A collection of photographs, letters and ephemera, previousl...

Hammer

£260

A collection of photographs, letters and ephemera, previously the property of Jane Welby Pugin, (nee Knill, 1827-1909), third wife of Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin, an English architect and a leading figure in the Gothic Revival) including a black and white Photograph of Jane Welby Pugin with her grand children Mary (Pollie) & Charlie Purcell inscribed in ink verso. By J. Usher, Ramsgate, photographer.
Leather bound Ursuline Manual book – the inner cover with gilt name Jane Knill, April 1838; (the personal property of Jane Welby Pugin) with ink note affixed inside signed by Jane Welby Pugin ‘I should like this put on my mortuary card’ dated 1887, St Edmunds. The book also containing assorted loose ephemera and religious cards, including folded paper with ink signature of ‘Mrs Welby Pugin’, Calling card printed ‘Mrs Pugin’ 5 Gordon Square, verso a hand inked red LP monogram with crown , cards affixed inside memorials for the repose for the soul of Edward Welby Pugin, 1875, Henry Francis Purcell 1877, Augustus Welby Pugin 1852, John Hardman Powell 1895, Peter Paul Pugin 1904, card inscribed ‘To dear Mrs Pugin Many Happy Returns of the day From Molly Furrell’, Blue Cross Ransomers card in the name of Jane Welby Pugin, Apostleship of Prayer certificate of membership for Jane Welby Pugin etc, small ink sketch on paper titled ‘Distant Prospect of Birmingham Drawn during an east wind’ with monogram JK etc (q)
Letter in ink signed Jane Welby Pugin dated 1903 ‘To my dear little God daughter…’, another on blue paper with P monogram, to ‘My dearest Pollie’ signed ‘your loving grandmother Jane Welby Pugin’, an envelope addressed to Miss Pollie Purcell, and a quantity of letters to Pollie Purcell, some in ink signed Mollie Purcell, and Mattie (or Mathe) Thunder, various letters and documents pertaining to Margaret Eily Gladstone, including her will dated Nov 1859 (She was the third child of Margaret Mary Pugin and Henry Francis Purcell, Eileen, known as Margaret Eily or Eily, was born 1875. (1 box)
Provenance: From the Estate of the late Ralph Robert Alford, son of Robert Edwin Alford, K.B.E, C.M.G, and Teresa, Lady Alford, nee Teresa Mary Margaret Knill, who was daughter of Mary Kathleen Knill, grand-daughter of Margaret Mary Knill (married to Henry Francis Purcell), and great-grand daughter of Jane Knill, (married name: Jane Welby Pugin, who was the third wife of Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin).