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Vor 3 Tagen · Typed copy of a diary describing a visit to London, April 1818–April 1819. Theatre visits, scientific lectures, social engagements, tourist sights, Lord Mayor's Show. With the diary is a brief transcript extract from the diary of Mary Huxtable, a relative, who visited London 1820–1, calling at the Royal Society of Arts and the ...
Vor 5 Tagen · Diary, 1844–93. Though much of her time was spent in the country, she made frequent visits to London in her younger years, for shopping, finding servants, visiting friends and family, and for the social season. Extract in London Topographical Record, XXVIII (2001). Huntingdon CRO 539/1–16. 317.
Vor 5 Tagen · He was made a knight of the Bath at the coronation of Edward VI.; and married Dorothy, daughter of William lord Dacre, of Gillesland; but, as he had no issue male, the peerage went to a younger brother. Collins in his Peerage gives some extracts from his will, dated Nov. 8, 1552, and proved by his widow Jan. 16 following. His funeral ...
Vor 5 Tagen · Letters & Diaries as Primary Sources. Letters and diaries provide a personal angle on history and often gives voice to the common person such as the WWI soldier in the trenches or the sweetheart on the home front.
Vor 4 Tagen · The title of Susan Whyman’s The Pen and the People: English Letter Writers 1660-1800 suggests two potentialities at once: The Pen and the People indicates a comprehensive study of popular letters and letter-writing practices during the long 18th century (1660–1800); yet the subtitle, English Letter Writers, implies focused and ...
Vor 2 Tagen · There are amusing accounts of shipboard life: transcribed extracts from diaries and letters make light of all the dangers awaiting him. A map is included charting that voyage across the globe, drawing a kind of imaginary line from Melbourne to Fremantle and then on (via Cape Town) to Plymouth. Through this particular volume of Frank’s memorial book Garry Roberts embarked on a vicarious ...
Vor 4 Tagen · The 1712 version omits several sections of the 1702 version, notably the transcripts of letters between Freke and the Bishop of Norwich over who had the right to appoint the vicar at West Bilney, poems and history of Ireland, and the inventories of Freke's house at Bilney.
