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Commonplace book of Rebecca Dulcibella Orpen, begun 1849. Very miscellaneous, but including the following: - letter from R.D. Orpen to Lady Georgiana Chatterton, 1843 (p.2) - watercolour of Seamore Place by R.D. Orpen, 1849; etching of Corfe Castle by T. Crofton Croker (p.4) - lines by the Rev. Carrington Ley, 1849 (pp.6, 42, 44-5) - lines and cartoon by the Rev. John Fountaine (p.10) - lines by Mrs. Martha Orpen, mother of R.D. Orpen, c.1851 (p.12) - cartoons by Lord Charles Townshend (pp.14, 40) - photograph of Tamworth Church, c.1900 (p.17) - letter from Geraldine Jewsbury to R.D. Orpen, 1862 (p.18) - etching of Kenilworth Castle by Lady Chatterton (p.28) letter from Lady Agnes Durham to R.D. Dering, enclosing a family photograph, 1911 (p.33) - drawing of St. Just, Pays Basque, by Lady Chatterton (p. 34) - letter from Sir William Chatterton to his niece, R.D. Orpen, on her 21st birthday, 1851 (p.36) - cartoons by E.H. Dering (pp.37-8, 55) - portrait of Edward A. Orpen by R.D. Orpen (p.39) - etchings by T. Macdaniel (pp. 46, 64) - letter from Louisa Townshend to R.D. Orpen, 1851 (p.53) - lines by Marmion Ferrers and Lord Byron (p.56) - printed menu etc for dinner given by Lady Chatterton and E.H. Dering, 1872 (p.70) - part of a letter from R.D. Orpen to the vicar of Rolvenden, written just prior to her conversion to Roman Catholicism, 1865 (p.90) - copy letter from R.D. Ferrers to --- concerning her religious views, c.1870 (p.92) - accounts of ghosts at Baddesley Clinton, 1886, 1894 (pp. 105, 112, 115) - letter from Edward Delaney, the Presbytery, Baddesley Clinton, to R.D. Dering, 1887 (p.113) - letter from E. Knight, bishop of Shrewsbury, to R.D. Dering, 1891 (p.124a) - two drawings by Lady Chatterton when a child (p.134) - ghost story told to her at Wardour Castle by Lady Arundell, 1878 (p.140) - photograph of Foxcote House, c.1890 (p.147) - sketches of Sir William and Lady Georgiana Chatterton, done for cameos in Rome, 1829 (p.148) - sketch of Point du Midi de Pau by Georgiana Chatterton (p.148) - part of a letter to R.D. Ferrers, with sketch by Hugh Carter, c.1880 - annotated list of pictures entailed under the will of Marmion E. Ferrers at Baddesley Clinton, 1885, with notes on the history of some of the furniture; written in reverse, at end of volume (pp.218-101, 185) - Lacy's pocket timetable for trains, omnibus and trams to and from Warwick, 1890 (loosely inserted).