Scope and Contents

Box 35: notebook containing 4/1874-8/1874 features a little drawing of a child on p. 48. These journals form the basis for the majority of the material in Life Among the Troubridges: Journals of a Young Victorian Woman 1873-1884 by Laura Troubridge. Box 36: 22 diaries of various shapes and sizes from 1879-1899; 1882 diary is missing back cover; 1887 journal has a color postcard of two owls in a snowstorm: "May your New Year be happy."

Scope and Contents Box 38: Includes 3 volumes which are copies of Louisa's journals (written around 1848), copied by Helen Troubridge Bate around 1908; an account book from 1859-1866; includes a memorial and reaction to Louisa's premature death from 1867 titled "A detailed account of Louisa Troubridge's life and death by her sister Mrs. Herbert Jones" (aka Aunt Bache), which includes photographs, newspaper cuttings, letters (both from Louisa and about her), transcribed letters, a watercolor drawing of Louisa...