OTHER
Guest book
- Date
- ca 1898-1936
- By
- Bedford, Ada Shelley, active 1882-1934; Brodie, Cecilia Annie Vivian, 1881-1954; Brodie, Francis, 1837-1916; Brodie, Rena Frances, 1914-2013; Campbell, John Logan (Sir), 1817-1912; Cowan, Dallas Marjorie O'Neill, 1884-1959; Doyle, Arthur Conan (Sir), 1859-1930; Fraser, Thomas Archibald, -1907; Lloyd, Trevor, 1863-1937; Mowbray, Catherine Maud, 1860-1929; Mowbray, Edith Ella Cargill, 1883-1961; Richmond, Flora Hursthouse, 1862-1926; Richmond, Maurice Wilson, 1860-1919; Stephens, Ina Winifred, 1886-1960
- Reference
- E-112-q-2
- Description
A guest book with signatures and pig drawings by friends and members of the Brodie family including A Conan Doyle p.[2], Trevor Lloyd p.[10], and one by Francis Brodie which is captioned "daddy's pig" p.[11].
Most are undated. Pencil annotations next to some drawings have comments added such as "Copied" or "Dead". There is a pig drawn by Sir John Logan Campbell, p.[21] and a photograph of his face has been pasted onto the page.
Also included is a loose unused postcard of 'The Light of the World' by Holman Hunt, and a sketch signed "G[B]". The sketch is of a reluctant child being pulled to a stage where a man announces "And now we are to be favoured with the dance of the dewdrop by ickle Rena!" [between pages 46 and 47].
A popular Edwardian trend was for guests to be blindfolded and asked to draw a pig in a visitor book.
A pencil is included with the sketchbook.
Other pig drawings are also in another album within this collection at E-112-q-4.
Quantity: 1 album(s).
Physical Description: Ink and pencil on pages of volume with half bound burgandy morocco with blue cloth boards, 133 x 185 mm.
Processing information: Some but not all of the signatories are indexed.
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Part of
- Brodie family: [Sketchbooks, albums, and ephemera relating to the family of Captain Francis Brodie (1837-1916)]
- Format
- 1 album(s), Autograph albums, Visitors' books, Ink and pencil on pages of volume with half bound burgandy morocco with blue cloth boards, 133 x 185 mm.
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