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The County and Town Ladies Memorandum Book: or Polite Pocket Museum, for the year 1804
diary, diary
Accession Number

NAM.1980-11-38-1

Description

Diary: The County and Town Ladies Memorandum Book: or Polite Pocket Museum, for the year 1804. Inscribed in the inside front cover, 'Hussey Vivian, Major 7th Lt Dns'. Contains short diary entries for 1 Jan - 20 Sep, together with details of his money received and spent during the same period. During the period covered by the diary the regiment was stationed at Woodbridge and Ipswich ready to repel any attempted French invasion. According to the diary Vivian seems to have spent much of his time at dinners with the occasional review also being mentioned. At the end of the entries he noted "In Oct I went to Cornwall where I was very unwell all the winter". From a collection of papers of Lt Gen Sir Richard Hussey Vivian, 1804-1818. Associated with the Napoleonic Wars, Home Defence (1803-1815).

Campaigns

Napoleonic Wars, Home Defence (1803-1815)

Associated collection