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[EDEN FAMILY].

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21.10.2022 10:30UTC +01:00
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Lot 91 | [EDEN FAMILY].
[EDEN FAMILY].

Typescript compilations of Eden family history, together with original manuscripts, drawings and watercolours, and related volumes, 18th and 19th century.

Extensive typescripts of biographical texts (including letters and journals) relating to the Edens of the 18th and 19th century and especially Emily Eden, under the titles 'The Eden Family' (in 8 volumes), 'Miss Eden' (a biography of Emily Eden), and ‘Letters from Lady Campbell (Pamela FitzGerald) to The Hon. Emily Eden, 1818 to 1840’, with inserted illustrative matter comprising original drawings and watercolours (including 40 or more by Emily Eden), letters, engravings and later reproductions. Together 10 volumes, 260 x 200mm, variously bound (bindings heavily worn).



[Together with:] Sketchbooks by Emily Eden, of scenes in the Pyrenees, n.d., and Sir William Eden, 7th and 5th Baronet (1849-1915), of a family holiday in Dinard and Saint-Malo, July 1894; an album of miniature watercolours by Charlotte Vawser (1816 – after 1883), including original landscape scenes and copies after the old masters; also autograph poetry by Sir Frederick Morton Eden, 2nd Baronet, of Maryland (1766-1809), ‘Epsom. A vision’ and at least one other text, 13 pages; an autograph journal by Sir William Eden, 6th and 4th Baronet (1803-1873), of a tour in France and Italy, 12 April – 9 July 1833, approx. 81 pages; and two printed books, a Book of Common Prayer (1798) with a presentation binding to Emily Eden from W. Robertson, 1802; and Rev. R. A. Eden, Some Historical Notes on the Eden Family, 1907.



Compilations of Eden family history, including original watercolours by the novelist and travel-writer Emily Eden (1797-1869). Emily Eden and her sister Fanny travelled to India with their brother, George Eden, 1st Earl of Auckland, when he was governor-general from 1835 to 1842, and she published both visual and written accounts of her travels in Portraits of the Princes and People of India (1844) and Up The Country: Letters Written to Her Sister from the Upper Provinces of India (1867) respectively. Forty or more watercolours by her are inserted in the typescript volumes (the majority in volume VI of 'The Eden Family' which is devoted to Emily Eden) and a few of these depict Indian subjects; volume VI also includes 9 small-scale works by Indian artists, perhaps collected by her, including a portrait of a Mughal emperor and 6 works on mica. Other illustrative material inserted in 'The Eden Family' includes an autograph letter signed by George III, 9 December 1785 ('I … do not object to the Presentation this Day of Mr. Eden; though the reasons for postponing it certainly are well founded, for in this Country things cannot always be done as the[y] ought but as they can’; in vol. I), and letters by George, 2nd Duke of Cambridge and three by Augusta Caroline, Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (in vol. IV). The editor and compiler of the typescript volumes of family history is very likely Violet Dickinson (1865-1948, daughter of Emily Dulcibella Eden), who is explicitly identified as the author of the volume on 'Miss Eden' and in 1919 published a selection of her great-aunt's letters; the album by Charlotte Vawser includes a letter by Dickinson presenting it to Anthony Eden and noting that it once belonged to Emily Eden.





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