The Paul Hyslop Photo Album – Returning from China and Anna May Wong’s Visit to Knole, 1929

The Paul (born Charles Geddes Clarkson Hyslop) Hyslop (architect, Bloomsburyite, wartime monuments man) photograph album recently came up for sale at Abbott and Holder in London. It’s a wonderful record of many of the members of the Bloomsbury Group and other Bight Young Things between the wars. A couple of photos of particular interest to China Rhymers in the collection.

Paul Hyslop and his sister Joy on deck aboard their ship returning from China, 1928

and a group photo taken at Knole (a beautiful country house in west Kent), the Sackville-West family home, 1929 – Anna May Wong was visiting and joined Eddy Sackville-West, the music critic and novelist, as well as Hyslop and the English actress Valerie Taylor…