MANUSCRIPT. - Ina Mary WEBB. [A diary written by a student at boarding-school. Bedford: N.p.:] January-July 1902, 59pp., manuscript, 8vo (215 x 128mm.) Unnumbered pages in a single legible and tightly written hand on lined paper detailing the daily activities of Ina and her friend's lives at Howard College, Bedford, numerous blank leaves to rear. (Toning, some offsetting of ink.) Original maroon buckram (sunned to spine, inner hinge weakening). Note: in addition to the daily whirl of school activities, Ina and her best friend Flossie have agreed to each keep a diary of their year at school. There are many certainties in their world, every hour is filled with improving lessons in needlework, music, Shakespeare and painting and any spare time is spent playing games of salta, whist and ping-pong. There is barely any time for reflection but occasionally Jamesian details seep through ('Mr Mott came to dinner. He had Harry Royce's umbrella with him'), occasionally the regressive drama of teenage life is expressed ('I went to bed at 8pm, found I wasn't well (how awful). I felt very much like dying, but got on alright'). On the 22nd of July the diary suddenly ends: 'Flossie's father was ill and she had been sent for so I helped her dress'. Maybe they both stopped writing their diaries after this news. Or, maybe, Ina stopped because, ever practical, she knew that on the 25th July, 'we go home'.