Envelope
Category
Manuscripts and documents
Date
Unknown
Materials
Paper
Measurements
55 x 134 mm
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Tyntesfield, North Somerset
NT 40620.14.2
Summary
A cream envelope annotated in blue on the front: Bookplates / AG. The flap has a small black Gibbs coat of arms. The envelope contains sixty-nine library bookplates.
Provenance
This memory/keepsake trunk was instigated by George Abraham Gibbs (1873-1931) at some point after the death of his first wife Victoria (Via) Florence de Burgh Gibbs (1880-1920) and before, or shortly after, he married his second wife, Ursula Lawley, in 1927. He filled it with items belonging to himself and Via, and presented it to their daughter, Doreen, who added further items to the trunk. Upon Doreen’s death in 2008, the trunk and its contents were inherited by Doreen’s daughter, Victoria Eyre.