| Description | An album created by Lady Sydney Charlotte Montagu, with photographs, letters, newspaper clippings, dried flowers, pictures and text of conversations, covering her marriage and the births and early years of her children.
The album begins with the marriage of Sydney Charlotte Montagu and Algernon Hawkins Thomand Keith-Falconer, Lord Inverurie, in 1873 and records in detail the births and early lives of their children, with a variety of photographs, sketches, birth certificates, locks of baby hair, and newspaper accounts. Many of the photographs are accompanied by explanations or accounts of conversations.
The album continues through the daughters' presentation at court in 1894 and ends with reports of the death of their elder son, Ian Douglas Montagu Keith-Falconer, Lord Inverurie, in 1897.
With loose insertions. |