| Collection | Catherine Crowe Collection |
| Description | Album with postcards and cuttings inserted. Each item is numbered and indexed. Label on front reads 'The Crowe Album - Vol. 2'
Includes:
- Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe - portrait by Thomas Fraser in the Scottish Nationa Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh
- Craigcrook Castle, summer residence of Lord Francis Jeffrey, showing the steps leading down into the garden and recalling, as he wrote to Dickens 20th, July 1841, "that nice day we strolled on my little terrace and wooed the sylvan muse (in the shape of Mrs. Crowe!) in the shades of Dalmerry."; from the field between the Castle and Craigcrook Road.
- No. 16, Randolph Crescent, Edinburgh, where Mrs. Crowe resided during the early 1850s.
- Craigcrook Castle again - the main entrance.
- A block of grey stone Georgian houses close to the gates of Granton Pier, where Mrs. Crowe often lodged during the summer months of the 1840s.
- Green Bank, Bowness, which Mrs. Crowe's son rented in the autumn of 1857 and where she joined him and his wife immediately after returning to England from a summer excursion to the Rhineland.
- The view from Green Bank - over Lake Windermere towards the Langdale Pikes. Nos. 2-8 are photographs by Geoffrey Larken
- Leamington in 1911 - John William Crowe was at Rugby Wills, Sherbourne Place, Clarendon Street, in this town during the winter of 1856.
- Clifton Down in 1906 - Mrs. Crowe knew this area very well in the 1820s.
- Photographic reproduction of pencil sketch by Miss Jean Goldie, of Summerhill, authoress of "Recollections of Family Life", who may have been Mrs. Susan Stirling's great-aunt, of the garden at Craigcrook Castle - the original is owned by the National Library of Scotland; view taken from the drawingroom window at Craigcrook Castle.
- Facsimile of titlepage of the 3rd edition of "The Night Side of Nature".
- Morelli's restaurant, Folkestone - probably No. 22, Upper Sandgate Road, Mrs. Crowe's last home.
- Mrs. Crowe's grave in Cheriton Road Cemetery, Folkestone, 14th June 1972. Nos. 14 - 17 are photographs by Geoffrey Larken
- Modern Wiesbaden - the Kurhaus and shopping arcade, which is also an entrance to the Theatre; the colonade opposite the arcade in No. 18, which houses the Trinkhalle where Wiesbaden "wasser" can still be drunk; the Kur-Park, behind the Kurhaus - the Markt-Kirche is in the background; a view of the Trinkhalle from the oppposite end; a similar view to No. 20; fountains in the Kur-park; one of a pair of three-tiered fountains, like wedding-cakes, in front of the Kurhaus and between the two colonades. Nos. 21-25 are photographs by Geoffrey Larken.
- Heading from the early issues of Chambers' Edinburgh Journal.
- Lieutenant-General John Whitelocke, sketched by Geoffrey Larken from Thackeray's likeness reproduced in the Introduction to "Christmas Books" (Biographical Edition), 1898.
- Green Bank, Bowness - colour photograph by Arthur Bickersteth.
- Engraving of the old Pier at Boulogne, where Mrs. Crowe was staying at the Hotel Denvaux in August 1862.
- From the dust-jacket of A. Wallbank's "Queens of the Circulating Library", 1950.
- First page of "Esther Hammond's Wedding-Day", by Mrs. Crowe - from Household Words.
- Coblenz - a Rhineland town well-known to Mrs. Crowe.
- Rudesheim - ditto.
- It was at Bingen - on the Western bank of the Rhine opposite Rudesheim - that Mrs. Crowe, after four sweltering days at Wiesbaden, met up with the Lumleys in the late summer of 1857 - both then proceeding down the river to Spa.
- Before joining Mrs. Crowe, the Lumleys had been staying at Bad Kreuznach.
- Rigi-Kulm is the highest peak (5905 feet above sea-level) in this massif of Swiss limestone mountains between Lakes Zug and Lucerne. It is mentioned in Mrs. Crowe's story "The Lost Diamonds", and would make a fine illustration for the tale. One can almost identify one of the female figures as Mrs. Crowe!
- Another view of Dieppe, much beloved by Mrs. Crowe. This, the third Casine, was built in 1887, after Mrs. Crowe's day. She would have known the first, erected 1823, and patronised and popularised by the Duchesse de Berry, and the second (1857), described by contemporary writers as "Versailles de la Mer".
- Mrs. Crowe, aetat 24, could well have witnessed this wintry London scene.
- Facsimile illustration from "The Adventures of a Monkey", 1862 - Mrs. Crowe's last-published work.
- Reproduction of artist's impression of Graigcrook Castle, and Jeffrey's "little terrace".
- Photocopy of part of a letter, mentioning Mrs. Crowe, written by Samuel Brown - no date, but possiby 1850 - to Joseph Ropes, a young American of whom he made a close and lasting friend in St. Petersburgh.
- "Portrait of an Unknown Woman" by Rolinda Sharples in Bristol Art Gallery. Could Mrs. Crowe have sat for it? The dressis white, the drapery goldfish-red.
- Rydal Lake - a view Mrs. Crowe no doubt saw when visiting Wordsworth in 1846 - see Nos. 14 & 16 in Vol. 1.
- Willes Bridge, Leamington - maybe known to Mrs. Crowe if, as seems probable, she visited her son in this down - see No. 9 in Vol. 2.
- The Tepid Swimming Bath at the Royal Clifton Spa, Hotwells - as it was in Mrs. Crowe's day - opened in 1822, it was removed during the late sixties. Mixed bathing was apparently allowed!
- Engraving by Stocks after Gordon's portrait of Mrs. Crowe's great Edinburgh friend, Thomas De Quincey.
- The Avon Gorge in the 1880s, showing Hotwells landing-stage, probably constructed after Mrs. Crowe had removed from Clifton. But it is more or less the site of Rownham Wharf, and craft were wont to pull in to the right of it. It was here, in MEN & WOMEN, that Mr. Gregory, the itinerant pedlar, landed from Chepstow in hot pursuit of Jacob Lines. The Suspension Bridge was not completed until 1864.
- The Royal Gloucester Hotel in Hotwell Road, which ceased to exist as such (becoming a recruiting-office) in 1858, and was demolished in 1887. Gregory chased Lines to this hotel, but found the bird had flown and had to follow on to Southampton. |
| Related Person | Crowe, Catherine Ann (1790-1872), novelist and writer on the supernatural |
| Whitelocke, John (1757-1833), Lieutenant General |
| Sharpe, Charles Kirkpatrick (1781-1851), antiquary and artist |
| Quincy, Thomas De 1785-1859, writer and author |
| Quincy, Thomas De 1785-1859, writer and author |
| Craigcrook Castle, Edinburgh |