REID, Margery

Diary Bound volume

Marbled book with black leather spine and corners, 8 1/4" x 6 1/2'; 266PP, MS Note: Margery Reid was Michael Faraday's niece

pp.1-3 lectures by John Phillips, 5 Feb 1853

pp.3-4 lecture by G.B. Airy, February 1853

p.4 appearance of Mrs Jameson, author of "Female Sovereigns"; appearance of Bunsen and his daughters at lecture

pp.5-6 extract from oration on Berzelius by Heinrich Rose

pp.7-8 visit to Brighton, April 1853; earthquake

p.8 lecture by Warren on intellectual and moral development

p.9 Faraday's course of lectures on electricity, 12 April

p.10 poem: "Now praises to Jehovah sing"

pp.11-12 recollection of call made on Miss Lucy Aikin

p.13 September 1853: musings on daily routine etc.

pp.14-17 Faraday's juvenile lectures on voltaic electricity, 7 January 1854

p.17 19 January 1854: severe weather

pp.18-21 visit to Crystal Palace, 28 October 1854

pp.21-22 news of deaths of Franklin and his party

pp.22-23 Franklin relics brought home by Dr Rae

pp.23-25 comments on Rae

pp.25-27 comments on Mr Huxtable, 30 October 1854

pp.27-29 visit to Mr Noble's studio to see bust of Faraday

p.29 death of Dr Golding Bird

p.30 visit of Frank Barnard, November 1854

pp.30-31 party at Sir Charles Lyell's, 16 November 1854

pp.31-32 comments on Miss Burdett Coutts

pp.32-34 27 November: about Miss Reid's grandfather

p.34 deaths of Mr Lockhard and Edward Forbes, November 1854

pp.35-36 comments on war

p.36 comments on novel by Hocklander, the German 'Boz', 8 Dec 1854

pp.37-38 reading Schiller & a novel by Baroness Tautphoeus, 19 Dec 1854

pp.38-41 grandfather's illness, 23 Dec 1854-1 Jan 1855

p.41 Faraday's juvenile lecture on combustion, 2 January 1855

pp.41-42 death of grandfather, 4 January 1855

pp.42-43 deaths of Albert Giles, his wife, Jane, and two children from scarlet fever, 30 January 1855

p.44 comments on weather, 31 January 1855

p.45 Hastings, 21 March 1855: comments on Dr Blakiston & Mrs Sabine

pp.46-47 poem: "'Tis sweet to rise with early dawn", 1858

pp.48-60 Henry T. Buckle's lecture on influence of women on the progress of knowledge, 19 March 1858

pp.61-63 description of Hampton Court Green, 8 May 1859

pp.64-65 Sir Emerson Tennent's "Ceylon", 18 January 1860

p.66 poem by Dunoon, "The blossom of the fig may fail"; 1860

pp.67-68 poem: "Though with the tongues of angels"

p.69 poem: "At Hampton Court"

pp.70-84 notes on "Life of Goethe" by G.H. Lewes, 1864

p.85 poem: "The captives of Zion", April 1864

p.86 poem: "O give thanks to Jehovah"

pp.87-88 notes on Fuller's "Holy War" (1639), May 1864

p.89 poem: "The years are fleeting", 1864

p.90 notes on surrender of Confederate Army under Lee, 23-30 April 1865

p.90-91 death of heir to Russian throne

p.91 confession of Constance Kent to murder of her brother

pp.91-92 assassination of Abraham Lincoln

pp.92-93 Budget speech by William Gladstone

pp.94-96 Faraday's notes about Whit Monday at Hampton Court, 1860

pp.92-111 visit to Hampton Court, 1865

pp.112-13 "Rules for one's own guidance."

pp.115-26 visit to Brighton, December 1864

pp.127-36 "A sketch of a life" by WKR (Miss Reid's father), 15 March 1865

pp.137-8 extract from Elihu Burritt's "Walk from London to John O'Groats

p.139 poem: "Fair Hampton Court", 12 June 1866

p.140 poem: "Welcome, welcome Brother Knappe", January 1868

pp.141-43 father's illness & death of Aunt Spence, 22 October 1867

pp.143-44 visit to Hampton Court

pp.144-45 death of Faraday

pp.146 deaths of Miss Adams, Mr Middleton and Annie Lawton

pp.147-52 31 October 1867: recalls visits to Royal Institution

pp.153-54 1 November: recalls visit to R.I. laboratory & making lavender lozenges

pp.154-55 recalls annual "grand brewing" of ginger wine

pp.156-62 note on Faraday and the R.I.

pp.163-4 notes on Faraday's friendship with Magrath

pp.164-5 notes on Faraday's lectures

pp.165-76 extracts from Faraday's notes: rules for speaking, philosophy, scientific ideas and papers

pp.177-79 January 1868: note on Faraday's character and personality

pp.180-81 notes on her education and influence of Faraday

pp.181-4 recollections of Sir James South & Dr Robinson of Armagh

pp.184-5 note of the only time she saw Humphry Davy

pp.188-92 extracts from Sir H. Holland's "Recollections of Past Life"

pp.193-4 "The watch on the Rhine", August 1870

pp.193a-5 visit to Laurel Cottage, Dorking, August 1871

pp.196-200 copy of T.F.D.'s description of Ridley Mill, 1871

pp.202-5 "A Lament" by G.B. Logt

p.206 poem: "On the recovery of the Prince of Wales", 23 January 1872

p.207 poem: "Abinger", 1871

pp.209-10 poem: "I think of thee", translation from Friedreich von Matthison, 1880 remainder of book by Katharine C. Reid

F13B REID, Katherine C.

Diary and Commonplace Book

Added to Margery Reid's Diary, from p.211

pp.211-2 poem: "This is the way the fairies sing", by Rose Fyleman, 8 June 1921

pp.213-28 rough notes

pp.229-36 extracts from poems by Walter de la Mare, Byron and Masefield

p.265 List of books to read