Item 15.67 - Scrapbook of printed ballads collected by Thomas Babington Macaulay

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Reference code

O./15.67

Title

Scrapbook of printed ballads collected by Thomas Babington Macaulay

Date(s)

  • [early 19th century] (Creation)

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Item

Extent and medium

1 volume: ff. 1-26, rest of book unused. Leaves removed between ff. 10 and 11.
1 printed sheet pasted to recto of flyleaf. Broadsides and cuttings of ballads pasted in.

Context area

Name of creator

(1800-1859)

Biographical history

Thomas Babington Macaulay was born on 25 October 1800 to Zachary Macaulay (1768–1838) and Selina, née Mills (1767-1831), at Rothley Temple, Leicestershire, the home of Zachary Macaulay's brother-in-law Thomas Babington, after whom he was named. Raised inread more

Immediate source of acquisition or transfer

This volume's place in the run of shelfmarks suggest it was likely either part of the gift of Macaulay papers by George Macaulay Trevelyan in Nov. 1953, or given by him around the same time; other Macaulay material in the same run, also linked toread more

Content and structure area

Scope and content

Note by Margaret Holland (Macaulay's niece) on the inside front cover: 'These Ballads were picked up at different times by Lord Macaulay and pasted by him into this book'. An almost identical note by her is on the inside back cover.

1 sheet from G. O.read more

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Preferred form of reference

O.15.67

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