Beschreibung:

Anglo-Indian Diaries.- Lock (Caroline Louisa, maiden name Cardew, wife of Colonel Edward Seppings Lock, 82nd Foot, grandson of Sir Joseph Lock, of Bury Knowle House, Headington, Oxford, died of Enteric Fever at Pieter Maritzburg, Natal, 1837-86, 1837-1913) Anglo-Indian diaries and accounts, 5 vol., (comprising 3 vol. diaries, 1 vol. accounts book and 1 vol. cash book not used), autograph manuscripts, diaries together 421pp. (17pp. of addresses in 1 vol.), accounts 15pp. excluding blanks, some ff. loose and working loose, original uniform black morocco, gilt, 1 vol. cover detached, 2 vol. spines splitting, all spines rubbed, g.e., 8vo, housed in a handsome polished Coromandel case with gilt metal strapwork and key plate stamped 'G. Betjemann & Sons', the hinge engraved 'Charles Nephew & Co, Calcutta', inset with three Wedgwood jasperware porcelain plaques and lock stamped 'S. Morden & Co' (with key), the case spring loaded to raise the contents once opened, 130 x 210mm., 1866-67, 1867-69 & 1869-71; and 4 other related items, comprising: a sixteenth plate ambrotype portrait photograph of Caroline Lock contemporarily inscribed on the rear with name and marital status, with two small locks of Caroline Lock's hair in envelopes dated 1860/1865 presented in a morocco leather case, and a watercolour portrait miniature painted on ivory of Maria Ballachay née Lock (Edward Seppings Lock's sister), 70 x 60mm., in a period gilt frame inscribed on verso 'aunt Ballachay née Lock Headington', framed size 170 x 155mm. (5 pieces). ⁂ The life of a Victorian military wife, in England and India. In England. The family stay at Bury Knowle House in Headington, and visit Oxford frequently, attending Christ Church Cathedral at the ordination of Harry Rendle, feeding deer in Magdalen Park, attending a flower show at Wadham College, watching the procession of the boar's head on Christmas Day at Queen's College, "a curious sight". She attends the consecration of St Barnabas Church, Jericho, "very high, the bishop of Oxford preached" [Samuel Wilberforce], visit Brasenose College, lunch at All Souls College and lunch at Oxford University Press. With numerous entries relating to the Ballachay family, visiting her mother in Taunton Deane, the birth of her children, living in Portsmouth and Chatham, "Ed went to Gravesend on the velosipede [sic] etc. [Amritsar]. "Went to Amritsar by train. A large party with Mrs. Holroyd, the 6th were encamped there, had breakfast in the camp, then went to the Golden Temple, the sacred temple of the Sikhs then onto the gardens where we had tiffin & croquet came back by train a noisy party coming & going!"