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Guide to the Anne Elizabeth Bontine Diaries and Other Materials

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Box 1 : 1-23

Diaries

Box 1 : 1

1850 October 20-1859 December 31.

Scope and Content Note

The bound diary itself begins on August 11, 1856, but includes 14 leaves of an earlier diary.

Box 1 : 2

1860 January 1-September 4

Box 1 : 3

1881 January 1-December 31

Box 1 : 4

1881 March 31-May 10

Box 1 : 5

1883 January 1-1884 March 16

Box 1 : 6

1884 March 17-October 10

Box 1 : 7

1884 October 11-1885 June 27

Box 1 : 8

1885 July 1-1887 November 29.

Scope and Content Note

Includes handwritten letter.

Box 1 : 9

1886 December 1- 1887 December 31.

Scope and Content Note

Unknown author.

Box 1 : 10

1887 December 1-1888 June 13

Box 1 : 11

1896 July 22-September 9

Box 1 : 12

1901 August 2-1902 July 20

Box 1 : 13

1902 July 21-1904 February 10

Box 1 : 14

1904 March 3-December 31

Box 1 : 15

1907 January 1-1908 September 10

Box 1 : 16

1908 September 11-1909 December 31.

Scope and Content Note

Includes undated newspaper article with photograph showing R.B. Cunninghame Graham in Hyde Park.

Box 1 : 17

1910 January 1-1911 May 12

Box 1 : 18

1912 September 30-1913 December 31

Box 1 : 19

1917 January 1-1918 January 1

Box 1 : 20

1918 January 2-1919 October 3

Box 1 : 21

1919 October 4 -December 31.

Scope and Content Note

Includes letters by A.E. Bontine and brief notes by unknown authors.

Box 1 : 22

1920 January 1-1922 December 25

Box 1 : 23

1923 January 1-August 8

Box 1 : 24-26

Additional materials

Box 1 : 24

Fleeming, Martina Elphinstone, collected poetry, circa 1830

Box 1 : 25

Notebook, circa 1880.

Scope and Content Note

Unknown author, includes 2 handwritten letters.

Box 1 : 26

"Our sailors," postcards depicting life in the Navy, produced by Millot, circa 1915.

Physical Description: 20 items.

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