| Description | This series consists of nature journals (i.e., accounts of observations made while exploring nature, accompanied by original illustrations, diagrams and maps); an address titled "St. Francis" by Evelyn Underhill; book titled "Book of the St. Francis Guild: The little things of St. Francis"; document titled "History of the Guild of St. Francis"; financial accounts book; invitation to lecture titled "Nature and Music" by Director of the Conservatoir of Music, Sydenham; lists of members; newsletters (7 editions, including an edition written by Miss Rosalie Lulham on the topic of horses); minutes of the Guild; minutes of the Spring Festival Committee; pamphlets; silk worm cocoon and strusa; and spring festival certificates (blank). Included in these documents are the Guild's mission, rules and activities. Ten nature journals document the yearly, one-day excursions of first-year Froebel Educational Institute students and members of the School Nature Study Union to Keston Common (Fishponds Road, Bromley, Keston BR2 6HU), organised by Miss Rosalie Lulham. During the excursion, students fished, bird watched and studied nature. Journals include original, very fine illustrations, photographs and maps. This series also includes two nature journals that document other excursions; one journal documents an excursion to South Downs (1917) and one journal documents an excursion to Clapham (1926). The Guild of St. Francis was also called the Nature Study Union and the Natural History Club. Books separated: The Tale of Sebastian the Silkworm by Zeo, Lady Hart Dyke; The Busy Little Honeybee by Josephine Morse True. |