Isabel Salt Collection

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COL24
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Isabel Salt Collection
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Items associated with Isabel Salt, granddaughter of Sir Titus Salt
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  • 2018.9.6.7: Spectacles and case
    Round spectacles with translucent orange frames in a Animal skin case. Chamois glasses cleaning cloth. The case is labeled 'Norman J. Fordham. 5 Station Approach, Oxted'. Early-mid 20th century.
  • 2018.9.6.8: Valentine's Party Games
    The Shepherd's Garden.' Cardboard box, slightly damaged, 16cm high x 11cm wide, containing 8 cards. Box and cards with coloured picture of shepherd presenting floral wreath to shepherdess. Inside of card contains riddling poem with missing words. Separate sheet listing answers to riddles. Made by Valentine and Sons, Dundee and London. Also contains two handwritten cards 11cm high x 9cm wide with instructions to games, 'Find Me!' and 'Hide and Seek' with blank paper folded round them. Back of cards contain printed advertisement for 'White Elephant' stall for Oxted and Limpsfield Congregational Church. C1915.
  • 2018.9.7: Collection
    Five hardback books, with signatures and notes. Comprises: 1) Milton, John, 'Milton: Select poems with notes by the Rev. H. R. Huckin M.A.' (London: Seeley & Co., undated). Title page signed 'I Salt'. 2) Seeley, J.R., 'The Expansion of England' (London: Macmillan And Co, 1886). Flyleaf signed 'H.C. Salt Trin. Coll. Cambs. May '88' [Trinity College, Cambridge]. 3) Spencer, Herbert, 'Education: Intellectual, Moral and Physical' (London: Williams and Norgate, [1861]). Title page signed 'Titus Salt'. Loose spine. 4) Stone, Henry J., 'Towards Spiritual Democracy' (London: The Swarthmore Press Ltd, undated). With notes on inside back cover [October 1884]. 5) Tennyson, Alfred (Lord), 'Tennyson's Poetical Works' (London: Macmillan And Co, 1887). Flyleaf signed 'Mary Isabel Salt'.
  • 2018.9.7.1: Milton: Select poems with notes by the Rev. H. R. Huckin M.A
    Milton, John, 'Milton: Select poems with notes by the Rev. H. R. Huckin M.A.' . Title page signed 'I Salt'.
  • 2018.9.7.2: The Expansion of England
    Book by J.R. Seeley entitled 'The Expansion of England'. The book contains two courses of lectures. Course I relates to England, English History and the expansion of the Empire. Course II relates to India and the British Empire.
  • 2018.9.7.3: Education: Intellectual, Moral and Physical
    Compilation book of the writtings of Herbert Spencer titled the 'Education: Intellectual, Moral and Physical' (London: Williams and Norgate, [1861]). Title page signed 'Titus Salt'.
  • 2018.9.7.4: Towards Spiritual Democracy
    Book compiled by Henry Stone with a Preface entitled 'Towards Spiritual Democracy'. The book is about Religion and its place in modern society and relating it to politics. The Preface discusses the place of religion in life especially in the light of War.
  • 2018.9.7.5: Tennyson's Poetical Works
    The works of Alfred Lord Tennyson poet Laureate, with the alternative title 'Tennyson's Poetical Works' on the front cover. This is an anthology of Tennyson's poems. The pages are printed in two columns. Flyleaf signed ‘Mary Isabel Salt’.

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