Item 712 - Diary of Kenneth Macaulay

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Add. MS a/712

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Diary of Kenneth Macaulay

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  • 18 Oct. 1809-3 May 1811 (Creation)

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1 vol., c 120 x 190 x 40 mm. 71 ff. Several stubs between ff. 63-64 where sheets have been removed. Numerous sheets of blotting paper interspersed; these are unfoliated. Small piece of paper with descriptive label loose inside front cover. Small loose sheet after f. 32v.

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Trinity College Library, Cambridge

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Trinity College Library, Cambridge

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Gift of Lady Errington (Katharine Reine Errington, née Macaulay), Dec. 2008.

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Kept while in Sierra Leone, to which he was appointed government writer in 1808.

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