Back to all manuscripts
Posted:
07 Feb 2018
| (old shelfmark **A.56) | |
|---|---|
| Author: | Henry Sumner-Maine (1822 – 1888) |
| Language: | English |
| Origin: | England |
| Date: | 19th c., ca. 1880 - 1885 |
| Material: | Paper (factory made) |
| Physical Description: | 90 folios (unfoliated or paginated), 180 x 115 (146 x 115) mm, 20 long lines, mechanically ruled in blue ink |
| Rubric: | None |
| Incipit: | (fol. 3r; fol. 2v an addition in different ink) No doubt that |
| 2o folio: | new delight, in |
| Explicit: | (fol. 47r) The other is that [.]is[. . ]ped in this paper (crossed through) |
| Contents: | Fols. 2v – 47r, Notes on government and politics |
| Script: | Cursive |
| Scribe: | Henry Sumner-Maine (1822 – 1888) |
| Decoration: | None |
| Provenance: | Sir Henry Sumner-Maine, (1822 – 1888) (his hand, and note ‘This notebook of Sir Henry Maine is one of those he used in the preparation of his book on ‘Popular Government’ H.L.’, fol. 1r); Harold Laski (1893 – 1950); his gift to Robert Samuel Theodore Chorley, 1st Baron Chorley (1895 – 1978) (inscription ‘Theo Chorley, with the affection of his friend and colleague Harold Laski’, fol. 1r); Lady Chorley (d. 1986); her gift to the College, 1980 |
| Binding: | 19th c., cased, imitation black leather over card, edges mottled blue (produced as blank notebook) |
| Notes: | Henry Sumner-Maine was Junior Tutor at Trinity Hall 1845 – 47 and Master 1877 – 1888; he was also Regis Professor of Law 1847 – 1854. His book Popular Government: Four Essays was first published in 1885, but the essays had previously been published in The Quarterly Review, and were influenced by Sumner-Maine’s articles in the St James’s Gazette, 1880-81. A number of Sumner-Maine’s other notebooks and papers are now held in the British Library of Political and Economic Science. |
| Bibliography: | |
| © Trinity Hall, Cambridge |
