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
Name of creator
Repository
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 the… read 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 previously… read more