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Notebook of church and library notes

Reference code
FOW/01/26
Title
Notebook of church and library notes
Date
1882
Level of description
Item
Extent and format
1 volume
Scope and content
Diary chronicling visits to churches and libraries in various locations across England.

Includes a section on ‘In North’ on Wheels’, with notes of a tour by bicycle and train through Northumberland, and notes on visits to Oxford (Corpus Christi College, Christ Church and Bodleian Libraries), Rochester, Faversham and Chichester (with notes on Coverdale’s Bible), Bury, Ely, Wainfleet, Skegness, Carlisle, Hexham, Newark (with notes on Newark Castle), Stamford, Olney.

Includes loose note of riddle shared between Frederick the Great and Voltaire.

[Includes [bone and lead?] stylus]
Creator
Fowler, Joseph Thomas (1833-1924), clergyman, Hebrew scholar and antiquary