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The Library's unique collections are a treasure chest of unusual, interesting and sometimes surprising material just waiting to be found. This anthology, written by the Editor, is based on an eclectic selection of our archive. The author asserts her copyright on all material on the Priaulx Library website except where copyright of other authors is expressly notified. Permission to reproduce material from this website and full attribution to the author is required in all cases.

19th century

Book of General Orders, Anglo-Spanish Legion, 1836/7

18th May 2015

Gaspard Le Marchant as Governor of Nova Scotia. Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. R9266-2996 Peter Winkworth Collection of Canadiana

The Friends of the Priaulx Library generously contributed the money needed to buy this Order Book at a local auction. The Anglo-Spanish Legion was a voluntary force of the British Army, raised specifically to aid the Spanish during the Carlist Civil Wars of the 1830s. The Library is very grateful to all those who contributed towards the Friends' donation of this important material.

Guernsey Affairs: Extract from a Private Letter

8th May 2015

More moaning about Governor Napier, following on from The Affairs of Guernsey, June 1884. The Morning Post, July 22, 1844.

The Affairs of Guernsey (From a Private Letter)

8th May 2015

The trouble with Napier. From the Morning Post, June 19 1844.

The Small Pox, 1895

8th May 2015

Rosemary Lane, photograph by Edith Carey, 1929, Priaulx Library Collection

Two letters from the Star, January 3 1895. The picture is a detail from a photograph by Edith Carey, in the Library Collection. Part of the area of Guernsey's 'seething mass of corruption,' it shows Rosemary Lane and the top of Cornet Street steps in 1929.

St Peter Port, 1831

27th April 2015

From Samuel Lewis' Topographical Dictionary of England &c, 1831.

Osmond de Beauvoir Priaulx's original bequest

10th April 2015

Osmond de Beauvoir Priaulx's personal bookplate

I want nothing called after my name, and I will give nothing to those who already have much. .... If the money be not properly administered, better it had been thrown in the sea.

A run to the Channel Islands

20th March 2015

Extracts from an article in the United Service Magazine, Vol. 26, 1838. The author seems very much to prefer Guernsey to Jersey!

Turner's Guernsey Sketchbook

12th March 2015

In 1931 Spencer Carey Curtis, acting on a tip-off from a Jersey antiquarian, Major N V L Rybot, visited the British Museum to hunt out one of Joseph Mallord William Turner's sketchbooks, labelled 'Guernsey:'

Prince Edward Island: the Brehauts and Joseph Avard

12th March 2015

Prince Edward Island off the Canadian coast of Newfoundland has strong links to Guernsey that are very much alive today. A question was put by a visitor to the staff in the Library, enquiring as to the reason for an emigration to the island that took place in 1806.

1834: Flowers and fruit

Collected from local newspaper reports by the Gardener's Magazine, X (1834).

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19th century

Book of General Orders, Anglo-Spanish Legion, 1836/7

Guernsey Affairs: Extract from a Private Letter

The Affairs of Guernsey (From a Private Letter)

The Small Pox, 1895

St Peter Port, 1831

Osmond de Beauvoir Priaulx's original bequest

A run to the Channel Islands

Turner's Guernsey Sketchbook

Prince Edward Island: the Brehauts and Joseph Avard

1834: Flowers and fruit

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