Articles

The Library's unique collections are a treasure chest of unusual, interesting and sometimes surprising material just waiting to be found. This anthology, written by the Editor, is based on an eclectic selection of our archive. The author asserts her copyright on all material on the Priaulx Library website except where copyright of other authors is expressly notified. Permission to reproduce material from this website and full attribution to the author is required in all cases.

19th century

The Wedding of Margaret Baynes and Gother Mann, 1845

An entertaining letter from a collection in the Bodleian transcribed by Julia de Lacy Mann, the working copies of which are held in the Library. It describes in great detail the Guernsey wedding of Margaret Baynes, whose letters from Trinidad have recently been published.

The Grange in 1826

The Grange in 1870 from the Priaulx Library Collection

From Cochrane's Guide to the Island of Guernsey, published by the author in Market-Street, Guernsey, in 1826.

The Diary of Harriet Brock Pengelley - a link

Is it indeed true am I here? divided by the Atlantic from a mother so justly adored, a father so truly beloved, my parents—Oh! let me still think I am dreaming—that I have not left you—bid you such a long, such a sad adieu.

Naftel, Street, Tranter

A link to some delighful 18th-century portrait miniatures that have found their way to Australia, and some photographs from the same collection.

What Sarah Fyers saw from a window in Gibraltar

17-year old Sarah Fyers was with her father with the garrison in Gibraltar in 1801, a few days before her wedding to Cornelius Mann, when she witnessed the first part of the Battle of Algeciras from the breakfast room. A handwritten copy of her eyewitness account is in the Dobree-Mann collection held at the Library. She was a close relation by marriage of Admiral James Saumarez, who played a crucial part in the battle and eventual victory.

French Dirt is the Worst

An amusing anecdote from a Methodist pioneer in the island.

Guernsey enterprises, 1830

Chapter XVII of Jacob's Annals, 1830, pp. 465 ff.

The Alderney cow

From Supplement to the Penny Magazine, September 1837, p. 383, republished from Volume V of the Guernsey and Jersey Magazine of 1831, with other descriptions of the Alderney cow from various sources.

Guernsey in 1775 and in 1837

By Ferdinand Brock Tupper, in Duncan's The Guernsey and Jersey Magazine III (1837), pp. 233 ff.

Emma Austen to Jane Lefroy

Jane Austen connections.

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