A mid-Victorian ink manuscript diary, from 5th April 1872 to...

Hammer

£65

A mid-Victorian ink manuscript diary, from 5th April 1872 to 19th June 1875, a day-to-day record of a fairly genteel life, including notes of reading, painting, letter-writing, enjoying the garden, and frequent "another nice day", occasional blights such as 9th January 1873, "I have a violent attack of diarrhoea, but I walk up to the Grange" (a frequent destination in the journal), unfortunately there are no categorical clues as to the identity of the author, however there are many references to the Bank and one tipped-in entry is written on Midland Banking Company, Stamford writing-paper, the handwriting varies in legibility and pace throughout, so the contents may reward a patient eye, interleaved with pink blotting leaves throughout, contemporary pink calf, blind-ruled and diced, all-edges red, 8vo, [1]