The Trust is pleased to record the following acquisitions.
Church Stretton Illustrated, 7th edition 1924, edited by E S Cobbold (#250 on the family tree). This is important as the Trust now has 7 of the 10 editions edited by Edgar Sterling Cobbold between 1903 and 1937.
Musical Recollections of more than Half a Century, by Lindley Nunn (#1146) published by W E Harrison, 1899.
Conveyance of Alton Hall, Farmhouses, Cottages, Buildings and Land by the Personal Representatives of P W Cobbold (Deceased) (#324) to Captain L A H Wright RN.
The Suffolk Gipsy by John H Steggall, edited by Rev. Richard Cobbold (#106), published by Ward, Lock & Co, 1856. This is a better copy than the one the Trust already owns.
Ipswich Speedway Race Card and Score Sheet, 16th October 1975, Tolly Cobbold / Dave Bickers Grand Challenge Match for £200 on a winner takes all basis. Tolly Cobbold lost 37-41.
The Press and the General Staff, by Neville Lytton (#3710, later 3rd Earl Lytton), published by W Collins, 1920. A contemporary writer said ‘Here is possibly the wittiest and shrewdest view of the war that has yet been given us….’ The book includes a passage in praise of Capt. Cobbold (almost certainly Maj. Guy Fromanteel Cobbold MC) (#350): ‘I thought especially of Captain Cobbold and his splendid example. I have not seen him from that day to this; I heard that he had been badly wounded on the Somme. If ever his eye should light on these pages I should like him to know that in the hour of death and on the day of Judgement I shall think of him and hope to have a small particle of his glorious courage’. Guy was indeed injured on the Somme in 1916, the year in which he won his Military Cross.