Reference
Z253/3
Title
Nature diary
Date free text
1913
Production date
From: 1913 To: 1913
Scope and Content
Nature diary relates mainly to Gorleston-on-Sea area where Miss Brown went to live after her tenancy of the Red House at Chesham Bois teminated on February 26th, 1913. Includes more press cuttings regarding school competions for natural history, eg report from Daily Mail of "rural festivalm held at Woburn" when Woburn Boys' School were presented with the "Bird & Tree" Inter County Challenge Shield, given by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds. There are also two letters from Herbert Studman, Headmaster of Woburn Boys' School, from Scotland and Woburn telling of local affairs. There is also one from a schoolboy Thomas W Lewis, who is mentioned in a press report as winning a prize in the Natural History at Woburn, on holiday in Scotland with the Duchess, and reporting on his journey and the birds he has seem.
Book mutilated and sections torn out.
Level of description
item