Visitors Book. General Sir F J. Davies | General Officer Commanding-in-Chief | Scottish Command', containing the signatures of several high-ranking British military officers.

A quarto volume, bound in padded green leather stamped in gilt on the front cover with the words 'Visitors' Book'. Patterned endpapers. Tight, on lightly aged and spotted paper. Binding heavily worn, with outer corners of front cover dogeared and torn to show padding. Five leaves with one dogeared corner. Note (in Davies' hand?) on flyleaf: 'Visitors book. | General Sir F. J. Davies | General Officer Commanding-in-Chief | Scottish Command | 27 Drumsheugh Gardens | Edinburgh'. Each page with printed columns for the 'date' and 'name and address'. The signatures, sixteen to a page, cover the first forty-one pages with one signature on the forty-second page, the rest being blank. Valuable for the help it provides in building up an overview of the circles of influence within the post-First-World-War British Army. Among the signatories are General Sir Charles Fergusson, General Sir Reginald and Lady Winyatt, Lieutenant General Sir Spencer Ewart, Admiral Sir Herbert Leopold Heath and family, the Earl of Cassillis (frequent visitor), Lord and Lady Kinross, Sir George and Lady Berry, Sir John and Lady Findlay, Lord and Lady Sands, Sir Charles and Lady Dundas, Lady Elgin, the family of Vice-Admiral Sir John Green, Brigadier General Offley Shore, Sir J. Lorne MacLeod and Mrs Whigham.