Item 12.52 - Notebook kept by Christopher Wordsworth, 'Dinner Guests at Trinity Lodge 1820-1841. Sea Cale. Sons' Allowances at School, 1823'

1 vol. with parchment cover, c 197 x 157 x 21 mm. ff. 1-36 (rest of book blank).
Paper slip between ff. 2-3. ff. 25-26 are formed of a folded sheet tipped in between ff. 24-27. 1 ss. pasted in at f. 28r, f. 29r. and f. 31r.

Title on cover in hand of [?] Wordsworth's son Christopher (1807-1855). Notes in pencil on inside front cover regarding the stages in a dinner at which various drinks should be handed round.

List headed 'Invitations to Dinner' by date; 'A' for accepted or 'Eng' for 'Engaged' usually recorded; sometimes numbers record a party accompanying an individual. Dinners between 1820-1841, the whole span of Wordworth's Mastership. A detailed account of table setting and drinks produced is given for a dinner of 13 Jul. 1835 at which Earl de la Warre and Lord Camden were present.

ff. 25-26 (folded sheet tipped into the volume): copy, in Wordsworth's hand, of 'Account of the culture of Sea Cale by H. B. Way Esq., Bridport', from the Transactions of the Society of Arts [Vol. 29 (1811), pp. 70-72].

ff. 27v: Notes [in the hand of Wordsworth's son Christopher (1807-1885)?] headed 'Allowance to Dr Wordsworth's Sons in 1823'. Some biographical notes on John, Charles and Christopher Wordsworth, including Charles and Christopher's appearance, for Harrow and Winchester respectively, at Lord's Cricket Ground on 27-28 Jul. 1825; H. E. Manning also appeared for Harrow and was caught by Christopher in his second innings. Pasted opposite (f. 28r) is a statement in the hand of Christopher Wordsworth the elder, dated 1 Jan. 1823 at Cambridge outlining an allowance for Charles for 'all his Tailors, Shoemakers and Hatter's Bills'; 'John' is added above Charles' name, probably at the same time as an annotation on 27 Aug. 1823, and a note about 'Chris's allowance'. Biographical notes on Charles in the hand of Christopher the younger, f. 28v. Sheet pasted in at f. 29r with draft [?] of statement about Charles' allowance on previous f.

f. 30 'Bill of Fare at Trinity Lodge above 1820-1830': sheet pasted in on opposite f. with this.

ff. 32-34: Copies, in hand of [?] Christopher Wordsworth the younger, 'Extracts from Dr Wordsworth's Pocket-Diary for 1821'. ff. 35-36: copies in the same hand, 'Memoranda at the end of the Pocket book for 1821'.

Pencil notes on inside back cover in Christopher Wordsworth the elder's hand, recording the dates of visits by his sister Dorothy and brother William. Printed label for Flight & Williams, stationers and paper hangers of Holborn, pasted to inside back cover.