Cheshire branch handbook / The British Red Cross Society.
British Red Cross Society
Category
Books
Date
1928
Materials
Place of origin
Manchester
Collection
Dunham Massey, Cheshire
NT 941658
Summary
Handbook, accompanied by additional material: List of divisions, [etc] (1935) ; correspondence relating to reviving Birkenhead Red Cross activities, and other manuscript notes on 5 sheets.
Bibliographic description
Revised edition 1928. 56 p. ;. 22 cm. With enclosed booklet attached by paper clip: British Red Cross Society Cheshire Branch. List of divisions, townships, … (1935). With 5 additional sheets of notes in manuscript, the last attached with another paper clip, mostly names and addresses. Booklet also contains typescript letter copy signed from E.J. Hodsoll, at the Home Office, to Dame Beryl Oliver, enclosed with autograph letter signed from Beryl Oliver to Lady Stamford. Provenance: notes in hand of Branch President, Countess of Stamford. Inscribed on cover: "P.S. Keep" [i.e. Elizabeth Louisa Penelope Grey, Countess of Stamford, née Theobald (1865-1959)]. Binding: printed grey paper wrappers; as issued.
Provenance
Stamford collection; devised to the National Trust by Roger Grey, 10th Earl of Stamford (1896-1976).
Makers and roles
British Red Cross Society