| Description | At some point in later life, George Greenough appears to have reconstructed the events of his life into a timeline, contained in 10 folders of papers. The first page in the first folder (GREENOUGH/B/2/3/1) is entitled ‘Personal narrative’. Dates are listed sequentially on each page. Each date has one line, so the entries are brief, although many dates do not have an entry. The entries are all handwritten, in Greenough’s handwriting. It seems that Greenough created this timeline from the diaries that he used through the years. It also covers his early childhood, so he must have constructed these entries from memory or other sources. The timeline includes major events in his life and the lives of his relatives, but also minor details such as the dates he returned from boarding school, his travels around Europe, dinners with friends, meetings of certain organisations and societies, and dates when he received significant letters from people he knew.
This particular folder in the timeline covers the years 1821-1825, and includes some loose notes from an 'Almanack' from 1825. The folder also includes a letter transcribed by Greenough rergarding his grandfather's will, presumably originally written by the executor, dated 1824. |