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Manuscript Account Book of 'Expenses at Eton and elsewhere'.

Author: 
Edward Walter Hanbury Wood (1898-1947) of Hengrave Hall, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk [Eton College]
Publication details: 
1916
£180.00

12mo. In original waxed cloth. Good, with slight wear to binding. Entries on forty-one pages. Short, informative, account of an individual who was presumably a member of 'Pop', there being several tips to servants. Begins on 20 January with expenses including 'Porters' for the 'Journey to Eton', a pocket knife, '2 Fives balls' and a copy of the Strand magazine. Other expenses include 'Tips to Armourer', a penny on motor cycling, one shilling and twopence on a 'Box of C. chocolates' and eight pence for 'Gramophone needles'. Ends 18 February 1916.

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