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Bredonborough.
Snow all gone…
18.39 World HQ.
A day organizing the space & shelves at HQ, and hanging two Fripps
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Fripp on Fripp…
Oil I…
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Noting Mr. Limey’s posting to the Guestbook…
Library:: Posted by TheLimey on February 07, 2007
In response to printmaker, there is something fascinating about other peoples personal libraries. I too would love to have more details on what Robert has on the shelves that we see in the images.
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In between England’s Dances by Douglas Kennedy (pre-war history, Peter Kennedy obituary) and Edgar I. Fripp’s Shakespeare’s Stratford
are two volumes by Lord David Cecil (of the Red Lion House): Hardy The Novelist & Poets & Storytellers…
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The paperback of The Lady Or The Tiger by Frank S. Stockton was sent by Michel Faber author of The Fahrenheit Twins which includes a CD of Michel reading the story, with music by Eno. TLOTT was the big hit that enabled Stockton to buy Claymont Court outside Charles Town in West Virginia, for a period the sister school to Sherborne House, England, and the venue for the first Guitar Craft courses.
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The bottom shelf displays the plaster casts of my teeth, that a denture might be made of the missing front tooth (1991), plus a Japanese promotional tea pot sporting the Larks’ logo. Middle shelf the 11th. Edition (1911) of the Encyclopedia Britannica in the handy edition . This was the final edition produced in Great Britain, the last flowering of British learning before the confidence of the educated & governing classes was shaken by the Great War.
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… early volumes of the Dorset Natural History & Archaeological Field Club.
Dorset Natural History & Archaeological Society collectionVII…
On the bottom shelf at the back: a piece of Cotswold stone, cut from a large block, for the construction of a gymnasium at Sherborne House (1976) when this guitarist was in charge of the stone saw.
At the front, two of Father’s pen knives & two of my own.
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Top: an EG Records promotional Zippo lighter, NYC c. 1979.
Bottom: a Zippo given to me by the limo driver who took KC to Heathrow airport in 1969, for our first US tour.
July 19th. 2003…
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Fireplace on July 19th. 2003…
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L>R Edie, Toyah & Auntie Evie standing at the front door of the Red Lion House, c. July 1986.
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Auntie Evie & Edie;s photo portraits, probably c. 1927, on either side of the Edwardian mirror.
On the first floor, Study No. 4 shelf-organisation is proceding well I…
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Books are to be read, as well as browsed & consulted. All of these titles, bar one, were read & during visits to Chateau Belewbeloid.
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Books on books between book-ends given by the Sistery Person.
Well. Enough for today.
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