19th century

Sarnia: Brief Memorials of many of her sons (civil, military, and naval)

A digitized copy of Ferdinand Brock Tupper's collection of biographies of eminent Guernseymen, arranged chronologically, beginning with John Andros in 1554, and ending with the death of Bernard Ouseley Brownrigg in 1864.

Two letters on the Commissariat, by Havilland Le Mesurier

A supportive review of an important work by Havilland Le Mesurier, the letters following on from his System for the Commissariat of 1798, from The Critical Review, Vol. 9, 1807.

Lord Byron's Newfoundland Dog, 1823

Edward Le Mesurier was the son of Havilland Le Mesurier and Elizabeth Dobrée. He was a lieutenant in the Royal Navy before settling in Genoa, where he married Amelia Augusta Wright.

Cachemaille's The island of Sark: The Gouliot Caves

Gouliot caves, Sark, from the Priaulx Library Collection

An extract from the Reverend James Cachemaille's fascinating guide to his adopted home, translated from the French by Louisa Harvey. How his friend the Seigneur discovered the Gouliot Caves, once a famous tourist destination, and a description of their 'Chimney' souffleur in a gale. The photograph of the caves is part of the Priaulx Library Collection and dates from 1900.

L'Archipel de la Manche

Children, 1929, Priaulx Library Collection

We asked the question: who wrote the following and when? 'Cross a ravine, go down and across Mill Street, into a sort of fissure between two tall houses, climb up a narrow and interminable set of tortuously winding steps with loose paving stones, and you find yourself in a Bedouin village; hovels, cracks in the roads, dirt alleys, burnt gables, ruined houses, deserted rooms, windowless and doorless with grass growing inside them, beams across the road, ruins blocking the way, here and there an inhabited cottage, little naked boys, pale women; you would think you were in Zaatcha.' And gave you a clue: the original is in French. [By Dinah Bott]

Daniel de Lisle Brock and the British Government

'It has been truly said that the history of Guernsey, for the last fifty years of his life, was in fact the history of Daniel de Lisle Brock (A New General Biographical Dictionary, 1857).' The article reproduced below is from the Eclectic Review of 1845.

The Chaumontel pears of Guernsey and Jersey

Par Alphonse Mas, Le verger, aquarelles, 1865. — http://pomologie.com/poire/poire1/fpoires/besidechaumontel/besidechaumontel.html, Domaine public, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=45607746

'There is a pear which is peculiar to these islands, the Chaumontel, which grows to an extraordinary size, and sells very frequently for a shilling each for exportation.' From Cochrane's Guide to the Island of Guernsey, 1826. 'Guernsey supplies to London, besides granite pavement and chaumontelle pears, megalithic theories and watercolour paintings.' The Channel Islands Magazine, May, 1853. The watercolour is from Alphonse Mas' Le verger (The kitchen garden), 1865.

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19th century

Sarnia: Brief Memorials of many of her sons (civil, military, and naval)

Two letters on the Commissariat, by Havilland Le Mesurier

Lord Byron's Newfoundland Dog, 1823

Cachemaille's The island of Sark: The Gouliot Caves

L'Archipel de la Manche

Daniel de Lisle Brock and the British Government

The Chaumontel pears of Guernsey and Jersey

The White Shroud of Penance

Communication with England, 85 years ago

The Grange again

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