Journal

1930 · D1418 — 1930. Very Good. Cloth-covered boards 12 x 10.5 inches; contains 30 grey heavy cardstock leaves. Nicely preserves silver-gelatin photographs in sepia and b/w average size is 2 x 4 inches passenger lists postcards telegrams newspaper clippings pamphlets a few manuscript entries and more tipped-onto the rectos and versos of every leaf or laid-in at rear. Boards a bit scuffed with a scattering of tiny bleached spots. Binding a bit shaken as expected as the volume is near-to bursting with keepsakes and treasures. <br/><br/>Photographs of landmarks landscapes streetscapes and some wonderful images of the clothing interior design and cars of the period. Postcards mostly b/w with a few colored include – but are not limited to – Stonehenge Tunbridge Wells Warwick Castle Shakespeare’s Birthplace Anne Hathaway’s cottage and lovely garden Raglan Castle Gloucester Cathedral Blarney Castle a portrait of Lenin a portrait of Stalin The Paramount Hotel of New York City. Here and there throughout this travelogue includes quite a few interesting pamphlets. All of them are clean and legible though adhered to the scrapbook by their rear covers and as such not removable without causing damage. They are: A guide to The Duke of Cornwall Hotel Plymouth; The Cathedral and Metropolitical Church of Christ; Canterbury: A Handbook for Pilgrims; Guide to the High Rocks One Mile from Royal Tunbridge Wells; A Short Guide to Battle Abbey; A Catalogue of an Exhibition of Original Paintings and Drawings Made to Illustrate Books Published at the Bodley Head New Burlington Galleries 1930; A guide to Compton Wynyates History of Blarney Castle; A Guide to Glebe Hotel Lakes of Killarney Ireland; Kate by Mary McCartie staple-bound illustrated wraps printed by The Veritas Company Dublin; The University Collection of Antiquities Short Guide-Books I. The Oseberg-Ship and The Oseberg-Room Oslo: A. W. Broggers 1930; Authorised Guide to the Tower of London. The final leaf introduces a new cruise aboard the S. S. George Washington to Hamburg Southampton and Cherbourg and Cobh Queenstown with a passenger list menu and one tiny photograph of the Statue of Liberty. Though no details of this journey are provided one legend is recorded in manuscript: A one-page telling of “The Seven Sluggards in the Courtyard of the Paula Becher Modersohn House in Boettcherstrasse” in which seven brothers dig a spring because they’re too lazy to fetch water from the well build a dyke around their house because they’re too lazy to fend off flood pave a road because they’d rather not dig their wagon out of the mud – in general perform any number of laborious feats so that they can enjoy their laziness in comfort. Some rather brittle newspapers a love letter in which a very particular engagement ring is demanded a few stray postcards and photographs and manuscript see below are laid-in at the rear. Manuscript: 5 folded leaves comprising 17 pages. Hastily records a series of charms spells superstitions and omens – undated not offering a location. “If you see leaves and dust suddenly rise in a little whorl wind bless yourself and leave there is ‘a passage’ there i e the fairies are going by…” hardcover books