Diaries, Volume 2: 1798-1802

Diary entry noting that his wife Julia, 'was delivered of a very fine girl. My father was in bed and I was lying on the sofa in the drawing room when the cook brought me in the joyful news and I communicated it to my Father[.] I immediately went into the nursery where I saw the little infant...poor Julia was very ill after she had been brought to bed, but I was not told of it', 27 December 1799.

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3 volumes of diaries of Alexander Hamilton of Newtown Hamilton, County Armagh, Rutland Square, Dublin and Knock, County Dublin, son of the Dean of Armagh and Bishop of Ossary, 1793-1807. The diaries were copied by his grand nephew, George Hamilton Johnston,1890. The diaries include genealogical notes on the family, 1640-c.1847 and are indexed. The diaries describe numerous society and family events.