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Mss Eur F697/7/1
- Record Id:
- 040-003414391
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003252366
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100060875356.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Mss Eur F697/7/1
- Title:
- Ellie Raban 1879 diary
- Scope & Content:
-
Incomplete diary kept by Ellen Lydia Mary Curtis 'Ellie' Raban (1857-1914) with brief descriptions for each day. There are entries for 1st January to 11th March and 12th July to 28th November only.
The diary entries record the weather, visitors and the people she called on. It also records letters received from family in India and other family news. There are frequent visits from numerous aunts, uncles, cousins and other members of the extended Raban family.
The entries for 1st - 14th January are from Norfolk where Ellie was staying with her aunt Sophie Allen, née Baker, Sophie's husband Joseph Allen and their daughter Josephine. The entries for 14th - 21st January are from Wimbledon where Ellie stays with her aunt Jessie Evans, née Baker and her cousins 'Nellie' [Ellen] and Arthur. From 21st-3th January she stays in Windsor with her Aunt Annie Gooch, her husband James and their daughter Norah.
On 30th January she travels to Bath with her father to set up the new house he has acquired for them to live in. From 1st-16th September Ellie stays at Hatch, Somerset with her younger sister Lydia. Ellie departs Bath for her Aunt Jessie's house in Wimbledon on 29th October and is still there on 28th November when the diary ends.
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Private Papers
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003252366
036-003410604
040-003414391 - Is part of:
- Mss Eur F697 : Raban Family Papers
Mss Eur F697/7 : Ellen Lydia Mary Curteis "Ellie" Raban
Mss Eur F697/7/1 : Ellie Raban 1879 diary - Hierarchy:
- 032-003252366[0007]/036-003410604[0001]/040-003414391
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Mss Eur F697
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume, 64 folios
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1879
- End Date:
- 1879
- Date Range:
- 1 Jan 1879-28 Nov 1879
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
- Foliation: The volume has been foliated with a pencil number enclosed in a circle located in the top right hand corner of each folio.
- Former Internal References:
- 13
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)