| Description | The entry under March 2, 1885, that he read a paper "at Seminar” on Wales and the Marches, with the historian Freeman in the chair, is really on Oxford memory. [If this paper had been preserved, it would be interesting to compare its early promise with the mature conclusions of Wales and the Coming of the Normans (Trans. Cymm., 1899 - 1900), and with the still more mellow transformation of that article into Chap. XI of the History of 1911].
Then there follow personal touches like the date of his first sermon (Jan. 5, 1879) at Grove St Independent chapel, Liverpool, and his hearing Henry Ward Beecher at Liverpool on Aug. 16, 1886.
articles in these books were not printed; some were printed that were not in the books. |