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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.

Author: 
[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]
Publication details: 
[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.

Autograph Letter Signed from Rachel Boucher James, wife of Rev. Edward Boucher James, Vicar of Carisbrooke, to Reginald Hollingworth, regarding her edition of her husband's 'Letters Archaeological and Historical relating to the Isle of Wight'.

Author: 
Rachel Boucher James, wife of Rev. Edward Boucher James (1819-1892), M.A., Vicar of Carisbrooke, Isle of Wight
Publication details: 
2 Park View, Shanklin [Isle of Wight]. 26 December 1895.
£35.00

2pp., 12mo. On bifolium with mourning border. She has received Hollingworth's note and is sending him 'a circular about the book I am editing of my late husbands "Letters Archaeological & Historical". She explains that there are two "Letters" about the "Christian Family" and I well remember the interesting correspondence on the subject.'

Original photograph of the 'First group of boys for Canada from the Hampton Home' [the Hampton Training Home for boys], run by Joseph Merry and his wife Rachel Merry (sister of Annie Macpherson), with George Thom.

Author: 
[The Hampton Training Home for boys [Hampton Home]; George Thom; Joseph Merry and his wife Rachel Merry (sister of Annie Macpherson [Annie Parlane Macpherson]); Home of Industry; Canadian emigration]
Publication details: 
Circa 1870.
£280.00

Landscape photograph, 19.5 x 14.5 cm, laid down on a piece of thin card cut from an album, 18 x 21 cm. Around sixty boys are posed in four rows in front of a grand house, with two masters to the right and two to the left, and with a fifth in the centre of the group. The group are surprisingly fat-faced, posing sulkily in jackets, with some waistcoats and tam o'shanters. Five more boys look out of a downstairs window, three from an upstairs window, and one peeks out from behind the front door.

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