| Description | Daily record of Dr Alcock's personal and professional life. The diaries include entries relating to his wife, Sarah, and their children; social, political, historical and religious matters; diagrams of plants and animals; graphs and charts relating to pulse/temperature, births and deaths in Manchester area in 1850s, plagues and earthquakes etc, 1333-1351, around the world; verses and transcribed letters. The second diary contains many letters written to his deceased wife. |
| Administrative History | Alcock lectured at Owen's College, Manchester, and at nonconformist chapels. |