Catalogue description Albums

Commonplace book of Rebecca Dulcibella Orpen, begun 1849. Very miscellaneous, but including the following:

- letter from R.D. Orpen to Lady Georgiana Chatterton, 1843 (p.2)

- watercolour of Seamore Place by R.D. Orpen, 1849; etching of Corfe Castle by T. Crofton Croker (p.4)

- lines by the Rev. Carrington Ley, 1849 (pp.6, 42, 44-5)

- lines and cartoon by the Rev. John Fountaine (p.10)

- lines by Mrs. Martha Orpen, mother of R.D. Orpen, c.1851 (p.12)

- cartoons by Lord Charles Townshend (pp.14, 40)

- photograph of Tamworth Church, c.1900 (p.17)

- letter from Geraldine Jewsbury to R.D. Orpen, 1862 (p.18)

- etching of Kenilworth Castle by Lady Chatterton (p.28)

letter from Lady Agnes Durham to R.D. Dering, enclosing a family photograph, 1911 (p.33)

- drawing of St. Just, Pays Basque, by Lady Chatterton (p. 34)

- letter from Sir William Chatterton to his niece, R.D. Orpen, on her 21st birthday, 1851 (p.36)

- cartoons by E.H. Dering (pp.37-8, 55)

- portrait of Edward A. Orpen by R.D. Orpen (p.39)

- etchings by T. Macdaniel (pp. 46, 64)

- letter from Louisa Townshend to R.D. Orpen, 1851 (p.53)

- lines by Marmion Ferrers and Lord Byron (p.56)

- printed menu etc for dinner given by Lady Chatterton and E.H. Dering, 1872 (p.70)

- part of a letter from R.D. Orpen to the vicar of Rolvenden, written just prior to her conversion to Roman Catholicism, 1865 (p.90)

- copy letter from R.D. Ferrers to --- concerning her religious views, c.1870 (p.92)

- accounts of ghosts at Baddesley Clinton, 1886, 1894 (pp. 105, 112, 115)

- letter from Edward Delaney, the Presbytery, Baddesley Clinton, to R.D. Dering, 1887 (p.113)

- letter from E. Knight, bishop of Shrewsbury, to R.D. Dering, 1891 (p.124a)

- two drawings by Lady Chatterton when a child (p.134)

- ghost story told to her at Wardour Castle by Lady Arundell, 1878 (p.140)

- photograph of Foxcote House, c.1890 (p.147)

- sketches of Sir William and Lady Georgiana Chatterton, done for cameos in Rome, 1829 (p.148)

- sketch of Point du Midi de Pau by Georgiana Chatterton (p.148)

- part of a letter to R.D. Ferrers, with sketch by Hugh Carter, c.1880

- annotated list of pictures entailed under the will of Marmion E. Ferrers at Baddesley Clinton, 1885, with notes on the history of some of the furniture; written in reverse, at end of volume (pp.218-101, 185)

- Lacy's pocket timetable for trains, omnibus and trams to and from Warwick, 1890 (loosely inserted).