Kate Bright's Charlton House inventory

Kate Bright's Charlton House inventory

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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.

ink on paper

June 1887

A black hard-covered ledger surfaced with a leather simulant. The cover is significantly worn in places with paper residue from previous notes bonded to it.

Charlton House (rented to the Bright family by Jemima Bleek), inventory (of Charlton House's contents divided by living space), stoep (front and back), front hall, drawing-room, study, dining-room, lamp cupboard, bathroom, closet, school room, nursery, front staircase, bedrooms (over the dining-room, hall, study, garden-side), back landing, clothes' room, servants' room, passages (the upstairs, long, blue safe, and back), pantry (store cupboard in the), glass cupboard, china, kitchen, yard room, cutlery (kitchen and table knives, forks, and spoons), crockery, stable enclosure (fixtures, coach house, and outside rooms in), rough memorandum

The notebook contains the copy of an inventory of the contents of Charlton House taken by Katharine Bright in 1887, presumably just after she moved into the house on June 6, 1887. The entries are numbered (1) through (44) and appear to reflect the numbered pages of the original inventory. There are a few annotations inserted into the inventory copy including more than one reference to an entry being 'in Mrs. Bright's hand.' The annotations are in Jemima Bleek's handwriting and initialed in several instances 'J.C.B.' (Jemima Charlotte Bleek). Inserted into the front of the notebook is a loose sheet 5½ x 3½ inches: 'Rough memorandum of some of Jemima's things left in press at Charlton House.'