lady Caroline Paget, Lady Capel (1773-1847)
Category
Books
Date
1955
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Plas Newydd, Anglesey
NT 3230091
Summary
Bibliographic description
248 p., [6] leaves of plates : ill., ports, geneal. table (fold.) ; 22 cm. "On pastedown: 2nd imp. | Corrected copy." With a manuscript list and notes of corrections. There are corresponding markings in text, highlighting and annotation. Loose inserts: Marquess of Anglesey's headed note card, with pencil manuscript correction notes; autograph letter signed from Joy Donner, on 4 leaves, thanking Anglesy for research visit to Plas Newydd, and including a poem 'A continual marriage' (25.8.67); autograph letter signed from Roger Fulford, notelet with extract from Creevey Brussels letter to Lady Eliz. Whitbread, 1814 [note undated]; two typescript slips with additional extracts from correspondence, considered for inclusion[?] Provenance: pastedown inscribed "Anglesey" [i.e. (George Charles) Henry (Victor) Paget, 7th Marquess of Anglesey (1922-2013)]. Binding: blue publisher's cloth, gold upper cover device, gold lettered spine. Accompanied by dust jacket in poor condition, sellotape repairs, inscribed "Cover to 2nd impression".
Makers and roles
Lady Caroline Paget, Lady Capel (1773-1847), author Jane Champagné, Countess of Uxbridge (1742-1817) George Charles Henry Victor Paget, 7th Marquess of Anglesey (1922 - 2013)