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1. A tour through a part of the counties of Derby and Stafford : with various observations interspersed throughout the work by her brother The Reverend Mark Noble, F.A.S.s of London and Edinburgh, Rector of Barming in Kent, and domestic chaplain to George, Earl Leicester, written for the amusement and gratification of the parties and their friends, 1797

Creator:: Chattock, Sarah
Call Number:: LWL Mss Vol. 45
Image Count:: 18
Resource Type:: unspecified
Abstract:: Manuscript, in a single hand, of a copy by Mark Noble, with annotations, of his sister's diary of their tour through Derby and Stafford, recording their impressions of the counties' great houses and churches; and relating anecdotes and historical notes about the inhabitants, the churches and monuments, local legends and superstitions. She explores the town of Ashborne and Ashborne School, while a guest at Sandy Brook, the home of a Mrs. Gisborne; reminiscenses about Dr. Taylor and Dr. Johnson, and the students of Taylor's including the brother of the antiquarian Thomas Astle. In the chapel at Ashbourne Hall, she examines a monument Sir Brook Boothby had erected there in memory of his daughter Penelope and deplores his harsh treatment of his wife, said to have been a dwarf. In Derby, she passes by Sir Michael Gresley's seat, and relates details of their difficult relationship. She praises the furniture at Ilam Hall; visits John Gisborne's mansion at Sudbury; writes approvingly of his character; and concludes her narrative with a description of his wife and children. They visit Lichfield Cathedral and write about the monuments and renovations
Description:: Mrs. Sarah Chattock was the sister of the antiquarian Rev. Mark Noble (1754-1827)., In English., Binding: marbled paper. Written on front cover: Mrs. S. Chattock's Tour through Derby & Stafford Shires with note by her brother the Rev. Mark Noble., and For further infromation, consult library staff.
Subject (Geographic):: England, Derbyshire., Staffordshire., England., Derbyshire (England), and Staffordshire (England)
Subject (Name):: Ashbourne Hall (Ashbourne, England), Boothby, Brooke, 1743-1824., Bertram, Saint., Camden, William, 1551-1623. Britannia., Cokayne family., Chattock, Sarah., Greene, Richard, 1716-1793., Gisborne family., Gisborne, J. 1770-1851 (John),, Gisborne, Thomas, 1758-1846., Gresley family., Mary, Queen of Scots, 1542-1587, Laporte family., Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784., Noble, Mark, 1754-1827., Taylor, John, 1711-1788., Ashbourne (England), Ilam Hall (Staffordshire, England), Lichfield Cathedral., and Sudbury Hall (England)
Subject (Topic):: Description and travel, Architecture, Domestic, Gentry, Conduct of life, Monuments, Sepulchral monuments, Travelers' writings, English, and Social life and customs
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > A tour through a part of the counties of Derby and Stafford : with various observations interspersed throughout the work by her brother The Reverend Mark Noble, F.A.S.s of London and Edinburgh, Rector of Barming in Kent, and domestic chaplain to George, Earl Leicester, written for the amusement and gratification of the parties and their friends, 1797

2. A tour to Celbridge, by Dr. S. Johnson, [ca. 1776]

Creator:: Jephson, Robert, 1736-1803
Call Number:: LWL Mss Vol. 169
Image Count:: 16
Resource Type:: unspecified
Abstract:: Manuscript, in Jephson's hand, of a parody of Johnson's A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland. Using florid language throughout, the author explains his satiety with Dublin and determines to explore the countryside. Traveling with Dean Marlay, Mrs Greville and Mrs Jephson, he complains about the unsightly mendicants who mar the scenery; sings, along with his companions, the Beggar's Opera to pass the time; and runs over "pigs and children who were lying together in the middle of the highway." At Celbridge, he praises the landscape, estate, and the appearance of its owner, Colonel Marlay. The essay concludes with a description of the narrator's fall into the Liffey, and his rescue by catching hold of a passing cow and Horace Walpole has filled in Johnson's name and added "By Richard Jephson, Esqre" underneath the title
Description:: Robert Jephson (1736-1803), playwright and parodist, was born in Dublin. His first play, Braganza, was performed in 1775, with an epilogue by Horace Walpole. His most commercially successful play, performed 37 times between 1781 and 1798, was The Count of Narbonne, based on Walpole's Castle of Otranto as well as Walpole's play, Mysterious Mother. In addition to other plays, Jephson also wrote numerous parodic pieces, including a series in the government newspaper The Mercury under the title "The Bachelor." He parodied the style of the printer George Faulkner and criticized Charles Townshend's enemies in An Epistle to Gorges Edmund Howard (1771); wrote Extempore Ludicrous Miltonic Verses(1788); and wrote a prose piece titled Confessions of James Baptiste Couteau (1794), a satirical parody of revolutionary politics., In English., Title from first page., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Geographic):: Ireland., Celbridge (Ireland), and Great Britain
Subject (Name):: Gay, John, 1685-1732., Jephson, Robert, 1736-1803., Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784., Marlay, Richard, d. 1802., and Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Subject (Topic):: English wit and humor, Parodies, English, Poverty, Travelers' writings, English, Description and travel, and Social life and customs
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > A tour to Celbridge, by Dr. S. Johnson, [ca. 1776]

3. An Abyssinian breakfast [graphic].

Published / Created:: [3 March 1791]
Call Number:: 791.03.03.01+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: A man in Scottish dress kicks a bull as he cuts it with a knife crying, "Hoot! Damn yeen. Saul what de ye hoke for." Also pictured a abyssianian couple skin a lion. A sphynix with a confused look sits as a stream pours out from under his chair with a crocodile and crabs floating in the water and frogs observing from the side. Monkeys in the trees observe the scene below. A other four-legged animal emerges from the tent in the distance
Description:: Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Four lines of verse on each side of title: There, which the squeamish souls of Britain shocks, ... ., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark (countermark) : V I.
Publisher:: Pubd. March 3, 1791, by W. Holland, No. 50 Oxford St.
Subject (Geographic):: Egypt, Ethiopia., and Nile River.
Subject (Name):: Bruce, James, 1730-1794
Subject (Topic):: Description and travel, Antiquities, Clothing & dress, Scottish, Bulls, Crabs, Crocodiles, Frogs, Lions, Monkeys, Tents, and Tourists
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > An Abyssinian breakfast [graphic].

4. Chandos Leigh family papers, 1814-1850

Creator:: Leigh, Chandos, 1791-1850
Call Number:: OSB MSS 129
Container / Volume:: Box 1
Image Count:: 72
Abstract:: 20 ALS and 2 autograph manuscripts by Chandos Leigh, first Baron Leigh of Stoneleigh. Almost all of the letters were written during his travels on the Continent. Ten were written to his parents and sister in 1818-19 while he was on the grand tour. Letters from Switzerland and the Alps describe the scenery, particularly near Vevey and Lake Como, and refer to the writings of Rousseau, Byron, and Thomas Moore. Letters from Florence and Rome detail his responses to art and architecture, particularly the Venus de Medici, the sculpture of Canova and Thorvaldsen, and "the pride, pomp and circumstance" of Roman Catholic churches and ceremonies, which "must disgust the severe taste of the English traveller." Leigh also mentions Lord Byron, Lady Drury and Lord Beauchamp, the "set of regular English Dandies" and English ladies in Rome, the unattractiveness of Roman women, and his own purchase of a Salvator Rosa painting and Three letters to Sir Egerton Brydges, written during the Leigh family's stay in Switzerland in 1837, concern Leigh's poetry, his health, and a possible visit. His letters to his nephew Frederick Colvile contain news of his health and family; travel descriptions; and advice on Colvile's education. A March 1836 letter announces that the trustees of Rugby School have "unanimously decided in favour of Dr. Arnold;" a December 1837 letter comments that "Dr. Newman's book" (Lectures on Justification?) "contains much that is...to an ordinary man unintelligible." Other topics include the 1850 death of Sir Robert Peel and Leigh's own Liberal Party politics. The collection also contains autograph manuscripts of two poems by Leigh: "The First Days of Spring" and "Hymn for the Consecration of the Church on Westwood Heath."
Description:: Chandos Leigh (1791-1850) was educated at Harrow School, where he met Lord Byron, and Christ Church, Oxford, following which he made the grand tour with Philip Shuttleworth. A distant cousin of Jane Austen's, and a generous literary patron to Leigh Hunt and others, Leigh privately published over two dozen collections of his own poems and essays. He was created Baron Leigh of Stoneleigh in May, 1839. Leigh traveled several times to the Continent for his heath, but died of apoplexy in Bonn in September of 1850; he was succeeded by his eldest son, William Henry Leigh. and Accompanied by a container list.
Subject (Geographic):: Europe., Alps, Florence (Italy), Italy, Rome (Italy), and Switzerland
Subject (Name):: Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824., Brydges, Egerton, Sir, 1762-1837., Canova, Antonio, 1757-1822., Colvile, Frederick Leigh, 1819-1886., Leigh, Chandos, 1791-1850., Leigh, Chandos, 1791-1850, Leigh, James Henry, 1765-1823., Leigh, Julia, d. 1871., Leigh, Julia Twisleton, d. 1843., Newman, John Henry, Saint, 1801-1890., Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778, Thorvaldsen, Bertel, 1770-1844., Catholic Church, and Rugby School.
Subject (Topic):: Books and reading, Death and burial, Influence, Customs and practices, Authors, English, Dandies, English literature, Grand tours (Education), Tourism, Travelers' writings, English, Description and travel, Social life and customs, and Religious life and customs
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Chandos Leigh family papers, 1814-1850

5. Denkwürdigkeiten einer reise nach dem russischen Amerika, nach Mikronesien und durch Kamtschatka

Creator:: Kittlitz, F. H. v. (Friedrich Heinrich von), 1799-1874
Published / Created:: 1858.
Call Number:: S55 750
Container / Volume:: Bd.1
Image Count:: 412
Description:: The author was a naturalist on Lütke's voyage round the world, 1826-1829.
Publisher:: J. Perthes
Subject (Geographic):: Alaska, Micronesia, and Kamchatka Peninsula (Russia)
Subject (Topic):: Description and travel
Found in:: Sterling Memorial Library > Denkwürdigkeiten einer reise nach dem russischen Amerika, nach Mikronesien und durch Kamtschatka

6. Denkwürdigkeiten einer reise nach dem russischen Amerika, nach Mikronesien und durch Kamtschatka

Creator:: Kittlitz, F. H. v. (Friedrich Heinrich von), 1799-1874
Published / Created:: 1858.
Call Number:: S55 750
Container / Volume:: Bd.2
Image Count:: 478
Description:: The author was a naturalist on Lütke's voyage round the world, 1826-1829.
Publisher:: J. Perthes
Subject (Geographic):: Alaska, Micronesia, and Kamchatka Peninsula (Russia)
Subject (Topic):: Description and travel
Found in:: Sterling Memorial Library > Denkwürdigkeiten einer reise nach dem russischen Amerika, nach Mikronesien und durch Kamtschatka

7. Dictionnarie géographique de l'Empire Ottoman

Creator:: Mostras, Konstantin Georgievich, d. 1871
Published / Created:: 1873.
Call Number:: EdLab 873
Image Count:: 262
Description:: Includes index.
Publisher:: Commissionaires de l'Académie impériale des sciences
Subject (Geographic):: Turkey. and Turkey
Subject (Topic):: Names, Geographical and Description and travel
Found in:: Sterling Memorial Library > Dictionnarie géographique de l'Empire Ottoman

8. Documents concerning ship captains and shipping, 1762-circa 1809

Call Number:: OSB MSS 155
Container / Volume:: Box
Image Count:: 30
Abstract:: Manuscript documents and letters, illustrating the daily life and responsibilities of sea captains in the 18th and early 19th centuries. The collection includes documents relating to Captain Robert Poultney in Jamaica and letters on personal and naval matters addressed to Captain John Wainwright. Also included are descriptions of coastal areas and navigation hazzards, documents relating to obtaining supplies, a ship's newsletter, and a colored map ("Rochfort et les Environs").
Description:: Robert Poultney was the captain of the ship Loretta in Jamaica in 1762-1764., John Wainwright of the Royal Navy served in the East Indies and the Mediterranean, fought throughout the Napoleonic Wars, and is remembered for the destruction of the pirate town Ras-al-Kayma while captain of the ship Chiffonne., and In English, with one letter in French.
Subject (Geographic):: Mediterranean Region and Brittany (France)
Subject (Name):: Poultney, Robert., Wainwright, John, Captain., Chiffonne (Ship), Great Britain. Royal Navy, and Loretta (Ship)
Subject (Topic):: Officers, Sea life, Aids to navigation, Coasts, Navigation, Seafaring life, Ship captains, and Description and travel
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Documents concerning ship captains and shipping, 1762-circa 1809

9. Iz Zaĭsana cherez Khami v Tibet i na verkhovʹi︠a︡ Zheltoĭ ri︠e︡ki.

Creator:: Przhevalʹskiĭ, Nikolaĭ Mikhaĭlovich, 1839-1888
Published / Created:: 1883.
Call Number:: Eeba +879P
Image Count:: 713
Description:: At head of title: Tretʹe puteshestvīe v T︠S︡entralʹnoĭ Azīi. and Joel Sumner Smith "Catalogue of Works" No. 521.
Publisher:: Tip. V.S. Balasheva
Subject (Geographic):: Tibet (China) and Asia, Central
Subject (Topic):: Description and travel
Found in:: Sterling Memorial Library > Iz Zaĭsana cherez Khami v Tibet i na verkhovʹi︠a︡ Zheltoĭ ri︠e︡ki.