Current Location: In storage
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Scrap album containing valentines
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Description
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: A half-bound album with red leather spine and corners with gold tooling and front and back boards covered in marbled paper. The spine is stamped in gold with a flower and foliage design, alternated with a series of three filleted gold lines and the word 'Album' tooled in gold. The inside pastedowns and endpapers are of marbled paper. There are 67 leaves of cream wove paper, which are gilt edged and have faint ruled lines. A leaf inside the album has a watermark: 'SMITH & ALLNUTT / 1828'. '20' is written in graphite on the verso of the flyleaf. Fols. 8r-10v are loose; fols. 20r-29v are unbound as a section, as are fols. 30r-42v and fols. 43r-67v. The scrap album is almost certainly one of those mentioned by Glaisher in letters to Miss Catherine Parsons held in the Fitzwilliam Museum archive as originating with the London bookseller, John Salkeld. Salkeld is first named as a source of valentines from February 4th, 1925 onwards, especially in relation to albums containing valentines. See MS 919-1985. In another letter to Miss Parsons dated May 20th, 1925, Glaisher tells her that: 'The scrap book came yesterday from Salkeld and I have sent it to you today. As I understand it, it comes from the same lady from whom the other scrap album (not the last) came, who is in want of money, and Salkeld is not buying it himself, but is selling it for her. ...'. See MS 950-1985. The album contains similar markings in graphite of a single initial above some of the valentines, which is also seen in album P.14418-R, another suspected Salkeld purchase, acquired by Salkeld from the same source. CONTENTS: The album contains 21 valentines interspersed within a series of poems and prose handwritten in ink, mainly of a religious or moralizing character and written in several different hands.
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Bequeathed by Dr J. W. L. Glaisher, 1928
