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- [1801 onwards] (Creation)
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1 vol. Paginated 1-87 from front, and 1-47 from back. 21 ff. unused. Folios 1-24 at back detached from binding.
Four loose sheets inserted into book. Notes stuck in at pp. 40, 41 and 43.
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Front of book used for 'Serious' quotations (labelled as such on f. 3), beginning with a poem on the death of her mother (d. Nov. 181), an extract from a letter from her mother to her and her sister Eliza, and letters from the Rev. William Hawkesley and her 'dear Aunt Mathew' on her mother's death. Loose sheet inserted between pp. 1-2.
Back of book used for 'Miscellaneous' quotations (labelled as such on f. 1), beginning with 'Mad[am]e de Maintenon's advice to a married woman'. Loose sheets inserted between pp. 38-29 and pp. 44-45.
Henrietta Maria's birth and married names written at both front and back of book.