Collection of letters assembled by Lady Smith from her correspondence and that of her husband, Sir James Edward Smith (1759-1828); before each section of letters, she provides a brief biographical sketch of the authors represented in those letters; the third volume contains mainly letters reacting to her husband's death and to her Memoir and Correspondence of the Late Sir J.E. Smith; collection touches on many aspects of the Smiths' interests, personal and public, scientific and literary; it illustrates their many friendships, especially with the family of William Roscoe (1753-1831) and the Holkham literary circle; especially interesting are the discussions of gardening and concerning the Linnean Society of England; on the whole it provides a well-rounded picture of Norfolk society and literature from the late 18th century to the mid 19th century; the collection includes several manuscript and printed poems.
Description:
Binding: contemporary half-green morocco, with title: Original Letters.
Subject (Geographic):
Norfolk (England)--Social life and customs--18th century and Norfolk (England)--Social life and customs--19th century
Subject (Name):
Smith, James Edward, Sir, 1759-1828 and Smith, Pleasance (Reeve), Lady Smith, 1773-1877
Subject (Topic):
Country life--Great Britain, Family--England--Domestic relations, Gardening, and Women authors
Collection of letters assembled by Lady Smith from her correspondence and that of her husband, Sir James Edward Smith (1759-1828); before each section of letters, she provides a brief biographical sketch of the authors represented in those letters; the third volume contains mainly letters reacting to her husband's death and to her Memoir and Correspondence of the Late Sir J.E. Smith; collection touches on many aspects of the Smiths' interests, personal and public, scientific and literary; it illustrates their many friendships, especially with the family of William Roscoe (1753-1831) and the Holkham literary circle; especially interesting are the discussions of gardening and concerning the Linnean Society of England; on the whole it provides a well-rounded picture of Norfolk society and literature from the late 18th century to the mid 19th century; the collection includes several manuscript and printed poems.
Description:
Binding: contemporary half-green morocco, with title: Original Letters.
Subject (Geographic):
Norfolk (England)--Social life and customs--18th century and Norfolk (England)--Social life and customs--19th century
Subject (Name):
Smith, James Edward, Sir, 1759-1828 and Smith, Pleasance (Reeve), Lady Smith, 1773-1877
Subject (Topic):
Country life--Great Britain, Family--England--Domestic relations, Gardening, and Women authors
Collection of letters assembled by Lady Smith from her correspondence and that of her husband, Sir James Edward Smith (1759-1828); before each section of letters, she provides a brief biographical sketch of the authors represented in those letters; the third volume contains mainly letters reacting to her husband's death and to her Memoir and Correspondence of the Late Sir J.E. Smith; collection touches on many aspects of the Smiths' interests, personal and public, scientific and literary; it illustrates their many friendships, especially with the family of William Roscoe (1753-1831) and the Holkham literary circle; especially interesting are the discussions of gardening and concerning the Linnean Society of England; on the whole it provides a well-rounded picture of Norfolk society and literature from the late 18th century to the mid 19th century; the collection includes several manuscript and printed poems.
Description:
Binding: contemporary half-green morocco, with title: Original Letters. and Blank pages not digitized.
Subject (Geographic):
Norfolk (England)--Social life and customs--18th century and Norfolk (England)--Social life and customs--19th century
Subject (Name):
Smith, James Edward, Sir, 1759-1828 and Smith, Pleasance (Reeve), Lady Smith, 1773-1877
Subject (Topic):
Country life--Great Britain, Family--England--Domestic relations, Gardening, and Women authors
Title, publisher, and date from item., Artist supplied by curator., Below title: A garden will make your rations go further., In lower margin: OWI Poster No. 34. Additional copies may be obtained upon request from the Division of Public Inquiries, Office of War Information, Washington, D.C. ; U.S. Government Printing Office: 1943-O-506017., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Fine Victory Garden poster with artwork reminiscent of Ben Shahn style.
Publisher:
Office of War Information, Washington, D. C. and U.S. Government Printing Office
Subject (Topic):
World War, 1939-1945, War work, Victory gardens, Rationing, Families, Gardening, and Vegetables
Signed Z., i.e. Hannah More., Verse begins: "Two gardeners once beneath an oak,"., In two columns separated by a double rule; woodcut and title span the columns., At foot of the second column, below a double rule, in square brackets: Entered at Stationers Hall., A pamphlet edition of this work, using the same woodcut, was published as part of the Cheap Repository; not in G.H. Spinney, ’Cheap Repository tracts: Hazard and Marshall edition.’ In Library, 4th series, volume 20:3 (December 1939), 97; Spinney records that the title was entered in the Stationers’ Register on 4 April 1797., Copy trimmed, perhaps removing an imprint and reference to the Cheap Repository?, Mounted on leaf 56. Copy trimmed., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 2.
Title and publisher supplied by curator/translator., Date derived from style., In lower margin: FPO-24-250., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
Fengshan Horticultural Research Institute, Ministry of Education and Joint Commission on Rural Reconstruction
Subject (Topic):
Human nutrition, Papaya, Health education, Fruit-culture, Eating & drinking, Fruit, Children, and Gardening
A view of Horace Walpole's home in Twickenham, Strawberry Hill from the south. Two gardeners roll the lawn, pulling the heavy roller behind them, towards the lower right. In the distance is a view of the Thames and Richmond in the distance
Alternative Title:
Southview of Strawberry Hill
Description:
Title devised by curator., Artist unknown., Watermark: J. Whatman., and This is the drawing from which Annie Burr Lewis made her first needlepoint, now at the Lewis Walpole Library and signed: ABL '38.
Subject (Geographic):
Twickenham (London, England)
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Homes and haunts, Buildings, structures, etc, Estates, and Gardening
