Astley family.-

A scrap album compiled by Elisa Sibyl Astley, 29 pp., featuring numerous signatures from family members and contemporary Norfolk society, photographs, watercolours, sketches, letters, menus, with decorative borders; half morocco, spine lacking and boards detached, oblong folio, 1891-94.

*** Subjects include Elisa’s marriage to H. J. Astley; portraits; collages representing days out and events; country houses at Melton Constable Hall, Southacre, Narford, Raynham; Cricket matches and teams with signatures; the parlour game ‘Are you there, Moriarty?’; Mount Lavinia, Ceylon; dogs and horses; letter from Charlotte Knollys.

Signatures include Alicia Amherst (Botanist); William Tyssen-Amherst; Margaret Boileau (doctor); Carington family; Tollemache family; Sir Raymond Greene; Alfred Lucas.