A visitor book, Fern Cottage, Horning, Norfolk Broads, numer...

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£80 - £100

A visitor book, Fern Cottage, Horning, Norfolk Broads, numerous entries 1920's-1960's, including Arthur Henry Patterson (1857-1935), Broadland naturalist and writer, manuscript entry by him, dated May 15 1924, signed "A.H. Patterson ("John Knowlittle") Yarmouth, author "The Cruise of the Walrus" on the Broads. &c &c", and with 2 small pen & ink sketches by Patterson; plus also with 1920's entries/signatures of H.M. Bateman (1887-1970), with humourous pen & ink sketch by him of a man fishing a pike, W.E. Hayter Preston (1891–1964), Sir Edward Paulet Stracey, 7th Baronet (1871–1949) of Rackheath Park, Norfolk, Henry Michael Collins (1844–1928), Reuter's agent, Elizabeth Cator (1899-1959), of Woodbastwick, Horace Sequeira (1887-1973), and many others, photographic postcard of Fern Cottage Horning, and b/w photograph of Arthur Henry Patterson in front of Fern Cottage, mounted to inside front cover, contemporary calf gilt album (worn)