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WOMEN'S LANGUAGE AND EXPERIENCE, c1500-1940
Women's Diaries and Related Sources
Part 3: Sources from Suffolk County Record Office and Cambridge University Library
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MATERIAL AT CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY
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Jane West's Tour in Wales and Ireland, 1810
f 1 Slip with table of contents:
"This MS Tour in Wales and Ireland with original Poems at End was written at the commencement of the 19th Century by Mrs Jane West author of the following works amongst others:
Plays and Poems. 2 vols. London 1799;
The Loyalists;
Alicia de Lacy;
The Infidel Father;
Letters addressed to a young man on his first entrance into Lipo,
3 vols, London 1801;
Letters to a young Lady dedicated by permission to the Queen,
3 vols, 1806.
See Lowndes Bibliographic Manual. This MS gives some account of the state of Ireland and the miserable squalor of its inhabitants some 60 years ago."
ff 2-6 blank.
f 7 Extracts from Mrs West's Manuscript Tour [1810]:
They begin with a description of Chester and continue through Flintshire, Denbighshire, Conway, Bangor to Holyhead, the passage to Dublin, thence to Dromore, from the coast of Antrim to Scotland, Port Patrick, Dumfries and so to Carlisle, thence through Yorkshire to Leicestershire.
f 75 Poem "To Glen Luce", by Mrs West.
f 78 "Poem to Mrs Isted On Her Return from Ireland in 1807 after the Death of Her Mother." It begins:
"Oh welcome to the haunts of social joy,
To scenes by nature's richest carers attir'd
To thy fond husband, and thy beauteous boy,
Oh welcome much belov'd, and much desir'd
The meads are spangled with unwanted flowers,
Unchain'd by frost the rippling fountains rove,
Springs' early green ber canopies the bowers,
The woodlands echo with the song of love..."
f 83 verso: "A Farewell to Leamington", poem by Mrs West. 1833.
ff 86-89 blank.
This volume belonged to Samuel Sandars whose bookplate appears inside the front cover. It was presented by him to CUL in 1870.
(None of the poems appear ever to have been printed).
Some of the following passages provide a glimpse of the detailed social observations which fill the pages of this volume:
ff 7-8
Chester
"The approach to Chester is very fine. The Dee winds round its suburbs: its bed is shallow and rocky: The tide flows as high as the city, and the river is a fine embellishment of the road to Holywell, being crowded with vessels, and so wide, that the eye can scarcely discern the opposite banks. We entered the city by a modern arch which passes through the old walls. These are preserved perfect, and you may walk upon them round the town: and from the inequality of the surface on which Chester is built, the walls are sometimes higher than the adjacent houses. We stood some time over the arch by which we entered, looking on the one hand, at the immense concourse of people assembled in the suburbs, it being the great linen fair: and, on the other, at the rows and other singularities peculiar to this interesting city..."
ff 27-28
Dublin
"Like the rows of an amphitheatre: The village of Clonfert (the Irish Richmond) is on the north, and on the south, a pier running far into the sea: built to keep the Bay clear of sands, extending from the lighthouse to the garrison and Locks: We stepped out of the pacquet upon the beach: The pier is as wide as a broad street, and defended by a strong wall intended to break the force of the west winds, and give greater security to Dublin harbour. Here we enjoyed a spacious sea view, and behind us a rich land one toward the city and the Wicklow mountains: A great number of labourers were employed upon the pier: an English eye could not help being struck with the difference between the sturdy, close buttoned, self-importance of an English porter, and the figures which now surrounded us: their forms slight, a sort of melancholy ferocity in their countenances: many without shoes or stockings, or hats, and all of them having some part of their garniture floating in the wind. About twelve the chaise was liberated from the Custom House, and we set off for the metropolis of the Sister kingdom. It justly deserves the title of a beautiful city: All the new part of the town is superbly built, and I recollect nothing in London which can compare as a coup d'oeil with college green, where the front of Trinity college, the national Bank (late the Parliament House) and the Club houses form an assemblage of stately buildings. The edifices here are not blacken'd with smoke, as in London, but they have a green hue arising, I presume, from the climate: The residence of the Lord Lieutenant, called the castle, is a forlorn brick building, as unregal as St James's, in the style of Hampton Court. There are two handsome bridges over the Liffy, but the river disappointed me..."
ff 31-2
"...But in our sister Kingdom there is not that gentle gradation of ranks which preserves society in one continuous chain from the prince to the beggar: when you get below the rank of gentry, the difference of inhabitants on each side of the channel is striking: The trades people at Dublin in manner and appearance, held no comparison with those I had been accustomed to see: You seldom meet well dressed women in the streets. From the window of the hotel in Frederick Street, I looked with surprise on the walking costume which most frequently passed, and it would be difficult to conceive one of less compactness and symmetry: I speak not of those who "bare footed trod the flinty pavement" reminding me of Jane Shore's penance, but of such as I should suppose were the wives of artisans, or household servants: The upper garments of these were brown great coats, loaded with a superfluity of capes, and fastened at the throat with one button: No hat, but to supply the deficiency, a double quantity of cap and border... Respecting the want of shoes and stockings, I do not think the deprivation costs so much in suffering, as it does in comfortable appearance..."
ff 43 verso and ff 44
Of Ireland she concludes "... the little I did see or hear confirms the accuracy of Miss Edgeworth's painting: As to Bishop Percy, altho' English in his manners and conversation, he bore such an unbounded affection to the country to which he belonged and which had adopted him, that he gave a preference to Ireland in every point wherein she differs from her sister..."
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Harriet Miller's tours in the Alps and Germany, 1856 & following.
Journal (35 folios) compiled by Mrs Harriet Miller of tours on the Continent with her husband Professor W H Miller in 1856 and a subsequent year. Folios 13v-14v, 23v-25, 35v are blank, and some leaves at the end are missing (though presumably also blank). This volume was presented to CUL by T Jesson of Trinity College, 21 June 1920. It begins as follows:
Thursday, 19 June 1856
"We left Cambridge today on an excursion to Switzerland but first propose spending a few days with our friends General and Mrs Sabine, who live in a flat at Ashley Place, Westminster. We arrived in time for W and The General to dress for the club dinner of the Royal Society. I spent the evening quietly and pleasantly with Mrs Sabine. I envy her the honour she has received in a picture from Humboldt which represents him sitting in his study writing his Cosmos, beneath is an inscription written in French to the purport that he presents the picture to Mad. Sabine as an humble offering of admiration and gratitude and signed A V Humboldt..."
Carlsruhe 17 September
"We left Rouen on Monday at 1 o'clock, having like good English people rested there for the Sunday. Small rest however for any one who stops there for there cannot be any place where Sunday is less observed. Every shop was open except one, where apparantly shawls are sold and which curiously enough the designation of the "pauvre Diable", proving as W observes that he is less black than he is painted. Any one of the beautiful churches of Rouen might form the glory of a place, those who built them were very pious doubtless, but if they gave up their lives to pleasure as their descendents seem to do, I can well fancy they were pleased to compound in the matter of their salvation by giving away their money for religious purposes..."
A subsequent trip begins as follows, see folio 26:
Saturday 30 June
"Embarked for Rotterdam at 11am. Voyage down the Thames pleasant enough; amused to see the vessel off Greenwich in which boys training for sailors were running up and down the rigging looking in the distance like so many insects. Nice dinner at 3 o'clock. About 5 I retired to my berth as the ship got a little unsteady in her movements, and I laid, not on a bed of roses till about 11 the next morning..."
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Diaries of Jane M Bacon, 1837-1843, 1846-1851 and 1854-1856 (16 vols).
A series of diaries kept by Jane M Bacon:
Ree's Improved Diary and Almanack, 1837-1843 (72pp per volume)
Ree's Improved Diary and Almanack, 1846-1851 (72pp per volume)
Ree's Improved Diary and Almanack, 1854-1856 (72pp per volume)
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Add 6253 Diaries of Jane M Bacon, 1861, 1863-1867 and 1869-1870.
These 8 volumes comprise:
Lett's Pocket Diary and Almanack, 1861 (40pp)
Ree's Improved Diary and Almanack, 1863-1867 (96pp per volume)
Pettitt's Annual Diary, 1869 (80 folios)
Ree's Improved Diary and Almanack, 1870 (96 pp)
They contain brief entries in the following style:
Tuesday 2 February 1869
"Miss Willett and Mrs Louis Willett called. F Martineau called."
Tuesday 23 February 1869
"Sedley to Edgbaston. Mrs B, Mrs Simpson, Miss Bust and Fanny called."
Friday 26 February 1869
"MaB. F M to tea. Walked out."
Monday 8 March 1869
"MaB. S J to Cambridge."
Saturday 13 March 1869
"Called on Lady Hooker and Miss Palmer. Took MaB who visited part of the Warehouse, and got a walk."
Tuesday 8 June 1869
"Annabella married. Called on Mrs Chappell, Mrs Osborne, Mrs Enfield, Mrs Phillott."
Wednesday 9 June 1869
"Burlington House."
Saturday 12 June 1869
"Called on Mrs Chappell, Mr J Chappell and Mrs D D. Lady Millicent called."
Saturday 10 July 1869
"Paid Rebecca wages and Johnson by cheque c. £3.15 from me and £1 from her daughter."
Wednesday 25 August 1869
"S J. Went on Yorkshire tour."
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Mrs Siddons, Mrs Pennington and Sir Thomas Lawrence:
Correspondence, 1798-1803. (Items 1-65).
Letters pasted into one large volume, presented to CUL by
C Fairfax Murray, 16 June 1918.
Item 1. Sarah Siddons (the actress) to her friend Mrs Pennington, Worcester, 26 July, 1803.
"My dear Mrs Pennington
Your goodness to my dear Girl is what I expected, but I am not able to express my gratitude for it dear Soul add I still to the number of your favours by telling me every particular about her! Her accounts to Sally are too general to content so restless a creature as I unfortunately must ever remain, I say ever, for not these years, if it were not incorporate with my flesh and blood and making a part of my existence, I might expect to see myself rid of this irritability. I know she went to the Ball, I hope it did no harm! This weather has prevented her riding too, tell me about her pulse, her perspirations, her cough, anything! and tell me too that your mind is at ease about your brother. I am playing every night to very full houses, but how the people can sit to see such representations is quite wonderful for anything so bad..."
Item 2. Sarah Siddons to Mrs Pennington, Hereford, nd.
Item 3. Sarah Siddons to Mrs Pennington, Cheltenham, Thursday, nd.
Item 4. Sarah Siddons to Mrs Pennington, Birmingham, Thursday, nd.
Item 5. Sarah Siddons to Mrs Pennington, Brighton, 26 September 1798 with news of her husband, Maria and Sally, Lady Jersey, dancing, singing and society life in Brighton.
Item 6. Sarah Siddons to Mrs Pennington, Friday, nd.
Item 7. Sarah Siddons to Mrs Pennington, Birmingham, nd.
Item 8. Sir Thomas Lawrence (leading portrait artist of the period, famous for his painting of the Prince Regent in Brighton, he also completed a number of paintings of Sarah Siddons) to "Dear Madam" n.d
Item 9. Continuation of Item 8. Very unclear; poor in the original.
Item 10. Sarah Siddons to Mrs Pennington, nd.
Item 11. Sarah Siddons to Mrs Pennington, Birmingham, Tues/Weds? nd.
Item 12. Sarah Siddons to Mrs Pennington, Friday, nd.
Item 13. (Sir Thomas Lawrence?) to Mrs Pennington, nd.
Item 14. Continuation of Item 13.
Item 15. Continuation of Item 13.
Item 16. Reply to Sir Thomas Lawrence by Mrs Pennington, nd.
Item 17. Continuation of Item 16.
Item 18. Sir Thomas Lawrence to Mrs Pennington, 1 September 1798.
Item 19. Sarah Siddons to Sir Thomas Lawrence, 4 September 1798.
Item 20. Continuation of Item 19.
Item 21. Sir Thomas Lawrence to "My dear Madam", nd.
Item 22. Sir Thomas Lawrence to "My dear Madam", nd.
Item 23. Mrs Pennington to Sir Thomas Lawrence, Hot Wells,
Weds Night, 11 September, nd.
Item 24. Sir Thomas Lawrence to Mrs Pennington, nd.
Item 25. Continuation of Item 24.
Item 26. Sir Thomas Lawrence to Mrs Pennington, nd.
Item 27. Mrs Pennington to (Sir Thomas Lawrence ?), Tuesday 2 October, nd.
Item 28. Sir Thomas Lawrence to Mrs Pennington, nd.
Item 29. Sir Thomas Lawrence to Mrs Pennington, nd.
Item 30. Sir Thomas Lawrence to Mrs Pennington, nd.
Item 31. Mrs Pennington to Sir Thomas Lawrence, Monday 8 October 1798.
Item 32. Continuation of Item 31.
Item 33. Sir Thomas Lawrence to Mrs Pennington, nd (October 1798 ?).
Item 34. Mrs Pennington to (Sir Thomas Lawrence ?), Monday 15 October nd.
Item 35. Sarah Siddons to Mrs Pennington, Bath, 9 o'clock, Wednesday night, nd.
Item 36. Sarah Siddons to Mrs Pennington, nd.
Item 37. Mrs Pennington to Sir Thomas Lawrence, 15 October 1798 with "kindest love to Mrs Siddons and Dear Sally".
Item 38. Continuation of Item 37.
Item 39. Sarah Siddons to Mrs Pennington, London, October 17, nd (1798 ?).
Item 40. Sarah Siddons to Mrs Pennington, Wednesday, nd.
Item 41. Brief note by S Siddons ? nd.
Item 42. Sir Thomas Lawrence to Mrs Pennington, nd.
Item 43. Mrs Pennington to (Sarah Siddons ?), 17 October 1798.
Item 44. Sarah Siddons to Mrs Pennington, 21 October 1798.
Item 45. Sarah Siddons to (Mrs Pennington ?), Saturday, nd.
Item 46. Continuation of Item 45.
Item 47. Mrs Pennington to (Sir Thomas Lawrence ?), 5 November, nd.
Item 48. Sally to Mrs Pennington, Wednesday, 7 November, nd.
Item 49. Continuation of Item 48.
Item 50. Sarah Siddons to Mrs Pennington, Sunday, nd.
Item 51. Sarah Siddons to Mrs Pennington, 1 December 1798.
Item 52. Sarah Siddons to Mrs Pennington, 8 January 1799.
Item 53. Sarah Siddons to Mrs Pennington, London, 19 January, nd (1799 ?).
Item 54. Sarah Siddons to Mrs Pennington, London, Tuesday, 5 March 1799.
Item 55. Sarah Siddons to Mrs Pennington, nd.
Item 56. Sarah Siddons to Mrs Pennington, London, Monday, 11 June 1799.
Item 57. Sarah Siddons to Mrs Pennington, Wakefield, 16 September, nd (1799 ?).
Item 58. Sarah Siddons to Mrs Pennington, Hull, 11 November 1799.
Item 59. S M Siddons to Mrs Pennington, London, 24 November 1799.
Item 60. Sarah Siddons to Mrs Pennington, 25 November 1799.
Item 61. Sarah Siddons to Mrs Pennington, 19 December 1800.
Item 62. Sarah Siddons to Mrs Pennington, Birmingham, 2 June 1801.
Item 63. Sarah Siddons to Mrs Pennington, Sunday, nd (1801 ?).
Item 64. Sarah Siddons to Mrs Pennington, London, 30 January 1803.
Item 65. Sarah Siddons to (Mrs Pennington ?), Dublin, 31 January 1803.
All written in very clear handwriting - especially Sarah Siddons -
extremely good handwriting in ink.
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Maria S Grey: Correspondence, 1829-1848. Items 1-200.
Items 1-200 from the collection of 231 letters to Maria Susannah Grey (d. 1859), a grand-daughter of the 1st Earl Grey, from her family and friends, 1829-1848. The writers (number of letters in brackets) include her mother Mrs Maria Grey (née Shirreff) [21]; her aunt Miss Eliza Shirreff ("Goody") [17]; her sister Emily (Mrs Duberly) [25]; her brothers Captain Charles C Grey, RN [40] and William T Grey [27]; her cousins Maria Georgina (Mrs W T Grey) [23] and Emily A E Shirreff [17]; her cousin Charlotte Grey (afterwards Mrs Wilson) [5]; Eugénia, Marquesa das Minas (née de Souza, daughter of 1st Duke of Palmela) [17]; Theodosia, Lady Monson [3]; and with the above are 16 letters (all but one addressed to Major M R W Duberly), a pedigree and notes, relating to the genealogy of the Shirreff and allied families, 1924-1950.
Item 52 comprises "The Berkeley Street Gazette" and "Tyburn Turnpike Chronicle":
Presented to CUL by Major MRW Duberly, the Red House, Buckden, Huntingdonshire, 16 May & 15 June 1950. The 231 items are contained in one green box; then there are two un-numbered items; then finally 18 more items of various sizes, including letters written on the back of maps, numbered A1-A18.
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Maria S Grey: Correspondence, 1829-1848.
continued from above: Items 201-231; Two un-numbered items and
Items A1-A18 [Item A15 appears to be missing from the original].
Add 7502
Commonplace Book of Anne Webb, 1801-1851.
Ann Gould's commonplace book, 198pp. She was wife of Dr W Webb, Master of Clare College, Cambridge. The first entry, dated Bury, December 1801 is a poem entitled "On Christmas Day". other items include:
p. 21 Poem "To a Friend with a Work Box".
p. 44 Poem "The Art of Reading Verse".
p. 45 Poem "To My Father on his Birthday".
p. 69 Poem on "Politeness", (4pp) August 1812.
p. 89 Poem to W W (her husband), 20 August 1827.
p. 96 Delightful sketch of Church at Fornham.
p. 97 Lines written on visiting the Grave of my Parents in the Churchyard at Fornham.
p. 99 Delightful sketch of Fornham Parsonage.
p. 120 Lutterworth Church. Poem and Sketch.
Mostly Verse and Poetry with other writings. Very clear hand. Ink. The last entry is dated December 1851: a poem entitled "Returns of Christmas". There are many blank pages at the end. The volume was presented to CUL by J M Edmonds, Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge.
Add 7718
Ladies' Pocket Journal or Toilet Assistant for the Year 1799.
At the front are illustrations of Ladies in the Fashionable Dress of 1798 and of the inside of Brandenburgh House Theatre at Hammersmith, the seat of His Serene Highness the Margrave of Anspach.
There are printed pages on:
Face Painting by the Ladies
General Observations and Moral Sentences
The Folly of Affecting Acquaintance with our Superiors
On Uncertainty
On Good and Bad Company
New Country Dances for the Year 1799
In the middle of the volume there are ruled pages for memoranda - brief one line diary notes, people to see; things to do.
Add 7719
Ladies' Pocket Journal or Toilet Assistant for the Year 1804.
At the front are illustrations of a Lady in the Dress of the Year 1803 and of Russell Square, Bloomsbury.
There are printed pages on:
New Window Tax
House Tax
Tax on Servants
Rules and Maxims for the Conduct of Life
Ode to Fancy
Ode to Humanity
Friendship
Woman
The Modern Christian
There are also marketing tables, memoranda and diary entries in the middle of the volume as per Add 7718.
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Commonplace Book of Elizabeth Lyttleton, c1680.
Poems, Notes, Essays , Other Writings, Epitaphs and Notes on Sermons.
45pp; then in reverso, p174 back to p46. The volume starts with "Sir Walter Rawleiys Letter to his wife after his Condemnation", (3pp):
"You shall receive my Dear wife my last words in these my last lines, my love. I send you that you may keep when I am dead and my Councell that you remember it, when I am no more, I would not with my will present you sorrows. Dear Bess, let them goe to the grave with me, and be buried in the dust, and seeing that it is not the will of God that I shall see you any more bear my distinction patiently and with an heart like yrself, first I send you all the thanks which my hear can conceive or my words express, for yr many Travells and cares for me,..."
There are also lots of notes on sermons. Other material includes:
The prayer of Luther at his death; "Upon a Tempest at Sea" (poem) written by her Father at the Crowe Jane in Chester at his coming from Ireland; some Arabian Proverbs; Italian and French Proverbs; a passage entitled "Elizabeth Littleton is not a little blest"; an "Epitaph upon Queen Elizabeth";
a description of Kings James's progress to the house of Sir Pope Knight when his Lady was lately delivered of a daughter; a Turkish Prayer or Athemdolilla and Dr Alablasters Verses upon Dr Reynolds and his Brother.
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Commonplace Book of Sophia Churchill, Countess of Oxford, 1777-1780.
The volume contains Poems; Plays; quite a lot of writings in French; recipes; epigrams; Notes on the death of David Garrick; Notes on Reading Habits; Views on Books such as this extract from p203 from a section entitled: To Miss - From Mrs - " pp200-209, December 1778:
"As a book of equal entertainment and information, Robertson's History of Charles ye 5th is unequalled. His first Volume gives the most elegant view of the State of Europe, after the subversion of the Roman power, yet published. His History of the discovery of America just come out is also well worth reading.
You mentioned to me a love for Memoirs. Those of Sully are charming. The Memoires du Cardinal de Retz are also extremely curious.
Dalaymphs' History of the Revolution is interesting beyond the usual run of that species of writing. The very momentous incidents he relates are so finely painted as to draw tears from every passing Eye..."
This volume (212pp and then in reverso an index at the back) was compiled by Lady Walpole, wife of the Earl of Oxford. She was born on 27 October 1760; married 27 July 1781 and died 11 November 1797.
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Ipswich Material
Ips: HA 246/H6/8
Pocket diary of Catherine Mannock of Giffords Hall, 1814-19
Regular entries. c6-7 lines per day, describing weather, who she had seen, religion, but not much else. Includes some sketches and drawings.
(20 folios).
Ips: HD 298/1-2
Pocket diaries of Miss E A Gideon of Paddington, 1817-18
Volume 1.
1643/1 136pp
Rowney's Useful Memorandum Book and Daily Journal, 1817 containing Miss Gideon's manuscript verses and billet doux.
Volume 2.
1643/2 70pp
The Pocket Magnet or Elegant Picturesque Diary, 1818, inscribed:
"E A Gideon, Stafford Street, Lisson Green, Paddington." This includes a recipe and manuscript verse. The entry for 21 January reads: "Went to see the Princess lying in state."
Ips: HA 54/1/617
Travel diary (Lakes and Scotland) of Ann Gurdon, 1854
This volume describes "Our Tour of Scotland, 1854" and then there are sections on
the "Lake District" and "Our Paris Trip". Ink. Good handwriting. Lots of little pen and ink drawings. (88 folios).
An early entry for July 1854, describing her journey up to Edinburgh, reads as follows:
"We came home through Sandbeck (Lord Scarborough's seat); an ugly house, but some nice evergreens and some deer in the park - Tuesday July 4th: Started in a fly at about 11 to join the train at Doncaster; passed the race course and stand and drove through the town, which is a very neat one, to the station. Got into the railway at 20 minutes past 1 and didn't even change carriages until we got to Edinburgh. We passed the Minster at York, which looked small for a Minster, I thought. Went very near the sea which looked beautiful and remarked some fine rocks near Berwick. The Bass Rock looked very fine. Also I forgot to mention a pretty building, I suppose a ruin; probably in Lambton Park, near Durham. There is a picturesque old castle at Newcastle which we saw all round as the railway turns round it. Newcastle looked an immense town very smoky and choky. When we had crossed the Tweed, there was pretty scenery near Dunbar. We arrived in Edinburgh a little after nine about 50 minutes after our time and went to Douglas's Hotel in St Andrew's Square where we had written for rooms, and were very comfortably lodged. The weather was beautifully light and clear..."
The following is an extract from Saturday July 15:
"... There was a third set of falls called the horse shoe falls which were also very pretty. We then drove on to Kenmore and got to the inn about 1/2 past 1; had some luncheon and soon after went out walking."
There follows a sketch of the Entrance Gate at Taymouth; then the text continues:
"We found two fine young men at the gate dressed in kilt of the Campbell plaid and one of them accompanied us through the grounds. It is certainly a beautiful place; the beech trees are remarkably fine. We first went to the dairy, which is a house of itself. There is some nice china in it, and we saw the spade used by the Queen for planting the trees in the garden. We went to the upstairs room to see the view of the lake, which looks very well from the balcony. In that room there is a model of Lochleven Castle. We then proceeded to the Castle, which is a handsome building, none of it is at all old, and the last part was added about 17 years ago. Our guide was very uncommunicative, and it was very difficult to get him to say more than "Yes, Sir" and "No, Sir". When we got to the house he sent the housekeeper to us, a nice good tempered women who knew about every thing, even who the pictures were by. The public rooms are beautiful and though grand, one could live very comfortably in them..."
This extract is from "Our Paris Trip", Tuesday, 25 March
"...The women wear such nice clean caps here instead of bonnets, so beautifully crimped that it looks as if they had just come out of the laundry. The children are constantly playing at marbles, and also the boys, who seem to have nothing to do, while the women work hard, at almost everything. They wear very short petticoats which look very comfortable and as they are fond of bright colours, their appearance is picturesque. We left Boulogne at 1/2 past twelve o'clock and got to Paris at about 7 where we found a family omnibus waiting for us, which rattled as much as if a heavy hailstorm was going on. Our rooms are comfortable, and look pleasantly on to the Tuileries gardens."
Ips: HA 244/K/3-11
Travel journals of Elizabeth Sarah White, 1858-1878
9 items; various journals written on letter paper, as follows:
HA 244/K/3 My first Journal abroad, 1858
Starts at Paris, 10 August 1858. (150pp)
HA 244/K/4 Diary, 1865
Brief entries. (40 folios)
HA 244/K/5 Journal Abroad, 1865
(60pp)
HA 244/K/6 Journal Abroad, 1868
(80pp)
HA 244/K/7 Journal Abroad, 1871
(80pp)
HA 244/K/8 Journal Abroad, 1873: Visit to Venice and Florence
This journal (103pp) begins with the entry written at the Hotel Bellevue, Brussels, Friday 5 September 1873, which starts as follows:
"My darling Margaret
Here begins my first letter as a journal to you. We left Devonshire Place soon after 7 o'clock and had got as far as Cavendish Square when Papa remembering he had left 25 Napoleons on his dressing table. Had to go back and to facilitate matters I jumped into Uncle Jim's cab while he went back. Having to wait for half the luggage we could not register at Brussels as they will not register after 5 minutes to the time of starting and we only had about 3 minutes after Papa arrived. However it all terminated well in as much as we did not miss the train. While standing outside waiting for Papa who should drive up but Mr Pringle..."
HA 244/K/9 Journal Abroad, 1877
Starts 14 August 1877 from Hotel du Nord, Cologne (112pp on letter paper.)
HA 244/K/10 Journal Abroad, 1878: Paris Exhibition
(36pp on letter paper.)
HA 244/K/11 Journal of Visit to Normandy and Brittany, 1878
(74pp on letter paper.)
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Travel journals of Elizabeth Sarah White, 1879-1889 (continued from previous reel)
There are a further 10 items, as outlined below:
HA 244/K/12 Russian Journal, 1879
(162pp on letter paper.)
HA 244/K/13 Journal, 1880
Starts 30 August 1880 from Hotel Bellevue, Brussels (53pp on letter paper.)
HA 244/K/14 Journal, 1881
(104pp on letter paper; pp18-25 not used.)
HA 244/K/15 Journal Abroad, 1883
(112pp on letter paper.)
HA 244/K/16 Journal of Visit to Italy, April and May 1886
(84pp on letter paper.)
HA 244/K/17 Journal: Oxford, June 1886
(22pp)
HA 244/K/18 Chronicles of Lingholm, 30 July - 28 October 1886
Bound volume (150 folios) with long detailed entries and good illustrations.
HA 244/K/19 Journal, c1887
(12pp on letter paper.)
HA 244/K/20 Journal of Visit to Venice, 1888
(70pp on letter paper.)
HA 244/K/21 The Coryton Log, Friday 2 August - Tuesday 29 October 1889
Bound volume (140 folios) again with long detailed entries and good illustrations. The volume covers the Family Visit to Coryton Park, Axminster in 1889. Dramatis Personae (members of the family participating in the holiday during its various stages) are listed on the versos. The contents are very amusing in places with descriptions of visits, tours, walks, people, entertainments, games and dances. The log is packed throughout with solid detail for the social historian. It begins as follows:
Friday 2 August
"By the train which ought to have arrived at Axminster at 3 o'clock, but did not, the distinguished company mentioned on the opposite page (Margaret White, Caroline H White, Agnes H White, Ralph Layard White and Cecil A White) reached their destination. Notwithstanding the violent jerks and shakings to which they were subjected in an unusually long and heavy laden train, and notwithstanding the rain which greeted them, they were in tolerable spirits, and drove up to Coryton only leaving one box behind at the station, which was promptly sent on to Seaton by the careful Stationmaster. Their first business was to allot the rooms to their different occupants and to partake of tea. They were charmed with the house and the views of the well wooded park but owing to the rain did not venture out for long...."
Saturday 3 August
"Margaret and Ralph drove into Axminster and bought a map of Somersetshire and one of Devon..."
The following is an extract from a long entry describing the family visit to Dowlands Farm:
Friday 16 August 1889
"...The drive was long but the weather was lovely the conversation and company of course perfection and altogether is was with no wretched spirits that the family alighted at Dowlands Farm and cheerfully paid 6d a piece to be allowed to dabble through the farm yard to the celebrated landslip. Ah friends what a picture did that stroll place before the mind, in the near
foreground was the result of mans toil in the shape of straw, mud, manure, streams of filth and every conceivable beastliness and it was our privilege, (after fortifying ourselves by walking on a barrell) to wade through this slough of despond in search of natures beauty. Truly man seems to be careful to remind himself that where ever he is there ought to be thorns or thistles or something equally offensive. But once through this very pit of Sheoll, this stinking facsimile of all that is awful, where the labor of man and the dark marks of his hand were passed, the party stood face to face with natures handiwork - Before our own feet lay the golden corn as yet unspoiled by the touch of the sickle, bending in the soft breeze that swept over the green cliff from the blue sea. There at least could the eyes of the party meet leaving Earth behind with its sorrows and cares - man had tamed the earth and laid many a filthy load thereon, but who can tame the blue ocean and with mingled feelings we settled ourselves for a moment on the cliff and feasted our eyes on the silver sea..."
Friday 20 September
"In the morning some of the gentlemen went out shooting and had no luck. Although the "Watcher" lay behind hedges and in ditches they altogether failed to hit him. Tennis was played by the rest of the party and some exciting games took place between Mr Mount and Herbert (left-handed) and Mrs Wise and Agnes - the latter always winning. In the afternoon a great expedition to Branscombe: Soon after two o'clock two extra steeds arrived making five in all, which were the bodyguard and proved the great feature of the expedition. They were ridden by the "Wugginth", Mrs Tarry, Mr Mount, Eaton and Herbert. That ridden by the last named especially noticeable. A splendid animal. Equine experience of Thomas pronounced it a fine specimen of celebrated breed known as German. Mount's geegee also fine, reputed the fastest in England, which reputation proved by its always being well behind rest. Remainder of party in wagons, the poor treated to magnificent military manoeuvres. Regretted absence of German Emperor unavoidable..."
Monday 23 September 1889
"Arrived at the farm, the hampers are quickly unpacked and as two brace of birds have fallen to the guns of the gentlemen they appear satisfied with their morning's work, and make a very hearty meal. After lunch two photographs are taken of the farm and yard and Mrs Dare in her best suit dress is a prominent feature in them. The gentlemen proceed on their way with their guns and secure one more bird. The ladies pack up the hampers and as it is raining return home as fast as they can. After tea three of the party settle down to play trios. The climax of the day arrived after dinner, when Mr Gambier Parry, Mr Jassell and Eaton performed a Dumb Charade "Rain-e-ses" (seas). The last scene when Eaton appeared as a mummy and was unrolled by two lively tourists with white umbrellas, was the gem of the piece. Aunt Ellen arrived by the 9.16 train. The family played "Cat and Mouse" and another strange game..." Her drawing on the adjacent page depicts playing the ancient game of Blowing ye feather.
Extract from "The Walk", Thursday 3 October 1889:
"The above highly interesting picture has been forwarded to us this day October 8 by Miss Goschen as a suggestion for enabling walkers to be continually aware of the flight of time. This is the more ingenious as no excuse could be made for those even who complain of the presence of ladies being attended with such an absorbing interest as to make them forget their engagements. The more ladies a party contained under the above system, the less would be the chance of the time being forgotten."
Chapter VI: The Tank:
again from "The Walk", Thursday, 3 October 1889:
"In honour of the wanderers return (which caused an unnecessary amount of surprise as the carriage had started after the train was due) the aforesaid photographers determined to perpetrate a group and with the originality which characterises the genius determine to do so (at the instigation of Misses G & W) on the housetop in a rain water tank. After some elegant balancing feats by the entire family on the stone parapet this was accomplished."
Conclusion:
"As the time for their departure drew nigh (5.00pm Mr & Mrs Beakesley withdrew to this room apparently with the intention of setting in for a further stay. They were with difficulty extracted and to enter the top cast which Mr White then proceeded to conduct to the station, where with considerable difficulty they managed to catch a luggage train. This however Mr B despite his pliable nature refused to enter, and they were at length accommodated with a peace in their proper train which arrived 10 minutes later than was expected."
The Dance:
"After the final departure of Mr and Mrs B Eaton, Mr W proceeded to kill time before the evening meal by having an arrow hunt in the Park which turned out a real success, the bag being one arrow (belonging to Mrs Locke of course) which was carefully broken in half by being raked up in the grass by Eaton's foot. At 6.45 precisely the family visitors appeared in the drawing room equipped for the evening fray and ready for dinner which was speedily eaten. At 7.45 the party assembled in the Hall clothed for a local drive looking as though they were going to the North Pole. No carriage however put in an appearance till after 8 o'clock when Thomas arrived at the back with an omnibus labelled "Brices George Hotel" which was quickly filled, six inside, two on the top and one on the box. Tracking at a good pace the Hall was rapidly left behind and shortly before a quarter to nine the carriage set down at the door of Widworthy Court its nine occupants somewhat sleepy but game."
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Travel journals of Elizabeth Sarah White, 1888-1901, with volume for 1846-1852
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There are a further 5 items, as outlined below:
HA 244/K/22 Dresden Journal, August - September 1891
(86pp on letter paper.)
HA 244/K/23 Journal of Elizabeth Sarah White at Venice, 3-7 April 1888
(13pp on letter paper.)
HA 244/K/24 Holiday in Cornwall, Monday 18 August - Friday 24 October 1890
Bound volume (150 folios) again with long detailed entries and good illustrations.
HA 244/K/25 Journal of My Mother, Elizabeth S White, signed by RLW covering
August 1846 - 19 September 1846 and 1 January 1847 - November 1852 with
Extracts from Tennyson's "In Memoriam", Obituary and Notes on Death.
(The material for 1846 is filmed second and in reverso, after the material for 1847-1852).
There are notes on a day at Ilfracombe, North Devon, 8 July 1852, plus other jottings
and verse. The volume has been used like a commonplace book.
HA 244/K/26 Not included. (R E White Diaries, Vols 1-26, 1899-1940).
HA 244/K/27 Diary, 1901: Travels in Europe.
Clear ink hand with illustrative material pasted in; this diary covers travels in Europe including descriptions of visits to Saalburg, Frankfurt, Munzeberg, Homburg, Bad-Nauheim, Marburg and Spa. The volume spans Monday 22 July 1901 to Saturday 21 September 1901. It is not absolutely clear that this is an ESW diary.
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Pocket diary of Elizabeth Rope of Fresingfield, 1861-1871
There are 6 items, as outlined below:
HD 298/5 "Pawsey's Pocket Diary and Almanack, 1861"
Inscribed "Elizabeth H Rope, Fressingfield, January 1861", this volume includes:
18 February 1861
"We all went in the evening to an exhibition of dissolving views at the Large Room."
4 April 1861
"Walked to Wingfield Church to hear the new organ."
HD 298/6 Note book kept as diary, June - November 1862
Inscribed "Elizabeth H Rope, August 1862. Covers a visit to London with an account of visits to "the Exhibition".
HD 298/7 Memoranda book kept as diary, January - July 1863
London and Fressingfield. The following is an interesting entry:
10 March 1863
"The Prince of Wales wedding day. All the poor people had dinner of hot roast beef and plum pudding."
HD 298/8 "The Illustrated Universal Pocket Diary and Almanack for 1866"
London and Fressingfield.
HD 298/9 "The Commercial and Domestic Diary... for 1871"
Kept from April to July, London, the following is a typical entry:
19 April 1871
"I went to a concert at the Albert Hall which has only been recently opened. A magnificent building."
HD 298/11 Note book kept as Diary, n.d.
This volume covers her visit to the Channel Islands:
July 19:
"Started from Brighton 1/2 past two ; had a brougham to the Waterloo station. Started from there 10 minutes past three, travelled by express train to Southampton - only stopping at Basingstoke, Winchester and Bishops Stoke stations. Arrived at Southampton 1/2 past five. Walked about the town a short time - then went and had a cup of coffee. Afterwards went out again. It is a very clean town and very good shops. Had a capital view of the Isle of Wight. Went down to the Nashown (Narrows ?) about half past nine; there was a large vessel preparing to start for Alexandria in Egypt "the Bangalore" so we went and looked over it - was much amused - the cabins were magnificently filled up and there were sheep on board and places for cows and hens, a butcher's shop and hake office... went on board our steamer "The Southampton", booked our beds... had ale and a hearty supper. Sat up for an hour afterwards and then went to our berths. I slept for about two hours. Marian had no sleep, got up about 1/2 past six. I was a little ill when I commenced dressing but we went on deck and soon felt all right. We arrived at Guernsey about half past ten, landed for half an hour and had a cup of coffee and roll and butter. Arrived at Jersey about 1/2 past twelve. The tide being low was obliged to land in small boats and (went to eat) at Brooke Hotel on the Esplanade... After luncheon went for a walk around the town and through the market - a very good one. Returned home and dined at Table d'Hote at six o'clock - with thirty - only one lady besides ourselves. After dinner wrote home and then took a walk on the pier. Not an ornamental one it was made for the Nashowns (Narrows ?) --."
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Social and local events journal of Anna Maria Roper of Boyton Hall, 1863-5
Volume 1: (Acc 4393)
Binding slightly damaged, this volume covers 1863, with brief daily entries (xxii + 57 folios + 36pp), written in a volume of The Suffolk, Norfolk, Essex and Cambridgeshire Gentleman's Pocket Book for 1826.
Volume 2: (Acc 4393)
Binding slightly damaged, this volume covers March-December 1865, with brief daily entries (lii + 45folios + 26pp), written in a volume of The Suffolk, Norfolk, Essex and Cambridgeshire Gentleman's Pocket Book for 1832. Handwritten in ink; quite difficult to read; January & February 1865 are missing.
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Pocket diaries of Isabella Brett of Ipswich, 1867, 1872-3
Volume 1: Binding slightly damaged, covers loose, this volume is for 1867, with regular daily entries of c6-7 lines per day commenting on the weather, who she had seen, religion and a few other topics.
Volume 2: 1872 (sheets of blotting paper still bound in between each page.)
Volume 3: 1873 (sheets of blotting paper still bound in between each page.)
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Personal and travel diaries of Fredericia Loraine, 1878 and 1884
(2 volumes)
Handwriting quite good, but not always easy to decipher.
Brief daily entries and lots of other observations and notes.
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Personal and travel diaries of Fredericia Loraine, 1885-1890
(6 volumes)
The diary for 1888 contains detailed temperature charts and memoranda on her health, the weather and social appointments. There are similar health charts for 1890.
Handwriting in pencil, quite good throughout.
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Personal and travel diaries of Fredericia Loraine, 1891-1893;
Almanacks for 1877, 1881-1883
and two further diaries for 1882 and 1883
Three volumes contain diaries for 1891-1893.
The diary for 1891 is another volume containing detailed temperature charts and memoranda on her health, the weather and social appointments. The following is a typical entry from the 1892 volume:
Saturday 23 April 1892
"Sydney marries Clare Schreiber. To wedding - and to bed - at 6.
Uncle Herbert and Marty James. Marriage at Barham Church - 2 o'clock.
Reception at Barham Hall afterwards - Clare looked very nice. Betty and Monty entertainment, pm very tired. Oliphants and James...also Captain Faucear."
Handwriting quite good but not always easy to decipher. Brief daily entries and lots of other observations and notes.
The four small almanacks, 1877, 1881, 1882 and 1883 are quite fragile. The final two items are: "My diary" dated 1882 (136pp; rather childish in nature)
and a Collins Handy Diary of 1883, with pencil entries.
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Pocket diary of Henrietta Gurdon, 1879
C & J Penny's Improved London Diary & Almanack for 1879 which has clear entries of c8 lines per day, complete throughout, with names of people annotated in the right margin. (148pp).
Wednesday 13 August 1879
"Paid up Sarah and Esther's books. Splendidly fine with wind. Painted a little forget me not on a plate - went in Barouche to Dereham to shops (which shut at 4 on Wednesdays) and to see Mrs Hyde and stopped and spoke to Sophy Clarke. Amy's new Governess to go to Eccles - walked a little in garden late."
[Names of people annotated in right hand margin here are Isa Farquhar and Mr Potts for prescription].
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Diaries of Juliet Godlee (née Seebohm), 1884-1892
Juliet Godlee was the wife of the surgeon Sir Rickman John Godlee, who was
related to Lord Lister. The Godlees and Listers both belonged to the Society of Friends.
Juilet married John on 12 February 1891.
Her Diaries span 1884 to 1943.
The Diaries for 1884-1886 comprise 3 volumes; there is no volume for 1887.
The volume for 1888 records that Juliet spent £52.8s.6d. on clothes, shoes, hats and gloves in that year. There are two volumes for 1889; there is no volume for 1890. Two volumes with brief entries cover 1891 and 1892.
(Each volume is 146pp.)
The following are some extracts from the 1889 volume:
Tuesday January 1, 1889
"Girls Club entertainment. Perfect success."
Wednesday January 2, 1889
"My two Children arrived. Miss Bathurst to lunch."
Saturday January 5, 1889: 22 Courtfield Gardens: "Took my children up to Fairfield and left them. Came here by 5.12 train. Uncle H in bed with bronchitis and fever. Read to him and felt very desperate."
Sunday January 6, 1889
"Went to Church alone. Uncle H better and up part of the day."
Monday January 7, 1889
"Uncle H better. Two lovely hours alone at The Old Masters' Exhibition. Frank Holls and Turners' Rhine sketches."
Tuesday January 8 1889:
Cenuper's Private Hotel. Torquay: "Got ourselves safely removed here. Uncle H weak but fever gone."
Thursday January 17, 1889
"Brightest of days. Uncle H and I went a heavenly walk from Babbacombe town, winding in and out along the cliff back to Torquay."
Friday January 18, 1889
Belgrave Private Hotel: "Moved in here. Pure air, large rooms, glorious view. Breathe freely again. Mrs and Miss Peugelly called."
Saturday January 19, 1889
"Arthur Lister arrived after dinner - on business with Uncle H."
Monday December 9, 1889
"Arthur and Mr Phear left. Last Astronomy Lecture - Comets and Meteors. Pollard, Sam Lucaser, Madgie Thompson, Mary and Arthur Ransom to tea. Girl's Club."
Wednesday December 11, 1889
"Studio. Uncle Henry thrown from his hotel in the Park. Brought home insensible by a lady in her carriage. Not any limbs broken, but head severely bruised. Talked and read to him - much too lively. New model man in yellow satin and wig."
Thursday December 12, 1889
"Studio. Mrs Spencer and Ethel called. Afternoon had the carriage, shopping and Committee at Bedford College. Uncle H not so well. Hardly awake all day. Browning died at Venice."
Friday December 13, 1889
Home: "Studio in the morning. Shopping on my way home. Mr Waterhouse here to dine Club girls and practise dialogue. "All bristles". "
Saturday December 14, 1889
"Esther and Hugh went to Lyme. Called on Nancie and Meta. Painted subject for Sir James and Christmas cards."
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Diaries of Juliet Godlee (née Seebohm), 1893-1898
6 volumes (146pp; 118pp; 200ff; 192ff; 192ff and 192ff respectively.)
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Diaries of Juliet Godlee (née Seebohm), 1899-1902
4 volumes (192 folios per volume.)
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Diaries of Juliet Godlee (née Seebohm), 1903-1906
4 volumes (192 folios per volume.)
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Diaries of Juliet Godlee (née Seebohm), 1907-1910
4 volumes (192 folios per volume.)
The following are some extracts from the 1908 volume:
Wednesday November 18, 1908
"Miss Sheppard. John to Bristol. Canon Wilson to lunch with me between his trains and I took him to St Pancras after. Then shopping and to Isabel Fry's at home. Calls from Lord Ramsay after tea and Lady Barlow. John back 8.45 and off at once to Lambeth. Lady Barlow took me The Watson Cheques. Squash."
Thursday November 19, 1908
"I to Hitchin and sitting in Father's room trying in vain to sketch him. Called on Mrs Br-. John down to see Father - discuss having Mrs Gould down - and back again by last train - I staying."
Monday November 23, 1908
Town: "To find that Father is wanting to hurry our Mrs Gould's visit and cannot hold out like this much longer. So he is to go down tomorrow prepared to operate and John has engaged nurses. Hasty packing up and arriving with Mary Bradford to take my duties and putting off others. John and I to Hitchin by train to find Father bright and angelic as ever."
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Diaries of Juliet Godlee (née Seebohm), 1911-1914
4 volumes (192 folios per volume.)
Thursday July 30, 1914
"To the office as usual. Luncheon party. Dr and Mrs Millar of New Orleans, Dr and Mrs T; Miss Rodman; Mrs Martin; Mrs Percy; Mrs Tomes - and a call on Miss Syme. Then dinner party of 16. Charles Mayos, Dr Murphy, Lunds, Dr Armstrong, Mrs McCrae, Mrs Jackson, Dr Cameron, Barlows, Makineses and Sir James Reid. John out to Committee meeting with some and I left with the rest till 10 o'clock."
Wednesday October 7, 1914
"I dentisting. Bright day outwardly fine, dark within. John heard at the War Office that the Antwerp Garrison is demoralized and sick of it all and they are going to give in and a little army is on its way from us to where it may be cut up. Call from Gracie. Amy Tomes to tea, and then Hugh on his way to Will Grazie. John busy at the War Office. Consultation over Tetanus and other horrors amongst the wounded in the field."
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Diaries of Juliet Godlee (née Seebohm), 1915-1918
4 volumes (192 folios per volume.)
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Diaries of Juliet Godlee (née Seebohm), 1919-1922
4 volumes (192 folios per volume.)
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Diaries of Juliet Godlee (née Seebohm), 1923-1926
4 volumes (192 folios per volume.)
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Diaries of Juliet Godlee (née Seebohm), 1927-1930
4 volumes (192 folios per volume.)
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Diaries of Juliet Godlee (née Seebohm), 1931-1934
4 volumes (192 folios per volume.)
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Diaries of Juliet Godlee (née Seebohm), 1935-1938
4 volumes (192 folios per volume.)
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Diaries of Juliet Godlee (née Seebohm), 1939-1943
5 volumes (192 folios, 192 folios, 192 folios, 192 folios and c90 folios per volume respectively.)
Monday June 17, 1940
"Horrible news of French Army laying down its arms. Spain to negotiate peace with Hitler and Mussolini. Blackest of the black days."
Wednesday June 19, 1940
"News from France excruciating. Daphne came after breakfast with Clarissa on the back of her bicycle - quite fearless. Mrs Rayden to tea and exchange of views on the situation - and what about the French Fleet?"
Sunday June 23, 1940
"Rain at last. Patsy and Edith at lunch. Complete capitulation of France in spite of treaty with us never to make a separate peace."
Thursday July 25, 1940
"News of Sinking of Lancastria at Dunkirk now "released from America" (and 1000 troops drowned) a great shock after thinking we were told everything."
Tuesday August 27, 1940
"Esther and her black eyed Jewess Stephanie Fränkel arrived to lunch. We lazed in the garden till tea time and then went a rambling walk. Taffy bagged a partridge. Evening "Roger Fry" aloud. Loud bombing sounds soon after midnight. I got up and went to see if one had fallen on top floor."
Friday August 30, 1940
"Still parching wind and sun. Call from Daphne under the cherry tree; who said Tuesday's raid was at Sonning. Dr Gilfrid's young partner had witnessed bombing of a hospital and machine gunning while he was dealing with patients. The dispenser must have been a 5th Columner as he disappeared leaving the dispensary door and all its cupboards locked and they had to be broken open."
Tuesday September 10, 1940
"A quiet night in spite of siren. Poor London- another bad one. Afternoon - Pangbourne shopping and call on Sybil and May - taking Mrs A for the drive and round by Goring Heath for the eggs."
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Travel diary of Cecilia Hanbury, 1903
Describes trip to Venice. Very good ink handwriting.
Detailed entries from 21 September 1903 to 21 October 1903.
There are some postcards illustrating places visited. (79 folios).
Here is a typical extract:
Friday 9 October 1903
"Rather a misty cloudy day. Alice's cough rather troublesome, so she decides on no pretext whatever will she go out today, so I think this is the best and only day I can go on the Lake, so at 12 Jovani and I start on the steamer Volta which goes from the stage just in front of this hotel - and we go all up the Lake as far as Cadenabbia where we land at 2 o'clock. The scenery is lovely, but the view very much spoilt by the heavy mist in the mountains. We lunched on the boat and at Cadenabbia we walked up to M Heskette J'ongs Villa, which is about 5m: from the landing stage and he took me round his gardens and was very civil, and then he advised us to go and see Villa Carlotta..."
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Travel diaries of Susanna Cullum, 1799-1801
E2/44/62 Journey from Hardwick to Normanton, Yorkshire, 1799
Pencil, very clear handwriting. (27 folios). Begins Tuesday 6 August.
Friday 9 August
"As it rained very hard we did not get up till 8 o'clock breakfasted upon tea and coffee and French roles. We could not get off till 11 o'clock as it rained so hard; we however set out and with two or three showers got on very well. We saw today a hiland lad and laddie who were dressed in the Hiland dress and the lady was dressed in short petticoats without stockings and had a fine white leg indeed. We went on two miles from Grantham and we observed that our chaise horse went very lame and seemed very stiff so we stopped our horse to have a farrier look who said that it was owning to his having some gravel in his foot so he took off his shoes and found matter under one of them which he cut and it eased him. We then went on to the Newark where we dined upon currant dumpling and beef steaks and cold veal at 3 o'clock..."
E2/44/63 Fair copy of opening pages of item (62).
(5 folios only.)
E2/44/64 Journey to Normanton and visit there, June-July 1801
Ink, and ink over pencil. (23 folios.) It begins:
Tuesday June 22 1801
"We set out from Bury at 7 o'clock in the morning and reached Newmarket at 10 o'clock. My brother and his faithful friend Mrs Malcolm accompanied us as far as Newmarket where we heard poor Mr Lushington's death, my brother intended to have called on him, he Alas poor man he died of the Gout in his stomach at Newcastle 3 days before; we rested our horses for an hour at Newmarket... we then proceeded on our journey though Borroham - we talked of who should see the pepper boxes first and I luckily saw them first; we reached Cambridge at 2 o'clock and ordered some cold beef for dinner then walked for half an hour in the Physic gardens. Unfortunately Mr Down was not at home. We then went to our Inn "the Cardinals Cap" and dined upon an excellent round of beef and a cucumber. We went past the back of the colleges and saw King's College Chapel. We went through Fenn Stanton. It looked very cloudy and we thought it would rain but it did not and cleared up at Godmanchester. We went to the Fountain Inn at Huntingdon who were remarkable civil. We had no tea and had for supper a couple of spring chickens, some peas and a bottle of Port wine. We went to bed at 10 o'clock..."
E2/44/65 Journey from Peterborough to Ely, 13 August 1801
Pencil. (15 folios.)
E2/44/66 Journey to London, November-December 1800
Starts 6 November 1800. Final entry is for Wednesday 3 December 1800. Ink. (91pp).
The following extract is from p22 et seq:
"Thursday 13: breakfasted and then went to Covent Gardens for some hysop for Mama who had a cold. We then walked about the garden, then went home for letters if there was any, there was, one from my Cousin Vernon and one from my Aunt... My father then went to Conduit Street upon business and Mama and me went to Miss Kebbles to walk out with her. We met there her Mother and Sister, Mr Kebble, Mr Hunter and Palmer. Mr Kebble gave Palmer leave to go to Lackintons the bookseller with us but he had some things to do and he rather not go so Miss Kebble, Mama and me went to Lackintons to see his shop which is the largest shop in England. It is said a Stage Coach drove round the counter. We went as far as the dome. There are books up to the top 4 Storys high, you see upon the first entering all the shop. They let us go up without ever looking after us. We bought Faith, Hope and Charity, a little picture, one for Miss Kebble one for Mama and one for me and Lavalser on Physionomy and I bought a little book called the Spoiled Child. We then walked home through Finsbury Square..."
E2/44/67 My sister journal into Yorkshire, 23 June 1801
Very clear handwriting. (31 folios.)
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Travel diaries of Susanna Arethusa (née Cullum), 1822-1830
E2/44/52 Journal 1822[-24]: "Methusa travels" to Naples, Pompeii, Florence, Venice and Rome, with sketches; travels to Italy, Switzerland and Strasbourg
Ink. Written in very clear hand, with good sketches and illustrations.
iv + 152pp (pp153-215 blank), then 6ff at rear.
Very good observations and detail for a child of 8.
Page 1 begins:
"We went to Naples, it was quite dark when we got there: the next day when we got up we found that the sea was opposite our windows. In the middle of the day we went to the public walks where we had a good view of Vesuvius. It was very beautiful. A few days afterwards we went up this mountain. We went half of the way up on donkeys and the other half we were dragged up by men and though this mountain is not very high it is so steep that I was obliged to walk up on my hands and knees. It took 50 minutes to go up and 15 to come down..."
From pages 76-77:
"... After dinner we had a ride in the country; the next morning early we set off on our journey we stopped at Moudon to dine. We saw for the first time a paysanne Bernoise selling her dried figs and plumbs, it was a very curious fly away cap somewhat like dragons wings with long hair plaited with ribbon flowing down to the heels. Their cap is made of velvet and net and a little bodis with little chains. Their costume is black. Their faces are particularly flat and ugly and they speak nothing but German. We set off from Moudon to go to Payerne where we arrived early and where I first had the pleasure of seeing Pappa for the first time shoot with a bow and arrow..."
E2/44/53 Journal of a tour in Germany, France and Italy, 1 June - 15 July [1830]
[First part of the journey from Paris to Germany etc also described by her father in
EC/44/32-37] with notes of devices of some of the shields at the mock Tournament at Potsdam. 36ff, then blank, then from 30 June a further 52 ff, then some blanks, finally 11ff at the end.
E2/44/54 Journal of a tour in Germany and Italy, with sketches, starting 25 August 1830 (Red leather pocket book, 91 folios.)
E2/44/55 Journal of a tour in Germany and Italy, with sketches,
starting 21 September 1830
(Red leather pocket book, 88 folios.)
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Travel diaries of Susanna Arethusa (née Cullum), 1829-1831
E2/44/56 Journal of a tour in Germany and Italy, with sketches,
starting Naples, 23 October 1830.
(Red leather pocket book, c80 folios.)
E2/44/57 Journal of a tour in Germany and Italy, with sketches,
starting Florence 4 May, ending 22 May [1831 ?]
Sketch of Monte Zareda on the Lago Maggiore is dated
22 April 1831; thus this volume is probably May 1831 and not 1830.
Florence 4th May
"Early in the morning we paid a visit to Mr J Morier who is lodged in this hotel with his family. We then went on foot to the Gallery and passed two hours there very agreeably. This collection though large is smaller than the Vatican, but I think surpasses it very much for though there may be fewer Casso d'Opera's almost everything is worthy of notice, in the Tribune for a few minutes the Stranger is lost in amazement, in this room are arranged the most admired pieces of Sculpture and Painting, the most exquisite Statue in the world, the celebrated Venus de Medici is placed between the fine group of the wrestler and the almost faultless statue of the Listening slave..."
E2/44/58 Notebook of Susanna Arethusa Cullum with
(a) verses written by her for Eliza Westrup, Carlsbad, 7 August 1829 and
(b) Tour in Germany, starting 26 June 1830.
Pocket book, green paper cover, with flap. (67 folios.)
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Travel diary ("Italian notes") of Mary Anne Cullum, 1825-6
(66 folios; ff44-66 are blank; very faint.)
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Travel diary (England and Ireland) of Anne Cullum, 1835-1858
Notebook of Anne, 2nd wife of Reverend Sir Thomas Gery Cullum describing journeys in England and Ireland, trees and plants. (Small notebook, blue leather, with clasp; text extremely difficult to read in the original; unfortunately very faint and almost undecipherable. 23 folios.)
Bury: 941/62/4
Journal written at Plymouth, Bristol and Torquay by Emily Hervey, 1849-50
Begins Mountstone, 11 March, 1849 - Ends Torquay, 26 April, 1850. (27 folios.)
11 March 1849
"Mountstone. Stonehouse. March 11th. Although I went out driving as usual yesterday, I felt rather more uncomfortable, and was taken ill at 3 in the morning. Sent for Mr Whipple at 7, and was confined at 1/4 past 10. A fine boy measuring 25 inches in length, and 181/2 round the shoulders. This is Tom's 51st birthday. And will also be marked in future as the anniversary of the death of Sir George Kigent, who expired at Westhorpe this evening in his 92nd year."
Sunday 18 March 1849
"My Birthday. I moved from my bed to the sofa. I am so well, that I should be rejoicing indeed, if it were not for the unsatisfactory state of William's health. Dr Kingston however, does not expect he will make much progress while the cold trying weather lasts. Sophia called."
25 March 1849
"Mina's birthday. All the children have colds and are very poorly. The Baby quite ill with a snuffling in his nose produced by ulceration of the mucous membrane - Mme Gabrielle sits up with him all night as he has had a near approach to a fit."
1st April 1849
"Palm Sunday. I went down in the Evening."
2nd April 1849
"Little Baby rather better, and the Christening took place this morning in the Drawing Room. Sophia was Godmother and present. The two sponsors were Arthur Henry and Tom. Mr Nariter the Parish Clergyman officiated."
5th April 1849
"Henry arrived at 2 this morning and is put up at Sophia's. Baby "Francis Arthur" is really better. I wish dear William was likewise improving."
24 June 1849
"We drove to Penbold Point and had a charming view of the Junction of the Severn and Avon."
26 June 1849
"Wm has nearly got rid of the gout and we went to Cooks Folly, where the children had tea and strawberries. Poor little Francis's head is rather better since he left off caps, and is powdered with arrow root."
28 June 1849
"Henry arrived by the Express train at 1/2 past 12. Looking very well, and having taken a place at the examination, which does him great credit."
17 October 1849
"Clifton. This morning I went to Communion. William was very unwell today, and looks ill. The cough is rather less troublesome, however, since he has kept at home. When shall we see a real amendment, and improvement in his health? Dr Symonds is here every day. We have had uncommonly cold weather and I have tried myself taking long walks into Bristol with Mina to get our Winter things together, which for five of us to manage pour faire l'economie is no trifle. Today the wind has changed and it is quite fine and mild. I walked with the brats."
1st January 1850
"The closing of the year 1849 gives me feelings of satisfaction rather than regret. It is true I have received during its course many blessings to be thankful for, but altogether it has been a time of deep anxiety and trial. Indeed few days have passed without Sorrows' having prevailed through the greatest part of it. We must sow in tears to reap in joy! May the Almighty sanctify our sorrows, and send some speedy relief. I received the Holy Communion at my kind neighbours,... After Luncheon we gathered round our dear Invalid's bed. Georgy repeated the Lord's Prayer while we knelt by his side. Even little Francis came to receive his presents, of which a large distribution took place. Sophia gave the children new Frocks, and Books, Seals, Brooches, Penholders, Paper Weights and soon were flying about in every direction. William is much the same."
Lowestoft Material:
Lowestoft: 1057/3/5
Travel journal of Lady Harriet Walker, 1837.
This volume describes a tour in Scotland. (23 folios.)
Lowestoft: 869/2/1
Journal of Agnes Eden of Ford House, Wangford in Suffolk.
Three weeks tour in Brittany, 1886 and Tour in Scotland, 1888-9.
This volume includes lots of little photographs and descriptions of Dieppe, Rouen, Caen, Avranches, Dinan, Morlaix, Quimperle, Rennes and Le Mans.
Then a section on Scotland. (42 folios, then blank at the end.)
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