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Karl’s parents were to be divorced after the mother was caught having an affair with a man who was the child’s father, she takes leave for South Africa on the boat from London, and there is no more mention of the father or husband.\r\nThe diary details a Karl’s development covering many of the milestones parents experience, sitting, crawling, clapping, first words etc.  It gives evidence of how he was cared for, what he ate, when he was weaned from a bottle to a cup, and toilet trained.  It also records his statistics including his height and weight at intervals.  The diary also shows how much Matilda cared for the small boy under her charge and that she formally adopted him and brought him up on her own as a single mother.  Sadly the diary stops abruptly in 1907 when Matilda dies it is not known what happen to Karl after this point. </sub></sup></sup>\r\n</sup></sub>","physicalDescription":"A black hard back exercise book with lined pages that contains the handwritten diary of the up bringing and development of a young boy named Karl written by his minder and later adopted parent Matilda Hunt, Ipswich, 1903 ","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Matilda Hunt","id":"AUTH319727"},"association":{"text":"writer","id":"x36825"},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"paper","id":"x30308"}],"techniques":[{"text":"handwritten","id":"AAT252927"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"","categories":[{"text":"Children & Childhood","id":"THES48980"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"YVA","id":"THES48593"},"images":[],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"005","id":"THES343651"},"free":"","case":"","shelf":"","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"Diary","id":"x36674"}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Ipswich","id":"x34391"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":"There is no record in the diary of a full address other than 25 Chenery St, her previous address while working at Westminster Hospital had been 7 St Margaret's plain, Ipswich."}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"1903","earliest":"1903-01-01","latest":"1903-12-31"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":"The first entry mentions Karl birth date of 1/08/02 but the first enty of her involement of his upbringing is 28th March 03.  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The diary gives an insight into his life recording key development milestones such as cutting teeth, sitting up, clapping, crawling, first words etc as well as information on how she cared for him, what he ate, how he slept, his height and weight measurements, when she toilet trained him etc.  \nA transcribed copy is held locally in the registered files.  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