Book of jottings 2

Department Archive
Collection George Finlay Papers
Reference No. FIN/JF/13
Level Item
Dimensions 12 X 18 cm
Dates 10 April 1799 - 20 January 1801
Donor/Creator
Scope and Content Grey mottle board, handwritten, unpaginated, with some loose sheets.
Books FIN/J/12 to FIN/J/15 cover 10 April 1799-20 January 1801 and contain a disjointed mixture of diary, personal accounts, clothes and rations on board, gunnery problems, chemical experiments, and meteorological statistics.
Notes Greece was one of the last European countries to adopt the newer Gregorian calendar. For most of the nineteenth century, the Julian calendar was 12 days behind the Gregorian. British correspondents in the Finlay Collection tend to use the newer calendar. Letters with two dates 12 days apart, eg. 24 April / 6 May 1828, refer to both the Julian and Gregorian calendars.