Weather tables with notes on the flora and fauna of Littlebury, Essex

Notebook, containing tables of barometer and thermometer readings, compiled by William Gretton, Rector of Littlebury, Essex (January-December 1773), as well as a monthly calendar of observations on the flora and fauna in his garden, with sowing and harvesting dates and occasionally the cost of food purchased.

William Gretton (1736-1813) was Vicar of Saffron Walden and Rector of Littlebury, both in Essex. He became Archdeacon of Essex, 1795-1813, and was Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge.

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Purchased by Valence House Museum in 1959.

Catalogued by Clare Sexton, Assistant Archivist.

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