Notes, accounts, enclosures and printed books relating to the Somerville and Fairfax families

Title

Notes, accounts, enclosures and printed books relating to the Somerville and Fairfax families

Shelfmark

Dep. c. 378

Summary

Comprises:

Folder SC-1:

Household accounts kept by Jane Williamson Ramsay, 1825-1832

Notes, probably by Martha Somerville, regarding the friendship between her mother and Sir John Herschel, and their correspondence, n.d. [c.1873]

Description of a fireworks display in a garden at the gate of the Piazza del Popolo, probably by Martha Somerville, n.d. [?c.1850]

Fragment of a list of biological terms in Mary's hand, n.d. [c.1850]

Envelopes and enclosures, apparently formerly used to hold documents, n.d.

Envelope and enclosure labelled 'Margaret Graham - died Wednesday [?] September 1838 was buried at Kilbride the following Wednesday', containing a lock of hair, n.d.

The Naval Chronicle, Vol. V, Jan - Jul 1801, containing 'Biographical Memoirs of Sir William George Fairfax, Knt.' and other articles, bound and entitled 'Memoirs of Admiral Sir William Fairfax and of Captain Riou'; annotated copy of printed 'Genealogies of the Fairfaxes', n.d. [c.1871]. 'Mrs Somerville....1871' on flyleaf.

Date

1801-1832 and n.d. [c.1850-c.1873]

Language

English

Physical extent

1 box (7 folders)