Item 18.1 - Commonplace Book of Charles James Fox, used as album for letters of Thomas Babington Macaulay

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Reference code

O./18.1

Title

Commonplace Book of Charles James Fox, used as album for letters of Thomas Babington Macaulay

Date(s)

  • 1781-1928 (Creation)

Level of description

Item

Extent and medium

1 volume, bound in green leather, c 380 mm x 250 mm x 70 mm, with gold decoration.
From front: 8 printed pages, plus flyleaf; 5 ff. printed index form pages, unused; further foliation to f. 41; many blank pages; ff. 42-54. Extra sheets inserted at f. 5v (read more

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Name of creator

(1800-1859)

Biographical history

Thomas Babington Macaulay was born on 25 October 1800 to Zachary Macaulay (1768–1838) and Selina, née Mills (1767-1831), at Rothley Temple, Leicestershire, the home of Zachary Macaulay's brother-in-law Thomas Babington, after whom he was named. Raised inread more

Name of creator

Archival history

In possession of George Macaulay Trevelyan by 1928; he used it to gather letters to, from, and relating to Thomas Babington Macaulay.

Immediate source of acquisition or transfer

Gift of George Trevelyan, grandson of George Macaulay Trevelyan, in Mar. 1974

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Scope and content

Note by George Macaulay Trevelyan on back flyleaf: 'The other end of this volume is the Commonplace Book of Charles James Fox. This end I have used for letters from (and to) Thomas Babington Macaulay. G. M. Trevelyan, Dec. 1928'. Most of the letters areread more

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Publication note

All of the letters by Thomas Babington Macaulay are published in Macaulay, Thomas, & Pinney, Thomas, (1974-1981), The Letters of Thomas Babington Macaulay, Vols. 1-6.

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Preferred form of reference

O.18.1