Found matches for diaries in 17 collections.

Possibly the same John Madox whose Excursions in the Holy Land, Egypt, Nubia, Syria was published by Richard Bentley in 1834. Chronicling the author's travels from Venice to Padua, Siena, Forence, the Isle of Elba (visiting Napoleon's house), Pisa, Spezia, and Bagni di Lucca. less

A number of biographical details of the Rev.d Edward Ward remain uncertain. His diary records his marriage to an unnamed bride on 5 June 1827 in Leghorn; marriage records reveal her to be Emma Crump (1800-1856). She was the daughter of the Rev. Henry Crump of Leighton, Shrewsbury, and his wife, Elizabeth, née Price (or "Pryse"). In 1845, after Edward's death, Emma married John Davies Corrie (1797-1878), a Welsh solicitor. The author of the diary is possibly the same "Reverend Edward Ward, clerk" whose will was probated in London on 24 January 1843, naming his wife, "Emma Ward," and his daughter, "Ellen Sarah Ward," as heirs. That Edward Ward was present at the 1842 marriage of his daughter, in Liverpool, to Samuel Sampson, attorney, and was probably the son of the Liverpool merchant Robert Ward (d. 1830) of Liscard, Chester. Not to be confused with the Rev. Edward Ward (1771-1835), minister of Iver and author of a number of published sermons. Red roan-backed notebooks containing the manuscript account of an Englishman's two tours on the continent: one from January to July 1826, and one from April 1827 to January 1828. On the first trip he departs from Shrewsbury to London, sails to Calais, then travels to Paris, Orleans, Tours, Bordeaux, Toulouse, Montpelier and Marseilles before going on to Italy. He travels to Leghorn, Florence, La Spezia ("by the gulph of that name Mr. Shelley was drowned, his body burnt upon the shore"), and finally to Lucca, to visit his "fair English friend," with whom he spends a good deal of time. On his way home he travels back through Florence, over the Alps to Chambéry, back up to Paris and through Calais back to England. On his second trip he passes quickly through France (to Lyon, Avignon and Marseille) before reuniting with his English friend in Lucca and marrying her. The couple departs from Italy, going over the Alps up to Lyon, Dijon and Paris, where they spend some weeks before heading home to England. A number of theatrical productions are attended, and visits to art galleries, including the Louvre, are described. The author's signature is on the front pastedown of both volumes ("Rev.d Edward Ward") and the first volume carries the stationer's ticket of Lavallard of Paris. A third volume, cataloged separately, contains Ward's "Translations of Amatory Poems.". less

Wilfrid John Meynell, English publisher, editor and writer. · Holograph diary (excerpt) : 1878-1879 : (S'ANA 0267) : 20 pages (10 single sheets) : in ink, heavily revised in pencil; the 11-page first entry (29 Aug 1878) describes a visit to the Shelleys at Boscombe manor; a short second entry (15 Sep 1878) begins, "Lady Georgianna Fullerton brought Father Coleridge to see us. He knows a schoolfellow of Shelley's ..."; the third and final entry (16 Nov 1879) describes a visit to the home of Sir Frederic Leighton. less

John Hogg, English classical scholar and naturalist. · Holograph notes on a tour through Switzerland and Italy : (H'GANA 0017) : Jul-Sep 1824 : 8 pages (2 double sheets sewn into fascicle) : very brief summaries of daily activity beginning "At Geneva" on July 2 and ending in Milan on September 2 when he "Set off for Turin." Followed by five lines summarizing subsequent travels through France. less

Augusta Draper, née White, wife of the Canadian lawyer, judge, and politician William Henry Draper. The eldest daughter of Captain George White, retired from the British Royal Navy, and his wife Mary, Augusta emigrated to Canada in 1822. She was a lifelong friend of the writer Edward John Trelawny, who was most famous for his friendships with the Romantic poets Byron and Shelley. Holograph travel diary documenting the Drapers' visit to England and to France, taken to try to improve the health of William Henry Draper. Augusta gives accounts of an underground expedition, country walks and church services, but her main interest is in her husband's health and in the news of their family in letters received from Canada. Augusta met her friend E. J. Trelawny for the last time on 6 November 1876; the visit is recorded in the diary (see Shelley and his Circle, volume V, pages 77-78). Sewn-together leaves, all edges marbled, apparently torn out of the binding, now missing (along with a portion of the diary). With a later (early 20th century?) note on a piece of Canadian Club stationery wrapped around the volume which reads: "1876-7 / Journal of / Mrs. W. H. Draper / on trip abroad / Greatgrandma / acct. of visit to / Trelawny, keep." Acquired along with some photographs of members of the Draper and White families, now removed to the Visual Materials file. less

Richard Cobbold, English novelist and Church of England clergyman. Gilt red morocco notebook containing holograph account of Richard Cobbold's month's-long tour of France and Belgium, with his companion, Mr. Danneley, in the summer of 1817. Includes accounts of the Louvre, Versailles, Notre Dame, the Palais Royal, Tuilleries, and the Paris opera, as well as the Parisian gambling houses and their "wretched" inhabitants. Leaving Paris, the two travel to Brussles and then to Waterloo: "to look at it you would never suppose it had been the place of so much bloodshed." With three watercolors ("a view of Calais, from the road"; crucifix, tree and field; horse-drawn wagon) and several pencil sketches. less

Fanny Broadley was probably born in England, ca. 1820, one of four sisters. She married Henry Burrows (to whom she refers intermittently in her diaries); they had four daughters, Lucy, Constance, Mary Alice, and Dorothy. Travel diaries kept by Fanny Broadley : (MISC 4024) : on a trip from England to Holland, Germany, Switzerland, and Italy, with her mother, sisters, and two male companions, May-October 1842. Included are descriptions of their meals and lodgings, the people they encountered, lessons in French and Italian, Fanny's drawing and painting, and her thoughts of Henry Burrows, her special friend in England. The diaries are interspersed with small pen and ink and pencil drawings, and a few dried flower specimens. less

Edward Ellerker Williams, friend of Percy Bysshe Shelley. · Holograph logbook, "Journal of the proceedings of His Majesty's Ship Superb" : 18 Apr 1807-22 Dec 1807 : (S'ANA 0153) : 1 volume (42 leaves, some blank) : beginning with the ship "Moor'd at Spithead" and ending "Moored at St Helens"; taken during the period Williams served as midshipman on the HMS Superb; records weather and significant events. Notebook with marbled covers and later manuscript cover label in unidentified hand: "Manuscript Journal / of / E. Ellerker Williams / 1807." Shelved as *Pforz B-L 03. less

Jane, Lady Shelley, née Gibson, other married name St. John. She was the wife of Sir Percy Florence Shelley, son of the English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, author of Frankenstein. Though they had no children, Lady Shelley and Sir Percy raised Bessie Florence Gibson, called "Floss," as their own; she was possibly the daughter of Lady Shelley's brother. Florence Trevor [later married name Blake] was Sir Percy's cousin, the child of his father's sister Mary. Record of three yachting trips taken by Lady Shelley and Sir Percy Florence Shelley between 1852 and 1860, with 22 of Lady Shelley's original ink and watercolor sketches of landscape scenery. The first trip (24 July-14 August, 1852) is through the lochs of Scotland and includes sketches of the Mare Isles [i.e., Garvellachs] and the Isle of Scarba. While in Scotland the Shelleys are greeted by "all the St Johns," the family of Lady Shelley's late first husband; they also discover a dead body in a cottage at St. Augustus, go mushrooming near the ruins of Castle Urquhart, and spot whales. The "2nd Cruize of the Ginevra" (15 February-31 May, 1853) takes the Shelleys from England southward, past Guernsey, through the Bay of Biscay and down the Spanish and Portuguese coasts. They then sail through the Strait of Gibralter, onward through the Greek islands, and end up in Contantinople. Lady Shelley includes sketches of Gibralter, and the Spanish and African coasts opposite it; Valetta; the Sicilian coast; Girgenti, on road to the temples; Etna, from Cape Passaro; Syracuse; Scilla; Messina; Palermo; and Corfu. On "Our first Cruize in the Flirt" (3 October-6 December, 1860), the Shelleys make their way to Coruña, Spain where they spend a few days. Lady Shelley notes that a pressed flower, present in the volume, was "Gathered from Sir John Moore's tomb, given to [her] by little Floss." After enduring very bad weather, they anchor "two miles east of Vigo." At the end of the volume, reverso, are three poetical pieces in various other hands: "From the home of my childhood thus young am I driven," signed "J. T.," dated May 1, 1853; "Shadows on the Water," by Florence Trevor, 1848; and "Lines written at Boscombe," in the hand of Richard Garnett. One unidentified landscape sketch is laid in the album. less

Charles Babbage, mathematician and computer pioneer. He ignited a love for mathematics in a young Ada Byron in 1833 with a presentation to her of his first analytical engine, and her Sketch of the analytical engine invented by Charles Babbage was published in Taylor's Scientific Memoirs in 1843. According to Lady Byron's diaries, Ada was touched by the "universality of his ideas.". To Lady Byron, wife of the poet : 1 autograph letter signed : 5 Feb 1840 : (B'ANA 0664) : discussing his research on earthquakes. less

The John Cam Hobhouse manuscript material in the Pforzheimer Collection consists of writings and correspondence. The writings include: a holograph inscription in his copy of the works of Pope, attesting that the book was previously owned by Byron; a holograph English translation from the original Greek of Thomas Love Peacock's poem, "A White-Bait Dinner"; and a notebook of holograph notes in Italian and English on Berni, Montaigne, Bayle, Roscoe, and others. The correspondence is dated chiefly between 1823 and 1850, and discusses publishing matters, his political career, and various matters relating to Lord Byron and his legacy. Correspondents include: Thomas Love Peacock; the politician and writer Sir John Bowring; the philanthropist Angela Burdett-Coutts; the portrait painter John Jackson, and over a dozen others. less

To Lady Blessington, writer and literary hostess : 1 autograph letter signed : 2 Apr 1820 : (BLES 2.096) : begins, "I do myself the honor of obeying your Ladyship's wishes to have four lines of my writing ..." Mounted in v. 2 of the Blessington Papers. Shelved with oversized bound manuscript volumes. less

Philip Henry Stanhope, fifth Earl Stanhope, English historian. · To Abraham Hayward, essayist and translator : 13 items : -- 1 autograph letter signed : 22 Jan 1861 : (HWD 09.100) : 2 ¹/₄ pages (double sheet) : from Chevening : begins, "On finding a few days since that I could not be in town for the 29th I determined that I would postpone the Att.y General ..." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 3 Feb 1863 : (HWD 06.056) : 4 pages (double sheet) : from Chevening : begins, "I am starting presently for London but sit down to answer your note before I go." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 6 Nov 1864 : (HWD 06.059) : 4 pages (double sheet) : from Chevening : begins, "I owe you many thanks for your two interesting agreeable letters ..." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 17 May 1866 : (HWD 09.099) : 1 page (double sheet) : [no place] : begins, "Do you happen to have -- to spare -- any note of Mr. Thackeray on a dinner-party or some such common matter, merely as an autograph?" -- 1 autograph letter signed : 4 Aug 1866 : (HWD 06.054) : 2 ¹/₂ pages (double sheet) : from Chevering : begins, "Your question as to English portraits is a very difficult one." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 11 Nov 1866 : (HWD 06.055) : 1 page (double sheet) : from Chevening : begins, "Would you be tempted to a visit here ..." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 24 Oct 1867 : (HWD 02.008) : from Hotel Vendome, Paris : begins, "I was very glad this morning to receive your letter, especially as it enlightened me as to the authorship of the Henry Bulwer article ..." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 27 Dec 1867 : (HWD 06.057) : 5 pages (2 double sheets) : from Chevening : begins, "Many thanks for the copy of your 'More about Junius' ..." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 11 Jan 1868 : (HWD 06.060) : 3 pages (double sheet) : from Chevening : begins, "I ought sooner to have thanked you for your letters on the subject of Junius ..." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 3 Oct 1869 : (HWD 06.058) : 2 pages (double sheet) : from Chevining : begins, "I have made a few verbal alterations in the passage of my letter Murray ..." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 6 Jul 1871 : (HWD 09.102) : 1 page (double sheet) : from Gros[venor]. Place : begins, "I quite agree with you that our announcement bore no pleasant aspect ..." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 13 Nov 1874 : (HWD 09.101) : 2 pages (double sheet) : from Oakley Park, Scole, Norfolk (printed stationery) : with thick mourning border; begins, "I was glad the other day to learn from you -- as you told me confidentially -- that you had some idea of reviewing the Greville Diaries ..." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 9 Aug [no year] : (HWD 09. 096) : 1 page (double sheet) : [no place] : on Athenæum Club embossed stationery; begins, "I called again at the Club on my way from town, hoping to catch you ..." All letters to Hayward in the Abraham Hayward Correspondence Files. less