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MARITIME – ROYAL YACHT SQUADRON
Logbooks kept by Colonel William Thomas Markham for his yachts Sultana, Coquette, Pantomime, Harlequin and Vol-au-Vent, sailing from Cowes, 1862-1876

11 November 2015, 13:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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MARITIME – ROYAL YACHT SQUADRON

Logbooks kept by Colonel William Thomas Markham for his yachts Sultana, Coquette, Pantomime, Harlequin and Vol-au-Vent, sailing from Cowes, running from July 1862 until July 1876, the first volume illustrated with eight full-page watercolours by Markham, others with sketches plus cuttings and other material pasted in, in four volumes, some pages loose or lacking, contemporary calf, folio, 1862-1876

Footnotes

'Colonel Markham, of the Coldstreams, was a notable builder of yachts, including the Sultana yawl, which he converted to a schooner, the Pantomime schooner, with a running bowsprit, which won a Queen's Cup, the Harlequin cutter, and finally the famous Vol-au-Vent. He designed and built Solent Lodge, and married a very charming lady in Miss Daisy Grant, daughter of Sir Francis Grant, the President of the Royal Academy' (Montague Guest and William B. Bolton, The Royal Yacht Squadron: Memorials of its Members, 1902, p. 293). An entry made in the log of the Sultana for 9 June 1863 records that "Miss Liddell came on board" (this being the month that saw the still unexplained rift between Dodgson and the Liddell family).

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