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[Printed prospectus.] "Datchelor House," Clothworkers' Hall of Residence, (2, Champion Park, Denmark Hill, S.E.)

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["Datchelor House," Clothworkers' Hall of Residence, (2, Champion Park, Denmark Hill, S.E.)]
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'Apply to Miss RIGG, Headmistress of the Mary Datchelor Girls' School, The Grove, Camberwell, S.E.' ["Datchelor House," Clothworkers' Hall of Residence] January, 1899.
£25.00

1p., 8vo. On bifolium. In fair condition, on aged and worn paper, with pin holes and dots of rust staining. Shelfmark and stamp of the Board of Education Library, London. With circular devices in blue of the 'Mary Datchelor Girls' School' and 'Clothworkers London' at head. Scarce: no copy on COPAC or OCLC WorldCat.

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[Printed item.] A Tribute to Dame Dorothy Brock D.B.E., M.A., Litt.D., LL.M. Head Mistress of the Mary Datchelor Girls' School 1918-1950.

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[Dame Madeline Dorothy Brock (1886-1969), Headmistress of the Mary Datchelor Girls' School, Camberwell, London; Rachel Pearse; Major Walter F. Pothecary of the Clothworkers' Company]
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[London: The Mary Datchelor Girls' School, Camberwell.] [The Parcener Press Ltd London SE27. 1970.]
£56.00

52pp., 4to. With an additional 6pp of plates on art paper, including frontispiece of painted portrait of Brock by Maurice Codner. Stapled. In blue wraps with 'M. Dorothy Brock | 1886-1969' in gold on front cover. In good condition, with slight wear and discoloration to wraps. Well laid out, with numerous contribution by those who knew Brock. Foreword by Rachel Pearse, the headmistress of the school at the time, and 'Appreciation' by Major Walter F. Pothecary of the Clothworkers' Company.

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[Datchelor Training College.] Four printed documents: three college college reports and a 'List of Students of the Mary Datchelor Training College for Women Teachers', giving full-page details of twelve students.

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[Datchelor Training College [The Mary Datchelor Girls' School, Camberwell], Recognised by the Cambridge Training Syndicate, Governing Body: Worshipful Company of Clothworkers of the City of London]
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[Datchelor Training College [The Mary Datchelor Girls' School, The Gove, Camberwell, London, S.E.]] College Reports: February 1898; October 1899; and April 1907. List of Students: 1907.
£120.00

The four items in fair condition, lightly aged and worn, with rusted staples. All four with shelfmarks, stamps and labels of the Board of Education Reference Library, London. The three college reports, each dated in type at the end, are all 4to, with that of 1898 consisting of 8pp; 1899, 9pp; 1907, 14pp. In addition to the reports, all three carry lists of officers and other information.

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Autograph Letter Signed from Jane Hood, wife of the poet Thomas Hood, to 'Mrs Elliot', wife of the family doctor, Robert Elliot of Camberwell, containing news of the poet and his work, money troubles and family affairs, at the end of their lives.

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Jane Hood [née Jane Reynolds], (1791-1846), wife of the poet and humorist Thomas Hood (1799-1845)
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'Wednesday' [1844 or 1845); 'Devonshire Lodge | New Finchley Road | St Johns Wood'.
£450.00

4 pp, 12mo. Bifolium. 73 lines. Text clear and complete. Fair, on aged paper. Hood returned to England from Ostend in 1840, moving into Devonshire Lodge after trying other lodgings. A fine letter, informative, energetic and moving. Jane begins by thanking Mrs Elliot for the 'kind present to my Tom [the couple's son Thomas Hood the younger (1835-1874)]': 'I only wish you could have seen the happy boy - how proud he was - and indeed is, of his new appearance - he sends his love & best thanks. I am sorry to say he does not yet write a readable letter'.

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A Descriptive Portrait of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ, sketched by the Pen of Publius Lentulus, a Roman Governor, in a Letter to the Senate of Rome; and rendered into verse by Thomas Tew Morrell.

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Thomas Tew Morrell [Benjamin West; E. U. Eddis; nineteenth-century Camberwell; Victorian Peckham]
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August, 1844. Published for the Author, in London, by Messrs. Edwards and Hughes [...]; A. R. Vogel, Printer, Camberwell.
£150.00

Excessively scarce (no copy on COPAC). On one side of a piece of unwatermarked wove paper, 41.5 x 25.5 cm. Text clear and entire, on aged and worn paper, with a couple of closed tears and one small hole (1.5 x 0.5 cm) to the border. Priced at three pence. Addressed on reverse (with postage stamp removed but with two postmarks) to 'Mr Dash, Bookseller, Kettering'. Attractively produced, varying between one and two columns, using a variety of point sizes, within a decorative border.

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