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Small hardback leather-bound scrapbook with ornate blind and gold tooling to front and back covers, thick pages in a variety of pastel shades, gilt edges to pages and the word ‘Album’ embossed in gold on the spine. Signed ‘Maria Ann Emra October 8th 1850’ on the flyleaf. The contents include handwritten copies of poems of devotional nature, including ‘The Daisy’ by Dr Good; ‘On the Sign of the Cross in Baptism’ by Henry Alford; extract from Now and Then by Samuel Warren; ‘Written in a Very Beautiful Spring’ by S.B.; extract from ‘Beauty: or the Art of Charming’ by Robert Dodsley; ‘The Lilies of the Field’ by Reginald Heber; ‘Resignation’ by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; ‘Associations with Places by the Reverend Edward Caswall; and a short extract from ‘Lady Clara Vere de Vere’ by Alfred, Lord Tennyson; also pencil and watercolour drawings and coloured images cut out from magazines. Some of the contributions are signed or initialled and include Maria’s stepmother and her aunt S. G. [Sarah Grey] Emra. Only a small portion of the book has been used.

Medium-sized hardback scrapbook with padded covers and the word ‘Album’ embossed in gold on the front cover. The scrapbook contains mostly drawings, either drawn directly on the page or pasted in with glue. The drawings are light-hearted and often humorous, featuring children, pets, flowers, young women, landscapes and seascapes, streetscapes of Bruges and a watercolour of the gardens at Glenstal. Some of the drawings are signed or initialled; contributors include among others Madeline Clayton, E. Powell, Kitty Haynes, F. M. Gilbert, Barbara Adams Camfray, A. B. N. Noel, C. Reeve, Victoria Arkell, E. Tenant, K. Courtenay, C. J. M. Sparks, B. Angus and L. Barnicot. Also pasted in are two poems cut out from magazines, ‘Hints to a New Girl’ by L. K. Young and ‘Sea-song’ by Dorothea Jennings’, and humorous thank-you letters in verse. There are also autographs collected from guests at parties, and two pages of mounted autographs from public figures of the day, including Prince George (later George VI), author George Grossmith, publisher Andrew Land, Lord Roberts, Duke of Bedford and Lord Lansdowne.

Pair of late Victorian and early Edwardian scrapbooks in Winona Barrington’s possession, containing manuscript poems and ditties, pen and ink drawings, watercolours and autographs.