Zone d'identification
Cote
Add. MS a/190/1
Titre
Diary of H. F. Wilson
Date(s)
- 1877-1887 (Production)
Niveau de description
Pièce
Étendue matérielle et support
1 vol.
Zone du contexte
Nom du producteur
(1859-1937)
Notice biographique
Histoire archivistique
The diary passed from Sir H. F. Wilson to his nephew [or niece?] C. Wilson.
Source immédiate d'acquisition ou de transfert
Gift of C. Wilson, October 1973.
Zone du contenu et de la structure
Portée et contenu
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.