Baby's First Outing
Mary Anne Herbert, Mrs William Clive Hussey (1864-1942)
Category
Books
Date
circa 1899
Materials
Paper and ink
Measurements
275 x 213 mm
Place of origin
Stationers' Hall Court
Collection
Scotney Castle, Kent
NT 793445.6
Summary
Page from baby record book with spaces for information about the baby's first outing with an illustration of swans on water and trees in the background and a poem on the right. Handwritten notes on page identify the date of the outing as, 'Tuesday...14th...November' and describe day as follows, 'Baby drove round Hyde Park with me. Magdalen was waiting near Grosvenorgate to see him for the first time'. Page 21.
Provenance
Part of the Hussey collection. The contents were bequeathed to the National Trust in 2006 by Mrs. Elizabeth Hussey.
Marks and inscriptions
On page, on dotted lines: 'Tuesday...14th...November' 'Baby drove round Hyde Park with me. Magdalen was waiting near Grosvenorgate to see him for the first time'.
Makers and roles
Mary Anne Herbert, Mrs William Clive Hussey (1864-1942), writer Simpkin, Marshall and Co, Limited, engraver and publisher