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18621128-18630307.

Summary note

Description: Description of trips around London including a visit to the London Library, a new anatomical museum in Maddox Street, a ride on the newly-opened underground railway at Paddington Station, and shops in Soho and Covent Garden. He also describes the preparations in London for pageants celebrating the wedding of the Crown Prince and Princess Alexandra. Contains diary entries concerning: Christmas in a Yorkshire village (pp.35-39); Crossing sweepers (pp.58-60); Dartford Paper Mill (p.70); Dickinson's evenings (pp.186 and 225); Kate Doolan, dust woman (pp.192-194); Dust women (pp.66-69, 192-194, 205 and 235); Emma Ermey (pp.72-78, 80 and 120); Farm servants' wages in 1862 (p.47); Female acrobats (pp.112, 207-209 and 233); Gargoyles (pp.20, 107, 141, 163 and 201); Kew Gardens (p.218); Harriet Langdon (pp.107, 125, 140 and 196); Macmillan's evenings (pp.17-20, 86, 105, 135-139, 141 and 192); Music halls (pp.61 and 113); A pantomime heroine (pp.100-108); Servants (numerous entries throughout); Mary Severn (p.210); Thackeray (p.202); Opening of underground railway (p.88); The marriage of Lord Montague to Betsy Wade, a housemaid (pp.90-95); Valentines (p.175); Working Men's College (numerous entries).

Notes

• Please note that some of the metadata for this document has been drawn from the catalogue of Trinity College, Cambridge.
• AMDigital Reference: GBR/0016/MUNB.

Original version

Reproduction of: Diary of A J Munby: Volume 17 28 Nov 1862 - 7 Mar 1863.

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Trinity College, Cambridge

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© The Master and Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge

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