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Title
Diary of Jane Porter [manuscript], 1796, 1835.
Uniform title
Ladies memorandum book for the year 1796.
Daily journal ... for ... 1835.
Daily journal ... for ... 1835.
Description
2 v. ; 12-16 cm
Associated name
Porter, Jane, 1776-1850, author.
Summary
The entries (most very brief) are concerned with social activities, correspondence, family matters, and the writer's literary activities. Entries for September 17-18, 1835 refer to Shakespeare and a trip to Stratford-upon-Avon with Nathaniel Parker Willis.
Note
Written in printed blank books: M.a.17 in The ladies memorandum book for the year 1796 (London : R. Baldwin, [1795]) and M.a.18 in The daily journal ... for 1835 (London : Baldwin, [1834]).
Loose items in binding pockets of both volumes: in M.a.17, a poem to her brother (references to painting suggest Robert Ker Porter) with the first line "Ye sacred ringlets of my Brothers hair!" and p. 51-54 from a printed list of Army officers (Porter's father is listed on p. 52 under "VI (Inniskilling)" as "Will. Porter, surg."); in M.a.18, a list of items "left in the Large Box, Shirley Park, March 1831 of Miss Jane Porter's" including books and writing paper.
Written in the fly-leaf of the 1796 volume: "Jane Rosamond Porter, London, Jany 1st, 1796."
M.a.17 measures 12 x 7.5 cm; M.a.18, 16 x 10 cm.
Loose items in binding pockets of both volumes: in M.a.17, a poem to her brother (references to painting suggest Robert Ker Porter) with the first line "Ye sacred ringlets of my Brothers hair!" and p. 51-54 from a printed list of Army officers (Porter's father is listed on p. 52 under "VI (Inniskilling)" as "Will. Porter, surg."); in M.a.18, a list of items "left in the Large Box, Shirley Park, March 1831 of Miss Jane Porter's" including books and writing paper.
Written in the fly-leaf of the 1796 volume: "Jane Rosamond Porter, London, Jany 1st, 1796."
M.a.17 measures 12 x 7.5 cm; M.a.18, 16 x 10 cm.
Binding information
M.a.17: green sheep (with clasp and pocket); rebacked in green morocco (Folger 1952).
M.a.18: scarlet sheep (with pocket); rebacked in morocco (Folger 1952).
M.a.18: scarlet sheep (with pocket); rebacked in morocco (Folger 1952).
Source of acquisition
Purchased by Henry Clay Folger in 1923 from Henry Sotheran & Co., Piccadilly, London, cat. no. 77, Lot 815.
Item Details
Call number
M.a.17-18 (ms. content)
Folger accession
cs1140