[Magdalen] Listgiv from Bedford

[Ginga Wilder]

I looked up the Higgins Museum and Art Gallery on line before I responded,
Roger.  Makes me want to visit Bedford but we don't travel.

Ginga

On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 7:20 PM, Roger Stokes <roger.stokes65 at btinternet.com
> wrote:

> On 28/12/2015 19:23, Ginga Wilder wrote:
>
>> Thank you to Roger Stokes for the most interesting collection from
>> Bedford,
>> including a beautiful lace bookmark, a pocket mirror with a painting of
>> Lot
>> and his daughters copied on the back, colored drawing pencils, and a
>> postcard of a c.1850 lithograph by Henry Burn showing a view of Bedford
>> from the North.  Roger, I love the variety of things you included in this
>> listgiv.  Many, if not all, of these, came from The Higgins Art Gallery
>> and
>> Museum in Bedford.  I will enjoy each of these items.
>>
>> May your Christmas continue to be blessed.
>> Ginga Wilder
>>
>> Ginga,
>
> I am glad they arrived safely in what is still Christmas weekend over
> here, today being a public holiday in lieu of Boxing Day (the Feast of
> Stephen) since that was a Saturday.  In the past few years the former
> museum and Art Gallery have been refashioned into a single entity housed in
> the former Higgins Brewery and the owner's family home, hence the name.
> Shame on me but I have not explored it properly since its remodelling but
> it does provide more space for displaying what is held.  Judy's gift
> exhorts me to revisit Julian of Norwich and likewise I need to visit the
> Higgins properly.  It's not exactly familiarity breeding contempt but not
> appreciating that which is closest.
>
> Roger
>