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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
Add. MS b/50 · Item · 1886-1891
Part of Additional Manuscripts b

Translations of six poems by Martial and one by Archilochus, with dates and places of composition and publication. Letter from [Andrew Sydenham] Farrar [Gow] to Dennis Robertson, 23 Aug 1959, advising him to offer the pieces to Trinity College Library, and Robertson's letter to the Librarian.

Wilson, Sir Henry Francis (1859-1937), knight, barrister and civil servant