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Detail from 'Punchia Stuffia', Christmas magazine, made by pupils of Oscott College, circa 1850. Cadbury Research Library MS602
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Drawing from 'Punchia Stuffia', home-made Christmas magazine, by pupils of Oscott College, about 1850, Cadbury Research Library MS602
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Detail from 'Punchia Stuffia', Christmas magazine, made by pupils of Oscott College, circa 1850. Cadbury Research Library MS602
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Detail from 'Punchia Stuffia', Christmas magazine, made by pupils of Oscott College, circa 1850. Cadbury Research Library MS602
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Cover of 'Punchia Stuffia', Christmas magazine by pupils of Oscott College containing humorous observations on school life, circa 1850. Cadbury Research Library MS602
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Portrait of Thomas Chatterton (1752-1770) writer and poet from an early age. Cadbury Research Library rPR 3343
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Phillis Wheatley's poem To My Sister Lucretia, detail from Wheatley P, Poems and Letters, Heartman NY, 1915. Cadbury Research Library, r PS866.W5A6
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Phillis Wheatley, 1753-1784, Poet and the first published African-American woman. Cadbury Research Library, r PS866.W5A6
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Hilda Conkling (b.1910) wrote most of her poems between the age of 4 and 10. Poems of a Little Girl was published in 1920 by Frederick Stokes. Cadbury Research Library, r PS3505.O5
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Daisy Ashford (1881 - 1972) wrote the novella 'The Young Visiters' when she was just 9 years old. The Young Visiters, Chatto & Windus, 1919. Cadbury Research Library, r PZ7.A84Y6
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Embroidered and stitched sampler by Ann Crowther, Sierra Leone, 1833, Church Mission Society Archive
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Embroidered and stiched sampler by Hannah Nylander, aged 11, Sierra Leone, 1823. Cadbury Research Library CMS CA1 O167
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Embroidered and stitched sampler by Mary Boston, Sierra Leone, 1844, CMS MISC Z86
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Charles Masterman (1873-1927) seated front, with his siblings Harry, Walter and Daisy holding their dog. Cadbury Research Library CFGM 69-4
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Oakfield Villa Magazine, manuscript magazine (1880) by Charles Masterman and friends, later a Liberal politician, MP and prolific writer, CFGM/64
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Detail from Jelly Quivering' manuscript magazine compiled by Charles Masterman, his brother Henry and friends, 1887.Cadbury Research Library MS298-1-1-2-2
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'Jelly Quivering' magazine by future Liberal politician, Charles Masterman and friends, 1887. Cadbury Research Library MS298-1-1-2-2
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Letter from errant schoolboy Charles Reynolds 1766 to his father about his expulsion from Shrewsbury School, Cadbury Research Library, LAdd/2444
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Evie and Nina Nettlefold in garden of the Edwardian Winterbourne House, about 1900. Courtesy of Winterbourne House and Garden
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Evelyn Nettlefold's bookplate showing her Edwardian home Winterbourne House. Courtesy of Winterbourne House and Garden
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Evie and Nina Nettlefold writing in the morning room of Winterbourne House, about 1908, Courtesy of Winterbourne House and Garden
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Letter from Neville Chamberlain as a boy to his Aunt Clara, 1870s
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Signature of Princess Elizabeth, aged 13, on a letter to Neville Chamberlain, 1939, Cadbury Research Library NC11-1-295
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Letter of thanks from Princess Elizabeth (later Queen Elizabeth II), aged 13, to Neville Chamberlain for a birthday present, 1939. Cadbury Research Library NC11-1-295
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Common Place Book of 15 year old Joseph Ludlow Delarue 1844-1853 Cadbury Research Library MS26
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Common Place Book of 15 year old Joseph Ludlow Delarue written 1844-53, here he refers to the writings of Dickens, Cadbury Research Library MS26
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Ticket for the pantomine Aladdin 1939, Cadbury Research Library, Norman Painting Collection, MS200/2/5/3
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Grand Variety Concern Prgramme by Norman Painting (b. 1926) as a child. Cadbury Research Library Norman Painting Collection, MS200/2/5/1
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Photograph of Norman Painting (right) and friends play acting, late 1930s. Norman Painting best known as Phil Archer, wrote and acted from an early age, Cadbury Research Library, MS200
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Diary of Mary Anne Keene (b.1781) recording her family's leisurely travels in England, 1794, Cadbury Research Library, MS225