Collection Timeline

1697 to 2024

1697
A receipt book, or, The fruits of a young woman’s spare hours

1732
The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments, newly translated out of the original tongues and with the former translations diligently compared and revised: by His Majesty's special command, appointed to be read in churches
Memoirs of the life of Robert Wilks, esq.: containing an account of his transactions before his coming to England, the rise of his reputation on the British stage, his adventures among the ladies, particularly his amours with Mrs. Rogers, Mrs. B-, an exact view of the principal parts he performed both in tragedy and comedy, the remarkable friendship between him and Mr. Farquhar, and other memorable circumstances of his life

1733 ca.
A Journal of a short excursion from London through the province of Holland and part of Flanders to Paris with the adjacent country, and back to London between the 28 of August and 12 of October following in the year 1733

1740
The Holy Bible, containing the Old Testament from Kings II to Ezekiel, with manuscript notes and commentary by James Merrick
A receipt book, or, The fruits of a young woman’s spare hours

1749
The Promised Justification in Number IV. Volume II. of the Apology

1762
A Short Account of that Part of Africa, inhabited by the negroes

1770
Cookbook compiled in Camberwell, Surrey

1773 [bound 1774]
The Young Clerk's Assistant; or Penmanship Made Easy, Instructive, and Entertaining

1775
A short tour made in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy one

1780
Album amicorum of J.C. Stützing

1787
The Memoirs of Mrs. Sophia Baddeley: late of Drury Lane Theatre

1788
A Journal in Germany of 42 Days by a Youth of Between 15 and 16 Years of Age

1800
The mental flower-garden, or, Instructive and entertaining companion for the fair-sex: containing a variety of elegant poetical pieces, pleasing and admonitory letter, cards of compliment, devotional poems, dialogues, writing pieces, English grammar in verse, and some sketches of female biography, to which is added, a short but sure guide to an accurate pronunciation (which may save some young ladies a blush in company)
Album amicorum of J.C. Stützing

1811
History of the Captivity and Sufferings of Maria Martin

1816
James Gooden diary, 1816-1820

1817
Algiers: Being a Complete Picture of the Barbary States

1818
Tour by the Rhine through Switzerland and part of France in the summer and autumn of 1818, by a Stranger, 1818 July 20-Autumn

1825
Travel journal and commonplace book, 1825-26, 1859

1839
Memoirs of Harriette Wilson, written by herself

1847
The language of flowers, poetically expressed: being a complete Flora's Album

2024
Travel Across Mediums: A Selection of Eighteenth-Century Travel Diaries
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Material Crossroads: Adding Life to Print in the Eighteenth Century
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Formatting Experience: Graphic Literacy in an Eighteenth-Century Manuscript Journal
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A Nineetenth-Century Mental Flower-Garden
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Sharing Life: Collaborative Hands in Eighteenth-Century England
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Maria Martin: Life Writing as Means of Remembrance, Survival and Cultural Engagement
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Sex, Secrets, and Scandal: Memoirs from the Salons of Eighteenth-Century Courtesans
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