Letters and miscellaneous printed material.

3 letters to Mrs Waddy, 1865, and letters to Lutie (Lady Porter) and Mary (?) from Charles E. Bennett, 1882; Printed material: book split in two (pages 1 to 66, and pages 67 to 100) "Pritchard the Poisoner" by Hargrave L. Adam, regarding a murder case which resulted in the public execution of Dr Edward William Pritchard; newspaper cutting (unknown paper) from 1920 about Army War Honours; programme for the Installation of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales as Grand Master in the Chapel of the Order of St Michael and St George in St Paul's Cathedral, 1919, plus newspaper cuttings about the ceremony; Order of Thanksgiving Service for the recovery of H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, 1872; Metropolitan Police, Carriage Regulations for Westminster Abbey on the Coronation of King George V, 1911 with an extract from Police Regulations for the event; Bath Chapel Committee memo, 1913, another about the Chapel Fund and a list of subscribers to the fund; Supplement to The London Gazette, 22 August 1913; a magazine article about Ascension Island and turtle soup; newspaper cutting of Queen Mary's letter to the armed forces in 1918; newspaper cutting of the birth announcement of a Cowan daughter; telegram to Lady Porter regarding the death of Jack (her brother?); xerox of a page-spread of Byrnes' Naval History featuring five Pritchards.

Record Details

Item reference: PTR/17/4
Catalogue Section: Personal collections
Level: ITEM
Date made: 1865-1918
Creator: Porter, James
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
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