Scope and Contents The first six volumes cover the period from 5 October 1857, when he embarked from Ireland, to 12 January 1860, and the seventh from 21 November 1863 to 27 April 1864, when he returned to England. Although the notebooks are numbered consecutively (perhaps in another hand) from 1 to 7 it seems clear that if the diary was kept continuously, several more notebooks, covering the period from 13 January 1860 to 20 November 1863, must be missing. Although none of the notebooks is signed, it seems...