Identity area
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- [1820s-1830s?] (Creation)
Level of description
Extent and medium
1 small hardback notebook: 39 ff, with MS also on inside front cover; several torn stubs between ff 29 and 30.
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
Repository
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Gift of George Macaulay Trevelyan, Nov. 1953.
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Index (incomplete) of contents on inside front cover.
Note by Margaret Jean Holland, Viscountess Knutsford on first page: 'Album belonging to my mother Lady Trevelyan as a girl - Hannah More Macaulay - with a number of my uncle Lord Macaulay's poems. Margaret Knutsford Oct/89'. 'ALBUM | HMM' written below that, presumably by Hannah More Macaulay.
Most poems selected are by Thomas Babington Macaulay, but also included are 'Lines by Miss Serle aged 14 years'; 'Lines by Mr [T] Gisborne when his Sis[ter?] Rose tore her Gown'; 'Lines sent by Mr [J.] Stephen to Miss Sykes with a picture of Mr Wilberforce'; 'To an Infant. A Translation', by Sir W[illiam] Jones.
Large number of pages cut out, which according to the index once contained 'Election Squib' by T. B. M[acaulay], 'Verses' by S. T. G.' and part of 'Hymn' by 'N [?] G'.
'Translation of Thekla's Song by H. M. Macaulay' on last but one page. Pencil notes, some crossed out, on last page.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Conditions governing reproduction
Language of material
Script of material
Language and script notes
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
Finding aids
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
Existence and location of copies
Related units of description
Notes area
Note
Dates from before Dec 1834, when Hannah More Macaulay married Charles Edward Trevelyan.