Notebooks

Description

The notebooks contain Joseph Wood’s account of his life, his Quaker faith and his work as a Minister of the Gospel.


Wood wrote every morning when at home. If travelling he made time to write in small memorandum books as often as possible, copying these notes into his notebooks when he returned home. It seems likely that the notebooks which have survived are only part of his writings related to his ministry.


Reflecting the uncertainties in written English in the late 1700s and early 1800s, Wood uses inconsistent spelling and grammar, and limited punctuation in the notebooks.


The notebooks are handmade and bound in contemporary paper. Watermarks on the writing paper in the large notebooks reveals that some of it was made in Settle.


In cataloguing the contemporary capitalisation of the titles of the entries in the notebooks has been followed. They have been catalogued in chronological and numerical order.


The numbers on the small pieces of paper which have been pasted to the front of the notebooks are not contemporary. Wood numbered and dated some of the notebooks himself on the top of the front cover in pencil.

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