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Reference code
O./11.9
Title
Diary of Christopher Wordsworth, Bishop of Lincoln
Date(s)
- 25 Sept. 1825-18 Nov. [1827] (Creation)
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Item
Extent and medium
1 vol., c. 193 x 164 x 23 mm, ff. 1-87 (rest blank).
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Archival history
This, with two other Wordsworth family diaries, were the property of Christopher Wordsworth (1848-1938), Canon of Salisbury and son of the Bishop of Lincoln.
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Gift of Rev. William Arthur Wordsworth & Miss Wordsworth, children of Canon Christopher Wordsworth, Feb. 1940.
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Scope and content
Includes record of a visit to the Lakes in July 1827 and conversations with his uncle William Wordsworth.
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Related units of description
Two letters found inside the diary are now catalogued as O.11.9a and O.11.9b.
Publication note
Christopher Wordsworth used the record of his conversations with his uncle in the summer of 1827 to compile his Memoirs of William Wordsworth, published by Edward Moxon in 1851 (see vol. 2 ch lxiii).
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Preferred form of reference
O.11.9
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Name access points
- Wordsworth, William (1770-1850), poet (Subject)