Title:
Dorchester Abbey, Oxon. High Altar & East Window.
Object ID:
2004.1.133
Object Name:
Postcard
Collection:
May Russell Postcard Collection
Date:
07/25/1910
VE Exhibit Label 1:
Front: Black & white photo image of the high altar and east window inside the Dorchester Abbey in Oxon.
Back of card:
Postmarked: (?)eighton Buzzard 15AM, JY25, 10."
Transcription:
"My friend who is accompanying me has to e back on Saturday night — so our tour has to be considerably curtailed. We trained to Oxford this morning. Visited eight colleges, three churches & the Bodleian Library. In the latter we saw the autograph of Shelley's Prometheus Unbound, a lock of his hair, his guitar, a lock of Louis Stevenson's, a couple of hairs from the head of John Hampden, a book supposed to be in King Alfred's autograph, & numbers of portraits, many of Tudor & Stuart times. Dorchester on Thames was the seat of a bishopric in Saxon days. The fine old Abbey is mainly of 13th & 14th Centuries. With kind regards, A.G.C."
(To:)
"Miss A. M. Russell, Russellville, Ark. U.S.A."
Back of card:
Postmarked: (?)eighton Buzzard 15AM, JY25, 10."
Transcription:
"My friend who is accompanying me has to e back on Saturday night — so our tour has to be considerably curtailed. We trained to Oxford this morning. Visited eight colleges, three churches & the Bodleian Library. In the latter we saw the autograph of Shelley's Prometheus Unbound, a lock of his hair, his guitar, a lock of Louis Stevenson's, a couple of hairs from the head of John Hampden, a book supposed to be in King Alfred's autograph, & numbers of portraits, many of Tudor & Stuart times. Dorchester on Thames was the seat of a bishopric in Saxon days. The fine old Abbey is mainly of 13th & 14th Centuries. With kind regards, A.G.C."
(To:)
"Miss A. M. Russell, Russellville, Ark. U.S.A."
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Dorchester Abbey, Oxon. Inside
Dorchester Abbey, Oxon. (back)
Dorchester Abbey, Oxon. Inside
Dorchester Abbey, Oxon. (back)