Diary
Eliza Sharples, Mrs Alexander Peckover (1831 - 1862)
Category
Manuscripts and documents
Date
1851
Materials
Paper
Measurements
3.25 x 4.75 x 0.25 in
Collection
Peckover House, Cambridgeshire
NT 782245.11
Summary
The ladies annual diary and almanack diary yearbook by Eliza Sharples, 1851. Daily entries regarding family, friends, visits, her spiritual progress. Note in back that family library included 1821 volumes plus tracts, many entries about her visits to the Great Exhbition. Black leather cover. Front flap extends to back and tucks under flap. Stickers "1857" and "ES,1,1851" on front. "Eliza Sharples, Hitchin" inside. Box 17A
Marks and inscriptions
Front: Stickers "1857" and "ES,1,1851" Inside front: "Eliza Sharples, Hitchin"
Makers and roles
Eliza Sharples, Mrs Alexander Peckover (1831 - 1862), writer