Appointment Diaries

RA Collection: Archive

Archive context

Showing item 2 of 12 in this group

Reference code

GRI/2

Title

Appointment Diaries

Date

1837-1894

Level

Series

Extent & medium

42 volumes

Content Description

Diaries recording appointments on a daily basis. Evening and social activities are also sometimes recorded. Some have subsequent annotations, either by Richmond himself or a descendant. Each volume contains notes made by Thomas Knyvett Richmond, often he calls these 'notabilia'. Mentions are made of the meetings of his Clubs, Nobody's Friend, the Literary Club, Grillions. Richmond sometimes records meetings relating to the Academy, Government Art School and other bodies.