A pencil note on the flyleaf in the hand of Susan Lowndes Marques reads 'Believed to be Mme Swanton Belloc's diary when she was in Richmond, Surrey during the Franco-Prussian War. S.L.M.'. The first page is headed 'Mon Journal 1870'. The volume is a little over half full. It also contains a press cutting, pasted in towards the end, concerning 'serviceable articles of food for besieged towns (no date, no source). It is presumably a continuation of GCPP Parkes 17a/2/2 above.