Personal diary of Agnes Tennant

Scope and Content

Contains 20 enclosures. Entries detail her daily pastimes, travel and social connections based at Orford House, Ugley, Bishop's Stortford, including the birth of a grandson, and travel in Europe and the UK. Enclosures include:

  • 2 programmes from Armistice Day events;
  • 5 letters from her son Earnest, to Agnes and her husband William, including news of the birth of her Grandson;
  • photograph of unknown coastline;
  • printed, illustrated prayer card;
  • letter from Agnes' sister Edith, in gratitude for assistance in purchasing a house;
  • calling card for Mrs Louis Joseph Papineau;
  • letter from William Tennant about his plans;
  • 2 children's drawings;
  • 2 letters from grandchildren, written by Agnes' daughter-in-law Non;
  • letter of gratitude after a visit;
  • telegram confirming acceptance of Agnes' sister Edith's offer on a house;
  • handwritten prayer entitled "Vanessa's Prayers;"
  • unsigned letter from another of Agnes' children.

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