Identity area
Reference code
R./18.16/1
Title
Notes on books read
Date(s)
- Oct.-Dec. 1817 (Creation)
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1 vol.
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Daily list of books read, kept from 16 Oct. 1817 - 16 Dec. 1817. With a note in the first entry explaining that he has "found it extremely convenient to keep a waste book of my reading &c. Artificers who work in gold have a vessel to receive all the filings that fall from their work - but I am not a gold worker - This is rather a bag to receive all old rags, scraps & remnants."
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See also: R.18.9, William Whewell notes on books read.
Notes area
Note
Previously identified as a diary.