MEMORIES 110 featured a book signed by Count Boruwlaski, the diminutive figure who is one of the most famous and colourful characters in Durham City’s past.
We have since been sent a little book of Biblical sayings signed in May 1883 by Charles Dodgson. He, of course, is the second most quoted author in the English language after William Shakespeare – although he is better known as Lewis Carroll.
He spent his teenage years in Croft-on-Tees, near Darlington, where his father was rector.
Carroll dedicated this little keepsake to Maria Raine, who lived in the Hurworth area.
It later came into the possession of Lady Southampton, who lived at Rockliffe Hall, in Hurworth, until the outbreak of the Second World War. She passed it onto a member of the Raw family – a familiar surname in Hurworth Place – who worked for her.
The autograph has recently changed hands, but it remains in the area.
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