Diary of William Millar; Dublin
Overview
Journal primarily reflects daily social life in his class in Dublin, in the suburbs, and in his family's country place in Mosstown.
Dates
- Creation: 1865-1869
Creator
- Millar, William, active 1865-1869 (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
None
Conditions Governing Use
Spencer Library staff may determine use restrictions dependent on the physical condition of manuscript materials.
Extent
1 volume : Binding: Office-book: green cloth half-bound in diced red leather. Foliation: Unfoliated: ca. 170 written-on leaves. Ornament: Sketch of lathe adapted for winding wires on a magnetic coil, leaf 23
Language of Materials
English
Scope and Contents
1865-1869 (December 5, 1865-July 11, 1869). Interior evidence indicates that the author is a young man called "Millar" and "Mr. William." He lives with his middle-class family: father Adam Millar, sisters Mary and Isabel (Poppy), brothers Richard (an architect) and Edie (still in school) in Monkstown or Blackrock (refined Dublin suburbs) and commutes to Dublin to work in the family firm: a distillery and wine manufactory in Thomas Street, Dublin.
He has interest in music, is a Protestant and a Free-Mason. He seldom refers to Irish politics; he is far more interested in the American Civil War and the death of Lincoln. He considers himself a gentleman
His Journal primarily reflects daily social life in his class in Dublin, in the suburbs, and in his family's country place in Mosstown. After May 1865 it is only taken up from time to time.
Begins :"Sunday 5 December 1864 Breakfasted with Henry Armstrong Uncle William and Aunt Jane..."
Physical Location
MS C222
Immediate Source of Acquisition
O'Hegarty manuscripts.
Processing Information
Binding previously included a lock, which was removed and discarded at the time of cataloguing.
- Title
- Guide to the William Millar Diary
- Subtitle
- Diary of William Millar; Dublin
- Author
- Finding aid prepared by alh, June 19, 1973. Finding aid encoded by mg, 2005.
- Date
- 2005
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- Finding aid written in<language encodinganalog="language">English.</language>
- Finding aid permalink
- http://hdl.handle.net/10407/7098976151
- Preferred citation
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William Millar Diary, Department of Special Collections, MS C222, Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas Libraries
Repository Details
Part of the University of Kansas. Kenneth Spencer Research Library Repository