Item 12.51 - Notebook kept by Christopher Wordsworth, 'Accounts: Dr Wordsworth 1828-1846'

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O./12.51

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Notebook kept by Christopher Wordsworth, 'Accounts: Dr Wordsworth 1828-1846'

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  • 1828-1846 (Creation)

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1 vol., c 227 x 127 x 34 mm. 227 ff. 2 loose paper slips between front free endpaper and f. 1.
1 folded sheet tipped in between ff. 194-195. 1 single sheet pasted to f. 195v. 1 single sheet tipped in between ff. 203-204. Gathering of 7 ff. pasted in at f. 205v. Several ff. removed between ff. 205-206, stubs remaining.

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Wordsworth, Christopher (1774-1846), college head
(1774-1846)

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Trinity College Library, Cambridge

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Label pasted to front free flyleaf: 'Account-Book of Chr. Wordsworth, D. D. 1828-1846. Master of Trin. Coll. Cambridge. 1829-41. Died 2 Feb. 1846.' Notes about property at Buxted, Uckfield and Small Heath at beginning of book. 2 loose slips at front of volume identifying it.

Accounts kept for years 1828-1846, f. 7v-193r. Note in pencil, f. 132v: 'I agree to paint a copy of the Master of Trinity's Portrait for thirty Guineas. S T. [?] Joseph'. 1841?

Letter from H [?] Wilkinson, 5 Jan. 1843, informing Wordsworth that his hat has been 'sent to the Golden Cross to be forwarded by first Coach', pasted in between ff. 194-195; used to record accounts under 'Extras - Cambridge' etc for 1842-1846.

Details of stocks and shares pasted in at f. 195v, written on back of extract from composition or declamation prize entry, not in Wordsworth's hand.

ff. 197-203; copies in the hand of [?] Wordsworth's son Christopher (1807-1885) of notes by the Master in various places, under the headings 'Entries in copy of "Kearsley's Ledger', 1817, 1821', 'Small red notebooks;, 1830-35.

Receipt for payment by Wordsworth to Thomas Baines, Groom, tipped in at f. 204r.

Gathering of 7 ff. headed 'Churches' pasted in at f. 205v.

1 f. of notes at back of book.

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      O.12.51

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