Series FE 4. - Diaries of Margaret Walsh. To avoid tedious repetition the general contents of the diaries can be summarised as follows: ill-health ...,

Diaries of Margaret Walsh. To avoid tedious repetition the general contents of the diaries can be summarised as follows: ill-health of various members of the family; visits, dinner engagements, London season, alterations to Warfield, reading and her mathematical exercises or 'propositions' as she calls them, that is, propositions in Sir Isaac Newton's Principia. All the diaries contain a list of letters written by Margaret Walsh; most contain lists of visitors received and visits made, dosages of medicine taken by her and a few medical recipes. The diaires have been numbered on the front cover by Margaret Walsh. The first diary, covering 1807-10 is now missing and her diary no. 13, for 1821, was missing when she drew up an inventory of her diaries in 1825 (Fe 4/15, f. 159) (but note that she has made an error in this inventory since she states that it is her diary no. 14 for 1822 that is missing: in fact this is FC 4/12). Her entries for Dec. 1819 were kept in a separate 'small book' (Fe 4/15, f. 159) and this is also no longer extant. Apparently, she kept her diaries until 1836, when she died, but those for 1829-36 have not survived.