Autograph album

Autograph album of Elizabeth (Bessie) Hadfield, nee Tuckey.

Features mounted clippings from letters and envelopes, including letterheads, crests, addresses, signatures, and some complete letters, notes, sketches, postcards, pressed botanical specimens, medal ribbons, and photographic prints.

Includes:

- Autograph, and registered letter from Karlsruhe, Germany, addressed to "Queen Sophie of Sweden". Sophia of Nassau (1836-1913) was Queen consort of Sweden.

- Printed card with manuscript note of Miss Waldegrave, 4 Park Square, Regent's Park.

- Engraved crest, and signature of Lord Radstock

- Engraved crest of Bentinck, and note dated 2 May 1910.

- Note by Sophia Duleep Singh (1876-1948) on printed letterhead of Faraday House, dated 3 April 1910.

- Note by Mina Hamilton on printed letterhead of Knoyle House, Salisbury, dated 4 April 1910.

- Envelope addressed to Countess Haga, postmarked Munich 9 May 1910.

- Note from Annette Liverpool, dated 2 July 1914

- Letter from Francis Redwood, dated Wellington, 13 May 1913.

- Signature of Massey and printed letterhead 'Prime Minister's Office, Wellington' dated 16 July 1912.

- Signature of Godley, and printed letterhead of Department of Defence, dated 15 August 1914.

- Manuscript poem by E Quinn.

- Various inscriptions by military personnel dated 1915-1916

- Botanical specimen mounted with note "From Hebron, Palestine, 1918".

- Printed Christmas card from Wellington Mounted Rifles Regiment, dated Palestine, Xmas 1918.

- Mounted photographic print of Trentham, 1915.

- Mounted photographic print of memorial.

- Postcard of "Star Amphitheatre, Balmoral, Sydney".

- Photographic prints of military personnel, horses, including some named, and camp in Amria [Amiriyeh, Iran].

- Postcard of "Alexandria. - Garden and Monument to Nubar Pacha.", from Harold C Hall to Mrs E Hadfield in Wellington.

- Two pieces of medal ribbon, Military Medal 1920 and 1914-15 Star awarded to J WIlkinson of Auckland Mounted Rifles.

- Printed 1917 Christmas card from The Camel Corps

- Postcard - "Season's Greetings from Colonel C E R Mackesy and Officers of the Auckland Mounted Rifles".

- Postcard "Heliopolis - Panoramic view".

- Printed card of 10th Battalion, Jack Marshall.

- Photographic postcards titled "Zepp Wreckage Series A".

- Letter on 'New Zealand Expeditionary Forces' printed letterhead paper dated 1918 to Mrs H S Hadfield in Marton from her son.

Also includes various sketches and illustrations, and lists of signatures.

Title supplied by Library.

Quantity: 1 volume(s).

Physical Description: Album of autographs, photographs, sketches and ephemera, 18 x 17 cm, with some loose material laid in.