Identity area
Reference code
Add. MS a/190/1
Title
Diary of H. F. Wilson
Date(s)
- 1877-1887 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent and medium
1 vol.
Context area
Name of creator
(1859-1937)
Biographical history
Repository
Archival history
The diary passed from Sir H. F. Wilson to his nephew [or niece?] C. Wilson.
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Gift of C. Wilson, October 1973.
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Diary kept from 28 Jan. 1877 to 2 Nov. 1887, with entries for every day recording his own life, and noting events in the wider world as well. The diary starts while he was at Rugby and follows his progress through Trinity from Michaelmas 1878 as Bell Scholar, winner of the Chancellor's English medal, placing 6th Classic, and obtaining a fellowship in 1884. With photographs of family and friends, telegrams, letters, clippings, and dried flowers laid in to the volume, as well as notes of addresses and a clipped page of J. K. Stephen's signatures.