Inventory25/8/0609:58Page72 2ALLANW.ATLAS 72 the INVENTORY
Total Page:16
File Type:pdf, Size:1020Kb
(E) ResChron39TheInventory25/8/0609:58Page72 72 ALLANW.ATLAS THE INVENTORY (N.B.: a second alphabetical list of seven women—under the heading ‘Addenda’—begins with No. 972.) NO.NAME DATE SER#BTNS PRICE ANNOTATION LEDGER(S) A 1.01 ABBOTT, Honble Miss 110 C104a, 6 no date, but given the serial number and the absence of an entry for the instrument in C1046, surely prior to 30 April 1839; perhaps one of the two daughters (Mary and Catherine Alice) of Lord Chief Justice Charles Abbott, 1st Lord Tenterden (1762–1832) (DNB, i, 26–9). .02 22 May 38 210 48 64 C104a, 11 ‘Honble’ in this entry only. 2 ACTON, Miss 31 Dec 58 6501 hire C1051, 57 3 ADAMS, Miss 16 June 54 6238 Ex C1049, 9 likely the daughter of Mrs Adams (No. 4) and one of the Messers Adams listed in that entry. 4 ADAMS, Mrs 23 Sept 51 2879 hire C1047, 28 perhaps the wife of the Mr M. Adams who purchased no. 1469 on 27 August 1848 (C1046, 68); alternately, the Mr Adams (no first name or initial) cited on 20 July 1840 and 22 February 1849 (C104a, 15, 75); other candidates, though the chronology is less favaourable: Mr J. Adams, 4 May 1841 (C104a, 22); Mr G.R. Adams Esq., 2 January 1845 (C104a, 27). 5 ADDISON, Mrs 13 Aug 46 1171 C1046, 49; C104a, 60 probably the wife of either the Mr Addison for whom R. Fentum picked up no. 1414 on 15 December 1847 (C1046, 64; and he is likely the Mr Addison of Uxbridge for whom Richard Blagrove took no. 1417 (C104a, 72), or, perhaps less likely given the wider chronological gap, the Dr Addison who paid 2.2.0 for a second-hand instrument (without serial number) on 19 December 1857 (C1051, 9); C1052 records two transactions for Addison without first name/initial or gender on 7 June 1861 (50); DNB, i, 133–4, accounts for a Dr Thomas Addison (1793–1860). 6 ALDERSON, Miss H 30 Nov 54 2680 5.0.0 C1049, 33 7 ALEXANDER, Miss [Jane?] 22 July 51 1402 5.0.0 S C1047, 22 perhaps the Miss Jane Alexander listed as a concertina maker at 45 Burlington Arcade in PODL/1856, 1815; it is unlikely, however, that she ran her own business, and she is not among the thirty-six concertina manufacturers listed in WayneCB, 1-79; on Elizabeth Lachenal, who did head the family business from the time her husband, Louis Lachenal, died in December 1861, until she sold the firm in 1873, see ChambersSNL, 8. 8.01 ALEXANDER, Mrs 20 May 51 1915 5.0.0 S C1047, 17 .02 20 May 51 3312 2.15.[0] S C1047, 17 .03 20 May 51 3314 2.15.[0] S C1047, 17 prices for last two instruments connected with a vertical bar; likely the mother of Miss Alexander (No. 7, though perhaps this lessens the likelihood of the identification of the latter with the concertina maker); perhaps both Miss and Mrs Alexander are related to the (E) ResChron39TheInventory25/8/0609:58Page73 Mr Alexander who bought no. 1500 on 5 April 1849 (C104a, 76); and perhaps he is the Lesley Alexander of 20 Campden Grove, Kensington, who stamped his name and address on a copy of Giulio Regondi’s arrangement of excerpts from La traviata and transcribed the bass concertina part for baritone; C1052 records transactions for Alexander without first name/initial or gender on 25 June 1860 (24) and 10 May 1862 (70); the same in C1053: 30 July 1868 (47). 9.01 ALGER, Miss 19 Dec 51 1851 hire C1047, 39 C1047, 39, records the rental of this instrument to a Mr Avard on the same day (see No. 29). .02 4 Feb 52 4092 10.[0.0] paid; Regondi C1047, 48 when Regondi (or Richard Blagrove or any of the other professional concertinists who are known to have taught the instrument) is cited in transactions concerning others, it is likely that he is picking up an instrument for them and that he was was their teacher; both he and Richard Blagrove figure in the ledgers frequently in that capacity, as does Miss Pelzer (No. 672). 10 ALMOND, Mrs 16 Jan 52 3539 6.6.0 paid C1047, 44 C1053 records a transaction for Almond without first name/initial or gender on 15 December 1869 (61). 11 AMES, Miss H 29 June 44 782 48 39 [C104a] C1046, 28; C104a, 41 12 ANDERSON, Miss 1 June 59 8329 hire C1051, 76 1 C1052, 59–60, records ten transactions for Anderson without first name/initial or gender on 1 June 1861, the final entry being for a 3 ⁄2- octave bass, without serial number; there are four transactions on 9 April 1862 (68–9); the same in C1053: 16 November 1864, nine transac- tions, including Anglos and Duetts (9), 21 March 1866, five transactions (22), 22 September 1868 (48), 19 April 1869 (53); this Anderson is surely a dealer. 13.01 ANDREWS, Miss 19 Sept 40 368 38 C1046, 5; C104a, 19 probably one of the two sisters (both singers) of Richard Hoffman (1831–1909—he dropped the ‘Andrews’), who, though best known as a pianist after he emigrated to the United States in 1847, also played the concertina and studied with Regondi; see MusW, xix, 13 (28 March 1844), 112–13, for a report of a concert given by Master Richard Hoffman Andrews (concertina player) and one of his sisters; C1046, 3, shows that no. 368 was initially sold to Mr R. Andrews on 13 February 1840; that is his first appearance in the ledgers, and he appears inter- mittently until at least 19 March 1846 (C1046, 44, and C104a, 56); on Hoffman as a concertinist, see AtlasWEC, 8, n. 25; HoffmanSMR, passim. .02 9 Aug 51 2443 [0].10.6 hire C1047, 24 perhaps the eleven-year gap speaks for this being a different Miss Andrews; C1052 records transactions for Andrews without first name/ini- tial or gender on 16 May 1860 (21) and 8 September 1860 (29); the same in C1053: 13 November 1864 (9). 14 [ANONYMOUS], Miss 25 July 51 2295 6.6.0 paid; for China C1047, 22 THE INVENTORY 73 there is an empty space between ‘Miss’ and ‘for China’; the entry directly above is to the often-cited Revd E. Kitson, though the ‘ditto’ with which C1047 customarily indicates that the name immediately above remains in force is lacking. 15 [ANONYMOUS], Mrs 23 April 52 4037 10.10.0 paid C1047, 59 this entry is immediately below one for Mrs Moore on the previous day (see No. 617), but there is no ‘ditto’, as is the custom in C1047 when repeating a name. 16 [ANONYMOUS], Miss 15 Nov 52 3086 5.5.0 [paid] same time C1048, 8 the space after ‘Miss’ is empty; the preceding entry is for the Dowager Duchess of Leeds (see No. 516). (E) ResChron39TheInventory25/8/0609:58Page74 74 ALLANW.ATLAS NO.NAME DATE SER#BTNS PRICE ANNOTATION LEDGER(S) 17 [ANONYMOUS], Miss 9 May 57 9728 4.4.0 pd C1050, 71 the entry lacks a name after ‘Miss’; it follows a transaction on the same day for Messrs Smith & Elder, the well-known publishers, who appear throughout the ledgers (see the entry for Miss Hasell, No. 405.04). 18.01 ANSON, Miss J 15 Dec 46 1167 32 P C1046, 52; C104a, 60 C104a originally gave the year as ‘47’; the initial ‘J’ in this entry only. .02 26 Feb 51 2960 10.10.0 paid C1047, 9 the entry is out of chronological order; C1052 records a transaction for Anson without first name/initial or gender for no. 554 on 5 October 1863, with the annotation ‘10/6 per Mth Hire’ (89); this instrument was first purchased by Miss Hope on 14 November 1842 (see No. 442); the same in C1053: 28 April 1865 (13). 19 ANSTED, Miss Ellen 13 July 47 1347 48 C1046, 59; C104a, 69 ‘Ellen’ in C104a only; C1046 has the initial ‘E’. 20.01 ANSTRUTHER, Miss L[ouisa]29 Apr 57 5603 hire C1050, 68 Louisa Anne Erskine Anstruther, daughter of Sir Alexander Anstruther and future wife of Gen Sir Frederick William Hamilton of the Belhaven-Stenton family, whom she married on 25 June 1860 (see the entry for Lady Belhaven, No. 60); she died 29 August 1888 (Burke’sP, i, 88); the instrument had previously been rented by Miss A. King on 16 March 1857 (No. 489) and would later be rented by Mrs Haynes on 29 August 1857 (No. 411.02); on Sir Alexander Anstruther (1769–1819), a well-known jurist, see DNB, i, 517. .02 4 July 57 9953 10.10.0 pd C1050, 82 the initial ‘L’ in this entry only. .03 11 Oct 59 hire C1051, 87 C1052 records two transactions for Anstruther without first name/initial or gender on 18 June 1860 (23). 21.01 ARCHER HOUBLON, Mrs [John] 18 Feb 54 4937 5.5.0 Ex C1048, 76 surely the second wife—Georgina Anne Oswald—of John Archer-Houblon, whom she married in November 1848; he was a jurist in Essex and Herts; see Essex Review, 1 (1892), online at <http://www.Essexpast.co.uk/essexreview/houblonmem.html>. .02 20 Oct 57 10380 6.6.0 pd C1050, 94 ‘A Houblon’ only; the very next entry omits any name but begins with ‘Mr’, likely a reference to her husband, John Archer-Houblon, who is definitely recorded as having purchased no. 9008 on the same day. 22 ARTHUR, Miss 14 Aug 55 5581 hire C1049, 64 a price was entered, but rubbed out; this instrument was previously rented by Ms West on 21 June 1855 (No.