Scrapbook contains photographs, documents, manuscript material, newspaper clippings, and printed ephemera documenting Sanders's service with the American Red Cross in Hyères, France from fall 1918 through summer 1919. Approximately 475 black-and-white photographs document the Château San Salvadour, which served as the headquarters of the Red Cross, buildings and locations in Hyères and on the Mediterranean Coast of France and elsewhere, soldiers, and civilians. Other materials include documents and ephemera relating to Sanders's service and travel, clippings about Sanders, and correspondence, including several memos from the Red Cross, and one autograph letter, signed, from Charlotte Renaux, written in 1921. Issues of the Hyeres Weekly News, published by the Red Cross, contain contributions from Edith Wharton.
Description:
Chiefly in English; some material in French., Harriet Beatrice Sanders (1893-), of Helena, Montana, served with American Red Cross, with the Southern Zone staff, in Hyères, France, from September 1918 to May 1919., Purchased from Pickering & Chatto on the George B. Alvord Fund, 2014., and Stamp on front cover: Harriet B. Sanders, American Red Cross, France.
Subject (Geographic):
Hyères (France)--Buildings, structures, etc.--Pictorial works and Mediterranean Coast (France)--Pictorial works
Subject (Name):
American Red Cross, Château San Salvadour (Hyères, France)--Pictorial works, Renaux, Charlotte, Sanders, Harriet B, United States.--Army.--American Expeditionary Forces, and Wharton, Edith,--1862-1937
Subject (Topic):
World War, 1914-1918--Personal narratives, American
Michael Brownstein papers relating to Anne Waldman
Container / Volume:
Box 1 | Folder 7
Image Count:
6
Subject (Name):
Brainard, Joe,--1942-1994., Brownstein, Michael,--1943-, St. Mark's Church In-the-Bowery (New York, N.Y.).--Poetry Project., and Waldman, Anne,--1945-
Subject (Topic):
American literature--20th century., American poetry--20th century., Authors, American--20th century., Beat generation--Poetry., and Poets, American--20th century.
A collection of portraits, clippings, playbills, Horace Walpole's bookplate (State 1), miniatures and letters (now shelved separately), and a lock of hair (also shelved separately) all related to Horace Walpole and his villa Strawberry Hill; all bound or laid in a volume. A brief one page biography of Horace Walpole printed with the incorrect year of birth, ends: "He died a martyr to the gout March 2, 1797"-- "Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford, born in the year 1716. The younger son of Sir Robert Walpole ...". Laid in prints include a view "North front of Strawberry-Hill / Barlow del. et sculp." Portraits include: Horatio Earl of Orford; Thos. Kirgate; Duchesse de Choiseul and Madame la Marquise du Deffand; Madame la Marquise du Deffand; Françoise Marguerite de Sevigné, Comtesse de Grignan; Marie de Rabutin Chantal, Mme. de Sévigné; Miss Berry; Mme. de Maintenon; Madme. de Maintenon, from the original in the Versailles Gallery; Mary Magdalen, wife of Horatio Lord Walpole; Horatio Lord Walpole from an original by Vanloo at Strawberry Hill; Honble. Anne Damer from an original in the possession of the Right Honble. Genl. Conway; Field Marshall Conway; The Honble. Horace Walpole from a picture by Eckardt in the Collection at Strawberry Hill; Horace Walpole and Miss Walpole, two minatures by Zincke. Also mounted or laid in are the bookplates of Mrs. Damer and Horace Walpole. Two theatre programs, one dated November 1800, for a performance of The old Maid and Intriguing Chambermaid and the other dated November 1801 for a performance of Fashionable friends and Lover's quarrels and Also laid in where a lock of Mme de Maintenon's hair had been fixed (now removed): a letter in Paget Toynbee's hand describing Horace Walpole's two accounts of how he came to possession of a letter of Madame de Maintenon
Alternative Title:
Strawberry Hill rarities
Description:
Title stamped in gilt-lettering on front cover., Bound in brown morocco with gold tooling by Riviere & Son; stamped on inside front cover., With a list of items removed and shelved separately; other notes written on the pages indicate what other items were removed and where they were filed at the time of dispersal., and Digitized pages with materials, skipping blank pages. Manuscripts removed and now filed in LWL MSS 36. For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797. and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Scrapbook kept by Anne Scafe, containing clippings from London newspapers and magazines, with some clippings from regional and Scottish publications as well as manuscripts and letters from the Spencer and Devonshire family members, including a letter from Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire; from Lady Sarah Lyttelton announcing her marriage; a manuscript poem written by "Caroline Lamb's page" with a watercolor portrait, dated 1807 at Holywell House; a letter recounting the visit of the Grand Duke Nicholas to Chatsworth in December 1816; an account of the death of Lady Charlotte Finch. Many of the clippings center around the announcements of births, marriages, deaths, and the settlement of the estates of these two families and their circle as well as announcements of their social engagements, political activities, scandals, etc. The clippings include references to Horace Walpole; the theatrical world; new inventions; style; foreign travel; domestic and foreign politics, especially the revolution in France and reports on the French royal family and later the Bonaparte family. Also included are autographs of prominent British nobility, including the King, and foreign dignitaries and royalty, In addition to the clippings, the scrapbook includes a variety of ephermal items given to Scafe by members of the extended family such as as well as ephemeral items from their travels, political, and social activities; calling cards and letters of introduction given to Sir William Ponsonby by members of the Russian aristocracy in 1805 and similar items from his trip to Spain in 1809; autographs of foreign royalty; invitations to the funeral of William Pitt a memorial to Lord Nelson, and the trial of Lord Viscount Melville (1805)., Scafe also includes clippings and ephemera of a more general nature: humorous anecdotes, reports on curious events, jokes, odd behaviors; epitaphs, poems, epigrams; advertisements for employment as well advertisements by tradespeople; announcements and broadsides of events such as lottery drawings; several promissary notes; and etchings, Scafe includes two lengthy test: one from The Morning Post's account of the writing of "Modern characters by Shakespear" (published later the same year); and, a transcription of "The butterfy's ball and The grasshopper's feast"., and An engraving entitled "Sunday's amusement" is mounted on a leaf tipped in opposite the front paste-down, a note in pencil indicating that it was formerly pasted over the material on the lining of the front cover (but moved by bookbinder G. Bissell in 1966). Depicted in this satirical print is a family (man, woman, and boy) riding to the left in a carriage in the countryside, a mile marker seen in the lower right; verses are etched on either side of title, beginning "The wealthy cit grown rich by trade ...". Pasted on the following leaf, which is tipped in before the front free endpaper, are trimmed portions of various plates, including plate III (page 805) from Gentleman's magazine, v. 59 (September 1789), which depicts coins and other antiquarian items. Several additional prints are pasted on the verso of the front free endpaper, including four plates (plates 1, 3, 6, and 16) from "The talking bird: or, Dame Trudge and her parrot" which show an old woman's pet parrot being mischievous in various situations; the first plate has the title "The talking bird" at top and the imprint "Publish'd August 20, 1806, by J. Harris, corner of St. Pauls Church Yard, London" at bottom
Description:
Anne Scafe, maidservant of Georgiana Spencer Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire (1757-1806)., Signed by "A. Scafe" on last leaf with a note stating that the volume had been given to her by "the Marquis of Hartingdon", i.e., William George Spencer Cavendish (1790-1858), 6th duke of Devonshire, who also signed and dated the first leaf: "Hartington 1803.", and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and France
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820., Bessborough, Henrietta Frances Spencer Ponsonby, Countess of, 1761-1821., Lamb, Caroline, Lady, 1785-1828., Finch, Charlotte, Lady, 1725-1813., Cavendish, Georgiana Spencer, Duchess of Devonshire, 1757-1806., Devonshire, Margaret Georgiana Poyntz, Duchess of, 1736-1814., Devonshire, William Spencer Cavendish, Duke of, 1790-1858., Lyttelton, William Henry Lyttelton, Baron, 1782-1837., Lyttelton, Sarah Spencer, Lady, 1787-1870., Melville, Robert Saunders Dundas, Viscount, 1771-1851., Nelson, Horatio Nelson, Viscount, 1758-1805., Ponsonby, Frederick Cavendish, 1783-1838., Ponsonby, William, Sir, 1772-1815., Scafe, Anne., Bonaparte family., and Roscoe, William, 1753-1831.
Subject (Topic):
Nobility, Social life and customs, and Politics and government
