| Description | Document relating to Sir H. Isambard Owen. Contents include rules for : daily work ("before 9 o'clock", "before 10 o'clock", "the rest of the morning", "the afternoons", "evening"); cleaning (daily and weekly); standing orders (doors, visitors - "A watch to be kept whenever unknown pepole wait in the Hall", - letters and messages, stores and slops); and "Lamps and Filler". Loosely inserted is a page torn from Punch of 6 July, 1872, which includes a poem : "The Knight of Belgravie". This is autographed by Isambard Owen. |