Jane Franklin, journals

• MS 248/1;BJ Journal, 12 to 19 June 1809 [Visit to Oxford] 1 volume, holograph
• MS 248/2;BJ Journal, 13 July to 25 October 1809 [Visit to Devonshire] 1 volume, holograph
• MS 248/3;BJ Journal, 12 July to 9 September 1810 [Visit to North Wales] 1 volume, holograph
• MS 248/4;BJ Journal, 27 June to 4 July 1811 [Visit to Cambridge] 1 volume, holograph
• MS 248/5-7;BJ Journals (3), 18 July to 1811 [Tour of South Wales] 3 volumes, holograph
• MS 248/8-10;BJ Journals (3), 3 November 1812 to 8 May 1813 [Visit to Cornwall], 3 volumes, holograph
• MS 248/12;BJ Journal, 19 July 1813 to 22 May 1825 [Three visits to Millend] 1 volume, holograph
• MS 248/13-15;BJ Journals (3), 1814 [First visit to Geneva] 3 volumes, holograph
• MS 248/16-27;BJ Journals (12), 1814-1816 [Tour in France, Italy and Switzerland] 12 volumes, holograph
• MS 248/155;BJ Journal, 14 March 1815 to 30 April 1816 [Tour of Italy] 7 parts, holograph
• MS 248/28-29;BJ Domestic Journals (2), 15 April 1817 to 27 September 1818 [Both have list of contents] 2 volumes, holograph
• MS 248/30-31;BJ Journals (2), 1817 [Excursion to Holland the Netherlands and Paris] 2 volumes, holograph
• MS 248/32-33;BJ Journals (2), August to September 1818 [Tour in southern Germany and banks of the Rhine] 2 volumes, holograph
• MS 248/34;BJ Domestic Journal, 1 October 1818 to 30 January 1819 [Including reference to Disraelis and suicide of Samuel Romilly, with list of contents] holograph
• MS 248/35;BJ Domestic Journal, February to November 1819 [References to John Ross, Eleanor Porden, Elizabeth Fry] 1 volume, holograph
• MS 248/36-37;BJ Journals (2), 12 July to 17 August 1819 [Visit to Norfolk] 2 volumes, holograph
• MS 248/38;BJ Journal, 20 August to 27 September 1819 [Visit to Dorset, Wiltshire and Hampshire, including visit to Fonthill, 1822] 1 volume, holograph
• MS 248/39;BJ Domestic Journal, 1 December 1819 to 19 May 1820 [Reference to Cato Street Conspiracy, with list of contents] 1 volume, holograph
• MS 248/40-42;BJ Journals (3), 29 July to 7 October 1820 [Visit to Ireland] 3 volumes, holograph
• MS 248/43;BJ Domestic Journal, 1820-1821 [Continuation of MS 248/39;BJ, with list of contents] 1 volume, holograph
• MS 248/44;BJ Journal, 7 February to 8 August 1821 [Including list of contents] 1 volume, holograph
• MS 248/45;BJ Journal, 13 November 1821 to 29 December 1822 [Reference to Eleanor Porden and Maria Edgeworth] 1 volume, holograph
• MS 248/46-47;BJ Journals (2), 25 May to 19 July 1821 [Visit to France, including mention of Edward Parry's voyage to the Arctic] 2 volumes, holograph
• MS 248/48-49;BJ Journals (2), 9 August to 29 September 1821 [Tour of Scotland] 2 volumes, holograph
• MS 248/50;BJ Journal, 1 January 1823 to 1 January 1825 [First reference to meeting John Franklin] 1 volume, holograph
• MS 248/51-53;BJ Journals (3), 30 July to 30 November 1823 [Visit to Germany] 3 volumes, holograph
• MS 248/54-55;BJ Journals (2), 10 July to 25 September 1824 [Visit to Germany] 2 volumes, holograph
• MS 248/56;BJ Journal, 4 January 1825 to 31 December 1826 [Frequent references to John Franklin and mention of death of Eleanor Franklin] 1 volume, holograph
• MS 248/57;BJ Journal, 19 to 26 September 1825 [Visit to Scotland] 1 volume, holograph
• MS 248/58;BJ Journal, October 1825 [Visit to Whitchurch] 1 volume, holograph
• MS 248/60;BJ Journal, 11 to 21 July 1826 [Visit to Guernsey and Jersey] 1 volume, holograph
• MS 248/61;BJ Journal, 11 October to 12 November 1826 [Visit to Spain] 1 volume, holograph
• MS 248/150;BJ Journal, 16 February to 10 November 1827 [Reference to Antonio Alcala Galiano, John Franklin, British Naval Exploring Expedition, 1825-1827] 1 volume, holograph
• MS 248/63-65;BJ Journals (3), 4 August to 18 October 1827 [Tour of Scandinavia] 3 volumes, holograph
• MS 248/66-67;BJ Journals (2), 25 July to 11 September 1828 [Visit to Russia, reference to engagement to John Franklin] 2 volumes, holograph
• MS 248/151;BJ Journal, 14 September to 16 October 1828 [Account of John Franklin's reception in Russia] 1 volume, holograph
• MS 248/68;BJ Journal, 18 November to 9 December 1828 [Wedding tour of France] 1 volume, holograph
• MS 248/69;BJ Journal, 14 October to 5 November 1829 [Visit to Cheltenham] 1 volume, holograph
• MS 248/152;BJ Journal, 19 November 1830 to 3 May 1831 [Reference to John Richardson, John Herschel, Francis Beaufort and King William IV reception of Jane] 1 volume, holograph
• MS 248/71-79;BJ Journals (9), 17 October 1831 to 7 January 1834 [Travels in Mediterranean] 9 volumes, holograph
• MS 248/153;BJ Journal, 15 May to 12 July 1833 [Mediterranean travels] 1 volume, holograph
• MS 248/154;BJ Journal, 19 January to 28 April 1834 [Visit to Egypt] 1 volume, holograph
• MS 248/80;BJ Journal, 21 February to 21 June 1835 [Reference to Charles Babbage's calculating machine, John and James Clark Ross] 1 volume, holograph
• MS 248/81;BJ Private Journal, 9 to 17 June 1835 [Visit to Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire] 1 volume, holograph
• MS 248/82-83;BJ Journals (2), 22 August to November 1835 [Visit to Ireland] 2 volumes, holograph
• MS 248/84;BJ Journal, 24 August 1836 to 5 January 1837 [Voyage to Van Diemen's Land] 1 volume, holograph
• MS 248/156;BJ Journal, March 1837 [Van Diemen's Land] 1 volume, holograph
• MS 248/85-96:BJ Journals (12), 26 August 1838 to 26 July 1843 [Van Diemen's Land] 12 volumes, holograph
• MS 248/157;BJ Journal, January to 27 December 1839 [Sydney and Van Diemen's Land] 1 volume, holograph
• MS 248/158;BJ Journal, 8 March 1843 to 14 March 1844 [Van Diemen's Land, scattered entries only] 1 volume, holograph
• MS 248/98-99;BJ Journals (2), 8 September to 20 October 1845 [Visit to France] 2 volumes, holograph
• MS 248/159;BJ Journal, 16 September to 6 October 1845 [Visit to France] 1 volume, holograph
• MS 248/100;BJ Journal, 8 November to 10 December 1845 [Visit to Madeira] 1 volume, holograph
• MS 248/160;BJ Journal, July to August 1846 [Visit to United States of America] 1 volume, holograph
• MS 248/101;BJ Journal, November 1846 [Regarding Van Diemen's Land, Arctic, rumours of HMS Erebus and HMS Terror] 1 volume, holograph
• MS 248/102;BJ Journal, 6 September to October 1846 [Reference to Edward Parry, Palmerston and protestants in Madeira] 1 volume, holograph
• MS 248/103;BJ Journal, 1 January to 28 April 1848, 1 volume, holograph
• MS 248/163/1;BJ Diary notes, March 1848 [Reference to George Back, John Richardson, James Clark Ross] 1 volume, holograph
• MS 248/161;BJ Journal, 21 July to 31 August 1849 [Visit to Orkneys and Shetlands, mention of missing expedition] 1 volume, holograph
• MS 248/108;BJ Partial Journal, 13 January to 14 February 1851 [First meeting with William Kennedy, Henry Rea's opinion of James Clark Ross] 1 volume, holograph
• MS 248/162;D Journal, 18 September to 28 December 1851 [Mainly regarding search for Sir John Franklin, non continuous] 16 leaves, holograph
• MS 248/109;BJ Journal, 26 August to 2 October 1852 [Visit to Ryde] 1 volume, holograph
• MS 248/111;BJ Journal, 1 January to 31 December 1855 [Regarding the Gells and Simpkinsons] 1 volume plus transcript
• MS 248/112;BJ Journal, 28 January to 20 December 1856 [References to the Franklin search] 1 volume, holograph
• MS 248/115;BJ Journal, 2 January to 26 December 1857 [Plans for Franklin search expeditions] 1 volume, holograph
• MS 248/116-117;BJ Journals (2), 1 January to 1 June 1859, 2 volumes, holograph
• MS 248/119-120;BJ Journals (2), 1 January to 30 may 1860 [Regarding return of McClintock, proposals for Franklin memorial, reference to James Clark Ross, C F Hall and Robert McClure] 2 volumes, holograph
• MS 248/121-126;BJ Journals (6), 1 August 1860 to 31 May 1862 [Travels in United States of America and the Pacific] 6 volumes, holograph
• MS 248/164;BJ Journal, 25 April to 8 May 1861 [Visit to the Sandwich Islands] 1 volume, holograph
• MS 248/127-129;BJ Journals (3), 4 July to 17 December 1862 [Reference to William Snow, Henry Hartstane, George Back, Sherard Osborn, Charles Hall, Dr Wollaston] 3 volumes, holograph
• MS 248/130;BJ Journal, 2 January to 30 December 1863 [Reference to Charles Hall, Leopold McClintock, Arctic portrait gallery, Royal Geographical Society etc] 1 volume, holograph
• MS 248/131-133;BJ Journals (3), 1 January to 3 August 1864 [Regarding casting a statue of Franklin for Australia, Queen Emma of Hawaii visit] 3 volumes, holograph
• MS 248/134;BJ Journal, 13 November 1864 to April 1856 [Including notes] 1 volume, holograph
• MS 248/135-136;BJ Journals (2), 13 July to 6 November 1865 [Regarding visit by Queen Emma, death of John Richardson, Charles Hall, Thomas and Jane Carlye] 2 volumes, holograph
• MS 248/137-138;BJ Journals (2), 2 December 1865 to 4 June 1866 [Visit to India] 2 volumes, holograph
• MS 248/139;BJ Journal, 26 September to 1 November 1866 [Reference to monument in Waterloo Place, Erasmus Brodie's poem, James Clark Ross, George Back] 1 volume, holograph
• MS 248/140-143;BJ Journals (4), 21 December 1866 to 2 November 1867 [Travels] 4 volumes, holograph
• MS 248/144;BJ Journal, 6 September to 24 November 1867 [Including dread of Charles Hall's revelations] 1 volume, holograph
• MS 248/145-146;BJ Journals (2), 12 December 1867 to 8 May 1868 [Second visit to India] 2 volumes, holograph
• MS 248/165;BJ Journal, 31 January to 4 February 1868 [Visit to India] 1 volume, holograph
• MS 248/147;BJ Journal, 9 January to 13 April 1869 [Travels] 1 volume, holograph
• MS 248/148;BJ Journal, 5 August to December 1869 [Mention of Sherard Osborn, Leopold McClintock, Charles Hall, Edward Augustus Inglefield, Roderick Murchuson] 1 volume, holograph
• MS 248/166;BJ Journal, 11 to 18 July 1870 [Visit to Salt Lake City] 1 volume, holograph
• MS 248/149;BJ Journal, 27 January to 3 February 1871 [Last visit to Spain] 1 volume, holograph

The journals and diary cover Jane's extensive travels across the United Kingdom, Europe and the wider world. Many of the journals cover a specific journey. Her Journals also mention the search for the missing British Naval Northwest passage Expedition, 1845-1848 led by her husband Sir John Franklin. Thirteen volumes cover her voyage to and subsequent life in Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania) where Sir John served as lieutenant governor between 1836-1843. Several of the journals have contents pages. MS 248/50;BJ contains her first reference to meeting John Franklin

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