| Description | Section of a diary, apparently disbound. Commencing on 1 January 1878, 'All of us at Edward Hardcastle's at Manchester...', and concluding on 20 April 1878, 'Bright Sun in morning, garden & trees have taken a great spurt...'. With several press cuttings: including 'The telephone at Court', 14 January 1878, on the exhibition of a telephone to Queen Victoria; another from The Times, 17 January 1878, on Thomas Edison's phonograph. |