Unidad documental simple 11.10 - Diary of Christopher Wordsworth, Canon of Salisbury

1 vol. with wrap-around leather cover, c. 157 x 109 x 21 mm; flyleaf, ff. 1-22, rest of book blank. Printed slip pasted to f. 10r. Dried flower petals loose between ff. 15-16; dried leaves taped to f. 20v (some fragments loose); dried flower taped to f. 22v.

1 printed sheet with press-cutting bureau slip attached loose at back of volume.

Gift of Rev. William Arthur Wordsworth & Miss Wordsworth, children of Canon Christopher Wordsworth, Feb. 1940.

'C. Wordsworth Jun. PRIVATE' written on head of text-block. 'Oculos ne obtrudite vulgus' in capitals on front flyleaf. The entry for '14 Ash Wednesday - S. Valentine's' reads 'pancakes! no fish!'. Printed notice of the death of James Leatham Birley at Trinity College Oxford pasted in at entry for 20 Feb. 1866. Records the Master, Dr. Whewell, being thrown from his horse on 24 Feb. 1866, and his death on 6 Mar.

With printed article by Rev. C. H. Smyth, 'Three Wordsworth Diaries' Cambridge Review, 19 Apr. 1940, pp. 341-342, which has an 'Intenational Press-Cutting Bureau' slip pasted on at top left corner.