The sample months, found below, are drawn from the ongoing transcription and annotation of Wilberforce’s diaries. They are offered here as examples of the diaries over the course of Wilberforce’s life, and are not the final text. The excerpts include endnotes with annotations about the manuscript, and some footnotes with Latin translations and biblical references.
April 1789
Bodleian, Wilberforce MS, b. 2, ff. 12-13, edited by John Coffey
January 1795
Bodleian, Wilberforce MS, c. 34, pp. 43-46 and c. 41, ff. 28-31, edited by Michael D. McMullen.
March 1819
Wilberforce House, 2005.5787, pp. 162-169, edited by Anna Harrington
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