Title page: "Arthur Seymour Sullivan, M. S. Conservat: der Musik. Leipzig Nov. 1st 1858."
Written in tête-bêche: 10 leaves of diary from one direction and 26 leaves of language exercises from the other. A number of pages are torn out in the middle.
One of three Sullivan diaries at the Morgan together with the Vienna diary, 1867, and the American diary, 1875-1880. All other volumes are located in the Beinecke Library, Yale University.
Purchased from descendants of Elena Bashford, widow of Sullivan's nephew and residual legatee, Herbert T. Sullivan.
Sullivan, Herbert T. (Herbert Thomas), 1868-1928, former owner.