The diary entries discuss dining with Mr and Mrs Wray; the petty Court of Parma; dining with Captain Campbell; Lord Hardwicke departing to town where he saw Zobeide at Covent Garden (translated from Voltaire’s Scythes).

The letters were sent from Dublin and Garvagh, and are accompanied by a copy of a letter from Stratford Canning Jr. at Amsterdam to Voltaire, 2 May 1768.

Amabel Hume-Campbell, 1st Countess de Grey [née Yorke] discusses the death of the Duke of Bedford, going to see a performance of ‘the new Tragedy of Almida’ based on Voltaire’s Tancrede with Mrs Wray, and Lord Suffolk being refused the place of Secretary of State.

In the diary entries, Amabel Hume-Campbell, 1st Countess de Grey [née Yorke] discusses visiting Lady Carpenter after church, dining with Mr & Mrs Wray and Mr & Mrs Jennings, going with Mrs Wray to see Zobeide) she remarks that she prefers the original (Les Scythes of Voltaire) better), the death of Lord Northington.

The creed reads: ‘I believe in the Supreme Being, in common with Voltaire, Rousseau and the Jacobin Club. I deny that Jesus Christ is any other than a mere man…Marshall and Socinianism for ever!’ Robinson and Hernaman, Intelligencer Office, Leeds, printed and manuscript copy.

A page from the journal of Ann Walker. After visitng his château at Ferney, she questions ‘if Voltaire was in reality what the world represents him (an Infidel,) is it not singular that he should have built a Church for the worship of God?’

The diary entry reads: ‘Monday 4 November 1816. “History of the War in Spain and Portugal from 1807 to 1814. By General Sarrazin, one of the commanders of the Legion of Honour; and formerly chief of the Staff in the Corps of the Price Royal of Sweded. Illustrated with a map of Spain and Portugal exhibiting the routes of the various armies. A victorious general has committed no fault in the eyes of the public; while he that is defeated, always becomes an object of censure, however wise his conduct may have been.” Voltaire’s General History Chapter 182. London Printed for Henry Colburn, Public Library, Conduit Street, Hanover Square, and sold by Bell and Bradfute, Edinburgh, and John Cummin, Dublin. 1815. I Volume 8 vo. Page 375.’

Describes his visit to London and the places he visits including numerous museums, exhibitions, theatres and parks, where he has seen famous people including the Duke of Wellington, Duke of Cambridge, Lord Melbourne and Lord Palmerstone. Details his trip to Paris and includes visits to the Louvre, theatres, churches and exhibitions. Describes his visit to Geneva, Milan, Genoa, Leghorn, Florence and Rome with reference to Voltaire, La Scala, Pisa (the Leaning Tower), Tome, St Peter’s, the Colosseum, a climb up Mont Blanc, and Florence.