File 619 - Diary of Henry Grote Lewin

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Add. MS a/619

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Diary of Henry Grote Lewin

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  • 1892 (Creation)

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1 vol

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Lewin, Henry Grote (1874-1937) author

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Trinity College Library, Cambridge

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Purchased from Modern First Editions Ltd., Mar. 2021.

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Contains account of Lewin's first months as an undergraduate at Trinity. Records the acquisition of books, concerts attended, and cricket games seen. Expenditure recorded in vertical columns to the left of diary entries. Several lists, including addresses of friends, a comprehensive entry for halls and signal boxes on the London and South Western Railway etc.

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