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Title(s):

Journal of a tour through Wales, the lakes in Lancashire, Westmoreland & Cumberland, Edinburgh, and manufacturing towns in England in the year 1808.

Published/Created:
Great Britain, 1808 August 10-September 26.
Physical Description:
1 volume (178 pages) : illustrations ; 17 cm
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
DA625 .J68 1808
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
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Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Full Orbis Record:
http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/16691497
Classification:
Archives & Manuscripts
Notes:
Title from caption at head of page 1.
Bound in red leather.
Manuscript travel diary kept by an unidentified woman travelling with her husband George, departing from London. The diarist makes daily entries, writing in black ink in a neat hand. The text is accompanied by nine simple drawings, in graphite and gray wash, tipped in. The drawing subjects include a lock on the Weir, Tintern, Rheidol Falls, Aberystwyth, Barmouth, and Windermere.
Highlights of the tour include: George's descent down multiple mines; a meeting with Mary Robinson (Maid of Buttermere); a ride to the summit of Skiddaw, in the Lake District; numerous encounters with post boys and post coaches; Edinburgh Castle and Holyrood Palace; Newcastle ("a rather black looking town from the number of coals in its neighborhood"); the weaving of Damask linen at Bedale; the ruins of Fountains Abbey; Harrogate; the dropping well at Knaresborough (Mother Shipton's Cave); and the racecourse at Doncaster.
Subject Terms:
Edinburgh (Scotland) -- Description and travel.
Great Britain -- Description and travel.
Robinson, Mary.
Form/Genre:
Travel literature.
Diaries.
Drawings.
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