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
Title from item., Date based on entry of T. Williams in: Thomas Mortimer 's The universal director; or, The nobleman and gentleman's true guide to the masters and professors of the liberal and polite arts and sciences; ... London, 1763, p. 13., Trade card advertising T. Williams's cabinet, upholstery, and carpet warehouse., Ms. note in contemporary hand on verso., and For further information, consult library staff.
Coat of arms of The Right Honourable George Walpole, with motto "Fari que sentiat."
Description:
Title from item., Plate engraved for volume 1 of: Segar, William. Baronagium genealogicum. London, 1764., Plate numbered '240' in upper right corner of plate., and Plates numbered '240', '241', and '243' attached to one another. Plate '242' is separate, remounted on later paper. For further information, consult library staff.
Coat of arms of John Waldegrave with the motto "Passes avant" supported by two hounds with rook-styled collars
Description:
Title from item., Plate numbered '232' in upper right corner of plate., Plate engraved for volume 1 of: Segar, William. Baronagium genealogicum. London, 1764., Plates numbered '232', 233' and '234' attached to one another. With manuscript annotations, newspaper clippings, and scraps with manuscript notes pasted on or tipped in, in multiple hands., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Printed for Wm. Segar
Subject (Name):
Waldegrave family. and Waldegrave, John Waldegrave, Earl, 1718-1784.
Verse begins: "Now ponder well, ye parents dear,", In five columns with the title over the first two and with six woodcuts, one to each column but with two to the fourth; the columns are not separated by rule; the imprint is at the foot of the last column, below a single rule., Dated from the address; see David Stoker, "John Marshall, John Evans, and the Cheap Repository tracts, 1793-1800", PBSA 107:1 (2013), 81-118., Mounted on leaf 19. Copy trimmed., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 1.
Publisher:
Printed and sold by J. Evans, no. 41, Long Lane, West Smithfield
Subject (Topic):
Horseback riding, Fighting, Abondoned children, Deathbeds, and Jails
Caption title., Date based on publisher J. Jennings's activity dates. See: Todd, W.B. Directory of printers and others in allied trades, London & vicinity, 1800-1840, page 107., In one column with a woodcut above the title., A slip song., In verse., First line: There's grinders enough Sir, in every degree ..., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Printed and sold by J. Jennings, No. 15, Water Lane, Fleet-street
Coat of arms of The Right Honourable George Walpole, with motto "Fari que sentiat."
Description:
Title from item., Plate engraved for volume 1 of: Segar, William. Baronagium genealogicum. London, 1764., Dedication below image: To The Honourable Horace Walpole, Esqr. this plate engraved at his expense, &c given as an encouragement to this work, is most gratefully inscribed by his most dutifull and obedient humble servant, Joseph Edmondson, Mowbray Herald., Plate numbered '241' in upper right corner of plate., and Plates numbered '240', '241', and '243' attached to one another. Plate '242' is separate, remounted on later paper. For further information, consult library staff.
