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.
19th century
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
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
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).
The King versus Gavet and Lenfestey
'His case is but one out of many that might be adduced, to prove the wisdom of intrusting the punishment of offences, in a small community like ours, to the discretion of the judges rather than to the precise letter of an unyielding statute law.' From The Star, February 3rd 1834.