Autograph account by Beatrice Webb of a holiday taken in Scotland in August 1884.
Detailed description of a cruise organised by Messrs Langlands and sons of Liverpool aboard the Princess Royal, sailing from Liverpool to Leith, taking in the Inner and Outer Hebrides, and the Orkneys. Taken by Beatrice and her father Richard Potter. Occasional verses. Furness Vale, 1885.
Beatrice Webb (1858-1943), nee Potter, social reformer and diarist. Married to Sidney Webb, pioneers of social science. She was involved in many spheres of political and social activity including the Labour Party, Fabianism, social observation, investigations into poverty, development of socialism, the foundation of the National Health Service and post war welfare state, the London School of Economics, and the New Statesman.
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Purchased from Boyle for 1.5s, 18 April 1955
Call number used to be ms4275
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Binding: cloth. Paper: 16.5x20.2cm
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