Subfonds G - G: Commonplace Books of Lord Houghton

Identity area

Reference code

HOUG/G

Title

G: Commonplace Books of Lord Houghton

Date(s)

  • [1838]-1865 [and later] (Creation)

Level of description

Subfonds

Extent and medium

16 vols., with a small file of miscellaneous items for or from Commonplace Books

Context area

Content and structure area

Scope and content

Sixteen commonplace books compiled by Lord Houghton, as well as a collection of items with a definite connection to the books, such as stray leaves. Note that many other notes and jottings elsewhere in the collection may have been made with theread more

Notes area

Note

Previously Houghton 201-217.

Archivist's note

Originally catalogued as a sort of appendix to the papers in HOUG/1-45, when they were assigned the classmarks Houghton 201-216. They have now been assembled in chronological order and re-catalogued to form a separate section within the previouslyread more