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THIS IS THE DIARY JUNCTION - DATA AND LINKS FOR OVER 500 HISTORICAL AND LITERARY DIARISTS PLEASE TAKE A MOMENT ALSO TO LOOK AT KIP FENN, A MAJOR NOVEL ABOUT THE 21st CENTURY - freely available on this site Byrom, John ___ 1692-1763 ___ British ___ writer BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY Byrom was educated at Merchant Taylors School and Trinity College, Cambridge. Although he went abroad to study medicine, he never practiced as a doctor. He was a Jacobite sympathiser, a member of the Royal Society and became increasingly interested in mysticism. Although remembered as a poet, hymn writer and diary keeper, John Byrom was also the inventor of a system of shorthand - Universal English Shorthand - which brought him important pupils (including the Wesleys, MPs and royalty). His diaries were written in shorthand and not deciphered or published until after his death. For the most part they are rather bland and full of very ordinary detail, but they do contain some interesting portraits of the famous people he knew. One biography link DIARY DATES, CONTENT DESCRIPTORS 1722-1744 ___ religious social family health people language WEB TEXT LINKS ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT LINKS Manchester University: John Rylands Library ___ possibly SOME PUBLISHED TITLES The Private Journal and Literary Remains of John Byrom May 2005 THIS IS THE DIARY JUNCTION - DATA AND LINKS FOR OVER 500 HISTORICAL AND LITERARY DIARISTS Please email if you have any corrections, additions or comments.

IMPORTANT NOTES AND CAUTIONS: 1) The first line of basic information may be incomplete in several ways: some historical figures have different names (titles, pen-names); their birth and death dates may be unknown or uncertain (g - guess, c - circa); similarly, their occupations may be unknown, or they may have had other jobs; and, for early diarists, I've used 'British' a bit too freely. 2) The biographical summary may not be accurate. It was compiled quickly from various sources, mostly on the internet, and the facts were not checked anywhere near as rigorously as they would have been if they'd been intended for publication in a printed form. 3) The journal dates and descriptors (which are in no particular order) must be treated with caution: since I have not examined the diaries myself, the descriptors are only guesses based on bibliographies, anthologies and internet biographies. 4) For the biography and etext links, I have ignored any sites with charges, and I have avoided, wherever possible, those with pop-ups or too much advertising. I have limited myself to providing three etext links where there is some variety between them. 5) For the original manuscript links, I have limited myself to providing a maximum of two (although, for a few diarists, their original diaries are held in more than two places). 6) I have provided the titles - chosen randomly - for up to three printed editions of the diaries.

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