Selected Reference Papers
For this volume
The Mallard House Papers: A Catalogue of Extant Holdings. Private Edition. Mallard Press, 1893. Suppressed after forty copies were circulated. Surviving copies known in the possession of the 29th Duke and (briefly) the Athenaeum Club Library before “accidental” misfiling.
Grey, Hon. Euphemia de. Reminiscences of Country and Court. London: Spottiswoode, 1878. A rare memoir, notable less for what it reveals than for the “pages excised by the authoress at the advice of her solicitor.”
Burke’s Landed Gentry: Supplement for Families Extinct or Dormant. 14th edition, 1890. Entries on “Fitzartur” and “deMallard” appear inconsistently; cross-referenced but not reconciled in later printings.
Harbottle, C.A. A Glossary of Servants’ Duties in Houses of More Than Sixty Rooms. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1881. Appendix III (“On the Placement of Footmen in Bedrooms During Night Hours”) has been cited in Mallard family correspondence.
“A Record of the Centenary Gathering at Mallard House.” Gentleman’s Quarterly Review of Heraldic Customs, Vol. VII, No. 2 (1901): 144–173. Illustrated with engravings after sketches now lost.
Anonymous. The Duchess Abroad: Being Letters from a Lady of Fashion. Constantinople: Printed for private circulation, 1864. Widely attributed to Lady Alice Fitzartur; authenticity disputed.
Fitzartur, Lord Septimus. On the Management of Estates in Difficult Times. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1852. Ostensibly a treatise on drainage and tenancy, though the chapter “Of Entails and Their Unfortunate Interruptions” is of more lasting interest.
“Notes on the Duke’s Table.” In The Journal of Gastronomic Curiosities, ed. T. Arbuthnot. London: 1899. Cited in debates concerning the Fitzartur fondness for green sauces.
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