| Description | Album of recollections of Archibald (Archie) Ian Gordon (1884 - 1909) published privately by his mother Ishbel Hamilton-Gordon, Marchioness of Aberdeen and Temair (1857– 1939) after his death in a car accident in December 1909.
The album contains essays by his sister Marjorie Sinclair, Baroness Pentland, his headmaster at Winchester, Oxford tutor, school friends, business associates and other friends including Evan Charteris and Herbert Asquith, along wiht the order of service from his funeral. There are a variety of photographs at the rear of the album, mainly of Archie and family members, but also of Haddo House and scenes in Canada, where the Earl of Aberdeen, John Campbell Hamilton-Gordon, had served as Governor General from 1893 until 1898 (see https://www.gallery.ca/magazine/your-collection/at-the-ngc/lady-aberdeens-memorial-photobook-to-her-son-an-elegy-in-visual for information on Lady Aberdeen's photography in Canada). The photographs of Archie include post-mortem shots. |