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StorageSiteUCL Special Collections
LevelItem
Reference Number MS OGDEN/89
TitleStevens Diary
Date1844-1845
DescriptionDiary of W Stevens of Fleet Street, London, 19 Apr 1844 - 18 Apr 1845, with illustrations in ink.
Extent1 volume
AdminHistoryAccording to a later manuscript note concerning the provenance of the diary, Mr Stevens may have been an engraver or designer, and his interests ranged across science, astronomy, mathematics, photography, and music.
CustodialHistoryPart of the library of Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957), linguistic psychologist, founder of the Orthological Institute and originator of the language system Basic English, whose interests in language systems are reflected in the subject matter of his collection, which comprised individual manuscripts and manuscript collections dating from the 14th to the 20th century.
AcquisitionPart of the C K Ogden Library acquired by UCL in 1953.
AccessStatusOpen
AccessConditionsThe papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.
FindingAidsHandlist at University College London Special Collections.
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