| Description | The book is marked 'Pamphlets' on the spine. It includes published copies of 'Sir Walter Scott' by George Wyndham (MacMillan, 1908), 'Samuel Johnson' by Walter Raleigh (Oxford, 1907), 'A French Chesterfield' by Viscount St. Cyres (undated), 'What caused the panic' by (1907), a programme for the visit of the Governor General and Lady Northcote to Western Australia in 1907, a programme for the first Australian exhibition of Women's Work, 1907, various published articles on Lord Northcote, and a manuscript copy of a published long obituary of his father, Lord Iddesleigh, by Lord Cranbrook, and a copy of a long letter to Lady Northcote from Cornelia Sorabji, Indian lawyer and first woman to study law at Oxford University. |
| AdminHistory | The volume came from the Northcote family, Earls of Iddesleigh. It is not known which member of the family put this selection of pamphlets together, but it was most probably Henry Stafford Northcote (1846-1911), 1st Lord Northcote, or his wife. The Northcote family seat was Pynes at Upton Pyne near Exeter, Devon. |