John Bishop King and Joanna King (née Smith): loose papers from diaries

Loose papers previously kept in MSS. 7630-7631 including pencil design for a headstone for William King M.D. (1786-1865), originally kept by John King in his diary at the date of his father's death (no. 1); the words to the song "The Irish Emigrant", whose music is in John King's diary (no. 5); and newspaper advertisements including two giving information to people returning from the East to the United Kingdom (nos. 10-11).

1857

11 items

Papers from the two different diaries have not been kept apart as for many the volume and position in which they were kept appears to have been random; only the position of no. 1 has significance.

Database description transcribed from Richard Aspin and Christopher Hilton's typescript supplement to S.A.J Moorat's Catalogue of Western Manuscripts.