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Two letters from Frances Cashel Hoey to her mother Charlotte Jane Johnston, reporting on her brother Dalkeith Holmes Plunkett-Johnston's condition after being bitten by a rabid patient.
Diary written by Benjamin Bloomfield Trench which documents his wife's death. Within the diary Benjamin records her last words, visits from her family, breaking the news to his daughters and her funeral.
One exchange Benjamin recorded shows that Dora Trench knew her death was imminent 'When I came upstairs after dinner she said. "Come & sit near me, we shall not have more evenings together' I asked if she felt worse or had been in pain. She said "No I feel my end is near".'
Diaries and notebooks belonging to Dora Trench née Turnor. Dora’s diary documents her life at Stoke Rochford Hall, Lincolnshire, and at the family’s London home at Chesham Place, Belgravia, London. The diaries chronicle her struggles with asthma, her family tragedies, her marriage, her children and her every day life.
Postcards from "Shakespeare's England" at Earl's Court, London. Printed by WH Smith and Son, printers and advertising agents, 53-55 Fetter Lane, London. Souveniers of Dalkeith Holmes Plunkett-Johnston and his wife Maria Blanche Plunkett-Johnston, latter passed on to their daughter Constance Lamb.
Letter from Nora Schmidt at Burton Vicarage, North Carnforth, Westmoreland, England, to Reverend Adam Lamb at Julianstown Rectory, Drogheda, County Louth.
Photograph of young Madelaine Johnston wearing a large white gown, seated on a sofa. Printed by Moses Bowness, Photographer, in Ambleside, Lake District, England.