QUEEN’S DOLLS’ HOUSE.
Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, May 11.. The Governor-General, Lord Blcdisloo recently received from Her, Majesty the Queen, for presentation on Her Majesty’s behalf to a library in the capital city of New Zealand a com of the book of the Queens Dolls House, which is generally acknowledged to be the most remarkable dolls’ house in the world. The book is in two volumes —volume 1 by A. C. Benson and Sir Lawrence Weaver, and volume 11. by. E. V. Lucas—and contains Her Majesty’s autograph. In a letter accompanying this book it is stated: “The Queen cannot help thinking that this illustrated record of the building and furnishing of the dolls’ house will be of interest. Her Majesty hopes that the story told in its pages may give pleasure to the young-and old of present and future generations.” After consulting representative authorities, His Excellency decided to give effect to Her Majesty’s gracious 2nd kindly thought bv depositing the book at the Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington. The two volumes are now on the shelves of that library.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 139, 12 May 1930, Page 11
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178QUEEN’S DOLLS’ HOUSE. Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 139, 12 May 1930, Page 11
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