HAMILTON 20/5/1-14 Publications belonging to Jean Miller Hamilton, Lady Hamilton, 1869-1940

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[1869]

The English version of the polyglot Bible (Samuel Bagster and Co, London, date not supplied), given by Sir John Muir, 1st Bt, to Jean Miller Muir on her eighth birthday. 1 vol

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1890

A woman's work, memorials of Eliza Fletcher edited by Rev C A Salmond (J N Mackinlay, Glasgow, 1890). 1 vol

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1892

The life and letters of Joseph Severn edited by William Sharp (Sampson Low, Marston & Co, London, 1890). 1 vol

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1903

A little book of life and death selected and arranged by Elizabeth Waterhouse, third edition (Methuen & Co, London, 1903). 1 vol

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1904,1905

The conception of immortality by Josiah Royce (Archibald Constable & Co Ltd, London, 1904). With letter to Jean Miller Hamilton, Lady Hamilton, from Perceval Alers Hankey, 13 Dec 1905, regarding content of the book. 1 vol, 1 letter

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1906

The pocket R L S, being favourite passages from the works of Robert Louis Stephenson (Chatto and Windus, London, 1906. With undated letter to Jean Miller Hamilton, Lady Hamilton, from Tom Bridges, enclosing the book and expressing sympathy for her grief [following the death of her sister Edyth Mary Kay Muir in 1909]. 1 vol, 1 letter

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1906

A little book of life and death selected and arranged by Elizabeth Waterhouse, ninth edition (Methuen & Co, London, 1906). With inscription by Jean Miller Hamilton, Lady Hamilton, dedicated to her late sister Edyth Mary Kay Muir. 1 vol

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1908

Poems by Mary E Coleridge (Elkin Mathews, London, 1908). 1 vol

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1909

Saint Paul by Frederic William Henry Myers (Macmillan & Co, London, 1909). 1 vol

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1926

The conquest of fear by Basil King (George Allen & Unwin, London, 1926). 1 vol

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1928-1934

Algae, an anthology of phrases collected by Maurice Baring (William Heinemann Ltd, London, 1928). Also used by Jean Miller Hamilton, Lady Hamilton, as a notebook for favourite poems and literary extracts, Aug 1929-25 Mar 1934. 1 vol

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1929,1932

Pretty creatures by William Alexander Gerhardi (Duckworth, London, 1929). With inscription by Gerhardi to Jean Miller Hamilton, Lady Hamilton, 27 May 1932. 1 vol

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1937

The form and order of the service that is to be performed and the ceremonies that are to be observed in the coronation of their majesties King George VI and Queen Elizabeth in the abbey church of St Peter, Westminster on Wednesday the 12th day of May, 1937 (Eyre and Spottiswoode Ltd, London, 1937). 1 vol, 60pp

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1940

Even for an hour by John Godley and Ian Grimble (Wilding & son Ltd, Shewsbury, 1940). 1 vol