Interesting items we found
During our turning out of boxes, mentioned in the last post, we found these two interesting items:
The first is an incomplete copy of a New Testament produced for Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee
Our present Queen will not have her Diamond Jubilee (60 years' reign) until 2012, if she is still reigning then.
The other was a letter from Mrs Spurgeon to a recipient of a book or books, pasted inside the front cover of a book (to which it is no longer attached). It is undated and does not mention the recipient's name, so presumably it was mechanically duplicated in some way rather than being actually hand-written by her.
This week we've in fact just sold a book by Susannah Spurgeon about her work in providing books to pastors through her book fund:
