Kate Bright's Charlton House inventory

Kate Bright's Charlton House inventory

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The notebook has a sheet of paper 4 x 7 inches pasted across the front and back that is dated October 1, 1904 in the handwriting of Lucy Lloyd. It also has the missing section of Theal's receipt, entry #100 above, attached to the top of the front cover. Lloyd's note reads: [1.10.04. N.B. These boxes were most kindly brought over by Dr. Theal. The picture, not referred to here, he could not bring over. It was Wilhelm's framed picture of Arndt.26 I do not know if it is still in the care of Mrs. Krönlein's nieces or whether they may have taken it to Mrs. Bright, later?] In the center of the paper pasted to the notebook cover at right angles to the note is the address "Miss L.C. Lloyd, Mowbray," suggesting that Lloyd was reusing a sheet of paper.

ink on paper

1 October 1904

A paper insert atop a black hard-covered ledger surfaced with a leather simulant.

Ernst Arndt (a photograph of| the German poet), Mrs Krönlein (Sophie, wife of Revd Johann Georg Krönlein), Dr Theal (the South African historian, George McCall Theal), Mrs Bright

'Copy of an inventory of the contents of Charlton House' taken by Katharine Brownlee Hepburn Bright (1843-1908) after she moved into Charlton House in June 1887. Black hard covered notebook 6 x 3¾ inches. A handwritten note, dated 1 October 1904, adjoining Bright's household inventory for Charlton House (which the Bright family rented from Jemima Bleek from 6 June 1887 until 1904). It relates to tracking down WHI Bleek's framed picture of Ernst Arndt (the German patriot-poet) - perhaps given to Bleek after attending Arndt's funeral in 1860 -- which might, as of 1904, still be in the possession of Mrs. Krönlein's nieces or given by them to Mrs. Bright. The best documented, and arguably the only, photograph of Ernst Moritz Arndt is his 1848 daguerreotype taken by German photographer Jacob Seib, captured during Arndt's time in the Frankfurt National Assembly (Kempe, 1979).