# Albert Morrison — The Story of the Treasure Seekers character guide

> Albert Morrison in The Story of the Treasure Seekers by E. Nesbit.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Albert, Albert - next - door, Presently Albert

**First appearance:** 0002-i-the-council-of-ways-and-means

## Snapshot

The velvet-suited boy next door, dug up mid-adventure and grudgingly adopted into the Bastable treasure hunt as an honorary member.

## Who they are

Albert-next-door is the neighbour the Bastables alternately torment and include, most memorably when he is buried in a garden hole and hauled out dusty, mouldy, and crying. His uncle, who claims to know everything about buried treasure, turns up to rescue him and promptly finds two half-crowns in the same hole, which the children split seven ways, counting Albert as one of themselves. His uneasy place at the edge of the family circle gives the treasure hunts a comic, sometimes guilty, social texture.

## Relationships

### [Alice Bastable](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_story_of_the_treasure_seekers_se/characters/alice_bastable)

_friendship_

Albert Morrison is a neighbor and friend of Alice, frequently joining the Bastable children in their exploits.

### [Oswald Bastable](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_story_of_the_treasure_seekers_se/characters/oswald_bastable)

_friendship_

Albert Morrison and Oswald are friends and frequent co-conspirators in the children's adventures.

### [Alice Bastable](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_story_of_the_treasure_seekers_se/characters/alice_bastable)

_friendship_

Albert Morrison is a neighbor and friend of Alice, frequently joining the Bastable children in their exploits.

### [Alice Bastable](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_story_of_the_treasure_seekers_se/characters/alice_bastable)

_friendship_

Albert Morrison is a neighbor and friend of Alice, frequently joining the Bastable children in their exploits.

### [Oswald Bastable](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_story_of_the_treasure_seekers_se/characters/oswald_bastable)

_friendship_

Albert Morrison and Oswald are friends and frequent co-conspirators in the children's adventures.

### [Oswald Bastable](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_story_of_the_treasure_seekers_se/characters/oswald_bastable)

_friendship_

Albert Morrison and Oswald are friends and frequent co-conspirators in the children's adventures.

## In the story

### [II: Digging for Treasure](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_story_of_the_treasure_seekers_se/chapters/ii-digging-for-treasure)

Reluctantly joins the digging, gets buried in the tunnel collapse, and is rescued by his uncle.

### [VII: Being Bandits](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_story_of_the_treasure_seekers_se/chapters/vii-being-bandits)

Captured as the unwary traveller; cries and complains throughout the imprisonment; released for eightpence.

### [XII: The Nobleness of Oswald](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_story_of_the_treasure_seekers_se/chapters/xii-the-nobleness-of-oswald)

Arrives unexpectedly at the end of the chapter, looking tired.

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