Diary of important public and private events, 1 August 1714 to May 1728; single satirical verse item, "The British ambassadress's speech to the French king"; notes of account and payment, 3 January 1728 to summer 1736.
Commonplace book
This material is held atUniversity of Leeds Special Collections
- Reference
- GB 206 Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 3
- Dates of Creation
- ca.1716-ca.1736
- Name of Creator
- Language of Material
- English
- Physical Description
- 1 vol. (6 ff.) Bound, possibly in the 19th century, in limp marbled papers
Scope and Content
Administrative / Biographical History
The writer of the diary is a London wife and mother of a son (who may have contributed one note on a visit to Jersey) and daughter (with whom she visited Oxford and Blenheim, giving descriptive notes).
Access Information
Access is unrestricted
Acquisition Information
Purchased from Peter Murray Hill Ltd, June 1960
Note
In English
Other Finding Aids
The poem is indexed in the BCMSV database http://www.leeds.ac.uk/library/spcoll/bcmsv/intro.html