Miscellany
Category
Household and miscellaneous
Date
Unknown
Materials
Paper
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Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 515416
Summary
Large cardboard box containing UHRB's mementoes from his schooldays c.1907-12. Including. pages of schoolwork - arithmetic, latin, history, dictation and spelling; letter from UHB in New York to Huttleston at St Paul's School, Concord, New Hampshire 1.3.1912; list of stamps; notebook with blue moire cover with listings of dockyards, places visited in London, boats - clockwork, electric and steam, things bought - pen, boat, belt, stamps, medal, model aeroplane, and things to take back; paperweight/paper-clip/calendar for 1910; metal paperclip with Prince-of-Wales feathers; gilt metal container for pen knibs; 2 metal military badges; 4 misc ornate keys, one marked W.D. B Block; penny 1862 - very worn; token from Chambre de Commerce de France - 2 francs; aluminium name tag 'U.H.R. BROUG'; bone stiffener; cut-out picture of a steam ship; bone gunnery range guide 'Vickers Gun Mark' inscribed 'UHR Broughton'; black and white photograph of a driveway and garden; black and white negative of the changing of guard at Buckingham Palace; black and white negative of a coach and horses with 4 passengers; folder 'The Old and Bold' image of Guardsman on front, contains a letter to Master Broughton 1910, and schoolwork; Singer Souvenir of Hudson-Fulton Celebration - Views of New York.
Provenance
Bequeathed to the National Trust by Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966) with the house and the rest of the contents.