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Diary of H. F. Wilson
Add. MS a/190/1 · Item · 1877-1887
Part of Additional Manuscripts a

Diary kept from 28 Jan. 1877 to 2 Nov. 1887, with entries for every day recording his own life, and noting events in the wider world as well. The diary starts while he was at Rugby and follows his progress through Trinity from Michaelmas 1878 as Bell Scholar, winner of the Chancellor's English medal, placing 6th Classic, and obtaining a fellowship in 1884. With photographs of family and friends, telegrams, letters, clippings, and dried flowers laid in to the volume, as well as notes of addresses and a clipped page of J. K. Stephen's signatures.

Wilson, Sir Henry Francis (1859-1937), knight, barrister and civil servant
O./10a.40/1 · Part · [1932 or earlier]
Part of Manuscripts in Wren Class O

List of books - accounts, exit and redit books etc - with Wren Library reference numbers assigned to each. MS pencil note at top, '(Most) 1932 now in Muniment Room (behind Clock)'. Pencil annotations state which books remain in the Library, with the initials 'AH' [Arthur Halcrow?]. MS pencil note at bottom: 'Most of these volumes are stored in the Tower muniment room (behind clock). Nov. 1932 C.B.H. [Cecil Baldwin Hurry]'.

TAYL/A/1 · File · [1924]
Part of Papers of Sir Geoffrey Taylor (G. I. Taylor)

A 23 pp. typescript account by Carmelita Hinton (Taylor's cousin by marriage) with a ms. note 'Written for friends for Xmas 1924', and a ms. note by Batchelor 'Sent to Stephanie Ravenhill. Part 2 describes a cruise on "Frolic" with G.I.T. as skipper.'
The party included 'Aunt Maggie' (Taylor's mother), 'another cousin Ursula' [Nettleship, see A.161], a 'Dr. Adrian' [E.D. Adrian] and 'The O'Malleys' [see A.163].