A brief diary of personal and public events together with a journal of the weather
MS. Top. gen. e. 6
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
A brief diary of personal and public events together with a journal of the weather
Shelfmark
MS. Top. gen. e. 6
Summary
A brief diary of personal and public events together with a journal of the weather, written in A.D. 1747-1773 (?) by R. Gough.
Date
written in A.D. 1747-1773 (?) by R. Gough
Language
English
Physical facet
On paper
Physical extent
98 Leaves
Custodial history
At fol. ii is a letter from John W. Ford, May 17, 1886, explaining that he had taken out and destroyed a formal memorandum book of a mr. Tilley, brother-in-law of Richard Gough.
Acquisition
This was part of lot 137 in the second Hartley sale on May 3, 1886, and were purchased by John W. Ford for £6 12s., who re-sold them to the Bodleian for the same sum soon after.
Subject
Weather -- Observations -- 18th century
Antiquarians
18th century
Diaries
