DWL/HCR/1

Sub-fonds

HCR Diaries

Diaries (HCR/1) The HCR diaries from 1811 onwards comprise 33 notebooks. There are chonological gaps in this record of his life which are covered by sub-series Travel Diaries (see below). Pencilled notes on the endpapers and lines in the entries were made by Thomas Sadler in the course of his editing portions of the diaries. HCR's Travel Diaries (see HCR/2) are catalogued as a seperate series.

Diaries Typescript: A typescript of the diaries, made in the first decade of the 20th century covers the period 1811-1853, the first 23 volumes of the diary. Notes in previous catalgoues to the diaries suggest that the decision to end the typescript with the volume ending on 23 June 1813 was made as thereafter the diaries contain less interesting matter, most of HCR's contemporaries and famous friends having died by that date.

Shorthand entries in HCR Diaries: The transcript of the shorthand passages in HCR’s diaries is contained in three foolscap, hard-covered, exercise books. On the flyleaf of the first is written 'The Diaries of Henry Crabb Robinson. The passages in Shorthand deciphered and transcribed, with a key, by R. Travers Herford. Librarian. 1921. Vol. I. Diary Vols I – XII.' On the flyleaf of the second is written 'The Diaries of Henry Crabb Robinson. The passages in shorthand deciphered and transcribed by R. Travers Herford, Librarian, 1921. Vol. II. Diary Vols XIII – XXVII.'

The third volume has 'Shorthand passages in MSS. of H. Crabb Robinson deciphered and transcribed by R. Travers Herford.' This volume transcribes passages from the 1801 Journal, the Memorandum Book of 1804, and the series of Travel Diaries. Some of the entries are on loose sheets inserted, by both R. T. Herford and another. Some of the entries written in the volume are by Stephen K. Jones