Journal of a tour to Scotland by Clement Mansfield Ingleby.
Scope and Contents
The journal is made up from transcripts of letters to his mother written on the journey between 26 August and 8 September 1842.
Among the main places visited are Glasgow, Inveraray, Oban, Glencoe, Callander and Edinburgh. The text is ornamented with thirty-three engraved views, several dried plant specimens, and a few pencil sketches. The journal is followed by a 'Dissertation on the Gael and their language' (folio 49), dealing with regional variations in language, intonation, and idiom.
Dates
- Creation: 1842.
Creator
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Conditions Governing Use
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Extent
56 Leaves ; Folio.
Language of Materials
English, Old (ca.450-1100)
Arrangement
ii + 54 + blank folios.
Custodial History
The journal contains a bookplate of the writer's son, Holcombe Ingleby, of Valentines.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Bought, Sotheby's, 19 March, 1958, lot 728.
- Title
- National Library of Scotland Catalogue of Manuscripts
- Author
- National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
- Description rules
- International Standard for Archival Description - General
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
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