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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.

Victorian

The Fancy Ball, 7 January 1836

'Oh happy night, enchanting sight, 'Neath garlands gay and floods of light, Brilliant eyes, balmy sighs, Shaming flow'r and lustre bright.' A report from the Star of 11 January, 1836. The photograph is a late 19th-century carte de visite, one of several in the Library Collection of subjects in fancy dress.

Edward Pope: A Guernseyman abroad

From the Star of January 25, 1883. The Governor of Anticosti, now part of Quebec.

Lukis on Hutchesson

More reminiscences about the Hutchesson family of Guernsey from F.C. Lukis, as transcribed by Edith Carey in her Scrapbook manuscript at the Library.

Des Caudeville and Heirs of Poulson v. Boyrenson,1854

A genealogist's nightmare, from The Comet of February 9, 1854.

Frederick Le Page as St Andrew

Memorial at St Andrew's Church, Tostock, by Simon Knott

From Rosemary de Saumarez's reminiscences of James St Vincent Saumarez, 4th Baronet (1843-1937). The photograph of the memorial in Tostock Church is courtesy of Simon Knott. Rosemary Ashley (née de Saumarez) donated a photograph album to the Library in 1984 which contains photographs of Frederick, the sisters, his boat and his cottage at Cobo.

Julia de Lacy Mann

Julia Mann attr. Peter Greenham from collection of St Hilda's College Oxford

A brief introduction to the life of the scholar Julia de Lacy Mann, an Oxford economist and promoter of women's education, who was one of the last descendants of Margaret and Gother Mann. Without her work on her family letters Guernsey social historians would be very much the poorer. The arresting portrait of her shown here, attributed to Peter Greenham, is in St Hilda's College, Oxford, and is displayed here by kind permission of the College.

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Victorian

The Fancy Ball, 7 January 1836

Edward Pope: A Guernseyman abroad

Lukis on Hutchesson

Des Caudeville and Heirs of Poulson v. Boyrenson,1854

Frederick Le Page as St Andrew

Julia de Lacy Mann

Naftel, Street, Tranter

French Dirt is the Worst

The Alderney cow

Guernsey in 1775 and in 1837

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