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Maria Villiers travel diary : manuscript..
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- Format:
- Book
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Clarendon, Maria Eleanor Villiers, Countess of, 1761-1844.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English diaries--19th century--Specimens.
- English diaries.
- English diaries--Women authors--19th century.
- France--Description and travel--19th century.
- France.
- Vienna (Austria)--Description and travel--19th century.
- Vienna (Austria).
- Genre:
- Diaries.
- Manuscripts, English -- 19th century.
- Penn Provenance:
- Formerly owned by Francis William Henry, Earl of Westmorland, at Apethorpe Hall, Northamptonshire (pencil note inside front cover, "From the collection of the Earl of Westmoreland" (sic); listed as owner in Historical Manuscripts Commission report, 1885).
- Purchased, 1932; formerly cataloged as 923.2 C 543, University of Pennsylvania Libraries.
- Physical Description:
- 1 volume
- Production:
- France; Vienna, 1802-1803.
- Biography/History:
- Maria Eleanor Forbes married John Charles Villiers in 1791; he became 3rd Earl of Clarendon in 1824.
- Summary:
- Handwritten journal of Maria Villiers (the Countess of Clarendon) of a seven-month trip to France and Vienna in 1802 and 1803.
- Cited in:
- Listed in Historical Manuscripts Commission, Tenth Report, Appendix, Part IV (London, 1885), second volume of the manuscript described with excerpts, p. 52-58.
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