Papers of Admiral Charles Wright Bonham (1817-1910), his sons Captain Thomas Parry Bonham (1873-1916) and Lt. Col. Charles Barnard Bonham, D.S.O. (1871-1943) of the Royal Engineers, and his grandson Lieutenant Henry Thomas Robert Bonham (1904-1940), comprising: "Journal of a Passage/ from/ Hong-Kong to England in/ 1846./ In H.M. Steam Sloop Vixen/ by/ Lieut. C.W. Bonham", daily entries include notes on the weather and the wildlife ("...the ship was very uneasy and rolled very heavily...we have not seen a sail in a run of about three thousand miles... several albatross in sight... exchanged colours with an American ship..."), with stops at Cape Town, St. Helena ("...much sickness... the church is pretty, so is the governors house..."), and Ascension Island ("...the greatest heaps of cinders & lava... fever, madness, dirt, drunkenness & desolation..."), with two landscape profiles drawn in pencil, 37 pages, green cloth, 4to (230 x 178mm.), March to June and November to December 1846; with various family documents including some twenty commissions dating from 1840 to 1926 (one signed "Edward R & I", C.W. Bonham's certificate on retirement in 1878 signed "Hood"), reports and passing out certificates from the Royal Naval College, certificates of service, letters of appointment, C.B. Bonham's certificate awarding him the D.S.O. in 1918 (signed "George R.I."), various awards, pocket account books 1895-1909, press cuttings etc.; a collection of medals and ribbons belonging to C.B. Bonham including two for shooting and one for football, his Altipiani medal, 1918 and empty box for the D.S.O.; c.30 photographs of the family, school teams, ships' crews and various vessels; circular oak snuff box with inset silver roundel engraved 'Captn Bonham HMS Victory 1860', with painted inscription inside ('Turned from/ a floor timber/ of/ HMS Victory/ built 1765'), diameter 107mm.; further miscellaneous papers including printed maps, menus, Christmas cards etc.; contained in a metal trunk bearing the painted name 'Lt. Col. C. B. Bonham' (quantity)
Papers of Admiral Charles Wright Bonham (1817-1910), his sons Captain Thomas Parry Bonham (1873-1916) and Lt. Col. Charles Barnard Bonham, D.S.O. (1871-1943) of the Royal Engineers, and his grandson Lieutenant Henry Thomas Robert Bonham (1904-1940), comprising: "Journal of a Passage/ from/ Hong-Kong to England in/ 1846./ In H.M. Steam Sloop Vixen/ by/ Lieut. C.W. Bonham", daily entries include notes on the weather and the wildlife ("...the ship was very uneasy and rolled very heavily...we have not seen a sail in a run of about three thousand miles... several albatross in sight... exchanged colours with an American ship..."), with stops at Cape Town, St. Helena ("...much sickness... the church is pretty, so is the governors house..."), and Ascension Island ("...the greatest heaps of cinders & lava... fever, madness, dirt, drunkenness & desolation..."), with two landscape profiles drawn in pencil, 37 pages, green cloth, 4to (230 x 178mm.), March to June and November to December 1846; with various family documents including some twenty commissions dating from 1840 to 1926 (one signed "Edward R & I", C.W. Bonham's certificate on retirement in 1878 signed "Hood"), reports and passing out certificates from the Royal Naval College, certificates of service, letters of appointment, C.B. Bonham's certificate awarding him the D.S.O. in 1918 (signed "George R.I."), various awards, pocket account books 1895-1909, press cuttings etc.; a collection of medals and ribbons belonging to C.B. Bonham including two for shooting and one for football, his Altipiani medal, 1918 and empty box for the D.S.O.; c.30 photographs of the family, school teams, ships' crews and various vessels; circular oak snuff box with inset silver roundel engraved 'Captn Bonham HMS Victory 1860', with painted inscription inside ('Turned from/ a floor timber/ of/ HMS Victory/ built 1765'), diameter 107mm.; further miscellaneous papers including printed maps, menus, Christmas cards etc.; contained in a metal trunk bearing the painted name 'Lt. Col. C. B. Bonham' (quantity)
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