| 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 1816-1820. The folder includes several clumps of pages torn out of 'Almanacks' for 1818, 1819, and 1820. Greenough appears to have used these 'almanacks' as diary planners at the time. There is also a page of some more detailed, selected diary entries from some of Greenough's travels in 1820. |