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Title
Date(s)
- [1831]-[c. 1867] (Creation)
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File
Extent and medium
iii, 161 ff. with insertions (foliated 1-158 with errors; many pages blank, including most versos and ff. 116 verso-161 verso) ; 310 x 255 mm.
Half-leather with gold tooling on covers and double gold fillets on spine; 'SCRAP BOOK' (gold on spine); marbled paper on covers.
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
Archival history
Arms of Robinson family of Silksworth Hall, County Durham (label inside front cover).
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
A. R. Llewellin-Taylour; London; Donation; [1942x1943]
Content and structure area
Scope and content
A scrapbook containing autographs, franks and prints compiled, [1831]-[c. 1867], probably by Sarah Dorothy Grey of Norton, Stockton-on-Tees (later Sarah Dorothy Robinson of Silksworth Hall, County Durham, and Quedgeley, Gloucestershire).
Nearly all the autographs are in the form of 'free fronts', mostly dated 1806-1839, being franked address panels signed by Members of Parliament (or Lords) to allow them free postage (ff. 2-110 passim; a number of these are addressed to members of the Grey family of Norton). The prints include engravings depicting Royalty (ff. 1 verso, 4, 16, 34), topographical and architectural views (ff. 4 verso-111 passim) and female fashions of 1830 (ff. 10 recto-verso, 28 recto-verso). Also included are cuttings of a few ballads (ff. 12, 18, 22 verso, 72) and two 'skit notes' (f. 18). Items found loose inside the volume (19 ff.) have been placed in an archival envelope; these include eleven free fronts, 1828-1837, and three invitations (in French) to the Robinson family to attend events at the French Court in Paris, 1867.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
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Conditions governing access
Conditions governing reproduction
Usual copyright laws apply.
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Script of material
Language and script notes
English, some French.
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
Covers and spine scuffed; f. 5 loose.
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Note
Title based on contents.
Note
Preferred citation: NLW MS 16279D.
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Rules and/or conventions used
Description follows NLW guidelines based on ISAD(G) 2nd ed.; AACR2; and LCSH.
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Dates of creation revision deletion
November 2007 and August 2014.
Language(s)
- English
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Archivist's note
Description compiled by Bethan Ifan, and revised by Rhys Morgan Jones.