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The Rev. Joseph Romilly (17911864) was a bachelor clergyman of the Church of England a Fellow of Trinity College and from 1832 to 1861 Registrary of the University of Cambridge. He kept a regular diary from 1829 to his death and this selection introduced and edited by J. P. T. Bury covers the years 18321842. Romilly was a cultured and travelled man of means; he met many of the ablest scholars and leaders of his day and was a welcome guest in great houses. This volume which begins in the year of Romilly''s election as Registrary is a unique record of Cambridge before the Royal Commission of 1852 with many valuable sidelights on nineteenth-century society and on intellectual life or the more relaxed side of it.