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".& if agreeable to thee, beg to propose the Evening of fifth day (Thursday) the 29th Inst. - but if the absence of a moon is sufficient to prevent it, thou canst fix any subsequent day which may suit thee.", with postscript. Norwich, June 7, 1831. Usual fold marks, sealing wax mounting spots to corners on reverse with paper adhesion, integral leaf removed, some age marking.

A total of 416pp, 4to, in two volumes. Drophead title to vol. 1: Memoir of Priscilla Gurney. | 1st. Part. Drophead title to vol.2: Memoir of P. G. | Part second. Written in a close and neat hand. The volumes are paginated to 263 and 299, but taking into account blank pages they in fact contain 203 and 213pp of actual text respectively. Most of the main body of the text is written on the rectos, with additional material written in a closer hand lengthwise up the versos. While Rachel Gurney would appear to have been the main author of the recto text, the material on the versos carries not only more of her own letters, but also a patchwork of transcripts and quotations from other family members (for example T. G. , A. M. V. D. , T. F. B. , R[ichend]a G[urney] s Journal , C. G. s letter to A. F. , notes by niece H. G. C. ). Hence the book appears to have been very much a family effort. Each of the volumes has a one-page table of contents (misleadingly headed Index ). The two volumes are in uniform morocco half-bindings with marbled boards and brown leather spines and corners, the spines blind stamped with decoration and divided into compartments, each spine carrying MEMOIR OF P. G. | VOL. I. [II.] in gilt. Marbled endpapers. Laid down on each of the front pastedowns is a scan of the silhouette of Priscilla Gurney which faces p.40 of the first volume of Hare s Gurneys of Earlham , cut into an oval. The pages are discoloured and slightly worn at the extremities, but in fair condition, in tight, though worn, bindings, the second volume being rebacked. The Gurneys were, in the words of their chronicler Augustus Hare, a Quaker family, who - through their personal qualities and their self-devotion - played a more conspicuous part than any other set of brothers and sisters in the religious and philanthropic life of England during the first half of the nineteenth century ( The Gurneys of Earlham , 1895). Priscilla Gurney was one of the eleven surviving children of John and Catherine Gurney, no fewer than five of whom have entries in the Oxford DNB. They are: the celebrated prison reformer Elizabeth Fry (1780-1845), the antiquary Daniel Gurney (1791-1880); the religious writer and philanthropist Joseph John Gurney (1788-1847), who founded the Gurneyite wing of Quakerism, the philanthropist Samuel Gurney (1786-1856) and the educationist and author Louisa Gurney Hoare (1784-1836). Gurneys was a prominent Norwich banking house, and Daniel, Joseph John and Samuel all followed their father into the business (their mother also came from a banking family, the Barclays), while another of the sister married the brewer and philanthropist Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton (1786-1845) of Cromer Hall, Norfolk, becoming Lady Hannah Buxton (1783-1872). As the present memoir - compiled by another sister, Rachel Gurney (1778-1827) - indicates, Priscilla was highly esteemed by her family and acquaintance. William Ball, in his memoir The Two Priscilla Gurneys (in The British Friend , 1 March 1876) recalled his youthful encounter with the exceeding beauty and superiority of this young herald of the cross , and within a year of her death her close friend Amelia Opie had penned two poems about her: Priscilla s Grave ( There is a spot in life s vain scene ) and the ninety-line Lines written on the Anniversary of the Funeral of a beloved Friend, April, 1822 ( In vain around me fair creations rise ). In 1856 Susanna Corder printed privately a Memoir of Priscilla Gurney , with a reference to the present item as some reminiscences of the character of Priscilla Gurney, penned by her sister Rachel Gurney , but Corder made scant use of these volumes, the greater part of whose material is unpublished. (Twenty years after Corder s volume Bell would refer to Large volumes of her journals, &c., are in the possession of her family, but while portions have been in print the most part remain in MS. copies. ) Other copies appear to have been made, clearly for distribution to family members (Norfolk Record Office has a set, together with an odd Volume One), but the book is certainly highly uncommon. The provenance of the present copy is reasonably clear. Each of its front covers has pasted down on it a scrap of paper with the signature H. E. Gaussen , and one carries a note regarding the provenance. According to this note they descended to Rev. Herbert Edward Gaussen (1865-1938) from his mother Letitia Maria Gaussen [née Chapman] (b.1826), who acquired them from (her aunt?) Ellen Chapman (1803-1888) of Woodford. Like the Gurneys the Chapmans were prominent East Anglian Quaker bankers, and the two families were connected by marriage: see the 1858 privately printed Extracts from the Journal and Letters of Hannah Chapman Backhouse [née Gurney] (1787-1850), where she describes visiting my dear cousin Priscilla Gurney, in the last stage of consumption . Laid down on the front free endpaper of the first volume is an Autograph Letter Signed to Gaussen from John Henry Buxton (1849-1934), son of Priscilla s sister Rachel and Sir Thomas Folwell Buxton, another philanthropist whose cattle troughs are still to be found in London. The letter, dated 13 February 1928, on letterhead of Easneye, Ware, thanks Gaussen for lending him the Memoirs of Priscilla Gurney - my great aunt (sister of my grandmother Hannah Buxton) She was daughter of Catherine Bell whose portrait hangs in the hall here. / The account of the journey to Nice is most interesting, and the two books are a beautiful record of their life and occupations. According to each Index the contents are: [Part I] Sketch of the Earlham Family; Illness and death of their Father; Priscilla unites herself more closely to Friends & becomes a Minister; Illness of her Brother John & his death; Priscilla s account of the death of Henry Gurney; Extracts from her letters to Maria Fox; French Journal; Extracts from letters from Nice with the account of the death of R. G.; Letters to.