| Description | Leather bound volume-shaped box, silk-lined, with brass plate on front: 'Emily Eliza Berry, 30th. September 1877' (her 50th birthday). Contains twenty-two family photographs on separate sheets with notes; pencil drawing of man fishing, 1877; pen and ink drawing of cottage, labelled 'Kildehuset'; pencil and watercolour composite drawing of sea view, house on hill in deerpark, and poem; pressed ferns, manuscript poem; pen and ink drawing of three women at needlework on a verandah; pen and ink drawing of ducks in a pond; black and white photograph of coastal scene; carte de visite photograph of lady from Rome attached to pencil drawing of house; pen sketch of donkey; poem with plants and swifts drawn round it; watercolour of beech leaves and hellebores; pen and ink drawing of house labelled 'Strandhuset'; letter, accompanying drawings of the story 'Das Paradies un die Peri'; print of drawing of Hawthornden with note (in English) by Walter Scott on Drummond of Hawthorden; photograph of painting of Georgian house; photograph of street scene with man on ladder with a hose[?]; photograph of naval gentleman with poem in English and signed G.S.G. McDougall; photograph of large house in Oriental style; manuscript note of greeting; photograph of old lady (Mrs. Berry?) surrounded by watercolour beech leaves; pen and ink drawing of house labelled 'Portnerhuset'; poem; photograph of lady with underneath watercolour forget-me-nots; pen and ink drawing of swans on pond with bridge; coloured printed view of the Klindt at Näsbyholm and of a 'fishing house'; sepia photograph of Murillo's Virgin and Child in the Palazzo Pitti, Florence. All seem to be presents to Emily Eliza Berry, and include Goods and Oxholmes. All except where noted in Danish. |