[An Album:] Presented to Mr and Mrs Longmaid, by Miss Mulley and the former Students of The Ladies College, Kendal, whose names are inscribed herein, with hearty congratulations and best wishes on their Golden Wedding Anniversary and in grateful remembrance from their old pupils of happy school days. For July 15. 1913, Oct. 8. 1913.

Bookseller Notes

A handsome tribute to William Henry Longmaid and his wife Margaret (ne Brown), Quaker schoolteachers who ran the College for ten years before her health took them to Southport and a smaller establishment in 1880. His educational specialism was science, but in later life he established a reputation as an artist.Excepting Miss Mulley, who heads the group, the album is arranged alphabetically (by maiden name): the names Braithwaite, Crosfield, Pecover, Richardson and Sim recur. Amongst the ex-pupils is Rachel Juliet Fox (ne Fowler), the first president of the Panacea Society - an organisation founded after the Great War and based on the teachings of Joanna Southcott.