« Reply #151 on: Tuesday 07 May 13 01:09 BST (UK) »
This sounds something like "Richard Doyle's Journal, 1840" which I have as a hard back book. It was first published in 1980 and is fascinating as it is in a written script and teems with Doyle's sketches. He kept the journal throughout 1840 when he was a 15 year old, before going on to become three years later an illustrator for Punch and eventually one of England's leading illustrator's. The journal does mention a variety of people, though I have never thought to find out who they really were.
Hutton: Eccleshill,Queensbury
Grant: Babworth,Chinley
Draffan: Lesmahagow,Douglas,Coylton, Consett
Oliver: Tanfield, Sunderland, Consett
Proudlock: Northumberland
Turnbull:Northumberland, Durham
Robson:Sunderland, Northumberland
Dent: Dufton, Arkengarthdale, Hunstanworth
Currie: Coylton
Morris and Hurst: East Retford, Blyth, Worksop
Elliot: Castleton, Hunstanworth, Consett
Tassie, Greenshields