DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Preferred Citation
ABSTRACT
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title: Jocelyn Brooke Papers,
Date (inclusive): 1836-1966
Collection number: MSS 0184
Extent: 0.03 linear feet (60 items in three folders (229
leaves).)
Repository:
Mandeville Special Collections Library, Geisel Library, UC, San Diego
Shelf Location: For current information on the location of these
materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.
Language:
English.
Preferred Citation
Jocelyn Brooke Papers, MSS 0184. Mandeville Special Collections Library, UCSD.
ABSTRACT
Letters, postcards and cards of both a personal and business nature addressed chiefly to
Brooke. Also clippings, printed matter, a typed prose paragraph, a typed poem entittled
"On a Picture by Paul Veronese" (1896) signed illegibly, pencil and pen drawings, a
watercolor, holograph and printed recipes, a commonplace book, and a ledger book. The
commonplace book has a holograph title reading "Charlotte Elizabeth Hemlett from J. H.
Keyes, March 3rd, 1847" and contains pencil and pen drawings, a watercolor, a miniature
painting, and holograph poems signed with various names and initials. The ledger contains
printed matter at the beginning and end, and is entitlted "The memorandum-book, for the
year of our Lord 1841...London: Printed by assignment of John Poole, for Suttaby and Co.
Stationeer's Court...." Appointments and notes are inscribed throughout the "Diary"
section of the ledger, chiefly in French with a few notes in English. Correspondents
include Charles Madge, Charles Edward Eaton, and G. P. Gooch.
English literary author and critic.