Miscellaneous Manuscripts - Essex, The Finances of an early Victorian Surgeon, an ink MS accounts book, compiled by Robert William Quennell (1799-1849), of Hart’s Hall, Hornchurch, Essex, with dated transactions from 1st January, 1831, to 30th December, 1839, mostly with tradesmen being based in south-east Essex (Upminster, Romford, Ockenden, etc), various entries including: 1835 Oct. 20th ‘Began taking the Times newspaper [subscription] £3 – 18s – 0d per annum’ and 1835, August 4th; ‘sold out £200 of 3% consols which made £179 – 10s – 0d ‘to pay for an action brought against me by a rascal of which transaction papers will be found in my drawer’, as well as his conservative taste in wine, at the end, an account of the dates of birth and full-names of the owner’s four children, from which it was possible to establish the identity of the book’s compiler, red-ruled contents, contemporary polished calf, covers blind-rolled, marbled endpapers, 8vo, (1); a mid-Victorian country house visitors’ book, believed to have come from a Herefordshire weekend party circa 1862 (loosely-inserted note), partially-filled, comprising 17 autograph signatures, including the Duke of Bedford and George Russell, the Duchesses of Manchester and Montrose, the Marquess of Clanricarde, further members of the British aristocracy, the Bishop of Rochester, and European/Russian noblemen Count Bernstorff and Prince Boris Galitzin, contemporary green morocco gilt, all-edges gilt, moiré endpapers, 8vo, (1); a late 19th century literary-antiquarian’s commonplace book of ballads, rhymes, sayings and songs, principally transcribed in MS, but a few tipped-in scraps of print, disbound, 4to, (1); Jones (Maurice), No Easy Answer, Bournemouth, 1953, 52ff of autograph MS, the narrative history of The Arts and man’s relation to them, inscribed in pen-and-ink, mixed media illustrations by the author throughout, original cloth, 4to, (1), [4]
