Área de identidad
Código de referencia
Add. MS a/190/1
Título
Diary of H. F. Wilson
Fecha(s)
- 1877-1887 (Creación)
Nivel de descripción
Unidad documental simple
Volumen y soporte
1 vol.
Área de contexto
Nombre del productor
(1859-1937)
Historia biográfica
Institución archivística
Historia archivística
The diary passed from Sir H. F. Wilson to his nephew [or niece?] C. Wilson.
Origen del ingreso o transferencia
Gift of C. Wilson, October 1973.
Área de contenido y estructura
Alcance y contenido
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.