Henry West's Post Copy Book
Emily Dyer
Category
Education objects
Date
1885
Materials
Paper
Measurements
188 mm (height); 233 mm (width)
Place of origin
Mare Street, 378
Collection
Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 671747
Summary
An exercise book carrying, on a label on the front cover 'Henry West's Post Copy Book, No.17, London, 378 Mare Street, Hackney'. The cover is green in colour, with a blue and white random scribble pattern creating a marbled effect. The book has twenty four pages. Each page carries a sentence to be copied at the top of the page. These begin with a word in alphabetical order. W and X are not included. The pages are lined to allow nine copies of the script. The first page 'Anachronism' has been completed.
Provenance
'Derbyshire Museum Service History of Education Collection' - a collection established by Derbyshire Museum Service (through gifts from individuals, Derbyshire schools and purchases) in the 1940s and stored at Sudbury Hall from the early 1970s to 2012. The National Trust managed the collection between 1991 and 2012 when legal ownership was transferred from Derbyshire County Council to the National Trust. Archival records information - "The collection was established as a result of isolated gifts in the 1940's, and the 'savings' of certain school records (now passed to County Records) during wartime paper salvage." "During the 1950s it was L.E.A. practice to hold an Easter Course for teachers, and the County (Derbyshire) Museum arranged a special exhibition for teach course. As by the mid 1950s quite a collection had already accumulated, it was decided to produce an exhibition on the history of education with special reference to Derbyshire. Consequently, further material was purchased, from which items were selected. The exhibition was subsequently shown at a number of centres, and after disbandment, additions continued to be made with the aim of eventually producing a reconstructed classroom as a base for research. The Derby Bishop Lonsdale College of Education has frequently made use of the collection in various ways."
Marks and inscriptions
On the front page label: 'Emily Dyers/ June 8th 1885'
Makers and roles
Emily Dyer, author Henry E. West, engraver and publisher