Pièce 9 - ‘Berryana’: papers relating to Mary and Agnes Berry

Zone d'identification

Cote

Crewe MS/9

Titre

‘Berryana’: papers relating to Mary and Agnes Berry

Date(s)

  • c. 1845–66 (Production)

Niveau de description

Pièce

Étendue matérielle et support

1 volume (39 x 29 cm), containing 39 leaves. Folio 4 is a print bound into the book. Most of the other leaves have papers, prints, etc., pasted to them. Half-bound.

Zone du contexte

Histoire archivistique

The contents of this volume were probably assembled by Lord Houghton while he was preparing his biography of the Berry sisters, published in Monographs, Personal and Social in 1873. Some of the items are numbered in the top left-hand corner in pencil.read more

Zone du contenu et de la structure

Portée et contenu

On the spine is stamped ‘Berryana’.

System of arrangement

Foliated 1–42.

Zone des conditions d'accès et d'utilisation

Language of material

  • anglais
  • français

Caractéristiques matérielle et contraintes techniques

The book has been damaged by damp, and as a result the binding is loose and some documents have become detached from the leaves on which they were mounted.

Mots-clés

Rules and/or conventions used

Extracts = Mary Berry, Extracts of the Journals and Correspondence of Miss Berry, from the year 1783 to 1852, ed. Lady Theresa Lewis, 3 vols. (1865)

Monographs = Lord Houghton, Monographs, Personal and Social (1873)