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- 21 [Oct. 1793]-[22 Apr. 1794] (Creation)
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Unbound, ff. 1-24. With 1 single sheet printed article.
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This, with two other Wordsworth family diaries, were the property of Christopher Wordsworth (1848-1938), Canon of Salisbury and grandson of the Master of Trinity. Further diary material from 1794-1801 was once in the possession of Canon Wordsworth and reproduced in his Social life at the English universities in the eighteenth century... (1874), but it is not known what became of this.
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Gift of Rev. William Arthur Wordsworth & Miss Wordsworth, children of Canon Christopher Wordsworth, Feb. 1940.
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With printed article by Rev. C. H. Smyth, 'Three Wordsworth Diaries' Cambridge Review, 19 Apr. 1940, pp. 341-342.
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Extracts from this diary are printed as an appendix in Wordsworth, C. (1874). Social life at the English universities in the eighteenth century / compiled by Christopher Wordsworth. Cambridge: Deighton, Bell, pp 587-594.