Travel literature.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Accounts of journeys, voyages, and travels written to instruct, inform or entertain.
Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:
Account, intended for publication and heavily corrected, of a voyage from Southampton to St Lucia in the West Indies and of subsequent travels in the United States.
Item
Identifier: MS.14194
Scope and Contents
The paper is watermarked 1851 but reference to the destruction of Point à Pître by an earthquake (folio 104) suggest that some of the journeys described took place in 1843.
The author, an Anglican clergyman, served on St Lucia (the scenery, fauna and religious beliefs of which he describes at some length) for 18 months before travelling with his wife to North Carolina and thence to New York.
Dates:
Mid 19th century.
Copy of Thomas Pennant, "A Tour in Scotland" (London: Benjamin White, 1776, 4th edition), with marginalia by the author and pencil corrections by his son David.
Item
Identifier: Acc.8162
Scope and Contents
With a letter, 1806, of Longman and Co declining to reprint the work.
Dates:
1776-1806.
Microfilm of manuscripts of three Middle-English texts: 'Liber maundevyle'; the poem 'Sir Cleges'; and, 'De regimine principum' by Thomas Hoccleve.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.238
Dates:
15th century.
Microfilm of 'Walk across Africa’ (Edinburgh and London, 1864), by James Augustus Grant.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.554
Dates:
1864.
Microfilm of account, intended for publication and heavily corrected, of a voyage from Southampton to St Lucia in the West Indies and of subsequent travels in the United States.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.2101
Dates:
Mid 19th century.
Songbook containing the words of 150 popular Scottish, Irish, French and Dutch ballads.
Item
Identifier: MS.6299
Scope and Contents
There is an index on folio 1; the songs begin on folio 5.The Scottish songs appear to come mainly from Allan Ramsay's ‘Tea table miscellany’ and David Herd's ‘Ancient and modern Scottish songs’ (1776), though some of the songs may have been picked up by ear, as they include a very debased version of Henry Carey's 'Sally in our alley' (folio 17 verso) and "My heart's in the Highlands" in an apparently unknown version different from that of Burns (folio 81 verso)....
Dates:
18th century.
Two printout drafts of a translation by Robyn Marsack of "L'Usage du Monde" by Nicolas Bouvier; with draft of foreword by Patrick Leigh Fermor.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13800/1-3
Scope and Contents
Two printout drafts of Robyn Marsack's translation of 'L'Usage du Monde' by Nicolas Bouvier (1963), published as 'The Way of the World' (1992). One draft is corrected and annotated by Patrick Leigh Fermor; with related letters and foreword drafts of Patrick Leigh Fermor.
Dates:
?1992.