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said a few words. Now, about nine o'clock, they are all singing hymns, very much out of tune. I must finish this up now for it must be posted to-morrow, or may miss the mail on
Tuesday. I have thoroughly enjoyed the last three days, and am almost sorry the voyage is over, and so, I think, are many of my fellow passengers. Some of them are very good and nice. Miss Fox is delightful—upwards of eighty, and yet so full of interest in everything good and beautiful; she is like a piece cut out of the old past, and a very wonderful old fossil, full of energy and cleverness." (Clara, Lady Rayleigh was the mother of Lord Rayleigh, (President of the BAAS), whom she accompanied in this journey).
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blessings, or what we consider such; or whether prayer was only a sentiment (as Tyndal thinks)? Professor
Barrett and a dear old clergyman, Canon Rogers (who, in my ignorance, I had thought, at first, was a "dry stick") argued the matter with him, and also Dr. P. Smith and his son, and Miss Fox and I
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Sunday, 24 August: "However, the sun broke forth and lifted the curtain of fog, and within a quarter of a mile we saw a beautiful iceberg twelve or fifteen hundred feet deep, they said, and so beautiful in its ultra marine colouring. The shape was like a village church somewhat in ruins. Miss Fox, a
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The portrait of Anna Maria Fox by Henry Scott Tuke, reproduced in the 1897 Poly Annual Report, is currently on display at the
Falmouth Gallery, in the Moor (28 June 2012). A photograph of Tuke painting Anna Maria is at the Tate Gallery. In
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Fox was a good amateur painter and organised of the Art section of the Annual
Exhibition at the "Poly". The Cornwall Art Union was formed in 1852, associated with the Poly. Art classes run by the Poly were a precursor of the
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The personal papers of Thomas Cooper Gotch (1854–1931) and Henry Scott Tuke:TGA 9019/1/4/2- Photograph of Henry Scott Tuke painting Anna Maria Fox in the garden at
Penjerrick (accessed 8 November 2007)
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The first purpose-built building of the
Falmouth School of Art, in Arwenack Street, was given in memory of Anna Maria Fox. The building, officially opened in August 1902 was refurbished in 2007.
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was created by Anna Maria, Barclay and
Caroline Fox, in 1832, when they were 17, 16 and 13, respectively. Their parents, uncles and aunts and their friends took up the idea with enthusiasm.
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ten years after
Caroline Fox's death. It sold well. Before her death, Anna Maria arranged for all the original volumes of Caroline's journals to be burnt. A further selection from
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Anna Maria outlived her sister by sixteen years, which Thomas
Hodgkin described as a "widowhood". She died aged 81 on 18 November 1897 and was buried at the Quaker Burial Ground in
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Her father was a member of the Quaker Fox family of Falmouth and her mother of the Quaker Barclay family of Bury Hill, near
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sister of Caroline Fox, is on board and sketched the icebergs and the waves during the storm very cleverly." . . .
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Old Falmouth: the story of the town from the days of the Killigrews to the earliest part of the Nineteenth century
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Robert Were Fox usually took his children on his journeys out of Cornwall. The family often attended the
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in London, held in May, and met their relations and friends. Robert also took them the meetings of the
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Anna Maria gave instructions that "no word of my journal is to be published".
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reward for the first year completed. All three kept journals for many years.
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FRS (26 April 1789 – 25 July 1877) and Maria Barclay (1785–1858), his wife.
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is based in Church Street, Falmouth and operates as a cultural venue.
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Falmouth School of Art - original building - Foundation stone 1901.
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meeting in Montreal and the meeting of the BAAS with the
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