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[Wrotham Church School, Kent.] Three manuscript school diaries or log books, one of them relating to the Infant School, covering the period 1872-1885, and the other two, relating to the Junior School, 1863-1939.

Author: 
George Barham (1831-1914), Master, Wrotham National School (Kent) Mixed School; Annie Georgina McCowen et al, school mistresses, Wrotham National Infant School, Kent
Publication details: 
[Wrotham National Junior and Infant Schools, Kent.] 1863-1939.
£850.00

These three log books, covering a period of nearly eighty years, constitute an attractive piece of social history, charting the growth of a rural school from precarious beginnings to a secure state on the eve of the Second World War, and providing a vivid example of the change in the British educational system from the nineteenth to the twentieth century.

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[Pierre Crabitès, American judge of the Mixed Courts of Egypt.] Two Autograph Letters Signed to Wortham to H. E. Wortham, on their both publishing biographies of Gordon of Khartoum.

Author: 
Pierre Crabitès (1877-1943), American judge of the Mixed Courts of Egypt, and lecturer on law at Louisiana State University [Hugh Evelyn Wortham (1884-1959), biographer of Gordon of Khartoum]
Publication details: 
Letter One: Mixed Tribunals, Cairo. 31 December 1932. Letter Two: on letterhead of the Tribunal Mixte de Caire, 28 April 1932.
£90.00

Both items in good condition, on lightly-aged paper. Letter One: 2pp., foolscap 8vo. The letter begins: 'Dear Wortham: | I had no idea years ago when you were in Cairo, that 1933 would find us issuing "Gordon" books.

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