Comprises a wooden figure of a member of the Corps des Pages, used as a place marker at an annual ball, Brussels, 1937, a newspaper cutting about a Corps des Pages meeting, 1977, Anne Purvis's notes about H. S. Pearce, and negatives of photographs of the above wooden figure
H. S. Pearce papers
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- ReferenceGB 206 MS 925
- Dates of Creation1937-1984
- Name of Creator
- Language of MaterialFrench English
- Physical Description3 ff., 1 wooden figure, printed, manuscript, and negatives
Scope and Content
Administrative / Biographical History
H. S. Pearce (died ca. 1970) is reputed to have been in the British diplomatic or military service and to have been married to a Russian, with whom he escaped from Russia via the Black Sea and Constantinople after the October Revolution
Access Information
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Acquisition Information
The gift of Anne Purvis, October 1984
Note
In French, English
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