Reference code
DWL/HCR/4
Level of description
Sub-fonds
Title
Anecdotes and Memoranda
Scope and content
This section comprises a volume which formerly bound five small notebooks (now disbinded). A notebook, commenced in 1834, of anecdotes 'not taken from print', the first three pages being 'copied from an old book begun in 1815 and lost'. Contains 173 anecdotes, the last entered in 1864, the date of a further note inscribed on the inside of the front cover:
'Jemima Robinson's Registry of births & deaths of her family.' Notes made by Jemima Robson, née Crabb, 1736-1793, mother of HCR.
'Itinerary of foreign travel from April 3rd. 1800 to Novemeber 1838. Subsequent itinerary and other items less regularly kept to the end of 1851'.
Memoranda 1807 Jan: 21 to Decr 31. [In German.] Memoranda July 19 1808 Jany. 18 1809. [In English and German.] Loose at the end a copy of HCR’s paper: 'Dissenters’ Chapels Bill. Brief reply to the allegations contained in the petitions or Resolutions of the opponents to the Bill. Written in 1844'. see Bundle 5.XV. [This copy given to the Library by Rev. Richard Acland Armstrong, 3 Jun 1903, according to the note by F. H. Jones.]