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Travel journals.

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‘Journal in Scotland, August, 1870’ by Edmund Gosse, being the record of a tour in the Hebrides and central Highlands, addressed to the author's father, who financed the trip.

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Identifier: MS.2562
Scope and Contents

The journal concludes with the words, 'So came to an end this glorious outing, for the great pleasure and profit of which I owe most hearty thanks to the best of Fathers that ever lived'. It was on this tour that Edmund Gosse met Robert Louis Stevenson, but there is no mention of the meeting in the journal.

Dates: 1870.